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Friday. January 18. 1952 THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina Page Five It), o New Heir-rivals BRENDA KAY EDMONDS Sgt. and Mrs. J. B. Edmonds are the parents of a baby daughter, Brenda Kay, bom January 11 in Greenwood, S. C., weighing eight pounds, two ounces. They have a son, Billy, almost nine. Mrs. Edmonds, the former Katherine Boney of Manly, and Billy, re turned recently from Germany, where her husband is still on duty. Long Calendar Awaits Judge Nettles At Opening of Criminal Term Monday Attend Installation Mr. and Mrs. Louis Scheipers, Sr., Mrs. Louise Johnson and W. M. Johnson went to Charlotte Sunday to attend the installation ceremony of Charlotte Drove No. 31 of BPO Does. They report a beautiful service, carried out most effectively. Attend Party Mrs. J. R. Chisholm, Mrs. Grady Wright, Mrs. Howard Allred and Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Culler attend ed a party at the Jonesboro Heights community house Tues day night, given by the Stanley products company. A full calendar awaits Judge Zeb V. Nettles, presiding over the | criminal term of superior court which opens at Carthage Monday. Solicitor M. G. Boyette will be on the job as prosecutor. Cases slated for grand jury ac tion are as follows: Thomas Dan iels, Danny McDougald, Norman McDonald, larceny of seed cotton; Howard Jenkins, rape; John Washington, statutory rape; Har old L. Hill, Eugene A. Shirley, Robert H. Orheim, Floyd Breland, Alec C. Felder, Jr., Louis Wilson, Jr., rape (see story elsewhere in this issue); Alvis Dowd, assault with deadly weapon, and the fol lowing on breaking and entering counts—William Henry, Charles William Doak, James Campbell, George Rogers, James Turner (alias Jim Greasey—^two counts), Leroy Galpin, Alvis Dowd, Sidney Lee Chavis; also Annie Hampton, manslaughter; Clarence Mizeak, larceny of auto, and Hillman Al len, larceny. The trial docket follows: Monday — Clarence Morrison, assault with deadly weapon; John L. Maultsby, breaking window in Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Entertain For Guests Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Irwin en tertained a small group at cock tails Saturday afternoon honor ing Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Hen derson, of Clinton, N. J., who were stopping over for a few days en route to New Orleans. The occasion was distinguisfied by the presence of three members of The Coffee House in New York City, a fellowship club for the literati and other distinguished persons. These were Mr. Hender son, Struthers Burt and Mr. Ir win, all authors of many novels, poetry and other works. Mr. Hen derson is, in addition, an historian of note. Other guests were Col. and Mrs PhiUip C. Rawlins and Mrs. Val erie Nicholson. The talk ran to books, politics and current news, and Mr. Hen derson reported, to the pleasure of the other Coffee House mem bers, that Federal Judge Thomas C. Murphy has recently joined their club. BLOOD»^OBILE The Red Cross Bloodmobile will return to Moore county February 22, it was announc ed this week by John F. Buch- holz of Southern Pines, count- ty blood donor chairman. It was not reported which community the Bloodmobile will visit this lime. It has been here three times before, twice to Southern Pines and once to Robbins, collecting a total of 591 oinls of blood on the three visits. This time. Chairman Buch- holz said, sponsorship of the Boodmobile's visit will re main with the Moore County chanter. Red Cross, which will itaelf solicit the donors, with the ohiect of going well over the 300-pint goaL en driving; John Blue Ray, care less and reckless driving, driving drunk, etc.; Tov Cobb, careless and reckless driving, resulting in accident; Charlie McCaskill, Jr., _ careless and reckless driving: Tom automobile and malicious injury Covington, assault and battery; to personal property; Crawford, Jr., larceny of three watches, valued at $150; David Locklee, aiding and abetting in larceny of watches; Elvin Claude Pope, careless and reckless driv ing; Glenn Loxie Pope, careless and reckless driving, violation of prohibition laws and resisting ar rest; James H. Bradford, abandon ment; Jesse O. Whitaker, assault with deadly weapon (knife) in Bobby Covington, assault with dead- 'iv weapon; Shelley Griffin, care less and reckless driving, driving drunk; Floyd Glover Patterson, driving drunk; Ronnie Oren Ham mer, driving drunk; Tom Coving ton, assault with deadly weapon, violation prohibition laws; Clar ence Preston Brendle, violation of prohibition laws. Wednesday—James Thompson, Eva Thompson, Fred Thompson, flicting serious injury; John Ed-1breaking and entering and lar- ward Ingram, failure to provide ceny; James Herbert Harrington, adequate support for his illegiti- violation of lien law; Erving Cov- mate child; J. S. Assad, selling ] jngton, careless andjecklessdriv- beer between 11 o’clock Saturday night and 7 o’clock Monday; Roy McKinnon, bastardy, etc.; Ray Boggs, cursing in public place; Rowland Bass, assault with deadly weapon on peace officer; E. C. Pope, assault on officer and aiding in taking prisoner from peace of ficer; Duncan Boggs, Jr., obstruct ing peace officer, etc.; Major Geo. Stanley Luketz, speeding 70 mph; Ernest Ray Brewer, assault on wife and non-support; Charlie El bert Badgett, careless and reckless driving, drunken driving; Glenn Pope, assault; Douglas Brown, careless and reckless driving and speeding 80 mph; Waldo Linton Morgan, drunken driving, careless and reckless driving, speeding 80 mph; George Rowan, drunken driving; Junior Hicks, secret as sault with deadly weapon. Tuesday — Harold Vernon Marsh, careless and reckless driv ing; Martin Casper Ferguson, care less and reckless driving; Ernest Wade Fields, Jr., careless and reckless driving; Clolon Lee Jones, drunken driving; Henry Martin Hartsell, careless and reckless driving, drunken driving; Malcolm Wright, speeding, truck 80 mph; Benjamin Bryant Hunter, dnmk- Seawell Will Present Governor At GOP Dinner Tar Heel Republicans, more heartened than in many years, will start their campaign year ac tivities Saturday evening with a Lincoln Day dinner at Sedgefield at $100 a plate, at which the Gov ernor of Maryland, as principal speaker, will be introduced by a leading GOP member from Moore county. To Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., Car thage attorney long active in Re publican circles, goes the honor of presenting Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin of Maryland. The dinner is being sponsored bjH the Piedmont Republicans club, and win serve as a starter for a rotational series of meetings in 21 counties comprising the organiza tion’s area. The series will open at Durham February 12, and end at Mocksville October 31. May 16 is the date set for a meeting at Carthage, following those to be held at Troy April 18 and Sanford May 2. The tentative schedule was an nounced this week by Worth Lit tle of Albemarle, vice-president of the Piedmont club. Mr. SeaweU was at one time candidate for the post of State At torney General on the Republican ticket. He is the son of the late Judge Herbert F. Seawell of Car thage, a state and national Repub lican leader for many years. Bank Officers Elected; Burney- Back On Board A. L. Burney, a former director of the Citizens Bank and Trust company, was returned to mem bership on the board by action taken at the annual stockholders meeting held at the bank Tuesday. Mr. Burney resigned in 1949 on moving to Raleigh. He returned several months ago to make his home in Southern Pines. All other directors were reelect ed for the coming year, giving the bank a board now composed of six members instead of five. They are: John C. Barron, A. L. Burney, Howard F. Burns, N. L. Hodgkins, John M. Howarth and George W. Pottle. Officers of the bank were re elected as follows to serve during 1952: I'l. L. Hodgkins, president; C. H. Bowman, vice-president and cash ier; N. L. Hodgkins, Jr., vice-pres ident; Ethel S. Jones, assistant cashier and secretary. President Hodgkins in his an nual report gave a picture of a successful year just concluded, with a gain in activity in every department. Deposits on hand December 31, 1951, were $3,060,490, the highest of any year end in the bank’s his tory. Pinehurst Scouts Will Win Eagle Badges Monday- Two Pinehurst Boy Scouts, Bobby Darst and Charles Swarin- gen, are slated to receive the top- rated Eagle Scout rank at the Moore District court of honor to last be held Monday night, January 21, it was announced today by Law rence McN. Johnson of Aberdeen, advancement chairman for the district. The ceremony, dirring which other rank advancement and merit badge awards will be made, will be held at the Pinehurst Commun ity church, starting at 7:30 o’clock. Scouts and their adult leaders from throughout the county are expected to attend the court of honor. Parents of all Scouts and friends of Scouting are urged to attend, Mr. Johnson said, pointing out that it means much to boys in Scouting to have their parents at tend the court of honor. W. A. Leland McKeithen, Pine hurst attorney and solicitor of Moore County recorders court, will present the Eagle badges. Tom Burgess, new Occoneechee Council field executive for this area, plans to be present. For a brief program of enter tainment and information, Mr. Johnson said he has asked WU- iam Murphy of the Charlotte of fice of the Federal Bureau of In vestigation to discuss aspects of the FBI’s operations. In and Out of Town Attend Conference Mrs. Virgil P. Clark, district committeewoman, American Le gion Auxiliary,, Mrs. J. S. Mc- Lauchlin, president of the local unit, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Mclieill attended the Post and Officers’ conference of the Amer ican Legion and Auxiliary at the Robert E. Lee hotel in Winston- Salem last Saturday. They heard addresses by Na tional Commander Don Wilson and National Vice President Mrs. J. Pat Kelly, of the Southern di vision. Both speakers stressed uni versal military training and civil defense. Final service of the con ference^ was to be held at the Cen tenary 'Methodist church Sunday morning, the 13th. Mrs. Ferguson Honored A belated celebration on Wed nesday night, the 16th, of Mrs. Claude Ferguson’s January 4th birthday took her completely by surprise. A group of her friends gathered at her Ridge street home and after singing “Happy Birth day’’ to her, joined in an evening ■^of jollity. Bingo was played, birthday wishes for the honoree were writ ten, a Bible contest was presented, and to Mrs. Ferguson was given a gift of cash. Sandwiches, cookies and cokes were then enjoyed by Mrs. Fergu son, Mrs. Thomas Vann, Miss Mary Scott Newton, Mrs. S. R. Newton, Mrs. R. M. Gillis, Mrs. Tom Wilson, Mrs. J. R. Chisholm, Mrs. Bessie Swearingen, Mrs. G. L. Culler, Mrs. D. E. McDonald, Ann and 'Thomas Vann. for a month’s vacation, Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beers of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight N. Clark Lockport, N. Y., have taken an of West Hartford, Conn., an-j apartment at the Mayfair for the nounce the engagement of their'season. daughter Mariquita to Alaric Miss Mary Cameron entered Creighton Drew of Hartford,;Moore County hospital on Wed- son of Mrs. Alaric James Drew nesday of last week for a few and the late Rev. Mr. Drew. Mr. 1 days’ treatment. Miss Gussie Drew is a graduate of Southern [Cameron of Raleigh spent last Pines High school. A May wed- weekend in the Cameron home ing, etc.; William Diggs, Nannie Diggs, violation prohibition laws; William Gentry MaxweU, careless and reckless driving, driving drunk; Oscar Marsh, careless and reckless driving, driving drunk; Alex Marsh, obstructing and re sisting peace officer; Walter Black, driving drunk, violation of prohibition laws; William Graham Marley, careless and reckless driv ing, causing damage and injury. Thursday—Thomas Clifton Jett, driving after license revoked and using improper license plates; Benson S. Futrell, driving drunk; Viola Burke, violation prohibition laws; Theo Berg, careless and reckless driving, drunken driving, etc.; Charlie Lemonds, drunken driving; Vernon Gray Blue, oper ating a motor vehicle after license revoked; James Hfdley, drunken driving, resulting in accident; Donston Gales, driving after li cense revoked; Harold Shaw, drunken driving, public drunken ness; Graham Harrison Purvis, careless and reckless driving, etc.; Hugh Dorsey Madison, speeding, j65 mph; Paul Jefferson Fulk, care less and reckless driving, drunken driving; William Robert McGill, speeding, 75 mph. Jackson Hamlet Murder Unsolved; Probe Continues WITHTHE Armed Forces Moore county chalked up its first murder of 1952 with the. , death of Sandy Lee Gaines, eld-i'^^*’^^ men and 14 officers, Master Sgt. Robert M. Unley of Southern Pines is among 52 North Carolina soldiers scheduled to land in Seattle Wednesday on ro tation furlough from Korea. The men are on the Navy trans port Pvt. Joe P. Martinez, which is bringing home 1,389 enlisted Mr. and Mrs. James Steed de Berry, who were married in Char lotte on December 22, and their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cra- ver, also of Charlotte, were week end guests of Mrs. deBerry’s mother, Mrs. J. G. deBerry, at her home on Illinois avenue. Mrs. Lee Bain and Mrs. Bertha Truelove, of Bunnlevel, and Cleveland Bethune of Lillington visited in the home of Mrs. S. R. Newton Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Garzik have as their guests for a few days Mr. Garzik’s sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stuart, Jerry and Jackie Stewart, of Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. William A. Larkin and son, Richard, of Ellicott Estates, Tona- wanda, N. Y., spent Friday night with Mrs. Lillian Miles Raymond as they were en route to Tlorida ding is being planned. Jesse W. Page, Sr., of Charlotte was a weekend guest in the home of his son and daughter-in-law. Mayor and Mrs. Chan N. Page. Sgt. Chan N. Page, Jr., was at home from Fort Bragg, also. Mrs. Donald Scheipers and son, Guy, have gone to Laurinburg to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Matthews, for about 10 days. Two Pamlico County 4-H Club boys, Austin Johnson and Charles Sawyer, have gone into the sheep shearing business and are now serving fanners of three counties. with Miss Rebecca Cameron, and another sister, Mrs. D. D. Wicker, and Mr. Wicker, of Hamlet, joined them Sunday and called on Miss Mary. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Smith and children, Donnie, Jerry and Myra, of Florence, S. C., former local residents, were visiting friends in town Sunday. They were supper Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Graves spent Monday in Charlotte. Mrs. John H. Tilghman and lit tle daughter, Beth, and Mrs. Tilghman’s mother, Mrs. W. E. Brown, all of Hanilet, caUed on Mrs. J. H. Tilghman, Beth’s grand mother, Tuesday. Miss Jeanne Overton, one of the few girls at the University of North Carolina enrolled in the school of pharmacy, will spend this weekend here with her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Overton. Mrs. Edith H. Mudgettj former ly ^f the Fownes guest house, is spending the winter in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William L. White, Jr., East Indiana Avenue exten sion. Mrs. Graham Culbreth entered Moore County hospital on Wed nesday of last week for an opera tion. She is getting along nicely and expects to be coming home about the time The Pilot reaches local readers this week. Mrs. L. H. Coley, Jr., of Raleigh, a regis tered nurse, was with her mother a part of last week, going home Sunday. Mrs. Gene Owen, who has been at home from the hospital for sev eral days, was able to attend the theatre with Mrs. Thomas Barron Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Virgil Johnston has been ill at Moore County hospital for several days. Mrs. G. L. Culler and Mrs. J. R. Chisholm attended a home dem onstration club meeting Monday night at the home of Mrs. A. V. Autrey in Vass. Burke Davis of the Greensboro Daily News staff, author of “The Ragged Ones,” was a visitor at erly Negro of Jackson Hamlet, at Moore County hospital early Sun day morning. Gaines was found unconscious by passersby soon after midnight, lying in weeds near the railroad track where it passes through Jackson Hamlet. Nearby were the lights and music of the Ambas sador club, a Negro night club, where Saturday night festivities were in full swing. Taken to the hospital, Gaines died at 4:45 a. m. without regain ing consciousness. A coroner’s iury sitting at the Pinehurst po lice station Sunday evening—^the first to be summoned by the new coroner Ralph Steed of Robbins —rendered a verdict of death “at the hands of a party or parties unknown.” Chief J. T. Sheoherd of the Pinehurst police, who with Dep uty Sheriff A. F. Dees is heading an intensive investigation, said that three wounds, which appear ed to be stab wounds, were found in Sandy’s head, close to the left ear. His skull was also fractured as if bv a severe blow. A brick with blood on it was found near by. It was not determined just which injury caused death. Despite the questioning of large number of persons in con nection with the murder, it re mained unsolved at last report. GAME JAN. 30 A double-header benefit basketball game, presenting four adult male teams, will be presented at Weaver audi torium Wednesday evening. January 30. under sponsor ship of the Southern Pines Uons dub. The first game Will be be tween the Hometown All- Stars and the Pinehurst Lions. The second game will pre sent the USAFA60S team in its first public appearance, against a semi-pro team from Red Springs. A fine fast evetdng of play is anticipated, for a benefit to be announced later, said Wal ter Harper, new president of the Lions. Tickets will be on sale by members of the local club starting next week. PRINTING Elmer Andrews. USN. who re cently spent a 13-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Andrews of Manly, writes from the west coast that he has been informed that his ship will leave January 22 for parts unknown. This means, he thinks, the Far East, and Korea, again. Elmer would like his friends to write him as follows— E. P. An drews, SN, USS Bataan CVL-29, 4th Div., c|o FPO, San Francisco, Cal. Pvt. Martin Ramsey, returning to the Station hospital at Camp Atterbury, Ind., following his 9 day Christmas leave at home, was transferred to St. Albans Naval hospital, Jamaica, N. Y. His friends may address him there, specifying 'Ward 119. Martin was found in the fall to hhve a beginning case of ’TB, and will be a patient at St. Albans for several months. He did a lot of resting during his Christmas leave and is tackling his long period of recuperation in good spirits—aided by a model airplane his mother sent him, and which he is constructing while in bed. Southern Pines news gets around—ask Ensign David Cam eron. now on the USS Macon, Sixth Fleet, Atlantic, on maneu vers in the Mediterranean. Dave writes home of his pleasure and surprise in hearing an item date- lindd Southern Pines over the ship’s-news broadcast the other day. It told about the attendance of French, Swedish and Norwe gian Air Force officers at USAF- AGOS', Highland Pines Inn. Took him back to the days when, during a high school vaca tion period, he “bellhopped” at the Inn during the first Caro lina maneuver, before Pearl Har bor. Capt. George M. McDermott, a former Vass man who for some time has been practicing law in Sanford, has been recalled to the service and is now at Chqrry Point. He, his wife and baby Rick Visited Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Mc Dermott in Vass Sunday, bring ing Mrs. McDermott home after a stav of several days in Sanford. r TICKETS FOLDERS BLOTTERS BOOKLETS HANDBILLS ENVELOPES BHl HEADS STATEMENTS LETTERHEADS LEGAL BLANKS WINDOW CARDS BUSINESS CARDS PAY ENVELOPES CHARGE TICKETS SOaAL STATIONERY guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Over- The Pilot office Wednesday after ton. noon. Mr. Davis was accompanied M|Sgt. Wallace Knepp, who re- to Southern Pines by his mother, cently returned to the States after Mrs. W. B. Davis, also of Greens- nearly a year and a half in Korea, boro. and Mrs. Knepp are back from William L. White, Jr., is spend- Ohio, where they visited Ser-ing a short time in New York geant Knepp’s relatives. City. F^AXCH’S F^re-Inventory Now Goiriig On
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