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Series of Accidents On Moore Roads
Causes Damage, Injuries, This Week
Two In Campaign For House
Four Drivers In
One-Car Smashups
Five accidents near here Sat
urday afternoon, Sunday and
Monday wrecked four cars and
panel truck and slightly damaged
another car. Only one person was
seriously hurt, though several re
ceived minor injuries, according
to State Highway Patrol reports.
Four of the accidents involved
only one vehicle, which went out
of control, causing damage.
Hit a Tree
The first occurred Saturday af
ternoon when a 1948 Ford panel
truck, driven by Ernest Lathen,
Jr., 22, of.Hoffman Et. 1, and
owned by his father-in-law, Hugh
G. Myers, ^of Raeford Rt. 3, went
out of control on a curve on the
rural road off US Highway 1 from
Addor to Raeford. The truck
slammed sideways into a tree and
was badly damaged. Lathen and
two young men with him, whose
names were not learned, sustained
minor injuries. Lathen was in
dicted for driving on the left side
of the road causing an accident
A car skidding through a
red light at the Pinebluff
stoplight Tuesday afternoon
hit a school bus in the side—
but no one was hurt.
Fortunately, said the inves
tigating patrolman, all the
children had been delivered
home, leaving only the driver,
Howard Troutman, Jr., of
Pinebluff, in the bus. It was
hit as it entered the intersec
tion from the Pinehurst road.
-Arrested for running
through a red light was Wal
ter Harrell. 53, of Rock Hill,
S. C. Tried at once by Justice
D. E. Bailey of Southern
Pines, he failed to pay the
$10 fine and costs plus some
$80 damage to be the school
bus. and at last report was
confined in Carthage jail.
LAST FLIGHT
Plam service—also airmail,
air freight and air parcel post-
ended Wednesday for this
community and section for
the current season.
By permission of the CAA,
Piedmont Airlines, Inc., gives
service here only ifrom No
vember through May. It is
anticipated the services will _
be resumed in six months.
Flights continue out of Fay
etteville by Piedmont plane,
both eastbound and west
bound. However, the office at
Knollwood airport is now
closed.
Young Musicians
Program Saturday
At Pinehurst Club
and fined $25 and costs in JP
court.
Collision at Vas's
The second accident happened
-it Vass later that afternoon when
Mrs. Lonnie J. Nichols, 23, of Car
thage Rt. 3, entered US Highway
1 from the Union Church road,
directly in front of an approach
ing car. The other car, driven by
David Kennedy, 22, of Farrell,
Pa., was severely damaged in the
resulting collision, Mrs. Nichols’
less so. She told the patrolman
that she had stopped at the high
way, but that her side windows
were fogged and she failed to see
Kennedy’s car until it was too
close for her to do anything about
it. Satisfactory settlement was
arranged between the drivers and
, no arrest was made.
Back Injury
Herman McCrimmon, 32, Negro,
of Cameron, was seriously injured
in a third accident occurring Sat
urday afternoon when his 1935
Ford went out of control on the
back road from Cameron to Vass
near the Greenville school, left the
road on the left side and turned
over several times. The car was
demolished. McCrimmon was
taken to Moore County hospital,
severely bruised up and with a
broken or fractured back. No
charges have been made as yet
pending the outcome of his condi
tion.
Flattens Gas Pump
Sunday at 2:30 a. m. a car driv
en by Otis Lee LaV/son, 26, of Ni
agara, heading north on US High
way 1 between Southern Pines
and Vass, went out of control and
jumped a ditch onto the grounds
of the F. G. Wallace service sta
tion, flattening a gas pump. Law
son’s car was badly wrecked. He
was arrested for careless and reck
less driving and fined $35 plus
costs Monday in recorders court.
Skidded Backward
Monday morning about 6:30,
Laughlin Gunter, 28, of Hamlet,
lost control of his 1951 Henry J
on US Highway 1 just south of the
intersection with the Addor road.
The car went off the left side of
the highway, spun about and
skidded backwards for a consid
erable distance, knocking down a
couple of trees en route. Gunter
sustained minor bruises while his
car wa sdamaged to ^e extent of
several hundred dollars. He was
charged with driving on the left
side of the road causing an acci
dent, and was fined $25 and costs
in JP court.
Final presentation of the Sand
hills Music association for the cur
rent season will be the third an
nual Young Musicians Program,
to be given Saturday at 8 p.m., at
the Pinehurst Country club.
In this program, outstanding
young musicians of Sandhills
towns are given opportimity to
appear before an audience of su
perior standards, while Sandhills
music lovers at the same time
may enjoy the revelation of many
fresh young talents.
The program is open to the pub
lic. However, seats will be re
served for season ticket holders
and members of the sponsoring
group.
Presenting pianO solos, with
two vocal solos and one on the
French horn will be 32 young peo
ple, from 12 years of age to the
early twenties.
An added pleasure will be two
choral selections by the popular
Madrigal Singers at the close of
the program.
Soloists representing Southern
Pines will be Patsy Beasley, Mal
colm Kemp, Mary Jane Deadwy-
ler, John McMillan, Karen Peck,
Alida Ann Keefe, Alex McLeod,
Gene Coghill and Merva Benja
min; from Aberdeen, Graham
Farrell, Carol Arey, Mary Fran
ces Pohl and Jack Taylor, Jr.;
from Pinehurst, Patty Creath;
Carthage, Margaret Grimm, John
Kelfe^, Jr., Bobby Hugh McCas-
kill and John L. Currie; Cameron,
Dorothy Jackson and F. D. Solo
mon, Jr.; Farm Life School, Sally
Criseman, Louise Williams and
Alice McCaskill; Vass-Lakeview,
Janice Cameron; West End, Patri-,
cia Brewer, Carolyn Branson,
Nancy Ritter and Dorothy Von-
Canon; Robbins, Helen Brown,
Willis Howard Williams and
Jacky Scoggin; Ashley Heights
(Hoke county), Lee Gosnell, stu
dent of the Shenandoah Conser
vatory of Music.
COURTNEY A. HUNTLEY
Courtney A. (Tony) Huntley, 30-
year-old Aberdeen native, in
seeking the nomination for Moore
County representative in the
House is making his first bid for
elective office.
He is owner and manager of the
Starview Drive-In Theatre be
tween Aberdeen and Southern
Pines, with his brother, W. T.
Huntley, Jr., of Southern Pines
as partner.
He graduated from Aberdeen
High school in 1939 and went to
the University of North Carolina,
where he majored in political
science. Called to the Navy in
1943, he returned three and a half
years later to get his degree at
Carolina.
During high school and his
freshman and sophomore years at
college, from the age of 13 through
19, he served as a page in the
State Senate, appointed by Lieu
tenant Governors Graham, Hor
ton and Harris successively, for
the regular terms from 1935
through 1941, and the special ses'
sions of 1936 and 1938. From 1937
through 1941 he was chief page.
At the University he was a
member of Kappa Alpha frater
nity and served as its president,
and was also on the Interfrater
nity Council.
He entered the Navy as an ap
prentice seaman and was sepa
rated in 1946 as a lieutenant
(junior grade) after having seen
service in the Mediterranean and
European theatres, including the
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CLIFTON BLUE
H. Clifton Blue, of Aberdeen, is
seeking renomination to the House
of Representatives, where he has
served as Moore county represent
ative for the past three terms.
He is editor and publisher of
The Sandhill Citizen, which he
combined some 20 years ago with
a paper he founded at Vass, The
Captain, moving his publishing of
fice to Aberdeen at that time.
A native of the Lobelia section
of Hoke county, just across the
Moore county line, he is a gradu
ate of Vass-Lakeview High school
in Moore.
Mr. Blue has been active in
numerous civic, community and
county affairs, also in the JDemo-
cratic party, in which he has be
come a leader in the State. Serv
ing as president of the Moore
County Young Democratic club in
1946-47, he was elected secretary
of the state organization in 1947-
48, and during the year 1948-49
was state YDC president.
His work in this office during
that election year won the com
mendation of state party leaders
and he was appointed by Everett
Jordan, chairman of the State
Democratic Executive committee,
to the post of secretary of the
state committee which he still
holds.
He was first elected to the
House in 1946 and has been re
elected every time since then,
only one time running unopposed.
He has served on leading commit
tees in the House and has spon
sored or co-sponsored a number
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Public Will See
Pinehurst’s New
Elementary School
Open House Sunday
At "Most Modern,"
Beautiful Building
Open house will be held Sun
day from 2 to 4 p. m. at the
newly completed Pinehurst ele
mentary school, described on aU
sides as “the school of tomorrow”
in both construction and furnish
ings.
Thousands are expected to
flock to. Pinehurst from all Moore
County towns to see for them
selves its up-to-date wonders of
beauty and practicality.
Use of many ultra-modern fea
tures, some of them employed for
the first time in this state, has not
only given Pinehurst a fine new
school building but, it is told, “the
most school for the money.”
The school constitutes an abrupt
departure from the English-cot-
tage type of architecture seen in
other buildings of the Pinehurst
olant, and which featured the ele
mentary school the new one re
places, which was destroyed by
fire September 6, 1950.
The masonry structure is built
on three great central supports
of reinforced concrete. Much glass
is used throughout, and the extra
deep eaves of the roof make the
use of blinds and shades unnec
essary. With full fluorescent
lighting inside, a daylight effect
is achieved at all times. Tiling is
used not only for the floors but
halfway up the interior walls. Pri
mary rooms have not only their
own entrances but their separate
outdoor play areas which consti
tute part of the classroom and
may be used as such when the
weather is good. Much color is
used throughout the building.
Classes moved into the building
from their temporary locations
during the past weekend, and
teachers and pupils alike are ex
pressing their joy in their new
school home. Professional meet
ings of second and eighth grade
teachers of the county were held
there this week, and spread the
word far abroad.
yU the Sunday reception guests
will be greeted by members of
the school board, headed by Jack
Taylor, chairman, and other
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Registration Books
Open Satnrday For
Democratic Primary
Registration starts in all precincts Saturday for the Demo-
cratic primary Saturday, May 31. Those already on the coun
ty books need not register, though the board of elections sug
gests it IS always wise to check with the registrar and make
sure your name is- there.
~~ ♦ Books will be kept open at the
regular polling places on three
successive Saturdays—May 3, May
10 and May 17. Saturday, May 24,
will be challenge day.
In Southern Pines the registrar
is Mrs. Grace H. Kaylor, and the
polling place is the fire station.
^he Pilot presents on this page
this week pictures and factual bi
ographies of all candidates in the
two major political races in the
county this year—for the House
of Representatives and the county
solicitorship.
All five candidates are seeking
the nomination subject to the
Democratic primary.
The effort was made to present
all pertinent facts available to
this newspaper concerning each
man, with favoritism toward none,
for purposes of voter comparison.
It is suggested that these be filed
for reference as they will not be
published in so complete a form
again before the primary.
Later The Pilot will give the
complete list of all those seeking
from
Lewis Pate Will
Teach In Thailand
On FulbrightGrant
Lewis W. Pate has been grant
ed a Fulbright fellowship and
will leave next week for Wash
ington, D. C., on the first leg of
a journey to Thailand, where he
will teach during the coming year
under the teacher - exchange plan
of the Point Four program.
Reaching Bangkok by air in
mid-May, he will be assigned by
the U. S. Educational Foundation
there to a secondary school where
he will teach English.
Uhder the Fulbright plan,
teachers are exchanged between
the United States and various
other participating lands, acting
as unofficial representatives of
their countries as they teach and
also learn.
Only the most highly qualified
applicants are selected for these office under the primary
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One Youth Killed, Officer Morrison
Rescues Another From Swollen Creek
Charles Kermit Honeycutt, 19,
of Roseboro Rt. 1, an employee of
the Pinehurst A & P, was killed
when his car plunged into the
rain-swollen waters of Rockfish
creek near Raeford early Sunday
morning, while a companion was
rescued through the heroic action
of Irvin Morrison, formerly of the
Three Sandhills Lawyers In Race For Solicitor Job
Schools’ Tennis
Tournament Set
Week of May 12 '
The Third Annual Moore CouH'
ty Schools Tennis tournament, for
both elementary and high school
students, wiU be> held starting
Monday, May 12, instead of next
week as previously announced.
The change was made on ac
count of the cold, rainy spell
which the sponsors feared might
not clear up in time tp allow a
good period of practice.
Sponsors this year are the new
ly organized Junior Sandhills
Tennis association, in cooperation
with the senior organization
which got the tournament under
way in 1950.
The STA will be working close
ly with the junior group in hand
ling the event, said Harry Lee
Brown, Jr., tournament chairman
and advisor to the juniors.
By agreement of the young peo
ple boys’, girls’ and mixed doub
les will be held in both the high
school and elementary divisions.
Trophies will be given by the
STA to both winners and runners-
up in all events. Anyone who has
not reached his or her 19th birth
day is eligible to enter.
Events will be held on the mun
icipal courts every afternoon dur
ing the tournament week with
iTilr
ROBERT N. PAGE III
Robert N. Page HI, Aberdeen
attorney, has filed for nomination
for county solicitor.
He is a native of Aberdeen, a
member of the Page family long
prominent in Sandhills history,
with a tradition of public serv
ice. He is a graduate of Aberdeen
High school and of the University
of North Carolina. He served in
the Air Force during World War
2, participating as a flight engin
eer in 80 combat missions over
enemy-held territory in the Paci
fic theatre. Returning to Chapel
Hill after his discharge, he enter
ed law school and graduated in
June 1948, passing his state bar in
August of that year and entering
practice in his home town.
He engaged in his first cam
paign for elective office in 1950.
making a good showing, though
unsuccessful, in running against
the veteran H. Clifton Blue for
the House. •
He is a member of Bethesda
Presbyterian church, the Aber
deen Lions club and the Aber
deen Junior Chamber of Com
merce. He is married to the for-
finals Friday and Saturday, prob- mer Miss Mary Ruth Spring of
ably under the lights at night. Southern Pines.
W. LAMONT BROWN
W. Lament Brown. Southern
Pines attorney, is making his first
race for elective office in seeking
the nomination as county solici
tor.
A native of Raeford and des
cendant cf Scottish pioneer stock,
he came to Moore county in 1946
after 10 years of government serv
ice in Washington, D. C., and has
been active in community, coun
ty and Democratic party affairs.
Before moving to Southern Pines
in the fall of 1948 he was a mem
ber of the town board, then
mayor, of Pinebluff. During 1948-
49 he was president 6f the Moore
County Youhg Democratic club.
He has been Moore district chair
man of Boy Scouts since Novem
ber 1950, and is a member of the
executive board of the Occonee-
chee Council. He has served as
a director of the Moore County
hospital.
He headed the taking of the de
cennial census in the Eighth Con
gressional district in 1950,
A graduate of McCallie Prep
aratory school at Chattanooga,
Tenn., and of Davidson college,
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W. HARRY FULLENWIDER
W. Harry Fullenwider, South-
;rn Pines attorney, is seeking the
office of county solicitor. This us
he first time he has sought elec
tive office.
A native of Monroe, he gradu
ated from the University of North
CJarolina law school in June 1948,
standing second in his class. He
massed the state bar in August of
that year and entered practice
here' that fall.
After graduation in 1938 from
Walter Bickett High school, Mon
roe, he worked a while then en
tered the University, where he
graduated in February 1944 and
was immediately commissioned a
lieutenant (jg) in the Naval Re
serve. He was returned to inac-
tice duty in 1946 and went back
to the University for his law
studies.
Since 1950 he has been a mem
ber of the firm of Pollock and
Fullenwider and for the past
year has handled the duties of
town attorney with his partner,
R. F. Hoke Pollock.
He served a two-year term,
which ended last month, as a
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Saunders Heads
Umstead Campaign
In Moore County
W. P. Saunders of Southern
Pines and Aberdeen has been
named manager for the William
B. Umstead gubernatorial cam
paign in Moore county, according
to advice received this week from
the Umstead headquarters in Ra
leigh".
Mr. Saunders, who is president
of Robbins Mills, Inc., has long
been an, Umstead admirer and
supporter. He was Moore County
manager in Mr. Umstead’s race
for the U. S. Senate in 1948, and,
though Former Governor Brough
ton was victor at that time in
Moore as in the State, Manager
Saunders said he came out of that
experience with an even greater
admiration for his man, if pos
sible, than before.
“I am backing Mr. Umstead and
working for him because I feel
that he is one of the most capable
men we have in public life today,
and the best qualified for State
leadership,” he said. “He has
proved this in many ways over
the years, in his personal and pro
fessional life and in public serv- ,. -
ice, and f feel he is destined to shore helped the po-
become one of North Carolina’s bring him to safety. An
Southern Pines police force.
Morrison maintains his home
in Southern Pines, commuting to
Raeford where he has been em
ployed as night policeman since
February.
On duty there about 2:30 a. m.
Sunday, he was informed by two
young women that they had
moticed a railing torn oiff the
Rockfish Creek bridge as they
drove in over the cutoff high
way from the Fayetteville road.
Driving back with the girls to
the bridge, Morrison spotted ob
jects which looked like parts of
a car in the swirling waters of the
creek, which were about twice as
high as normal.
Clinging to Log
He called, and a faint voice an
swered from downstream. In the
beam of his flashlight he caught
sight of a boy with a bloody head,
clinging to a log about 100 yards
away.
The officer stripped to his
shorts and plunged into the
creek. When he reached the bad
ly injured he found he was
Thomas L. Norton, of Salemburg,
and that another boy, Honeycutt,
had been driving the ear. There
was no sign of Honeycutt.
Morrison fought his way to the
bank, carrying Norton, with no
light but the beam of the flash
light which the girls were hold
ing on the broken bridge. The
current was strong, with much
undergrowth near the bank, and
it was bitterly cold.
Norton, who, it was later dis
covered, had a concussion, was
limp and unconscious long before
they reached the bank. Two sol-
truly great governors. There is
not a blemish on his record, and
I am proud to be in the fight by
his side.”
Mr. Saunders said he had made
no definite plans as yet for the
campaign in Moore county, but
“that it will be conducted on a
high level according to Mr. Um
stead’s expressed wish.” He said
that in going about the county he
finds a strong sentiment for his
candidate on all hands, “but we
don’t mean to be complacent. It is
going to take work on the part
of all who feel as I do, that we
have the best man and mean to
do all we can to "put him into
office.”
Mr. Saunders is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina,
and a trustee of the Greater Uni
versity. ■ He has been in textile
business all his life. He lived for
a number of years at Bobbins and
during most of that time served
as mayor. He moved to Southern
Pines about a year and a half ago,
shortly after the main office of
the Robbins Mills corporation was
moved from Robbins to the Aber
deen plant.
ambulance was called and Morri
son alerted the fire department,
which in turn called on the Fay
etteville fire department. Their
rescue squad arrived and the
search for young Honeycutt be
gan. Morrison assisted in this
also.
The car, a total wreck, was lo-
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GOLF FEATS
Two local golfers made his
tory on Ihe Southern Pines
course during the past week.
Barrett Harriss made a hole
in one Sunday on the 163-yard
No. 14. a par 3 hole. He used
a five-iron. He was one of a
foursome, other members of
which were Ken Giesler, Car-
los Frye and Harry W. Davis.
This was Harriss' second hole
in one as He achieved this feat
two or three years ago on the
sixth hole.
Playing last Friday, Eddie
Dodson, club pro, tied the
course record of 63 set by
Sam Snead in 1946, Eddie was
out in 28 and back in 35 on
the par-71 course.