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Registration Ends For Primary Vote
Here’s Checklist of Democrat Hopefuls
Many Aspire To
Pariy Nomination
In State, County
At Armed Forces Day Program
Registration closed Saturday
for the Democratic primary M!ay
31, and Mrs. Grace Kaylor, regis
trar, reported 125 new names add
ed to the Southern Pines precinct
books.
Of these, 100 were added Sat
urday, as the total for the two
previous registration days was
only 25. Total registration now
for Southern Pines is 1,980. Less
than half of these, however, wiU
probably vote, as the books are
old and a large proportion of the
names are no longer valid. Larg
est vote ever cast in this precinct
was 857 for U. S. Senator in the
1950 primary.
Saturday of this week is chal
lenge day, when anyone may
question the right of another to
have his name on the books.
The Pilot herewith appends the
complete list of candidates for
state and county office (omitting
only the Republican candidates
in Moore county).
The list omits candidates for
Congress in other districts. (R) in
dicates Republican and (I) stands
for incumbent:
STATE TICKET
Governor: Hubert E. Olive,
Lexington: William B. Umstead,
Durham; Manley R. Dunaway,
Charlotte; Herbert P. Seawell, Jr.,
Carthage (R).
Lieutenant Governor: Roy
Rowe, Burgaw; .Marshall Kur
fees, Winston - Saleip; Luther
Hodges, Leaksville; Ben J. Mc
Donald, WIilmington; Warren H.
Pritchard, Spruce Pine (R);
William C. Lehew, Raleigh (R).
Attorney General; Harry Mc-
MuUen, Washington, N. C. (I);
Avalon E. Hall, Yadkinville (R).
Secretary of State: Thad Eure,
Winton (I); Frank G. Carr, Bre
vard (R).
State Treasurer: Brandon
Hodges, Asheville (I); S. C. Ed-
gers, Boone (R).
State Auditor: Henry Bridges,
Greensboro (I); J. A. Maultsby,
Sr., Whiteville (R).
Superintendent of Public In
struction: Dr. Clyde A. Erwin,
Rutherfordton (P);,Jeter L. Hay
nes, Summerfield (R).
Commissioner of Agriculture; L.
Y. Ballentine, Raleigh (I); Joel
A. Johnson, Four Oaks, (R).
Commissioner of Labor: Forrest
H. Shuford, Raleigh (I); W. E.
Rutledge, Yadkinville (R).
Commissioner of Insurance:
W’aldo C. Cheek, Asheboro (I);
John N. Frederick, Charlotte;
John Tucker Day, Walkertown
(E).
Chief Justice: W. A. Devin, Ox
ford (I); C. Clifford Frazier, Sr.,
Greensboro (R).
Associate Justice: Jeff D. John
son, Jr., Clinton (I); Robert H.
McNeill, Statesville (R).
Aissociate Justice: Itimous Val
entine, Nashville (I); Oscar Efird,
Winston-Salem; Allen H. Gwyn,
Reidsville; F. Don Phillips, Rock
ingham; R; Hunt Parker, Roanoke
Rapids; William H. Bobbitt, Char
lotte; Algernon L. Butler, Clinton
(R).
FOR CONGRESS
Eighth District: C. B. Deane,
Rockingham (I); Giles Y. Newton,
Gibson; .Walter Love, Monroe
(R).
MORE
COUNTY TICKET
(Contests Only)
State House of Representatives:
H. Clifton Blue, Aberdeen (I); C.
A. (Tony) Huntley, Aberdeen.
Solicitor: W. Lamont Brown,
Southern Pines; W. Harry FuUen-
wider, Southern Pines; Robert
N. I’age, in, Aberdeen.
Member Board of Education: T.
Roy Phillips (I), J. L. McGraw,
both Carthage.
EXAM TIME
Seniors at Southern Pines
High school will have their
final exams next Thursday,
while for the other grades ex
aminations will continue
through Friday, it was an-
nbunced this week by Princi
pal Irie Leonard.
Wednesday will be the last
regular day of classroom rou
tine for the year.
Copimencement events will
take place Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, June 1-3, with
graduation Tuesday night.
The Ark School
Property Sold
To Ernest Aiken
The Ark School, Inc., was sold
last week to Ernest M. Aiken by
Mrs. Millicent A. Hayes, who has
operated the private school since
1927.
Mr. Aiken purchased all stock
in the corporation, represented by
the building and five acres of land
at the intersection of East Indiana
avenue extension and Old Bethes-
da road, along with most of the
furnishings and equipment.
The new owner will take pos
session September 1. In the mean
time, Mr. Aiken is making no an
nouncements concerning his plans
for the property save that he does
not contemplate continuing, it as
a school.
The sale of The Ark, which held
its 25th commencement Wednes
day, marks the closing of a school
which, though never very large,
has long held a high place in the
roster of small Eastern schools.
Mrs. Hayes and her sister, Miss
Mary Webb, natives of England,
brought to their -work the high
standards of education of their
country.
The Ark, which had 28 pupils
enrolled this past year, gained its
name from the original building
where the school was started. This
was a little square red-painted
house, built by Captain Berry,
that stood in the wooded lot on
the right of the Weymouth en
trance gate, at the head of East
Vermont avenue. Mrs. Hayes was
the only teacher, organizing her
little class of eight or ten pupils
in 1927, several years after she
had come to Pinehurst from Eng
land with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Page.
When the first Ark outgrew its
restricted quarters, Mrs. Hayes
bought the property out on East
Indiana avenue, commissioning
Alfred B. Yeomans, architect, to
draw up plans for a new school.
Using the heartpine timbers and
siding from the large barn that
stood on the present site, Mr. Yeo
mans designed the building to
follow the contours of the land,
with plenty of sunlight and ample
living space. The upper floor was
planned for boarding pupils with
an apartment for the principal and
her sister; the grounds included a
tennis court and archery field.
MAYOR C. N. PAGE and BRIG. GEN. W. M. GROSS, a brand-
new “honorary citizen” , . . The scroll says so, and that’s the
Key to the City he’s holding. (Air Force photo)
Townspeople Pay Tribute To Military
At Armed Forces Day Program Here
USAFAGOS Returns
Compliment, Gives
Diplomas To Guests
Brig. Gen. William M. Gross,
commandant of the USAF Air-
Ground Operations school at
Highland Pines Inn, last Friday
afternoon became the first per
son in this community’s 66-year-
old history to be made an hon
orary citizen, and be presented the
“key to the city.”
Presentation of the citizenship
scroll and large golden key,
adorned with longleaf pine
needles, was made during the
course of a community Armed
County Convention
Endorses Russell;
Officers Elected
The Moore County Democratic
convention at Carthage Saturday
afternoon fell in line with numer
ous others being held over the
state at that time in virtually en
dorsing the presidential candidacy
of Senator Richard Russell of
Georgia.
Discussed and debated here,
though overwhelmingly favored
over a dissenting minority, this
was the question expected to
cause discussion and debate at the
state convention at Raleigh Thurs
day. Whether North Carolina
would line up with other state in
a solid-south bloc for Russell had
not been determined at The Pilot’s
presstime.
The motion made and passed at
Carthage was that county dele-
Weaver
General
Here for many years The Ark I gates to the state convention work
has carried on, in the early years
as a boarding establishment as
weU as day school and now, for
several seasons, as a country day
school for local children. A weU-
rounded curriculum, including
sports ,the arts, and social train
ing, was offered, and many of The
Ark’s graduates have gone on to
enter the selective preparatory
schools of the East.
Mrs. Hayes and her sister plan
to spend the summer at Hot
Springs, Va., where they will ocr
cupy the William D. Campbell
home. They expect to leave June
4, and will return in August to
complete their plans for the com
ing winter. These include the tu
toring of five or six of their pres
ent pupils due to enter prepara
tory schools within one or two
years.
Dozing Driver Causes Blackout
Pfc. Henry A. Freeman, of
Crawford, Ga., falling asleep at
the wheel of his car late Sunday
night, caused a two-hour power
blackout over a goodly portion of
Southern Pines.
Headed north- on May street
(US Highway 1) through town,
the car jumped the curb as it ap-
-proached Illinois avenue, ran
along with two wheels on the
parkway for a distance of 63 feet,
hit the pole and bounced back
into the intersection, city police
reported.
Unhurt was Pfc. Freeman and
his companion, Pfc. George
Cowan, of Brookhaven, Ga. The
car was badly damaged on the
right front. The two soldiers were,
on the way to their base at Camp j men reported on meetings held
for and support delegates to the
national convention who would
support Russell in his try for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion.
Objections raised were that it is
not yet known who all the candi
dates will be. The question came
up as to whether county delegates
could legally go instructed. On
request of Chairman W. A. Leland
McKeithen, Rqp. H. Clifton Blu?
clarified this question in stating
that there was precedent for thq
action, that county delegates had
gone instructed in 1928 ’and at
other times in recent history.
Mrs. Swisher Endorsed
The convention endorsed Mrs.
Ruth W. Swisher of Southern
Pines as Eighath District delegate
to the convention. District dele
gates were to be chosen in party
caucuses Wednesday night.
In electing county delegates to
the state convention, a motion was
made by Mr. Blue and imanimous-
ly carried that local tradition be
followed in naming as official del
egates all who could go from
Moore.
FoUowing the convention a
meeting of the county committee
was held, at which precinct chair-
Forces Day program at
auditorium, at which
Gross was the speaker.
Paying tribute to all that the
uniform represents, the fine re
lationships that have existed for
years between Southern Pines
and its resident military person
nel, active and retired, and to the
valorous record of General Gross
personally in World War 2 and
since. Mayor C. N. Page called on
two students for the actual pre
sentations. "
"Now and Forever"
Billy Huntley, incoming stu
dent body president, read and
presented the scroll, in which it
was noted that General Gross “is
now and forever an honorary cit
izen of the Town of Southern
Pines, with all the rights and
privileges appertaining thereto,
with the hope that thy may fre
quently use • them no matter
where his duties and fortunes may
take him.” It was duly signed by
Mayor Page in behalf of the
town, and bore an official seal
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Graves Managing
Olive Campaign
In Moore Comity
Henry L. Graves, Southern
Pines insurance man, has accepted
appointment as manager of the
Olive for Governor campaign in
Moore county, according to an
nouncement made from Judge
Hubert Olive’s campaign head
quarters in Raleigh last Saturday.
Undertaking the campaign just
two weeks before the primary
election day, Mr. Graves said he
Tennis Troph ies
Will Be Awarded
Friday Afternoon
Winners Announced
For Most Events of
School Tournament
'Trophies will be awarded win
ners and runners-up in the Moore
County Schools Tennis tournament
Friday at 4 p. m. on the munici
pal courts, following almost two
weeks of play and some of tiie
best finals events ever seen heie
As of Thursday morning all
events had been played off in
both high school and elementary
divisions except one, the elemen
tary boys’ doubles. Johnny Wat
kins and Deryl Holliday, Julian
Pleasants and George Reams,
finalists, were to play this off
Thursday afternoon, past the
Pilot’s presstime.
Adult advisors of the sponsor
ing Junior Sandhills Tennis as
sociation are enthusiastic about
the splendid game evidenced by
the boys and girls in a number of
events. “Some topnotch playei
are being developed on our
courts,” they declared.
The tournament started with 60
entries from Southern Pines and
Pinehurst.
In the high school events Steve
Choate won the boys’ singles with
Kenneth Tew as runner-up in one
of the finest, fastest matches ever
seen here—8-6, 0-6, 6-2. Tew and
Choate paired to win, the boys’
doubles in this division over
Deryl Holliday and Johnny Wat
kins, 5-7, 8-6, 7-5.
Betty Jane Worsham, defending
champion, who will graduate
?oon to the senior division, sharp
ened up for heavier competition
by winning the girls’ singles. Pete
Dana was runner-up. The score,
6-3, 6-0. In doubles, Betty Jane
teamed with Mary Matthews to
win over Pete Dana and Gail Hob
son of Pinehurst, 6-8, 6-1, 6-2.
In the grammar-grade division,
Johnny Watkins won the boys’
singles, with Deryl Holliday as
runner-up, in another splendidly
played match. The score, 6-2, 6-3
Lillian Bullock won the girls'
singles over Betty Jo Zritt, 6-0,
6-1. Lillian and Betty Jo teamed
to win the girls’ doubles, defeat
ing Patti Hobbs and Ginger
Woodell 6-0, 6-1.
In mixed doubles, Kenneth Tew
and Dorothy Newton defeated
Betty Jane Worsham and Deryl
Holloday 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
A couple of rainstorms, soaking
the courts, slowed down the
matches this week, postponing
several final events and the
awarding of the trophies.
DUTY IN ASIA
Sisters Injured
As Car Overturns
On US Highway 1
Two young married women, sis
ters, of Cameron Rt. 1, were in
jured early Tuesday morning
when their car, headed north of
US Highway 1, went out of con
trol near Skyline, skidded on the
wet pavement and overturned at
is proud to serve in the interest of least one and a half times and
Pickett, Va.
The broken pole and torn wires
littered the street for a short time,
causing traffic interference.
CP&L repair crews were on the
job in a short time.
the preceding Saturday, and coun
ty officers were elected.
Election of Officers
Chairman McKeithen was unan
imously reelected, with Miss Bess
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the Olive candidacy.
“Judge Olive is a splendid man,
has made a fine superior court
judge and will make a fine gov
ernor,” he said of his candidate,
who has the endorsement of Gov
ernor W. Kerr Scott. “He will
represent government for the peo
ple—^not just some of the people,
but all. He is not lined up with
any clique, has never lobbied and
is not tied up with any utilities,
tobacco corporations or other
groups whose interests might not
always lie with those of the ‘lit
tle man.’ ”
Mr. Graves, a native of Car
thage, is of old Moore coimty
stock on both sides. This is his
first venture into political man
agement. He ran for elective of
fice in the county one time, about
25 years ago, when his campaign
for clerk of court went to a second
primary against John Willcox.
He was one of the first pilots in
the infant Army Air Force in
World War 1, flying over Europe
as a member of the 278th Aero
Squadron. He lived for a number
of years in Charlotte, returning in
1946 to open his own business, the
Graves Mutual Insurance com
pany, in which his wife, the for
mer Gladys Dunlop of Pinehurst,
is his partner. They have offices
in the Professional building on
East Pennsylvania avenue, which
they purchased in January.
possibly more.
The investigating patrolmen
said Mrs. Betty Jean Gamer Bean,
20, driver of the car, sustained se
vere injuries of the head and left
arm, and her sister Mrs. Bertha
Green Marshburn, 19, suffered
broken ribs and back and hip in
juries in the accident, which he
reported to have occurred about
5 a.m.
He said weather conditions were
foggy at the time the car left the
road, plunging off the left side
then coming back to the highway,
where it skidded on for a total
distance of some 350 feet, over
turning in the center of the high
way. A passing truckdriver saw
the car lying on its side and help
ed get the injured girls out. An
ambulance took Mrs. Bean to
Moore County hospital, where she
remains in a condition reported as
serious but not critic^. Mrs.
Marshburn, who believed at first
she was not injured, did not go
to the hospital at that time but
was admitted later in the day.
The girls are weave room em
ployees at the Aberdeen plant of
Robbins Mills, Inc., on the late
shift, which leaves work at mid
night.
The patrotoan estimated dam
ages to the 1947 Plymouth con
vertible at approximately $1,000.
He said no charges have been pre
ferred as yet.
Dr. Ross Indicted Ry
Grand Jury, Does Not
Contest Felony Charge
Depositions Made,
Trial Continued
To August Term
Wednesday, just a year almost
to the day from the time when
Dr. W. H. Ross appeared in Moore
county criminal court on a charge
of manslaughter following an il
legal operation, the Negro physi
cian was back there again accused
of criminal abortion.
In the first case, tried May 24,
1951, Judge J. H. Clement dis
missed the case before it went to
the jury for lack of sufficient evi
dence, but this time the defendant
pleaded no contest.
The method used to bring about ,
the abortion, as described by the
state’s witness in a written state
ment, appeared to corroborate the
theory, held by the state and con
sulting physicians at the time of
the other trial, of the way in
which that alleged operation had
been performed. On that occasion
the woman died 20 minutes after
leaving the doctor’s office; on
Wednesday the patient appeared
in court to testify against the doc
tor to whom she had gone for il
legal treatment. '
A plea of nolo contendere was
entered by defense attorpey W. D.
Sabiston immediately after the
case was called. At the same time
the Carthage attorney requested
of Presiding Judge Zeb V. Nettles,
of Asheville, continuance of the
case to the August term of Moore
County superior court, on the
grounds that he had not been giv
en time to study it. He said that
his client had no defense and that
he plead guilty, but that matters
involving his health and other de
tails required time. Postpone
ment was agreed to by state’s at
torney M. G. Boyette and the
judge so ordered.
Arrested Monday
Dr. Ross, arrested on Monday
and released under $2500 bond,
was in court with his counsel but
did not take the stand. However,
testifying for the state was one
witness, Mrs. Ada Jeanette Good-
hue, of Southern Pines, mother of
three children, who revealed,
through a written deposition, that
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LEWIS W. PATE of Southern
Pines has arrived in Thailand,
where he will teach English for
the next 10 months as an ex
change teacher under the Ful-
bright Act.
Many Cases Heard
During Three-Day
Criminal Term
James Wilson, 27-year-old white
man of Niagara, was returned to
Central prison this week for auto
larceny, a crime which has kept
him in the Raleigh institution off
and on ever since his teens.
He was tried at the criminal
term of Moore superior court,
meeting at Carthage this week, for
the theft of a car belonging to
Willie Barnes of West Southern
Pines the afternoon of April 23,
from near the post- office in
Southern Pines. -
Wilson was released from pris
on just a few months ago. Judge
Zeb V. Nettles gave him three to'
five years for his return visit.
Two prison terms of 18 to 36
months, to run concurrently, was
the sentence given Bobby Hun
ter, 17-year-old Negro, for a wave
of burglaries in West Southern
Pines last March. In these he had
the assistance of a 12-year-old boy
now committed to Hoffman Train
ing school. With seven counts of
breaking and entering and lar
ceny against him. Hunter was
pretty lucky in his sentence, as at
least two involved armed robbery
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Bess McCaskill
Heads Women In
Umstead Campaign
Miss Bess MicCaskill of Carth
age has been named chairman of
the women’s division of the Um
stead for Governor campaign in
Moore county.
Her appointment was announc
ed last week by Mrs.. Everett,
chairman of the women’s division
in the Umstead headquarters in
Raleigh, and W. P. Saunders, man
ager of the Umstead campaign in
Moore county.
Miss McCaskill is secretary of
the Moore County Democratic
Executive committee, and served
for 14 years as Moore county’s
register of deeds, retiring volun
tarily in 1950. She is well known
and esteemed in the county, and
Mrs. Everett and Mr. Saunders
both expressed their deep gratifi
cation in her willingness to serve.
Manager Saunders, checking
about Moore to see how the cam
paign he heads is faring, reported
that: “things look so good for Bill
Umstead it scares me.”
lie said he’d been out “looking
for the opposition” and had fail
ed to locate it—^which made him
apprehensive rather than compla
cent. “It must be there some
where. Things can’t be this good
in a gubernatorial campaign, so
close to election time. What wor
ries me is that the Umstead folks
might start to sit back and take
it easy—something they can’t do
until after May 31.
“My advice to them is to re
double their efforts—^work just
twice as hard as before.”
New Highway PO
Will Serve Area
Starting July 1
A highway post office will be
established here July 1, greatly ac
celerating mail delivery to and
from many points in the state, ac
cording to information received
Wednesday by Postmaster A. Gar
land Pierce.
Southern Pines will become a
point on what will be known as
the Greensboro-War saw HPO
route. Other points oh the route
in this section will be Carthage,
Aberdeen, Raeford and Fayette
ville, which will be covered as the
highway post office moves from
Greensboro to Warsaw in the
morning and returns in the after
noon.
During the six-month suspen
sion of airmail service by Pied
mont Airlines, airmail will be able
to get out of Southern Pines more
speedily by the hew,route than it
does now.
It will supplant the present star
route from Carthage to Southern
Pines, also the Sanford-Fayette-
ville-Warsaw run.
Installation of the route has
been made through the efforts of
Congressman C. B. Deane, Eighth
District representative, to relieve
the situation of numerous small
towns throughout the district
which .have no rail or other good
connection for their mail.
The highway post office is a
fairly recent development in mail
service, and is effecting better ser
vice and considerable economy in
the elimination of a good many
fourth class post offices which cost
the Postal Department more to
run than they bring in. North
Carolina’s first HPO route, from
Greensboro to Biscoe, was put in
operation something less than a
year ago, with direct service bene
fits to Southern Pines and other
towns of the Sandhills area.