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\, '2? I i Honors, Awards Salute Student Accomplishments Dr. Herr Honored; Three Checks Swell School Bus Fund Recognition of meritorious achievement in a wide range of activities went to members of the senior class and other students of Southern Pines High school at the Awards and Honors Day exercises Tuesday morning. The school itself was also a beneficiary in the gift-giving, as three checks were presented to taling $500 to help clear the debt on the school activities bus. These were $250 as the senior class gift, $200 from the Southern Pines Ro tary club and $50 from the Beta club of the high school. A surprised recipient of unique honors was Dr. G. G. Herr, long time chairman of the school board, who is retiring at this time. He was presented with a scroll ex pressing appreciation of his long service, signed by every student in the high school; and a silver tray, inscribed “To Our Ever Loy al and Faithful Friend,” from the faculty. Barbara Guin, of the Class of 1952, was distinguished by being the recipient of four awards, two of them carrying cash scholar ships totaling $150 toward her col lege expenses. To Barbara went the James S. Milliken, Jr., Memo rial award for best all-round, with $50 in cash; also the $100 scholar ship given by the Beta club to a deserving senior member. The American Legion Citizen ship medal, presented by W. E. Cox, Jr., for the Sandhill post, went to Penelope Crocker (Pete) Dana, outgoing president of the Student Council. The Southern Pines School Ser vice award, presented for the first time this year, went to Franklin Johnson, by vote of the Student Council. The Rotary Club Improvement cup, presented by Rotary Presi dent Herbert N. Cameron, was awarded this year for the first time to a whole group instead of to an individual—the Southern Pines school band. The Lions Club band award was another given this year for the first time. Presented by Walter Harper, president of the Southern Pines Lions club, it went to Charles Baker, chosen by vote of his fellow band members as best all-round member of their group. Announcement was made at this time by R. L. Chandler, Jr., of the Sandhill Veterans association, that Sylvia McLeod had been awarded the SVA scholarship for three years of nurse training—the first Southern Pines girl to win this coimtywide scholarship, now six years old. The Charlotte Erson music plaque went to Alec McLeod. Dan- forth Foundation awards for citi zenship, leadership and character were made to Alec McLeod and Barbara Guin. Babe Ruth Sports manship awards for sportsman ship in athletics were presented to Roy Newton and Barbara Guin. Mrs. Virgil P. Clark awarded prizes in the American Legion Auxiliary poppy poster contest to Norma Ruth Bowles, Alice Qam- ble and Dick Mattocks, and in the essay contest sponsored by >the same organization, to Sylvia Mc Leod, Margaret Bailey and Dama- ris Doser. Mrs. L. A. DesPland made the presentation of prizes in the VFW Auxiliary essay contest—Alec Mc Leod, first prize, $5; Damaris Do ser, second prize, $3, and Pete Dana, third prize, $2. Doris Lee Bowles received the cup given by Perkinson Jewelry store for highest scholarship, also the Readers Digest subscription. Supt. A. C. Dawson presented perfect attendance awards, of which there were a number in the lower grades, only one in the sen ior class. This went to Doris Bowles, with the unique record of perfect attendance all 12 years. Awards for library service were (Continued on page 5) SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE—TEN CENTS HODGES Lieutenant Governor (Subject to 2nd Primary) UMSTEAD Governor DEANE Congressman Umstead Leads In County And State; Deane Returned To Congress 4-To-l A. LEARN TO SWIM! Young people and adults wanting swimming lessons this summer, beginners or ad vanced. may register now at the office of the Moore Coun ty chapter. American Red Cross, in Southern Pines, where plans for the 1952 wa ter safety program are going full steam ahead. Classes will be given by qualified volunteer instructors at several lakes in the county. Beginners, intermediate, swimmers and junior and senior lifesaving courses are planned, according to an nouncement by Dr. J.C. Grier. Jr., of Pinehurst, chapter chairman of safety services. All instruction is free. This will bo the fifth an nual such program offered here under the Red Cross. In terest and enrollments have mounted each year, with large numbers of certificates awarded for completing the courses. Speedy Trial Held Following Freak Accident A record for speedy law en forcement was undoubtedly se for Moore county, perhaps for the State of North Carolina, Monday when an i accident occurred near Aberdeen about 4:30 p. m. and within two hours the driver was in court, had pled guilty and was paying his fine. Patrolman Stroud was in the courtroom when he received the accident call from Pinehurst, fol lowing a call for a wrecker. Reaching the site indicated, the patrolman at first saw no car—^no driver. He looked over the edge of the embankment into the sand pit and there he saw a car, far below. His investigation revealed one of the oddest accidents of re cent record. On the stand at Carthage the patrolman told of tire marks which had gone off the highway “to the right, to the left, back to the right, back to the left, to the right again and over the embank ment” for a total distance of 759 feet. The car had then plunged 171 feet down into the pit—930 feet in all. Twice, he said, the car had left the ground entirely and sail ed through the air for 40 or 50 feet, once missing a light pole by about six inches. The driver, Henry Hezekiah Byrd, 32, Negro, of Taylortown, was unhurt. His 1948 Chevrolet convertible, hoisted back to. the road by the wrecker, didn’t have a scratch on it and had sustained no apparent damage. It left the scene under its .own power. Byrd’s father, about to make ’$150 bond, decided, “We might as well go right on over to court and save all this trouble.” B3Td pled guilty to speeding and careless and reckless driving, though he said he thought he wasn’t going over 35 to 40 miles per hour. Judge Rowe sentenced him to 60 days suspended on payment of $50 fine and costs. Hodges Gets Nod In Moore For Lieutenant-Governor Voters V)f Moore county made the same choices on the state level as those of the rest of the state in Saturday’s Democratic primary, except in the vote for Supreme Court Associate Justice. Umstead won for governor in Moore by 2,997 to 1,658—almost two to one, considerably better than his statewide margin. Unof ficial returns at midweek show ed that, with almost 500,000 votes cast, Umstead had defeated Olive by something over 30,000 votes for the Democratic nomination. Luther Hodges, former mill- worker who became a leading tex tile industrialist and' recently an ECA administrator, defeated Roy Rowe, his nearest competitor out of four, in the lieutenant-gover nor race, by 2,033 to 1,172 in the county. In the state the vote was less decisive, and on Thursday Rowe was still mulling the ques tion as to whether he would seek a runoff. Resident Judge Don Phillips, of the 13th judicial district, which includes Moore, won out here with 1,850 votes—more than t\yice those of the runner-up. Judge William H. Bobbitt. On the state level Judge R. Hunt Parker was high man in the six-way race, and Judge Bobbitt, coming in sec ond, has already stated he will ask a runoff. Waldo Cheek, incumbent Insur ance Commissioner, won decisive ly in the state over John M. Fred erick—and even more decisively in Moore, of which he is a native. Cheek was born in Highfalls. In addition, he has admittedly done an excellent job in his first term in office. His Moore vote was 3, 229 to 828. No surprise to anyone was the decisive vote accorded in Moore, as in other counties of the district, to their incumbent congressman. With 2,928 votes. Rep. C. B. Deane of Rockingham scored better than four to one Giles Y. Newton of Gibson. SORRY—CUTS ARE DELAYED The Pilot regrets that the cut of the graduating class, which was to have graced this page, did not arrive in time to be used this week. It is in the mail and we will use it next week. A wedding picture (Shea-Newhart) is also delayed, through no fault of our own. The Pilot regrets this very much. Lions’ Softball League Series Opens This Week The Moore County Lions Soft- ball League, sponsored by Lions clubs of the county, started its summer series this week with a doubleheader played Wednesday night, and another on tap for to night (Friday). Doubleheaders will continue each Wednesday and Friday night through June and July, starting promptly at 7:15 and 9 o’clock. A playoff series will be played by the top four teams in August, fin- is.’iing with a championship game. All games are being played on the lighted Pinehurst field. Teams have been made up from Lions clubs in Southern Pines, Pinehurst, West End, Pinebluff, Carthage and the American Le gion. Games played Wednesday night were Southern Pines vs. Pinehurst and Carthage vs. Pine- bluff. Tonight’s games will be Pinehurst vs. American Legion and Southern Pines vs. Carthage. Jimmy Gilbert of Pinehurst is president of the League. OFFICIAL RETURNS For the full and official lab- lation of votes for all pre cincts in Moore county Satur day, see Page 14. About 4,700 votes were cast —considerably fewer than the more than 6,000 tallied in the last countywide vote, last September. In Southern Pines, the total vote was 896. Moore County Tennis Tourney Gets Under Way All four municipal courts are being kept busy this week, as the Fourth Annual Moore County Closed Tennis tournament is in full swing, with events scheduled each night Wednesday through Sunday. Finals are expected to be held under the lights Sunday evening. Pairings for the singles were drawn from about 30 entries, njoat of whom, with a few additions, are also playing in the men’s or wom en’s doubles and mixed doubles events. Entries were listed from Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Aberdeen, with a number of new entries from the junior ranks. Seeded No. 1 in the men’s sin gles event is defending champion Malcolm Clark. Since winning the P. A. Wilson Memorial trophy last year, Clark has achieved fur ther distinction as No. 1 player on the North Carolina Championship junior college team, that of Oak Ridge Military Institute. Challengers for the Wilson tro phy include Angelo Montesanti, Jr., 1950 Moore County champion, seeded No. 2; Harry Lee Brown, Jr., 1949 champion, seeded No. 3; Page Choate, seeded No. 4; Steve Choate, Moore County junior champion; Gene Poe, 1951 junior champion; Norris Hodgkins, Jr., Gene Coghill, Kenneth Tew, Bob by Barefield, Walter Harper, Deryl Holliday, Frazer Smith, Johnny Watkins, Ed King, Frank de Costa, Joe Montesanti, Hugh (Continued on page 5) BROWN Moore Solicitor (Subject to 2nd Primary) BLUE ' Moore Representative Tributes And Board Gift For Dr. Hen- Feature Commencement; 28 Graduate of 4-H Fat Stock Show Thursday The annual Moore County 4-H Club Fat Stock show and sale will be held Thursday, June 12, at the stables across from Smothers Brothers warehouse at Carthage. Ten head of young Aberdeen Angus and Hereford steers, weigh ing 800 to 1,100 pounds, will be sold, all raised by Moore 4-H boys —and one girl. The show will start at 10 a. m., the sale at 11. An added feature will be a fitting and showing demonstration by the 4-H boys. The Carolina Bank of Pinehurst, Carthage and Vass is sponsor of the project, in cooperation with the , county farm office. A good number of buyers, in cluding individual buyers and representatives of business firms of the county, attended last year’s show and sale and even more are expected this year, said W. G. Caldwell, assistant farm agent in charge of 4-H work. Anyone in terested is invited to attend, whether in the market for beef cattle or not. There is no admis sion charge. , Presenting their steers for judg ing and sale will be the foUowing club members: Ruth Oliver, Dar rell Matthews, Billy Guin, J. K. Matthews, Jr., Willard Blue, of Eureka; BiUy Bailey, Lloyd Mc Kenzie, Lonnie McKenzie, Car thage; Charles Hardy, Cameron, and Bruce Cameron, White Hin Blue Renominated To State House; Brown and Pa^e May Have Runoff Phillips Retains Seat On County Edueation Board Mocre county voters gave In cumbent H. Clifton Blue a major- A votes in his race against C. A. (Tony) Huntley for the House of Representatives in the Democratic primary held last Sat urday. In the balloting for county sol icitor, they favored W. Lament Brown and Robert N. Page HI al most equally. A sUm margin of 23 votes places on runner-up Page the burden of deciding whether or not to call a second primary— a decision he had not made at press-time this week. _ W. Harry Fullenwider, leading m his home precinct of Southern Pines, showed weakness in the county precincts and ran a poor third. For the Carthage Township seat the board of education, incum bent T. R. Phillips won by 486 votes to 289 garnered by his op- ponent, J, L, McGraw, In the State House race, offi cial returns gave Blue 2,773 votes to Huntley’s 1,887. Huntley was East Carthage precinct and (by a scant six votes) in Pine hurst, whUe Blue took aU the rest. Admittedly surprising even to Blue—though, he said, most grat ifying—^was the decisiveness of his lead in Aberdeen, 554 to 273, and also in Southern Pines, 505 to 351. Observers had predicted a much closer race in both pre cincts, with Southern Pines prob ably giving Huntley the lead. Late Returns Decide “Tony” won congratulations, however, on a good campaign, which covered all precincts, and the fine showing he made in his first bid for party office. In 15 out of the 17 precincts he polled a vote of some consequence, and the race was neck and neck as the early returns came in. Blue pulled ahead in the shank of the evening, but it was only when the strong Aberdeen vote was report ed, shortly before 11 oclock, that the victory was in the bag. At that time, a full hour before the Southern Pines returns sealed it up, Huntley came to the Sand hill Citizen office at Aberdeen to concede to Publisher Blue with a congratulatory handshake and smile. Huntley later made a state ment: “Though I didn’t get the office, I count myself a winner, not a loser. In my campaign I learned to know the county as I could never have done otherwise, and made hundreds of friends whom I value highly. I wouldn’t take anything for the experience.” The results showed Blue’s strength to have mounted consis tently during the six years since he first ran for the office. In 1946 he won over his opponent by about 600 votes; in 1948 he had no opposition; in 1950, he had a 700-vote win over Robert N. Page HI, and this time it was almost 900, with strength pretty evenly scattered throughout the county. (Continued on page 5) Dr. Clyde Erwin Is Speaker At Tuesday Program Commencement exercises Southern Pines High school, held Tuesday night at Weaver audito rium, were doubly distinguished in that they brought additional honors to Dr. G. G. Herr, retiring school board chairman, and also presented as the evening’s speakei one of the states roremost educa tors and friends of youth. Dr. Clyde A. Erwin. Dr. Herr introduced.Dr. Erwin, his friend in the field of education during all the 18 years the latter has held the post of state superin tendent of public instruction. In turn. Dr. Erwin opened his talk with a sincere tribute to Dr. Herr, “my good friend and col league in working for improve ments in all the schools.” Following Dr. Erwin’s talk, N. L. Hodgkins presented to Dr. Herr an inscribed silver tray, on be half of the school board. “Three things stand out in your 21 years on the board, and 20 years as chairman,” he 'said. “You have been ever and always for anything that would benefit the schools; you have been interested in ob taining the best teachers and ad ministrators -possible—and that has been very smart, for if you have good teachers, you can have a good school in a barn, but if you haven’t good teachers, your school will be poor in a palace; and you have also always gone ahead in the serene conviction that what ever the board thought would benefit the schools would have the community’s support. That you were right can be seen in our school program and buildings to day.” The deep emotion of the retir ing chairman was obvious as he responded, “There aren’t any words to express how deeply I feel. I thank the school board, the faculty and the children.” Prefacing his commencement address. Dr. Erwin said, “I am go ing to speak to the young people. The rest of you may listen in if you wish!” In simple, natural language, as one friend to anoth er, he counseled them not to let obstacles keep them from making their best and strongest efforts; (Continued on page 5) AN INJUNCTION Dr. G. G. Herr,' retiring after 20 years as school board chairman, at the conunence- nient exercises Tuesday night, laid an injunction on the townspeople. "To parents, friends and al umni," he spoke out strongly; "Put your Shoulders to the wheel—help the school board get better (salaries for the ad ministrators and teachers. "Help get a higher supple ment! « "We are not paying as high a supplement, relatively speaking, as we were a few years ago. Once we headed the list in the state. Today 30 or 40 schools are paying high er supplements than ours. We must keep our program: pro gressive. We cannot do it without an increased supple ment. That is your job now." Local Horses Win at Devon Horses from Southern Pines stables won top honors Saturday at the Devon (Pa.) horse show, a leading event of the eastern cir cuit. Friars Delight, owned by W. J. Brewster, won the conformation hunter championship with 32 1-2 points, while Vernon G. Cardy’s Times Square was reserve cham pion. Winner of the young hunter championship was Gor-vee, an other entry from the Brewster stables on Mile-Away Farm. Bright Light, formerly owned by Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy and trained by Miickey Walsh at Stonybrook stables, won the Roll ing Rock Farms challenge trophy for ladies’ hunters. Friars Delight was second in this event. Bright Light was an entry this year of the Waverly Farms, War- renton, Va. County TB Group Will Buy X-ray Aids; N. L Hodgkins, Jr., Named President Directors of the Moore Coimty Tuberculosis association, meeting at Pinehurst last Thursday night, elected Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of Southern Pines, president for 1952-53, and voted to purchase much-needed X-ray attachments for use at the Moore County health center at Carthage. Purchase of the attachments will be in fulfilment of a promise made to the people of Moore coun ty at the time of the Christmas Seal sale last December, accord ing to W. Carl Scoggin, of Rob bins, retiring president of the as sociation. Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officei:, said the equipment will be of great help in diagnostic work and progress checkups. At . pres ent, patients must be transported to the N. C. Sanatorium at Mc Cain, or arrangements made to have special equipment brought to Carthage. Members of the San atorium staff will cooperate w.ch the directors in selecting and se curing the appropriate attach ments, which will cost several hundred dollars. Officers elected besides Presi dent Hodgkins are: the Rev. J. R. Funderburk, West Southern Pines, first vice-president; Lawrence M. Johnson, Aberdeen, second vice- president; Mrs. Timothy Cleary, Pinebluff, secretary; Dr. T. A Cheatham, Pinehurst, treasurer, and Roderick Innes, Pinehurst, as sistant treasurer. Dr. T. A. Cheatham presented the annual treasurer’s report at the meeting, which was held at his home. He reported that great demands are being made on the treasury of the county association for emergency care at private san- atoriums. The directors expressed their view that financial aid should be sought from the county commissioners for these cases, since this is a community health problem, and the main function of the coimty association is ip the prevention and detection of tuber culosis, rather than in its care. X