VOL. 33^-NO. 38 SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN P1NE6. NORTH CAROLINA^ FRIDAY. AUGUST 8. 1952 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE?TEN CENTS Education BJdg. For Presbyterian Church Is Planned ; * Chairman Dwighi, Committee Okayed By Congregation Plans for an educational build ing for Brownson Memorial Pres byterian church, tentative until a short while ago, became defin ite last Sunday with the approval of the executive chairman and four working committees. The nomination of F. M. Dwight as executive building committee chairman was adopted by the congregation in meeting after the morning service, also of the fol lowing committees: Construction?J. W Causey, chairman; Hubert Cameron. C. J Simons. Howard Butler, C. L White, Donald Case. Finance?A H. Grant. Harold Collins, co-chairmen, Henry L Graves, J. M Pleasants, W. E Blue, Mlrs. Claude Reams, Mrs. Howard Butler. Promotion?Paul C. Butler, chairman: Walter F. Harper, Clyde G. Council. Maxwell R. Forrest Mrs. Dorothy Avery, Mrs. Dan R McNeill. Mrs. George Heinitsh. Women's Interest?Mrs. C. L White, chairman; Mrs. Walter F Harper, Mrs. Joe Marley, Mrs. Ha! Adams, Mrs. Joe Steed. Tentative plans as presented tc the congregation early this montl called for a one-story building though it is understood thesr plans have now been changed anc it is hoped to build a two-storj edifice, finishing each floor a: needed. The committees 'are now at work on specific plans and cos! estimates and it is anticipated that construction will begin with in a short time. PINGPONG TOURNEY Billy Hamel, defending champion, and Deryl Holliday have been seeded No. 1 and No. 2 respectively in the boys' division of the ping pong tournament, which will be held next week as part of the summer recreation pro gram. About 25 boys have entered the tournament, and about eight girls, said Director Irie Leonard. Pairings of unseed ed players were to be drawn Thursday. Play will be held from 10 a. m. to 12 noon at the Fox Hole every morning next week, starting Monday, with finals probably Friday. This will be the next-lo last week of the summer pro gram', which will wind up with a big picnic Friday. Au gust 22. T FOOTBALL PRACTICE Time marches on?lhe first call for football practice is be ing sounded. Coach Irie Leonard an nounced this week that prac tice will start Tuesday. Au gust 26. All high school boys planning to go out for foot ball are asked to be at the High School Memorial field at 10 a. m. that day ready tfor work. Practice is expected to be well under way by the time school begins Wednes day, September 3. Citizens Seeking District Highway 1 Post For Lockey A movement in support of For rest Lockey of Aberdeen for ap pointment as Sixth District high way commissioner gained impetus Monday when r large delegation of prominent Sandhills citizens t appeared before the county com imissioners in his behalf. ' Three members of the Aberdeen town board presented a resolution from their board in support of Mr. Lockey, who has been mayor of Aberdeen for the past 11 years. ' To their appeal the commission ers responded by a unanimous en i dorsement, passing a resolution of i their own for good measure. The , two resolutions, and others which > may be secured later, will be I handed to Governor-Nominate W. ? B. Umstead in hopes he will ap ! point the Aberdeen man following r his election and inauguration. : It is anticipated the Southern I Pines town board will pass a simi lar resolution, with more expected from other governing bodies of the county and district. Aberdeen town commissioners , presenting their resolution were A. J. Smith, N. A. Pleasants and M. B. Pleasants. Composing the delegation in support of them were: Carthage?Sheriff C. J, McDon ald. Southern Pines?Mayor C. N. Page, W. Lamont Brown. Pinehurst?W. A. Loland Mc Keithen, chairman of the Moore County Democratic Executive committee. Aberdeen ? Rep. H. Clifton Blue, Judge J. Vance Rowe, G. C. Seymour, A. F. Dees, F. D. Sham burger. Pinebluff?Mayor F>. H. Mills, N. L. VanBoskerck. Mr. Lockey is vice-president and assistant to the president of the Aberdeen & Rockfish rail road, with offices at Aberdeen. He started with the Aberdeen and Rockfish about 34 years ago as Aberdeen town agent, while liv (Continued on Page 8) Ross Trial On Calendar Next Week; I Two Murder Cases For Grand Jury * i 4.1 * 1 Judge Will Pless 11 Will Preside Over Criminal Term|> With 56 cases calendared for superior court next week, 10 more to go up before the grand jury and several added since the cal endar was completed, it looks like r a full week at Carthage for Judge , J Will Pless, Jr. Several cases of unusual inter est are due to be tried before the , Marion jurist, sitting in Moore J county for the first time in six j years. Attracting much attention will11 be the trial of Dr. W. H. Ross of t West Southern Pines on a charge . of performing an abortion, for which a true bill was found | against the Negro physician at , the May term. Dr. Ross admitted ? performing the abortion on a . young whit" woman of Southern! Pines, married and a mother. It! is not known as yet what defense , will be offered, if any, in behalf of Dr. Ross. It is considered likely that he will throw himself on the f mercy of the court, since in pre liminary hearing last May he ad- , mitted the act, and testimony was taken also from Mrs. Ada Jean- , ette Goodhue as chief witness for the State. Facts concerning the abortion were brought to light when Mrs. Goodhue became ill, and had to be taken to Moore County hospi tal, where she told doctors what had been done. Most of the rest of the court calendar is taken up with high way safety violation cases, with I some assault and liquor cases, the majority coming up on appeal from county recorders court. On the warrant docket for grand jury action are two murder cases, those against Robert Leroy Alston, charged with shooting Charles James, and William Mc Gregor, charged with shooting James Blue. All are Negroes. Also waiting grand jury action are Grady Martin of Joanna, S. C. and Donald Herbert Hendrix of Pilot, Va., both charged with careless and reckless driving and manslaughter in connection with fatal highway accidents in June and July. Three principals in a prolonged grudge fight which brought mem bers of two families into court ?three or four times will go up for indictment for aggravated assault They are Charlie Ritter, Eulis Rit I ter and Harvey Kennedy. (Continued on page 8) "Shooting Stars'1 Tonight i' The two-night run of the big lo cal-talent variety show "Shoot ing Stars," opening Thursday night at Weaver auditorium, will come to a smashing climax to night (Friday). Curtain time is 8:13 p. m.?that's right, 8:13. Tonight's big feature will be the crowning of the King and Queen with other royalty in the Baby Contest. This will be held first, so the young contestants can be home by bedtime. The show is being staged for the benefit of the Church of Wide Fellowship building fund, with Miss Nyla Anne Jester of Indian apolis as director.,It has a dozen acts plus specialty numbers, rep resenting a television show with all the big stars. Musuic is by Mrs. L. D. McDon ald at the piano and Jimmy Law son at the Hammond organ. Stars scintillating in the various acts will be as follows: Milton Berle, played by Lloyd Woolley; Jack Bailey, by Duke Whiting, heading up a real "Queen for a Day" show complete with candidates from the audience, quiz questions and prizes; Roy Acuff, by Gurney Bowles, old-time fiddler from Ni agra who is probably more fa mous in these parts than Acuff; Kate Smith, Miss Merva Benjamin (with stuffing); Fred Waring, Bus ter Doyle, and Joanne Wheatley singer with the Waring band, Miss Carolina Hoskins. Loyton Hall will contribute singing commercials. Specialty dances will be by Pat ' Starnes, Robert Speller, Janie 1 Bello, Donald Fobes and Craig ! White. Members of the "Jubilee Cho rus," a remarkable singing aggre-', gation. are listed as follows: R.j, W. Tate, Bill Benson, E. J. Aus-j' tin, Bruce Warlick, Alex McLeod,!, W. N. Benjamin, Tom Shoekley, Jimmy Hobbs and Charles Austin. Children appearing in a cute pnatomime, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," are Nancy Wiggs, Cherry Slaughter, Eddie Ormsby Patty Patch, Becky Traylor, Rocky Langner, Jerryl Langner Sandv Woodell, Kenny Holliday and Danny Flaherty. Adding charm to the show is a chorus of schoolgirl lovelies? Jackie Haines, Judy Parker, Jean Parker, Delores Maready, Suzann Burns, Barbara Page, Nancy Jo Traylor, Craig White, Ginger Woodell, Mhry Matthews, June Bristow, Jean Godwin Joan How arth. Lucy McDaniel, Lillian 1 Clerk, Janice Holliday, Betty I Weatherspoon, Carol Arey, Becky Blunt, Joy Crosby, Dovle Ann Pigg and Ella Phillips. Revue acts are listed as follows: 1, Television Coast to Coast; II, Tell-a-Story Time; III, Singing Commercial; IV, Backstage TV Queens: V, Haopv Hayride Show; VI, Kate Smith Hour; VII, Fred Waring Show; VIII, Singing Com mercial; IX, Queen for a Day; X, Milton Berle; XI, Show Business is Lots of Fun. Sandhills Tournev J , Will Be Major Tennis Event Here The Fourth Annual Sandhills Invitational Tennis tournament will be held here Wednesday hrough Sunday, August 20-25, ac ;ording to announcement by An gelo Montesanti, Jr., president of Lhe sponsoring Sandhills Tennis association. Invitations went out this week Lo players in the 1951 tournament, also a number of others who have indicated interest, in Raleigh, Sanford, Durham, Wilmington, Chape' Hill, Rocky Mount and va rious other North Carolina towns, also some in South Carolina. Play ers interested in receiving invita tions are asked to contact Harry I^ee Brown, Jr., tournament chair man, at Box 745, Southern Pines. South Carolina net stai-s went off with the top trophies last sum mer. These were Mrs. Sara Rush ton Walters and Frank Spears, both of Greenville. It is antici pated they will be on hand to de fend their titles, with several oth er players from that city. Events scheduled include sin gles and doubles in both men's and women's divisions, also mixed doubles. There will be no junior division as the juniors have just held their own highly successful tournament on the Southern Pines courts. The Southland hotel, Colonial Inn guest home and Southern Pines Cottages are offering spe cial hospitality to the visiting i players, and the three town res taurants are joining in with dis counts on their meals, as a cour tesy to the "tennis crowd," which is always welcome and a center oi attention while in the Sandhills Carthage Loses Oldest Warehouse j hi Morning Blaze Firemen Aided By New Truck Save Nearby Buildings Fire breaking out about 2:30 a. r n. Wednesday razed the McCon- r lell tobacco warehouse at Car- * hage, causing loss estimated at c between $40,000 and $50,000. W. D. Carter, one of the owners, ;aid the loss is only partially cov- t ired by insurance. Along with i he 32,000 square feet of floor 1 ?pace, a large number of tobacco 1 baskets, a dozen or more hand < aucks and a set of weighing scales were lost. I This was the second large ware louse fire at Carthage in 33 ' months. Smothers Brothers Warehouse No. 1 was destroyed in i spectacular fire the night of j December 6, 1S49, also the equip ment of tiie Penn Premier Shows which was in winter storage there. In a way, the second fire was more disastrous to the owners of the building, as things were being i readied for the start of the selling i season, due to open September 2. However, a sizeable addition was 1 recently built to the McConnell i warehouse, Carthage's oldest, and ? Mr. Carter said sales would go forward there, though the space would be somewhat constricted. McConnells is operated by yW. D. and George D. Carter, Jr. The new addition was saved, al so several other nearby buildings, including the Farmers Exchange store and the Ginsburg apart ments, by strenuous*efforts of the Carthage volunteer firemen, aided by their large, new, modern fire truck. Water sprayed in great white plumes of steam through the high-pressure hose proved ef fective in combatting the flames. A shower which came up was also helpful i/i getting the blaze under control by about 6 a. m. In the 1949 warehouse fire, vol unteer departments of other Moore towns were called in. This tune, no outside help was found necessary. Defective wiring was believed to have been the cause.. The fire was first seen by a passing motorist, who sounded his horn vigorously in the night as , (Continued on Page 8) Local Group Will Play At Raleigh ?Without Audrey A good delegation will repre sent Southern Pines at the sev enth annual Eastern Carolina ten nis Association championships at Raleigh Wednesday through Sun day?but the brightest star of them all will be mising. Audrey West Brown will not be present to defend her title as | women's champion. What's more it is considered unlikely that she will defend her thrice-won singles crown at the N. C. Closed cham pionships at Greensboro in Sep tember, where she is also a four time winner in women's doubles. Audrey West has been working in Burlington since last fall and says she has not been able to practice enough to resume tournament play this summer Also missing will be her broth er Harry Lee Brown, Jr., holder with his sister of the mixed dou bles title at both the Eastern Car olina and N. C. Closed. He is do ing summer work on his Ph. D degree at Columbia university. Southern Pines has other East ern Carolina champions, however who will be right there defending ?Page Choate and Frank dr Costa, 1951 winners of the vete rans doubles (39 years old and up), who are expected to retair their trophy. Angelo Montesanti and Malcolrr Clark are also entered for th< men's events, while Moore Coun ty Champion Mildred Gruebl anc Millie Montesanti will play it women's events. Among local entries for junioi ; events are Kenneth Tew, stati boys' champion, and Steve Choate ? junior boys' champ in Moore ? While no girls' events are sched 1 uled, county winner Lillian Bui ? lock and others may go along a entries in thode for vvcrr.cn. Robbing Mills Back On Full Week; Orders On Hand For Rest ol Year 'Long Recession I May Be Ended, Saunders Believes I All Robbins Mills plants are now at work on a five-day or six day week, for the first time in well over a year, and prospects are good for continued full em ployment at least until the first of the year, said William P. Saun ders, president, this week. While he would not go so far as to say the recession i; definite ly over, he said, "Things look bet ter for us now than they have in a good long time." Orders now in process and on the books are suf ficient to keep the plants going full tilt for at least the next five months or so, if no more should come in ?and moie are ceriainly expected in. * The recession which hit the en tire U. S. textile world, begin ning some 18 or 20 months ago, slowed production down at Rob bins Mills to the place where many departments went on three day and four-day weeks. Though this was not so bad as in num erous other textile plants, it caus ed employee hardships and con cern among officials. These now seem to be over for the time be ing. All types of textiles put out by Robbins Mills, covering a full range of modern synthetics, are in demand, Mr. Saunders said, with nylons topping the list. Lim ited only by the available yarn is the production of such mate rials as orlon and dacron, which rose high in popular demand fol lowing their development by the DuPonts. Completion of the great new dacron yarn plant now being built by DuPont at Kinston is ex oected to relieve this bottleneck and open a new era in textile pro duction. Robhins Adds Plant In Merger Merger of Hego Fabrics, Inc nto Robbins Mills, Inc., was an tounced in New York City Wed nesday by Karl Robbins, chair nan of the board, who said that vhile Hego will become a Robbins livision it will continue to oper-i ite as an independent unit. Herman Goodman, former bead I >f Hego, has been named a di rector and vice-president of Rob ains, a post formerly held by Wil- j iam P. Saunders, who last Mayj vas elected president of Robbins. As a result of the merger, of- j icers said, the company has a po tential volume of about $75 mil lion a year and will rank among the first five sellers of better priced synthetics. Robbins owns weaving mills in Aberdeen, Raeford, Red Springs and Robbins, all in North Caro lina, and will take over operation of the Rocky Mount mill formerly controlled by Hego. Robbins also owns Clarksville Finishing Co., Clarksville, Va. Before he started Hego Fabrics in 1933, Goodman was vice presi dent of Colonial Mills, Inc., prede cessor company of Robbins. Masked Robber Stages Holdup. Lauds lit Jail A bold masked robber who held up a Deep River storekeeper Sat-, urday night, making off with an undetermined amount i# cash and checks, was not so bold the next day when he was easily recogniz-| cd in his home town, and landed in Carthage jail for lack of bond.; Homer Phillips, 24, young mar-] ried ex-serviceman of Siler City | father of a young child, admitted the robbery, said Sheriff C. J j McDonald, but claimed that the! $90 cash and $67 check officers; found on him were all he had! taken. Wiley Gaines, the robbed man, said he thought the amount was about $240. Gaines called Sheriff McDonald as soon as he could reach a tele phone after the robbery. Going to the scene at once, the sheriff heard the following story: Mr. and Mrs. Gaines, with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gaines, and Mr. and Mrs. Spinks Phillips, were sitting around talking in Wiley Gaines' store near the talc mine when they saw a car stop across the road outside, and a man got out and came bursting into the store. He wore a blue bandanna kerchief tied across his face, with holes cut for eyes. He pointed a pistol at Gaines and demanded to know where the (Continued on Page 8) Barrett Harriss, I Mrs. Menoher Are (bounty Medalists The annual Moore County Championship for men and wom en is under way at the Pinehurst Country club, with both defend ing champions on the ground and listed as winners of their opening rounds, C. Brook Wallace defeated Ken iGiesler 4&2 in his first round, and Mrs. Laura Menoher did the same for Mrs, Giesler, 5&4. to stay in the running and most likely head ed for the top. In qualifying rounds played in the period July 15-31, Barrett Harriss of Southern Pines was i medalist with a score of 74 in the I men's division, while Mrs. Meno her was medalist for the women with an 82. This is the second year the tournament has included a women's division. First match winners were list ed this week by Eric Shroeder, tournament chairman, as follows: Men's Division?C. Brook Wal lace df Ken Giesler 4&2; Joe Car ter df Clifford Smith 4&3, B. C. Avery df W. L. Wiggs, 1 up on the 19th hole; Carlos Frye df W. W. Simpson, 1 up on the"20th hole: Graham Grant df J. F. Carter, 1 ' up; Erbie Medlin df Tommy Cur ! rie, 3&2; R. D. McLeod df J. P. 1 Garrison, 7&5; M. C. Hufford df 1 O. T. Parks 5&4; H. W. Chatfield ' df Dan Mangum 5&4; Colin Smith df W A. Wright 1 up; Carl Kivetl i df E. J. Austin 34t2; T. E. Shock i ley df A. L. Sneed 3&2; Louis - Hunnecutt df Rudy Womack 5Jc4 1 D. L. Madigan df James Collins i 2 up. Women's Division?Mrs. Pear r son Menoher df Mrs. Ken Gieslei ; 5&4 (1st match); Mrs. M. Fores' . df Mrs. W. Russ 3&2; Mrs. Carlos ' Frye df Mrs. M. Jackson 1 up - Mrs. F. H. Underwood df Mrs. G ? Redfern 9&8; Mrs. Pearson Meno s her df Mrs. M. Forest 7&5 (2nc match). RESIGNS E. T. McKEITHEN McKeithen Retires As Administrator Of Moore Hospital The resignation of Edwin T. McKeithen as administrator of Moore County hospital was an nounced this week by Norris L. Hodgkins, chairman of the board of directors. The resignation will take effect October 1. Mr. Hodgkins said the board has appointed Thomas R Hower ton, assistant administrator dur ing the past year, as successor to Mr. McKeithen. Mr McKeithen's resignation was accepted with regret and with the passing of a resolution of trib ute to his able and devoted serv ice during the past 21 years. He assumed the position in 1931, when the hospital had only 33 beds. His period of service cov ers a time of great growth and expansion for the hospital, during which its capacity has been in creased almost fourfold. It now has a capacity of 120 beds and is one of the largest and most pro gressive such institutions of the area. His resignation was occasioned (Continued on Page 8) Aberdeen-Raeford I Little Leaguers In Finals Today The Aberdeen-Raeford All-Stars in the District 5 Little League won their preliminary playoff Tuesday against the Norwood All Stars at Raeford, and will meet a Durham team in finals to be held it Aberdeen today. The game will take place on the Colonial Heights field start ing at 5 o'clock, following a con solation game at 3:15. Teams playing in the consolation will be the Norwood All-Stars and a sec ond team from Durham, which has had three in the League this summer. If the Tuesday game was any indication, today's event will see a record crowd in attendance. About 1,500 were at the Raeford playoff, which was accompanied by considerable civic pomp and ceremony in honor of the two all-star teams. Aberdeen-Raeford won by ta ; narrow 7-fl score. Jimmy Davis was the winning pitcher, while Wilson Teal scored the winning run, with a four-bagger in the I eighth innir.g The crowd went wild. Observer Sees Sea well Campaign As Political Spice "Seawell Adding Spice to Cam paign," said a headline in the Charlotte Observer last week, over an editorial commenting on the activities of the Carthage at torney who is the Republican can didate for governor of North Car olina. Mr. Seawell is probably the only candidate for this office in the state's history whose father was also once a candidate. The late Judge Sea.well, also a great Republican leader in the state, once campaigned as his son is do ing now. The Observer's highly compli mentary editorial is reprinted be low, as of special interest in Moore county: also Mr. Seawell's characteristic reply. (For more on Mr. Seawell's campaign see Page 15.) "Herbert F. Seawell is devoted to the political concepts of Abra ham Lincoln. To him, the rail splitter turned debater is the epi tome of things to be desired in a chief executive: intelligence, sym pathy and patience, all turned with the spoon of Christianity. "Seawell, as perhaps many North Carolinians don't know, is running for governor on the Re publican ticket. He knows it'll be quite a trick to turn back Demo crat William B. Umstead, but he's [having a lot of fun in the attempt The basis of his campaign, aside from the usual cry of Democratic domination for 52 years, Is what he calls the inertia of the state Democratic party, its desire to keep the skeleton hidden In se curely-locked closets. He is a great story-teller, one of the best to come down the po litical pikes in many a day in this state. Better yet is he a mimic, and there's no better forte of his than a take-off on Senators Clyde Hoey and Willis Smith. But un derneath is a seriousness, mellow ed with wit. "Seawall's campaign won't be a vicious one. He figures his party can't progress that way, for, he says, the people are tired of antics like that. Besides, he holds Um (Continued on page 5)
