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VOL. 33—NO. 38
SIXTEEN PAGES
Education Bldg.
For Presbyterian
Church Is Planned
Chairman Dwight,
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 noipination of F. M. Dwight
as executive building committee
chairman was adopted by the
congregation in meeting after the
morning service, ^Iso of the fol
lowing committees:
Construction—J. W. Causey,
chairman; Hubert Ckmeron, C. J
Simons, Howard Butler, C. L
White, Donald Case.
Finance—A. H. Grant, Harold
Collins, co-chairmen; Henry L
Graves, J. M. Pleasants, E.
Blue, Mts. 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 Majrley, Mrs. Hal
Adams, Mrs. Joe Steed.
Tentative plans as presented to
the congregation early this month
called for a one-story building,
though it is understood these
plans have now been changed and
it is hoped to build a two-story
edifice, finishing each floor as
needed. The committees are now
at work on specific plans and cost
estimates and it is. anticipated
that construction will begin with
in a short time.
Ross Trial On Calendar Next Week;
Two Murder Cases For Grand Jury
FOOTBALL PRACTICE
Time marches on—the first
call for football practice is be
ing sounded.
Coach Irie Leonard an
nounced this week that paac-
tice will start Tuesday. Aui-
gust 26. All high school boy^s
planning to go out for toot-
ball are asked to be at the
High School Memorial field
at 10 a. m. that day ready ifor
work. Practice is expected to
be well under way by the
time school begins Wednes
day, September 3.
Judge Will Pless
Will Preside Over
Criminal Terms
Citizens Seeking
District Highway
Post For Lockey
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 uraseed-
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-to-
last week of the summer pro-
graml which will wind up
with a big picnic Friday, Au
gust 22.
A movement in support of For
rest Lockey of Aberdeen for ap
pointment as Sixth District high
way commissioner gained impetus
Monday when a large delegation
of prominent Sandhills citizens
appeared before the county com
missioners 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
dorsement, passing a resolution of
their own for good measure. The
two resolutions, and others 'which
may be secured - later, will be
handed to Governor-Nominate W.
B. Umstead in hopes he will ap
point the Aberdeen man following
his election and inauguration. «
It is anticipated the Southern
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. Lament Brown.
Pinehurst—W. A. Leland Mc-
Keithen, chairman of the Moore
County Democratic Executive
committee.
Aberdeen — Rep. H. Clifton
Blue, Judge J. 'V'ance Rowe, G. C.
Seymour, A. F. Dees, F. D. Sham-
burger.
Pinebluff—Mayor E. 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 gs
Aberdeen town agent, while liv-
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■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
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
county for the first time in
years.
Attracting much attention will
be the trial of Dr. W. H. Ross of
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
young white woman of Southern
Pines, married and a mother. It
is not known as yet wjaat defense
will be offered, if any, in behalf of
Dr. Ross. It is considered likely
that he will throw himself on the
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
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 light which brought mem
bers of two families into court
three or four times will go up lor
indictment lor aggravated assault.
They are Charlie Ritter, Eulis Rit
ter and Harvey Kennedy.
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Carthage Loses
Oldest Warehouse
In Morning Blaze
Firemen Aided By
New Truck Save
Nearby Buildings
Fire breaking out about 2:30 a.
m. Wednesday razed the McCon
nell tobacco warehouse at Car
thage, causing loss estimated at
between $40,000 and $50,000
W. D. Carter, one of the owners,
said the loss is only partially cov
ered by insurance. Along with
the 32,000 square feet of floor
space, a large number of tobacco
baskets, a dozen or more hand
trucks and a set of weighing
scales were lost.
This was the second large ware
house fire at Carthage in 33
months. Smothers Brothers
Warehouse No. 1 was destroyed in
a spectacular fire the night of
December 6, 1949, also the equip
ment of the 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
readied for the start of the selling
season, due to open September 2.
However, a sizeable addition was
recently built to the McConnell
warehouse, Carthage’s oldest, and
Mr. Carter said sales would go
forward there, though the space
would be somewhat constricted.
McConnells is operated by W.
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, moder-p firf
truck. Water sphayed iii 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 in 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
Robbins Mills Back On Full Week;
Orders On Hand For Rest of Year
Robbins Adds Plant In Merger L""®
May Be Ended,
Merger of Hego Fabrics,' Inc.,
into Robbins Mills, Inc., was an
nounced in New York City Wed
nesday by Karl Robbins, chair
man of the board, who said that
tential volume of about $75 mil
lion a year and will rank among ’ m i t» i •
the first five sellers of better-, •^^Uncler8 BelieVeS
priced synthetics.
Robbins owns weaving mills in
while Hego will become a Robbins Aberdeen, Raeford, Red Springs
division it' will continue to oper
ate as an independent unit.
Herman Goodman, former head
and Robbins, all in North Caro
lina, and will take over operation
of tile Rocky Mount mill formerly
All Robbins Mills plants are
now at work on a five-day or six-
of Hego, has been named a di-' controlled by Hego. Robbins also
rector and vice-president of Rob- owns Clarksville Finishing Co
bins, a post formerly held by Wil- Clarksville, Va.
liam P. Saunders, who last May Before he started Hego Fabrics
was elected president of Robbins, in 1933, Goodman was vice presi-
As a result of the merger, of-1 dent of Colonial Mills, Inc., prede-
ficers said, the company has a po- cessor company of Robbins.
Masked Robber
Stages Holdup,
Lands In Jail
A bold masked robber who held
up a Deep River storekeeper Sat-'
urday night, making off with an"'
undetermined amount in cash and
checks, was not so bold the next
day when he was easily recogniz-l
ed 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
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
RESIGNS
E. T. McKEITHEN
McKeithen Retires
As Administrator
Of Moore Hospital
Gaines’ store near the talc mine
time, no outside help was found j they saw a car stop across
necessary. the road outside, and a man got
Defective wiring was believed “tnrP^^HpthejMoore County hospital was an-
store He wore a blue bandanna nounced this week by Norris L
Hodgkins, chairman of the board
to have been the cause.
The fire was first seen by a
passing motorist, who sounded his
horn vigorously in the night as
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The resignation of Edwin T.
McKeithen as administrator of
was an-
Sandhills Tourney
Will Be Major
Tennis Event Here
Local Group Will
Play At Raleigh
—Without Audrey
kerchief tied across his face, with
holes cut for eyes.
He pointed a pistol at Gaines
and demanded to know where the
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Barrett Harriss,
Mrs. Menoher Are.
County Medalists
of directors. The resignation will
take effect October 1.
Mr. Hodgkins said the board
has appointed Thomas R. Hower
ton, assistant administrator dur-
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 sa^ the recession is definite
ly over, he said, “Things look bet
ter for us ijow than they have in
a goodsj^ong time.” Orders now in
process and on the books are suf-
I ficient. to keep the plants going
jfull tilt for at least t^ie next five
months or so, if no more should
come in—and more are certainly
expected in.
The recession whiqh hit the en
tire U. S. textile world, begin
ning some 18 or 20 months ago,
slpwed 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-
fted 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.
^"Shooting Stars^^ Tonight
The two-night run of the big lo
cal-talent variety show “Shoot
ing Stars,” opening Thursday
night at Weaver auditorium, wil]
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.
Layton Hall will contribute
singing commercials.
Specialty dances will be by Pat
Starnes, Robert Speller, Janie
Bello, Donald Fobes and Craig
White.
Members of the “Jubilee Cho
rus,” a remarkable singing aggre
gation, are listed as follows: R.
W. Tate, Bill Benson, E. J. Aus
tin, Bruce Warlick, Alex McLeod,
W. N. Benjamin, Tom Shockley,
Jimmy Hobbs and Charles Austin.
Children appearing in a cute
pnatomime, “Snow.'W^ite and the
Seven Dwarfs,” are Nancy Wiggs,
Sherry Slaughter, Eddie Ormsby.
Patty Patch, Becky Traylor,
Rocky Langner, Jerryl Langner.
Sandy 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, Mlary Matthews, June
Bristow, Jean Godwin Joan How-
prth, Lucy McDaniel, Lillian
Clark, Janice Holliday, Betty
Weatherspoon, Carol Arey, Becky
Blunt, Joy Crosby, Dovje 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. Hanpy 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.
The Fourth Annual Sandhills
Invitational Tennis tournament
will be held here Wednesday
through Sunday, August 20-25, ac
cording to announcement by An
gelo Montesanti, Jr., president of
the sponsoring Sandhills Tennis
association.
Invitations went out this week
to players in the 1951 tournament,
also a number of others who have
indicated interest, in Raleigh,
Sanford, Durham, 'Wilmington,
Chapel 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
Lee Brown, Jr., tournament chair
man, at Box 745, Southern Pines.
South Carolina net stars 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 ihclude 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 tlieir 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
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 of
attention while in the Sandhills.
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
therh all, will be mising.
Audrey West Brown will not
be present to defend her title as
women’s champion. What’s more
it is considbred 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 '\Mest 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 de
Costa, 1951 fyinners of the vete
rans doubles (39 years old and
up), who are expected to retain
their trophy.
Angelo Montesanti and Malcolm
Clark are also entered for the
men’s events, while Moore Coun
ty Champion Mildred Gruebl and
Millie Montesanti will play in
women’s events.
Among local entries for junior
events are Kenneth Tew, state
boys’ champion, and Steve Choate,
junior boys’ champ in Moore.
While no girls’ events are sched
uled, county winner LiUian Bul
lock and others may go along as
entries in those for women.
Observer Sees
Seawell Campaign
As Political Spice
“Seawell Adding Spice to earn
ing the past year, as successor to|paign,” said a headline in the
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
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Aberdeen-Raeford
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 tlieir opening
rounds.
C. Brook 'Wallace defeated Ken
Giesler 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
medalist with a score of 74 in the T X
men’s division, while Mrs. Meno- l^agUCrS
her was medalist for the women
with an 82. This is the sefeond
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 bn 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.
Garrison, 7&5; M. C. Hufford df
O. T. Parks 5&4; H. W. Chatfield
df Dan Mangum 5&4; Colin Smith
df W. A. Wright 1 up; Carl Kivett
df E. J. Austin 3&2; T. E. Shock-
ley df A. L. Sneed 3&2; Louis-
Hunnecutt df Rudy Womack 5&4;
D. L. Madigan df James Collins
2 up.
Women’s Division—Mrs. Pear
son Menoher df Mrs. Ken Giesler
5&4 (1st match); Mrs. M. Forest
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
her df Mrs. M. Forest 7&5 (2nd
match).
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
st 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 'la
narrow 7-6 score. Jimmy Davis
was the winning pitcher, while
Wilson Teal scored the winning
run, with a four-bagger in the
eighth inning. The crowd went
wild.
Charlotte Observer last week,
over an editorial commenting on
the activities of the Carthage at
torney who is the Republican can
didate for governqf of North Car
olina. b
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 Seawell, 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 ratl-
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.
“Seawell’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-
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