Town Will Buy ‘‘Whammy” In Effort
To Cheek Speeders Through T(
jOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 15. 1952
No Signs of Drought In This Field
own
Patch Converted,
Moves To Retain
One-Way Traffic
The town hoard in regular
meeting Wednesday night moved
^ positively toward solution of what
it termed “the town’s No. 1 prob-
em”—speeding on May street. It
also saluted the practical conquest
of another acute problem by mak
ing the one-way traffic system on
Broad street permanent.
To defeat the speeders, Com
missioner W. E. Blue moved and
the board voted unanimously to
install an electric automatiq speed
timer, authorizing Town Clerk
j Howard F. Burns to buy a “wham
my” and also to put up the nec
essary signs at both ends of town
advising that this modern pro
tective device is in use. While
May street was recognized is the
major speed'vay, ther^ are others
and the “whammy” can be moved
about eft will, providing an in
stantaneous check on passing
speeders, which at attending po
licement can then catch and take
to court with assurance of an un
arguable witness.
A measure suggested for speed
control on May street was moving
the New York avenue stoplight to
the highway entrance to town at
Young’s road, and installation of a
caution light at New York avenue,
the school corner. It was decided,
though, to ask District Engineer
T. G. Poindexter to make some
specific recommendations and the
board authorized Mayor Page to
secure his services for this pur
pose.
The ipayor said he had recently
been to Raleigh to consult with
traffic engineers on local traffic
problems, including both speeding
and possible diversion of trucks
around town, but, when he found
the man he wanted was out of
town, was unable to interest any
body else in helping to solve
them.
Commissioner C. S. Patch, Jr.,
was the one who moved to make
one-way street system, on trial
since April 9, permanent on Broad
street. He was also the one, he
reminded the board, .who had vot
ed against it before. (Actually,
Commissioner Patch had voted
only to postpone the trial until
September, stating he felt the
spring was not the right time.)
“I found out I was wrong,” he
told the rest of the board candid
ly. “I didn’t think it would work
but now I’m converted. It’s work
ing out better even than we had
hoped and I know of only one man
who isn’t for it now, though a
good many were dubious to start
with.” The rest of the board
agreed that the system had met
with practically universal favor,
accomplishing what it was sup
posed to and more in smoothing
out the traffic snarls which had
been mounting on Broad street
for several years.
In other actions of the meeting,
the board voted to:
Pave the street in front of the
West Southern Pines school before
the start of the fall term.
Install street lights, as requested
by citizens, at Rhode Island ave
nue and Broad in Souttiern Pines,
and Henley avenue and New York
in West Southern Pines.
Hold a meeting within the com
ing week to study various plans
of hospital insurance which have
been submitted to it in the past
few months, with a view to se
lecting one to install for the bene-
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APPOINTED
Mayor C. N. Page this week
announced the appointment of
*be Rev. C. K. Ligon as a new
member of the Municipal Re
creation Commission, succeed
ing Dr. W. C. Holland, also
the reappointment of Jack S.
Younts, whose term has ex
pired. Both appointments are
for one year.
Other members of the Com-
misson, which supervises the
recreation program and ad
ministers its funds, a* John
Pottle, Mrs. Hilda Ruggles,
Joe Montesanti, Jr., and J. W.
Moore, with A. C. Dawson,
Graham Culbreth and C. S.
Patch, Jr., as ex officio mem
bers.
Dr. Ross Slated
To Hear Sentenee
Despite Illness
Dr. W. H. Ross, West Southern
Pines physician pleading nolo
contendere to- an abortion cl)arge,
was scheduled to appear in Moore
superior, court for sentencing
Thursday afternoon despite grave
illness.
W. D. Sabiston, counsel for the
Negro physician, said his client
would leave his- sickbed, come to
Carthage by car, be carried into
the courthouse and up the stairs
on a stretcher, but walk into the
courtroom to stand before Judge
Will Pless, Jr.,'for sentencing.
All testimony was given in at
the May term-, and only the sen
tencing remained.
When the case was called Wed
nesday, Attorney Sabiston pro
duced a medical certificate sta
ting that Dr. Ross was extremely
ill, and having to remain in bed
24 hours a day. Judge Pless, how
ever, summoned the certifving
physician. Dr. R. M. McMillan of
Southern Pines, to summarize Dr
Ross’ condition in person at court
Dr. McMillan, appearing Wed
nesday afternoon, stated on the
stand that Dr. Ross was suffering
from' a bad heart condition, hy
pertension and high blood pres
sure. In answer to Judge Pless
question, “Would tension or strain
have adverse effect?” he replied
“It would not be a good risk.”
Judge Pless then requested Mr
Sabiston in open court to get his
client there for sentencing if it
were in any way possible.
The alternative is continuation
of the case until the January term
of court.
In the meantime, it was learned
from law enforcement officers of
the county that the chief state’s
witness, ' Mrs. Ada Jeannette
Goodhue, has disappeared from
her home, leaving her young chil
dren in care of her mother.
There are no charges of any
sert against her, which, accord
ing to Sheriff C. J. McDonald,
“makes it difficult to get her back
if we should find her, in case she
doesn’t wish to come.” However,
he said that! on the evident wish
of the family that a search be
made, he has given her descrip
tion to the SBI and she will be
listed on their ‘‘missing persons”
bulletin.
She is said to have been gone
from home about three weeks.
Her departure has no effect on
the Ross case, officials said, as
her testimony was given at the
May hearing and she was not be
he subpoenaed at this time.
The Sandhills—or maybe just son\e farmers—are lucky in hav
ing fine tobacco crops this year despite the drought which'has
burned up the fields in most of the State—in fact, all over the
South.
Above, Sam Marshall, farmer, and J. T. Overton, owner, radi
ate proud smiles over tobacco growing lush and green, its height
ranpng from five to seven feet, on the old Lemmons place on
Bethesda road.
Mr. Marshall says he kept busy “turning and turning” the
sandy soil, so all possible moisture could get to the roots of the
plants. He has four acres of tobacco, which he plans to sell on
Sandhills markets ,according to hi's custom of years’ standing.
(Pilot Staff Photo)
Rain Saves Most Of Moore’s Tobacco;
Pastures, Corn Seared By Drought
Recent rains may have cut
Moore growers’ tobacco crop loss
down to only about M per cent,
instead of the previously estima
ted 40 per cent of loss due to
drought, said E. H. Garrison,
county agent, this week.
Phillips, Wade
Get Prison Terms
In Criminal Court
Homer Phillips, 24-year-old
white man of Siler City, received
a sentence of 14 to 18 years in
State Prison in criminal court at
Carthage Monday as the result of
a bold masked robbery he staged
in upper Moore county just nine
days earlier.
In answer to an attorney’s plea
fdr a light sentence. Judge Will
Pless, Jr., said he felt impelled
to pass sentence in accordance
vith the seriousness cf the crime
with the hope that it would serve
as a deterrent to other young men
contemplating such an act.
Phillips, who had pled guilty to
charge of armed and masked
robbery, broke down and sobbed
after sentence was passed. His
young wife artd three-year-old
daughter, also his father, a re
spected resident of Siler (lity, all
of whom^ were in court, with diffi
culty maintained their composure.
The convicted man is said to
belong to a good family and to-be
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In this respect Moore farmers
are considerably better off than
thousands of others in North Car
olina, which with several other
states has been declared a “dis
aster area” for federal assistance
loans.
In Moore, the greatest losses are
in pastures, which have mostly
dried up, and also in corn, of
which only some 40 per cent has
survived what is rated as the
worst drought of recent years.
The pasture loss is especially bad
as it creates feed problems for
livestock which will grow worse
as the winter advances.
C. C. Lingerfelt, Moore County
FHA supervisor, said no applica
tions for federal loans have yet
been made by Moore farmers,
though “it is early yet.” Appli,
cation for the loans, which are to
help cover crop losses due-, to
drought only, are to be made
through the FHA office. A check
was made of FHA families, Mr.
Lingerfelt said, and none had sus
tained sufficient damage to war
rant a loan.
Loan applications, if any
made, will be passed on by the
regular FHA committee, which
approves the regular FHA loans
to buy land or improve property
Storey Cup Given
As Top Award In
Sandhills Tourney
Commitiees Named
For Major Tennis
Evenl Next Week
A new, permanent trophy will
be initiated at the Fourth Annual
Sandhills Invitational Tennis
tournament, to be held here next
Wednesday through Sunday, ac
cording to announcement made
by Angelo Montesanti, Jr., pres
ident of the Sandhills Tennis as
sociation.
The W. M. Storey Memorial
trophy, gift of Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines, will be instituted
as the championship cup, award
ed the winner of the men’s sin
gles event. This is the first, and
so far the only, donated trophy for
the tournament, which in its four
years of existence has become a
leading sports event of the Caro-
linas. Other trophies are given
winners and runners-up by the
Sandhills association.
The memoriel trophy will honor
W. M. Storey, late business and
civic leader of WIinston Salem,
founder of the Storey Lumber
company of which his stepson, Mr.
Gilmore, is now the head. The
Storey company, founded in Win
ston-Salem, moved to Southern
Pines in 1947.
The hand^pme trephy will re-
rnain for one year in the posses
sion of the winner, who will be
given a small replica to keep. It
is never to be retired.
The announcement was made
following a meeting of the Sand
hills Tennis association held Sun
day evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank de Costa, South-
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‘‘Julius Boros Day”
Here lu October To
Salute World W^iuuer
Public Meeting
REAPPOINTED
JOHN S. RUGGLES
Ruggl es Receives
Reappointment To
Hospitals Board
Tournament Will
Bring Leading
Tennis Stars Here
Town Board Adopts $150,000 Budget;
Everything Goes Up Except Tax Rate
The town board Wednesday+’—— ———
Si'ti. Sl tU mo P‘' iBtanlned. The budget
for the past five years.
Estimated income is based on a
property valuation of $5,516,162,
an increase of approximately
$520,000 over last year, resulting
from new construction and prop
erty improvements. Approxi
mately $16,000 additional income
should accrue to the town.
Despite the increase, the city
fathers found it impossible to re
duce the tax rate, as they had
frankly hoped to do. The needs
of the growing town and deniands
for public service have increased
right along with the income, and
to increased manpower costs. This
doesn’t mean town salaries have
taken any leaps, though some in
creases have been granted, but ad
ditional help has had to be hired
in almost every department to
take,care of the mounting work
load.
Thus the administrative depart
ment, set at $10,006 last year, this
year is $10,404; the fire depart
ment, last year estimated at $8,-
899.94, is expected to cost $9,716.36
omits a number of expenditures
customary in the past, while add
ing some others for which public
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YDC Meeting At
Carthage Tonight;
Staton Is Speaker
The Moore County Young Dem
ocratic club will hold its annual
meeting tonight (Friday) at 8
oklock in the courtroom at Car
thage, to perfect its organization
before the district" meeting and
state meeting scheduled to be
held within the next few weeks.
T. Roy Phillips, of Carthage, has
mailed letters to the membership
urging their attendance at this im
portant election-year event. He
said also that all Democrats are
invited to attend, whether or not
they have affiliated with the YDC.,
and they may become members at
this meeting.
W. W. “Bill” Staton, of Sanford
state YDC president, will be
guest speaker, reporting on the
“Flying Sauefer”
Flashes Again
Over Local Skies
That thing—the “flying saucer'
—came back this week. It was
seen by at least five people. This
time it did not put on a two-hour
show over town, as when seen by
Sgt. and Mrs. Dick Kobleim and
Mrs. C. _S. Patch July 31, but
flashed a'cross the sky and was
gone
“It was big and round, bright
orange in color—much darker in
the middle than at the edges,”
said Bob Morrison, who watched,
with his wife and mother, from
the porch of his home on Bethes
da road. “It sped across the sky
from north to west, banking for
the turn almost directly in front
of our house.”
It appeared to be rotating very
fast, emitting sparks from all
around the edge, said Mr. Morri
son, an employee of the Colonial
Stores here. He’s certain of his
facts, also that it was there, and
it was real; not a star, and not
a plane.
As to its size, he said, “That’s
At least 50 entries are expected
for the “biggest and best tennis
event yet held in the Sandhills”
—the enthusiastic prediction oJ
sponsors for the Fourth Annual
Sandhills Invitational tournament
slated to begin on the municipal
courts next Wednesday afternoon.
Entries will include some of the
leading net stars of North and
South Carolina.
Frank Spears, defending
champiop. brilliant young player
from the University of South Car
olina, will be here with a delega
tion from his home city of Green
ville. The delegation, however
will not include the women’s de-
art-’ fender, Mrs. Sara Rushton Wal
ters, who will be unable to play
this year.
A group of 12 or 15 from Ral
eigh will include such topnitchers
as Dr. Fred West, former Texas
Open champion; Jerry Robinson
C. R. Council and others. Whit
Cebb, former N. C. Intercollegiate
champion and a favorite of the
local courts, will head a group
from Durham. Johnny iFbrfour
and others will be here from
Goldsboro, Ed Bender and Mary
Lou Jones, former state girls’
champion, from Sanford, and oth
ers from Kinston. Rocky Mount
Chapel Hill and Wilmington.
In fact, according to advice re
ceived by the Sandhills Tennis as
sociation tournament committee
John S. Ruggles, Southern
Pines insurance man, was reap
pointed Monday by Governor W.
Kerr Scott to membership on the
State Board of Hospitals Control.
The reappointment of Mr. Rug
gles for a second four-year term
is effective as of last April 1, and
runs until April 1, 1956.
The board supervises the^ af
fairs of the state hospitals at Ra
leigh, Morganton, Butner and
Goldsboro and the Caswell Train
ing school at .Kinston.
During his first term of service
the local man was handed a large
job of work to do and carried it
through with distination. As
chairman of the alcoholic commit
tee he was a leader in the setting
up of North Carolina’s new alco
holic rehabilitation program.
Starting from scratch in July
1948, he has seen the program be
come a functioning unit and a
model for study by other states
planning siipilar programs. It is
centered in the Butner hospital,
and will have a wing in the new
hospital of the University of
North Carolina medical school.
Though unpaid, service on the
board demands much time, which
Mr Ruggles has freely given. As
it comes under the law against
double public office-holding, in
order to carry forward the work
which has become a major inter
est in his life he gave up his elec
tive position on the Southern Pines
town board, also membership on
the county board of elections.
The' board consists of 15 mem
bers appointed by the governor,
representing all parts of the state,
also two paid executives. Dr.
David A. Young, general superin-
tendant and Roy M. Purser, gen
eral business manager of the state
institution, both of Raleigh.
Slated Next Week
To Perfect Plans
A spontaneous movement
sprang up this week to hold a
“Julius Boros Day” here sometime
in October, honoring the Mid
Pines pro who has skyrocketed to
sudden fame in golfdom, shedding
lustrous glory on his home club
and the Sandhills section.
Boro's, winner of the National
Open at Dallas, Texas, in June,
on Monday won the “World
Championship ” at Chicago’s Tam-
o’-Shanter Country club, picking
up golfdom’s richest prize —
$25,000—to become the top money
winner of 1952.
C. S. Patch, Jr., has accepted
temporary chairmanship of the
proposed “Julius Boros Day,” and
has announced that a public meet
ing will be held for discussion of
the plans, next Friday evening,
August 22, at 8 o’cloek at Weaver
auditorium. All Sandhills civic
organizations are being asked to
participate and all interested per
sons are invited, especially mem
bers of the golfing fraternity.
A parade, exhibition match and
banquet are among the tentative
highlights, also the presentation
of a gift from the Sandhills com
munity. Before the meeting Mr.
Patch expects to have word from
Mr. Boros and the Cosgroves, pro
prietors of the Mid Pines club, as
to a suitable date for the celebra
tion.
Meteorlike Rise
Julius’ meteorlike rise has made
history in golfdpm. Before win
ning the National Open he was
just another pretty good pro,
largely unknown to the big-
shots. His Mid Pines job, which
he has held for three years, is his
first in professional golf. He isn’t
even a member of the PGA—that
takes a five years’ apprenticeship.
The Mid Pines normally opens
toward the end of October, and it
is planned to schedule the occa
sion in his honor on some suitable
date between the opening and No
vember 1. This will occur in the
open season” between the close
of the summer tournament series
and the December start of the
winter circuit.
Before then, even more glory
will be shed on the Sandhills and
North Carolina because of Boros.
He is to be a special guest for the
National Celebrities Open to be
held at the Congressional Country
club, Washington, D. C., starting
September 18.. Ham Bush, sports
editor of the Washington Post,
this week telephoned plans for the
tournament to Howard F. Burns,
Southern Pines town clerk, and
was referred by him to Mr. Patch.
Tar Heel Foursome
Editor Bush suggested the Town
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Norris Hodgkins, Visiting Springfield,
Sees Stevenson As Man Of Action
Democratic National convention at impossible to tell without know-
Chicago. He will give his eye
witness account of the nomination
of the Stevenson-Sparkman tick
et.
Officers are to be elected and
a program of activities planned
toward fulfilment of the YDC’s
greatest function, getting out the
vote.
ing how high up it was,” but it
appeared to. be about eight times
larger than a normal-sized star
All three saw it clearly. In ad
dition, Mr. Morrison said, a man
at Pinebluff and a woman who at
tended the drive-in theatre that
night, who heard what he had
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almost the entire personnel of the
Eastern Carolina tournament now
under way at Raleigh will move
just a little bit south—say 70
miles—next Wednesday.
A large group of local players
will, of course, be entered. This
will include some of the more
promising juhiors, who will enter
men’s and women’s events. Sev
eral of the groups from other
towns are also expected to bring
junior players, though only adult
events are scheduled.
Men’s and women’s singles and
doubles, also mixed doubles, will
be played. Women’s finals are ten
tatively scheduled for Saturday
men’s evjpnts for Sunday. Play
will continue throughout. Ithe
event in the afternoons and also
at night under the lights.
Entertainment highlights will
include a buffet supper at the
Civic Club building, given by the
host association, and the Elks
dance at the Southern Pines
Country club Saturday night. The
Elks have invited all visiting
players as guests, and members of
By Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.
My vacation last week was a
once-in-a-lifetime experience — a
trip to visit a candidate actively
campaigning for the presidency of
the United States, Gov. Adlai E.
Stevenson of Illinois, nominee of
the Democratic party.
My invitation came from Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Ives of Southern
Pines; Mrs. Ives is the sister of
Governor Stevenson and acts as
his official hostess.
The invitation was extended in
the early spring when it appeared
that Governor Stevenson had un
equivocally removed himself
from consideration as the Demo
cratic presidential nominee. Imag
ine then my delight upon receiv
ing a letter from Mrs. Ives soon
after the convention saying that
they were still expecting me to
visit them at the Executive Man
sion in Springfield, Ill., where
(Governor Stevenson had estab
lished his campaign headquarters.
My stay in Springfield lasted
from last Thursday night to Sun
day afternoon. During that time
I saw Governor Stevenson on sev
eral occasions, but our conversa
tions were always of a social and
not a political nature. What I
was able to discover of the Gover-
the local group for a nominal fee.lnor’s political beliefs from the
men around him, I will discuss
later. First, I would like to give
you my impressions of him as a
person.
Stevenson is of average size and
to my mind his most noticeable
phpical characteristic is his
quickness of movement. He walks
fast, talks fast, reads and eats
quickly, and as far as I could dis
cover sleeps hardly at all. I have
read newspaper stories which de
scribed him as a thinker rather
than a man of action; while he
must pour his considerable intel
lect into his major speeches, such
as the dramatic acceptance speech
at Chicago, he spent no time dur
ing my stay dreaming by the riv-
er.
Politicians were coming and go
ing at the Executive Mansion so
rapidly that I was sometimes re
minded of Saturday morning at
the Citizens Bank in Southern
Pines.
Conferences were held almost
continually on one day, from 9 in
the morning until midnight. The
visiting politicians were mostly
enthusiastic amateurs; there were
representatives there of Independ
ent Voters for Stevehson clubs be
ing formed in New York, Chicago,
and Los Angeles. Political bosses
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