vt Sandhills Tobacco
Marts Bolt Bright
Belt Association
Five Local Markets
Request Government
Set Opening Dates
The five markets of the Sand
hills Tobacco Warehousemen’s as
sociation Monday voted to bolt the
Bright Belt Warehouse association
and to operate on their own hook
beginning with the 1953 market-^
ing season.
The group also adopted a reso
lution requesting that the Federal
and State Departments of Agricul-
ture set the opening dates in the
• future rather than permit the
warehouse association to continue
to do so.
Meeting in Sanford, representa
tives of the Aberdeen, Carthage,
Fuquay-Varina, Ellerbe and San
ford markets took the action
which they have been threateiling
for some weeks.
An opening date of September
2 had been set by the Warehouse
^ association, despite a local plea to
the group to permit them to opqp
August 28 because of the earlier
ripening of tobacco in this area.
According to a spokesnian of
the Sandhills group, the advisory
sales committee of the Bright Belt
association was favorably inclined
towards letting the Sandhills
warehouses open August 28. Then
the representative from Durham
on that committee threatened to
*, open that market on August 28
and hence throw the Middle Belt
marketing situation into confu
sion.
It was brought out that the Dur
ham market was leading the fight
against letting the Sandhills mar
kets get their regular early open
ing dates. It was reliably reported
many Durham merchants and ci
vic groups had applied pressure
, on Fred Royster, president of the
Bright Belt Warehouse associa
tion, not to permit the Sandhills
group to open earlier.
The spokesman further stated
that he had been authorized by
the Durham group to transmit this
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Left to right: Jerrald Robinson of Raleigh
runner-up with Whit Cobb in last year’s dou
bles final here; Frank Spears, Greenville S C
ace who returns to defend singles, doubles and
mixed doubles crowns; Whit Cobb, Durham, for-
mer intercollegiate champion of North Carolina-
and Angelo (Junior) Montesanti, local hopeful
who teamed with Spears to win the 1951 men’s
doubles title. The four are pictured taking the
court for the final doubles match last year.
Red Cross Water
Show To Be Held
At Aberdeen Lake
A third all-new Water Show
wiU be presented again this year
by the Water Safety division of
the Moore County Red Cross chap
ter, Dr. John C. Grier, Jr., chair
man of this branch of Red Cross
trmning and activities, announced
this week. The admission-free
event is scheduled for Sunday,
August 31, at the Aberdeen lake.
Any Moore county resident who
has participated in the Water
Safety program during one of the
last three regular training periods
—^that is, has taken some kind of
water instruction since 1949 — is
eligible to participate in this show.
All who wish to are asked to be
at the Aberdeen Scout hut (locat
ed at the lake) next Sunday at 3
p. m.
Included in the program will be
swimming and diving styles,
stunts and formation swimming,
boat demonstrations, elementary
rescue forms, swimming rescues,
artificial respiration, and other
features.
The entire event will be under
the direction of Dr. Grier. Those
who witnessed the last two dem
onstrations at Aberdeen lake will
recall how popular they were.
Young Democrats
Elect Officers,
Plan Campaign
Moore County Young Demo
crats, holding their annual con
vention at Carthage last Friday
night, elected officers for 1952-53,
planned participation in forthcor%-
ing YDC and party campaign
events and heard their state pres
ident, W. W. Staton of Sanford,
present an enthusiastic picture of
the national convention and the
prospects for November.
President Staton reminded the
group, however, that “it looks as
though the burden of the cam
paign will fall on the younger
people” as the party elders are
showing more fight in state than
in national matters.
He advocated staunch adher
ence to the proven principles of
the Democratic party, and to the
national ticket of Stevenson and
Sparkman, which he declared a
strong one.
The drama of Adlai Stevenson’s
nomination and acceptance, and
the realization that “here we have
a man,” Staton presented as the
stirring climax of the convention
at Chicago, which he attended as
an alternate delegate.
Douglas David of Pinebluff was
elected county chairman for the
coming year, a year of especial im
portance as it will include a na
tional campaign and election. Oth
er officers were reelected, as fol-'
lows: Mrs. Estelle Wicker, vice-
chairman; Mrs. Sam C. Riddle,
secretary, and Paul C. Butler,
treasurer.
The convention voted to extend
an invitation for Jhe Eighth Dis
trict rally to be held in Moore
county, preferably in Southern
Pines. It also voted unanimously
to endorse A1 Cruce of Aberdeen
for the post of district chairman.
Endorsement of Forrest Lockey,
mayor of Aberdeen, was given-by
the convention for appointment to
the post of Sixth District highway
commissioner by Governor W. B
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Frank Spears, Audrey West Brown
Top-Ranked As Tournament Opens
Two Further Charges Faee Banigans
Two othpr suite Iflill • m
Two other suits, one directly
and one indirectly involving Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Banigan, briefly of
Southern Pines, were filed in Car
thage this week.
Mrs. Katharine Wiley and Mrs.
Emma Fisher Pottle, of Tots’ Tog
gery and Mrs. Hayes’ Shop, have
sued to recover $138.08 for goods
allegedly sold and delivered to the
Banigans.
R. L .Chandler, Jr., J. W. Caus
ey and Howard N. Butler, acting
as trustees of Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian church, have filed a
claim against Barbara Collester
Moore and her husband, Theodore
F. Moore, to obtain title to a lot
next to the church.
The plaintiffs allege that the
full purchase price of $1200 was
paid to the Jay and Jay Realty
company, operated by Mr. and
Mrs. Banigan, as agents of Mrs.
Moore. Mrs. Moore has refused
to grant title to the lot to the
church. Although she has not re
plied to the Brownson suit and
has 30 days in which to do so, it is
believed that she will allege that
she never received the money
from the realty company.
■The Banigans already face
claims of $1,013.30, now being
sought by four 'local merchants
from the couple, who left South
ern Pines May 8. Contempt of
court charges with a 30-day jail
sentence also await them, by an
order of Judge Zeb V. Nettles is
sued in June.
FOOTBALL PRACTICE
Coach Irie Leonard, prepar
ing to enter his second season
•as Blue and White grid men
tor. announces the . opening
footbaU practice for Southern
Pines High school hopefuls
will be at 10 o'clock next
Tue^ay morning, at Memori-
al Field.. Coach Leonard re
quests that all who plan to
play be at the first practice.
Local Players Cop
New Net Trophy
At ECTA Tourney
Malcolm Clark and Junior Mon
tesanti led the local contingent in
the Eastern Carolina Tennis asso
ciation tournament last weekend
as they copped the Allen Deaton
Memorial Trophy in men’s dou
bles, defeating C. R. Council and
Dr. Fred West, 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.
This was the first year the trophy,
which will never be retired, was
awarded.
Mildred Gruebl and Millie Mon
tesanti swept to the semi-finals in
women’s doubles, before losing to
the top-seeded pair. Both also
went to the semis in singles, Mil
dred defeating the sei,’ond-seeded
Mary Johnson before losing to the
eventual winner,, Grace Fowler.
Millie lost to runner-up Mary Loii
Jones of Sanford.
Clark and Millie reached the
semifinals in the mixed doubles,
only to lose to C. R. Council and
Mary Lou Jones, the new cham
pions. Page Choate and Frank de
Costa, defending champions in
veterans’ doubles, were defeated
in the finals by H. S. McGinnity
and Dudley Cowden.
Juniors Kenneth Tew and Da
ryl Holliday were beaten in the
opening round, while Steve
Choate moved to the second round
before being defeated. Page and
Steve Choate were beaten early
in the doubles, as were Clark and
Junior Montesanti in the singles.
Seventh-seeded Malcolm Clark
and sixth-ranked Bill Carrigan
were the only seeded players to
see action Wednesday night as the
-Fourth Sandhills Ihyitkicmal Ten
nis tournam'ent opened on the mu
nicipal courts, and both advanced
easily. Clark defeated Jimmy
Tyler, 6rl, 6-2 and Carrigan won
0-1, 6-1 oyer Leo Lupton. ■
Action in the two-state tourney
was scheduled to be resumed at
10 a. m. Thursday morning, if the
rams that prevented play Wed
nesday afternoon did not return.
Top seed in men’s singles went
to Frank Spears, Greenville, S. C.,
star, who copped a triple crown
here last year, winning in men’s
singles and doubles and in mixed
doubles. Localite Audrey West
Brown, runnefup in the 1951 tour
nament, ranks first in the ladies’
singles in the absence of cham
pion Sarah Walters ot Greenville.
Raleigh’s Rev. Fred West is
seeded second in the men’s,follow-
ed by Whit Cobb, Durham, who it
was thought would be unable to
play because of illness. The re
doubtable but erratic Jerry Rob
inson of Raleigh is fourth-seeded
followed by John Allen Farfour’
an ex-state champion from Golds
boro; Carrigan, Greensboro city
i^tle-holder; Clark, and Sanford’s
Ed Bender, who copped the first
Sandhills tournament in 1949,
Sarah Watson of Greenville
ranks behind Miss Brown in wom
en’s singles, with fellow-towns
man Mary Boyd third and Mary
Lou Jones of Sanford fourth.
Three local players fell in the
opening round, as Charlie Stevens
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Graves Announces
New, $3"Million
Scholarship Plan
John J. Moreheati
Extends Eligibility
To High Schools
Extension of the John Motley
:Morehead Foundation funds for
I scholarships to the University of
North Cartilina to include high
school and prep school graduates
in addition to University graduate
students was announced Wednes
day by Henry L. Graves, Moore
county chairman of the Morehead
bcholarships.
At a meeting of county ohair-
men from all over the state in
Chapel Hill this week; the donor
announced that an additional $3 -
000,000 had been added to the
fund to provide scholarships for
male high school graduates of the
class of 1953, and that this sum
will be increased over the years
to cover later classes.
Each high school in Moore
county is eligible to offer the
name of one graduating male, said
Graves, adding that it will be es
sential that the superintendents
cooperate with him and his yet-to
be-named committee by recom
mending qualified students.
Mr. Graves pointed out that the
qualifications are not just an ex
cellent class standing, noh iust'
athletic ability. He added S
parents’ income is also irrelevant.
Individual performance by the
young man concerned is to be the
criterion, and those selected will
be those that the committee feels
will be “a crqdit to the University
and the State, be leaders, be suc
cessful that type rather than just
students, just athletes, or just anv
one things.” ^
-.Applications, to be approved by
the cornmittee following an inter
view with each applicant, will be
sent to the district committee and
then to Chapel Hill
Mr. Graves stated that appli-
recipients of
the Morehead Foundation scholar
ships will be eligible for other
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Dr. W. H. Doss Passes
As Prison Term Starts
*Heart Attack Ends
Abortion Sentence
Of 3 To 5 Years
ADLAI HERE?
Can the Sandhills look for
Democapatic Presidential nom
inee Governor Adlai Steven
son late next month?
The men around Stevenson
have only said that the nomi
nee will visit the South
sometime/' but sometimes-
reliable Washington columnist
Drew Pearson lists the fol
lowing schedule: leave Illinois
Sept. 15 for a swing to St.
Louis, Oklahoma City, Dallas
and Houston. Then the Gover
nor to fly to New Orleans or
Miami, ''then to Raleigh, N. C.
near which some of his rela
tives live." The Governor's
sister, Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, re
sides at Paint Hill Farm, near
Southern Pines.
Board Approves
Hospital Insurance
Hospitalization insurance for all
town employees was approved
Tuesday afternoon at a special
rpeeting of the Town Board. The
measure adopted will affect 37
employees.
The insurance will be obtained
through the World’s Insurance
company, of Omaha, Neb.
Town Clerk Howard Burns is
also prepared to go ahead with
the purchase of two lots from
Robert F. Henderson to be includ
ed in the new May street recrea-
Siib ^^‘''‘'hase of the lots
will be concluded as soon as re
serve funds are converted from
Senes G bonds, a process which
takes 30 days and was scheduled
for completion Thursday.
School Budget Up
$55,860 Over Last
Year, Says Thomas
Moore county’s school budget
fpr the coming school year is up
^5,860 over last year’s, H. Lee
Thomas, county superintendent of
schools, announced this week.
Although the total current ex
pense item for all schools is only
$157,972 as compared with $167,-
661 for the last academic year
both capital outlay and debt serv
ice are considerably higher.
The total capital outlay, includ
ing the Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst schools in addition to the
county ones, is $542,500 on the
new budget. The 1961-52 figure
was $482,731. Debt service for all
schools IS up from $40,070 to $46 -
850. The total of $747,322 is more
?o91,462 figure.
The breakdown:
General control, $5,730; instruc
tional service, $75,284; operation
$'^^>501; maintenance of
plant, $31,140; fixed charges, $12,-
585; auxiliary agencies, $1,500; to-
county schools
$133,389. Plus Southern Pines per
capita, $15,186 and Pinehurst per
capita, $9,397; total current ex
pense all schools, $157,972.
Buildings, sites and equipment'
county schools, $372,500; Southern
Pines, $60,000; Pinehurst, $110 -
000. Total capital outlay ail
schools, $542,500.
Debt service, all schools, $46,-
oOU.
pcand total, county school bud
get, $747,322.
Dr. W. H. Ross, West Southern
Pines physician, died less than an
hour after his admission to Cen
tral Prison in Raleigh Saturday to
begin serving a three-to-five-year
sentence for performing an abor
tion on a white woman.
The 44-year-old Negro physi
cian died from a heart attack, pris-
-on officials reported, at about
12:35. He had arrived at the pris
on hospital about noon, it was
stated and was transferred to the
ward from the ambulance by
stretcher. ^
Dr. Ross said he was “feeling
pretty good,” when asked by Dr.
Alfred T. Hamilton, prison physi
cian, about his condition when ad
mitted. The fatal heart attack
came about 15 minutes after he
was put to bed, it was reported.
Indicted In May
The Moore county grand ‘jury,
at the May term of superior court
returned a true bill against Dr.
Ross on the charge of performing
an abortion on Mrs. Ada Goodhue,
white, of Southern Pines, on May
8. Defense attorney W. D. Sabis-
ton of Carthage entered a plea of
nolo contendere for his client and
asked for a continuation to the
August term. Dr. Ross was pres
ent, but did not take the stand.
Testifying for the state was one
witness, Mrs. Goodhue, whose
written deposition was read. Only
the sentencing remained for the
August term.
On Wednesday of last week the
case was called. Attorney Sabis-
ton produced a medical certificate
stating that Dr. Ross was extreme
ly ill, and Presiding Judge J. Will
Pless, Jr., summoned the certify
ing physician. Dr. R. M. McMillan,
YDC RALLY
The Young Democrats of
the Eighth Congressional dis
trict will hold a rally at the
Lakeview hotel August 30,
with the social hour begin-
ning al 5:30 and supper at
6:30. Speakers are still to be
selected.
"50,000th"
Three weeks ago. Mrs. Mil-
dred Carroll, registered nurse
at Moore County hospital,
noted that the institution was
soon to have its fifty-thous-
andth patient, and pointed
this out to fellow nurses,
speculating on whom it might
be*
Tuesday, eight - year - old
William Carroll, son of nurse
Carroll, went onto the hospi
tal books as the SOJlOOth when
he was admitted for a tonsil
lectomy. The Carrolls live in
Niagara.
Moore County hospitid was
established November 25,
1929.
Two Children Hurt
When Car Skids,
Crashes On US 1
Two children received abrasions
and bruises when the automobile
m which they were riding skidded
on the wet pavement and turned
over one and a quarter times near
Bristow’s motor court, two miles
north of Southern Pines on U S
Highway 1, early Wednesday af
ternoon.
Corporal Parvin of the State
Highway Patrol reported that the
1949 Ford was traveling too fast
over the wet pavement.
Injured were Arthur Heller, 10,
who suffered abrasions of the
head and bruises, and Linda Mae
Heller, 6, who received abrasions
of knees and elbows. Their moth
er, Mrs. Florence Heller of Phila
delphia, was the driver. Also in
the car were Virginia Carol Hel-
ter, 5, Johnny Smith, 28, and Mary
Edith Smith, 3, the latter two of
Douglas, Ga.
The t>*ro injured children were
taken to St. Joseph of the Pines
hospital for treatment and obser
vation.
Hello, Friends, And Thanks A Lot!”
to summarize Dr. Ross’ condition
in person at court. Dr. McMillan
appeared Wednesday afternoon
and stated on the stand that Dr
Ross was suffering from a bad
heart condition.
Judge Pless requested Mr. Sab-
iston in open court to get his cli
ent there for sentencing if it were
in any way possible.
'Thursday, Dr. Ross was carried
up the courthouse stairs on a
stretcher, then walked into the
courtroom, where the three to
five-year sentence was pronounc
ed.
Judge Pless allowed the doctor
until Saturday to begin his term.
The delay was for a chance to at
tend to business affairs and for
more treatment by his private
physicians.
One funeral service was held at
the Ross home Monday afternoon
with the Rev. W. G. Thompson,’
Episcopal minister from Greens
boro, officiating. Another service
followed Wednesday, in Ross’
hometown of Camden, N. J., with
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“We want to say hello to all our friends and
thank them for all'their kindness and thought
fulness during our illness.”
message that came down to The
Pilot this week from two young ladies who have
been lying flat on their backs in the Central
Carolina Convalescent hospital at Greensboro
for over two months.
The note was from Karen McKenzie left 11-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene’mc-
Kenzie, and Paulette Dietenhofer, eight-year-old
daughter of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Herbert J. Die
tenhofer, both of Pinehurst. Moore county’s
only victims of polio during this summer, both
are progressing nicely, according to reports from
the Greensboro institution.
, dread disease
while at Kure Beach early in July, and has been
at the convalescent hospital since July 9. Paul-
ette was stricken with the disease while in far-
wfek^lltCT*”'^ admitted to the institution a
friends, have been per
fectly wonderful to the children during tLir
long illness,’’ Mrs. McKenzie and Mrs. Dieten
hofer said this week. “We want to join the
yo^gsters in thanking everyone for all the
letters, gifts and flowers they have re-