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27 Convicted As Special Court Sits;
Other 17 Bootleg Trials September 23
Rowe Metes Out
Stiff Sentences;
Suspends Many
Twenty-eight of 44 defendants
charged with violation of the pro
hibition laws were tried in a spe
cial session of Moore County re
corders court Tuesday.
Judge J. Vance Rowe gave most
of the offenders suspended sen
tences and directed payments of
fines that ranged from, $25 to $’00
One man was found not guilty.
Remaining cases will be tried
at another special term of record
ers court on Tuesday, September
23, Solicitor W. Leland McKeithen
announced at the end of . the long
session this week.
All 44 defendants, facing from
one to four charges of illegal pos
session and sale of beer, wine or
whiskey, were arrested in a
round-up of alleged bootleggers
recently, after five months of in
vestigation by ABC officers and
their “undercover agents.”
Three other persons arrested in
the round-up will be tried in Fed
eral court.
One of the stiffest sentences
meted out Tuesday by Judge
Rowe was that of William Hughie
Sheffield, 70-year-old white man,
of Steeds, who was sentenced to
eight months on the roads, to be
assigned to work suitable to his
age and physical condition, with
sentence suspended if he pays a
fine of $300 and the costs and
does not violate the law for two
years
Unable to pay thd fine, Shef
field remained in jail Tuesdajj;
but an effort was begun to pay
the fine and costs which amount
ed to $404.80. The defendant walk
ed shakily with a cane and was
obviously in poOr physical condi-‘
tion.
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Schools Open With^
Good Atten<
School enrollment
day Wednesday in the t
ern Pines schools was
below last year’s record
820, superintendent A.
son announced yesterday.
The white school had a first-day
enrollment of 517, as compared
with 530 in 1951. Four hundred
and sijc of these were in the ele
mentary school, and 111 in the
high school. Last year’s Ijreak-
down was 407 and 123.
West Southern Pines showed
294 pupils, 229 of those in the ele
mentary school and 65 in the high
school It is expected that this fig
ure will go up considerably when
needs on the farms permit.
The schools operated on a half
day schedule Wednesday and yes
terday, and will go cn a full
time basis today when the cafe
teria will be open for’ the first
time.
The incomplete figures on the
county schools, as reported by H
Lee Thomas, superintendent of
schools, are as follows:
Cameron, 87 high school and
364 grammar school, total 451:
Vass-Lakeview, 120 high school
and 480 grammar school, total
600; Robbins, 187 high school and
722 grammar school, total 909;
. High falls, 34 high school and 222
grammar school, total 286; Aber
deen,-154 high school, 500 gram
mar school, 654 total; Westmoore,
94 high school, 330 grammar
school, total 424; Carthage, 191
high school, 487 grammar school,
total 678; and Farm Life, 169 in
the grammar school. The Negro
Berkelev school had 68 in the high
school. 307 in the grammar school,
for a total of 375.
OPEN HOUSE
To give parents of school
children an opportunity to
meet the new teachers, the
Student Council of Southern
Pines High school will hold
Open House at the Southern
Pines Country club from 8 to
10 o'clock tonight (Friday).
The affair will be strictly in
formal, and all parents are
urged to "come on out and get
acquainted."
The high school pupils will
remain for dancing from 10
to 12. V
One Killed, Four
Hurt, When Auto
Hits Parked Truck
One person was killed and four
injured when their automobile hit
a parked truck on U. S. Highway
15 near Carthage at 4:30 last Sat
urday morning.
Raymond L. Mathis, 58, of Route
1, Hopewell, Va., died instantly
in the crash.
In critical condition at Moore
County hospital is his wife, Mrs.
Odell Mathis, 55, who- received a
fractured pelvis, crushed chest
and several fractured ribs. She
also suffered a mild stroke.
Miss Helen Mathis, 15, has a
fractured left thighbone and
lower left leg, but is not in, criti
cal condition.
Mrs. Ida Hughes, 55, also of
injuries to her
aild concussion,
reported as
Audrey Wius Agaiu
Miss Audrey West Brown of Southern Pines garnered further
tennis acclaim .Monday when she successfully defended her State
women’s singles an& women’s doubles titles. She is pictured
above with Frank Spears of Greenville, S. C., as the two received
their awards for singles triumphs in the recent Sandhills Invita
tional Tennis tournament.
Audrey West Browu Adds To Net
Laurels With Greeusbord Triumph
Audrpy West Brown added to
tennis laurels Monday with
draight State women’s
the tournament
scored
Sandhills Tobacco
Marts Open Ahead
Of Rest Of Belt
Five Local
Markets Get
4-Day Jump
The chant of the tobacco auc
tioneer was in full cry in five
markets of the Sandhills Ware
house association yesterday. Ab
erdeen, Carthage, Ellerbe, Fu-
quay-Varina and Sanford all op
ened yesterday, four days ahead of
the rest of the middle belt mar
kets.
The other middle belt marts, to
open Monday, are Durham, Hen
derson, Louisburg, Oxford and
Warrenton.
The Sandhills markets last year
accounted for 60,642,351 pounds of
the belt’s 186,419,891 pounds and
of the state’s 1,059,852,257 pounds.
Last year’s average price was
$53.38 per hun^ired pounds.
Aberdeen, which sold 6,058,234
pounds last year with two ware
houses, opened yesterday with
three, all built within the last few
years, and each operating inde-
: pendently.
I The Planters Warehouse is own-
|ed by Gene Maynard and operat-
] ed by Mr. Maynard and Bill Maur-
j er. The Planters Warehause is lo-
[cated near the intersection of the
Raeford and Laurinburg high
ways on the Raeford road.
The New Aberdeen Warehouse
this year is operated by John Mur
ray, Bernard Morris and Clyde-
Morris. The New Aberdeen Ware
house stands where the old brick
warehouse was located between
U.S. Highway 1 and the Seaboard
railroad.
Aberdeen’s newest, and third
warehouse is the Bass Warehouse,
being operated by Taft M. Bass of
Clinton, and is located just south
of Aberdeen on Highway 1 to-
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County Board Approves
Moore’s Larj^est Budget
* Tax Rate $1.35
Value
V anBenschoten
Buys Chandler-
Holt Business
RE-ROUTED
Those extra whistles
screaming through the middle
of town this, week belonged
to Norfolk and Southern
trains re-routed fromi their
normal Star-to-Raleigh run
by high water.
Hurricane - inspired ifluiods
between Star and Colon, a
small town north, of Sanford,
caused the N & S officials to
arrange for use of Seaboard
tracks from Aberdeen to
Colon. Trains from Star are
now running through Pine-
hurst to Aberdeen, and over
SAL tracks to Colon, where
they pick up the regular route
to Raleigh again.
Lt -Gov. H. Patrick Taylor told
the Young Democrats of the
Eighth-District Saturday night at
Lakeview that “the one thought,
one hope, one prayer of the Dem
ocratic Party is that we can find
and lead the way, eventually, to
a just and lasting peace in the
world.”
The lieutenant-governor was
given a standing ovation by the
more than 100 present at the rally
at the end of his keynote address.
“Under the present policies of
the Democratic Party and with
the overwhelming support of the
people, our country has chosen
the only road to eventual peace,”
he stated.
Presiding over the district rally
was Nelson Gibson, chairman of
the Eighth District YDC. Eight of
the district’s counties were, repre
sented at the rally, under the di
rection of W. Lamont Brown,
Southern Pines attorney and sol
icitor-elect.
Others taking part in the pro-
gram' included W. W. Staton of
Sanford, state YDC president;
John Lang, secretary to Con
gressman C. B. Deane; and Rep.
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen.
The meeting “commended” Miss
Edith Marsh, YDC national com7
mitteewoman, for her outstanding
work during the past two years,
and heard a report from Henry H,
Wilson of Monroe, Eighth District
organizer. J.- Douglas David, re
cently-elected president of the
Moore County YDC, announced
a rally scheduled for Aberdeen
on Octbber 11, with gubernatorial
nominee William B. Umstead as
the principal speaker.
Among others who spoke brief
ly were Mrs. Ruth Wi. Swisher of
Southern Pines, an alternate to
the Democratic convention in
Chicago; Bedford W. Black of
Kannapolis, candidate for state
YDC president; former Senator
Oscar Richardson; C. H. Causey,
Richmond County party chair
man; Paler Nicholson, Richmond
County commissioner; Rep. R. C.
Kiser of Laurinburg; Senator J.
Benton Thomas of Raeford; Sol
icitor MC. G. Boyette of Carthage;
Senator J. H. Poole of West End;
and Jeff B. Wilson of Biscoe and
Raleigh.
sweep
weather when the mixed doub
slate was washed out. She was
entered with her brother, Harry
IKE RALLY
An Eisenhower-Nixon meet
ing will be held at the South
ern Pines Country club (Elks
club) next Tuesday evening
at 8 o'clock, Charles S. (Bus
ter) Patch, Jr., announced
this week.
The meeting is being called
for the purpose of electing an
executive committee to meet
state Eisenhower-Nixon or-
in the near future with the
' ganization.
Lee Brown, Jr.
Miss Brown staged a great re
covery to cop the singles title,
turning back the very serious
challenge of Greensboro’s Ann
Carlson, the State junior cham-
7-5, 6-0. Miss Carlson threat-
dethrone the defending
a great start.
Brown
in the
...ational Announcement is made this
Biic defeated of ^he purchase from Carl E
Mary Johnson of Wilmington, 6-2,1^^°^^ of the Chandler-Holt Ice and
6-1. Fuel plant by Chester VanBen-
— schoten, who recently moved to
Southern Pines from Stanford-
1 real in store r or vnie, N. Y. Nathan H. Adams,
T> /"V Tr • I ^ T\ brother-in-law of the new owner
Boys Un ivias JJay and for eight years in the employ
t of The Pilot, Inc., will be affilia-
There s a great treat m store ted with the new owner at the
for the younger .boys of Moore pjgj^t
county. National Kids’ Day is to No'changes in the policy of this
Op long-established business are con-
September 27 with the United templated, it is said, and every
.states Air Force their h^osts. effort will be made to continue
When Herbert F. Seawell, Jr.,
sent along his' official campaign
picture, he noted that “most news
papers in North Carolina don’t
publish a picture of a Republican
unless he has been shot at, as
saulted, or in some way humili
ated to the great advantage of
pointing out the purity and glory
of the word Democrat. Please put
this m the official file of your
photos. Nobody can tell what
might happen these days.”
“Chub” hasn’t been shot at, as
saulted or' etc., but he has
swung his campaign as Republi
can candidate for Governor into
high gear with his recent speech
es.
Seawell Deeries
“Ring Politicians
•Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., of Car
thage, GOP nominee for Gover
nor of North Carolina, will speak
in Roanoke Rapids tonight. The
address will be Mr. Seawell’s 47th
of the campaign, which began
soon after his nomination in Char
lotte last March and has carried
him into 56 of the state’s 100
counties.
Last Saturday, the gubernato
rial candidate told the Piedmont
Republican Club at a rally at High
Point that the North Carolina
GOP must unite to “rid the gov
ernment of hide-bound ring poli-
ticians, or else North Carolina Southern Pines, through the
will ^ always be a second-rate Chamber of Commerce, put out
its best welcome mat for over 50
Mr. Seawell charged that the members of the Forestry Division
Per i
Meeting at Carthage Tuesday,
instead of Monday because of the
Labor Day holiday, Moore county
cpmmissioners set their formal ap
proval on the biggest budget in
the county’s history, calling for
expenditures of $1,111,863 during
the fiscal year from July 1, 1952,
through June 30, 1953.
The budget, which sets a tax
rate of $1.35 per $100 of property
valuation, had been tentatively
approved several weeks ago and
had remained open to public in
spection, but was not formally
adopted until this week.
The tax rate is based on a prop
erty valuation of $37,000,000 for
the entire county. Allowing for
commissions, uncollectab|e taxes
and discounts, this rate is expect
ed to bring the county $440,795
from the tax levy. The remaining
amount of estimated income,
$671,069, will be raised from ABC
store profits and other sources.
Road Requests
Road petitions, which have been
numbering a half dozen or more
each month, eased off and only
two were presented to the com
missioners Tuesday. '
One petition asked for stabiliz
ing and surface treating of 450
feet on Forrest Drive, running
north from the Aberdeen city lim
its. The road serves five homes
and, the petition said, the Town of
Aberdeen is surfacing the street
up to the city lim'its.
The Resort Investment Co. of
Carthage, operated by N. W. Phil
lips and T. Roy Phillips, asked
State maintenance on Valley road,
running between Morganton road
and Hill road for .7 miles in the
company’s real estate develop
ment on some of the former
Southern Pines Country club
property just out of Southern
Pines. The petition says the com
pany built the road and that five
homes are completed on it and
more planned.
The two petitions were approv
ed and passed on to the State.
State Foresters
Acclaim Welcome
Extended Here
There’ll be exciting movies, thrill
ing talks about the adventure of
fighter pilots, models of planes-for
the same efficient service to the
Sandhills.
The business was first estab-
Kiwanians Hear
them to see, and each boy present listed by Tom Kelley, and in
will be presented with a glossy, inin t u
photograph of a jet fighter.
■ ! came the owner. In 1943 Mr. Holt
National Kids’ Day is sponsored bought a half interest, and three
' throughout the country by Ki- years later became sole owner.
Talk On Education international and the Na-!He gives ill health as his reason
tional Kids Day Foundation, of for selling
“The Bigness of Education in Hollywood Calif. And at | !
Our State” was impressed upon its meeting on Wedimsday at toe Yont*
members of the Sandhills Kiwanis lakeview hotel, the^ Sandhills Ki-j^Ct i OUC oCaSOU
club at their meeting on Wednes- m • z •«-
- " Air Force invitation for an “Open I co-«7- T irz-no
House” at the Air Ground Oper- i-ilOUS
ations school in Southern Pines,
and give the boys of this area.
day in the Lakeview hotel. 'The
speaker was J. E. Miller, assistant
superintendent of the North Car
olina Department of Public In
struction.
those ranging from nine years old
Kiwanians, there were some 40,
000 children in the public schools
of the state. Today there are over
900-,000. There were 30 high'
scliools then, 958 now, and in them
in 1902 were 2,000 seniors as
against last year’s 30,973.
North Carolina had-1,190 one-
room log schools when Governor
Aycock launched the state on its
campaign for universal education.
Toda ythere are none. The aver
age value of a school plant in
those days was $158.65; today it is
$64,000. There are more than 30,-
000 teachers today, as compared
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of this week are “Season Ticket
Days” for members of the South
ern Pines Lions club, who are put-
n- v! „ 117 T 1 ^ c ii. ^ special selling campaign
Dr. Bruce Warhek, of Southern foj. the benefit of the athletic
Pines, was named chairman of program of the local high school,
the committee on arrangements ^hich is said to be beginning the
ruction. jrv-axo UXCl
A half century ago, he told the I high school seniors, an oppor-
; ; .1 tunity to enjoy a rare treat.
for the occasion, and serving with
him will, be J. Hawley Poole
West End; J. B. Edwards, Aber-
deeh; B. U. Richardson, Pinehurst,
Roy Phillips, Carthage, and Harry
Pethick, Paul Butler and Dr. J
W. Willcox, Southern Pines.
Superintendents and principals
of all schools in the county will
be contacted and given the infor
mation about the Kids’ Day pro
gram, and asked to ascertain how
with 3,320 in 1902, and their aver- many boys will be coming to the
•arrck c-o1«-i'TT y-.-P <i»0 QOO . t .... ® _ _
age salary of $2,832 now compares
with the $83.05 they received an
nually then. The average term at
that time was 70.8 days per year;
it is now 180 days.
Fifty years ago not a single
child was transported to school.
Today the State has 7,000 school
buses in operation, hauling almost
half of the total number of pupils,
and traveling the equivalent each
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big show” from their schools
This is in order that Brig. Gen.
William M. Gross, commanding
officer of the Air Ground Opera
tions school at the Highland Pines
Inn, and Capt. Harold Logan, pub
lic relations officer, can have the
necessary number of favors in the
form of photographs of modern
jet fighters ready for them. Also,
season a full $400 in the red.
Tickets are for the six home
football games, and the price is
50 cents below the amount single
tickets for the six would cost.
H. M. Patterson is heading up
the spgcial ticket committee, with
Walter Harper and Marvin Beas
ley as associate members, but that
is only the beginning of the story:
every Lion is supplied with tick
ets and the wiU to sell them. They
remind that school tax money
can’t be used for athletics.
Proceeds of the sale will be
used for getting the athletic pro
gram on its feet financially and
for the purchase of needed equip
ment.
So, if you haven’t bought your
season ticket, the Lions urge that
you see one of their members to
day, then go out and boost the
Democrats are “carrying politics
into education, health, and high,
way programs.” He said that the
Democrats have spent over a bil
lion dollars on education and that
North Carolina still ranks 43rd
in the nation.
As for the national scene, Sea
well depicted Gov. Adlai Steven
son. Democratic presidential nom
inee, as “just a new handle for
a wornout broom. There must be
a new broom.”
- r. . - “ , - > uui, aiiu uuusi, [lie
the Kiwanis club plans to serve Blue and White to a victorious
refreshments to the boys. I season.
Jim Besley Cops
County Golf Title
Jim Besley, of Southern Pines,
a former city golf champion of
Rome, N. Y., defeated Barney
Avery, also of Southern Pines, 2
up, for the Moore County Golf
championship in the final round
over the No. 1 course at the Pine
hurst Country club this week.
The match, which saw many
pars, some birdies and one eagle
started with Avery taking the
first two holes, the second with
an'eagle two. Besley evened the
match with pars on the third and
fourth. They halved the fifth in
pars.
Besley went ahead for the first
time on the short sixth, holing
a 30-foot putt for his par. They
both parred the seventh, and
then Avery evened thC nigitch with
a 3 on the short eighth. The ninth
was halved, and they made .the
turn all even, Avery out in bne-
over-par 36, Besley in 38.
Avery won the tenth for a
short-lived lead when Besley
missed a short putt. But the lat
ter came back on the eleventh
with a birdie two, dropping a
long putt. Besley won the twelth,
but Avery fired a birdie and they
were all even again at the end of
thirteen. They halved the next
two holes.
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of the state department of conser
vation and development, here for
a four-day convention iast week
at the Southland hotel.
A 12-number floor show Wed
nesday night in the decorated
main room of the Southland was
arranged by the Chamber of Com
merce, with the cooperation of
many talented local performers.
Miss Dorothy Ann Swisher, for
mer beauty queen of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars and a Miss North
Carolina finalist, presented the
Hawaiian dance number which
she performed in the state beauty
pageant. Miss Martha Aden and
Pat Starnes did several dance
numbers as well.
Bobby Speller and Doris Hamor
of Pinehurst performed a charac
ter danice, and Jimmy Larsen gave
an electric organ recital. Bob
“Buster” Doyle performed on his
electric guitar, while Harold Mc
Allister, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, emceed the
show, lauded by the Rangers as
the finest reception they have had
in their conventions throughout
the state over the past years.
H. M. Sears, an official of the U.
S. Forest Service from Atlanta,
Ga., told the group of North Caro
lina’s fine record with forest fires,
pointing out that while the South
as a whole had an average of 450
fires per million acres, this state
has had only 193.
A field trip to Hoffman Wed
nesday afternoon was included on
the program, but cost the group
the services of one speaker. Ar
nold Bosswell, a state forestry of
ficial, was bitten by a rattlesnake
and had to be taken to Moore
County hospital for treatment.
Other Ideal and state officials
who spoke during the convention
included: George Ross of Raleigh,
Mayor Chan Page, Postmaster
Garland A. Pierce, state repre
sentative H. Clifton Blue of Aber
deen, county commissioner Gor
don Cameron of Pinehurst, and
state senator J. Hawley Poole of
West End.