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^TOVOTE iX€RaSElf/ tH«rbe /isy<Hjt/F^iai(e^\ V TOwm EXERaSElf/ Ghosts and Goblins^ Will Be Out For Halloween Frolic Many Enleriainment Features Planned For Rotary Carnival You better be good—you better not cry—you better watch out! Spooks, goblins and witches are corning to town. They’ll fill the streets tonight (Friday) on merriment bent, in a great big Halloween Carnival con centrated in the lighted-up down town district. The Broad street block from Pennsylvania to New Hampshire will be marked off for their revels, starting with the big parade at 7 o’clock. It’s the traditional Halloween event sponsored by the Southern Pines Rotary club. Every mem ber of the club has assisted in the work and planning, and will sup ervise the fun, for the youngsters and teen-agers of the community. Everybody who goes to school is welcome, with everything free, it i is learned from Johnnie A. Hall, chairman; adults can just stand on the sidelines and watch—it just isn’t their night. Parade Formation Dusk will be the signal for the costumed sprites to gather. The parade will form at the Clark & Bradshaw service station, and pro ceed along Broad street where the judges’ stand will be set up in the usual place. Heading up things on the judges’ stand will be Garland Pierce as master of ceremopies, who win announce events throughout the evening over a public address system. New in the parade this year will be the Southern Pines school band in Halloween costumes, with the swirly-skirted majorettes, leading the way past the review ing stand. . •«, i „ Slreei Events ^ Montgomery County ■ After the costume judging and award of r>ri-7<ac o+root Sunday and lost. TWENTY PAGES Pilot And Parents Compare Campaign Insignia LIEUT. TIMOTHY IVES and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ives of Southern Pines and Springfield, Ill., show their favorite styles in la pel ornaments—Timothy his new “wings” as a U.S. Air Force pilot, and his parents their Stev-- enson buttons. Timothy, 24, nephew of Governor Adlai Stev enson, Democratic presidential nominee, has been on extended leave with his patents at ,4" '"4 Springfield or on the campaign train since re ceiving his commission and wings September 20. He left last week for Pine Castle AFB, Flor ida, for gunnery training preparatory to jet transition. Lieutenant Ives spent last weekend here with his cousins, Gen. and Mrs. R. B- Hill, on his way to Florida. “Russian Roulette” Game Is Fatal To Young Father award of prizes, street events will keep all the young folks busy un til 10:30. There will be the usual array of amusement stands, apple bobbing, pie-eating and girls- Edward Ledbetter Harris, Jr., 29, died at Duke hospital shortly after midnight Monday morning after firing a pistol int» his right Last Link Of Fort Bragg Road Gets Army Okay; Work To Start At Once shave-boys contests. Soft drinks what Moore County, and noise makers—700 of ’em, Coroner Ralph G. Steed, of Rob- wiU be given away. There will be ' described as a game of Rus- lots of prizes of all kinds. Another new feature will be the street dance for the teen-age proup. Other entertainment will include close harmony by a band of singers, including several old- timers from the famed Sandhills Sixteen; a community sing led by Lloyd Woolley; a magic show by Ed Cox; and dance specialties by' Martha Aden School of Dance. At 10:30 o’clock doors of the Carolina theatre will open and all the revelers will attend a special movie as guests of C. W. Picquet. BOND ELECTION Today (Friday) is the last day to register for the munici pal bond election of Novem ber 18, if you are a new voter living in the Southern Pines city limits. Better check and make sure your name is on the munici pal boohs, so you may vote on the $106,000 bond issue for civic improvements. Registra tion will remain open nnHi 5 p. m. sian roulette. completion of his investiga-, tion two days later, the coroner' rendered a verdict of death caus ed by self-inflicted bullet wound. After talking to Harris’ compan ions, Dallas Howell, Virgil Reid srd Pat Ray, all of Candor Coroner Steed told the fol lowing story of eveilts leading up tC' the shooting: The four young men took a Sun day ride in Howell’s car which brought them over the county line into Moore about noon. Har-, ris, the son of a prominent peach H/f ^ i grotver and merchant of Candor, [-l-TlClVenZie IVllleCl, showed his friends a new pistol' he had bought, a Colt. .32 “Police Tvi Special,” and on a country road AllJ UrCtt 111 Vading to Harris’ pond'they stop ped so he could get out and fire it at a small building in a field. He got back in the car and, as they drove on, they started dis cussing a story which had appear IKE RALLY For those who get their Pi lot in time Thursday, here's a reminder of the Moore County Eisenhower - Nixon rally being held at 8 o'clock in the evening at Weaver au ditorium. j C. St Patch, Jr., has an nounced that two speakers of state prominence will be heard: Dr. Malcolm McDer mott, of the Duke law school, who since accepting the invi tation here has been appoint ed men's leader for the state organization: and Mrs. Cecil Parker of Charlotte, state women's leader. Dance acts and music wiU be provided by way of enter tainment. The meeting will be preceded by a buffet sup per starting at 6:30 in the school cafeteria. * The final link in the paved road connecting this sectton with Fort Car-Truck Crash Samuel McKenzie, 39, of Can dor was killed about 1 a. m. Tues day in a truck-car crash on NC ed on the front page of the 211, about a mile east of Eagle Greensboro News that morning. Springs. This was Moore county’s telling of a Florida man who was 15th highway fatality in 1952, al- (Continued on Page 8) “We Want Stevenson!” Startles Ike Arriving Moment After Adlai Leaves By KATOARINE BOYD I got on the Palmland in New York, with mixed feelings. There was regret to be leaving all the excitement in New York, with every street corner plastered with posters of the candidates, and every other person you met burst ing to tell you about seeing Ike or Adlai at a rally the day before; and then there was a feehng: oh just to get down home again, down into the peace of the Sand hills! Well, I might have spared my self all feelings whatever! New York has nothing cn the Sandhills in the way of politicking; as for peace. . . that’s a word we might as well forget until after Novem ber Fourth. I thought that the rally at Poughkeepsie would mark my last connection with the Democratic ready far and away the county’s worst year'in history for highway casualties. It also marked the second trag edy within two days for the Can dor family. Ledbetter Harris, who WES fatally shot Sunday afternoon Stevenson at the campaign head- in Moore county, dying at Duke quarters every spare moment, I hospital early Monday morning, attended the luncheon at the: was McKenzie’s brother-in-law. Commodore Hotel given by the Injured in the Tuesday wreck Volunteers for Stevenson women’s were Roy L. Christopher, 26, of group Tuesday. [Guilford College, a passenger' in Bragg will shortly be undertaken, according to word received by The Pilot Tuesday form George ' S. Coble, Sixth District •, Highway commissioner. i Mr. Coble said that the long- sought permission from jprmy en gineers to cross a short stretch of government land, connecting the new route with the paved army road, has finally been received a wo-k will start within a few days. Completion of the survey of the route was done several months ago. Starting at this end, according to T. G. Poindexter, Sixth District Highway engineer, who laid out the route, the road will take off from the Old Bethesda road, be low the former Ark School prop erty, and will follow the ridge un til it meets the paved road on the reservation. The line chosen fol lows the old trolley track that was at one time intended to connect this section with Fayetteville. Bisecting a corner of the Grover •place, the route crosses at the back of the Boyd, Butler, Grover and Smith properties, and, swing ing north, connects with the army road a short distance within the reservation. Completion of the new paved road will be followed shortly, it is stated, by an overhauling of the present so-called Connecticut ave nue extension. With all traffic di verted temporarily to the new highway, the state plans a thor ough face-lifting job on the old road, to make this a sturdy grav eled stretch, suitable for the amount of traffic it will carry. The paved route being built along the ridge will be designated a heavy duty highway. Purpose of the two-way ap proach, it has been stated, is to fan out the stream of traffic com ing into this section from the post. Democrats Will Hear Stevenson Message At Rally Thad Eure, Deane Revue Slated For Saturday Program Moore County Democrats will hold a “Whistle-Stop RaUy” at Southern Pines Saturday night, in behalf of their, party ticket from Stevenson and Sparkman down. extra special attraction, unique in the State and perhaps in the nation, will be a brief transcribed message from Gover- iUL I Stevenson himself, for voters of Moore county and his ' anahills section. This was made for Moore County [Democrats on a request transmit ted by Mrs. James Boyd of South ern Pines, who- has just returned t'T-om accompanying the presiden tial campaign party on part of its tour. Thad Eure, Secretary of State since 1936, one of the State’s out standing Democrats and orators, the^ afl °ut of town,’many from oS fee rally, which will be held at of the state, visited Paint Hill Weaver auditorium starting at 8 Farm here Sunday bringing n, 4. . [crowds of interested persons for Mr. Eure will be jntroduced by a glimpse of Adlai Stevenson’s po- U. L. Spence of Carthage, dean of .tential “Little White House.” the Moore County Bar and former | This is considered a mild fore- Moore County representative in taste of what will transpire if the the General Assembly. [Democratic nominee is elected Congressman C. B. Deane and President of the United States, other leaders of the State and Howard Bennett, caretaker for county will also be on the pro-'^^® seven years at the farm gram. The speaking platform will home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ives, feature a stage set designed by ^he latter Governor Stevenson’s Robert Speller of Pinehurst, rep- sister, said he was kept busy all resenting the back platform of aj'^sy showing cars up the lane train, in keeping with the idea of winds to the top of a pine- the “Whistle-Stop Rally.” Mr.!‘^°vered hillside tO' fee quaint log Speller will also provide a‘^®hin home where the governor dramatic skit which is expected iihes to vacation. Registration Shatters All Records For Nov. 4 2,000 Added In County, 556 In Southern Pines VOTEEAE.LY Belter vote early Tuesday! Record - breciking registra tion indicates the polls may get clogged up with voters, if they wait till late in the day. Registrars may have to take care of them at fee rate of two or three a minute, which is about as fast as it can be done. At the last county election 900 people voted in Southern Pines precinct. A total of 556 hets been added in the latest registration. This many at least are expected to vote here, and possibly a good many more. There are 2,545 names on the precinct books. Paint Hill Farm Is Mecca For Tourist Crowds Around 50 cars, most of them to enliven the proceedings consid erably. Entitled “Speller’s Musical Re vue,” this will include a “Donkey He said he also answered many questions concerning the presi dential nominee, and took pleas ure in telling that Governor Ste venson is a “mighty nice man. Ballet” of prominent Moore Coun- friendly and plain” who likes to ty citizens —■ Ray McDonald, Southern Pines; Frank McCaskill, Hubert McCaskill and Jimmy Lane, Pinehurst; Everett Hinso-n visit around the farm and also do some rifle-shooting when he va cations there. Bennett said cars started com According to all signs in South ern Pines and Moore county, as in the rest of the state and the na tion, an unprecedented number of voters will take part in the quadrennial election. November 4. Polling places will be open from 6:30 to 6:30. Registrations everywllere have reached a new high. In Moore county. Board of Elections Chair man Sam C. Riddle reported ap proximately 2,000 names added to the books, for a record-shattering total of 15,214. In Southern Pines, 556 names were added to fee books, about 400 of them on the last registra tion day. for a total of 2,545. Highest previous general-elec tion votes have been about 5,300 in Moore county in 1950, and slightly more than 6,000 for the beer-wine election of September Station WEEB has asked permission to stay on the air Tuesday night until all re turns are in. WllUe the per mission had not been received at presstime. Jack Si. Younts, manager, said he anticipated it would come in, and he ex tended an invitation to the public to attend the "election party." 1951. In Southern Pines, the peatest number voting hitherto 1 000^^^^^*^ considerably short of Several Facters This intense interest, repeated all over the country, is laid to sev eral factors—one, an intensive (Continued on Page 8) and Clyde Auman, West End; soon after the convention and Douglas David and W. K. Caroen- ter, Jr., Pinebluff, and T. R. Phil lips, Carthage. Bob Dodds of Pine- Republican Names Come Off BaRots; nomination last July, and have lately stepped up to 10 or a dozen a day, with more on Sundays. Tk hurst will sing. | A great admirer of the gover- [ -*■ -LlemOCratS A large turnout is expected ^^or, he says he doesn’t mind all| „ from oh Parts of the county in I company though on week days ^^hiple ballots for election of “I can hardly get my work done county officers next Tuesday this for getting down off the tractor: disclosed that two Republi- time and again, to shew them the, candidates for county commis- way.” |Sioner, announced by the Moore Stevenson came to Paint HiU county Republican organization Farm for a rest after his primary [ "ot appear on the election and again his guberna-' .(Continued on page 8) Warning Issued Of Forest Fires; Crews Stay Busy Dodge pickup McKenzie was South-bound vehicles are expect izabeth Tvps with hor -iiint ,Syh,;n„. .. . _ , , . . , r cApeci. 'Elizabeth Ives, with her Miss Letitia Stevenson. aunt. driving; Melvin Welch, 44, and Mally Wallace, 42, of Robbins, oc- ballot. Sam C. Riddle, chairman of the Moore county board of elections, explained that the two men torial election in Illinois. Word from him now is that he expects ^to come here with his brother-in- - Forest fire warning was issued sister immediately fol-j ^^‘^clie W. Holder, candidate for Thursday by Travis Wicker, coun-4 “win or lose.” I district 3 commissioner (Deep tv forest ranger, who said the . have been Winter res-l^^’'^^^ and Ritters townships) and •‘burning index” for the past five ^^cuts here for the past dozen! of Cameron, candi- flavs had stood at 100 per cent years. The farm is operated on a that is, conditions are just as bad year-round basis. Formerly dew- as they can possibly get. j tierries and raspberries were pro- Twenty-two days without rain|^^/X'i+^°L,r^^- Cameron have put forests all over the statemarkets date for District 4 commissioner (Greenwood and McNeill town ships)—had been disqualified af ter the filing date last April 19, because it was learned they were in tinder-dry condition. Flames ’ have i’Homocrats. ^ are springing'up all over Northrestricted to cornJ^^G board of elections, before Carolina. Burning permits have i small grains. disqualifymg the two candidates, been revnkprl I Currently consulted with both the With Governor Stevenson on his are averaging two a In Moore county, reportable' fires with numerous spot fires, the ranger said. Moore county’s three fire towers are being manned 24 hours a day. None of the fires so far, however, has turned out to be very serious, as the distribu tion of crews and equipment and the use of radio have meant prac Captain Fishburn Wounded In Korea Miss Letitia wore grey and a'cupants of the Ford car. All were pretty blue velvet hat; Elizabeth taken to Moore County hospital wore a simple brown silk dress with injuries believed not to be bought by her secretary for her serious, and were expected to be in Springfield to the tune of $15.[discharged within two or three . . “just what I wanted,” she said, days. “and such luck to be able to pick it up wit;hout shopping.” Next to Mrs. Ives was Mrs. Frankljn Roosevelt, who later in troduced the Governor, and Mrs. Edison Dick of Chicago, co-chair man of the volunteer group. There were more than 2500 women there, it was estimated, ed to go straight on down Old Be thesda road to Route 1, while Southern Pines traffic will have access to three or four entrances into town: via Connecticut ave nue, Massachusetts avenue, Indi ana avenue, or the new Country club district. Northbound army Patrolman C. C. Wimberly, in traffic, it is explained, will con- vestigating, said it appeared the truck was parked by the roadside headed west, then started up sud denly and made a U-turn, crash ing head-on into the westbound Ford. The impact threw the truck into a ditch on the right-hand side, where it caught fire and i^®®*^til after with reservations sold to 2300 and burned. Unknown persons passing . - see fee shape of three good sand- them all again proved too strong, vviches, fruits, doughnuts and cof- In company with my daughter' fee, was served in individual pic- Nancy, who has been working for' (Continued on Page 8) Christopher out of the truck in time to save them from burning. McKenzie, however, was dead at (Continued on page 8) tinue to take the present highway, now heavily traveled, that meets Route 1 at Cameron or Vass. Rights-of-way have been secur ed from all property owners along the new highway route; on the Boyd section, which traverses a heavily-timbered stretch of long- leaf pines, arrangements have been made for removal of the trees to the width of the roadbed. Beautifying of the entire stretch is believed to be under considera tion. Capt. R. E. Fishburn was “ action in Korea, Octo- tically immediate attention 19, according to information ever a fire is spotted. Also, Mr. ■ fwife, the former Wicker said “We have had the as-1 “i®- Patterson of Manly, sistance of many volunteers Knollwood practically every fire.” Smallei! The seriousness of his '’r°s are often out by the time the' was not disclosed but it crew gets there. Some which threatened to be come serious included one on US 1, near Aberdeen, Saturday morn ing; near Skvline Sunday, off the airport road midway between Monday, and the largest, in the T .obelia Road section, near Vass, Wednesday. During the weekend a haze of smoke hung over the whole coun ty—in fact, all over the state, swept on the wind from Pisgah National forest, where flames are covering thousands of acres. Motorists are cautioned not to throw cigarettes from cars, and all citizens should exercise more than ordinary precautions at this time. Wicker said. was described as a flesh wound in the back. Captain Fishburn, who was sta tioned at Fort Bragg for several years, moved his family to South ern Pines last summer and resi ded here a month before his de parture for Korea around the first of September. He was sent to the front immediately after his arri val there. The Fishburns have two little stst© board of elections and the attor ney general, Mr. Riddle said. He quoted a North Carolina law that appears at the bottom of the filing sheet for candidates, to the effect that it is unlawful for a person to file as a candidate for one party’s office while he is registered as a member of another party. Also Not On ballot Another announced candidate of Moore county Republicans does not appear on the ballot. A poli tical advertisement carried in county newspapers has listed H M. Tucker of West End as a can didate for county commissioner from District No. 5 (Sandhill and Mineral Springs townships). The name of this candidate does not appear on the ballot to be used next Tuesday, nor was the name among the announced candidates of the party at the end of filing time last April 19. Elimination of the three esmdi- dates leaves only two Democratic commissioner candidates with op- P.°®ition. They are ohn and Elizabeth, one year old. At the time of her marriage Mrs. Fishburn was an army nurse with the rank of captain. She is the sister of Maj. Joseph H. Patterson, who has been crit ically ill in a hospital in Japan*for several weeks. rie. Democrat, opposed by B. W. Paschal, both of Carthage, for the District • No. 1 seat (Carthage township), and Tom R. Monroe, Democrat, opposed by J. B. Ham mond, both of Robbins, for the District No. 2 seat (Bensalem and Sheffield townships).