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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 1953
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One Of Those Thrilling Moments
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AT THE RACES—HERE THEY COME!—THERE THEY GO!
Top-Notch Entries, Riders Race Saturday
In Seven-Event Card At Stonybrook Meet
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Sandhills Basks
Again In Glory
Pollock Secures
Opinion Municipal
Election Is Legal
Bui Sees Obstacle
To Local Adoption of
City Manager Plan
In the opinion of the State At
torney General—
The Southern Pines municipal
election for adoption of the coun
cil-manager plan, set for April 15,
has been approached in legal man
ner, and will be a legal election.
The same thing could be done
through amendment of the town
Carthage Chief Cameron Killed;
Six Of Ambush Party Jailed, Two
Still At Large As Manhunt Widens
Dowd, Richardson
Are Proclaimed
Outlaws By Court
An official and legal outlaw
proclamation, rare in the annals
of any county, was signed by Su
pericr Court Judge J. A. Rous
charter by the town board, of its 1
own volition or through petition McDonald at the court-
Baseball Begins;
Citizens Boost
Season Attendance
The Southern Pines High
school’s baseball squad opens its
spring season today—and at the
same time the town goes to bat
for the Blue and White.
First game of the 1953 series
will be held this afternoon (Fri
day) at 3:30 O'’clock on the High
School Memorial field, when the
local lads meet West End as
opener. The series will include
seven home games (see schedule
below) and will be climaxed for
the first time with a Moore Coun
ty tournament.
The Citizens Committee of
Southern Pines, a group of civic-
minded businessmen, organized
nine years ago to support worth
while movements in the town,
hela a meeting Monday night at
the Community Building. Theme
of the meeting was, “The kids are
gOGu—let’s show them our appre
ciation.’’ Figuring that crowds on
the bleachers would be the best
encouragement—also the best way
for local citizens to enjoy these
spring afternoons—they set up a
sale cf season tickets at $1 each.
Nornial gate charge for a single
game is 35 cents. Within two days,
about half of the 400 season tick
ets had been snapped up and no
trouble is anticipated in finding
buyers for the rest. They are on
sale at aU local drugstores; also by
L. V. O’Callaghan, Sr., Herbert N.
Ccuneron, Virgil Clark, Red Over-
ton Bus Patch, N. L. Hodgkins,
John Ruggles, CJene Stevens, H. L.
Brown, Lloyd Clark, Chan Page,
Cliff Worsham, Harry Menzel,
and June Phillips.
CoEch Irie Leonard reports a
good week of pre-game practice
despite some rain, and what looks
like a gcod squad shaping up.
About 25 boys are out, including a
number of lettermen, and some
promising prospects among fresh
men and sophomores, and new
comers to the school.
Full schedule was announced as
follows:
March 20, West End at Southern
Pines; 25, Vass at Vass.
March 25-April 1, spring holi
days.
April 3, Aberdeen here; 8, West
End there; 10, Pinehurst here;
15, Raeford here; 17, Robbins
here; 21, Pinehurst there; 22,
Aberdeen here; 29, Town All-
Sts rs here.
May 1, Red Springs there; 5,
Robbins there; 6, Vass here; 8,
open; 11-16, Moore Counuty tour
nament.
Lettermen: George Morrison,
David Page, David'Bailey, James
Matthews, Tommy Ruggles, Bill
Huntley, David Woodruff, Ronald
Luketz, Jerry Daeke, Harold Mc
Neill.
Of Steeplechase
The mid-south sports spotlight
will focus on Southern Pines Sat
urday at 2 p. m. when the Stoney-
brook Hunt Racing association
opens its sixth annual meeting at
Stoneybrook Stables, property of
M. G. Walsh, on Youngs road.
The diversified program of sev
en races has attracted entries in
all phases of equine sport, and
is expected to draw one of the
largest crowds ever to attend such
an event here.
Local interest is expected
to center on the Moore Coun
ty Pink Coat race, a two-mile
timher lest for members of the
loccd hunt and honses which
have been hunted this seasoiu
Memorial trophy will be pre
sented to the winner by Mrs.
Audrey Kennedy.
Entries, owners and riders
Army Wants Hoke
Land For Bragg;
Harnett Won’t Do
Expansion into Hoke county is
needed by Fort Bragg for imme
diate military requirements and
long-range plans by the Depart
ment of the Army to make this
gigantic military reservation one
of several big permanent Army
posts in the United States.
This was the word given to
in the Moore County Pink
Coat are listed as follows:
Barometer, Starland Stables,
L. P. Tate; Valley G.. W. J.
Brewster, Earl Hoy; Furnace
Run, yernon G. Cardy, Wil
liam Tale; Coys Stamp, W. O.
Mods, owner up; Temper R^,
Charles Stilzer, owner up;
Renown, Lakelawn Farms, D.
W. Winkelman, Jr,
of the people, then submitted to a
I vote (or passed by special act).
It makes the fugitives involved
Tf Diov, „ .V .J • XT- “ slaying of Chief Bernice
P M. Cameron subject to capture or,
GenerEl Statutes (council-man- , jj, ^ase of resistance, to killing by
(council-man
ager form) is adepted, the candi
dates may be nominated by cau
cus just as has been set by law
for the mayor-commissioner form
of government here.
These opinions were secured by
oke Pollock from the Attorney
eneral’s office in answer to three
'questions propounded by him last
Purse an interesting event. This
mile-and-a-half hurdle race for
maiden jumpers has drawn 11
tep-flight nominees. Many of the
contenders are already entries in
the famous Spring Maiden Hurdle
Series, three races to be contested
this summer at Belmont Park,
Monmouth Park and Saratoga on
the major racing circuit.
Heading the lineup in the Yad
kin Purse are Orestes Kid and
Irish Fair, imports from Ireland
which will sport the silks of Ar
thur E. Pew, Jr., O'f Bryn Mawr,
Pa.
Leading owner on the hunt race
circuit last year with 14 winners.
Pew plans to fly here for Satur
day’s racing and will be accom
panied by Thomas H. McKoy, Jr.,
treasurer of the Radnor Hunt
Race meeting; A winner on the
turf at the Rolling Rock meeting
in Ligonier, Pa., last fall, Ores-
' tes Kid has been schooling well
for the local test.
Other nominees for the Yadkin
Purse are: L. H. Nelles’ Ramillion,
Starland Stable’s Red Roy, M. A.
Cushman’s Annamax, Mrs. Rea
Wingfield’s Rewing, W. E.
Schlusemeyer’s Little Kraut, Mrs.
R. G. Woolfe’s Lady Roxana,
Harry M. Rhett, Jr’s Princess Bug
~ it J ti. 3od Mrs. M. G. Walsh’s entry of
Hoke County committee and their
Congressmen who had been fight
ing the expansion into Hoke when
Visiting followers of the Sport attorney of South-
of Kings will find the Yadkin ' Pmes, on request of Mayor C.
h
IN THE PINK
The blossoming peach or
chards are expected to reach
the "pink of perfection" this
week. This springtime sight
is one of the loveliest the
Sandhills offer, and hundreds
cif visitors drive long dis
tances to tsee it.
A trip through the peach
growing areas this weekend
should be rewarding. Recom
mended axe the highways
from West End to Candor,
fromi Candor to Ellerbe, and
county roads of that vicinity.
Little damage was reported
from the belated cold snap of
two weeks ago. Word from
the peach growers is that "it
looks like one of the beet
crops in years,"
they assembled for a conference
Tuesday afternoon at XVIII Air
borne Corp ■ Headquarters.
The conference had been call
ed to receive the Army answer
on the advisability of expanding
north into Harnett county or car
rying out original plans for ex
pansion south info Hoke.
Hoke County committeemen.
Congressmen and Army men
spent the morning flying over the
north and south areas in helicop
ters to get a complete aerial view
of the territory in question in
Hoke and Harnett counties.
Formqr Secretary of the Army
Kenneth C. Roy all, hired by Hoke
County citizens for a ‘‘reasO'nable
fee,” had requested the Army to
consider the northern expansion
when the Hoke County Commit
tee conferred with the Army in
Washington at its second meeting.
Royall was not on hand fo^r to
day’s conference, but the Army
had the answer on which direc
tion it preferred—Hoke county.
Plans for expanding Fort Bragg,
which have been in the making
for six years, now need only ap
proval in Washington before Fort
Bragg is linked with Camp Mack-
all with a corridor that would
give Fort Bragg a 40-mile firing
range.
Next step will be consideration
by the Army Chief of Staff, after
which the plans will be reviewed
by the Secretary of the Army and
go to ,the Armed Services Com
mittee for final consideration.
T. A. Young, special assistant
to the Secretary of the Army, as
sured a delegation fighting the
expansion that a hearing will be
called by the Armed Services
Committee to get final opinions
from citizens of the affected coun
ties if such a hearing is deemed
necessary.
Young’s comment came after
L. J. McNeill, chairman of the
Hoke County Citizens Committee,
(Continued on Page 8)
Erin’s Cottage and Sol.
Three of Saturday’s races will
be run under sanction and four
other events will be run for fun
and sport. Lady riders will have
an opportunity to display their
prowess as jockeys in the Pines
Purse, a six furlong sprint on the
flat. The feminine riders will
wetm racing silks and some of
them are more expert at handling
thoroughbreds than their male
counterparts in the sanctioned
races. Other events will be run
for the hardy mule ridel’s and col
ored children under 16.
First Sanctioned Meet
Although this will be the sixth
annual meeting, this session will
be the first run under the sanc
tion of the National Steeplchase
& Hunt association’s Hunts com
mittee. This move returns South
ern Pines to the once bright spot
it held in organized steeplechas-
(Continued on page 8)
N. Page.
The opinions are unclear only
in respect to the interpretation
placed by Mr. Pollock on the third
one. The Attorney General’s
“may” the town attorney inter
prets as “must,” meaning thgt a
must be
^aet^J^^^efore, at the town
caucus nf April 21, regardless of
which plan receives the people’s
vote at the election six days ear
lier.
Importanl Differences
An important part of Plan D is
that the people elect only five
members to their council, and
these then elect a mayor from
their number, who serves as coun
cil chairman and has a vote.
However, said Mr. Pollock, a
large number of towns and cities
having the council-manager form
have revised it so that the mayor
is elected directly by the people.
His interpretation of the an
swer is based on the fact that a
special act was passed for South
ern Pines in 1951 legalizing the
town caucus, setting its date and
defining the method of nomina
tion. Any number of candidates
may be nolninated at the caucus
for the selection by vote of not
more than ^for mayor, and 10
for commissioner.. These are then
listed on the regular ballot for the
municipal election in May.
Three Questions
Mr. Pollock’s three questions to
the Attorney General:
(a) Under the existing charter
of the Town of Southern Pines,
may a City Manager form of gov
ernment be legally adopted in the
manner prescribed by Article 21,
sub-chapter II, Chapter 160, en
titled “Municipal Corporations”?
(Reference is to the petition and
town election method which has
been followed here.)
(b) Under the existing charter
of the Town of Southern Pines,
may a City Manager form of gov
ernment be legally adopted in the
manner prescribed by Article 23,
subchapter II, Chapter 160, en
titled “Municipal Corporations”?
(Reference is to the charter-
amendment method.)
(c) If a City Manager form of
government may be legally adopt-
(Continued on Page 8)
Mid-South Horse Show Next Weekend
Drawing Top Entries For 25 Classes
With noted horsemen and
horses coming from far and wide,
and with the demand for parking
spaces taxing the ingenuity of the
committee in charge, the 1953
Mid-South Horse show set for Sat
urday and Sunday, March 28 and
29, bids fair to outdistance all
predecessors.
Entries for the 25 classes on the
two-day card have been pouring
in all week. Show Manager Lloyd
M. Tate reported Wednesday.
They include hunters and jump
ers from hunting centers of Vir
ginia and the two Carolinas who
wiU vie for honors with the many
northern stables wintering their
horses in the Sandhills, and in
cluding numerous winners of the
National and other famed shows.
The picturesque scene of the an-
nave been made in both the out
side hunter course and in ar
rangements for showing the ring
classes, all with a view to making
che event easier to see, judge and
enjoy.
Twenty-five classes in addition
to the championships will be
judged by Farrell Vincent, of
Montreal, Canada’s senior horse
show judge.
The snow will open at 9:30 a. m.
Saturday, March 28, with a class
for children’s hvmters.
Other classes to be judged Sat
urday morning are: Lightweight
Working Hunters, Three-Year-
Old Hunters, Lightweight Con
formation Hunters, Lightweight
Green Hunters, Child Riders Un
der 12, Middle and Heavyweight
nual event, Starland Farms on Hunters, and Bridle Path Hacks.
Midlsmd Road, estate of Mr. and The Saturday afternoon pro-
Mrs. Lloyd P, Tate, is being whip- gram, starting at 2 o’clock, calls
ped into shape this week. Changes, (Continued on page 8)
any citizen.
Attention is called to the fact
that the proclamation does not
say “Shoot on sight,” but requires
a warning and call to surrender
before this may be done. Other
wise, another murder may be
committed.
The proclemation follows:
STATE OF NORTfl CARO
LINA, in the MOORE SUPE
RIOR COURT
STATE OF NORTH CARO
LINA vs. J. C. DOWD; WAL
TER MORRISON, Jr., ALIAS
“JUNE BUG” MORRISON:
HARRIS RICHARDSON, ALI
AS SCOTTY RICHARDSON,
ALIAS SCOTTY HARRIS,
ALIAS SCOTTY MORRISON,
ET AL.
PROCLAMATION,
To (names listed above):
You and each of you are here
by required forthwith to sur
render yourselves; and the
Sheriff of Moore County, and
the Sheriff of any other county
in the State of North Carolina,
are hereby required to take
such power with them as they
shall think fit and necessary for
the going in search and pursuit
and effectually apprehending
the said (names listed above).
Fugitives from Justice.
And if you, the said (names
listed above) continue to stay
out, lurk and conceal your
selves, and do not immediately
surrender yourselves, any citi
zen of the State of North Caro
lina may capture, arrest and
bring you to justice, and in case
of flight or resistance by you,
after being called on and warn
ed to surrender, may slay you
without accusation or impeach
ment of any crime.
Done this the 16th day of
March, 1953, at Rockingham,
N. C.
(Signed) J. A. ROUSSEAU
Judge Presiding and Holding
the Courts of the 13th Judi
cial District.
Appeal Is Issued
To Let Justice
Take Its Course
Following the posting of the
proclamation, the following letter
to all citizens of Moore county
was brought to The Pilot by the
Rev. J. D. Ray, a Baptist pastor
of West SC'Uthern Pines.
The Rev. Mr. Ray, who is em
ployed in the mess of the USAF
Air-Ground Operations school,
has a long record of public service
in the county, and of understand
ing aid to youth. He hsis served
fer the past five years as Moore
County chairman of divisional.
(Negro) Boy Scouts.
His letter follows:
To my dear Fellow Citizens of
Moore County—a county where
I WES born 38 years ago, moved
away, but returned as,a minister
serving for the past 12 years; a
county where a man, regardless
cf race, color or creed, has been
recognized as a brother; a county
where the majority of white and
colored, have worked together for
CHIEF CAMERON
More Than 1,000
Attend Last Rites
For Slain Officer
The county courthouse and all
’ ""’^’’'■’’’'"'■s°s cif'SPd for the
funeral services for Chief Cam-
<-•- .11, neld Monday Eifternoon at
White Hill Presbyterian church, 8
miles away near the Lee County
line.
More than 1,000 persons attend
ed. Barely one-tenth of them
could get into the little church
where Mr. Cameron had been a
member since childhood. The oth
ers massed in the churchyard and
on the highway in the bright
spring sunshine, hearing what
they cculd of the service through
the open doors.
Dozens of State Highway pa
trolmen from other counties were
on hand to direct the traffic.
The service was conducted by
the Pev. J. Garrett, pastor, assist
ed by Dr. W. S. Golden of the
Carthage Presbyterian church.
Active pallbearers were Mayor
A’"chie L. Barnes, M. T. Stewart,
Gene Stewart, Doyle Miller, D. A.
Shields and Sgt. Wendell Kelly,
SEP retd., all of Carthage. Hon
orary pallbearers included all law
enforcement officers of Moore
county, including State Highway
Pctrolmen, taking time out from
their determined search for the
killers to pay homage to their
slain friend; county officials, Car
thage town commissioners and
members of the Joseph C. Henson
post, American Legion, of Carth
age.
Burial was in the family plot
in the church cemetery, beside his
father and an infant daughter
who died in 1937.
• (Continued on page 8)
Mourning Officers
And Citizens Seek
Fugitive Slayers
The wanton murder of Carth
age Police Chief Bernice M.
(Bunn) Cameron by a shotgun
blast, while he was in pursuit of
his duty early Sunday morning,
shocked Moore county as has no
other event within many years.
Shock followed shock as the
peaceful countryside almost im
mediately became the site of a de
termined manhunt which contin
ued through the week.
^ The hunt for Negro youths in
the party of eight which had am
bushed the well-loved Chief en
listed the most resolute efforts of
practically every law enforce
ment officer in the county; blood
hounds from the county prison
camp and some brought in from
elsewhere and 50 citizens deputiz
ed by Sheriff C. J. McDonald.
Declared Outlaws
One, then two, then three more
cl the fugitives were apprehend
ed, until Thursday morning only
two remained at large: J. C.
Dowd, 23, of Carthage, believed to
have been the ringleader, and
Harris (Scotty) Richardson, also
of Carthage—declared outlaws by
public proclamation.
After the proclamation was
posted Tuesday, Walter (Junebug)
Morrison, Jr., also named as an
outlaw, surrendered to a Lee
County patrolman Wednesday
night at Sanford. The hunt went
on for Dowd and Richardson.
Already in the Moore County
jail, undergoing periodic question
ing, were James Brocks, who was
taken by officers S^unday after
deserting the fugitive gang;
James Worthy and'James Mc
Laughlin, who were caught near
West End Sunday afternoon; Rus
(Continued on Page S)
Junior Tennis
Activity Starts,
Plans A-Making
Like the flowers, tennis starts
blooming in the spring, and in
Southern Pines that means espe-
ciaUy among the young people.
With activity under way on the
municipal courts now every after
noon and night, Steve Choate,
president, this week announced
the first meeting of the season for
the Junior Sandhills Tennis asso
ciation—Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at
the. school cafeteria. All young
people interested in the game are
invited.
There will be plenty of business.
Officers are to be elected; plans
will get under way for the Moore
County Schools tournament to be
held in May, and cooperation with
school authorities in their rein-
Aberdeen Girls
Are Champions
In State Tourney
The Aberdeen girls’ team, long
rated as one of the finest in the
state, Wednesday night for the
first time copped the champion
ship of the State Girls Invitation
al Tournament sponsored by its
own school.
A crowd which filled the Aber
deen gym to its thundering raf
ters watched the home town las
sies come up from behind time
after time, thanks largely to the
brilliant basketwork of Lorraine
Morgan.
Going down to defeat by a score
of 59-54 was the Lincolnton team,
winner of the tournament in its
first two years, 1950 and 1951,
when it was held in Southern
Pines with the local school as
joint sponsor.
Of Aberdeen’s 59 points, 44 were
scored by Lorraine Morgan, al
ways a first-rate player but Wed
nesday night outdoing herself.
Consolation tournament of semi
finals runners-up saw the belles
from Bethel, 1952 tournament
winner, score a 53-43 victory over
Trinity.
Ruth Douglas Currie of Cm-
thage was named the tournament
beauty queen over a field of 10
charming lassies. She presented
all the tournament trophies fol
lowing the finals.
Each participating team was en
titled to enter a beauty queen
candidate. Aberdeen’s entry was
Gladys Matthews.
The All-Toumament team se
lected after the game included
Lorraine Morgem, forward, Peggy
the betterment of town, commun- are being formed as part of the
ity and people: Southern Pines High school’s
I, John David Ray, a minister spring athletic program. Tennis
of the Gcspel, feel obligated to wiU have the same standing, even
state my convictions. to the award of letters, as foot-
Sunday, upon hearing about the baU, basketbaU and basebaU. With
action of a group of misguided many fine junior players devel-
boys, who thoughtlessly broke one oping, competition for places on
of the ten commandments by kill- the school teams is expected to be
ing Chief Bernice Cameron of keen and some Interesting
(Continued on page 8) matches are anticipated.
statement of tennis as an official
sport will be officially undertak-, Davis and Jane Peele, guardsr of
- I the Aberdeen sextet.
For the first time in several Lineup for finals:
years, both boys’ and girls’ teams Aberdeen 59 Lincolnton 54
F—G. Matthews 1 Dysart 7
F—Morgan 44 Smith 7
F—Riley 6 Hoover 40
G—Davis Elmore
G—Troutman Mace
G—Peele Leatherman
Substitutions: Aberdeen — My-
rick 8, Dunn, F. Matthews. Lin
colnton—Aderolt, Michaels.
Halftime score: Aberdeen 30;
Lincolnton 29.