BUY A TAG
FOR WELFARE OF
MOTHERS, BABIES
BUY A TAG
FOR WELFARE OF
MOTHERS, BABIES
Eight County High School Ball Teams
In Tournament At Robbins Next Week
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Schedule To Be
Announced In
Sunday Papers
Moore county’s first high school
baseball tournament will be held
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday nights of next week on the
lighted field at Robbins.
A doubleheader will be offered
each night through Thursday,
with games starting at 7 and 9
o’clock. Friday night, of course,
there will be just one big game
« —the finals.
. Taking part will be the top
eight teams out of 10 which have
made up the conference this
spring, selected on the basis of
season play. Pairings will be
made Friday, when the last con
ference games will be held. Coach
es, players and fans are asked to
watch for the announcement of
the schedule in the sports section
of the Greensboro Daily News
Sunday.
Reported as sure to be topseed-
ed is the Highfalls team, which
has lost only one game in the se
ries. Coming along next are ex
pected to be Robbins, Southern
Pines and Carthage. This week it
appeared that the teams to be
weeded out will be Cameron and
Westmoore, low men on the con
ference totem pole.
The conference, new this year,
and tournament are being spon
sored by the Moore County Educo
club, longtime sponsors of the
winter basketball program in
Moore county schools. Interest
has been good and it is anticipat
ed that the tournament will draw
crowds equivalent to those enthu
siastically attending that of the
cage teams in February. In charge
of pairings, schedule and other de
tails of the tournament for the
Educo club are Principal Hack
ney and Coach Causey of Elise
High school at Robbins.
Local Horses Win
High Honors In
Sedgef ield Show
Twenty-eight hunters and
jumpers from the Sandhills area
competed in the Sedgefield Horse
show, held last Thursday, Friday
and Saturday at Sedgefield under
sponsorship of the Sedgefield
Hunt.
Though winning no champion
ships, they took all four reserve
championships, and numerous
other honors.
Brewster Stables’ Friars De
light, conformation champion last
year, was reserve this time, with
John Goodwin and Miss Myrna
Felvey of Richmond doing the
piloting. Harry Last, another
Brewster entry. Curt Dutton, up,
was reserve in the Green Hunter
championship. Lakelawn Farms’
Haymarket, Cappy Winkelman
up, was reserve champion in the
Working Hunters, and Vernon G.
Cardy’s sensational 17:2-band
grey gelding, was reserve jumper
champion, ridden by Jimmy Don
aldson throughout the show.
The William J. Kennedy Mem
orial Challenge trophy, given by
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy for the
conformation hunter champion
ship, which has been won by
Southern Pines horses for the
past two years, went this year to
an entry from Oxford, Mich., Fox
Covert Farm’s Pike’s Peak.
In the Ladies Hunters, Brew
ster Stables’ My Bill, FriarS De
light and Kor-Vee were first, sec
ond and third in that order.
Cappy Winkelman rode Pike’s
Peak to his fine blue in the Cor
inthian Hunters for the Burling
ton Mills Challenge trophy. This
trophy was won in 1950 by Peggy
Mechling’s Henry’s Dream, and
in 1951 by Mile-Away Farms’
Greywright.
Miss Helen Ferguson did a line
job on the Cardy horses in the
Working Hunters. Two weeks
earlier at Hartsville, S." C., she
won six blues out of a possible
seven with Gold Lode.
The highflying brown stallion
Lampsite, pet of the Lloyd P.
Tate family, was victorious in the
Triple Bar event. The Tates also
had their 25-inch miniature Welsh
pony Hoot Owl entered in the
pony division. Lloyd M. Tate
brought home several ribbons
with Red Money. Son Billy was
on hand from Baltimore to do the
jockeying.
Mrs. Mary Doyle and daughter
Anne of Southern Pines were
also among the exhibitors.
MOTHERS PAY
The Elks will pay honor lo
mothers of the community at
their annual Mothers Day
service, to be held at 4 p. m.
Sunday in the ballroom of
the Southern Pines Country
club.
The pubic is invited, with
all mothers given a Special
invitation to attend.
A brief simple program of
tribute will be held, and tea
and cookies will be served.
Red and white carnations
will be given the mothers
present. Broadus W. Smith is
chairman in charge.
Moore Officials
Back McKeithen
For Special Judge
The Moore County board of
commissioners, as well as other
county officials, have endorsed
W. A. Leland McKeithen of Pine-
hurst for appointment as a special
superior court judge.
A letter from the board of com
missioners was signed by board
members at Carthage Monday, to
be forwarded to Governor Um-
stead.
The Governor is soon to ap
point several special superior
court judges as authorized by the
recently concluded session of the
General Assembly.
Signing the commissioners’ let
ter were G. M. Cameron, board
chairman, John M. Currie, T. R.
Monroe, J. M. Pelasants and L. R
Reynolds.
Another letter addressed to the
Governor, endorsing McKeithen,
was signed by C. C. Kennedy
clerk of court; C. J. McDonald
sheriff; A. F. Dees, chief deputy
sheriff; C. A. McCallum, chief
ABC officer; Mrs. Bessie J. Grif
fin, register of deeds; Miss Maida
Jenkins, county accountant; W. T,
Huntley, tax collector, and H. Lee
Thomas, superintendent of
schools.
The letters referred with praise
to McKeithen’s long service as
solicitor of Moore County record
ers court, his career as student
and lawyer and praised “not only
his excellency as a lawyer” but
also his “impeccable and out
standing Christian character.” He
has, it was pointed out, the “poise
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HAPPY BUT FAGGED, the new city council-
men face the camera, just after the vote tally
was completed at the fire station late Tuesday
night. They are, from left, Joseph P. O’Callag
han, C. S. Patch, Jr., Voit Gilmore, Lloyd T.
Clark, Walter E. Blue. (Photo V. W. Hardee)
Groups Sponsor
Major Jordan In
Address Tonight
Major George Racey Jordan,
author of “From Major Jordan’s
Diaries,” a revelatory best-seller
of 1952, will make a public ad
dress at Weaver auditorium at
8:30 tonight (Friday).
There will be no admission
charge. His talk is being sponsor
ed as a public service by a group
of 13 civic and patriotic organiza
tions.
Cooperating in the event are the
following: John Boyd Post, VFW,
and auxiliary; Sandhills post,
American Legion, and anxiliary;
Southern Pines Elks Lodge; BPO
Does; Lions clubs of Southern
Pines, Aberdeen and Pinebldff;
Alfred Moore chapter, DAR;
Southern Pines Rotary club;
Sandhills Kiwanis club and Voi-
ture Locale No. 1382, 40 and Eight.
Major Jordan, rated as a dyna
mic and forceful speaker, served
as liaison officer and lend-lease
expediter during the war at the
air base at Great Falls, Mont.,
take-off point for planes ferrying
lend-lease' materials to Russia.
Russia, then our ally, had only to
ask for what she needed. Major
Jordan claims that what she
sought, and received, at that time
—industrial and ipilitary assets
totaling more than nine and a half
biUion dollars—provided a graphic
blueprint of her eventual aims,
while reinforcing her position as
a potential enemy.
He cites facts and figures from
his book, which was re-published
in condensed form in Readers Di
gest, with excerpts appearing in
other magazines.
His experiences, drawn from his
own observation followed by con
siderable research, are summariz
ed as an urgent warning of un
seen danger.
Saturday Tag Day
Will Aid County’s
Mothers, Babies
This Saturday, May 9, has been
designated Tag Day by the Moore
County Maternal Welfare com
mittee, it was announced this
week by Mrs. Talbot Johnscn is
co-chairman with Mrs. James
Boyd of the county group.
Committees have been set up
in all the larger county towns
where the little tags with their
message “For the mothers and
babies of Moore county,” will be
distributed, appropriately, on the
day preceding Mother’s Day,
Sunday.
In Southern Pines the commit
tee is headed by Mrs. Claude
Reams and Mrs. L. T. Avery.
Tables wiU, as usual, be placed at
the post office and on the green
in front of the Citizens Bank
building, staffed by members of
the committee during the busy
morning hours.
In Aberdeen, Mrs. Johnson will
have charge, with the Aberdeen
Girl Scouts as helpers. Pine-
hurst’s co-chairmen are Mis. A. P.
Thompson and Mrs. Hugh Carter.
In Carthage, Mrs. M. G. Boyette
and Mrs. W. D. Sabiston will
work together, while in Pine-
bluff the local committee is head
ed by Mrs. Walter MacNeille.
West End’s contribution will
come through the town’s Com-
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Special Criminal
Term Will Replace
May Civil Session
Instead of a criminal and a
civil term, of Moore superior court
this month, there will be a reg
ular criminal term starting May
18, and a special term, also of
criminal court, starting May 25,
according to C. C. Kennedy, clerk
of superior court.
The decision to request a
special criminal term in lieu of
the civil term set for that week
was made by the Moore County
Bar association when it met Tues
day to make up the civil calen
dar. The calendEU- was found to
be extremely light in comparison
with the heavy calendar of crim
inal, cases awaiting trial, and the
request for the change was for
warded at once to Supreme Court
Justice W. A. Devin. Though
there has not been time as yet to
receive his verification, no diffi
culty is anticipated there.
Judge J. A. Rousseau of North
Wilkesboro will preside over both
terms. Motions will be heard at
the special term and divorces will
be granted.
Jurors drawn for the civil term
will not be summoned. The same
jury will be retained for both
criminal terms, or a new jury will
be drawn, Mr. Kennedy said.
It is expected that the two con
tinuous weeks of criminal court
will clear up the docket, which
has been considerably expanded
lately by the addition of the
names of eight men charged with
the murder of Police Chief Cam
eron of Carthage, with four oth
ers charged with aiding and abet
ting.
Voting Breaks All Records; Council
Takes Oath; Choice Of Mayor Delayed
Southern Pines’ third municipal
election in three weeks brought
out a record 1,034 voters to choose
the following for their new city
council:
Voit Gilmore, who was high
man with 625 votes; Lloyd T.
Historians Will
Meet, Eat Tonight
At Shaw House
The annual meeting of the
Moore County Historical associa
tion will be held on the grounds
of the Shaw House, at the south
ern city limits of Southern Pines,
at 5 p.m., today (Friday). It will
be followed by a picnic supper at
6 o’clock at which all members
will be guests.
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, president,
urges a full attendance at the
meeting as it will be the final one
of the association year. Activities
will then suspend imtil next fall.
Annual reports will be made
and a slate of directors will be
presented by Mrs. A. P. Thompson
of Pinehurst, chairman of the
nominating committee. After
election of the directors, they will
then elect the officers.
Except for the meeting, the sea
son ended Saturday for the Shaw
House, which will be closed until
Thanksgiving. A restoration pro
ject of the association, the Shaw
House is operated as a tea room
and museum of Sandhills antiques
during the winter and spring sea
sons.
Membership of the association
is drawn from all over Moore
county, with several members in
other counties and also among
winter residents from other states.
Aden Dance Revue
Slated For Two
Nights Next Week
“Stairway to the Stars,” 1953
revue of the Martha Aden Studio
of Dance, will be presented
Thursday and Friday evenings of
next week at Weaver auditorium.
Curtain time will be 8:15.
More than 100 children from
Mrs. Aden’s Southern Pines and
Pinehurst classes, including some
from Sanford, Aberdeen, Garth-
age and other neighboring towns,
will appear in the show, rated as
the most ambitious since the Aden
studios opened in 1949.
Besides running for two
nights, the first time for any pro
duction of this sort here, the re
vue has elements of drama as
well as song and dance. The
dance numbers are strung loose
ly on a story theme dealing with
life in a dance studio.
Costumes, lighting and scenic
effects will also surpass those of
previous years, with numerous in
novations making of the show a
real production.
The Aden revues annually draw
large crowds from all over the
Sandhills area and last year, with
only one performance, more than
100 persons had to be turned
away.
Clark, just two behind—623; W. E.
Blue, 531'; Joseph P. O’Callaghan,
498; C. S. Patch, Jr.. 44o.
Losers on the 10-man panel of
candidates were: Harry Lee
Brown, 409; J. R. Funderburk,
406; J. T. Overton, 380; Harold B.
Fowler, 354; Joe Garzik, 346.
Four of the new councilmen met
at the city hall at 10 a.m. Wednes
day, to take the oath of office ad
ministered by Howard F. Burns,
town clerk.
Lloyd Clark was unavoidably
absent on business, and was sworn
in the following day, according to
provision made by the law.
Mayor To Be Named
In view of his absence, the
council decided to postpone their
organizational meeting until
Thursday at 8 p.m. First item on
the agenda at that time was to be
the election of a mayor and may
or pro tern, too late for inclusion
in this issue of The Pilot.
At their meeting Ex-Mayor
Page appeared briefly to shake
the hand of each councilman, and
express his best wishes, also to
give a word of appreciation to
thosse who had served with him.
These included Councilman Blue
and Patch, also H. L. Brown, who
met with the council for the pur
pose of certifying the vote. This
is done by the old and new board
meeting together.
Some discussion was held as to
whether or not to change the tra
ditional meeting time of the sec
ond Wednesday each month but
no action was taken.
Visitors included Capt. A. R.
McDaniel, Dean S. Dorman and
W. Lamont Brown.
Reaffizmaiion
The election, besides being the
third in a row, was the third at
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"KNOW OUR TOWN'
The League of Women Vot
ers now in process of organi
zation here invites everyone,
men and women, to a pro
gram titled "Know Our
Town" Monday evening.
The meeting will be held at
the Civic Club building at
8:15. W. Lcunont Brown, local
attorney, has been invited to
give information on the new
council-manager form of gov
ernment.
The testing of community
interest in a "Know Our
Town" program is a prerequi
site for the securing of a slate
charter for the local League.
Lack of general interest in
civic affairs could prevent or
delay the charter.
Women forming the nucleus
of the new organizedion hope
to lay the groundwork for a
firm structure here. Besides
offering the program for in
formation on a subject of im
mediate civic concern, they
are hopeful of a gdod turnout,
and of passing the lest with
flying colors.
Ground Is Broken
For Presbyterian
Sunday School
Breaking of the ground for the
new Sunday School buuilding of
the Brownson Memorial Presby
terian church took place late Wed
nesday afternoon despite a spring
rain which threatened at times to
become a torrent.
About 75 persons gathered in
the feUowship hall for the prelim-
inaiy service, then, at its close,
stepped outdoors to find that the
rain had miraculously almost
ceased.
Walter E. Blue, superintendent
since the Sunday School was or
ganized in 1935, turned the first
shovelful of earth on the grounds
beside the church building, where
the new structure will adjoin it
by an enclosed walkway.
Others turning symbolic spade
fuls were the Rev. C. K. Ligon,
minister of the church; Mrs. Cath
erine Shaw, a charter member of
the Sunday school, who performed
a similar service when the
ground-breaking for the church
building took place; Mrs. C. A.
Maze, also a charter member;
Kathryn Ann Dwight, for the
young people of the church; and
little Walter F. Harper III, for the
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Family Escapes
Hurt As Lightning
Wreaks Havoc
Young Musicians
In Limelight At
Saturday Concert
Talented young people of the
county will be presented in the
third annual Young Musicians
concert, sponsored by the Sand
hills Music association and free to
the public Saturday evening.
The concert will be held at the
Pinehurst Country club, starting
at 8:30.
Each music teacher of the coun
ty has selected his or her “most
promising” pupil, and each will
be given the limelight in one se
lection. Five young people now
at college will also return to add
their talents to the program.
To the 18 performers listed last
week has been add^d the name of
Barbara Baker of Southern Pines,
piano pupil of Mrs. Sara McNeyi.
While most of the participants
are pianists, a few will sing and
one will play a trumpet solo.
The program will serve as “op
portunity night” for youthful tal
ent which might otherwise not be
revealed, and will also provide a
varied feast for music lovers. All
of these are extended a cordial in
vitation to attend, said Dr. W. F.
Hollister, president of the associ
ation.
“It was just the mercy of the
Lord that it didn’t kill all of us,”
was the comment of J. A. Kiser
after his concrete block home
four miles north of Southern
Pines on US Highway 1 was the
playground for “sprangles” of
lightning in an electrical storm
Saturday morning.
Hubert Kiser, 17 and his sister
Kathy, 9, had the narrowest es
capes. A block in the outer wall
was partly torn out by lightning,
which struck about 7 a. m. shat
tering debris on the bed where
Hubert was sleeping. The light
ning ripped loose a metal window
casing beside his bed and tore up
the window curtain.
The wall by Kathy’s bed was
damaged and so great was the
force that holes were literally
knocked through two quilts on
the bed, where they hung off by
the wall. There were no signs of
burning. A nearby light switch
was torn loose.
In the living room, the televi
sion set was the center of damage.
It was burned out, the stand was
torn up, the floor area blackened
and the wall and window curtain
scorched.
Some damage was done to the
kitchen wall and all the fuses
were melted, but the electrical
equipment in the kitchen was not
damaged.
Kathy was “addled” for about
an hour, Mrs. Kiser explained,
and Hubert had such a ringing in
one of his ears that his hearing
was impaired until the following
day. “I praised the Lord all day
that the children were not kill
ed,” the mother beamed, “and
stm do.”
The house was built only a few
months ago by Cliff Gamer, the
owner, 'who operates Bill and
Dot’s service station nearby.
Town Elections
Bring Changes
Thruout County
VASS
A. G. Edwards, Jr., was elected
mayor of Vass Tuesday in an
election in which 126 votes were
cast, almost twice as many as in
1951. He received 86 votes and
M. M. Chappell, the only oppo
nent, 40.
Five commissioners, authorized
by recent legislation which
changed the number from three,
were elected: Jack Morgan, 111;
R. B. Gunn, 104; D. H. McGill,’
86; Leon Keith, 83; Harold Wil
liams, 79.
Other candidates were Edgar
Mashburn, 76; Duncan Boggs, 51
and W. C. Hoyle. 30.
The new mayor, a merchant, is
38 years old, and was born and
rbared in Vass. This is the first
time he has ever run for public
officel He is a director of the
Vass Lions club, and Master of
Southern Pines Masonic Lodge
No. 484.
All of the commissioners are
new except McGill, who has serv
ed one term, and Williams, who
was appointed to fill out the un
expired term of the late Randall
Cameron.
ABERDEEN
The Aberdeen municipal elec
tion was only a formaUty, as the
slate offered no opposition for the
office of mayor or the five candi
dates for commissioner. Voting
consequently was somewhat de
sultory and the count was as fol
lows:
Elected mayor for the seventh
consecutive term—Forrest Lock-
ey, 78; commissioners—^Dr. E. M.
Medlin, 81; N. A. Pleasants, 81;
W. S. Taylor, 80; M. B. Pelasants,
78; A. J. Smith, 77.
Originally there were eight
candidates for commissioner but
one by one the following with
drew from the race: J. B. Ed
wards, L. C. Lawhon, Ferrell H.
Brown.
Incumbents returned to office
were Medlin, N. A. Pleasants, M.
B. Pleasants and Smith. The fifth
incumbent, J. B. Edwards, who
withdrew, had served on the
town board for seven terms.
CARTHAGE
At Carthage Mayor A. L. Barnes
w^ reelected for a third term
without opposition.
Five commissioners were elect
ed from a slate of nine candidates
as follows:
R. G. Fry, Jr., 320 votes; Jack
Williams, 265; George Thomas,
211; H. G. Poole, 211, and C T
McCaskill, 178. McCaskiU was
the only incumbent to win reelec
tion.
Losing candidates were Jeunes
Tyson, Harry W. Davis, D. Carl
Fry and D.. A. McDonald, the last
two named being incumbents
PINEBLUFF
Pinebluff voters numbering 133
went to the polls to return Mayor
E. H. Mills to office for this third
term without opposition. He had
124 votes.
Three commissioners were chos
en from five candidates. These
were Harold .Payson, 105 votes;
Mrs. Victoria Cleary, 93, and Gor
don Keith, 69.
Losing candidates were C. Ben
edict, 67, and T. F. Surratt, 52.
Mrs. Cleary is the third
woman to be elected to
the Pinebluff town board since the
town was incorporated almost 60
years ago, according to David L.
Packard, longtime town clerk,
now retired. Cameron also has
a woman commissioner, Mrs.
Jewell Hemphill, who has served
for several terms.
ROBBINS
Wayland R. Kennedy, a com
missioner during the past term,
was elected mayor of Robbins
over E. M. Ritter, incumbent, in
an election in which 525 votes
were cast—largest in the com
munity’s history.
Ritter became mayor in the fall
of 1951 when he was appointed to
fiU the unexpired term of William
P. Saunders, who moved to
Southern Pines.
Elected commissioners from a
panel of eight candidates were
Edgar C. Kennedy, high man, a
newcomer to the board; Henry L.
Williams, appointed two months
ago to fill out the unexpired term
of Dr. W. N. McDuffie, resigned;
Worth Routh, a newcomer; G. B.
Williams, reelected for his second
term, and John L. Frye, another
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