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Juniors’ Tennis
Tonrney On Local
Courts Next Week
Biggesl Entry List
Foreseen; Trophies
For All Finalists
Play starts Monday in the Fifth
Annual Moore County Schools i
Tennis tournament, continuing'
every afternoon throughout the
week on the municipal courts. |
Finals will be held under the
lights Friday and Saturday eve
nings, and will continue Sunday
if necessary to finish,
j This wih be the second such ■
tournament to be sponsored and
managed by the young people
themselves, through the Junior
Sandhills Tennis association or
ganized last year, and it bids fair
to be the best and the biggest of
all. There were almost 60 entries
■last year and a good many more
are expected this time.
More young people are play
ing tennis here than ever before,
and the quality of their game has
steadily improved, according to
Harry Lee Brown, their coach
and adviser. Some topnotch tal
ent is being developed and the
tournament promises to be a first-
rate spectator event.
Trophies are being given to the
winners and runners-up in 10
scheduled events by the Sandhills
Tennis association. To be unreel
ed during the week are boys’
doubles, girls’ doubles, boys’ sin
gles, girls’ singles and mixed
doubles, in both the high school
and ' grammar school divisions.,
There is no entry fee for any
event.
Some nfi.w champions will be
developed, as some of last year’s
have moved up from the grammar
grade to the high school bracket,
and the girls’ singles champion,
Betty Jane Worsham, is now at
college.
Steve Choate will be on hand
to defend his title in boys’ sin
gles (high school division) and
Lillian Bullock to defend hers in
girls’ singles (grammar grade).
Trophies are being made by
Don Moore, assisted by a JSTA
committee. Working after school,
they are producing a handsome
and original set of trc^hies with
black ceramic base, kiln-baked to
a glossy finish, topped with the
regulation gold figurines.
The tournament committee is
composed of JSTA officers, head
ed by Kenneth Tew, president,
and including Mr. Brown and Mr.
Moore df the senior association.
The trophy committee includes
Mr. Moore, Patty Woodell, Doro
thy Newton, Kenneth Tew, Patty
Britt, Betty Jo Britt, Ginger
Woodell, Alice Coveil, Lillian
Bullcck, Lemuel Tew.
The courts committee, which is
working to prepare the courts for
the tournament, and will keep
them in shape as play goes on, in-
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hockey Given Highway Post;
Medlin New Aberdeen Mayor
FORREST LOCKEY
New Fog-Pumping
Fire Truck Will
Arrive Saturday
One of the finest pieces of fire
fighting equipment now being
manufactured will arrive in
Southern Pines Saturday, to bei
commissioned for active duty
within a few days.
This is the new American La-
France fire truck, ordered by the
town board last January.
Fire Chief Harold B. Fowler re
ceived word from the company
this week that the truck will ar
rive in ^ sealed car. It will be
placed on a siding to await the ar
rival of a company engineer, who
will supervise its unloading.
Room will be made for the
truck at the fire station by garag
ing some of the lesser equipment
elsewhere, probably the town
storage lot, the Fire Chief said.
The new truck, with 220-inch
wheelbase, weighing 14,083
pounds with equipment, will need
lots of room.
Costing almost $20,000 fully
equipped, it is being paid for by
proceeds of a bond issue approved
by the people last November. The
model was especially selected by
the Southern Pines volunteer fire
department as best adapted to the
needs of this community.
Like the department’s old La-
France, it can pump 750 gallons
per minute—but, in addition, it
has a pressure pumper which con
verts 60 gallons of water per min
ute into 600 pounds of fog. Be
sides making a little water go a
long way, it minimizes water
damage while fighting fire more
efficiently.
Firefighting equipment now in
possession of the department ate
a LaFrance now almost ready for
retirement, at the age of 27 years,
and a Ford truck with LaFrance
equipment, 18 years old.
New Commissioner
Takes Oath At
Raleigh Thursday
Forrest Lockey, mayor of Aber
deen for the past 12 years, was
appointed Monday by Governor
Umstead to the State Highway
Commission, as commissioner of
the newly cheated Eighth High
way division. He will head the
state highway program in Moore,
Hfike, Scotland, Richmond, Mont
gomery, Randolph and Lee coun
ties.
The appointment necessitated
the choice of a new mayor for.
Aberdeen,! as Mr. Lockey was re
elected to this office May 5 for
his seventh consecutive term.
Meeting Wednesday afternoon,
the town board elected Dr. E. M.
Medlin, a town commissioner for
the past seven terms, to the office
of mayor. Appointment of a com
missioner to replace him will
await the next regular meeting of
the board.
Thursday morning. Mayor Med
lin. Rep. H. Clifton Blue and oth
er prominent citizens of Aberdeen
went to Raleigh to witness their
distinguished fellow citizen take
his oath of office.
The new highway commission
er is vice president and assistant
to the president of the Aberdeen
and Rockfish Railroad. He has
been the instrument of many
steps of progress benefiting his
community and county, notably
the securing of the Robbins Mills,
Inc., plant and main office in
1947. He was the recipient of the
Sandhills Kiwanis club’s Build
ers Cup “for unselfish service” in
1951.
He was a wholehearted and in
fluential supporter of Governor
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Cameron Murder
Defendants Face
Trial Next Week
Mary Frances Cole,
Mrs. Banigan On
Court Calendar
The regular term of Moore
criminal court will open Monday
at Carthage, followed immediate
ly the week of May 25 by a spe
cial term, also for the trial of
criminal cases.
Judge J. A. Rousseau of North
IVilkesboro will preside over
both. The special term is being
held in lieu of a scheduled civil
session, on request of the MoOre
Clark Elected Mayor As Council
Takes First Steps Under New Plan
Gilmore Is Named - - “Open House^lT
Saturday Event
At USAFAGOS
Mayor Pro Tern,
Blue Treasurer
Lloyd T. Clark - was elected
mayor of Southern Pines by the
new town council at its organiza
tional meeting and first business
session, held last Thursday night
at the city hall.
' Taking the chair, the new may
or expressed his deep thanks for
the honor, then figuratively pass
ed around the pipe of peace. He
County Bar association, in view the campaign had
. I noon Q -fonrfl-t -v^,^*** i4.
Pioneer Cabin Given For Shaw House:
Funds Needed For Restoration Project
A new, unique project for the't’
Moore County Historical society,
announced by the president, Mrs.
Ernest L. Ives, at its meeting Fri
day night, moved swiftly on to ac-
N^ OFFICERS
Officers of the Moore Coun
ty Historical association for
1953-54 are as follows:
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, presi
dent (reelected for third
term); W. A. Leland McKeith-
en. W. D. Campbell, vice pres
idents: Mrs. Lawrence John
son, secretary, and N. L.
Hodgkins, Jr., treasurer (a re-
election).
The officers were chosen by
the directors, who were in
creased from 12 to 16 by ap-
, proval of the membership, on
request of the nominating
committee, at last Friday's
meeting at the Shaw House.
The slate of directors, unan
imously adopted:
Mrs. George Heinilsh, Wil
bur M. Currie, W. D. Camp
bell, Sheriff C. J. McDonald
(the four who were added);
Mrs. E. L. Ives, E. T. McKeith-
en, Mrs. James Boyd. N. L.
Hodgkins, Jr., J. Talbot John
son. W. A. Leland McKeithen,
R. E. Wicker. Julian Bishop,
Mrs. L. T. Avery, Colin G.
Spencer, Clyde Shaw, Mrs.
Kcitherine McColl.
complishment this week.
If all plans come true—and
these include the raising of about
$300 to add to funds already in
hand—a Ijttle old log house, gen
uine relic bf pioneer days, will be
moved next rnonth from upper
Moore county to the yard of the
restored Shaw House in Southern
Pines.
There it will be set up as the
combination “ccok-house” and
“weaving-house” common to
North Carolina farm homes of
colonial days.
Spying the little log house
above Carthage while on a recent
drive tcgethfer, Mrs. Ives, Mrs.
Katherine McColl and Mrs. W. D.
Campbell, all members of the
Historical society, took action to
ward its acquisition and preserva
tion. They approached the owners
of the land on which the deserted
cabin stood. Next, they secured a
grant from the Woodland Foun
dation, set up to aid educational
and historical projects oi unusual
interest. The grant of $1,000 how
ever, was contingent upon the as
sociation’s raising a like sum.
On their own initiative the
three ladies raised some $700
among friends and members of
the association. These facts Mrs.
Ives presented at the meeting
held at the Shaw House Friday
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Chamber Office
On New Schedule;
Open Saturdays
The Chamber of Commerce of
fice on North West Broad street,
which has been open only on
Mondays through Fridays, will
start this week opening also on
Saturday mornings.
Saturday hours will be 9 a.m. tp
1 p.m. On other days, the office
is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., ex
cept for the 1 to 2 p.m. closing
when the secretary. Miss Alice
Baxter, goes to lunch.
The change was made in order
to serve the public better, espe
cially those who come to town on
Saturdays to secure auto or truck
licenses or title transfers. The
auto license bureau is a major
part of the Chamber’s service pro
gram.
Miss Baxter, who started work
this week succeeding Mrs. Vir
ginia C. Pira, spent last Wednes
day and Thursday in training in
the processing department of the
N. C. Motor Vehicles Division at
Raleigh, learning all the details of
handling the auto license bureau
work.
She also completed require
ments for appointment as a no
tary public, and will be able to
render service in this capacity
within a few days, when her seal
arrives.
Both measures were taken on
request of the Chamber by advice
of the Carolina Motor Club, with
which the Chamber has a contract
for the auto license sales agency.
The contract is in'the name of
Bob Cameron, Chamber of Com
merce director in charge of the
bureau.
of an unusually heavy calendar.
Heaviest item of all is the ex
pected trial of eight Negro youths
for the murder of Carthage Po
lice Chief B. M. Cameron in an
ambush slaying March 15, wnh
four others facing trial for acces
sory after the fact.
The cases against the 12 men
will be presented Monday to the
grand jury by District Solicitor
M. G. Boyette of Carthage.
Also on the warrant docket is
another case of unusual interest
in the county, in which a 32-year-
old white woman, Mary Frances
Cole, formerly a waitress in
Southern Pines, is charged with
the niurder of her newborn in
fant in a hotel room January 29.
A third murder case is also
pending grand jury action, that
against Ernest A. Short of Car
thage Rt. 3. He was charged with
the murder of his cousin, “Shyke”
Blue Hunsucker, after Hunsucker
was found strangled to death in
Short’s yard a few hours after the
two had been on a drinking bout
together Saturday night, January
3.
Miss Cole and Short were both
released under bond. Eleven of
the 12 Negroes implicated in the
murder of Chief Cameron have
been in Moore County jail, eyer
since they were picked up, one
by one, in the most intensive
manhunt ever staged in this sec
tion. One, charged with acces
sory, was freed on bond.
Charged with murder, listed be
low in the order in which they
were jailed, are James L. Brooks,
James W. McLaughlin, James L.
Worthy, Russell McNeill, James
McLean, Walter Morrison, Jr., J.
C, Dowd and Harris Richardson.
Dowd is reportedly the one who
fired the shotgun blast which kill
ed the Chief.
Charged with accessory after
the fact for feeding, transport
ing, harboring and otherwise as
sisting the fugitives are' Lenville
H. Thompson, James Cobb, Mar
vin Letlough and Gilbert Let-
lough. Bond was set for all four
but Gilbert Letlough was the only
one who made it. The bond for
Thompson was later raised on
discovery of new evidence against
him, the nature of which law en
forcement officials have not re
vealed.
Calendared for appearance Fri
day is Mrs. Julia D. Banigan,
who was convicted at the January
term on two counts of embezzle
ment, and given prison terms for
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been a tough one “but now it must
be forgotten, as we all work to
gether for the ■ best interests of
Southern Pines.”
Harmony prevailed as Voit Gil
more was elected mayor pro tern,
an office equivalent to vice-chair
man under the council-manager
plan, and Walter E. Blue was
elected treasurer.
Gilmore had led the ticket by
two votes. However, Clark, sec
ond high man, is a veteran of
three and a half years’ service on
the board, while Gilmore is a
newcomer to town government.
Clark also has been the leader,
for a matter of six years, in the
movement to adopt the new form
of government here.
All the elections were unani
mous, with motions and seconds
for each man as follows: for Clark
Patch and Blue; for Gilmore,
Blue and O’Callaghan; for Blue,
Gilmore and Patch.
Taking their first steps in the
new governmental form, they had
as their bible a little book called
“Approved Practices Under the
Council-Manager Plan,” published
by the International City Mana
gers association at Chicago, Ill.
No Committees
Differences between the new
and old forms were quickly ap
parent. Mr. Burns, leading the
meeting until the election of the
mayor, suggested that an early
item of business had always been
the appointment of committees.
However, according to “the book,”
it is not approved practice to have
standing committees under the
new form. SpeciM committees
may be appointed at any time, to
be dissolved when their job is
done. However, most of the tasks
formerly those of the standing
committees are now the city man
ager’s.
Appointments of town officials
and department heads are also
largely his responsibility now, and
no action was taken on any of
these.
In discussing the choice of a
city manager, Mr. Patch moved
for the appointment of Mr. Burns,
and Mr. Blue seconded the mo-
County Baseball
Finals Slated
At RobbinsTonight
The Moore County High School
Baseball tournament, drawing
huge crowds to the lighted field
at Robbins this week, went into
the semifinal stage Thursday
night, and tonight (Friday) the big
championship game will be play
ed.
The finals wiU start at 6:45 on
the Robbins field. Candidates for
the first high school baseball tro
phy ever to be offered in Moore
county will be the winners of the
semifinals doubleheader, played
too late to be reported in The
Pilot.
Scheduled to play Thursday
starting at 7 p.m. were Southern
Pines vs. Robbins, and, imhiedi-
ately following, Highfalls vs: Car
thage.
They were the siR'viviors of
first-round games played by eight
teams. Monday and Tuesday
nights with the following results:
Monday — Carthage defeated
■Westmoore 7-1; Highfalls defeat-
I ed 'West End 6-2.
Tuesday—Southern Pines de
feated Aberdeen 10-5: Robbins de
feated Pinehurst 17-4 (game call
ed after the fifth inning as Rob
bins was ahead by more than 10
runs).
With 10 teams at Moore high
schools, two were eliminated on
the basis of conference play dur
ing the season. These were "Yass-
Lakeview and Cameron, low men
on the totem pole. Little West
moore upset all predictions by be
coming eligible for the tourna
ment in its last two games. Con
sidered a sure bet for elimination
^ as tournament plans were made
tion. ‘However,“thr‘res't “of The
council said they thought the " ^ ^
council should seek applications,
and select the best qualified man
it could find within the limits
of what the town can pay. ‘"That
man may turn out to be Mr. Burns
and I sincerely hope he files his
application,” said Mayor Clark,
“but we owe it to the people who
approved this form of govern-
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PARKING
"Watch those parking
signs" is the warning issued
this week by Chief C. E. New
ton, reminding that home
town car owners have become
extremely lax about the two-
hour parking limits.
City police are marking
many cars which have over
stayed their welcome. The
new town council joins the
Chief in asking cooperation
on downtown streets, where
the situation is creating prob
lems.
The two-hour limit is gen
eral downtown, though in a
couple of places—indicated by
signs—the limit is 15 minutes.
Yellow paint on the curb
stone means "No Parking
Here."
You Are Invited
To the Pilot:
Our new Town Council has been organized and is under
way. To make our coimcil-manager system work as effi
ciently and successfully as possible, we solicit the coopera
tion of all the townspeople.
We invite attendance at council meetings, and sugges
tions of any sort. The interest and participation of everyone
in this government will assure a happy, progressive com
munity.
To make this official, we have passed the following res
olution, and hope The Pilot can call it to the attention of all
readers:
“Whereas our town has adopted the council-manager
form of government and has elected us its first councilmen
under the new system, and
“Whereas our council-manager plan calls for free and
open discussion of all town matters at council meetings open
to the public, be it hereby resolved
“That we, the new Town Council of Southern Pines, do
hereby invite the attendance of any and all town residents
at all of our sessions, and will welcome suggestions and par
ticipation in our deliberations, to the end that we may have
the best possible town government, fully understood and
fully enjoyed by all the people.”
L. T. CLARK, Mayor.
VOIT GILMORE
WALTER E. BLUE
J. P. O’CALLAGHAN
C. S. PATCH, Jr.
season by defeating Pinehurst
Thursday and Vass-Lakeview Fri
day.
Trophies will be presented the
winner and runner-up immediate
ly following the championship
game tonight.
In charge of the tournament for
the sponsoring Moore County
Educo club are Principal Hackney
and Coach Causey of Elise High
School at Robbins. Mr. Hackney
said this week, “We’ve had fine
crowds and it looks as though we
may go on and plan to have this
an annual affair. We’re hoping it
means a real revival of baseball
interest in the schools and in the
county.”
The USAF Air-Ground Opera
tions school at Highland Pines
Inn will mark Armed Forces Day
—Saturday — with an “open
house” program lasting from 1 to
5 p. m.
Children as well as adults are
invited to attend the event at the
school, one of the most unusual
military installations in the coun
try, where officers of all services,
from all over the nation,- are
brought for intensive indoctrina
tion courses in the latest develop
ments in air-ground forces coor
dination.
A welcoming speech will be
made by the commandant. Brig.
Gen. W. M. Gross, and an awards
ceremony will be held, with hon
ors awarded for the first time to
some of the civilian personnel
employed on special assignments.
During the early part of the
program, Air Force films will be
shown for the children, for whom
officers 'will serve as “sitters.”
About 3 o’clock an address is
scheduled by Maj. Leroy Manor,-
newly returned from Korea, on
the subject “Will Enemy Bomb
ers Ever Pass Through Sandhills
Skies?” Following his address, a
model display will be unveiled
in the tennis coiirt area, showing
exactly what would happen in
the way of air-ground operations,
should the enemy fly into and
over the Sandhills.
The Moore County battery, N.
C. National Guard, an antiair
craft outfit, wiU participate in
the display and in other phases of
the program, under the direction
of Warrant Officer Lennox For
syth.
All instructors and other per
sonnel of the school will be on ac
tive duty throughout the after
noon, and will display and dem
onstrate training aids used in the
indoctrination courses, and an
swer all questions, within securi
ty limits.
The school’s new International
fire truck, a large model of latest
design, will be on display.
Films to be shown off and on
during the afternoon will include
some very special combat movies
not hitherto unreeled for the pub
lic. I
Refreshments will be served.
AT BRAGG, POPE
Military installations all
over the land will hold "open
house." with special programs
and displays, in observance of
Armed Forces Day^aturday.
JFort Bragg and Pope AFB
are issuing an invitation to
the public to attend their all
day events, starting at 10 a.m.
A parade at Bragg will mark
the graduation of basic train
ees, and dress review at Pope
will precede a decoration cer-
epiony. A parachute drop by
the 82nd Airborne, displays
and demonstrations of new
planes and weapons and other
events will fill the day.
Signs will mark the areas
where activities will lake
place, and MPs will be on
duty as guides throughout the
day.
Dancing Youngsters Perform Tonight
In Aden Revue, “Stairway To Stars”
“A Stairway to the Stars,” ex
travaganza of dance and song, is
being presented Thursday and
Friday nights of this week at
Weaver auditorium by pupils of
the Martha Aden Dance Studio.
Show time is 8:15.
The Aden revue this year has a
light plot as background, calling
for occasional dialog and drama
tic action, romancing as well as
dancing. The story takes place in
a dance studio while rehearsals
for a revue are under way. The
theme is that “there’s nothing like
dancing” and that, as a career, it
can be “a stairway to the stars.”
Mrs. Aden plays the part of
Mona Adair, the teacher, while
others with roles in the play in
terlude are Robert Speller, Jr.,
Rosemary Beck, Ginger Aden,
‘Carolyn Chatfield, Lc-uis Nun
nery, Patti Hobbs, Delores Ma-
ready, Eileen Thwing, Tony Mar
tin, Janice Holliday, Joan How-
arth and Shirley Thwing.
Reversing the usual order of
things, the openingf production
number is, for purposes of the
play, the “final” number of the
“Mona Adair” revue". The rest of
the first act continues the play,
which is freely punctuated with
dances and songs. The second act
presents more revue numbers,
group:, solo and duo, with a bal
let production, “Dance of the
Hours,” as climax. More than 30
young people take part in the bal
let.
Central figures in the finale
will be Paulette Dietenhofer of
Pinehurst and Karen McKenzie
of Southern Pines, two little girls
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