Friday. May 15. 1953
Final Score In “Car-Bump” Game:
Three Arrested For Drunken Driving
Two Negro step-brothers—Pres-"^
ton Reaves, Jr., 31, of Aberdeen,
and Grant Thomas Vestal, 36, of
Cameron, learned Sunday night
that the public highway is no
place to play a game of “bump-
bump” with their automobiles.
Before the game was finished,
they found their cars wrecked
;and themselves in jail.
It was just after midnight, on
NC Route 27, between Carthage
and Camnron that the playful
step-brothers, who were later ar
rested for drunken driving, be-
|gan their game. Vestal, driving a
1937 Ford, was following Reaves
in his 1950 Nash. Things began
to happen when Vestal speeded
up and began to bump the rear of
Reaves’ car, the investigating pa
trolman reported.
The play became progressively
rougher till finally the two cars
“hung up” in some manner. As
they tore loose, the Ford was
thrown off into the ditch and the
Nash continued for some 250-300
feet, stopping out in the highway
Then a third “player” entered
Ihe game—Silas Asbury Whitak
er, 30-year-old Carthage white
Bronze Plaque Unveiled At Raleigh
In Memory of Roadbuilder Frank Page
man, who ran up on the melee in
the highway and sideswiped the
stalled Nash, damaging it to the
extent of some $500 and causing
about $150 worth of damage to his
vn 1948 Plymouth.
Whitaker was the third man
“out.” The patrolman arrested
him too for drunken driving, add
ing a careless and reckelss driv
ing charge as well.
It all happened about five miles
east of Carthage. Nobody was
hurt.
MOTHER'S DAY BABY
A bronze plaque commemOra-!
ting a distinguished son of the
Sandhills, one of North Carolina’s
outstanding pioneer roadbuilders,
was unveiled in the lobby of the
new highway building in Raleigh
Thursday, April 30.
Highway Chairman Henry Jor
dan, presiding over ceremonies
dedicating the Frank Page Mem
orial plaque, read a joint resolu
tion cf the 1935 legislature di
recting that it be placed “either
in the corridor of the Capitol or
a highway building when built.”
An appropriation of $500 had been
made for this plaque.
Jordan then recognized former
commissioners present for the
ceremonies, listed below with
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Garner of , ,
Bill and Dot’s Service station on their years on the Commission:
U.S. 1 half-way between Southern T. F. Hick^rson of Chapel Hill,
Pines and Vass are the parents of 1915-19; J. C. McBee of Bakers
a daughter, Sharon Lee, born May ville, 1921; W. A. McGirt of Wil-
10—Mother’s Day—at St. Joseph’s I mington, 1921-31; Luther Hodges
hospital. They have two other
children, Deloris and Janet.
Cash receipts from farm mar
keting in the first quarter of 1953
in the U. S. totaled $6.6 billion,
down 2 per cent from last year.
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The Quality Shop
Poplar St. Aberdeen, N. C.
Now has a complete stock of -
of Leaksville-Spray, 1933-37; E.
F. Allen of Lenoir, 1933-37; T.
Boddie Ward of Wilson, 1937-41;
Sam M. Bason of Yanceyville,
1937-41; D. C. Barnes of Mur
freesboro, 1937-41; John N. Hack
ney of Wilson, 1041-49; George W.
Kane of Roxboro, 1941-49; James
A. Bridger of Bladenboro, 1945-
49; D. Reeves Noland of Waynes-
ville, 1945-49; Mark Goforth of
Lenoir, 1949-52; and George D.
Richardson of Raleigh, 1952.
‘Jordan also recognized Vance
Baise of Raleigh, State Highway,
Engineer from 1933 to 1949.
Frank Page’s son and daugh
ter—Frank Page of Falls Church,
Va., and Mrs. E. T. Harrison of
High Point, the former Clara
Page of Aberdeen, were recog
nized. Frank Page’s sister, Miss
Mary Page of Aberdeen, was also
present. service.
E. B. Jeffress of Chapel Hill,
the only former highway chair
man (1931-34) who could be pres
ent, cited Frank Page’s ‘‘duty to
public service.” He said that Page
left a record in North Carolina
for honesty in handling public
money,” and characterized him as
man who “always insisted on
good maintenance and shop
work..”
Lt.-Gov. Luther Hodges then
spoke in tribute, after which Dr.
Edwin McNeil Poteat, pastor of
Pullen Memorial Baptist church
at Raleigh, read his funeral ora
tion first delivered at Page’s fun
eral in 1934 at Aberdeen. He list
ed Frank Page as a “superior per
son, with qualities of benevolence,
integrity, courtesy, wisdom and
action,” who during his 10 years
as chairman had been responsible
for the spending of $115 millio-n
with no hint of scandal.”
The party then adjourned to the
lobby for the unveiling of the
plaque, which reads:
Frank Page, 1875-1934, Chair
man, State Highway Commission,
1919-1929.
His response to an unprece
dented challenge made North
Carolina one cf the first Ameri
can States to build an integrated
system of highways drawing more
closely together the people of one
hundred counties.
“By his leadership, his wisdom,
his integrity and fidelity, he set
an example of distinguished serv
ice faithfully emulated but never
surpassed.
“His organization of highway
craftsmen endures as his living
memorial.”
Page was a positive dominating
figure who stood by his principle
that graft need not touch the
highway program of the State
He so conducted himself that the
wrong kind of politics could not
affect it.
A roadbuilder of national pres
tige, he served as president of the
American Association of State
Highway Officials, president of
the American Road Builders’ as
sociation, chairman of President
Herbert Hoover’s Highway Safe
ty Council, and, on appointment
by President Calvin Coolidge, a
member of a five-man delegation
to the Pan-American Road Con
gress held in 1925 in South Amer
ica.
Page was a president and di
rector of the Raleigh Chamber of
Commerce, and president of the
Raleigh Rotary club.
Following his retirement from
highway work in 1929 until his
death five years later, he was a
vice-president of the Wachovia
Bank and Trust company.
He had four distinguished
brothers—^Walter Hines Page,
writer, publisher and Ambassador
to Great Britain during World
War 1; Robert Page, who repre
sented North Carolina in Con
gress for many years, and later
headed a banking chain; Henry
Page, who became a leading
banker, businessman and railroad
president. He was State Food Ad
ministrator during World War 1;
and J. R. Page, also a well-known
banker and business executive.
Frank Page was born in Cary
in 1875, son of Allison F. and
Catherine Robateau Page. He
graduated from the University of
North Carolina in 1898. During
I World War 1, he served as a Ma-
Ijor in the AEF.
In 1919 when Page was ap-
Tom Avery Wins
High Military,
Engineer Award
The medal of the American So
ciety of Military Engineers, for the
outstanding senior engineer cadet
(Corps of Engineers) will be
awarded to Tom Avery of South
ern Pines at the annual Awards
Day exercises and dress review at
N. C. State college today (Friday).
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
Avery, will be present to see him
receive the award, which recog
nizes all-round character and abil
ity in military, scholastic and ex
tra-curricular phases of the stu
dent program.
A senior in the ciliv engineer
ing school of State college, Tom
has been in ROTC during his four
years as a student and is now ca
det captain and company com
mander.
The awards ceremony will be
held in Riddick stadium following
the dress parade at high noon.
Tom is a member of Chi Epsi
lon, national honorary engineering
fraternity, and of S.A.E. social fra
ternity. He is on the Student
Council, and during recent student
elections served as chairman of
the elections committee. He has
been employed part time, during
most of his college career, in en
gineering work at the Raleigh wa
ter plant.
He graduated from Southern
Pines High school in June, 1949,
at that time winning the Danforth
award recognizing character and
New Mayor Tells
Rotary Club of
Council Matters
the county health department.
This includes support of a bed at
Moore County hospital for under
privileged maternity cases.
Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson of Aber
deen and Mrs. James Boyd of
Southern Pines
for the county.
One quart of milfejis equal to a
pound of beefsteak in energy
value.
Mayor L. T. Clark, a member
and past president of the Southern
Pi^nes Rotary club, was its speak
er at the weekly luncheon meet
ing at the Village Inn last Friday,
the day after he was sworn into
office.
The meeting was also held the
day after the new town council’s
first business meeting, and what
went on there formed the main
subject of his talk.
Keeping the light touch, but
with sincere eloquence. Mayor
Clark outlined his hopes for the
new administration and the bene
fits which should result for the
community from its adoption of
the council-manager plan.
He urged that the members, and
all other citizens, attend meetings
of the council and keep informed
on what goes on there.
In a question period, when
member queried facetiously con
cerning the council’s views on ex
tension of the city limits (the
member being a resident of an
outside area), Mr. Clark staled
that “Southern Pines would be
made so attractive the folks out
side would want to come in.”
The speaker was introduced by
C. S. Patch, Jr., program chair
man and also a member of the
council. Guests were Fred B
Howland, of Titusville, Pa.; Tom
Hensen and E. L. Comer, Car.
thage, and Graves Lewis, Golds
boro. Russell Lorenson presided
VISIT IN VASS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harding
£md daughters, Donna, Cherie and
Grace, and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Theime, of Charlotte, visited Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Evans in Vass
during last weekend.
Prices of eggs received by farm
ers in mid-March averaged 44.7
cents per dozen, the highest price
on record for the month.
pointed chairman of the highway
commission, the State had 3,600
miles of inferior earth roads.
Ten years later in 1929, the
State had 7,500 miles of roads
connecting all county seats and
principal cities.
With his parents and other
members of his family, he is
buried in Old Bethesda cemetery
between Southern Pines arid
Aberdeen.
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Tops $150 For
Mothers, Babies
The Maternal Welfare tag day
in Southern Pines netted $153.44,
given last Saturday toward the
program in aid of Moore county
mothers and babies.
Assisting the local chairmen,
Mrs. Claude Reams and Mrs. L. T.
Avery, in the tag sale held an
nually the day before Mothers
Day were the following helpers:
at th epost office, Mrs. Katherine
McColl, Mrs. W. Lamont Brown,
Mrs. E. C. Stevens, Mrs. Ray Mc
Mullen, Mrs. Voit Gilmore, Miss
Laura Kelsey; and at the bank,
Mrs. Nolley Jackson, Mrs. R. M.
McMillan, Mrs. J. S. Hiatt and
Mrs. W. F. Hollister.
Those wishing to contribute to
this cause who did not have the
opportunity Saturday may send
their gifts to Mrs. Reams or Mrs.
: Avery. The funds will be added
to those received by chairmen all
j over the county for the maternal
I welfare program, administered by
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