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VOL. 35—NO. 8
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 15. 1954
SIXTEEN pages
PRICE—TEN CENTS
Session Of
Hi^h Court ^
SetMonday
Judge Armstrong To
Preside At Week's
Term In Carthage
With Judge Frank M. Arm
strong of Troy scheduled to pre
side, a one-week term of Moore
County superipT court hss been
set for next week at Carthage,
opening Monday.
Eighteen defendants on the
warrant docket are scheduled to
go before the grand jury Monday,
including one, Lonnie Mitchell,
charged with rrurder.
Others, with charges, are: Fred
erick Ross, assault with intent to
commit rape; Rcbert L, Fleming,
embezzlement; Jrmes E. Waddell,
careless and reckless driving;
Lendon Sanders, breaking and en
tering and attempted rape; James
F. Kimball, Jr., bigamy; L. C. Al
len. forgery; T. I Sutton, larceny;
Lucius Chambers, breaking and
entering, larceny and receiving
stolen goods; Juanita Gilmore, as
sault with a deadly weapon with.,
intent to kilL
Also: Billv Guin, larceny; Clay- ,. ,
ton Kiser, larceny; David Rags-1
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Touths Bound To
Superior Court
In Assault Case
Kennedy, Horner
Accused Of Attack
On Noah Sheffield
After a hearing before Judge J.
Vance Rowe in Moore County ro-1
corders court at Carthage Mon-
aay, two 19-year-old youths fro.n |
near Robbins were bound over t' 1
tuferior court to be tried for an
assault that gravely injured Noah
Sheffield, 30, of the same rural i
community. i
Charles Kennedy was allowed
bond of $1,000 and Russell Hor- I
ner bond cf $500. Their cases are
not calendared for the criminal
court term to op-en Monday. |
Kennedy admitted at the hear
ing that he had thrown a board
stick, about an inch and a half
wiae and two feet long at Shef
field as darkness was falling, near ,
the home of the victm’s uncle,'
Will Sheffield last November.
Fe denied, however, that he
had struck Sheffield with a yard-
, long, rusty, jagged, taoering iron
bar which was found with blood
st'ihs on it by two oools of blood
nesr
Old Contract Cited As Knollwood
Protests Increase In Water Rates
Proposed Law
To Be Given
Further Study
t'jf.
USAFAGOS Given Award
The USAF Air-Ground Opera-' NFIP president. Making the pre-
dale, larceny—also another case,
same charge, jointly with Billy
Guin; James Geery, Raymond J. i
Jones and A1 J Jackson, armed
robbery and larceny; Alvin R.
Farrington, breaking and enter
ing; David Clyburn, larceny and
lanreny of automobile.
The cases of over 50 other de
fendants are calendared on the
trial docket for Monday through
Thursdav, most of them involving
alleged traffic and liaupr offenses
in cases appealed from recorders
court
Defendants charged with other
than tnaffic and liquor offenses,
and the davs the cases are calen- ’
dan°d include:
Monday—Arthur Frye, break
ing and entering; Henrv Robin
son, assault on female: Robert R.
Flinrin, non-sunport; Ernest Mc-
Crimmon, assault with a deadly
weanon;
Tuesdav—^Robert Peele, forg
ery; John L. Baldwin, non-
sunnort: Will Kelly, non-support.
W°dnesdav — Floyd Seals,
wo’-thless cheek.
tions School here, which scored
me of the highest averages in
"ronp contributions to the March
of Dimes last year, was honored
ast w'’pk fn- aeb^ovement by
TUNING UP—Stepping out briskly for a practice round on
the Pine Needles course last week, Mrs. Peggy Kirk Bell, co
owner of the course, and Mrs. Jackie Puhg, also a golf profession
al, tune up for winter tournaments. With Mrs. Bell piloting the
Bells’ airplane, the two golfers left Wednesday morning for Sea
Island, Ga., to play in a tournament there this week-end.
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
where Sheffield fell, his the National Foundation for In
skull fractured and brain lacera- fantile J’aralysis.
ted. Both the stick and the bar \bove. B*' g ^on. VI. M. Gross,
were exhibited by Solicitor W. left, USAFAGOS ' commandant’
Lament Brown during the hear- receives for the school the citation
ing.
Peggy Kirk Bell,
Jackie Puug lu
Sea Islaud Eveut
After a week'of practice on the
Pine Needles Country Club course
here, Peggy Kirk Bell and Jackie
Pung left by plane Wednesday for
Sea Island, Ga., to play in a 54-
Memorial service was held at women’s open tournament
the Pinehurst Community Church I w®®kend.
mbllrcdav^Vioia Burke assault Wednesday morning for Ccl. They planned to fly from Sea
with a d°=dlv feapon- Al’ex Wal-1 *^eorge Percy Hawes, Jr., 77, USA [island to Tampa, Fla., for another
lace breaking and entering and retired, who died suddenly of a 154-hole open tourney and then
lare^-v: Eugene Junior Lawrence , expected to return_^^^
and Horace Layton, hunting law
violations.
Col. Hawes Dies
Suddenly; Rites
Held Wednesday
Prominenl Sandhills
Resident Active In
SportS/ Civic Work
The hearing was delayed dur-
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“ou+sta’'’'’’rig
signed by Basil
achirn'ornent”
D. O’Connor,
sentation is Paul C. Butler of
Southern Pines, Moore County
chapter chairman. The school’s
1953 donation of $700 represented
a per capita gift of $5.93 among all
officers, enlisted men and civilian
personnel.
In the background are Capt.
Faced with the possibility of le-
'al action by Knollwood residents,
f the town reuses water rates
here by 50 per cent as proposed
n an ordinance awaiting atten
tion, the council Tuesday night
turned the explosive situation
iver to Town Attorney W. Lament
Brown, Leland McKeithen of
Pmehurst, attorney for Knollwood
"esidents, and City Manager Tom
E. Cunningham for further discus
sion, possibly with town council
members sitting in.
In a long and heated but good-
natured session during the Tues
day meeting, McKeithen served
notice on the council that a 1925
agreement—under which the
Knollwood corporation gave the
town an easement to run water
mains across its property and the
town agreed to furnish water to
Knollwood at in-town rates—is a
“valid and enforceable contract.”
It is the contention of the
Knollwood residents that the pro
posed ordinance would violate this
contract or deed of easement—^ii
(T'nntinued on nage 5)
Malcolm R. Stout,
Sanford Native,
/
On Police Force
Malcolm R. Stout, 29, went on
replacing Roland Bowers of,Army in 1900 and had a distin-
Manly, who resigned atfer serving guished career, serving in France
with the department since Sep- in 'World War 1. He moved to
his home on the Midland Road
Rev. R. L. Prince, pastor, officia
ted, and private interment was
tcok place at Mt. Hope Cemetery,
Southern Pines.
Colcnel Hawes was one of the
few survivors of Teddy Roose
velt’s Rough Riders, with whom
as a young man of 23, just grad
uated from "Virginia Military In
stitute, he participated in the
Spanish-American War. He was
commissioned in the Regular
tember 21.
A native of Sanford, where he has
lived most of his life, Mr. Stout
Pinehurst following his retire
ment in 1928 at the close of his
service as a member of the staff
was an insurance salesman before of General Holey, post comman-
joining the Southern Pines police jdant at Fort Bragg,
department. He is single and has At "VM!, where he was^a mem-
a room at “Cozy Oaks,” the home her of the class of 1899, Hawes
of Mr. and Mrs Broadus Smith, was captain of the company in
120 E. Connecticut Avenue.
A veteran of World War 2, Mr.
Stout served two years with an
artillery unit in the European
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for further training before more
tournament play later in the win
ter.
Mrs. Pung, native of Hawaii and
national amateur champion in
1952, arrived at Pine Needles
Tuesday of last week. She and
Mrs. Bell were in a group of
prominent women golfers who
made an exhibition tour in Aus-!
tralia recently. Mrs. Pung was!
the fourth money winner among |
the women pros last year. j
Mrs. Bell, married last Kali to |
Warren BeU who now manages
the Pine Needles Club, was 1949 1
winner of the North and South |
and Augusta Title Holders Cham- !
pionships and was a member of.
the Curtis Cup team in 1950
A number of other prominent I
Tlying High’ To
Be Presented By
Local Residents
"Flying High,” a peppy musical
comedy in three acts, will be stag
ed at Weaver Auditorium on Jan
uary 20 and 21 under sponsorship
of the Junior Woman’s Club of
Southern Pines, and the various
groups that make up the cast are
working afternoons and nights,
under professional direction, in
preparation for the performances
Curtain tim e will be 8 o’clock I
each evening. |
A large local cast will take part
in the production, which is said to
be filled with humor, beautv and ,
romance. The scenes are laid in ‘
Hollywood, Calif., at the estate of
a movie producer, Henry McCul-
lom, who, for the thrill it might
give his weekend guests, offers
$1090 to any amateur who will
volunteer to make a parachute
jump. Much anxiety and excite-
Zoning Ordinance Setting Restrictions
Jn Multiple Dwellings Given Approval
Patch Votes Against
Measure, Feels It
Is Discriminatory
With cne councilman not voting
and another opposing the meas
ure, a zoning ordinance was
adopted by the town council at
its regular meeting Tuesday night.
Arthur (“Buck”) Hunter, left, co-1 which case the easement granted
chairman of the project last year,' the town for the water mains
and Maj. Jack Gianni ni, 1954 across Knollwood property would
chairman. (Photo by V. Nicholson) also be rendered invalid.
Among the Knollwood delega
tion attending the meeting and
backing up the presentation of the
Knollwood case by Attorney Mc
Keithen were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Cosgrove, operators of the Mid
Pines Club; Warren Bell, manager
of the Pine Needles Country Club;
Harr5' Menzel, who has represent
ed the Knollwood interests at sev-
"Viewed as “a beginning” and
subject to revision through the
Meeting Slated
To Reorganize
Wildlife Club
zomnpoard and zoning board of I eral recent town-meetings; Maj
adjustment as provided for m the Gen. Julian F. Barnes and othem:
law, the ordinance outlines Indus- The proposed ordinance has
trial, business and two types of | been drawn up by the town to set
residence Districts—District I in uniform water rates for all in-
which fiiture construction is lim- | town and all out-of-town consum-
ited to one-family dwellings and ers.
District II in which two-family
and multiple-family dwellings are
allC'wed.
Most of the debate about the
ordinance Tuesday night centered
around the provision of two types
of residential districts, with Coun
cilman C. S. Patch, Jr., who voted
against the measure, contending
that it is a discrimination to limit
jy^oore County Wildlife Clufe in
the court room of the courthouse
at Carthage Tuesday, January 19,
ment are aroused when a modest at 7:30 p. m.
young man in their midst volun- ' Haney Harris of Aberdeen,
teers for the jump. “Will he president of the club, has notified
S. I. Stewart of Raleigh, presi
dent of the North Carolina Wild- , ,,. , , -i
life Federation, Inc., will attend | one-family cate-
a reorganization meeting of the
At present, according to a report
prepared by City Manager Tom E.
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Seek Solicitors
For Blood Donors
Blood donors for a -collection to
be made Wednesday, January 27,
by a Red Cress bloodmobile, with
a unit from the Charlotte Blood
, „ Center, are being sought through-
dwellings wherever a majority of i out this area
adjoining property owners would | The collection will be made be-
approve the project. He said he]tween 11 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. at
gorv in one part of town.
His solution was to allow con
struction of multiple family
jump?” is the question.
■ err hers that new activities will
thought it unfair that persons who
might want to invest in or live in
Pretty girls in colorful costumes be planned at the meeting. There j
will appear at intervals through- will be several door prizes. | “ tho
(Continued on page 5) I All members and everyone in proposed ordi-
l^core County interested in the buildings
women golfers are expected to. preservation of wildlife, especial-
visit Pine Needles during the win- | ly hunters and fishermen, are in
vited to attend.
Mr. Stewart has notified the
Moore club that he will bring
along a supply of membership
ter.
Julius Boros, another co-owner
of Pine Needles, is playing on the
men’s winter golf circuit, current-
’v on the West Coast where he cards and it is hoped that a large ^ as lo
uiished fifth in the Los Angeles ^ md active club can be reorgan- the o^the
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met other provisions of the zon
ing crdinance, such as yard space,
and so long as neighboring prop
erty owners did not object.
Under the ordinance. Residen
tial District I, lying generally east
of May Street, is restricted as to
Open Sunday.
EXHIBIT TO OPEN
An exhibition of paintings by
>tV. K
theatre of operations, seeing serv- George Kachergis, instructor in
ice in a number of nations. art at the University of North
Mr. Stout is a graduate of San- Carolina, Chapel Hill, will open
ford High School. He is also a' Monday at the Southern Pines Li-
graduate of Mars Hill Junior Col- brary art gallery. An exhibition
■■
lege, Mars Hill.
The new officer is at present
working on the night shift with
Officer H. 'V. Chandler, Jr.
by Kate Rancke Buie of Rocking
ham, which has proved very pop
ular, closes there «t the end of
this week.
INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE
Farl TTiibhard. Inf's! renresenta-
tive of the Internal Revenue De
partment, announces that begin
ning todav (Friday) and continu
ing until March 15 he will be in
h’s office in the Post Office Build
ing from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 n m. on
l''Tondavs, Wednesday and Fridays
to assist people with their income
tax returns.
the Southern Pines Country Club.
To reach the 250-pint goal for
the collecticn, John Buchholz of
Southern Pines, permanent blood
chairman for the Moore County
Red Cross Chapter, is seeking 25
solicitors, each to obtain 10 don
ors.
A number of these solicitors
have volunteered and are already
working on the project. Persons
willing to solicit blood donations
are asked to call the Red Cross of
fice here.
FIRST NOVEL
“Scotland’s Burning,” a
first novel by Nathaniel Burt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Struthers
Burt, all former residents of
Southern Pines, was to be
published Thursday by Little,
Brown and Co.
Mr Burt has published two
.books of poetry and several
musical compositions. He
lives at Princeton, N. J.
Church Calls New Minister
The Rev. Wofford C. Timmons,
D. D., has been called to become
regular minister of the Church of
Wide Fellowship. He is expected
to begin his work here March 1.
Approval of the call was given
by a vote of the congregation at
the annual meeting of the church
last week. Dr. Timmons visited
Southern Pines and preached at
the Church of Wide Fellowship
January 3.
The Rev. Oswald W. S. McCall,
D. D., retired minister of Wood-
mont. Conn., who has been in
terim pastor of the Church of
Wide Fellowship since about No-
Janet Spicer Plays Tonight
'vember 1, will continue in that
capacity until the arrival of Dr. j
Timmons.
! The new pastor is now head of I
Uhe Evangelism Department of
the Congregational and Christian j
Churches at the Church Board of- |
fice in New York City. He had
previously served for several
years at the South Church, Con
gregational, New Britain, Conn.,
I and has had a long and distin
guished career in the ministry.
I The Church of Wide Fellowship
has been without a regular minis-
ter since the death of Dr. Robert
' Lee House about a year ago.
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BREAKING GROUND — Gordon '’ameron,
chairman of the board of county commissioners
who appropriate funds for school buildings,
wields the shovel as ground was broken last
week for the new Southern Pines High School
building at May Street and Massachusetts Ave
nue. Watching, left to right, are: A. C. Dawson,
Jr., superintendent of schools; and local school■
trustees, John Howarth, chairman; Dr. "Vida Mc
Leod, who turned the first shovel of earth, Har
ry Menzel, L. F. Garvin of Manly, and Norris
L. Hodgkins, Sr. In the background are students
who witnessed the ceremony.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
A brilliant young violinist who '
grew up in neighboring Vass will j
play tenight (Friday) in Weaver
Auditorium at 8:30. i
Janet Spicer, daughter of Dr.'
and Mrs. Robert G. Rosser of
l^ass, will appear with her piano
accompanist Robert Smith, who is ’
also a soloist. The program will >
be a combination cf piano and
violin music. I
Both Mrs. Spicer and Mr. Smith'
come here from the Philadelphia |
Conservatory of Music where the j
former Moore County resident'
won honers and scholarships after
graduating from St. Mary’s |
School, Raleigh ,
. The two artists are presented
>v the Sandhills Music Associa-
m as the second concert of the'
season.
, A reception for Mrs. Spicer was
scheduled for Thursday night at
the Civic Club, given by Mag
nolia Chapter 26, Order of the
Eastern Star, in which she retains
membership. Dr. and Mrs. Rosser
formerly served as worthy patron
and worthy matron of the Chap
ter. Friends of the Chapter and
of Dr. and Mrs. Rosser and Mrs.
Spicer were invited to attend.
Mrs. Spicer is now a resident of
Haddonfield, N. J., and a member
of the faculty of the Philadelphia
Conservatory.
The next concert to be present
ed by the Music Association will
bring Nelson and Neal, duo piano
team to Weaver Auditoriiun Fri
day night, February 12.