North Carolina Newspapers

FRIDAY. JULY 30. 1954 I ) • i am € INS AND OUTS Mrs. W. M. Edwards returned Tuesday night from Wilmington, Del., where she spent ten days visiting her son, Dr. W. M. Ed wards, Jr., and family. Mrs. Ed wards, who has been away most of the summer, wiU be at home from now on making preparations for the reopening of her first- grade school early in September. JJrs. Verdie Wiley and her daughter. Miss Kitty Wiley, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Schaefer at Asheboro. Mrs. Schaefer is also a daughter of Mrs. Wiley. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bodine will leave Sunday for the Isle of Palms, near Charleston, S. C., where they will occupy a cottage during the month of August with their son, Capt. William Bodine, and his wife, of Augusta, Ga. W. Lament Brown will go to Greenville, S. C., this weekend to get his wile and children. Mrs. Brown and the two younger chil dren h^ve been visiting her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Ward lor the past two weeks, while the elder son, Lamont, Jr., has been at Camp Greenville at nearby Cedar Mountain. They will drive home by way of Vade Mecum, the Episcopal camp near Win ston-Salem, where they will leave Lamont, Jr., for a two weeks’ stay. P. T. Kelsey and his da,ughter. Miss Laura Kelsey, left Thursday night for Squam Lake, N. H., where they will be with another daughter, Mrs. Wallace Speers, and Mr. Speers at their summer home. Miss Laura Kelsey will then go to visit another sister, Mrs. Robert Aishton, and Mr. Aaishton at Chicago, returning early in September to the Speers home at Montclair, N. J. From Montclair she and her father wi!|l return to Southern Pines. Charlie Martindale Held For Murder Of Wife At Robbins Home Sunday Rites Held Tuesday For Victim; Man Waives Hearing Charlie Arter Martindale, 54, is in Moore County jail at Carthage, charged with fatally shooting his wife, Ethel Welch Martindale, 52, at their home near Robbins early Sunday afternoon. Ac^cording to information from the office of Sheriff C. J. McDbn- ald, Martindale denied the HiHng when he was arrested by Deputy Sheriff A. W. Lambert Suhday afternoon, but later admitted the shooting and told officers that he had hidden the weapon, a .22 cali bre, 16-shot rifle, under the cov ers of a bed at the home. Officers found it there. Investigating, in addition to the deputy sheriff were Coroner Ralph Steed of Robbins and Police Chief Guy McNeill of Robbins. Martindale was quoted as tell ing officers he fired one shot at his wife as she lay on a davenport in their home which is near the Baptist Church, just out of the Robbins town limits. The bullet passed through .the rim' of her glasses and entered the inside corner of the left eye. Coroner Steed said he thought death was almost instantaneous. He ruled an inquest unnecessary. Appearing before Magistrate Charles MacLeod on Monday, Martindale—a slight man with bushy hair—appeared nervous. He waived preliminary hearing and was bound over, without privilege of bond, for trial at the August 16 term of Moore County Superior, Court. Officers said Martindale said he had been drinking and that his wile “had been fooling around with another man.” Neighbors, J however, discounted this motive, John S. Ruggles spent Thurs- saying Mrs. Martindale was a day at Butner Hospital attending a meeting of the State Board of Hospitals Control. Col. and Mrs. G. F. Mulligan and daughters Misses Ann and Janet left Monday after spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Grey and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Goe. Mrs. Mulligan, Mrs. Grey and Mrs. Goe are sisters. The Mulligans were on their way from Panama, where Colonel Mul ligan has been in charge of the CAA office for the past four years, to his new assignment at Idlewild International airport. New York They will live at Lynbrook, L. I. John Ray, Joe McDonald anc’ David McCallum, of the youth group of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian church, are attend ing the senior youth conference being held this week at Camp Monroe, the church campground near Laurinburg. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Grey will leave Stmday for a leisurely mo tor trip to Connecticut, New Hampshire and other New Eng land states. They will spend some time with their daughter, Mrs. J. H. Downing, and family, of Littleton, N. H., at their newly- built lakeside camp near there, then will return home in about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Tener have returned from their vacation spent in New York State. They visited Mr. Tener’s mother, Mrs. H. C. Tener, at Homer, N. Y., and then drove to Long Island where they visited Mr. and Mrs. George C. Rose, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bailey and granddaughter Linda Sue Ritter, along with E. J. Davis, drive to New England. They will visit relatives in New Hampshire and Vermont for two weeks. T. E. Wiederseim of Overbrook, Pa., is speending a few days at his home on East Indiana Avenue extension. Mrs. James Besley returned hoanie Wednesday from Moore County hospital, where she re cently underwent a minor opera tion, remaining as a patient for two weeks. She is recuperating nicely, and is up and around. Miss Joan Besley, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. James Besley, has returned home after a week’s visit to her brother, Edwin Bes ley, and family at Miami, Fla. highly respected woman. She had been working in a Robbins varie ty store. Martindale, it was re ported, had been unemployed for about a year. Neighbors said they had heard the man cursing his wife several titles in the previous week. Mrs. Yow, a neighbor, told offi cers that Martindale had called to her about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, “Come over; some one has shot my wife.” Mrs. Yow then sent for Chief McNeill. Larry Martindale, a 14-year-old son who was not at home when the shooting occurred, told offi cers that his mother and father had been quarrelling cohsiderably. Deputy Lambert said Martin dale had borrowed a rifle from a neighbor last Friday, saying he wanted it to shoot some squirrels. The Martindales were both na tives of the Highfalls section of Moore County. Funeral services for Mrs. Mar tindale were held Tuesday after noon at Prosperity Friends Church near Highfalls. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving in addition to her husband and Larry, are two daughters, Mrs. Ed Shields, High falls, and Mrs. L. G. Phillips, Jr., Putnam; another son, Johnnie Ray Martindale, Winston-Salem; her mother, Mrs. Eli Welch, Route 1, Robbins; three sisters, Mrs. Em ma Brewer, Carolina Beach; Mrs. Silas Garner, Asheboro; and Mrs. Herbert Brady, Highfalls; four brothers, F .L. Welch, Greensboro; C. M. Welch, Robbins, M. D. Welch, Route 1, Robbins, Russell Welch, Route 1, Robbins, and two grandchildren. Audrey Brown Is Finalist In Two N. C. Open Events Audrey West Brown of South ern Pines was a finalist in both women’s singles and mixed doubles at the N. C. Open Tennis tournament held last weekend at the Biltmore Forest Country club at Asheville. No women’s doubles were held. The tournament drew topnotch players from several states. Miss Brown, fifth-ranked woman play er in the southeast, was seeded No. 1 in the singles. Early rounds held few difficulties for her. In semifinals she defeated Sarah C. Moore of Washington, D. C.; but lost in the finals to Zoe Hatcher Leach of Corsd Gables, Fla. Mrs. Leach, seeded No. 2, won the match 2-6, 6-3, 7-5. Miss Brown held the 1953 mix ed doubles- title in the Open with Ed Hudgins, of Charlo-tte. Hud gins did not attend the 1954 event and she teamed with Ed White of Coral Gables. However, in the finals they met the out standing team of Mr. and Mrs. John Ager of Atlanta, Ga., and bowed by a 6-3, 6-4 score. Keenneth Tew, 17-year-old Southern Pines player, attended junior events held the first part of the week, but was ousted in quarterfinals and returned home Wednesday. Miss Brown, who is employed in Burlington, will return to Southern Pines for the Sandhill Invitational August 18-22, in which she is defending champion in women’s singles. SURVEYING (Continued from Page J) projects of wide interest in this area. Low bidder on hard-surfacing the old Southern Pines-Pinehurst road, 3-2 miles to meet hard sur face already laid down, was the Probst Construction Co. of Con cord whose bid was $10,456.39. The big project between Aber deen and Drowning Creek, which will convert No. 1 highway to dual lane for 6.17miles, using and resurfacing the present highway as the east lane, went to Blythe Brothers of Charlotte for $234,- 505.70. A separate contract for moving several houses and other buildings, to make way for the new west lane, went to F. E. Boege of Whiteville for $13,650. Low bidder on a bridge over Bear Creek on Route 705 near the north city limits of Robbins was Columbus Contractors of White ville, with $48,497. Book Sale SO’^ofi See Hay es Book Shop WINDOW Chairmen Named In Seont Drive Starting Oet. 4 A number of Moore County chairmen in the Occoneechee Council Boy Scout fund drive— which will begin October 4—^have been named by Brig. Gen. Pear son Menoher of Southern Pines, Moore District chairman. Working on the county level are Albert Tufts of Pinehurst, ad vance gifts; Harry Pethick of Southern Pines, auditor; John Os- trom, Southern Pines, prospects and rating; and Ed Cox publicity. Community and advance gifts chairmen appointed in Moore County towns so far are: Thomas C. Darst and Voit Gilmore, South ern Pines; J. C. Robbins and Dr. E. M. Medlin, Aberdeen, Dr. R. G. Felton and Dave Ginsberg, Car thage; Henry Williams and Allen Brown, Robbins; E. H. Mills, Pine- bluff; Aubrey Keith, Vass; Jim Kelley, Cameron; Carl Scoggin, Robbins MiUs in Robbins; and John Sloan, Robbins Mills in Ab erdeen. A group of Moore County cam paign chairmen is expected to at tend a drive conference for the 12 counties of the Occoneechee Coun cil at the Walker Martin Co. in Raleigh Tuesday evening. All funds collected in Boy Scout drives are turned over to the Council. Local communities benefit through executives pro vided by the council to push Scouting activities and also through camp sites and other fa cilities maintained by the council. BALLPARK LIGHTS Continued from Page 1) summer and was suspended after about a month. Meetings Held A committee composed of rep resentatives of the schools, the Chamber of Commerce, power company specialists, and various civic organizations, with W. B. Holliday as chairman, has held several informal meetings lately at which visiting experts have recommended plans for best light ing of the two fields at the park, and costs have been estimated. The latest of these rrieetings was held Tuesday night, with a repre sentative of the Graybar Corp. and two line construction men from Sanford. Cost of the 120- unit plan was given as $7,348.05, of the 84-unit plan $6,455.28, with installation costs running from $1,650 down to $1,500. These estimates vary only slightly from previous ones gar nered by the committee from rep resentatives of General Electric, who have visited them twice. It is estimated that several hun dred dollars can be cut off through careful purchasing, use of rebuilt instead of new transformers, and donations of local labor. $2,000 from Elks Still available to the committee on adoption of an approved plan, satisfying the need for at least two sports with possibilities of expansion later, is a $2,000 fund from the Southern Pines Elks Lodge. This, however, must be matched through local subscrip tion before any use can be made of it for even a minimum job. Added to this is about $1,200 in cash and pledges secured in last summer’s campaign. Deciding to “shoot the works” for the l20-light job, the commit tee adopted the “Army plan” for complete coverage and designated Mr. Page as its “general.” He ac cepted and at once appointed sev eral aides. The campaign was originated, and will be carried on, under sponsorship of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce, with the Chamber office as headquarters and Miss Alice Baxter, Chamber secretary, serving in this capacity for the drive. Return Pledge W. B. Holliday, Chamber direc tor serving as general chairman, reminded that donations were re ceived last year imder the pledge that, if the goal was not achieved within a year, they would be re turned. He said this pledge still holds good, if any of the donors wish their money back, but that, in view of the resumption of the drive, he felt they would wish it to remaii^ in the fund for the orig inal purpose. Anyone not wish ing to go along on the renewed drive may receive their contribu tions back on request. Attending the Tuesday ni^t meeting were L. T. Clark, C. E. Holt, Irie Leonard, W. A. Leonard, Don Smith, Joe Garzik, John Howarth, C. N. Page, Tom E. Cun ningham, W. F. Harper, Ward Hill, W. B. Holliday and Mrs. Val erie Nicholson; also Colonel Laws of the Graybar Corp. at Durham, and T. A. Baroody and Luke Gun ter of Cameo Construction Co., of Sanford. McDaniel (Continued from Page 1) water lines, is acting in a “pro priety,” not a "govermental,” function and so can sign the con tract with Mr. and Mrs. Phillips as it is drawn. The Carthage lawyer’s letter also asked that he be notified in writing if the council decided to approve a contract with Mr. Phil lips “in order that my client and other tax payers of Southern Pines may have ample time to obtain a restraining order and let the courts determine the law in the matters involved.” Captain McDaniel, who attend ed the meeting, said, after the de cision to approve the contract was made, that he would contin ue with his intention to serve a restraining or'der on the town The amount paid to Mr. and Mrs. Phillips by the town under the contract was arrived at under an agreement made in Septeml- ber, 1951, with Mr. Phillips, then acting as head of Resort Invest ment Co., a corporation whose as sets have since been transferred to Mr. and Mrs. Phillips. This agreement called for the town to reimburse Resort Investment Co for 1,000 feet of six-inch water main, according to a stated sched ule of depreciation in value, if and when Golfcrest development were taken into the city limits. Recently, Mr. Phillips applied to the town to extend the six inch line by another 1,000 feet of six-inch pipe, removing about 700 feet of two-inch pipe now at the end of the Original section and putting the two-inch pipe at the end of the new 1,000-foot six- inch section. He asked that the new 1,000-foot section be install ed under the same agreement as was made with the former board about the first section of the line. Wanting to institute a policy of owning and controlling all new water lines outside the town lim its, the council refused to make a similar agreement about the new section of line, but felt that it should honor the old agreement. Mr. Phillips, in turn, agreed to dedicate to the town, when it is installed, the new section of water line. The town then found that it would own the new section but not the old section between the new part and the town limits. In stead of waiting until the area is taken into the town, therefore, the council decided to pay the required amount for the old sec tion at once, then owning and controlling the entire length of line, including the 700 feet of two-ich pipe wljich was also ded icated by Mr. Phillips. It was at one time suggested during the negotiations that the town make payment by furnish ing Mr. Phillips with pipe for his new section of water line, but this plan was abandoned in favor of a cash payment for the old section. The payment is made from a surplus in the water ac count at the end of the last fiscal year June 30. Present at Wednesday’s meet ing were Mayor L. T. Clark and Councilmen W. E. Blue and Voit Gilmore, along with City Mana ger Tom E. Cunningham, Attor ney Brown and Clerk Scheipers. Councilmen C. S. Patch, Jr., and Joe O’CaUaghan were unable to attend. Mr. Phillips was present and signed the contract after the meeting broke up. Captain McDaniel did not en ter into the discussion at the meeting but chatted informally and Eiffably with councilmen be fore and after the session. against a tree. The sound of the crash was heard for many bloclcs and a large crowd quickly gathered. An eye-witness was Elliott Lewis of Aberdeen, who was traveling behind the Berg car. Mrs. Berg and the Berg baby were thrown out in front of his car but he managed to stop be fore hitting them. Mrs. Donaldson was the wife of Pfc. John S. Donaldson of the 337th Communications Recon-, naissance Co. at Fort Bragg. She had taken him to the Ark Apart ments intersection at Indiana Avenue and Old Bethesda road to join his car pool, and was re turning to their home, the Lloyd P. Tate cottage on the Midland Road, which they had recently rented. The Bergs were on their way home from a Florida trip. hCief Newton said their car was in its proper lane on the east side of the highway, and hit the Olds as it entered the intersection. It was severely damaged on the front end, while the Donaldson car was rated as demolished. Alone in the Donaldsons’ home when the accident happened was Miss Margaret Gray, a friend of the dead girl, who arrived only a day or two before from Long Island for a visit. Though severe ly shocked by the happening, she was able to help police get in touch with Pfc. Donaldson, and went in a car to bring him home from the post. The accident occurred at 11:02 p. m. , Pfc. Donaldson, who is from Minneapolis, Minn., is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and took his M.A. at Yale. He and his wife, the former Winifred Marie Davis of Bay Shore, Long Island, N. Y., were married last December in New York. He en tered the Army soon after and was assigned/ to Fort Bragg in March. They lived for a time in one of the Barnum apartments over the bank, then in the “An tique Cottage” near the airport, moving to the Tate cottage in June. Mrs. Donaldson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Davis of Bay Shore, was a graduate of Pine Manor Junior College at WelleS ley. Mass. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at Bay Shore. OLD LANDMARK ((iontinuea from Page 1) through the body of the engineer, who, however, remained alive. While strong men turned their heads the young woman doctor seized a saw and sawed off the Stob fore and aft, then operated on the spot. The story would be even more dramatic if there were any record as to whether or not the patient survived, but none seems to be available. Dr. Johnson built an extra room at the right of the drug store entrance for her office. However, within %i year or two she was recalled to Philadelphia to become psychiatrist for the State of Pensylvania, remaining there for the rest of her life, which ended about six years ago after a most distinguished career. Classmate of Mrs. Way One of her classmates at medi cal college was another distin guished lady, who later gave up Maze’s Five and Ten, which plen ty of people still remember as the place of their childhood dreams. It was a glittering mecca es pecially during the Christmas season, when all the kids went there for Yuletide shopping, their nickels and dimes clutched tight in their fists. Various other small enterprises existed there until the depres sion, when the old place fell upon evil times and the Town took, it over for taxes. It was then the police station was moved in, and shortly afterward the Town rent ed space alongside, sharing the front porch, to the ABC store. This odd companionship, the source of many jokes among res idents and visitors in the resort community, continued almost 20 years. Just a few months ago it was found many repairs were needed if the old building was to stay in use. After long deliberation, the town council decided the repair job would cost more than it was her career to come to Southern worth. The ABC store moved to .a location a couple of blocks one way, the police station a couple of blocks the other way, to the town hall. A contract was let to have the building tom down, and the site will be used as a parking lot until a profitable SEde can be made. Pines and embark on a brand new one. This was Dr. Edith Waldie, later Mrs. W. A. Way, who with her husband founded the Carolina Orchid greenhouses and operated them for several years after Judge W!ay’s death. Famed all over North Carolina as the “Orchid Lady,” she died about a year and a half ago. After Dr. Johnson’s departure, about 1907, the late Dr. G. C. Herr rented the space, for a year or so. He was the Sandhills’ first dentist, and continued in active practice until his death last April. Housekeeper for Dr. Alice and Miss Sarah was a third sister. United States wheat plantings jumped from 53 million acres in 1942 to 78 million acres in 1947, as average prices climbed from $1.10 per bushel to $2.29. Homemakers in this country continued to purchase more but ter and cheese in May than in months prior to the reduction in Miss Mary. They all lived on the price supports on dairy products. NATIONAL GUARD (Continued from Faee 1) The local battery was formed in November, 1948, and was offi cially activated as an anti-aircraft unit in October, 1949. Armory Plans Of major interest, ki addition to the change-ovej: to tanks, is Captain Wilson’s statement that federal funds have been earmark ed for an armory at Southern Pines and that the General As sembly, in the session starting in January, is expected to appropri ate the additional state funds needed. It is expected that bids will be asked on the armory here soon after the state money is made available, Wilson said. A site for the armory is avail able where the National Guard Garage is now located near tlie old Southern Pines-Pinehurst road. second floor, and during the sum mers had occasional extra board- their young nephews J. Tal bot Johnson, now an Aberdeen attorney and president of the Moore County Bar, and Carson Seawell. The boys swept out, ran errands, and made themselves useful in other ways during their vacations fi'om school. Talbot re vealed unsuspected talents as a ‘"soda jerk,” < and, while the lady doctor and pharmacist were busy serving the ills of Southern Pines, the teen- age lad had a wonderful time fulfilling happier needs. Of those golden days, Mr. Johnson now recalls that the soda fountain was the “social center” during the long lazy afternoons. “Mrs. Claude Hayes would drop by for a root beer, Mrs. Dolph Ruggles would be along soon for a lemonade, pretty soon Claude Hayes would wander over from the bookstore, and they would chat, laugh and then stroll along to Captain Clark’s for a dizzy round of whist.” It was a halcyon time also for Talbot, who began mixing milk shakes that were “out of this world” for a cute .little black haired girl named Kitty HoleO'mb. He must have made quite an im pression, for some years later she married him, and they are living happily together at Aberdeen today. Store Located There During later years the frame 'building was occupied by C. A.i according to the USDA. Cucumber growers in North Carolina will have 17,000 acres of pickling cucumbers planted this year, compared with 16,900 last year. RetaO Price $2.10 Pints $3.35 FiMM 86 Proof t tBAioHr mason M1 MVIABS OB MOO OtB. 1 YOUNG WOMAN (Continued from Page 1) foot, and lost considerable blood. Mr. Berg and two other chil dren in the car had a bad shaking up but were otherwise uninjured, it was found at Moore County hospital, where all were taken. The Donaldson car was appar ently traveling at high speed, and entered the intersection without stopping, said city police who in vestigated the wreck. 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