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Wreck On Midland
Road Injures Two,
Demolishes Cars
War^nts For Arrest
Of Drivers Issued;
Hurl Persons Better
A 19-year-old Fort Bragg sol
dier, Walter Patnode, and a 13-
year-old boy, Charles Greer Sud-
dreth, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Suddretl\ of West End, Route 1,
were reported improving Thurs
day from injuries sustained in a
spectacular collision of two auto
mobiles at the intersection of Mid
land Road and Pee Dee Road
(Carthage highway) about 4 p.pn.,
Sunday.
In one of the most violent and
destructive crashes in the experi
ence of investigating officers, a
Pontiac driven west on Midland
Road by Patnode and a Chevrolet
driven north on Pee Dee Road by
Walter Tyner, 40, of We^t' End,
Route 1, with the Suddreth boy
as passenger, collided nearly in
the center of the road intersection,
according to the reports of Police
Chief C. E. Newton and Officer
Drake Rogers, who ' investigated
the accident, with the cooperation
of Highway Patrolman C. G.
Wimberly of Aberdeen.
The west side of Pee Dee Road
is the new city limits line since
annexation of the Knollwood area,
so the crash took place just inside
the town limits.
Both the injured persons were
thrown from the vehicles and
were taken to Moore County Hos
pital. Patnode was removed to
Fort Bragg hospital within a few
hours after examination had dis
closed a back injury. The Sud
dreth boy, whose right arm was
broken and who was cut about
the face, remained a patient at
the hospital this week.
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'NOW WHAT?'ASKS
WORRIED OFFICER
Officer Malcolm Stout, on
town hall steps with little lost
Bobby Browning wonders
what to do next, as Officer
Lamar Smith gives advice
from the doorway. It all end
ed happily with Bobby re
leased to the custody of his
thankful mother. S(*c story
page 5. (Photo V. Nicholson)
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Young Democrats
Of County Will
Gather Tonight
Mocre County Young Demo
crats will hold their annual meet
ing at the courthouse in Carth
age tonight (Friday) at 8 o’clock.
The date was advanced one week
so as not to conflict with the
Eighth District YDC rally of Fri
day, September 3, to be held at
the Southern Pines Country Club.
Officers will be elected at the
county meeting, also delegates to
the state convention, according
to the announcement by J, Doug
las David of Pinebluff, president
of the Moore County YDC. Mr.
David, who was appointed county
tax collector several months ago,
has announced that he is not
candidate for reelection.
The Eighth District rally next
week will bring together repre
sentatives of Young Democratic
clubs from Wilkes to Scotland
county. The gathering will start
with a social hour at 6:30, follow
ed by a supper after which the
“speaking program” and business
meeting wiU be held.
L. Y. “Stag” Ballentine, State
Commissioner of Agriculture, has
been secured as guest speaker, it
has been announced by Pat Tay
lor, chairman. Mr. Ballentine, who
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Wilson Assumes | Tobacco Markets
Suspend Sales To
Newly Authorized
Inspector’s Post
William J. Wilson of 540 E.
Ohio Ave. Ext. began work as
town building and safety inspec
tor Monday, following his ap
pointment to the post by City
Manager Tom E. Cunningham
last week.
The appointment was author
ized by the town council at this
month’s meeting and looks to
ward combining in the job sever
al duties hitherto performed sep
arately, with a view to saving
the town money in the future.
While holding the title of build
ing and safety inspector, Mr. Wil
son will also, it is planned, as
sume the duties of plumbing and
zoning inspector and wiU, when
properly qualified and licensed,
do engineering and land survey
ing jobs previously let out on pri
vate contract. Mr. Wilson has had
five years of experience with
Paul Van Camp, local consult
ing engineer, who has handled
much engineering work for the
town.
A graduate of Southern Pines
High School, Mr. Wilson attend
ed State College, Raleigh, for two
(Continued on Page 8)
Mills Attending
School At Duke
Local YDC Meeting
Thursday Evening
^ Southern Pines Young Demo
crats were to meet at town hall
Thursday at 8 p.m., for annual
election of officers and other bus
iness, it was announced this week
by W. Lament Brown, president
of the organization.
Ralph MiUs, superintendent of
the Southern Pines water purifi
cation plant, this week is attend
ing the 1954 Water Works School
of the N. C. Water Works Opera
tors Association, conducted by the
department of civil engineering at
Duke University, Durham.
Cooperating in the school are
the North Carolina section of the
American Water Works Associa
tion, the N. C. League of Munici
palities and the N. C. State Board
of Health.
Mr. Mills was vice-chairman of
the N. C. Water Works Operators
Association in 1952 and is on the
nominating committee for this
year’s meeting.
Tuesday, Aug. 31
Tobacco markets at Aberdeen
and Carthage, along with three
other markets of the Sandhills
Warehouse association at Sanford,
Fuquay-Varina and EUerbe, have
suspended sales until Tuesday of
next week, pending arrival of full
sets of buyers.
Decision to close tne markets
was made at a meeting of ware
housemen in the association, held
at Sanford Wednesday. All five
markets were represented. W. W.
Staton of Sanford, attorney for
the Sandhills Association, said the
decision to suspend sales was tak
en to assure tobacco farmers of
full buying power when they of
fer their crop for sale on the five
Sandhills marts.
All five of the SandhiUs mar
kets opened Monday, but without
a full complement of buyers and
largely without any buyers from
the major companies.
Operators of all three Aberdeen
warehouses and two sf the three
warehouses at Carthage bought
the tobacco on their floors when
buyers failed to show up. Prices
were higher than last year’s open
ing day.
According to the reports of the
Federal-State Market News Serv
ice, Monday’s sales on the five
Sandhills markets totaled 802,376
pounds at an average of $56.89
(Continued on Page 5)
Lights Ordered
As Rotary, Elks
Boost Campaign
Civic Club Members
To Sell Tickets For
Homecoming Contest
'The community’s effort to build
up a fund to Light the Southern
Pines athletic field reached a cli
max Monday when the order was
placed for most of the equipment,
and a $2,000 down payment was
made.
Ordered for approximately $5,-
300 from the Graybar Electric
Corp. of Durham were the lights,
fixtures and all hardware for a
120-light installation adequate for
all three sports—football, softball
and baseball. Three rebuilt trans
formers were also ordered.
The order includes everything
that will be needed for the instal
lation except the poles, said W. B.
Holliday, general chairman of the
communitywide campaign.
The complete set of 120 fix
tures and bulbs for the ath
letic field lighting project ar
rived in Southern Pines
Thursday morning, reports
Chairman Holliday. Quick
delivery will speed comple
tion of the project, he said.
The move, deciding the question
of whether or not the lights will
go up, was made possible not only
by collections and pledges in the
recent fund drive, but by a $2,000
fund held in waiting by the Fllrc
Club, and an action taken Friday
by the Southern Pines Rotary
Club.
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Lions Broom Sale
Will Help Blind
, Members of the Southern
Pines Lions Club will conduct a
house-to-house broom sale here,
starting the evening of Tuesday,
September 7 and running through
Saturday, September 11, it was
announced by club officials this
week.
Made in a factory at Greens
boro where only bhnd workers
are employed, the brooms are
sold throughout the state by al7
most every Lions Club. Several
types of household and industrial
brooms are available. Proceeds
from the sale go to help finance
local assistance to the blind by
the Southern Pines Club.
This assistance includes sight
conservation, as well as actual
aid to the blind. The public was
reminded this week that a free
eye clinic will be conducted at
the health center in Carthage
Monday. Persons attending such
clinics, whose eyes are found to
need glasses, often are given
glasses by Lions Clubs in the area
where they live. The clinic exam
ination is free, but there are no
public funds available for pur
chase of glasses, except in cer
tain cases receiving welfare de
partment aid.
AUDREY WEST BROWN
Miss Brown Takes
Singles Title In
Sai|[lliill Tourney
Kennedy Gives Connty
Schools $8,359 More
In Fnnd Controversy
Either Side
The sixth annual Sandhill In
vitational wound up Sunday af
ternoon, with finals events pre
senting the cream of the Caro
lines’ talent in some of the best
tennis of their careers.
Though the men’s singles
events, bringing two notable
champions together, might have
been the chief gallery attraction,
Audrey West Brown, in her wom
en’s singles victory over Sara
Rush ton Walters of Charlotte,
thrilled the crowd with what one
fan c6Qled “the best game ever
seen on local courts.”
“Nearly perfect,” was the term
experts apphed to the form and
dexterity displayed by the sUm
Southern Pines girl, as she staged
fast, hard-driving campaign
against her famed opponent.
Mrs. Walters used all the skill
which made her South Carolina
Closed champion for nine years,
open champion for five yecirs and
has recently won her the Caro-
linas cham'pionship at Charlotte.
However, it was Miss Brown’s
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LIFEGUARD FOR
LAKE EXPECTED
Arrangements were being made
Thursday by the Southern Pines
recreation commission to obtain
lifeguard service at the town lake
from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and
Sunday and also during the same
hours Wednesday of next week.
Regular lifeguard protection,
with Jhnmy Menzel as guard,
was provided under the summer
recreation program which ended
August 20. Commission members
said Thursday that a guard had
not been obtained at that time,
but that there was good prospect
of having a guard on duty at the
hours and days listed above.
May Appeal
His Decision
Dr. Timmons To
Resume Pulpit
The Rev. Dr. W. C. Timmons
will resume his pulpit at the
Church of Wide Fellowship (Con
gregational Christian) Sunday
morning, following his return to
Southern Pines this week from "a
summer leave of absence that in
cluded attending the World Coun
cil of Churches at Evanston, Ill.
With Sunday’s service, the
church will resume its regular
schedule of Sunday School at 9:45
a.m. and worship service at 11
a.m. Dr. Timmons’ sermon topic
will be “What the Christian Sees.”
Music will be under the direction
of Mrs. Jean Olive Wood, with
Mrs. L. D. McDonald, organist.
During the absence of Dr. Tim
mons, the pulpit was filled by the
Rev. Dr. WilhcUn H. Hill who has
now returned to Rutherfordton.
30 Start Football Drills For Blue Knights
iHli
1954 Football Schedule
Southern Pines High School
Sent. 10—Maxton at Maxton (night)
Sept. 17—West End at Southern Pines (afternoon)
Sept. 24—^Rowland at Rowland (night)
Oct. 1—Red Springs at Red Springs (night) ,
Oct. 8—Robbins at Southern Pines (night) (Homecoming)
Oct. 15—Aberdeen at Aberdeen (night)
Oct. 22—Carthage at Southern Pines (night)
Oct. 29—Pinehurst at Southern Pines (night)
Emergeucy Polio
Drive Uuderway
In Moore County
Contributions in the nation
wide emergency March of Dimes
should be sent to the community
Mairmen of the regular March of
Dimes drive throughout the coun
ty last winter, it was stressed this
week by Paul C. Butler of South
ern Pines, chairman of the Moore
County Chapter of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis.
These chairmen are:
Aberdeen, W. H. McNeill, Jr.,
Carthage, Miss Bessie McCaskill’
Roseland, Mrs. Clayton Kirki
Vass, Monroe Chappell; Glendon,
Mrs. June Harrington; West-
mcore, Howard Kennedy; Farm'
Life, T. H. Lingerfeldt; Cameron,
Mrs. Pete Phillips; Eqgle Springs,
Mrs. Arthur Williams; Hallison,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Poe.
Highfalls, Thurman K. Holmes;
Jackson Springs, Mrs. F. W. Bru
ton; Lakeview, Mrs. Louis Bel-
Jett; Manly, Mrs. Frank Wilson;
Niagara, Mrs. Gurney Bowles'
Pinebluff, Mrs. Phillip Matherj
Robbins, Miss Sallie Greene Al
lison; Southern Pines, Paul C
Butler; West End, J. F. Sinclair;
Pmehdrst, J. Frank McCaskill.
The Moore County campaign
is part of a nation-wide drive for
$20,000,000 to meet immediate
needs in the Foundation’s pro
gram of patient care, gamma glo
bulin and polio vaccine tests
Contributions last winter fell
some $20,000,000 short of the
needs for 1954.
In his recent appeal to North
Carolina citizens to support the
drive. Gov. William B. Umstead
pointed out that “the cost of care
has risen higher than ever before.
At this time when victory seems
so much nearer through a vac
cine that would provide more
lasting immnuity, we must give
generously to develop more rap
idly dependable control over this
crippling and costly disease.”
Acting as statuatory arbitrator
in the controversy over county
school capital outlay funds. Clerk
of-Court Carlton C. Kennedy
handed do-wn a decision Monday,
awarding to the board of educa
tion $8,359.50 more than the
$269,000 the county commission
ers had approved in the capital
outlay budget.
The increase in funds, which
the decision said appeared to be
all that was necessary to comply
with statutes covering the mat
ter, was only a small part of
what the board of education had
asked for.
The board of education had
asked for $422,471.43 to be used
in construction of school plant
buildings and' major repairs, and
alterations to such buildings in
the nine school districts of the
county system.
The board of commissioners,
who allot school funds along with
other funds in the county budget,
allowed the board of education
$269,000. This was rejected by
the board of education and the
matter, after two joint meetings
of the boards and a hearing be
fore Mr. Kennedy in the couit-
room at Carthage Saturday, went
to the clerk of court for arbitra
tion.
By Thursday, there was no in
dication of whether the two
boards will accept the clerk’s de
cision. Either side in the contro
versy has 30 days from the date
of the decision to appeal to Su
perior Court. It could go to a
judge or could, if requested, be
heard by a jury.
Mr. Kennedy was aided in his
study of the controversy and in
drawing up his decision by At
torney Jim Hoyle of Sanford who
volunteered his services.
The decision lists 10 findings
of fact and orders the modifica
tion of the $269,000 capital out
lay budget by an increase of $8,-
359.50 for additional allowed
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Eighth District
Democrats Will
Rally At Sanford
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
Schools of the county system,
which include all schools in the
county except those at Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, wiU open
Wednesday, September 1, Supt. H.
Lee Thomas pointed out this
week. The Southern Pines schools
are scheduled to open Sept. 8.
The 8th Congressional District’s
Democratic rally has been set at
the Lee County courthouse, San
ford, October 8, by John Larkin
of Trenton, chairman of the State
Democratic executive committee.
Prehminary announcement of
the rally did not set the hour o5
the meeting, but such rallies are
usually held in the afternoon. W.
Lamont Brown of Southern Pines,
chairman of the Moore County
Democratic executive committee,
urged Democrats of this county
to plan to attend.
Nominees for state Democratic
offices in the November election
are expected at the Sanford rally,
along with high party leaders
from the state and district.
Head Coach Irie Leonard Leads Squad In Exercises On Firsl Day
There is no frost on the
punkin’ yet, but there is a better
harbinger of coming autumn than
yellowing pumpkins, coloring
leaves, and a blue haze on the
hills. That harbinger is the boom
of pigskin as a clever toe powered
by a husky leg thuds into a foot
ball which is sent spiralling into
the air.
This and more is going on out
at High School Memorial Field
as coaches Irie and W. A. Leon
ard run their charges through
twice a day football drills.
No time was lost or wasted as
the largest squad in the history
of local high school football re
ported early Monday morning for
the first fall practice. Thirty boys
greeted their coaches; thirty prac
tice uniforms were issued, and
after a varied round of calisthen
ics, helmets were put on and
offensive blocking and defensive
tackling was begun. In the after
noon plays were run in slow mo
tion to familiarize newcomers as
well as regulars with their as
signments.
There is an air of urgency
about the way the coaches and
squad go about their work. That
urgency springs from the fact
that the opening game with Max-
ton High at Maxton Spetember
10 is only a little over two weeks
away.
Not too much is known about
this Maxton team. They were no
pushovers last year, and reports
are they are better this year. If
that is so, the Blue Knights are
going to have a busy time under
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Mrs. Nicholson’s Pilot Features About
Typhoid Carrier Set For Radio Show
A telephone call from New
York City Thursday morning no
tified Valerie Nicholson, former
Pilot news editor, that one of her
Pilot stories liad been accepted
for dramatization on the NBC
network program. “The Big
Story.”
The story is that of the 'ty
phoid carrier, termed “Moore
County’s unsung hero,” of whom
Mrs. Nicholson wrote in a feeries
of articles in 1949. The story at
tracted the attention of Moore
County Hospital authorities and
led to an operation which restor
ed the man to society after many
years’ voluntary isolation.
Mrs. Nicholson was informed
by the agency handling the pro
gram that her story would be
presented on radio September 29,
ifoUowing a summer recess for
“The Big Story.” She will then
receive a. check for $500, and
The Pilot will receive an honor
plaque. The script will then be
returned to the files, for later
consideration for a TV presenta
tion, and an additional $100
check.
This will be the second story
by a North Carolina news writer
to be dramatized on the program.
Charles T. Manning of Troy, a
correspondent for state dailies,
had a script accepted a year or
so ago which was presented on
both radio and TV.
Mrs. Nicholson, still living in
Southern Pines, has been a free
lance newswriter and photogra
pher for the past 13 months, serv
ing several newspapers in the
state, including The Pilot.