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Fifty-Two Arrested Over Weekend
On Charges Of Petty Bootlegging
TWENTY PAGES
Almost $11,000 Is
Collected In Bond;
Trials Start Today
Trials for 52 men and women,
arrested last weekend for viola
tion of the prohibition laws, got
underway in the special session
of Recorder’s Court called this
morning.
The defendants were arrested
in a nine-hour period late Friday
night and Saturday morning by
Moore County ABC officers,
members of the sheriff’s depart
ment, state and federal agents,
and members of the police de
partments in Carthage, Southern
Pines, Pinehurst, Cameron, and
Aberdeen.
All the arrests were made for
“petty bootlegging,’’ according to
C. A. ^cCallum, chief ABC offi
cer in the county, who directed
the roundup. “So far as I can re
niember,” he said, “it was the
biggest roundup we’ve ever had
in the county for bootlegging. It
vfras well planned and we had
spent many hours getting suffi
cient evidence to make cases in
court.”
Only small amounts of liquor
were seized during the roundup,
mostly pints of whiskey, some
tax paid and some not. A small
quantity of beer was also seized.
Only trial that the Pilot had
learned of at noon today was that
of John Henry Stubbs and his
wife Aimie, both charged with
bootlegging. Stubbs, who is under
suspended sentence for other
similar offenses, received a total
of 15 months on the roads; his
wife was sentenced to six months
in Central Prison, women’s divi
sion.
All those arrested were Ne
groes except one, Mrs. Sadie
Frye, proprietor of the Pine Val
ley Club between Southern Pines
and Pinehurst
All were carried to Carthage
and given preliminary hearings
before a Justice of the Peace.
Each was allowed bond.
Here is a list of all those ar
rested, together with the amount
of each bond:
Addor Davis, Aberdeen, $200’,'
Jeff Jackson and wife, Tressie
Mae, Southern Pines, both $200;
Lee James Holt, Southern Pines’
$100; Wallace Douglas, Southern
Pine^ $400; John D. Person, Car
thage, $200; Bernice McCaU, Aber
deen, cited.
Don Alston and wife. Charity
Mae, Carthage, both $200; Sarah
Taylor, Aberdeen, $200; Charles
Williams, Carthage, $200; Myrtle
Cole, Aberdeen, $100; Alphus
Stubbs and wife, Clara Jane, Car
thage, both $200; Tom Lowe, Jr.,
Carthage, $100.
Martin Williams, Pinehurst,
$200; John Jeter, Jr., Cameron,
$200; Richard Hicks, Carthage,
$300; Sam Taylor, Carthage, $200;
Frank Goins, Southern Pines,
$100; Mrs. Sadie Frye, Pine Valley
Club between Southern Pines and
Pinehurst, $200.
Jessie Glover Williams, Pine
hurst, $200; Mrs. Clarence Good
win, Southern Pines, $75; Henry
Threadgill and wile, Rodie, South
ern Pines, $100 each; Whit Hines,
Southern Pines, $200; Jerry Bo
gan, Pinehurst, $200; Tonzle Akins
and wife Ruth, Aberdeen, both
$300; Walter “Buddy” Rieves, Ab
erdeen, $300; Flossie Murphy, Ab
erdeen, $400.
Bessie Prescott, Aberdeen, $400;
John Henry Marks ($750), and
wile Annie, Aberdeen, $200; Earl
Kelly, Carthage, $200; Jim Hus
sey, Carthage, $200; Letha Rowan
Harris, Carthage, $200; Grace
King McArthur, Sopthem Pines,
$400; Easter McNeill, Southern
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PRICE TEN CENTS
ADULT SOFTBALL got off to a good start
Tuesday night when Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jen
kins, commandant of the US Air Force Air-
Ground Operations School here, tossed out the
first ball. Looking on are Mayor Voit Gilmore,
left, and Gen. Pearson Menoher, who with Carl
Holt is co-commissioner of the league. Holt was
Zoning Of US 1 Bypass
Draws Heated Remarks
During Council Meeting
'Davis Charges
Council With
unable to attend the opening day ceremonies,
which attracted about 400 people. The softball
league, which has seven teams, is a part of the
summer adult recreation program in Southern
Pines. It will continue throughout the summer.
(Photo by Humphrey)
Insect Spraying
Project Underway
With State Heads
Robbins Student
Must Face Trial
On Rape Charges
Precinct Study
Conimittee To
Meet June 26
A meeting of the study com-
mitte of the Southern Pines pre
cinct will be held at 8 p. m. ’Tues
day, June 26, at the library.
The committee has been study
ing the problem of whether or
not to divide Southern Pines into
two precincts as a step in allevia
ting problems that now exist in
voting procedures.
Members of the committee are
Mrs. Graham Culbreth, Holly
Faison, W. Lament Brown, Ward
Hill and Voit Gilmore.
Heads poked out of doors. Win
dows slammed. Dozens of people
came out on the porch and asked
their neighbors: What’s happen
ing?
It was the “fogging” machine
busily making the rounds of town
streets in first efforts to rid the
area of bugs.
In the middle of the Town
Council meeting Tuesday night
Bill Wilson, who is in charge of
the spraying crew, made a tenta
tive report to the council: “We’ve
got the thing started, she’s run
ning fine and I think we’ll be
O.K.”
That was it.
The machine sounds like a bull
dozer to some people. Others
haven’t made up their minds just
what it does sound like.
It emits a tremendous spray, or
jet, of insect killer that hovers for
a few minutes, then fades with
the wind.
Tom Cunningham, town man
ager, said the crews would make
a complete spraying of the town
every other week throughout the
summer. A complete spraying
operation will take about eight to
ten hours to complete, he said.
He reminded worried residents
that the spray is harmless to hu
mans and animals.
Accident Victim Unconscious
Mrs. Hubert Michael, 47, who
was critically injured in an auto
mobile accident at an intersection
in Pinehxzrst Saturday night, was
reported slightly improved this
morning, though still uncon
scious.
She is at Moore County Hospi
tal stiffering severe gashes on the
forehead as the result of a colli
sion at the intersection of NC 211
and the Murdocksville Road about
8:45 p.m. Saturday.
Hoover Benymon, a 26-year-old
Negro of Addor, was arrested and
placed under $1,000 bond on
charges of reckless driving grow
ing out of the accident. Benymon,
who has a record of traffic viola
tions, has denied being the driver
of the car that crashed into Mrs.
Michael’s, although a passenger in
his car said that Benymon was
the driver.
Injured along with Mrs. Michael
were her husband and hine-year-
old son, both suffering from slight
injuries though not hospitalized.
According to State Highway Pa
trolman R. R. Samuels, who in
vestigated, Benymon stated he
had loaned his car to a soldier,
Raymond McMillan, stationed at
Fort Bragg. McMiUan at first told
Samuels he was driving but later
changed his stbiy and said that
Benymon jiad asked him to teU
the story to officers because he
(Benymon) had been arrested be
fore for traffic violations and
didn’t want to be caught again.
Benymon was tried in Moore
Recorder’s Court Monday on a
speeding violation, was found
guilty, and fined $25 and costs.
At first Benymon told the offi
cers he not only was not driving
but was not even in the car. He
later said he was following in an
other car and did see the accident.
He denied having requested
McMillan to take the blame for
the accident. Late Saturday night
he showed up at the hospital and
told Patrolman Samuels that he
had heard the officers were look
ing for him.
There were no witnesses to the
accident, but several people came
along shortly after it happened,
including Chief of Police Bob
Yates of Aberdeen.
Samuels said his investigation
showed that Benymon’s car, pro
ceeding South on the Murdocks
ville Road, failed to stop at the in
tersection with NC 211 and smack
ed into the Michael car, heading
toward West End.
The crash completely demolish
ed both cars. McMillan suffered
cuts and bruises and was confined
to the hospital Saturday night.
Jack Key, a 22-year-old junior
at N. C. State College, was re
turned to the Moce County jail
Saturday mom.nt, after Judge W.
A. Leland McKeithen found
probable cause against him on
charges of raping and assaulting
Martha Sue Robinson, a third-
grade teacher at Biscoe.
Key, who lives with his moth
er in Robbins, was not allowed
bond on the capital charges and
must await grand jury action in
August.
The next term of Superior
Court begins August 8.
Key, a major in civil engineer
ing at State College, was charged
with raping Miss Robinson, 20,
the night of May 26 near Robbins.
He was taken into custody on a
warrant sworn out by Miss Rob
inson’s father, Herbert Robinson,
the day following the alleged at
tack and has been in Moore
County jail since. He denied the
charges when he was arrested.
At the hearing Saturday morn
ing, which took place before
about 150 people in the courtroom
at Carthage, Key did not take
the stand. His lawyer, Herbert
SeaweU, said that anything Miss
Robinson said would be refuted.
He was unsuccessful in getting
Key free on bail pending grand
jury action.
Miss Robinson was on the
stand about an hour teUing her
story of what happened follow
ing a date with Key May 26. She
said, under questioning from her
lawyer. Garland Garris of Troy,
that she had dated Key three
times in her life, though she had
known him since he played base
ball in Biscoe during her years as
a high school student there.
Just last month, she said, she
had been his guest at a Sigma
Chi fraternity dance at the Ra
leigh school. On that occasion,
she was “'shocked and amaze(I.”
to learn that he expected her to
spend the night with him at a
motor court on the outskirts of
Raleigh. She refused, she said,
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Salute By Town
To USAFAGOS Is
Scheduled Friday
f
'The “town salute” to officers at
the US Air Force Air-Ground
Operations School here will be
held tomorrow (Friday) night at
the Southern Pines Country Club,
according to W. B. “Chick” Hol
liday, who has been in charge of
a committee planning the event.
More than 140 people will be
on hand for the salute, Holliday
said, which begins at 7 p. m.
The salute is part of an effort
to indicate its appreciation to the
men at the school for taking part
in community activities since the
school was located here several
years ago.
So far, a committee appointed
by Mayor Voit Gilmore and
sponsored jointly by the town
and the Chamber of Commerce,
has contacted about 30 business
and professional men. Each man
and his wife will be assigned an
officer and his wife and will be
their hosts for the evening.
A party and dinner is planned.
Workng with Holliday on the
committee are Joe Scott, Jim
Baird, 'W!. Lament Brown and
Jean Edson.
Jaycee Group To
Meet Here Tonight
Cancer Campaign
Ends This Month
still $527 short of its goal of
$3,100, the annual drive for can
cer funds in Moore County will
continue through the remainder of
June, it was announced this morn
ing by Dr. W. F. Niool of Carthage,
chairman.
Returns, which for the most
part are complete, show that
$2,673 has been raised to date. Dr.
Nicol said. He urged anyone
wishing to contribute to do so this
month.
WO.
Interest is running high in the
plans to establish a Junior Cham
ber of Commerce here, Jim Baird,
who is acting as organizing chair
man, said this morning.
‘We expect to have at least 50
people, all of whom have shown a
very definite interest in such a
club, at the meeting tonight,” he
said.
The meeting, which will be held
in the library of the high school,
will begin at 8 o’clock. State Jay
cee officials, John Goode of Win
ston-Salem, national director.
Tuck Gudger, Charlotte, district
vice-president, and Charles Briley,
also of Charlotte, a national direc
tor, will be on hand to help with
the organizing and lend encour
agement.
Baird said the response to a let
ter he had sent out to prospective
members and others who might be
interested had been nothing short
of “sensational.”
Basic requirement for member
ship in the club is that a member
must be between the ages of 21
and 36.
Tonight’s meeting grew out of
an earlier meeting two weeks ago
in Aberdeen which was attended
by several prospective members
from Southern Pines and state of
ficials.
Baird said that anyone interest
ed in attending would be certain
ly welcome.
HOT WEATHER
Though it will come as no
surprise to sweltering Pilot
readers, it's been hot . . .
mighty hot.
The readings for the past
four days have been over 90
but, according to weather
forecasts, there is some relief
in sight.
According to official U. S.
Weather Bureau records
maintained by radio station
WEEB, high temperatures for
the past four days have been;
Sunday, 92; Monday, 93;
Tuesday and Wednesday, 91.
If it's any consolation,
thunderstorms and showers ..
cooling ones .. were expected
late today or tonight.
Planning Board
Chairman Tells
Of Plans To Date
Don Case,, chairman of the
town’s planning board, was not at
the Town Council meeting Tues
day night when the heated discus
sion over zoning on the new by
pass took place.
Reached by telephone Thursday
morning he said he had heard, in
formally, of the meeting.
“The planning board has spent
many hours of conscientious de
liberations on the zoning prob
lems that the new by-pass pre
sents,” he said, “and, as of right
now. We have no recommenda
tions to make to the Town Coun
cil other than we feel it is best to
wait for more work to be done on
the by-pass before any concrete
zoning proposals are made.
“The first and fundamental
thought in all our deliberations,
and they have been many, I as
sure you, is that the general ap
pearance of the by-pass will have
a tremendous bearing on how the
traveling public will see Southern
Pines. We have met with experts
and all sorts of people, sampling
opinions, gathering data, taking
trips to other towns and waiting
on the .state to finish a little more
of its work.
“I don’t feel, and the planning
board concurs with me, that we
should do any zoning right now
when we don’t know just what
the land will look like. To zone
now, in view of the fact that the
by-pass is not nearly completed,
or even showing signs of comple
tion, would be ‘zoning in the
dark’.”
Case said that Some people had
expressed the opinion that there
should be no business on’ the by
pass and that it should be devel
oped as a parkway from one end
of town to the other.
' l4o one, he said, with the excep
tion of Davis, has come up with a
concrete proposal for zoning,
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Slow Decision
Southern Pines Recreation Program
JUNE 15 - AUGUST 15
Sites: Town Park, Memorial Field, Southern Pines H. S. Gym,
Aberdeen Lake
Our recreation program this year will be centralized in the Town
Park and the boys and girls will be separated this year into two
groups. Group 1 will be composed of boys and girls from ages of 4-6
years, and Group 2 will be composed of boys and girls 7-10 years of
, age. Older boys and girls will be handled separately.
PROGRAM (
Monday—
9:30-10:30—Group 1 at Town Park. Supervised play period with
group games and individual games.
9:30-10:30—Group 2 at Town Park. Supervised play period with
group games and individual games.
10:30-12:00—Group 1 at Town Park. Story hour.
10:30-12:00—Group 2 at Town Park. Tennis, croquet, badminton, etc.
2:00- 3:30—Group 1 at Town Park. Supervised play period with
group games and individual games.
2:00- 3:30—Group 2 at Town Park. Handicrafts, dramatics, group
games.
3:30- 4:30—Group 2. Skating party under supervision.
5:00- 7:00—^Little Tar Heel League baseball at Memorial Field.
(Boys 8-12)
Tuesday—
9:30-12:00—Group 1 at Town Park. Handicrafts, dramatics, group
games.
9:30-12:00—Group 2 at Town Park. Supervised group and individual
games.
10:00-12:00—Baseball, softball, and football for boys and girls at Me
morial Field. Ages 12-17.
2:00- 4:30—Supervised swimming parties at Aberdeen Lake. Only
s, boys and girls from ages 7-16 will be taken. The activi
ty bus will meet thq boys and girls at the Town Park
at 2:00 P. M.
5:00- 7:00—Pony League baseball at Memorial Field. (Boys 12-15).
7:15-10:30—Adult softbaU league at Memorial Field for adults only.
'Wednesday—Same as Monday schedule.
Thursday—Same as Tuesday schedule.
Friday— »
9:30-10:30—Hiking and supervised group games for Group 1 at Town
Park.
9:30-12:00—Group 2 wiU meet at the Town Park and will go to the
High School gymnasium for basketball and volleyball.
2:00- 4:30—Supervised play periods for groups 1 and 2 at the Town
Park.
Parents bringing their children to the Town Park be sure and
leave their children in the hands of Miss Kay Davis or Miss Joan
Howarth or Mr. Irie Leonard. One or aU three wiU be on duty.
Parents are asked to please bring their children on time and to
pick them up on time.
In what one observer later des
cribed as the hottest session of
the Town Council ever held, W.
P. Davis, large property owner
along the new US Highway 1
bypass, accused the council Tues
day night of ‘"dragging out” its
final decision on zoning regula
tions for the bypass.
He charged the Council with
failing to give him any sort of
answer after 18 months of wait
ing in which he had repeatedly
made requests to know just
where the matter stood.
Mai^or Gilmore, who was ob
viously indignant at the charges,
said that Davis was using “pres
sure tactics of the highest order”
in trying to get the Council to ar
rive at a decision. ‘Tt is my feel
ing that the planning board,
charged with proper zoning of
the bypass, wants to wait until
the project is nearer completion
before deciding on just what type
zoning will be best for Southern
Pines in the long run,” he said,
“and I go along with that feel
ing.”
Davis, who was accompanied
by his wife at the meeting, said
he wasn’t happy with the road
when it was learned 18 months
ago that such a bypass would be
built. “Since then I have made
request after request to find out
just what’s happening. You gen
tlemen have not given me any
satisfaction at all. I didn’t know
where I stood then and I don’t
know now,” he said.
Davis said that a zoning pro
posal made by the planning
board about five months ago,
which called for commercial use
of the land along the bypass from
the Souther!) limits of town to
Vermont Avenue, was alright
with him. “That proposal, which
to me represented the feeling of
the planning board, was publish
ed in the paper and people who
objected or otherwise wanted to
be heard were invited to a pub
lic hearing on the matter. I let
the council know then that I
wanted part of my property,
which stops before the limits des
cribed in the proposal, zoned for
business. As soon as I made that
request the whole thing was
dropped.
“IVas it dropped because I also
wanted to get property zoned for
business?” he asked.
Council denied that his zoning
requests had anything to do with
dropping the proposal. Gilmore
polled the membership and each
said it was his impression that
the planning board had decided
to wait until more work was done
before doing any zoning, and that
it was the planning board’s deci
sion alone.
Davis countered with the
charge that it “appeared” like a
stacked deck against him.
It was brought out at the meet
ing that the planning board, com
posed of Chairman .Don Case,
Ralph Chandler, Jr., Gen. Julian
F. Barnes, Mrs. Katherine Mc-
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CHANGES AT PILOT
Two changes in staff assign
ments at The Pilot are an
nounced today by Mrs. James
Boyd, editor and publisher.
Cad Benedict, who has been
news 'editor since July, 1953,
is now associate editor, work
ing primarily with the edi
torial page. He will be in the
office only on Mondays.
Vance Derby, who has been
assistant news editor since he
joined The Pilot in January,
becomes news editor. Infor
mation for news or feature
stories should be sent or
phoned to him.
Mr. Benedict said he had
asked that his duties at The
Pilot be reduced so that he
can give more time to a free
lance writing project. He ex
pects to contribute occasional
features or special stories to
The Pilot, in addition to his
regular work with the edito
rial page.