Stevenson Strength Mounting
Governor Adlai Stevenson,
frontrunning candidate for the
Democratic nomination for
the presidency, has apparent
ly lined up enough delegates
for nomination on the first
ballot, according to an Asso
ciated Press survey made at
noon today. The survey indi
cated that Stevenson, a fre
quent visitor to Southern
Pines, has at least three more
than the required 686% dele
gate votes to assure him the
nomination on the first ballot.
Senator John Kennedy, a
leading contender for the vice
presidential nomination, will
place Mr. Stevenson’s name in
nomination tonight. Governor
Luther Hodges has told
friends in Raleigh that he will
be one of the people to second
the nomination. The Associ
ated Press survey broke down
North Carolina’s delegation in
the following manner: Stev
enson, 29%; Harriman, 1%;
and Symington, Vz. The rest
are uncommitted.
MR. STEVENSON
Southern Pines Sehools To Open
September 5: Teachers Listed
Southern Pines schools will
open September 5, it was an
nounced today by A. C. Dawson,
superintendent.
On that day, which is a Wed
nesday, and the next, classes will
meet only from 9 a. m. to 12, Mr.
Dawson said, primarily for regis
tration and issuing books.
Starting Friday the schools will
be on a full-time basis.
Mr. Dawson announced that a
number of new teachers would be
' on the faculty this year.
Miss Carolyn Chester, first
grade teacher, who has been on
a year’s leave of absence in Ger
many, will be back. She has been
teaching in the schools maintain
ed in Germany by the U. S. gov
ernment for children of armed
forces personnel.
Mrs. George Willcox, who
taught the second grade part of
last year, will be here on a per
manent basis.
Mrs.. Jane McPhaul, a graduate
of Flora Macdonald College, will
teach the sixth grade. She is a
native of Fayetteville and a for
mer teacher in the Benson School
system.
Miss Sally Cowles, a graduate
of the University of North Caro
lina, will replace Mrs. Neva
Campbell as librarian. This is
Miss Cowles’.first position since
graduating from the university.
Miss Mary Logan, who has
been supervisor of the Moore
County schools, will join the
Southern Pines faculty as super
visor and will teach music and
instruction.
In the high school, Mrs. Joan
Ripple, a graduate of Penn State
University, will teach English
and Spanish. She replaces Mi's.
Julia Ann McCracken. Kenneth
Miller, a Duke graduate in June,
will teach English and Social
Studies. He is from Raeford
where his father is a Methodist
minister.
One new position has been add
ed, Dawson said. Mrs. Jean Jen
kins of Pinehurst will become the
third teacher in the fourth grade.
Mr. Dawson said that only one
position has. not heen filled to
date—that of an additional teach-
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Polio Clinics
Are Scheduled
Polio clinics are being held in a
number of places throughout the
county* under the direction of the
Moore County Health Depart
ment.
Two weeks ago The Pilot was
informed by the health depart
ment that no clinics had been
planned for the coiinty and print
ed a story to that effect. It was
learned last week that a number
of clinics were being held, with
nurses from the health depart
ment administering the shots.
The only clinic in Southern
Pines is being held on Wednes
days from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in West
Southern Pines.
Other clinics are being held in
Aberdeen on Mondays from 2 to
4 p.m., Cameron, Mondays, 2 to 4
p.m.; Pinehurst, Wednesdays from
2 to 4 p.m. and Robbins on Thurs
days from 2 to 4 p.m.
Children and young people be
tween the ages of one and 19 are
eligible for free polio shots as are
pregnant mothers.
The Moore County Medical So
ciety, of which Dr. Morris Caddell
of Aberdeen is president, is coop
erating in the clinics and urging
patients to attend them.
There is plenty of vaccine on
hand, according to officials in the
health department.
Annual Sandhill
Tennis Tourney
Is Now Underway
Umstaedier,
Daniel Loom
As Finalists
Bill Umsteadter of Abbeville,
S. C., has been top seeded in the’
Sandhill Invitational Tennis
Tournament, which got under
way yesterday on the local courts.
Umsteadter, three-time winner
of the tournament, will face his
old nemesis, Sam Daniel of Gas
tonia, probably at some stage in
the tournament unless big upsets
are in the making.
Daniel is seeded No. 2.
In both 1954 and 1955 the sane
tioned tournament of the Sand
hill Tennis Association has ended
with the two Palmetto natives
matched in superh finals, with
Umsteadter winning both times.
This year the chance of an up
set of the champ is seen not only
in the presence of the determined
Daniel but in several new and
promising elements on the long
entry list.
Seedings were announced by
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., as fol
lows: Umsteadter, No. 1; Daniel,
No. 2; Don Thompson, New York
City, currently seeded No. 1 at
the University of North Carolina,
No. 3; Ken Wagstaff, U. S. Army,
No. 4; Bob Farrell, also of the
Army, No. 5; Jerry Robinson, Ra
leigh, No. 6; Jack Womrath,
Greensboro, No. 7; and Billy
Weathers, Charlotte, No. 8.
Wagstaff and Farrell, tempor
arily at Fort Bragg, have entered
with high I recommendations that
they are ‘‘equally as good as the
famous Keesler brothers of Char
lotte and Davidson.”
Robinson and Weathers are
old-timers here. Womrath a new
comer, will play doubles with
Daniel.
On the women’s side it’s a
wide-open field as Evelyn Cow
an, Covington, Ga., defending
chamipion, is unable to attend.
And, also unable to attend, is
Audrey West Brown, now Mrs.
Harvey Johnson of Graham, p
three-time winner of the Sandhill
tournament
Seeded No. 1 will be a former
Sandhill titlist, Sarah Walters of
Charlotte, with a newcomer,
Marv Babbitt, Coral Gables, Fla.
as No. 2.
Mary Lou Jones of Sanford has
been seeded No. 3 and Mildred
Gruebl of Southern Pines No. 4,
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Packed Courtroom Hears Robbins Youth Deny
Rape Charges; Says ‘Everything W’ as Mutual’
Girl Sobs As
Key Gives His
Version Of Date
Jack Key, 22-year-old State
College student and former Ma
rine, went on trial for his life in
Moore Superior Court this week
as the state pressed formal
charges that he raped Miss Mar
tha Sue Robinson the night of
May 26.
Key has denied the charges and
his attorneys, W. D. Sabiston and
H. F. Seawell, have contended i*
was a “mutual affair.”
Miss Robinson, a pretty 22
year-old schoolteacher from Bis-
coe, said she was “beaten into it,
overpowered. I never consented
to such a horrible thing.” The
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Robinson, she said the alleged of
fense occurred after Key had
brought her to Southern Pines
for a movie and then was on the
way back to Biscoe.
This morning Key took the
stand and was questioned at
length by both defense and
prosecuting attorneys. He ad
mitted being with Miss Rob
inson and taking her to the
Five O'clock Club in South
ern Pines where, he said,
"they staged for some time on
the outside." He kissed her
there a number of times, and, j
he testified, she said, "Let's
don't do that here."
Key said he took her to the
parking place in Robbins and
that, by mutual agreement,
they had engaged in sexual
relations.
Later, he testified, on the
way to her home in Biscoe, he
had asked her to marry him.
Miss Robinson broke down
and cried a number of times
while Key was on the stand.
The case recessed shortly
after noon until 2 p.m. At the
recess, it was not known def
initely whether or not Key
was finished with his testi
mony.
She said they were unable to
attend the movie because it was
too late. Instead, she related. Key
took her to the Five O’clock
Club here but she refused to go
into the place. On the way back
to Biscoe, Key took her to Rob
bins to show her where he had
attended school, she said, and
drove to a wooded area not too
far from town. There it was, she
haltingly testified, that the of
fense took place.
Questioned at length about her
pr
i
JACK KE.Y, on trial for his life on charges of,
raping a Biscoe school teacher in May, sits in
the courtroom beside his two attorneys, H. F.
Seawell and W. D. Sabiston, as testimony was
being given Wednesday afternoon. Key, a Ma
rine Corps veteran and a junior at State College,
has been in Moore County jail since the day
after the alleged offense occurred. He is pictur-
ed here just to the left of the man m the fc're-
ground. At the time the picture was made. Miss
Martha Sue Robinson, the victim of the alleged
offense, was being examined by Attorney Sea
well. The courtroom was packed all day in what
may turn out to be the most sensational case in
many years in the county. (Pilot photo)
MARTHA SUE ROBINSON
earlier acquaintance with Key,
she said she first knew him when
they became ‘‘casual acquaint
ances” in the eighth grade. She
said he tried to date her then but
she refused because of her age.
She had seen little of him be-
SCHOOL TIME! Grid Practice Is
Scheduled For 3
Schools of the Moore Coun
ty system will open far the
fall term on Thursday, August
30, according to announce
ment by County Supt. H. Lee
Thomas. (Southern Pines and
Pinehurst, which are city ad
ministrative units, are not in
cluded.)
A complete list of teachers
in the county schools will ap
pear in next week's issue of
The Pilot.
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MALCOLM STOUT, member of the town po
lice force since January, 1954, was promoted to
sergeant effective yesterday. Pictured here be
ing congratulated by Chief C. E. Newton and
City Manager Tom Cunningham, Stout will re-
place Sgt. H. V. Chandler, who resigned last
month to accept a position in Ayden. Stout, a
Sanford native, is a graduate of Mars Hill Col
lege and served in the Army Ordnance for three
(Pilot photo)
Weeks By Leonard
Though winners of 23 straight
games and undefeated six-man
footbal champions of North Caro
lina for the past two years.
Southern Pines High School was
faced this week with the dim
prospect that this year may not
be a winning one as twice-a-day
practice sessions got underway
today (Thursday) in preparation
for the September 7 opener with
Carthage.
Coach Irie Leonard has sched
uled the twice-a-day workouts
for what may be the roughest
season the Blue Knights have
ever had. Already there has been
some speculation that several of
the teams on the eight-game
schedule are easily capable of
beating the locals.
With the loss of every starter
in the backfield and a good part
of the line, Coach Leonard and
his assistant, W. A. Leonard, are
inentally juggling several poten
tial lineups with the uptried
players at hand. 'The three re
turning lettermen that have had
the most seasoning are Tony
Parker, all-state center, Lynn
Van Benschoten, middle-guard,
and Kenneth Creech, also a mid
dle-guard.
Gone are six of the first nine
from last year, a team that was
acclaimed by many sportswriters
throughout the state as the “best
six-man team” in the state’s his-
[tory. Off to college campuses all
over the state (and probably to
11-man football) are Johnny
Watkins and Billy Cox, tailbacks;
Bobby Cline, quarterback; James
Humphrey, wingback; Bill Mar-
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Two Saturdays
Left To Register
For School Vote
Along with the rest of North
Carolina, registration books open
ed in Moore County last Saturday
for registration to vote on the pro
posed public school law changes.
According to Sam Riddle, chair
man of the county Board of Elec
tions, the registration is not a new
one. It is for the purpose of reg
istering new voters and those who
have changed their residences.
The books will be open again
the next two Saturdays, August 18
and 25, Riddle said. Challenge
day will be September 1.
The state-wide vote on the pro
posed changes to the Constitution
will be held September 8.
Voting will decide whether or
not the state adopts the so-called
Pearsall Plan, which would set up
a system; of tuition grants and
make it possible to close the pub
lic schools if “intolerable” situa
tions arise. Voting will also de
cide whether the 1955 legislative
session Constitutional amend
ments will be-ratified.
Voting will be held September
8 at the regular polling places in
the county. Riddle said. All per
sons who are now properly regis
tered may vote in the special elec
tion without registering again.
For new registration, the books
will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
on the two remaining Saturdays
of the registration period.
Voters may also transfer their
registration or change party affil
iation during the period the books
are open. Riddle pointed out.
Here are the four proposed
amendments to the state Constitu
tion which voters will decide on:
Special Session School Amend-
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tween that time and the time she
became a sophomore at Woman’s
College in Greensboro and he was
in the Marine Corps at Parris Is
land, she said.
, During the 1954-55 school year
I she was home for a holiday “and
I someone knocked on my door and
I Jack was there,” she testified. On
I that occasion, she related, they
I went to a movie in Southern
Pines.
In May, 1955,’ he called her
from Parris Island and asked for
a date to go to a Sigma Chi fra
ternity dance at State. After he
picked her up in Biscoe and took
her to Raleigh, she said, he drove
around and finally went to a mo
tel on tjhe outskirts of town. That,
she said, was the first time she
had reason to believe he was any
thing but a nice person.
She refused to stay in the motel
with him, saying “Jack, you
know I’m not going to stay at a
motel.”
She said he then took her to
the home of an uncle and aunt in
Cary where she made arrange
ments to spend the night. Later,
they went to the fraternity house.
At the house, she said. Key be
came highly intoxicated. Earlier
in the evening, she related, he
had offered her something to
drink, after she had asked for
ginger ale. “It definitely was not
ginger ale and I refused to drink
it,” she said-
She refused to go to the dance
with him and later drove him to
the motor court where she left
the car and keys. She went on to
Cary, she said.
On May 18, shortly after the
frat house episode. Miss Robin
son said she received a letter
from Key saying he was “deeply
hurt” by the sorrow and embar
rassment’ he had caused her in
Raleigh. The letter, which Solici-
*tor M. G. Boyette read in court,
said “my intentions, thoughts and
actions would have been honor
able throughout.”
In the letter Key had offered
some suggestions to Miss Robin
son, among them the admonition
to her to “try and be a little more
broadminded and understanding
and have sympathy.” He also ad
vised her, according to the letter,
to try to visualize “just what life
is.” He termed it “hard, fast and
cruel.”
Miss Robinson’s testimony had
indicated that she had written
Key about three days before the
alleged rape, “hoping to see him.”
Asked why she had written
him after his conduct at the Ra
leigh dance, Miss Robinson re
plied. ‘‘You don’t discard a hu
man being because of one thing
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Dorsey G. Stutz, Former Mayor,
Dies Following Lengthy Illness
Dorsey G. Stutz, former mayor
of Southern Pines and long a lead
ing citizen, died at his home at
180 N. Ashe St., Wednesday morn
ing after several months of declin
ing health.
Mr. Stutz, who retired last year
after 45 years service with the
Seaboard Airline railroad sis agent
in Southern Pines, was a native
of Richmond. He came to South
em Pines in 1910 from Lilesville.
He has held numerous public
offices, including the mayoralty
of Southern Pines from 1929 until
1941. Prior to that he was a mem
ber of the Town Board of Com
missioners for 10 years.
He was at one time, for 14
years, a member of the ABC
Board here, and had served as a
director of the Building and Loan
Association for 10 years. He also
was president of the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company for four
years.
Mr. Stutz, seeing the tremen
dous possibilities in the peach
business early in the century, op
erated an orchard on Morganton
Road during the big peachiboom.
Later in life he served as presi
dent of the Highland Park Hotel
Company, which operated the
Highland Pines Hotel. He himself
operated the hotel for some time
during the last war.
His service with the railroad
was one of the longest in the rail
road’s existence.
He was also a Mason.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Grace Martin of Weldon,
of the home; two daughters, Mrs.
Frederick Jackson of Jefferson,,
MR. STUTZ
Maine, and Mrs. G2irland Pierce of
Southern Pines; one son. Dr. M.
Greer Stutz, a commander in the
United States Navy stationed at
Virginia Beach; six grandchildren;
a sister; and two brothers.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at 11 a.m. at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church with Dr. T. A.
Cheatham officiating.
Burial will follow in Mt. Hope
cemetery.
Active pallbearers are Bryan
Poe, Frank Buchan, John How-
arth, Charlie Block, J. T. Overton,
and H. A. Matthews.
Honorary pallbearers are A. S.
Ruggles, Frank Welch, Sam Rich
ardson, H. N. Cameron, E. C. Ste
vens, Harry Lewis, Charles Patch,
C. E .Newton, Alfred Grover and
A. G. Edwards.