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VOL. 38—NO. 31
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1958
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
SOUTHERN PINES ENTRIES in the State
Junior Chamber of Commerce Tennis Tourna
ment currently underway on the town courts
are, from left, Dick Thomasson, John McMiUan,
George Little, and Kenny Little. They are be-
EXHIBITION MATCH TOMORROW NIGHT
ing sponsored by the local Jaycees. The tour
nament is the largest ever held in the state
for junior competition and exceeded the spon-
stors’ expectations by about 15 entries. Finals
are scheduled Saturday. (Pilot photo)
Largest Jaycee Tennis Tournament In State’s History
Started Here This Morning; 52 Battling For Top Spot
Some 52 youngsters from 23
North Carolina towns and cities
flocked into Southern Pines yes
terday for the State Junior Cham
ber of Commerce tennis tourna
ment, which began this morning
on all four courts in the town
park.
Exceeding by about 15 the ori
ginal number expected, the con
testants are making up what quite
likely is the largest junior tourna
ment ever held in the state. Gen
erally, there are less than 40 in
the State Jaycee tournament.
The local Jaycees, sponsoring
the three-day event, said that
most of the boys had been taken
into local homes during their stay
here.
Play will go qn mornings and
afternoons, with the finals in both
singles and doubles scheduled for
Saturday.
Rain, which held up play a few
hours today, is expected to clear
up and play continue on schedule
throughout the rest of the tour
ney.
Malcolm Clark, a,member of the
—^University of North Carolina
tennis team and director of South
ern Pines tennis program, is di
recting the tournament for the
Jaycees. Norris Hodgekins, Jr., is
handling arrangements for the
Jaycees.
Tonight at 7 o’clock all contes
tants have been invited to an out
door picnic at the Elks Club and
will be feted by the Jaycee chap-
Coiinty Golf Meet
Opened To Juniors
The Moore County golf tourna
ment was expanded tliis week to
include a junior toumattient if
enough people show an interest.
Harry Davis, who is chairman
of the tournament, said today
that any youngster under 18
years of age was eligible for the
junior tournament. Entry fee is
$3, the same as the regvilar tour
nament, and the prizes will be the
same. He said that about three
flights would probably qualify.
“We’ve had several inquiries
from boys who wanted to play,’’
he said, “and because of that we
decided to stage a separate event.
If it is successful, we’U probably
do it every year.”
In the regular tournament, al
most two flights have qualified
to date. Most players, including
defending champion Bill Woodard,
are expected to qualify next Fri
day and Saturday.
Play begins July 6.
Andy Page, s^ssistant pro at
the Southern Pines Country Club
where the tourney is being held,
reported today that the course
was in pretty good shape and
would be “extra good’ by next
weekend.
ter.
Highlights of the tournament
will be a match tomorrow (Fri
day) night betwreen two of the
South’s top-ranking players, Al
len Morris of Charlotte and Sam
Daniel of Leaksville. Morris is
seeded No. 1 in the State and
Daniels No. 2.
After the singles match, they
are expected to team for doubles
play against Malcolm Clark of
Southern Pines and Richard
Makepeace of Sanford, who re
cently won the doubles in the
Winston-Salem Invitational.
Players in the tournament are
sponsored by 21 Jaycee clubs
throughout the state, each of
which could send from one to
four boys. Each club held elimi
nation rounds if possible and the
contestants here represent the
best of the junior players in the
state today. All players are 18 or
under.
Today’s pairings:
Jack Hepting, Asheville, bye;
Chip Owen, Asheboro, bye; Larry
Windley, Washington, bye;
Brooks Hayworth, Winston-
Salem, bye; (Corner Hobbs, Char
lotte, bye; Max Hawkins, Wil
mington, bye.
George Little, Southern Pines
vs. Billy Hilton, Lexington; Rock
Teague, ThOmasviUe, vs Ed
Dunn, Rocky Motmt; John Tal
ley, Gastonia vs Brick Oettinger,
Chapel Hill; Dick Thomasson,
Southern Pines vs Jim Causey,
Davidson.
Dick Corbett, Henderson vs
Chamber Plans
Open Meeting To
Discuss New Setup
A special called meeting of the
full membership of the Cham
ber of Commerce will be held
Tuesday, July 1, at 8 o’clock at
the library to discuss and vote on
several changes recently propos
ed in the Chamber set-up. Pres
ident Joe Scott announced this
week.
Included in the proposals:
chemging the name from South
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce
to the Sandhills Chamber of
Commerce and thus not outlining
any specific boundary from which
members may be drawn.
Setting up a scale for dues
which would require businesses
with more employees to pay a
higher rate. The lowest rate im-
der the new setup would be $25
for individual memberships. Low
est business rate would be $50,
and the highest would be in ex
cess of $100, depending on the
number of employees.
Scott urged a full .attendance at
the meeting.
Bobby Long, Elizabeth City;
Lloyd Bost, Charlotte vs Blamie
Tanner, Rocky Mount; Ken Eid-
son, Elkin vs David Nash, Chapel
Hill; Bobby Griffith, Lexington
vs Jackie Spencer, Asheboro;
John McMillan, Southern Pines,
vs Paul Finch, Thomasville; Lee
Smith, Wilmington, vs Bobby
Andrews, Burlington.
Stanley Cocke, Asheville, vs
Phillip Horwitz, Raleigh; Ken
Little, Southern Pines, vs Fred
Lopp, Lexington; Ken Oettinger,
Chapel Hill, vs Regan Harper,
Gastonia; Clift Smith, Wilming
ton, vs Jim Skidmore, Burling
ton; Gale Eidson, Elkin, vs Ed
win Payne, Henderson; Phil
Thomas, Asheboro vs Billy Tur
ner, Henderson; Charlie Connel
ly, Charlotte, vs Frank Roebuck,
Salisbury; Leon Raper, High
Point, vs Jim Hart, Winston-Sa
lem; Steve Watson, Charlotte, vs
Ken Lambeth, Lexington.
Gene Adcock, Henderson vs
Jimmy Nelson, Huntersville;
Joan Angell, Granite Quarry,
bye; Charles Shaffer, Chapel
Hill, bye; Anderson Sherrill,
Statesville, bye;^ Jimmy Emmons,
Raleigh, bye; Tommy Redding,
Asheboro, bye; and Chad Ferriss,
Wilmington, bye.
Seedings, as announced by
Hodgkins, were as follows: Jack
Hepting, Asheville, No. 1; Stan
ley Cocke, Asheville, No. 2, Chad
Ferriss, Wilmington, No. 3; Bob
by Andrews, Burlington, No. 4;
Jim Hart, Winston-Salem, No. 5;
John Talley, Gastonia, No. 6; and
Charles Shaffer, Chapel Hill, No.
7.
Here are the doubles matches,
to be run off along with the sin
gles.
Hepting and Cocke meet McMil
lan and Ken Little (both teams
drew byes); Charles Shaffer and
Oettinger (bye) meet winner of
(Continued on page 5)
Commissioners
Adopt $1,201,700
Budget For Year
$119,000 Set Up
For Building Of
Agriculture Center
An allocation of almost $119,-
000 for construction of a proposed
agriculture building in Carthage
is included in the Moore County
budget for 1958-59.
The budget was prepared and
released this week and, though
only a summary of it appears in
today’s Pilot, the complete bud
get is on file in the Register of
Deeds office in Carthage.
The tax rate of $1.35 per $100
valuation remains the same. This
ye.li the budget is based-on to
tal valuation in the county of
$46,500,000, an increase of one
and one-half million dollars over
1957-58. Annexation of Little
River and construction of several
new houses, plus discovery of
property that had not previously
been listed, accounted for the
major portion of the increase,
one member of the Board of
County Commissioners said.
In addition to the allocation for
the agriculture building, the;
commissioners also set aside $10,-
645 for a rural fire truck (which
has already been bid on), $7,500
for water and sfwer construction
at the proposed Mozur Lace plant
near Southern Pines, and $5,000
for industrial development.
Schools, which eat up about
half the amount of money avail
able to the county during the
year, account for$658,165 this:
year, down considerably from the
$931,419 last year. Current ex
penses remains about the same,
$259,351, and capital outlay,!
which last year was $628,700, is
down this year to $362,000, an in-i
dication that major construction
of school facilities in the county
has leveled off.
The total budget this year is
$l,20l',760 as compared to $1,375,-
379 last year.
For operation of the health de
partment this year the coniniis-
sioners set aside $45,350, up
slightly from last year.
Hospital fees set up in, the bud
get are $25,000, which is to be
used for certified indigent pa
tients. The figure was only
slightly increased from last year,
though hospital officials request
ed considerably more to alleviate
what they called a “growing
problem' of administering care to
people who cannot pay for it,”
which those same officials des
cribed as a county responsibility.
The outside poor fund is $12,-
000 this year, no increase. That
fund is used for taking care of
people who are unable to secure
welfare assistance frorn any oth
er source.
Taking the biggest bite out of
the $1.35 is the school system,
which doesn’t include Southern
Pines and Pinehurst except on a
“capital outlay” accounting. The
schools take 90 cents of the $1.35,
and welfare takes 15 cents. Gen
eral administration takes 20
cents, with the remainder going
for the other agencies and the
debt service.
Light Vote Expected To Be Cast
In Primary Runoff Saturday
For Sheriff
CHARLES G. WIMBERLY
WENDELL B. KELLY
For Commissioner
Operation Of Auto
License Bureau
Here Suspended
The automobile license bureau
inaintaiaed here in the offices of
the Chamber of Commerce has
been closed and will remain so
indefinitely. Chamber president
Joe Scott said today.
He said it was closed because
Mrs. S. D. Fobes, the secrelaiy,
has resigned effective July 1 and
the new secretary, Mrs. Don
Traylor, was unable to attend
a special course of instruction for
personnel operating the bureaus.
It is hoped, he said, to have the
bureau open again in the very
near future.
T. CLYDE AUMAN
W. SIDNEY TAYLOR
CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE
William Henry Kelly, 33, of
Aberdeen, was being held in
Moore County jail in Carthage
today without bond on a charge
of murder.
He has confessed to the shoot
ing early Sunday morning of
Bessie Prescott, 40, in his house
in the Cabbage Hill section of
Aberdeen. Both are Negroes.
He told Deputy Sheriff A. F.
Deese that he fired at the woman
in self defense. Deese said the
weapon used was a • 12-gauge
shotgun and that the woman was
killed at close range. A large hole
was blown in the side of her head
and neck.
Kelly told Deese that he shot
after Mrs. Prescott pulled a knife
on him. He said he ran from the
kitchen of his house when she
Blood Program In
County Dangered;
Funds Are Short
still short some $1,600, the
Moore County Chapter of the
Red Cross made a last appeal to
day for that amount of contribu
tions to initiate operation of a
Blood Program in the county next
year.
“It appears that the people of
the coimty have decided against
participating in it (the blood pro
gram),” th e announcement said.
“The Red Cross Chapter is hold
ing this project open through
Jime 30.
“At last accounting $1,600 was
still needed to assure participa
tion in the blood program. 'The
chapter appreciates the support of
those who have contributed and
regrets that the prospect of par
ticipation, in what is considered
a most worthy project, is so slim.
“Shortly after July 1, a final
report on the project will be
made.”
Aberdeen Man Held On Open Charge
Of Murder; Confesses To Officers
threatened him, into the dining
room and then, instead of run
ning out-of-doors, went back into
the bedroom and got the shotgun.
He gave no reason for not leav
ing the house.
Deese said that he had infor-
ation that another couple was on
the premises.
In view of Kelly’s admission,
which was corroborated by oth
ers, Coroner Ralph Steed of
Robbins ruled no inquest neces
sary, and Kelly will have a hear
ing before a magistrate unless he
decides to waive it.
Both Kelly and Bessie Prescott
have previous records of law vio
lations in the county. Mrs. Prse-
cott, it is understood, has been
convicted several times of boot
legging.
North-South Split
Seen As Geography
Enters Picture
A turnout of less than 4,000
people—with some observers
guessing as low as 3,500—will
pick a sheriff of Moore County
Saturday and decide who will
represent District 5 on the Board
of County Commissioners.
Candidates for sheriff are Wen
dell B. Kelly of Carthage and
Charles Wimberly of Aberdeen.
Wimberly led Kelly by 56 votes
in the primary May 31, showing
most of his strength in the lower
part of the county.
For the commissioner’s seat,
T. Clyde Auman of West End
wound up 356 votes ahead of W.
Sidney Taylor of Aberdeen in the
first primary, but did not have
enough to forestall a runoff. The
other candidate in the race, E. P.
Hinson of West End, polled 408
votes.
As is customary, the polls will
be open from 6:30 to 6:30. In
Southern Pines, all voting is at
the fire station on New Hamp
shire Avenue. Mrs. Grace Kay-
lor is the registrar.
Those are the bare facts of the
runoff. But speculation is rife.
None of the candidates seem to
have '‘locks” on the seats they
are seeking, though supporters
of each would have the voters
think so.
Wimberly, who served on the
State Highway Patrol before re
signing to make the race for
sheriff, ,was a big surprise to
many people. He beat out Her
man Grimm, Carthage, whose
popularity in thq county is pret
ty wide. In Southern Pines, for
instance, where Grimm was hea
vily favored, Wimberly lost by
only eight votes. His strength
seemed, at least in the past few
days, to be picking up, though
Kelly, too, has been lining up
solid with some of the Grimm
supporters.
In Carthage, where the vote in
the first primary was unusually
heavy (and heavily in favor of
Grimm), many people are talk-
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Sheriff McDonald
RecuperatingF rom
Mild Heart Attack
Sheriff C. J. McDonald is ex
pected back at his desk next
week after recuperation from a
mild heart attack last Friday.
He retmned only last Thurs
day from the National Sheriff’s
Association meeting in Pennsyl
vania.
The attack was described by a
member of his staff as a “spasm”
of mild nature, brought on prob
ably by the tiring journey back
from the Pennsylvania meeting.
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NEW RACE TRACK at the W. H. Franz
farms on Connecticut Avenue will be ready for
the winter season. The track, which is locat
ed just off Connecticut Avenue, is part of an