VOL. 38—NO. 40
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SOUTHERN PINES,J^ORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1958
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82-Year-Old West Southern Pines
Man Robbed Of $350 While Dozing
Man Sought On
Forgery Charges
Held In Georgia
An 82-year-old Negro man, Wil-+
son Lockhart of 1273 West Penn
sylvania Ave., was robbed of $350
Tuesday night as he was dozing
before his television set.
Police reported this morning
that several leads were being in
vestigated but that no arrests
were imminent.
Lockhart gave this account of
the robbery:
He was watching television and
apparently ivejit to sleep. The
only light in the room came from
the set, he said, and he was arous
ed by someone holding him. He
said that whoever the robber was
pulled him out of the chair,
grabbed his pocketbook and fled
from the house. $300 of the mon
ey was in $100 biUs, he said,
He told police that he ran from
his house and called Tommy
Goode, who lives across the street.
Goode in turn called his son-in-
law, Bryce HemphiU, and he noti
fied police.
Lockhart, a retired brickmason
and brick laying contractor, was
“shook up” from the experience,
police related, but a doctor here
said he was not physically dam
aged.
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George Dixon of Eagle Springs,
wanted in Moore County on
charges of forgery, has been ar
rested in Blackshear, Ga., accord
ing to word received this week by
the Moore Coimty sheriff’s de
partment.
Dixon, who officers say issued
half a dozen worthless checks in
this county earlier this year, is
being held on similar charges in
Georgia.
Officials said this morning they
had called Georgia authorities re
questing them to hold Dixon but
it is undetermined when he can
be picked up. He is wanted in at
least two Georgia counties for
forgeries and issuing worthless
checks.
Dixon worked as a produce
dealer. Montgomery county offi
cers haye also lodged complaints
against him for forgery.
Butler Succeeds
Mrs. Davis As
Welfare Chairman
Paul Butler, v;ho lives on Mid
land Road, t'as succeeded Mrs.
William P. Davis of Southern
Pines as chairman of the Moore
County Welfare Board.
Mrs. Davis, who had served on
the board for three years, resign
ed the position as of July be
cause of the necessity of her be
ing out of the State a part of the
year. Mr. Davis operates a truck
ing line in Puerto Rico.
Butler, who became a member
of the board a year ago, was
elevated to the chairmanship
Tuesday. The other member is E.
H. Garrison, Jr., of Carthage,
who was formerly Moore County
farm agent.
They will meet in the near fu
ture and elect a third member
who wiU come from the vicinity
of Robbins.
SCHOOL OPENING
Students who will attend
Southern Pines schools this
year were reminded today by
A. C. Dawson, superintendent,
that opening day is next
Thursday.
In past years students were
directed to report at 9 a.m. on
opening day but this year,
-Dawson said, the opening time
is 9:30 on both Thursday and
Friday. Students will be at
school only until approxi
mately noon on those two
days, he said, but will be on a
full-time basis beginning the
following Monday.
POSTPONED
Opening dat^ for four
schools in the county have
been ix>stponed because of the
lateness of the tobacco har
vest.
' Each of them—^Farm Life,
West End, Cameron and Vass-
Lakeview, were supposed to
have opened today but will
open next Thursday instead.
The days will be made up
either during the regular term
or by extending the scheduled
closing next spring.
SOME SANDHILLS FINALISTS—Made just
before mixed doubles finals got under way Sat
urday afternoon, the photo above also shows
the women’s singles finalists, petite and black
haired Mrs. Raymonde Veber Jones, the winner,
and 17-year-old Joanne Cooper of Charlotte. Jo
anne was able to take only one game in two
straight sets from the Paris-born net star, 6-0,
6-1. In mixed doubles, Joanne and Malcolm
Clark of Southern Pines, the right-hand pair
above, won the championship over Lt. Col. Ray
mond G. Jones of Fort Bragg and wife, on the
left. Men’s singles winner was Sam Daniels of
Leaksville, who successfully defended his title
against Jim Winstead of Roxboro. Men’s doubles
finals were postponed till Wednesday, to be
played at Greensboro by Malcolm Clark and
Richard Makepeace of Sanford against Sam Dan
iel and Jack Warmath of Greensboro. Besides
being a winner in one event and possible win
ner in another, Clark served as director of the
tournament. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Robl)iiis Youngster
Hospitalized With
3rd Degree Bums
Ginger Burns, four-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton
A. Bums, remained in critical con
dition at Duke Hospital today
with third degree burns.
The little girl, an only child,
was burned when playing with a
book of matches in the play yard
of her home. She apparently
struck only one match, but it ig
nited her clothing.
Her mother and an uncle in the
house heard screams and found,
the child dashing about the yard.
She was rushed to Moore Me
morial Hospital and later remov
ed to Duke Hospital. Flames, it
was reported, burned about 75 per
cent of her body.
FRENCH WOMAN ALSO WINS
Daniel Successfully Defends Tide
In Annual Sandhills Net Tournament
Sam Daniel of Leaksville, in his
fifth successive entry in the Sand
hill Invitational, showed that the
years had in no way diminished
his powers as he brilliantly
snatched victory in the men’s
singles ffom a much younger and
highly formidable opponent.
Daniel beat Jim Winstead ,of
Roxboro 6-0, 6-4 in finals played
Sunday afternoon, to maintain his
title as champion and justify his
topseeding. Winstead, who for
merly lived in Atlanta and Char
lotte and has held various high
southern rankings, was No. 2.
The No. 3 seed. Alien Strand of
Greensboro, lost to Winstead in
semifinals, while Malcolm Clark
of Southern Pines, seeded No. 4,
bowed in quarterfinals to Greens
m
GOVERNOR LUTHER HODGES is shown presenting a fox
mask to Beaver Tate, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd P. Tate of Star-
land Farms, while young Jock Tate, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Tate, waits to receive the brush. The boys’ grandmother, Mrs.
AND TELLS A GOOD STORY. TOO
. M. Tate, is at left. The Governor made the preservation at the
annual Blowing Rock Horse Show held recently after relating a
story of the boys’ fathers receiving similar awards about 20 years
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Hodges Makes Awards To Youthful Fox Hunters
Governor Hodges had a fox
hunting story to tell in Blowing
Rock several days ago and it was
all about some people from Moore
County.
The Governor, in the mountains
for the annual Blowing Rock
Horse Show, told his story just
before presenting mounted awards
Q to Beaver Tate and Jock Tate, sons
of brothers who make their home
in the Seuidhills.
Here’s the story, as related by
the Governor, who had heard it
from Ozell Moss of Mile-Away
Farms:
Last hunting season a handsome
fox had been killed by the Moore
County Hounds on one of the reg
ular morning hunts. Mr. Moss,
who is Master of Fox Hounds,
awarded the mask of the fox to
Beaver Tate and the brush to his
first cousin, Jock, both seven
years old.
After he had madfe the awards
the grandfather of the boys, the
late L. M. Tate, related that some
20 years ago in the same woods his
sons, fathers of the boys, had been
similarly honored by Jackson
Boyd, who was MYF at that time.
Well, Mr. Moss was invited to
visit the Governor in July to help
kickoff the “See North Carolina
in August” program and he had
told the story.
Governor Hodges learned at
Blowing Rock that the awards had
been mounted and asked to be al
lowed to make the presentation
and tell the story of the coinci
dence. He did, and young Beaver
and Jock probably became the
only two youngsters in the state
to receive their awards from the
top man himself.
boro’s Ed Hudgins—^whom then
Daniels proceeded to trounce in
their semifinal bout.
The 1958 edition of the Sandhill
saw the debut of a new star des
tined to twinkle for the next three
years in North Carolina—petite,
vivacious and charming Ray
monde Veber Jones, formerly
ranked No. 1 and No. 2 woman
player of France. Mrs. Jones
breezed through finals of the
women’s singles Saturday morn
ing to capture the championship,
defeating Joanne Cooper of Char
lotte, state junior girls’ champion
6-0, 6-1. ’
In mixed doubles, Mrs. Jones
and her husband, Lt. Col. Ray
mond G. Jones of XVIII Airborne
Corps, Fort Bragg, bowed to Jo-1
anne Cooper and Malcolm Clark,
who won the championship in a
tough and brilliant match, 2-6, 7-5
8-6.
Clark and Richard Makepeace,
doubles team which scored wins
earlier this summer at the Win
ston-Salem Invitational and East
ern Carolina at Rocky Mount
(where Clark also won the singles
title) defeated Ed Hudgins and
Jim Winstead in semifinals 6-4,
7-5. Caught by rain and impend
ing darkness Sunday afternoon,
the finals were postponed to Wed
nesday at Greensboro, where
Clark and Makepeace, second
seeded, bowed to the topseeded
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SIGHT-SAVING
■Mayor Walter E. Blue, in
cooperation with the local
Lions and other state and na
tional agencies, this week pro
claimed September as “Sight
Saving Month.”
The proclamation was en
couraged, according to W. O.
Spence, Lions president, to
emphasize to the public the
importance of proper eye
care.
“At least 50 per cent of all
blindness is preventable,” he
sair, “if the cause is detected
in time. In other words, at
least half of all blindness is
due to neglect and for that
reason is needless.”
Working with the blind is
the major activity of Lions
Clubs throughout the world.
Spence said the local club
would, to stimulate interest in
the program and to serve as a
kickoff for the White' Cane
drive later in the month, stage
a chicken supper for the pub
lic at the Southern Pines
Country Club September 10
from 5:30 to 7:30. Tickets, he
said, were 50 cents and $1 and
could be obtained from mem
bers of the local club.
Area Businesses
Plan To Observe
Labor Day Monday
Most business in Southern
Pines, as well as other communi
ties in the countj^ wiU be closed
Monday, which is Labor Day.
All town, county and federal of
fices will be closed as well as the
post offices, banks, and most
stores.
County schools which opened
today will take a one-day holiday
but will reopen on a full time ba
sis Tuesday.
Highway Patrolmen warned
motorists that more than 400 peo
ple are expected to be killed in
the country and urged them to
exercise care in the way they han
dle their cars.
“Saturation” will be in effect
for the county, Cpl; Jim McCol-
man said, with patrolmen on duty
around the clock.
Rising Senior At
Aberdeen High Is
F armersDay Queen
Geraldine Lynch, a 16-year-old
rising senior at Aberdeen High
School, was named “Miss Farmers
Day of 1958” at the annual Jay-
cee Farmers Day festival in Aber
deen which closed Saturday night.
She is the daughter of Mrs.
Ruby Vest.
Jay(^e officials said that more
than 1,000 attended the festival
and enjoyed a free luncheon.
Winner of a 14-foot Deluxe
Scotscraft boat was Mrs. T. A.
Cheatham, widow of the late Dr.
Thaddeus Cheatham, minister of
the Village Chapel in Pinehurst.
Two men, Vaston Vaughn of
Aberdeen and Joseph W. Adams
of Pinebluff, won Gulistan rugs
given by the A.&M. Karagheusian
Company.
A rain in the afternoon and ear
ly evening put a damper on the
program but farmers in the area
whooped for joy: their crops, they
said, were in such need of water
that any rain was welcome, festi
val or not.
Jurors Selected
For 2-Week Term
Of Civil Court
Hubert Olive Of
Lexington Is
Presiding Judge
A two week term of civil court,
with Judge Hubert E. Olive pre
siding, begins for Moore County
Tuesday. A one-day holiday for
the Court is scheduled for Mon
day, Labor Day.
The Tuesday calendar lists the
following: uncontested divorces,
W. H. Bowen vs Irma E. Bowen;
default and inquiry, A. E. Under
wood vs James Hill; ejectment
for trial, C. W. Watson vs Joyce
Murphy; motions, James DeWitt
Warner vs Vera Deese Warner,
Pearse Motors vs General Motors
Acceptance Corporation, in re
gards to the matter of Cora Stone
Craig, C. D. Westbrook vs F, D.
Cline Paving Company, Howard
Maples vs Charlie Atkins, and
George B. Gerard et al vs Alex
ander Shaw et al.
Cases for trial on Tuesday are
W. T. Brown vs D. C. Hamer, Ad-
die C. Hamer and Walton North-
cutt for damages; M. M. Way and
Margaret M. Way trading as M.
M. Way Company vs Hazel Yow
Smith and Charlie Smith, for col
lection; and Carson Jenkins vs
Lovette Poultry Company, for
wrongful conversion of personal
property.
The Wtednesday trial docket
lists only three cases: Howard
Maples vs Charlie Atkins; W. C.
Graham, administrator vs Delsie
J. Callicutt, administratrix
(wrongful death); and Rubber
and Tire Materials Company of
Georgia vs Sandhill Recapping
Corp."
Scheduled for trial Thursday
(Continued on page 8)
36-Hole Handicap
Tourney Planned
At Country Club
A 36-hole handicap tournament
will be held for members of the
Southern Pines Country Club
over the weekend, according to
Andy Page, assistant pro.
The event will be played Sat
urday through Monday and prizes
will be given^to the tW^o low gross
winners and the four who have
the best low net scores.
An entry fee of $2 will be
charged.
The club is also participating in
the United States Golf Associa
tion’s hole-in-one tournament
Monday,' of which no entry fee is
being charged.
Page said that the 14th hole
would be used for the event and
the person who places his ball
closest to the hole would win a
trophy.
HOLE-IN-ONE
After 34 years of golL
George Mulroy, who lives in
the Belvedere Hotel, shot a
hole-in-one this week.
Using a three-wood, he
scored his aoe on the par 3
14th hole of the Southern
Pines Country dub which is
163 yards long.
Witnessing the ace were
Bill Purcell and Charlie Rose.
The only o&er hole-in-one
at the Country dub tins
summer 'was made by Harry
Davis about a month ago. He
used a 4-iron to make his on
the par 3, 183-yard third
hol^
Ten Motorists Are
Charged With Not
Heeding Stop Sign
Ten motorists have been arrest
ed here this week on charges of
failure to heed stop signs, accord
ing to Chief of Police C. E. New
ton, and officers are continuing
the campaign in all sections of
town.
The ten arrested were cited Tues
day, mostly for going through a
sign on Indiana Avenue. Chief
Newton said he had had several
complaints from the area.
Of the ten, six have bben tried
before a justice of the peace and
ordered to pay $13.75 in fines and
costs. The others are scheduled
to be trifid Saturday afternoon.
BAND REHEARSALS
Band members of Southern
Pines High School have been re
quested by Director Lee Giles to
meet in the new band room Mon
day at 2 o’clock to begin rehear
sals for the first football game,
which is scheduled next Friday
I night.
Blue Knights In
Final Rehearsals
For Friday Opener
Football rehearsals continued
here this week as the Blue
Knights, largest squad in the
school’s history, prepared for their
opener next week against Hope
Mills.
Coach Irie Leonard said this
morning that Bob McIntosh, on
whom he had been depending
heavily for the first game, had in
jured his ankle and might not see
action. There were no other in
juries of major consequence
though the usual amount of bruis
es were in evidence.
Cooler weather has served to
make the workouts a bit more
comfortable, he said. During the
first few days of practice the tem
perature hovered in the 80’s and
90’s at times and caused quite a
bit of discomfort.
Leonard rfeminded fans today of
the Blue Knights Boosters kick
off barbecue supper next Wednes
day night at the Southern Pines
Country Club’s outdoor grill.
Tickets may be obtained from
three sources: Tate’s Hardware &
Electric Company on N. E. Broad
Street, cheerleaders, or members
of the squad.
The supper is planned for the
hours of 6 to 8 p.m. Members of
the team and the cheerleaders will
be introduced and Leonard wiE
outEne the prospects for the sea
son.
Ticket prices are $1.25 for adults
and $.75 for children under 12.