THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959
MOORE RECORDER'S COURT
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Judge Binds Three Youths Over To
Superior &)urt On Assault Charges
Probable cause was found
'' against three youths in Moore
Recorder’s Court Monday on fel-
onous assault charges .in a case
in which the victim, a student at
Carthage 'High School, testified
with his jaws wired together.
Harold Badgett, 17 whose jaws
had been broken in two places
and who could barely manage to
talk, told of the attack made On
him by persons unseen at the
• Carthage Community House dur
ing a recent Friday night get-
together. He said he had leaned
over to select some records for
the phonograph when the lights
went out, he felt a terrific blow,
and then blacked out.
He has had to undergo pro
longed hospital treatment, he
added. , *
Evidence given by Harold
B and Mrs. Louise Eldridge, who
was the chaperone for the party,
was circumstantial against the
defendants, Billy Blackman, 19,
and William Brady, 17, both of
whom live in Carthage, and
David Gainey, 19, of Fayetteville.
The inference of the ir testimony,
however, was that one signaled
the other, who turned out the
lights, and the third struck
^ young Badgett.
No motive ever was establish
ed for the attack on Badgett be
cause of the many objections
raised by defense counsel when
Solicitor W. Lamont Brown at
tempted to probe in to the past.
Blackman is under a suspended
sentence following conviction of
larceny in a case recently. Bad
gett was one of the people who
^ was to have testified in the case.
Judge J. Vance Rowe found
probable cause against Blackman
for assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill and inflicting
serious and permanent injury,
and against Brady and Gainey
for aiding and abetting. Bond
was set at $750 for Blackman
and $500 for Brady and Gainey.
Boyd Laveme Hussey, Route 2,
^ Robbins, careless and reckless
driving, $25 and costs.
Ray Spivey, Route 2, Robbins,
unlawful possession of illicit
whiskey .for sale, 60 days on the
road, suspended for 12 months
on payment of fine of $40 and
costs and on further condition he
not violate prohibition laws for
12 months.
Walter Marley, Robbins, unlaw
ful possession of whiskey, $10 and
^ costs.
Earl Charles Stutts, Carthage,
careless and reckless driving,
public drunk, 30 days on the
roads, suspended for 12 months
on payment of $25 and costs.
Wayne Morris, Carthage, lar
ceny of spark plugs, pencils and
binoculars with a value less than
$100, six months on the roads
suspended on payment of $50 and
costs and on further condition
that the stolen property be re
turned.
Dorothy Safriet, Eagle Springs,
' unlawful possession of illicit
whiskey for sale, guilty of un
lawful possession but not guilty
of possession for sale. Sentence
of 60 days in jail, suspended for
12 months on condition she not
have whiskey in home during
that period and that she look af-
,ter her children as well as she
can under the circumstances.
Billy Blackmon, William Brady,
both of Carthage, secret assault
with a deadly weapon, waylay
ing, inflicting serious and perm
anent injury with intent to kill.
Probable cause found against
Blackmon and he was bound to
Superior Court under bond of
$750. Brady and David Gainey,
Fayetteville, who were charged
|j|twith aiding and abetting in the
case, were bound to Superior
Court after probable cause was
found and bond was fixed at $500
each.,
Dock Lane, Jr., Star Route,
Carthage, breaking and entering,
not guilty but guilty of trespass,
30 days on the roads. Defendant
filed notice of appeal to Superior
Court, bond was fixed at $300.
Dock Lane, Jr., (second charge)
(^malicious damage to personal
property, refusing to undertake
and make a crop after receiving
advance payment for those pur
poses. Not quilty of malicious
damage, but guilty of other
charge, 30 days on the roads, sus
pended on payment of costs and
on condition he proceed prompt
ly with setting out tobacco
plants. Defendant filed notice of
appeal to Superior Court, bond
vwas fixed at $300.
James Ralph Dowd, Eagle
. Springs, assault with a deadly
weapon (pistol), and James
Hamilton, Eagle Springs, assault
with a deadly weapon (shotgun).
As to Dowd, 60 days on the roads,
suspended for two years on pay
ment of costs'and that he remain
of good behavior during that
period. As to Hamilton, eight
.^onths on the roads.
James Walker, Vass, assault
with a deadly weapon. It appear
ing to the Court from statements
of defendant’s wife, the prosecut
ing witness, that the prosecution
is frivolous and malicious and
she is taxed with the costs.
Cushman Named
President Of Blue
Knights Boosters
Robert M. Cushman, executive
vice president of Amerotron Cor
poration, was elected president
of the Blue Knights Boosters
Club at that organization’s an
nual meeting last week.
Mr. Cushman succeeds Harry
Chatfield.
The organization, which has as
its express aim the promotion and
support of athletic competition
at Southern Pines High School,
also voted at the meeting to pre
sent $512.20 to the high school
for use in the athletic fund thore,
Formal presentation of the funds
will be made at a later date.
Other new officers are William
Caton, vice president, succeeding
Mr. Cushman; Gene Blackwelder,
treasurer, succeeding Mrs. Jimmy
Hobbs; and Alice Bodine, secre
tary, succeeding Robert Leland.
The club enjoyed a hamburger
supper prior to the business
meeting at the Southern Pines
Country Club.
High School Golf ■
Team Does Well
In State Tourney
The Southern Pines High
School golf team, with a 9-2 rec
ord for the season to date, placed
11th in the annual State High
School golf todmament held in
Chapel Hill Monday and Tuesday
of this week.
The rating of 11th was tops for
smaller schools, according to
Don Moore, team coach. Some 25
schools, most of them of a high
er classification than Southern
Pines, took part. They represent
ed almost every section of the
state.
The five man Southern Pines
team consisted of John Marcum,
Glen Marcum, Charles Rose, Ed
die McKenzie and Tommy Clark.
John Marcum had a 76-77 for the
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two-day tournament and Rose
had a 78-79. Clark, playing in his
first big tournament, turned in a
very creditable 85-83.
Last Friday the team, prepar
ing for the tournament, defeated
Troy 26. 1-2 to 1-2, best score of
the season. In the matches, play
ed at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club, Glen Marcum flatted
one side, giving up the only
points, to Troy. Wally Wallace,
who played the No. 6 position,
turned in an* excellent round, ac
cording to Moore. The other four
players were John Marcum, Mc
Kenzie, Clark and Rose.
The team closes out its season
Monday with a match against
Asheboro here Monday. Six
members will play.,
The driver .who doesn’t mind
being passed will still be present
when others are past.
PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS
Cotton To Attend
Consultants Meet
In Cleveland
Horace Cotton, president and
executive director of Professional
Management, Inc., will attend
the annual meeting of the Socie
ty of Professional Business Con
sultants in Cleveland, Ohio, May
17-18.
Professional Management, Inc.
furnishes business counsel to
physicians and dentists in four
south-eastern states, and has its
hom« office in Southern Pines.
Cotton attended the inaugural
meeting at Madison, Wis., in 1955
at which the SPBC was founded.
The Society’s membership con
sists of the heads of firms special
izing in business service to the
two professions.
PTA Officers
To Be Elected
Monday Night
The East Southern Pines Par
ent-Teacher Association will
meet at Weaver Auditorium
Monday, May 18, at 8 p. m., to
elect officers for the 1959-’60
school year.
Announcement of the meeting
was made Monday night of this
week by C. S. Patch, Jr., presi
dent, at the regular May meet
ing which was held in the school
gymnasium. An entertainment
program took up the entire meet
ing time and the business session
was deferred to Monday night of
next week.
Miss Mary Logan, schools su
pervisor, was in charge of the
program Monday night. Children
of all the elementary grades took
part, demonstrating various
dances and other musical fea
tures they have learned this year
as part of the school’s music and
physical education programs.
Several hundred parents at
tended—the largest attendance
of any meeting of the past school
year.
The meeting scheduled for next
Monday will be the final session
for the current school year. Mr.
Patch urged a large attendance
for the election of officers and
other business that will wind up
the PTA program.
The driver who wins every
body’s respect is the driver who
makes courtesy his code of the
road.
On the highway the centerline
is your lifelinfe says the North
Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles.
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Former Resident
Named Member Of
Charlotte Coimcilj
James B. Whittington, a South
ern Pines native, was sworn in
Monday as a member of the city
council of Charlotte, his adopted
city.
Present to witness the cere
mony, and to have lunch with
him and his family later at his
home, were his mother, Mrs. Cora
Whittington, and young sister
Linda, of Southern Pines, also
Mrs. L. T. Clark, an old friend.
Whittington, partner in the
Hankins - Whittington Funeral
Home at Charlotte, one of the
leading such establishments of
Piedmont North Carolina, got his
professional start with the late
L. T. Clark in Southern Pines.
He worked at Clark’s Funeral
Home as a youth, leaving for war
service, during which he suffered
wounds in overseas action. Fol
lowing .his recovery and discharge
he took training at the same
Philadelphia embalming school
which Clark had attended, and
with a partner bought a small
funeral home in Charlotte.
Not only has his business grown
large and prosperous, but Whit
tington has become knowjh as
Charlotte’s “man with a million
friends.’’ He is active in all phases
of civic life, sports, veterans or
ganizations, political life and
charitable and philanthropic
works.
The council post is his first
elective office.
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Senior Class At
High School Will
Present Comedy
Members of the senior class at
Southern Pines High School will
present their annual play next
Friday, May 22, in Weaver Audi
torium.
The play, entitled “Professor,
How Could You!” is a comedy
in three acts. It concerns a pro
fessor, about to become a dean,
who faces the problem of choos
ing a wife. His associates help
provide situations that will as
sure a wide field for him to
choose from. He finally selects
one not from those who had been
arranged by his associates, and
the results, plus the situations
leading up to his selection, pro
vide many laughs.
The cast of the play will be
announced next week.
Time of the play is 8 p. m.
Admission charges are 35 cents
for students and 50 cents for
adults.
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Saunders Re-Elected
To UNC Trustee Board
William P. Saunders of South
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Carolina’s Department of Conser
vation and Development, has
been re-elected to the Board of
Trustees of tbs University of
North Carolina.
Mr. Saunders has served on
the Board for several terms. His
present term will last for four
years.
Mrs. P. P. (Sadie) McCain,
formerly of Southern Pines, was
among those failing of re-elec
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