North Carolina Newspapers

Aggressors won the recent war around here, the judges said, and they won something else, too. For what it was, plus a roundup stqry and a closeup view of the big parachute exercise conducted the i' final day, read the story on page 7. Candor 'cand i I iP%J ^llortje (■•Vass in ViJji Pin ChlckeilS^ one of Moore County’s biggest income producers, are inspected for diseases in some places, not in others, and there’s a reason behind it. For the reason, and what some processors want to do about it, read the story on page 16. VOL. 39—NO. 30 EIGHTEEN PAGES I) Aberdeen Negro To Face Trial For Murdering Wife Probable Cause Found In Moore Court Monday SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS OBJECT OF INTENSIVE SEARCH Grandson Of Local Residents Lost In Heavily Wooded Area In New York Probable cause on charges of murder was found against Don Gales, 48, in proceedings before ' Judge J. Vance Rowe in Moore Recorder’s Court Monday. Gales, a Negro of near Aber deen, was ordered held for trial in Superior Court under bond of $7,500. Judge Rowe said enough evidence had been presented to warrant holding Gales for shoot ing his wife, Bertha, Sunday night, June 7. Gales’ attorney, J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, pleaded that his defendant had a previous good reputation, that he owned his o^n home, and “he isn’t go ing to run away.’’ By the close of the session Gales had been un able to make bond but indicated he hoped to. Presenting the state’s case were Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence and Catherine Gales, 18-year-old stepdaughter of the defendant, who said that Gales had always been “good to her” and she to him. Testimony showed that the fatal shooting occurred after day long quarreling between Gales and his wife; that finally Bertha picked up a paring knife from a kitchen drawer and followed Gales from the house into the back yard. To his plea: “Don’t you cut me with that knife,” the daughter said that her mother had answered, “I’m not going to cut you. I’m going to stob you!” The girl testified that she did not see the actual shooting^ which took place outside the house. Afterward, Lawrence testified. Gales took his critically wounded wife to a hospital where she died about four hours later. A five-year-old boy, whose'* mother is a former resident of ^ Southern Pines and whose grand-, parents still live here, has been the subject of an intensive search by more than 200 people since Saturday night. The boy, David Raleigh, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Ra leigh of Fayetteville, in the Cat- skills mountain area of New York. His mother is the former Lucille Grover and his grandpa rents are Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Grover, who live on North May Street. He vanished while running to ward a cabin in the rain while his parents were securing their fishing boat on the shores of Lake 'Winnisook, near Fayette ville. 'When the parents reached the cabin some 200 feet from the lake the boy was nowhere to be found. Skin divers and volunteers, in cluding 120 airmen from Stew art Air Force Base, have vainly combed the lake and the steep wooded areas around it. The last word received here was two days ago by Mrs. Louis Scheipers, Jr., who is a cousin of Mrs. Raleigh. Searchers speculate that the little boy might have tumbled in to the lake but intensive search ing produced no evidence of such. Even if he were still alive and lost in the thipk woods officials feared that the continued cold windy weather might prove fatal. According to news dispatches the s-earch is continuing. Mrs. Raleigh’s sister and brother-in-law-were visiting here over the weekend with her pa rents and Mr. Raleigh had started back North when word of the tragedy was received. Mr. Ra leigh was located by the State Highway Patrol while travelling on US 1 near Sanford and noti fied. He returned and took his family and Mr. and Mrs. Grover back to Arlington, Va., where he lives, to await the outcome. ANNA RUTH KING New Educational Director At First Baptist Church Jugtown Hearing Postponed Due To Bar Meeting; Future Date Not Set Luck’s Cannery Is Opening Next Week Luck’s Inc., Aberdeen canning company, is preparing to swing into its peach canning operation by the end of next week or the beginning of the week after, ac cording to H. C. Presnell, mana ger and co-owner. This will be the fourth season for the cannery operation, which employs up to 80 people over a period of several weeks during the height of the season. Presnell said earlier this week that some delay had been experi enced because of a lack of free stone peaches. An overplanting of early clingstones is glutting the market at present. But Pres nell, who operates out of Sea- grove, said he expects to obtain enough Early Jubilees to begin the operation in a few days. West End growers and others in the peach belt have early va rieties on the market and report that, even though the peaches are rated “excellent,” they are not bringing good prices because of the over supply. The predominant variety on sale today is Dixie Red, which was, a few years ago, considered a fancy and high-priced item. But farmers have overplanted the variety and now they are not get ting normal prices for them. NAMED TRUSTEE Thomas R. Howerton, adminis trator of Moore Memorial Hos pital in Pinehurst, was named a trustee of the North Carolina Hospital Association at a meeting of the organization held last week at Blowing Rock. Mrs. Howerton accompanied him to the 3-day meeting held at Mayview Manor. A scheduled hearing Saturday morning on a restraining order preventing the operation of Jug- town Pottery has been postponed because of the N. C. Bar Associa tion Meeting in Blowing Rock, attorneys said this week. The hearing had been ordered for 10 o’clock in the chambers of Superior Court Judge Don Phil lips in Rockingham. The hearing was ordered about three week? ago by Judge W. Reid Thompson of Pittsboro acting on a com plaint filed by Jugtown, Inc., which is seeking to wrest control of the pottery from the Jacques and Juliana Busbee’s Jugtown, Inc., whose principal officer is John Mare of Southern Pines. Jugtown, Inc., composed of a dozen or so people throughout the State, claims its chief pur pose is to perpetuate the tradi tions of Jugtown, one of this county’s, and the State’s, most famous establishments. The other corporation, in which Mrs. Bus- bee is an officer, makes the same claim. Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., Car thage attorney who is represent ing Jugtown, Inc., said this week that he and opposing attorneys had agreed to postpone action on the hearing and would meet next week to arrange a new date. He said he felt the new date would be “sometime within the ngxt two weeks.” The restraining order presently in effect is the second issued against the Mare organization. The first was heard before Judge Phillips about six weeks ago and at that time he allowed Jugtown, Inc.v 30 days in which to amend its complaint or appeal to higher authority. Jugtown, Inc., since then, has succeeded in having a next friend appointed for Mrs. Busbee, claim ing that she is incapable of hand ling her business affairs. Miss Anna Ruth King, a senior at Wake Forest College, has been appointed Director of Music and Education for the summer at the First Baptist Church here. Miss King, whose home is in Wallace, will graduate from Wake Forest in January with majors in religion, education and French. Her duties here will be pri marily in three areas: to devise and promote a program for young people of the church, to maintain ing a music program, and assist ing the pastor, the Rev. Maynard Mangum, in promotional activi ties. Mr. Mangum, in announcing the appointment, said he hoped Miss King would join the church staff on a permanent basis after she finishes college. Mr. Mangum also announced this week that Leonard Muddimer has accepted the position of church secretary. Mr. Muddimer is a member of the Episcopal church, where he will retain his affiliation, but will work closely with the First Baptist staff. Workmen Install Natural Gas Lines Under RR Tracks Complete Local System; Service To Begin In July Southern Pines should have natural gas on or before July 1, an official of the firm that con tracted to lay the lines said this week. Workmen completed installa tion of the connecting portions of the system by drilling under the Seaboard tracks at two points: New York Avenue and Vermont Avenue. There were no interruptions of train service when the lines were laid under the tracks. Workn'en simply drilled a tunnel and in serted a casing which contains the gas line itself. All that remains now, accord ing to Andy Anderson, the in spector, is to connect houses and business firms with service lines. He said that phase of the instal lation should not require more than a few days. More than 150 customers have indicated their desine to have natural gas connections, accord ing to Dominick Difatta, repre sentative here for the North Car olina Natural Gas Corporation. Real Estate Sales Change Patterns In Community Life As houses change hands, form er residents returning, some pres ent ones, in the exchange, mov ing elsewhere, the real estate and social pattern continues to shift in this community. Among recent changes is that in which Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flory, now of Boston, have pur chased the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Darst, Jr., on the east ern end of Morganton Road as it passes through town. The Florys lived here for sev eral years, then moved to Bos ton, only to return now to their rformer location. Except for the house. They previously lived in the house now owned by Mr and Mrs. Tom O’Neal. Mrs. Flory is the daughter of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Ira T. Wyche of Pinehurst; they have four children. The former owners, Mr. and Mrs. Darst, are thinking of mov ing to Pinehurst: (if their many Southern Pines friends will let them.) Mr. Darst is associated with Keystone Investments Com pany, spending most of his time in New York. Some 50 youngsters ranging in News that the Richard Earl age from eight to more than 15) family is returning brings cheer are enrolled in special tennis to many. iiS FIRST FIRING in new kiln of the Ben Owen Pottery on High way 705 was presided over Friday by Owen, at right, and his helper, Boyce Yow. Both men were formerly associated with Jugtown, Owen for some 35 years. He is turning out the same shapes and glazes he made at Jugtown, now closed because of a legal hassle. Owen has plans for the construction of a showroom adjacent to his kiln and shop, which are located at his home. (Pilotphoto) 50 Enrolled In Summer Tennis Program At Park LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 705 classes being conducted at the Town Park courts under the sponsorship of the summer rec reation program. John McMillan, who learned his tennis here and has gone on to the co-captaincy of the Hill 'School team next year, is in charge of the classes and will continue in that capacity until the first part of July. He is sched uled to go to the Philippines for an international Boy Scout meet ing then, and officials are search ing for a replacement. McMillan said this week that any others who wanted to par ticipate in the program were in vited to come out. He listed the hours as foUows: Ages eight through 10, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily; girls 11 to 13, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.; boys 11 to 13, 11 a.m. to noon; girls 14 and over, 2 to 2:30; boys 14 and over, 3:30 to 5. To date, only the boys in the 14 and over class are playing reg ular matches in a “ladder” tourn ament. McMillan said other tourn aments may be arranged before the end of the season. The Earls live in “Hibernia,” the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Struthers Burt. He has been as sociated with John Ostrom in Sandhills Bonded Warehouse, Inc. Dr. A. C. Dawson, who leaves July 1 to assume his new position was scheduled for as executive director of the North i ^o^^^'^gham when Carolina Edueatinn Mare was directed to show cause SYNOD REPORT Voit Gilmore, a deacon in Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church here, and chairman of the North Carolina Synod Courf- cil, presented the report of the Council yesterday morning at the annual meeting of the Synod ,in Charlotte. Details were not available today. Carolina Education Association, which has headquarters in Ra leigh, has entered into an agree ment to sell his home at 355 E. Connecticut Avenue to a couple from Charleston, S. C. He said this morning that the transfer had not been completed yet but it would mean he would move his family to Raleigh a little sooner than he had anticipated. In another real estate deal re cently concluded John F. Buch- holz purchased the Kenpeth Trousdell home on E. Indiana Avenue. The home is one of the largest in the Sandhills, built in (Continued on page 8) Brush Fire Out When Volunteers Arrive Volunteer firemen answered a call about noon today to put out a brush fire at the location of the old Carolina Orchids greenhouses in Knollwood, but the blaze was out when they arrived. Fire Chief Harold Fowler, not ing that the woods are extreme ly dry, urged caution with burn ing, especially near wooded areas. The fire this morning burned less than a 100-foot square sec tion. It resulted in no damage as •far as fire records are concerned. Town Council Adopts Budget Of $334,100; Keeps $1.75 Tax Rate Employees Get Pay Increase Of $10 Monthly In a four hour session Tuesday night the Town Council adopted an operating budget for 1959-60 of $334,100, second largest in the history of the town. The tax rate of $1.75 per $100 valuation remains unchanged as lit has since the 1954-55 budget ‘ "**i‘Manager Louis Schiep- « 'wKT' he anticipated no de- ^ ficit spending. The $334,100 fig ure is $37,000 less than the record $371,000 budget last year when a new Town Hall was being com pleted. One of the major items in the new budget is an across the board salary increase for all town em ployees. 'The increases range from five cents per hour for hourly employees to $10 per month for salaried employees with the ex ception of police officers and the Clerk of Court and Administra tive Secretary who get $20 per month more, and the police chief, whose pay was increased by $30 per month. Scheipers, who does not fail within the town’s pay plan, was granted an increase of $75 per month by the last Council, bring ing his salary to the same level as that paid to former Manager Tom Cunningham. $7,500 per year. The new budget is balanced and has no provisions for a con tingency fund. Scheipers, in his budget mess age, said that the fiscal year just closing out has been the largest spending one in the town’s his tory. He cited major items as the cost of certain items in the new Town Hall, ahd the purchase, for some $38,000, of the Milliken property on the Town Park. The Town now owns the entire block and uses Dr. Milliken’s former office to house an information center and other agencies. Collection of taxes during the 1958- 59 year was the best ever he said, adding that it was an ticipated that the coming year should be slightly better in the case of ad valorem tax and about as good on the collection of de linquent taxes. Scheipers reminded the Coun cilman that the individual budget figures for last year did not rep resent a true picture of expendi tures in a particular department because, in many instances, the figures actually contained allow""- ances for various items to be in cluded in the new building. As an example, under General Ad ministration in 1957-58, the fig ure was $15,552; that soared to $30,776 during the past year, but drops back to $18,350 budgeted for the coming year. Several other departments were comparable. Here are the figures, then, com pared with 1957-58 (1957-58 first, 1959- 60 second): General Admin istration, $15,552, $18,350; fire de partment, $7,167, $7,710; police department, $39,460, $41,759; rec reation department, $4,089, $3,941; building, parks and groimds, $5,- 869, $6,500; library, no appropria tion in 1957-58, $6,625 this year; cemetery department, $3,003, $2,- 775; sanitary department, $39,084, $37,830; street department, $43,- 273, $50,682; sewerage department, (Continued on Page 8) Ben Owen, Former Jugtown Potter, Has Established His Own Business Ben Owen, potter at Jugtown'*' for some 35 years, has opened his own shop a short distance away and is turning out shapes and glazes long familiar to collectors who made Jugtown one of the best known potteries in the na tion. Owen fired several dozen pieces in his new kiln Friday. The kiln and pottery are adja cent to his house on North Caro lina Highway 705 about six miles north of Robbins. Jugtown is less than three miles away. A legal entanglement which has kept Jugtown from operating for the past two months was the deciding reason Owen listed for opening up on his own. Two corporations, Jugtown, Inc., and the Jacques and Juli ana Busbee’s Jugtown, Inc., are seeking control of the famous pottery. The latter, of which John Mare of Southern Pines is the principal stockholder, already has legal control but has been pre vented from operating the pot tery on two occasions as a result of restraining orders Obtained by the other group, which is main taining he exerted undue influ ence on Mrs. Busbee to obtain the control. A hearing was scheduled for Power Cutoff On Sunday Needed For New Installation Local officials of Carolina Pow er & Light Company said today that a power cutoff would occur this Sunday afternoon for two hours in a wide area just north i of town. ■Ward HilL local manager, said the cutoff was required to change bad cross arms and to replace a pole for the present 12,000 volt feeder line. The area effected is from Man ly Avenue just at the northern edge of town through Manly, Vass, Cameron, Lakeview, Lobel ia, Niagara and the Clay Road Farm section. The cutoff will occur from 1:30 to 3:30. why the injunction should not be come permanent but it has been •postponed. In the meantime Owen, who had spent his entire working life as the Jugtown potter, decided that he would open his own shop and use his storehouse of know ledge to turn out the familiar products. He said Friday that be plans to continue making typical Jugtown pieces (though they will not be sold under the name of Jugtown) and would also re vive some of the shapes which had not been turned in many years. Several friends, be said, have loaned him old pieces to freshen his memory. Some collectors, he added, were enthusiastic over his plans to turn out the old shapes and he planned to devote much of his time to it. Working with him will be Boyce Yow, the handyman and kiln firer at Jugtown for several years. Ibe new kiln is similar to the one at Jugtown, though not quite as large, and he will fire it with wood, a necessity in order to ob tain the type glazes that Jugtown collectors want. Sandhills Firemen Slate Convention In Rockingham The Sandhills Firemen’s As sociation, which includes several counties and of which P. T. Smith of Vass is president, will hold its 33rd annual convention in Rock ingham on Wednesday, June 24, the president announces. Rockingham is celebrating the 175th anniversary of the found ing of the town, and Wednesday, the day of the convention, has been set aside as Fun Day, so there will be much for visiting firemen, their wives and children to see, according to an outline of plans released by the Rocking ham Fire Chief, Perry C. Coving ton. There will be a Youth Parade Wednesday morning, led by Miss North Carolina, also sack races, a greasy pole climb, and other events. A picnic lunch is plan ned, and Miss North Carolina’s lunch basket and those of the Pageant Queens will be sold at auction. A square dance at the ball park is on the agenda for Wednesday night and a performance by Miss North Carolina, prior to the Rock-O-Rama Pageant. Street dances\will end the evening. Chiefs of the various towns are requested to notify the Rocking ham chief as to the number of firemen and members of their families planning to attend. Country Bookshop To Have Part-Time Summer Operation The Country Bookshop will be open on a part-time basis this summer, according to Mrs. George Richardson, co-proprietor. The shop, located at the comer of W. Pennsylvania Avenue and Bennett Street, will be in charge of Mrs. Margaret Lausten of Pine- bluff. Hours will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily. Mrs. Richardson wiU operate a shop in Blowing Rock for the summer, she said, moving some of the stock from the local store. Miss Lockie Parker, another partner in the firm is recupera ting at her home on N. Ridge Street after being hospitalized several weeks.