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re Cleared Of Blame In Death
Of Policeman Killed In Hospital
' ■ A coroner’s jury Monday night
Seminarians Will
Make Religious
Census Of Town
Reverend Francis M. Smith,
Pastor of St. Anthony’s Church,
said today that Catholic seminar
ians will call on every home in
Southern Pines during the next
week—August 10 to 15.
These door-to-door calls, he
said, will enable officials at St.
Anthony’s Church tp get the par
ish records completely up-to-date
as well as to make a religious
survey of the area.
Just last month the theological
students were at the former Pine
Needles Country Club building,
now used by St. Joseph’s Hospital,
taking an extra course in Latin
to aid them in their studies. Since
then, they have taken religious
surveys in Wilson and Greenville.
A group which earlier took cen
sus in Rocky Mount is now tak
ing Latin and staying at the Gol-
fery at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
The group who will take the
Southern Pines survey will stay
dt Maryhurst Retreat House in
Pinehurst.
AU the seminarians, except
James Forsyth who is from Sou
thern Pines, will leave for their
homes all over the country on
August 15. This fall they will re
enter seminaries in many parts
of the country.
Football Players
Asked To Meet
With New Coach
Jim Walser, new principal
and football coach at Southern
Pines High School, will have his
first meeting, with prospective
members of the squad tomorrow
(Friday) night.
He has called a meeting in his
office for 7 o’clock and urges all
boys who were on the squad last
year and those who plan to play
this year to be there.
Walser said today that he had
held several discussions with Irie
Leonard, whom he is replacing,
about prospects for the season.
They talked, he said, about indiv
idual squad members and their
capabilities and also about op
ponents.
Walser taid today that the
talks had been of tremendous
value.
First game for the Blue
Knights, Cape Fear Conference
champions and tunners-up in
Class A competition last year,
will be September 4 when they
go to Raeford, a newcomer to the
schedule and one of four AA op
ponents on the schedule. The sec
ond game is against Laurinburg,
also a newcomer and another AA
opponent. That game will be
played at Memorial Field Sep
tember 11.
Walser has announced the
opening of practice s-sssions for
August 15, a Saturday. Ordinari
ly, he shid, he would have waited
until Monday but he needed as
much time with the team as pos
sible.
In the. meantime bs urged as
many players as possible to work
out whenever they get an oppor
tunity so that they may report to
the opening practice session in.
good condition.
Demonstration Of
Self Improvement
Course Set Monday
A demonstration of the Dais
Carnegie course in self improve
ment will be held in the Council
Chamber of the Municipal Center
Monday night, according to mem
bers of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, sponsors of a 14-week
course to be held here.
The demonstration will begin
at 7::30 and, Jaycees said, there
is no obligation.
The regular course begins Au
gust 17 in a location still to be
announced. Ernest Wall of
Greensboro will conduct the
course.
exonerated Pinehurst police offi
cer Rudolph Frye of any blame
in the fatal shooting of Ralph
Earl Medlin, Southern Pines po
liceman, the night of July 20 in
a corridor at Moore Memorial
Hospital.
After an inquest that lasted
some two and a half hours the
jury of six men took only abbut
two minutes to decide that Frye
had acted in self-defense .
The inquest was called by
Moore County coroner Ralph
Steed and held in the hospital.
A dozen witnesses gave detailed
accounts, including officers and
hospital personnel, and Mrs. Dor
othy Clippard, who was seized in
her room at the hospital and was
being used by Medlin as a shield
when he was fatally shot.
Several officers testified that
Frye, who was standing in the
corridor outside Mrs. Clippard’s
room when Medlin emerged, had
ordered Medlin to surrender and
drop his gun. When he refused
and started firing wildly, Frye
shot three times, once in warning
and then twice in the body. The
last shot, which struck Medlin
in the head, was the cause of
death.
The coroner’s jury was com
posed of Max Forrest and Bry
an Poe of Southern Pines, Baxter
Wiseman and L. B. Creath of
Pinehurst, and Russ Coble and
Lewis Harrington of Aberdeen.
Creath served as foreman.
The only question they were
called on to answer was: Was
there any criminal negligence on
the part of Rudolph Frye in the
fatal shooting of Ralph Earl Med
lin? Their answer was no.
W. Lamont Brown, Solicitor of
Moore Recorder’s Court, conduct
ed the questioning of witnesses.
LITTLE LEAGUERS of Southern Pines had
a rough season this year with not a single vic
tory in 18 games. Undaunted by the poor show
ing, they chalked it up to experience. Shown
here with their able coach, C. L. Dutton, at
right, are Danny Crowley, Eddie Dutton, Earl
Pitts, Ronnie Brown, Tommy Richardson on the
front row, and Larry Daugherty, Harold Bruce,
Paul Grootman, Lynn Daeke, and Joe Junkin
in back row. Not present for picture were Mike
Ward, Buddy Garner and Randy Boroughs.
(Humphrey photo)-
J. Hawley Poole
Injured Monday
In Car Accident
J. Hawley Poole, prominent
farmer of West End and a former
State Senator, was injured along
with two others when his pickup
truck collided with a car near
West End Monday.
State Highway Patrolman Ed
Shomaker said he was still inves
tigating the accident which oc
curred at the intersection of NC
211 and the Samarcand Road.
He said that James Green,
driver of the car, smd Izetta Bar
ber, who was riding in Mr. Pople’s
car, were injured seriously and
are at Moore Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Poole, who suffered injuries
of his arm, is also there. Several
others who were involved in the
accident were released from the
hospital after first aid treatment.
No charges have been made,
Shomaker said.
County Library, In Year-End Report,
Says Circulation Showing Increase
A circulation increase of some "
3,402 books over the previous
ye2U' was noted by the Moore
Gounty Library Board in its an
nual report to the County Com
missioners Monday.
W. Stuart Evans, board chair-
New Assistant
Home AgentNamed
By Commissioners
Mrs. Nancy Currie, assistant
home agent for Moore County in
charge of 4-H Club work, has re
signed effective September 1.
The Board of County Commis
sioners, meeting Monday, named
Mrs. Elizabeth Clark Barringer
of Carthage to succeed her.
Mrs. Currie, whose husband is
J. E. Currie of the Sandhills Vet
erinary Hospital, has been a mem
ber of Miss Flora McDonald’s
staff since 1957. She was com
mended by the Commissioners for
her work.
Mrs. Barringer is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harris W. Clark
of Jackson Springs. She is mar
ried to John M. Barringer, a
pharmacist in Carthage.
She is a graduate of West End
High School, Flora Macdonald
College (in June of this year)
and studied home economics.
In her new job she will assist
Migs McDonald in several phases
of county home demonstration
work and will be in charge of
the 4-H program for girls in the
county.
man, said in his report that
“since the library moved into its
own quarters iri Carthage, it
seems to have assumed its true
identity for Moore County peo
ple as a county service agency.”
With an initial circulation of
32 books on the day the library
opened in Carthage January 19,
Evans noted that circulation waa
averaging HS each Monday in
June.
The library collection grew by
a total of 1,655 books during the
year, he said, which brings the
total collection to 18,834.
“The coUection continues to
grow slowly but steadily,” hg
pointed out, “toward the goal of
one book per person in the coun
ty. In adding to the collection, we
have tried to strike a balance be
tween meeting the demand for
books of current interest and
building toward a sound, well-
balanced collection of permanent
value.”
Other statistics in the report:
a total of 1,410 volumes were
lent from the main library, and
21,526 through the bookmobile.
There were also 1,266 volumes
loaned to public libraries.
Four public libraries in the
county have received supple
mentary book collections during
the year, including Robbins,
Pinebluff, Carthage and Southern
Pines.
In addition to Evans, other
members of the library' board
are Archie Kelly, Mrs. J. L. Mc-
Graw, Mrs. A. P. Phillips, Miss
Alma Edwards and Mrs. L. T.
Avery. Miss Hollis Haney is li
brarian.
JOE WARREN
Joe Warren Is
Named Manager
Of Radio Station
After 12 years with radio sta
tion WEEB here Joe Warren, vice
president, sales manager and
chief engineer, has resigned to
accept the position of general
manager of WAKN in Aiken, S. C.
Principal stockholder in the
Aiken station is John Mare of
Southern Pines.
Warren, who is a native of
Fleetwood, Westchester County,
N. Y., majored in engineering at
Clemson College. After discharge
from the Army in World War 2
he joined the news and special
events department of the Ameri
can Broadcasting Cofnpany in
New York^
Included in his assignments was
coverage of the United Nations.
He left ABC in 1947 to help
establish WEEB.
The Board of Education is
publishing in today's islue of
The Pilot a resolution adopt
ed earlier this week in which
pupil assignments are made
for the coming school year.
Under the resolution all
students who attended school
here last year and expect to
return this year are assigned
to the same schools they at
tended. Others are being as
signed by 'the Superinten
dent.
Parents who wish to have a
change made in the assign-
inents have 10 days to make
written application for a
change.
The resolution is on page 9.
Telephone Firm
Picks Bigbee As
Commercial Supt.
John M. Bi^ee, who has been
assistant commercial superintend
ent of the United Telephone Com
pany of the Carolinas for the
past nine months, has been pro
moted to commercial superintend
ent.
He succeeds E. W. Smail, who
was elected assistant general man
ager of the firm earlier this year.
Bigbee has been in the tele
phone industry all his adult life,
working in various exchanges
owned by his family, and for
United. He attended the Univer
sity of South Carolina and re
ceived a degree in electrical en
gineering.
After service in the Navy dur
ing World War 1, he was local
manager of several offices owned
by independent companies. He
joined United in April, 1952, as
central office equipment super
visor in the Beaufort, S. C., dis
trict of the company.
He came here last October as
assistant commercial superintend
ent. He and his wife, who live at
470 E. Indiana Avenue, have
three daughters. They are mem
bers of the First Baptist Church;
and Mr. Bigbee is also a Mason
and a past president of the Beau
fort Water Festival, now an an
nual affair drawing visitors from
many Southern states.
Southern Pines schools will
open Wednesday, September 2,
according to Superintendent Lu
ther Adams.
The opening, one of the earliest
in history, was decided on be
cause th^ School Board felt that
to wait until after Labor Day,
which is September 7, would
have thrown the closing date too
far into the summer.
Mr. Adams, beginning his first
year in the new job, said that on
the opening day, which he term
ed a “teacher-pupil orientation
day,” pupils would report to the
school for assignments to rooms
and classes, receive textbooks
and supplies, review the daily
schedule and have an assignment
of lessons.
The first full day will be on
Thursday.
Teachers will report on Mon
day for discussions with the su
perintendent and other officials
of the school policies and philos
ophies, rating'systems, schedules,
and to receive textbooks and sup
plies.
The State Legislature in the
last session allotted three days
additional work to the teachers,
two of which are prior to the
opening of school and one at the
close of the term.
Mr. Adams said he did not
know when the closing day
would be nor just how vacation
periods wodld work out. He
hoped to have that information
within the next few days, how
ever.
The East Southern Pines
schools, he said, are without a
high school mathematics teacher,
a junior high school science
teacher and an elementary teach
er.
John Porter, the science teach
er, recently resigned to join
Western Electric.
Mrs. M. L. Palmer of Manly,
who was employed in the cafe
teria at the school last year, has
been named manager succeeding'
Mrs. W. A. Leonard who is mov
ing to Greensboro with her hus
band who has accepted a position
with an insurance company.
Industry Hunters Report Good Year;
Commissioners NamelVew Committee
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ADULT SOFTBALL LEAGUE champions in ^ of the summer recreation program; Jimmy
regular league play was the team known as the ' Hobbs, member of the Town Council; and Joel
Galloping Ghosts, sponsored by Tom O’Neil. Stutts, player-manager of the Ghosts.
Pictured here are Irie Leonard, at left, director (Humphrey photo)
Nicholson Plans
Teaching Post At
East Carolina
Edward Nicholson, graduate
student majoring in psychology
at Eastern Carolina College at
Greenville, wiU be an instructor
in the psychology department
diming the coming academic year,
teaching a freshman course.
He graduated at State College
with a B. ?. degree in industrial
engineering in June, and immed
iately started work at ECC on
his master’s degree in psychology,
with a view toward entering the
field of industrial psychology and
personnel work.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. S. O.
Nicholson of 170 East New York
avenue, he is a 1950 graduate of
Southern Pines High School and
a veteran of four and a half years
with the U. S. Marine Corps,
from which he was discharged
as a staff sergeant.
He is one of two local graduate
students who will be on the ECC
faculty this year, as Gary Mat
tocks * last week accept^ the
post of assistant coach.
Moore County’s Industrial De
velopment Committee, in a year-
end report made to the Board of
County Commissioners this week,
pointed to a year of progress in
which almost $500,000 was in
vested in new industrial plants
and machinery in the county.
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines, outgoing chairman of the
committee, cited his associates as
“one of the finest, hard-working
group of men that I have ever
been privileged to work with.”
In citing accomplishments of
the committee for the year he
said:
“In one year, with expenditures
of $2,424 against an appropriation
from the county of $5,000, the
committee has helped to secure
four new industries with an an
ticipated employment of 250 to
300. Two sire constructing new
buildings with a value of about
$450,000 and a third is doubling
the present size for an additional
value of about $35,000.
“The brochure has been brought
up to date with new information
and additional pictures.
“The committee organized and
sponsored Industry Appreciation
dinner meetings throughout the
county for the benefit of our ex
isting industries.
“The chairman was sent to
Philadelphia to take part in the
industry hunting trip with the
Governor and the Board of Con
servation and Development.
“Numerous contacts, both per
sonal and through correspon
dence. were made with industrial
prospects outside the State and
attempts were made to assist lo
cal industries expand present
facilities.”
-Ewing said that while the com
mittee had been quite successful
over the past year it would be
weU for the Commissioners to re
member that industry hunting
is becoming extremely competi
tive. “A group of unskilled vol
unteers working on their own
time,” he said, “are no match for
the development associations with
paid experts in the industrial en
gineering field.”
With that thought in mind, he
urged the Commissioners to con
sider hiring a full time paid en
gineer to work in industry hunt
ing campaigns.
The four new companies locat
ed here during the year, he said,
were Carolina Laces of Robbins,
Fletcher Southern and Trimble
Products, Inc., of Southern Pines,
and the Southern Garment Com
pany, also of Robbins.
The Commissioners commended
the committee highly for efforts
during the past year.
The new committee is composed
of Ben Wicks of Aberdeen, Hayes
Harbour of Cameron, Wilton H.
Brown of Carthage, E. H. Mills
of Pinebluff, L. B. Creath of
Pinehurst, J. F. Steed of Robbins,
D. A. Blue, Jr., Norris Hodgkins
and Ward HiU of Southern Pines,
A. G. Edwards, Jr., of Vass, Billy
Johnson of West End, and Nor
man Purvis of Parkwood.
Ewing and Jack Williams of
Carthage were the two retiring
members.
The committee is now entering
lits third year of operation.
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