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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959
Three Indians
Convicted On Tire
Stealing Charges
Thres Robeson County Indians,
two men and a woman, drew pri
son sentences Wednesday in
Moore Superior Court in a case
which Judge Hubert E. Olive a-
greed with the defense attorney
was “most unusual.”
The three, Ruphs or Rupert
Locklear, 43, Lee G. Lowreyj 34,
and the woman, Isienore Lock
lear, 38, pleaded guilty to the
theft of $1,500 worth of new ny
lon truck and auto tires from
the Quality Oil Co. at Eagle
Springs. The men were sentenced
fo serve two to three years in
State’s Prison, the woman 12 to
18 months in the Women’s Divi-
: sion.
Wesley C. Watts of Lumberton,
defense counsel, said that “while
our Indians get into many differ
ent kinds of trouble, it is very sel
dom one of them commits larce
ny.” He concurred with State's
witness Sheriff W. B. Kelly’s ex-
; pressed opinion that “someone
.else is behind this.”
Sheriff Sam B. Smitherman of
; Montgomery County was on hand
to serve as a witness if needed. It
was through cooperation of his
department. Sheriff Kelly said,
the tires were recovered from a
’wooded hideout and the woman
■arrested near Troy. Tbs two men
were apprehended later with the
h-elp of the Robeson County Sher
iff’s department and Maxton po
lice. The break-in and theft rep
resented a “big operation,” said
Sheriff Kelly.
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State Accepts Lesser Plea From
16-Year-Old On Burglary Charges
A plea of second degree burg- in fact we don’t know what he
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OPENING FOOTBALL PRACTICE was held
Saturday when about 20 boys reported to head
coach Jim Walser- He is shown here handing out
instructions as assistant Gerald Ellen, to his
right listens in. The team, which plays its first
game September 4, is working out daily at Me
morial Field. (Humphrey photo)
Blue Knights To Miss Watkins This
Year; Enters Virginia Prep School
Scout Program At
Church Of Wide
Fellowship Today
Three “roundtables” for adult
leaders and Scouts will be held
at the Church of Wide Fellowship
tonight at 7:45, according to Dr.
•J. C. Grier, Jr., district commis
sioner.
The roundtables are as follows;
Cub leaders, discussion of hob
bies and pets, led by Paul Ward;
Scout leaders, discussion of
“show and try,” led by J. D. Ives;
Explorei? leaders, discussion of
personal grooming, led by J. G.
Farrell.
There is also to be a report on
the World Jamboree recently
concluded in the Philippines by
Woodrow Eldridge of Carthage.
Fire Damages In
First Half Of
Year ReportedLow
Moore Coimty Forest Ranger
Travis Wicker this week released
figures on the damage done by
forest fires in Moore County dur
ing the period of the six months
from January 1 through June 30,
1959.
There were 24 fires by the fol
lowing causes: debris burning, 3;
Incendiary, 3; lumbering, 1; smo
ker, 9; and miscellaneous, 8.
These fires burned upon 713
acres, of which 645 acres was
forest land and 68 acres was open
land. Damage was totaled at $2,
990, of which $2,854 was for for
est land, and $136 was for open
land. These damage figures were
based on a State-wide damage
appraisal system used by the
North Carolina Forest Service.
Moore County has a total of
338,200 acres of woodland, and
forest fires burned on approxi
mately 19 percent of the above
figure.
The Southern Pines Blue
Knights, Cape Fear (Conference
champions, will .be without the
services of one of its star per
formers of last year when the sea
son opens September.
Bobby Watkins, a sparkplug on
the team that went all the way
to the finals of the State Class
A championship before suffering
defeat, has decided to enter a
prep school in ’Virginia for his
last year of high school football.
Watkins, who doubled at quar
terback and halfback and who
earned the praise of former coach
Irie Leonard as one of the top
players he has ever coached, will
enter Frederick Mlitary Acad
emy in September. He said he
plans to play football there- He
will be a scholarship student and,
though only a high school senior,
will play on a team that has col
lege freshmen and sophomores.
Decision to go to the Virginia
school was made a few weeks
ago, Bobby said today.
“I just think that everything
will be better in every respect
for me up there. I will go to col
lege later and hope to study law
eventually. Playing football and
going to the high school here is
something I’ll miss but I’m look
ing forward to going to Freder
ick.”
Last year Watkins was one
of the leading pointmakers in the
State, scoring 15 touchdowns as
the Knights rolled over 12 op-
"ponents before losing to Andrews
33-9 on a cold night in Asheville.
He scored one touchdown in
games against Hope Mills, Chad-
bourn, Fairmont, Aberdeen, Mt.
BOBBY WATKINS
Olive, LaGrange and Edenton.
The one against Edenton was
especially important since the
Knights emerged victors by the
slim margin of 7-6.
Watkins hit his high spots of
the season against St. Pauls and
'Shallotte, when he scored three
touchdowns in each game, and
against Rohanen, when he made
two.
He was given an honorable
mention by the Raleigh News
& Observer’s sports staff for its
State Class A All-Star team.
In addition to playing football
he was also a mainstay on the
baseball team, doubling on pitch
ing and catching assignments-
Suitcase Theft Results In Long
Prison Term For Cameron Negro
Joanne Cooper and Gay Wil
liams won the junior girls’ dou
bles over Dasha Morgan and Jane
Davenport of Greensboro, 6-5,
6-4; while Gay Williams and
Shirley Holliday won girls’ dou
bles against Ann and Fran Lynch,
attractive 14-year-old Raleigh
twins, 6-0, 6-0.
Junior boys’ seeds were (1)
Stanley Cocke, Asheville; (2)
William Poore, Belton, S. C.; (3)
Jim Causey, Davidson, and
(4) David Morgan, Asheville.
Boys’ seeds: (1) Jim Causey;
(2) Jim Sloan, Clinton, S. C.; (3)
David Meschan, Winston-Salem;
and (4) Ray Stallings, Goldsboro.
Joanne Cooper was seeded No.
1 in junior girls’ singles with Gay
Williams No. 2, while in girls’
singles Gay was No. 1 and Shir
ley Holliday was No. 2
Other tournament participants;
Buzzy Parker, Davidson; Jack
Markham, Durham; Tony Craver,
Lexington; Fred Austin, Larry
Connelly, Johnny Phillips, Char
lotte; Burke Davis, III, John
Grove, Sandy Worth, Richard
Holderness, Greensboro; Phil
Thomas, Asheboro; Alan Weil,
Buddy Jordan, Ray Stallings,
Jimmy Dudley, Tony Worrell,
John Zambelli, Bryant Langston,
Goldsboro; Jimmy Emmons, Dav
id Greene, Freddie London, Ra
leigh; John McMillan, Toby Hicks,
Ronnie Brown, Southern Pines;
Phil Jones, Ray Jones, Jack
Cheney, Fort Bragg; Charles
Lefler, Alex London, Chapel
HiU, Donny Dial, Dick Pregnall,
Columbia, S. C-; Fred Craft, Bel
ton, S. C.
Judy Johnson, LuEtta Harris,
Columbia, S. C.; Jane Davenport,
Jane Darden, Greensboro; Carol
Craver, Lexington; Karen Peck,
Raleigh; Dasha Morgan, Ashe
ville, Ann and Fran Lynch, Ra
leigh.
lary, accepted by the State, may
have saved the life of Clarence
Edward Steele, alias Small, Wed
nesday in Moore Superior Court.
The Negro youth, who his law
yer said is only 16, had been in
dicted for first degree burglary,
a capital offense, also attempted
rape. Judge Hubert E. Olive com
mented that “on the evidence I
would have had no choice but to
send him to the gas chamber.”
Ten to 15 years in prison was the
sentence.
Gaynelle Tillman, pretty 15-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
M. H. Tillman of near Carthage,
told of waking about mdnight to
see the youth in the bedroom
which she was sharing with her
14-year-old sister Christine. She
said, “When we woke and scream
ed he came over and laid across
the bed and started slapping us.”
Mrs. Tillman, whose husband
is an invalid, came rushing as
the girls continued to scream, and
Steele fled through a front win
dow of which he had unlatched
the screen.
Sheriff W. B. Kelly testified he
traced the intruder to his home
a mile or so away, where the boy
was found asleep. Steele at first
denied, then admitted, the break-
in. His feet fitted bare footprints
found at several places under
windows of the 'Tillman home.
P. H. Wilson, court-appointed
defense attorney, said his inqui
ries had satisfied him the boy
was mentally retarded and had
no idea of the gravity of the
crime which he had committed.
He added, “There is no evidence
he intended to commit rape, and
had in mind and the probability
is he doesn’t either.” He said
Steele told him he didn’t know
what he was, doing in the Tillman
house, and that •’“when the girls
started screaming he realized he
was in the wrong place, and all
he wanted to do was get away
from there.”
Steele was indicted under the
name of Small, which Wilson
said was his stepfather’s name,
not his own. Solicitor M. G. Boy
ette said he would amend the bill
to show the correct name.
Highway Patrol
Officer To Head
Membership Drive
FAVORITES
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Davis; Comer vs Purcell-
Third flight—Medlin vs Top
per Parks; Strauss vs Chatfield.
Fourth. flight—Austin vs
Thrower; Brezinski vs Jones.
Filth flight— Puckett vs Las
siter; Rainey vs Yearby.
Sixth flight—Pollard vs Collins;
Picket vs VonCanon.
Seventh flight—Trotter vs
Wells.
T. L. Campbell Ill
In Florida Hospital
T. L. Campbell, formerly of
Southern Pines, is ill in a Florida
hospital, it was learned today by
The Pilot.
Mr. Campbell, well known here,
became ill while visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Frances Hatch in
Miami-
He is confined to the Veterans
Hospital in Coral Gables.
CPL J, A, McCOLMAN
Cpl. J. A. McColman of the
State Highway Patrol has ac
cepted appointment as member
ship drive chairman for Moore
County representing the North
Carolina State Employees Assoc
iation.
Cpl. Colman, who lives in Car
thage and heads up the Patrol
activities in this county, plans
to contact all state employees in
the county in the next few months
as part of his new duties. Moore
County is one of 19 of Area IV
of NCSEA.
His appointment was announc
ed by Avard P. Sproul of the
North Carolina Sanatorium at
McCain, chairman of the mem
bership committee of Area IV.
Charlie Jethroe Jackson, Negro,
of Cameron, drew the longest
sentence of the first day of Moore
Superior Court Monday when
Judge Hubert E. Olive handed
him not less than seven nor more
than 10 years in prison for steal
ing a suitcase from the baggage
room of the Aberdeen railroad
station.
The suitcase, belonging to Mrs.
Lillian Farrah of Route 2, Aber
deen and valued at more than
$100,’ was Exhibit A in the case.
Mrs. Farrah, who had a baby
Sunday night, could not be pres
ent as a witness, but Alvin Gib
son, special agent, and J. E. Lu
cas assistant supervisor, with
the Seaboard Air Line, were, also
Aberdeen Police Chief Lamar
Smith.
Gibson told of the break-in,
which had been accomplished by
a strong pull on a sliding door
which broke the l^asp of the
lock, and the month-long investi
gation of the theft. The suitcase
was found in Jackson’s home un-
der his bed, with most of the
clothes it had contained hidden
in an outhouse. Jackson had ad
mitted the theft, and showed
how he had done it, Gibson said.
However, the defendant took
the stand to dispute various parts
of his testimoney, not even end
ing his argument when Solicitor
M. G. Boyette read out his record
of 20 years of theft convictions
in many places.- Some of these—
including two at Raleigh for
which he drew five-year prison
terms—Jackson claimed he “didn’t
remember;”
GEN. FISHER
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action.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Gen
eral Fisher is married to the for
mer Dorothy Douglas of Scran
ton, Pa., daughter of the late Col
onel John N. Donglas, Army Air
Corps. Their son William Douglas
Fisher, recently graduated from
Princeton University. Their
daughter Ann is married to Air
Force pilot Lieutenant William
J. Danaher.
daughteretOC
'The General’s home is South
ern Pines, where his mother, Mrs.
Elinor S. Fisher resides.
SHOP WITH PILOT ADS
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
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ty Board of Commissioners, Carthage, North Carolina,
in the Commissioners’ Room, on the second floor of the
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E. S. T., Monday, August 31,1959, and immediately there
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system. Separate bids invited on each of the three phases
of installation.
Complete Plans, Specifications and Contract Docu
ments can be obtained at the Coimty Auditor s Office,
Carthage, North Carolina or office of Leonard H. Owen,
Consulting Engineer, 101 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, North
Carolina.
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UNSEEDED
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David Meschan of Winston-Salem
and Ray Stallings.
Some 50 young people
siarte'd play Monday and
Tuesday in the 11th annual
Junior Sandhills, sponsored
by the Sandhills Tennis as
sociation in cooperation with
the summer recreation pro
gram. Mrs. Dorothy McMillan,
STA president, and David
Drexel, tournament chairman,
were assisted by Norris L.
Hodgkins, Jr., Mrs- Judy
Leonard and others in stag
ing the highly successful
event.
In junior girls’ singles, Joanne
Cooper of Charlotte successfully
defended her title against an un
seeded newcomer to the local
courts, Dasha Morgan of Ashe
ville. The score was 6-1, 6-1. Jo-
a'nne defeated Shirley Holliday
of Belton, S. C., 6-1, 6-4, while
Dasha ousted the No. 2 seed. Gay
Williams of Charlotte, 6-4, 6-3 in
semifinals.
Gay beat Shirley Holliday to
retain her crown as girls’ singles
champ.
Doubles play saw Stanley
Cocke and David Morgan of
Asheville win- for junior boys,
against Donny Dial and Fred
'Craft from South Carolina, 6-3,
6-2; while in the boys’ event, Jim
Causey and Jim Sloan, of Clin
ton, S. C., teamed to defeat David
Meschan of Winston-Salem and
Ray Stallings of Goldsboro, 6-3,
6-2-
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A FOREST FIRE r
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Nine out of ten forest fires are
man-caused.
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your shopping list when
yoii have run through
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your choices. You’ll find
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helps you not to forget
the essentials ... as -well
as those so—^important
non essentials.