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VOL. 39—NO. 44
Young People
Waive Hearing,
Remain In Jail
Quartet Arrested
Here Facing Grand
Jury In November
The four young people arrested
here last week in connection with
a break-in and, robbery at the
rectory of St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church are all in jail at Carth
age today, awaiting grand jury
action at the November term of
Moore County Superior Court.
They are:
Joseph Pius Rallo, who has
given ages from 18 to 23, refuses
to give the name of any friend or
relative and is charged with do
ing the actual breaking in at the
rectory, not only last week but
previously on August 11 when a
hitherto unexplained robbery
took place there.
John A. Henshaw, 18, a native
■of Massachusetts, lately of Miami,
Fla., who refused to give his fam
ily’s address and who i^. charged
with aiding and abetting in last
week’s break-in.
Mrs. Charlone Mirone, 17,
whose husband, Joe Mirone left
the wandering party of young
law-breakers after a quarrel with
her in August and was then ar
rested for auto larceny in New
York state. She has a mother in
California and a father in St.
Louis. Miami, Fla., is her last per
manent address. She’s charged
with aiding and abetting in both
the August 11 and last week’s
break-ins.
Beda Maris Nolan, J8, Miami,
who is charged with aiding and
abetting in last week’s break-in.
Her mother, Mrs. Geraldine
Voight, and step-father live in
Miami. Her mother was here for
a hearing in the case Wednssday,
after being notified by local po
lice Sunday night.
The quartet was taken to Car
thage by Southern Pines police
Wednesday afternoon after they
had waived a hearing before
Judge Harry Fullenwider in
Southern Pines Recorder’s Court
Wednesday morning. There are
no facilities for keeping prison
ers permanently at the jail here,
but the young folks had been
held here for a week during
which Chief C. E. Newton carried
on a prolonged interrogation.
Signed sjtatements were taken
from. < all four.
Beda Nolan was the only one
of the four represented by coun
sel at Wednesday’s hearing. At
torney P. H. Wilson appeared for
her but neither she nor any of the
others were able to make bond.
Bond was set at $5,000 for Rallo,
described as the leader of the lit
tle gang, and at $2,000 for the
other three.
When first arrested, Rallo had
given his name as Donald Christy
of Syracuse, N. Y., and had pro-
ducecl a draft card to prove it.
Chief Newton said that a check
on this produced the information
(Continued on page 8)
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959
SIXTEEN PAGES
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I
EAGLE SCOUT—Mr. and Mrs. C. G. (Bud)
Crockett, Jr., of Lakeview stand at left as Mrs.
Crockett pins the top-ranking Eagle Scout
badge on their son David in an outdoor camp
fire court of honor ceremony Saturday night.
Karl Schweinfurth, Scoutmaster of Troop 810
at Vass, of which David is a member, stands
next to him and at right is Sam Garcia, assistant
scoutmaster of the troop, who provided David
with a corsage for his mother and a miniature
silver eagle for his father, recognizing their ef
forts in helping him attain Eagle rank. Visible
in the background, between David and his
mother, is Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst, Boy
Scout district commissioner. (Photo by Hum
phrey)
Outdoor Court
Of Honor Held
At Scout Camp
More than 160 Boy Scouts from
Moore County units took part in
a “camporee” at Shamrock Farms
lake near Pinehurst last weekend.
The program included a campfire
court of honor Saturday night,
with rank advancements and
presentation of merit badges to
Scouts from the various partici
pating troops.
For over-all excellence at the
camporee, which included com
petition in a number of Scouting
skills. Troop 852 of Carthage won
first place. A close second, with
only three less points than the
winner, was Troop 74 of Robbins.
Highest award at the court of
honor was an Eagle Scout badge
to David Crockett, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. G. (Bud) Crockett of Vass.
Star Rank was presented by
Joe Sandlin of Southern Pines,
Moore District chairman, to four
Scouts of Troop 68, Aberdeen:
-Sidney Taylor, Sam R. Bell, Gary
Thompson and Victor Grose.
Dr. J. D. Ives of Pinebluff, as
sistant district commissioner, pre
sented First Class awards to
Gary Britt, Jimmy Wadsworth
and William Harris, all of Troop
74, Robbins.
Second Class awards went to
Johnny Burns and J. Robert Mat
thews of Troop 68, Aberdeen;
Jimmy Russell of Troop 74, Rob
bins; and Stephen Frye of Troop
810, Vass. The presentations were
made by Paul Cole of the Dis
trict Activities Committee.
Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of Pine-
(Continued on page 8)
Kiwanis Will Take 90 Moore County
6th Graders To Bragg On Kids’ Day
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Tm Proud Of My Boys..
“I can’t tell you how proud I
am of my boys,” Police Chief C.
E. Newton said, yesterday, after
he had delivered to the county
jail at Carthage the out-of-state
young people arrested in connec
tion with a break-in at the Cath
olic rectory last week. Having
waived hearing here yesterday
morning, they’ll stay in Carthage
for grand jury action in Novem
ber.
The chief was referring to Sgt.
Earl SeaweU and Officer Otis
Bridges who made the arrests.
“They did an outstanding job,”
the chief said.
Sergeant Seawell had appre
hended the young man who
broke into the rectory, while Of
ficer Bridges, on a hunch, had fol
lowed the three accomplices and
had seen through the lies they
told him when he stopped them
in their car on Broad Street in
front of the bank.
There wasn’t anybody around
yesterday to praise the tired chief
who had spent many hours in the
past w’eek interrogating the quar
tet, sifting fact from fiction, com
municating with police depart
ments in other cities, trying to
locate the families of the young
people and apparently getting
more truth out of them than any
body else has extracted in some
time.
For the alertness and efficiency
of his officers, it was obvious.
Chief Newton was deeply grate
ful. But to a Pilot reporter, talk
ing with the chief as he rested
from his labors Wednesday night,
it seemed that something else
was almost as important.
“Do you know what those
young folks told me,” the chief
asked, “that is, three of them, the
two girls and Henshaw? They
said they are glad they had been
caught and stopped. They said
they didn’t know where they’d
end up if they kept going. They
admitted they had learned a
lesson.”
To Chief Newton, who for
years has tried to steer troubled
young people of his own com
munity into the paths of right
eousness, those words from
youngsters who appeared to be
about as confused and aimless as
they could be, must have been a
great reward.
(See editorial, “A Tribute to
Southern Pines,” Page 2)
Schedule of events for this
year’s observance of Kids’ Day
at Pope Air Force Base, Satur
day, September 26, has been an
nounced. Thousands of boys,- girls
and their families are expected
to attend.
An “open house” and other
activities running from 10 am.
to 3 p.m. will feature the ob
servance co-sponsored by Kiwanis
International and the Air Force.
R. S. Ewing of Southern Pines,
chairman of the Boys and Girls
Committee of the Sandhills Ki
wanis Club, said that members
of the club plan to take about 90
sixth graders from schools of
Moore County to Fort Bragg in
the local schobl activities bus
and private cars and station wag
ons. The group will meet at the
Ridge Street side of the school
about 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
The club is undertaking to
transport only a group already
chosen through the schools. How
ever, any child accompanied by
an adult can attend the events at
Fort Bragg.
The Kiwanis Club usually takes
fifth graders, Mr. Ewing said, but
sixth graders are being taken this
year since last year’s Kids’ Day
was cancelled because of a hur
ricane threat.
The Fayetteville Kiwanis Club,
of which I. H. O’Hanlon is presi
dent, is arranging selection of an
honorary boy “base commander”
and a girl “WAF staff director”
for the day.
Highlights of the program will
include a formation flyover by
three 464th Troop Carrier Wing
C-123 “Provider” transports at
12:40 p.m., a bundle drop at
12:55, simulated assault landings
by C-123s at 1 p. m., and a para
chute jump by 20 combat con
trollers of the 3rd Aerial Port
Sq. at 1:10 p.m.
A demonstration by a model
airplane club, the “Circle Burn
ers”, will be given at 10:15 a. m.
and repeated at 1:50 p.m., while
last event is a crash fire demon
stration at 2:45 p.m-
There wiU be an Air Force Re
cruiting Service display at which
candy, balloons and other souv
enirs, donated by merchants of the
Fayetteville area, will be given
away. Also to be distributed, ac
cording to S-Sgt. Samuel C. Bur-
gin, Air Force recruiter, are
pocket size pictures of aircraft
and missiles.
A concessionaire plans to make
box lunches available for kids
at a cost of 25 cents each.
Air Force aircraft scheduled
for ground display include Pope’s
own C-123s as well as big C-123,
C-130 and C-119 transports, a T-
28 trainer, and a T-33 jet trainer.
Gilmore Named
Head 4-County
Progress Effort
Development Group
Organized; Many
At Local Meeting
The Sandhills Area Develop
ment Association, comprising
Moore, Lee, Montgomery and
Richmond counties, was organized
at a meeting of some 600 persons
at Weaver auditorium Friday
night, and elected Voit Gilmore
of Southern Pines as its first
president.
The gathering heapd Zeb C.
Strawn of Charlotte, principal
speaker, describe the area associa
tion movement as “a tool for hu
man betterment.” The new as
sociation “will raise the living
standards of every man, woman
and child in this area,” he said.
Strawn is the president of the
highly successful 16-county Pied
mont Area Development Associa
tion, which overlaps the state
line to take in five South Caro
lina counties. He listed some of
the achievements of PADA dur
ing its 19 months’ existence,
working in the four main activity
fields of agricultural, industrial
and community development, and
travel and recreation. In the co
operative program “everybody is
a winner. . . It develops leader
ship, brings thousands together as
neighbors, creates opportunities
for youth and enriches the lives
of all who come in contact with
it,” Strawn noted with enthus
iasm.
Dr. Naomi G. Albanese, dean
(Continued on page 8)
Civic Leaders Join In
Patrol’s Safety Effort
‘Point System’
Seen As Help
In Cutting Toll
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE MOVIES .
Publie Hearing
Scheduled About
Highway Work
The State Highway Commission
will hold a public hearing in
connection with its two-day meet
ing in Carthage in October.
Citizens and officials of the
Sandhills area will have an op
portunity tp air their road re
quests and petitions before the
full Commission beginning at
2:30 p.m. on Monday, October 5.
The hearing will be held in the
courtroom of the Moore County
courthouse.
As a means of expediting the
hearings and avoiding long wait
ing periods for those who wish
to appear, appointments are be
ing made. Persons wishing to
present road requests to the Com
mission are being asked to write
for a definite time appointment-
Requests fOr appointment should
be addressed to Sam Beard, pub
lic relations officer at the State
Highway Commission in Raleigh.
Members of the Highway Patrol
and Moore County political and
civic leaders joined Friday night
in an appeal for safer driving,
against a background of mount
ing highway deaths,and accidents
in the county and state.
Addressing a meeting of mu
nicipal and county officials, law
enforcement officers, ministers,
Ward Hill To
Head Industrial
Committee
I
MR. HILL
Jr.
Meeting Wed^
nesday after
noon at the
town Informa
tion Center, the
Southern Pines
Industrial Com-
i mittee elected
Ward Hill chair
man for the
coming year
succeeding Nor
ris L. Hodgkins,
Mr. Hill, who has been a mem
ber of the committee, is local
manager for the Carolina Power
and Light Co.
Jimmy Hobbs was named to
succeed Mayor Robert S. Ewing
on the committee as representa
tive of the town council.
Mr. Hodgkins welcomed to
membership on the committee
William J. Donovan, president of
Trimble Products, Inc., and Ed
ward T. Taws, Jr., president of
Fletcher Southern, who represent
the two new industries moving to
Southern Pines in the past year.
Mr. Hodgkins said that the town
is fortunate to have secured
these industries.
Other members of the commit
tee, all reappointed, are Harry
Fullenwider, John Ostrom, D. A.
Blue, Jr., and Jack Yoimts.
Two Killed In
County’s Worst
Wreck Of Year
Buf It Happened In Southern Pines
You might see it in the movies, I City and erstwhile of Miami
but you Wouldn’t expect to see Fla., jimmying open a metai
it in Southern Pines. ; strong box with a small screw-
The scene opens with a woman
running out into the street on the
200 block of East Vermont Aven
ue late last Wednesday afternoon
and stopping a car driven by Tom
my Council, who is employed at
Poe’s Service Station. She told
him excitedly that somebody was
trying to break into the Catholic
rectory. She was only passing by
—a stranger in town staying here
for a while.
Back of Tommy was Yates Poe
—^who with his brother, Bryan,
operate the service station. Tom
my was delivering a car to a
customer and Yates was coming
along to take him back to the
station.
Then the woman went back and
talked to Yates. Nobody knew
quite what to make of her story,
but just then they heard a crash
as the glass was smashed in the
back door of the rectory.
Tommy went to the Alex Mor
gan house across the street from
the rectory and Mrs. Morgan call
ed the police. Meanwhile, Alex
Morgan had come out and also
on the scene was Roland Frye of
the Murdocksville Road, near
Pinehurst.
Meanwhile all was quiet in
side the rectory. Anyone with x-
ray eyes would have seen a small,
dark, intense, young man, Joseph
Pius Rallo, native of New York
driver which he carried for such
a purpose and had no doubt used
a number of times while robbing
—according to his own later es
timate—more than 35 Catholic
rectories and churches in the At
lantic seaboard states. He found
the strong box empty of money
but spotted $6.10 on a table and
snatched it up. Then he heard a
commotion outside, the sound of
which he didn’t like at all.
Now fade (as .they say in the
movie scripts) to Sgt. Earl Sea-
(Continued on page 8)
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IN JAIL—Pictured here in the town jail are the four young
^ople arrested last week in connection with a breajc-in and rob
bery at the Catholic rectory. Left to right, Joseph Pius Rallo who
was caught coming out through a window on to the roof; Beda
Marie Nolan, Mrs. Charlone Mirone and John A. Henshaw. They
are all in the county jail at Carthage now, awaiting grand jury
action m November. (Photos by V. Nicholson)
Moore county’s worst wreck of
the year, killing two people, oc
curred early Friday morning,
within a few hours after a safe
ty meeting held at Carthage to
discuss ways of cutting down the
mounting highway death toll.
The accident occurred when a
heavily loaded tractor-trailer
came directly into NC 211, two
miles east of Aberdeen, without
stopping, and hit a car violent
ly on the left side, flipping it
over, said Patrolman R. R. Sam
uels, investigating.
Listed as instantly killed were
two passengers in the car—Bel-
vin Harris, 50, a sawmill worker;
and Avery McLaughlin, 40, a
farm hand. Both were residents
of Route 1, Raeford, near McCain.
Samuels quoted the driver of
the tractor-trailer, Norman Pinch
of Binghamton, N. Y., as saying
he tried to brake down at the
stop sign but the brakes didn’t
work.
John Henry Davis of Route 1,
Raeford, driver of the car, who
was taking his neighbors to
work near Aberdeen, told the pa
trolman he saw the headlights of
the truck but thought it was go
ing to stop. Davis was taken to
a hospital with bruises and abra
sions, but was not thought seri
ously hurt. His light blue 1957
Chevrolet was demolished.
The front of the tractor, own
ed by an Alabama firm and leas
ed to Meadow Gold Dairies of
Durham, was considerably dam
aged. Neither the driver nor his
companion, Robert G. Taylor of
Durham, was hurt beyond a bad
shaking-up.
Finch has been charged with
involuntary manslaughter and is
being held in Aberdeen jail,
pending a hearing Friday in
Aberdeen Recorder’s Court.
industrial executives, civic club
leaders and others, speakers ap
pealed for the exercise of high
way responsibility by citizens,
both in their own driving and in
urging safe driving by others.
The meeting was in the court
room at Carthage.
As of last Friday, Moore Coun
ty had recorded this year nine
highway deaths, as compared with
six in the same period last year
(two more persons were killed
in an accident that took place
early Saturday morning, a few
hours after the meeting). The
accident record for the same per
iod showed 175 accidents this
year, as compared with 140 last
year.
Speakers included Sgt. Victor
Aldridge, of Siler City, head of
Highway Patrol operations in
Moore, Lee and Chatham counties;
Senator Wilbur Currie of Car
thage and Rep. H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen, members of the 1959
General Assembly which enacted
the “point system” that was ex
plained at the meeting as de
signed to aid in the identification
and control of “problem drivers”;
Superior Court Solicitor M. g!
Boyette of Carthage; R. F. Hoke
Pollock of Southern Pines, presi
dent of the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club; and two Moore County
Patrol members, Cpl. J. A. Mc-
Colman, who heads the Patrol
in this county; and Pfc. Henry
Hight.
Public indifference to the
State’s law enforcement program
was held by Sergeant Aldridge as
the main reason for a 26 per cent
increase in North Carolina’s traf
fic fatality record this year, as
compared to last year. Only six
states in the nation, he said, have
a worse fatality record than
North Carolina.
The point system, the patrol
officer explained, is known as
“Operation 4-7-12.” On conviction
of any one of 18 or more traffic
law offenses, a certain number
of demerit points is charged to
a driver. When the point total
reaches lour, the driver is sent
a warning letter. When it reaches
seven, he is invited to appear be
fore a hearing officer and may
be allowed to attend a Driver Im
provement Clinic operated by the
Department of Motor Vehicles.
When the point total reaches 12,
within two years, the driver’s lic
ense can be suspended for as
much as 60 days.
Motor Carriers,
500-Strong, Set
‘Cook-Out’ Here
Something new in entertain
ment will be offered some 500
delegates to the annual convention
of the N. C. Motor Carriers As
sociation when they visit the
Mile-Away Farm of Mr. and Mrs.
W. O. Moss, off the old No. 1
high, north of Southern Pines,
Sunday afternoon.
The Association’s convention
opens Sunday at the Carolina
Hotel, Pinehurst, following the
annual meeting of the North
Carolina Medical Society at the
CaroUna Friday and Saturday.
The Motor Carriers will be at
Pinehurst through Wednesday,
with a full business and recrea
tion program scheduled.
The Mile-Away Farm visit will
feature a “spare-ribs cook-out”
and give the delegates an op
portunity to see the fine horses
stabled there.
Applications
To Be Taken
Appications for employment at
the new plant of Trimble Pro
ducts, Inc., will be taken Mon
day through Saturday mornings
of next week (September 28-
October 3), at the Employment
Security Commission office at
the comer of S. E. Broad St. and
Pennsylvania Ave., with the ex
ception of Thursday, October 1.
Garland Pierce, office manager
for the new firm, said that the
hours for interviews will be 9
a.m. to 12 noon.
The Trimble plant, now under
construction just north of South-
pn Pines, will manufacture var
ious items of furniture for babies
and children.