VOL. 40—NO. 41
Special Term of
^ Criminal Court
Opens Tuesday
A special term of criminal court
will be held at Carthage next
week, with cases calendared for
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day. Superior Court Judge Walter
E. Crissman of High Point will
preside.
The grand jury will not con
vene, as the term has been set up
to care for a backlog of cases up
on appeal, or for which true bills
have previously been found.
As in August, the calendar is
heavily weighted down with
drunken driving cases, comprising
14 out of the 37 cases listed.
Only seven cases out of the
_ whole 37 a^e for offenses other
% than highway or whiskey law vio
lations, or both.
Three involve the laws concern
ing poisonous liquor, in addition
to more standard charges of pos
session for sale and manufacturing
whiskey. Edgar Murphy Owens,
Robert Farrell Presnell and Jos
eph Darrell Freeman of Randolph
county were additionaMy indicted
when whiskey made at the still
.. involved in their case was found,
^ on analysis, to contain death-deal
ing lead salts. This placed their
cases—previously appealed from
recorders court convictions— into
the felony class.
The calendar:
Tuesday — Barney Duncan
Koonce, driving while under
drunk; Neal Archie Hall, speed
ing 66 in 55-mile zone; Brady El
mer Jones, exceeding safe speed;
^ Joseph Darrell Fteeman, po'sses-
sion non-taxpaid whiskey for sale
and utensils and equipment for
manufacturing, manufacturing
and possession for sale of poison
ous liquor; Edgar Murphy Owens,
Robert Farrell Presnell, same;
Sarah Hughes Presnell, possession
of non-taxpaid whiskey, posses
sion of distillery equipment and
possession for sale; “Teeter”
James Collins, assault with dead-
^ ly weapon; A. A. Howlett, dispos-
“ ing of mortgaged property (auto);
Walter Wilson, violation GS 20-
154-A; Carlton Preston Morrison,
speeding 75 in 35-mile zone; Eld-
ridge Hainesworth, speeding, fail
ure to dim lights; James Jackson,
driving under influence; Clayburn
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Blue Knigliljs
Boosters Plan
Barbecue Supper
The Blue Knights Boosters
club will go into action for
the faU term writh their Kick
off Barbecue, an annual
event, to be held Wednesday
at 7 p. nr. at the Southern
''•V Pines Country Club.
Gene Blackwelder is diair-
man for the event, and tickets
may be obtained from him at
Tate's Hardware, or from
the fooBrall players, cheer
leaders and members of the
Boostersi Club.
This is being planned as a
commiunity event, to get the
„ year's activity program in be
half of the Blue Knights off
to a good start. Everybody
who likes football, kids or
barbecue is invited to come
out and have a good time. The
meal is being catered by Flet
chers Barbecue of West End.
“POULTRY PRINCESS,” Martha Carter of Carthage, seated
on a chicken-coop “throne,” seeks to get acquainted with one of
her new subjects. She is holding a prize broiler plucked out of
its exhibit cage at the Highfalls Poultry and Egg Show, held Sat
urday at the Highfalls school. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
"Poultry Princess'
Crowned at Highfalls
A willowy brown-eyed blonde
with dimples won the crown of
“Poultry Princess” Saturday at
the annual Highfalls Poultry and
Egg Show, held at the Highfalls
school in the heart of Central
Carolina’s million-dollar poultry
growing industry.
Martha Carter of Carthage—19,
five-feet-six, 122 neatly-distribut
ed pounds—was chosen from
among 40 beautiful girls in the
contest highlighting the program
of exhibits, speeches and awards.
The girls were presented one by
one on the auditorium stage, wear
ing summer frocks.As judges’
eliminations reduced them to 10,
they appeared in bathing attire.
From the 10 bathing beauties, the
“Poultry Princess” was selected,
with four runners-up: First, Em-
maday Collins, Southern Pines;
second, Loma Cockman, Robbins;
third, Judy Furr, Candor, and
fourth, Pat Gatti, Aberdeen.
A large enthusiastic audience
containing loyal adherents of each
of the girls, clapped and cheered
through the program, for which
School Principal E. H. Cooper was
master of ceremonies.
bacco warehouses which will
soon be opening in both Ceu:-
Ihage and Sanford, and she
plans to work for a while in
the office of the Twin Cities
warehouse ctt Sanford with
her father and brother.
She was crowned by another
beauty, “Miss North Carolina
(Continued on page 5)
The "Poultry Princess" is
a June 1959 graduate of Car
thage High SchooL who re
cently graduated from San
ford Business College. Her
father. Bill Carter, is the well-
known partner-owner of fo-
Two Escaped
Felons Captured
After Break-in
Two youths arrested Monday in
I connection with the break-in of a
Cameron service station were
identified as escapees from Camp
Polk, Raleigh prison camp, though
I they denied it, claiming to be
“hitch-hikers.”
One was captured by the alert
station owner at the scene of the
break-in at 1 a.m., the other some
seven hours later and 10 miles
south on US Highway 1, with the
I help of the Carthage prison camp
j bloodhounds and personnel.
They were identified as Curtis
iMassingale, 22, of Charlotte, and
Nelson Clay Hamilton, 19, of Illi
nois, said Deputy Sheriff H. H.
Grimm. Camp Polk is a prison
i (Continued on page 8)
Instead of Homecoming—4 Dead
A highway tragedy which wiped
out an entire young family, on
their way from Georgia to a hap
py homecoming at West End,
stunned that community as it did
the State.
Dead in the Sunday night
wreck near Wingate, in Union
county, were 'Thomas Floyd But
ler, 24, of Rossville, Ga.; his wife,
Mrs. Nancy Furr Butler, 21, an
.jk0:pectant mother; and Phyllis
Furr, 16, of West End, Mrs. But
ler’s sister.
Annette, aged three and a half.
eral hours later in a Monroe Hos
pital.
Bringing the death toll to five,
and making it one of the worst
wrecks in North Carolina annuals,
was Bruce Tomberlin, 43-year-
old cafe operator of Marshville,
|;^iver' of the car which slammed
head-on into the Butlers’.
The investigating patrolman, D.
H. Grayson, was quoted as saying
that Tomberlin’s car veered to
the left as it rounded a curve,
crossing the yellow line.
Grayson said also that witnesses
told him Tomberlin had just pass
ed other cars at high speed, and
was “all over the road.”
Mrs. Butler and Phyllis were
the daughters of Mr. and Mrs
Reid Furr of West End, who were
at home happily awaiting their
arrival. Phyllis had spent the sum
the Butler’s only child, died sev- ;ner with the Butlers. She had
eral hours later in a Monroe Hos.^ nlannerl tn
planned to come home by bus for
the opening of school Tuesday,
when she would enter the 11th
grade at West End High School.
But her sister, six months preg
nant, gained clearance from her
doctor for the trip, Butler had a
vacation coming up and they de-
cided to drive to West End to
bring Phyllis home.
Patrolmen investigating the
wreck, which backed traffic up
for two miles on US 74, had no
way of knowing the victims’ des
tination. From Butlers’ credent
ials, they secured the Rossville
address. The first word of the
tragedy came to Mr. and Mrs.
Furr in a phone call from their
son-in-law’s relatives in Georgia,
wanting to know the disposition
of the bodies.
In a short while the shocking
news spread about this commun
ity, where the Furrs are lifelong
residents and veteran employees
of the Sandhill Furniture Corp
oration.
The bodies were brought to the
Candor Funeral Home, and lay
in state at the West End Methodist
(Continued on page 8)
Watson-Williams
Starts Production
At Pinebluff Plant
Production of wooden textile
shuttles is getting underway at
the new Watson-Williams Manu
facturing Co. plant, on US High
way 1 a half-mile south of Pine-
bluff.
Following job interviews start
ing early in August, 21 local peo
ple have been employed in addi
tion to the 11 who came down
from^ Massachusetts, where the
plant was formerly located. Start
ing this week, job interviews are
being held only on Wednesday,
1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Of the 21 local employees, three
are office workers and 18 are pro
duction personnel. Miss Glenda
Caviness of Aberdeen and Mrs.
Cecile Wicker of Southern Pines
have been employed as secretar
ies, and Arthur Tracy of Pine-
hurst as bookkeeper.
Kim Watson, vice president and
assistant treasurer of the firm,
said production was started this
week on a small scale, and that
they expect to have all their ma
chinery in operation in two or
three weeks.
Personnel moving from Massa
chusetts, besides Kim Watson and
his father, Hubert Watson, presi
dent and treasurer, are: Kenneth
Hutchins, superintendent; Fred J.
Lague, production manager; Jos
eph Blanchard, machinist; Donald
Scott, sales manager; Robert
Rock, stock room manager, and
Paul A. King, William A. Pierce,
Edward Lavallee, Theron Pope,
Vincent Fairbanks, Leo Latour
and Alfred Gagliardi, foremen.
They have found homes in and
near Southern Pines, Aberdeen
and Pinebluff.
West End Woman
Killed in Crash,
Three Injured
An early-morning crash be
tween a car and a tractor-trailer
near Carthage Monday sent the
car hprtling down an embank
ment, throwing an elderly woman
out and injuring her fatally.
Her two sons and daughter,
with whom she was riding, re
ceived vanrying injirries, none re
ported critical. Both vehicles were
demolished, said State Highway
Patrolman H. A. Hight, Jr.
Hight said the crash occurred
about 3:30 a.m. when the tractor-
trailer “crossed all the way over
the yellow line” in rounding a
slight curve on US 15, three miles
east of here.
He identified the dead woman
as Mrs. Janie Thompson, 66-year-
old widow, of West End Rt. 1. She
was alive when placed on a
stretcher to go to the hospital,
but was dead on arrival, with
crushed chest, fractured left leg
and numerous other injuries.
Received as patients at Moore
Memorial hospital were her son,
Raymond Browning Thompson,
40, of Rockingham Rt. 2, driver
of the car, and daughter, Mrs.
Eula Ingram, 25, of West End Rt.
1. Receiving emergency treatment
was another son, David Franklin
Thompson, 35, of West’End Rt. 1.
Unhurt was Bobby Eugene
Marsh, 26, of Robbins, driver of
the tractor-trailer, owned by Bill
Goldston, Inc., of Robbins. The
big truck, used for transporting
poultry, was returning unloaded
after a delivery.
Marsh, indicted for driving on
the wrong side of the road caus
ing an accident and death, waived
preliminary hearing before a local
magistrate and posted $2,000 bond,
subject to granS jury action at
(Continued on page 5)
Local Schools Open Friday
Holiday Weekend
Monday — Labor Day — will
be a general holiday except for
essential services and Moore
County and Pinehurst schools.
In Southern Pines, the holiday
will, be observed by both public
and parochial schools.
In Carthage, the courthouse wiU
be closed and in Southern Pines,
the town hall. Federal and state
offices, banks and businesses in
general will be closed.
There will be no holiday, how
ever, for the State Highway Pa
trol, who will be out looking for
17 people. They don’t know who
these people are or in what coun
ty they will be found. They are
the 17 the State Motor Club esti
mates, from past experience, will
be killed over the holiday week
end in highway accidents. Are
you one of them?
The Motor Club hasn’t even
tried to estimate the number of
injured, or the cars which will
be smashed.
Sgt. J. S. Jones of the Moore-
Lee-Chatham district said there
will be saturation of all highways
in the effort to keep these acci
dents from happening. The patrol
men will be on the job day and
night—but, work sis they will,
they can’t do much without the
help of every motorist.
Sergeant Jones particularly call
ed attention to the fact that, on
Friday and Monday, the school
buses will be out. After a sum
mer without them, motorists may
need a reminder of the laws for
the school children’s protection.
When you see a stopped school
bus, whether you’re behind it or
approaching, STOp. Stay stopped,
till the bus has moved on. And al
ways look to be sure some small
fry, just off the bus, isn’t bounc
ing across the road in front of
you.
When the school bus stops, it
flings out its STOP signal to its
left—and that means just one
thing. STOP.
First-Day Enrollment More Than 5,000
As 12 County Schools Open Tuesday
Twelve of the 15 roimtv crhnnlc^'^
Twelve of the 15 county schools
opened Tuesday with a first-day
registration of 1,293 high school
pupils, 3,828 grade-school pupils
—a total of 5,031.
With Farm Life, Vass-Lakeview
and Cameron schools delaying
their opening until Friday, com
parative figures with last year
could not be obtained
For the 12 schools opening Tues
day, Wednesday was the first full
day. Farm Life, Vass-Lakeview
and Cameron schools will have
registration Friday, with Monday
as the first full day. The delay
was occasioned by the lateness of
Lynn Nisbet Will
Address SADA
Delegations Here
Lynn Nisbet, Raleigh columnist
and president of the North Caro
lina Travel Council, will be lunch
eon speaker at a meeting of the
Sandhills Area Development As
sociation in Southern Pines Sep
tember 20.
Theme of the quarterly meeting
of SADA will be travel and rec
reation. Following the luncheon a
bus tour of lower Moore County
will include visits to famous golf
courses, country clubs, horse
farms and a tour of A. & M. Kara-
gheusian carpet plant in Aber
deen.
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines,
SADA president, said indications
are the four member counties —
Lee, Montgomery, Moore and
Richmond — will each have large
delegations present.
A business session at the Sou
thern Pines Country Club at 11
a.m., will be followed by a dutch
luncheon there. The tour will
leave the club at 1:30 p.m. and
end at 4:30 p.m.
The public is invited to all
events of the day. Before lunch,
progress reports will be made by
SADA’s chairmen of agriculture,
industry, community development
and travel-recreation committees.
Members of the Moore County
host committee are Mayor E. H.
Mills of Pinebluff, James Steed of
Robbins, Ben Wicks of Aberdeen
and Ward Hill, N. L. Hodgkins,
Jr. and Voit Gilmore, all of Sou
thern Pines.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game-
Donkey, That Is: Tuesday Night
There s nothing quite like a
donkey baseball game so we won’t
try to describe it, but there’ll be
held here Tuesday night.
one
courtesy of the Southern Pines
Jaycees.
■TCickoff’ time is 7 p. in. at
Memorial Field. Players wiU be
provided by the Jaycee club, with
other friends rung in for mem
bers allergic to being kicked off.
Star players will include the
project chairman, Joe Kimball,
and his assistant BiU McAdams,
along with Tom Ruggles, Max
Rush and other prominent local Jaycee project.
citizens.
Steeds will be provided by an
out-of-town concern, the same
which has brought similar attrac
tions enjoyed here in the past.
The Jaycetes wiU have the
snack bar concession, selling soft
drinks, hot dogs and other ap
propriate items. This will be a
family affair so £ill come and get
a good laugh.
Proceeds will go toward the
local club’s quota for construction
of a cottage at the Boys Home at
Lake Waccamaw, a state wide
the tobacco season, keeping many
of the young people still at work
on the farms.
All the schools will operate on
Labor Day.
The registration days are refer
red to as “Orientation Days” for
teachers and pupils. On the pre
ceding day, the teachers held their
own “Orientation Day,” holding
meetings and receiving instruc
tional supplies.
Registration was as follows in
the schools already open:
White — Carthage, 494 ele
mentary, 189 high; Elise (Rob
bins), 580 elementary plus 155
junior high for a total of 735, 244
high; Aberdeen, 550 elementary,
184 high; West End, 254 elemen
tary, 165 high; Eagle Springs, 150
elementary; Highfalls, 272 ele
mentary, 91 high; Westmoore, 287
elementary, 110 high.
Negro — Pinckney, 409 elemen
tary, 148 high; Berkley, 337 ele-
rnentary, '72 high; Davis (Rob
bins district), 120 elementary;
Vineland (West End district), 220
elementary.
'^Tuesday First
Full Day of
180-Day Year
Southern Pines students will re
port to their schools Friday morn
ing for Teacher-PupU Orientation
Day, said Supt. Luther Adams.
At East Southern Pines the
schedule will be 8:25 a.m., at West
Southern Pines 8:3'0 a.m., until
noon. Buses will operate.
The day will be devoted to col
lection of book fees, issuance of
books, room assignments, sched
ule adjustments, etc.
Tuesday, following the Labor
Day holiday, will be the first full
day of the 180-day schedule for
the year. Cafeteria service will be
gin.
EAST SOUTHERN PINES
High school students wiU report
Friday to their home rooms on en
tering the building, while ele
mentary students will go to their
classrooms, except for the sixth
grades.
All sixth graders are ^)eing as
signed to Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian church because of
overflow conditions in the ele
mentary building. They will re
port to Weaver Auditorium on
arrival.
First graders will be dismissed
at 12 noon for the first two weeks,
and thereafter at 2:15 p.m.
Second through fourth grades
will dismiss at 2:30 p.m. each day,
fifth through 12th at 3 p.m.
WEST SOUTHERN PINES
At West Southern Pines high
and elementary schools, the same
hours will be followed as out
lined above.
TEACHER ORIENTATION
Thursday was devoted to orien
tation of the teachers, who met
at their respective schools, for
general faculty meetings, then
separated for meetings of high
school and elementary teachers.
In the afternoon English work
shops were held, primarily for
high school English teachers and
the elementary teachers of grades
three through eight. However,
since the language is important
in the full range of studies, all
the teachers were invited and
most of them came.
(Continued on page 5)
Farm Life, Vass-Lakeview, Cameron
Open Friday, Delayed by Late Crops
Farm Life, Vass-Lhkeview and.message to his students 2md their
Cameron schools will have “Or- parents which applies equally to
ientation Day” Friday, with Mon- the three schools:
day as the first full day of the
180-day school year.
Buses will run Friday, which
will be a half-day, but cafeterias
will not open until Monday.
Teachers report for duty Thurs
day, holding conferences with the
principal and making their plans
for the year.
These three schools are opening
later than others of the county
system because of the late tobacco
season.
Principal's Message
John McCrummen, Vass-Lake
view principal, has addressed a
“Parents are requested to send
their children on Orientation Day
if. possible, but by all means are
they requested to see that all chil
dren enroll on the first attendance
day, September 5.
“As all pjirents know, teachers
are alloted according to atten
dance, and we at Vass-Lakeview
are very much in need of an ad
ditional teacher in the elementary
field. This teacher can be gained
if parents will send their children
every day for the first 10 days of
school. We all know what it means
(Continued on page 8)
SPCC Course Reopened^
Revamped, Renovated
The No. 1 course of the South
ern Pines Country Club reopen
ed Wednesday — renovated, re
vamped and ready for fall.
Since its closing Jime 1 it has
been undergoing rebuilding and
renovation by the Raleigh firm of
Floyd & Jones, under supervision
of Toy Robertson as the club’s
new full-time greenskeeper.
Tifton 38, a fine Bermuda
strain, has been put in on all
the greens, some of which have
been enlarged and recontoured,
according to Tom Shockley, co-
chairman with Carlos Frye of the
greens committee.
Some of the tees have been re-
btiilt and relocated, and traps
Some new caddy-carts have
been added, electric and pull-type,
with additional facilities for stor
age and maintenance of these use
ful items.
While the best features of the
famous course—“America’s most
scenic” have been retained, so
much has been improved it’s prac
tically a new coiarse, said Shock-
ley, and a formal opening in the
grand manner is planned for la
ter in the season.
In the meantime. Pro Roy Grin-
nell and Assistant Andy Page in
vite local golfers and guests to
come on out and enjoy the im
provements.
Toy Robertson, a permanent ad
dition as greenskeeper, comes to
1 , , ■ ,— —oa comes to
have been enlarged and sodded, the club with 30 years’ exper-
Along ience at Pinehurst. He recently
with this, the clubhouse has had moved from Pinehurst to South-
I a “fresh-up, paint-up” job.
em Pines.