A reward
is being offered for information
leading to the recovery of goods
stolen from a »ural house. De
tails on page 9.
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A.n obituary
of John Warren Watson, builder
of Watson’s Lake and a Sandhills
seasonal visitor for 50 years,
appears on page 16.
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Patch’s Building
Sold at Auction;
Bids Stay Open
The Patch’s Department Store
building, one of the landmarks
of the Southern Pines business
section, was sold at auction at
the courthouse door in Carthage
yesterday. The store had closed
its doors last week.
The auction was conducted by
Judge J. Vance Rowe, local at
torney, as trustee, because of de
fault in indebtedness to the
Southern Pines Savings and Loan
Association, holder of a first
mortgage on tbs building.
Top bid of $35,000 was offered
by Lawrence Johnson, attorney,
of Johnson and Johnson, Aber
deen law firm. Only other bid was
for $19,000 by the Citizens Bank
and Trust Co. of Southern Pines,
holder of a second mortgage on
the structure.
J. Talbot Johnson of the John
son firm, said that the $35,000
bid was made on behalf of Fred
erick J. Mahoney, a ^oston busi
ness man who has been a regular
winter visitor to Southern Pines.
He said that Mr. Mahoney is ex
pected here Tuesday to inspect
the property, on his way to Flor
ida, and will return here during
the following week.
Bidding on the property re
mains open for 10 days. During
this time, higher bids can be made
on the building.
Mr. Johnson said that he did
not know what Mr. Mahoney’s
plans for the building are, but he
assumed the Boston man was
buying it for an investment. He
said Mr. Mahoney is interested in
Southern Pines and was familiar
with the building.
A qualified spokesman said
that the $35,000 selling price
would be nearly all accounted for
by the two mortgages, various
judgments against Patch’s De
partment Store, which formerly
occupied most of the ground floor,
and taxes.
Patch’s Department Store va
cated the building prior to the
sale. An order to cut off water to
the building was given to the
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The annual Kids' Day pro
gram sponsored by the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club, which
had been announced for Sat
urday. September 23, haj'
been postponed indefinitely.
Dr, C. C. McLean, chairman
of the club's Boys and Girls
Committee, said this morning.
Dozens of sixth graders
from schools in Moore Coun
ty were to have made a trip
by buses to Pope Air Force
Base, where displays, demon
strations and other events
were schedided. Kiwanis In
ternational sponsors Kids'
Day in the U. S. and Canada,
in cooperation with the U. S.
Air Force and Royal Can
adian Air Force.
Dr. McLean said the post
ponement came at request of
the Air Force whose spokes-,
man expressed regret but
said that the event could not
be held September 23, for
military reasons.
Kids' Day programs every
where are staged not merely
as entertainment but "as a
means to help make young
sters more aware of their ap
proaching responsibilities in
a free democracy."
Post Offices Will Be
Dedicated In 2 Xowns
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Chairmen Set For
Girl Scout Drive
Fred B. Pollard of 20^ Highland
Road will be general chairman of
the Southern Pines Girl Scout
fund-raising campaign that opens
tomorrow to run through Septem
ber ,30. 'The appointment was an
nounced today by Sherwood
Brockwell, Jr., of Southern Pines,
Central Carolina Council finance
chairman.
Mrs. William J. Donovan has
been named assistant chairman.
Division chairman are Mrs. Char
les Phillips, residential; Mrs. Mil-
dren Merrill, business; and J. W.
Causey, advance gifts.
The council—which comprises
Moore, Lee, Harnett and Chatham
Counties—is seeking $20,000 to
finance its program during 1962.
This is the largest amount ever
budgeted by the council, Mr.
Brockwell said, required because
the council now has the leu-gest
number of Girl Scouts and volun
teer adult leaders in its history.
Mr. Pollard, an executive with
the Amerotron Co. at Aberdeen,
is a member of the Southern
Pines town coimcil. He and his
family have lived in Southern
Pines eight years.
Alec Everett, 80, of Carthage,
Route 3, whom officers described
a hermit,’’ left his isolated
rural home with them long
enough Monday morning to make
bond of $2,500 on a second-degree
murder charge.
Bond was set for the aged man
by Superior Court Judge A. H.
Gwyn, presiding over the current
civil term, in the admitted mur-
Moore Educator
To Visit Russia
R. E. Lee, superintendent of
the Moore County school system,
which includes all schools in the
county except those at Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, is one of
three North Carolina educators
who will be among 40 U. S. school
administrators to fly to the
Soviet Union about October 1, to
atudy the Russian school pro
grams and methods.
Other Tar Heels to go are Glenn
L. Profitt, superintendent of Har
nett County schools; and Dr. Wil-
mer Jenkins, superintendent of
Hickory city schools. The group
is expected back about November
1.
Announcement of the trip was
m^de by A. C. Dawson of Raleigh,
executive secretary of the North
Carolina Education Association
and former superintendent of
Southern Pines schools.
Please, Folks, Don’t Put Bent Coins
In The Pilot’s Self-Service Machine
Here’s an urgent appeal to peo
ple who like to get their papers
from the self-service dispenser in
front of The Pilot office: please
be careful not to drop any bent
coins in this machine!
This sturdy, simple device that
enables readers to get papers in
any weather and at any time of
the day or night will operate un
failingly except when a bent coin
is dropped in the slots for a dime,
on one side, or two nickels, on the
other side.
Once a bent coin goes in, there
is no way to get it out except by
taking the mechanism apart.
Moreover, the bent coin prevents
other coins dropped later from
falling through and releasing the
SCENE OF DEATH— Eighty-year-old Alec Everett stands
with inscrutable expression as Chief Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm
points to the spot where the body of Henry Boggs, about 50,
was found Friday morning, after Everett told Sheriff W. B.
Kelly he had killed Boggs because the younger man had mis
treated him. The full horror of the death story became apparent
when Everett told the officer* that Boggs, shot twice in the
stomach, probably on Tuesday, had lain alive in this open spot
in the road to Everett’s house, exposed to the hot sunlight, for
two days or more. The old man said he had checked Boggs a
few times during the two days and that he “was still getting
air’’ Thursday night. Friday morning, ^e told the sheriff Boggs
had been “found dead.” (Humphrey photo)
Man, 80, Charged With
Second Degree Murder
der by Everett of Henry Boggs,
formerly of Southern Pines.
Boggs, about 50, was the hus
band of Mrs. Evelyn Boggs, vic
tim in a murder mystery of a year
ago near Southern Pines. He was
questioned as a suspect in the
case, but was released.
Everett told Chief Deputy Sher
iff H. H. Grimm that Boggs had
been staying with him in his tum
bledown house near the county
airport off and on for several
months, was “mean” to him and
kept beating him up.
About last Tuesday, he said,
“Boggs came out of the woods
yelling at me, grabbed me and
started choking me but I got
away. He caught me out in front
of the house and started choking
and beating me again and I shot
him with my pistol.”
He turned over to officers the
.32 automatic he customarily car
ried with him on his premises.
Friday morning he reported to
Sheriff W. B. Kelly that Boggs
had been “found dead” at his
place. The body was found on
the road in front of Everett’s
j house, where apparently he had
died the night before. Piecing to
gether the old man’s statements,
Grimm said it must have taken
Boggs about two days to die.
An autopsy ordered by Coroner
Ralph Steed of Robbins deter
mined that two pistol bullets had
entered the vicinity of the stom
ach, one emerging from the back,
Grimm said there had been
earlier reports from neighbors
that Boggs was there and had
been abusing Everett, but the old
man would not sign a warrant
against him.
Everett is reported to have
served 15 years in prison many
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Overturning Car
Kills Driver in
Weekend Aecident
William Henry McDonald, 25
of Sanford, Route 1, died Sunday
at St. Joseph’s Hospital without
regaining consciousness, some 12
hours after his car failed to make
a curve at Lake Bay, and over
turned. Though having a Lee
County RFD address, McDonald’s
home was in Harnett County, near
LiUington.
State Highway Patrolman R. R.
Samuels, investigating, said the
car was rounding Lake Bay
circled by Youngs Road from
Southern Pines and Sweetheart
Road from US Highway 1 at a
speed tc > fast too make the curve
shortly before 11 p.m. His car
went off the road on the left,
down an embankment and over
turned, pinning McDonald inside
A neighbor heard the crash and
went to the scene, and some
cousins of McDonald, who said he
had been with them' a few
minutes earlier .at the Red Barrt,
a dance hall near Southern Pines,
arrived at the spot and stopped
when they saw the lights shining
down the embankment.
After the officers arrived, it
took nearly an hour to get the
car up the bank and McDonald
out of it. The steering wheel had
to be broken off to remove him.
Some cans of beer were found in
the car, Samuels said. The 1956
white Chevrolet hard top was de-
(Continued on page 8)
Innes Placed on
18-Months Parole,
Gets $5,000 Fine
Andrew Roderick Munroe Innes
of Pinehurst, former cashier at
the Carolina Bank, Pinehurst,
was sentenced 'Tuesday in Federal
Court at Rockingham to serve 18
months in prison and pay a $5,000
fine, after he pleaded guilty to
embezzlement of about $2,000
from the account of a customer
of the bank.
Judge Edwin Stanley, presid
ing, said Tuesday that he would
give consideration to suspending
the sentence and placing the de
fendant on parole. Wednesday
afternoon, he announced that the
parole would be granted, the
period of parole also to last. 18
months.
Testifying for the prosecution
were L. B. Creath, executive vice
president of the Carolina Bank,
and the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agent who worked on
the case.
Some 30 Sandhills area resi
dents were present at the trial
Tuesday, including nearly all the
membership of the Sandhills
Veterans Association, of which
Mr. Innes is a member. The As
sociation is composed of about 15
World War II veterans whose
chief annual project is a cam
paign for funds to provide nurse’s
training scholarships for Moore
County girls. All had come pre
pared to testify as character wit
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PAUL BUTLER
Butler Honored by
National Group for
20 Years’ Service
Paul Butler of Midland Road
was honored at yesterday’s reg-
[Ular meeting of the Sandhills Ki-
'wanis Club when he was present
ed a framed citation from the Na
tional Foundation, honoring him
for 20 years of outstanding serv
ice to the organization, former
ly the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
Making the presentation was "*—^ *“ o
Larry Davis, State representative • Voluntesr Fire Depart-
from the central offices of the i^ent m coop&ration with-lhe Car-
Formal dedication exercises for
jths new Pinebluff and Carthage
I post office buildings will be held
Sunday afternoon, September 17.
The Pinebluff dedication will
be held at 1 p. m., with the Car
thage dedication following at 3:30
p. m.
Speakers for both ceremonies
will he Congressman A. Paul
Kitchin and C. B. Gladden, as
sistant to the Regional Director
of the Post Office Department at
Atlanta, Ga. Also in attendance
will be Frank Graham of Char
lotte, fifeld service officer for the
postal district that includes Moore
County.
The Pinebluff post office was
established December 9, 1899,
with the late L. S. Packard serv
ing as the first postmaster. Other
postmasters have been, F. C. Al
len, G. C. McMinn, Mrs. Anna W.
McMinn who served 25 years,
and Mrs. Ethel R. Edwards, the
incumbent postmaster, who has
served for the past 27 years.
The new Pinebluff Post Office
building is located on the east
side of Highway 1 just south of
Carpenter’s service station.
The Cafthage Post Office was
established in 1799 and has occu
pied several different buildings.
However the building to be dedi
cated Sunday is the first to be
constructed solely for postal oper
ations.
Featured on the Carthage pro
gram along with Congressman
Kitchin and Mr. Gladden will be
the 440th Army Band of Fort
Bragg.
The Carthage dedication cere
mony is being sponsored by the
door catch. Last Friday morning
eight dimes were piled up on top
of a badly bent dime that had
stuck down in the slot. That
meant that nine persons had been
unable to get their papers—and
had “lost” their dimes, as well.
Some of them came in Friday
and were given papers.
The dime that caused all the
trouble was bent almost an eighth
of an inch out of line and, as
though adding insult to injury,
had a hole drilled through it.
So pleas.9, folks, check your
coins before dropping them in
the machine. This will insure that
you get your paper and that oth
ers who use the machine after
you will get theirs.
National Foundation, who was in
troduced by Dr. C. R. Vander-
Voort, club president. The lunch
eon meeting was held in the an
nex of Page Memorial Methodist
Church, Aberdeen. The citation
was read by Mr. Davis.
Mr. Butler, who is with the di
vision offices of the Carolina
Power & Light Co. and is cur
rently chairman of the Moore
County Board of Public Welfare,
has successfully headed the an
nual March of Dimes drive in
this county during the 20-year
period. His service extends back
through the years of polio epi
demies in the late 1940’s when he
was active personally in aiding
polio victims and their families,
as well as heading the finance
campaigns.
The presentation had been ar
ranged through Kiwanis Club of
ficials. Mr. Butler was not aware,
before the program began, that it
was to be made. He expressed his
gratitude for the honor.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of the
past week were record^ as fol
lows at the U. S. Weather Bureau
observation station at the WEEB
radio studios on
Midland Road:
Max. Min.
September 7 ....
90
66
September 8 ....
85
69
September 9 ....
87
66
September 10
88
69
September 11 ....
89
64
September 12 ....
90
64
September 13 ....
88
66
BENEFIT MACHINES— Two local youngsters get a preview
of two of the gum-ball machines that have been placed in 21
local business establishments by the Southern Pines Lions Club
to help raise funds for sight conservation and other Lions health,
welfare and civic betterment projects. Pictured with C. H. Bow
man, first vice president of the club and its project chairman,
are Marcia Mangum, left, and Debbie Bowman.*All the machines
display the Lions emblem. “We earnestly solicit your support
and ask that you patronize these machines,” said Mr. Bowman.
Locations of the machines are listed in an advertisement else
where in today’s Pilot. Marcia, 6, is a daughter of the Rev. and
Mrs. Maynard Mangum. The parents of Debbie, 4, are Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Bowman. Bill S. Johnson is chairman of the project
for the Lions Club. I (Humphrey photo)
Police School to
Run Thru Friday
A Police Training School being
conducted at the municipal center
this week, with three-hour sess
ions each morning for five days,
will be concluded tomorrow.
Attending the school are all of
the Southern Pines police, Moore
County ABC officers, and repre
sentatives of the sheriff’s depart
ment and the Rockingham, Ham
let and Vass police departments.
Police Chief Earl SeaweU said
that the school is sponsored by
the local Police Department and
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion.
A FBI specialist, John D. An
thony of Charlotte, was in charge
of the first three morning sess
ions, Monday through Wednesday,
speaking on “The Police Officer
and the Public,” and “Breaking
and Entering Investigations,” the
latter subject taking two sessions.
Another FBI representative,
Samuel D. Smith, spoke this
morning on “Jurisdiction and
Services of the FBI.” He shared
the morning program with a local
resident, W. Lamont Brown, at
torney for the Town of Southern
Pines, whose topic was “Laws of
Arrest and City Ordinances.”
Tomorrow’s program, conducted
by Emanuel R. Johnson of the
FBI, will be on “Defensive Tact
ics.”
nienf in cob'p&fatlon with-the Car
thage post office staff. Following
the formal program, open house
will be observed with refresh
ments provided by the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Fire Department.
Gilbert M. Bailey is Carthage
postmaster.
The public is invited to both
ceremonies.
Fred B. Pollard,
New Councilman,
Takes His Oath
Fred B. Pollard was sworn in
Tuesday night as a member of
the town council, filling the va
cancy on the five-man board cre
ated by the resignation of Rob
ert S. Ewing to become a mem
ber of the State Board of Elec
tions by appointment from Gov.
Terry Sanford.
Because it was known in ad
vance that a quorum of the coun
cil would not be present for the
regular monthly meeting Tue.s-
day night, a special meeting had
been held Saturday morning (see
another story in today’s Pilot).
Present for the swearing-in,
which did not require a quorum,
were Mr. and Mrs. Pollard; May
or Pro-tem Jimmy Hobbs, who
presided; Town Manager F. F.
(Bud) Rainey; Mrs. Mildred Mc
Donald, clerk to the board; and
news reporters.
The oath was administered by
Mrs. McDonald. Mr. Pollard was
chosen for the post by the council
in a special meeting August 16.
He was a candidate for council
man in the municipal election in
May. Active in local civic and re
ligious affairs, he has been with
the Yarn Procurement Depart
ment of the Amerotron Co. at
Aberdeen, living in Southern
Pines, for the past eight years.
The three other members of the
council were out of town Tuesday
—John S. Ruggles and Felton
Capel both away on business trips
and Morris Johnson on a trip to
California.
RESIGNS
Jasper Swearingen, who has
been employed in The Pilot’s
print shop for the past eight
years, has resigned to go to Dania,
Fla., where he expects to con
tinue in the printing trade. His
uncle, Cramer Swearingen, is
foreman of a print shop there.