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VOL. 42—NO. 31
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Yow Ordered Held
For Murder After
Coroner’s Inquest
At an inquest held in the court
room at Carthage Tuesday night,
a coroner’s jury foimd that June
Sullivan, 55, had come to his
death by a knife wound on the
evening of Monday, Jime H, and
recommended that Frank Yow of
Carthage be held for grand jury
action.
Coroner Ralph G. Steed set $5,-
000 bond for Yow, a plumber who
has been living “off and on” at
the Sullivan home, two miles
south of Carthage, for the past
several years, and who had been
held in jail for questioning since
the night of Sullivan’s death.
Charged with the murder, he
faces trial at the August term.
Sullivan was found dead in his
back yard after allegedly drink
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1962
A NEW KIND OF SUMMER FISH STORY
Pinehurst Boy Discovered As Photo Subject
EIGHTEEN PAGES
Three years ago, when Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel C. Lewis and their
son, Marshall Wayne, were visit
ing Wrightsville Beach, a photo
graph was made of six-year-old
Marshall head-to-head with a big-
eyed, sharp-toothed king mack
erel, posed against the railing of
the Crystal Pier.
The photographer, however,
neglected to get his human sub
ject’s name. And it wasn’t until
a recent visit to Wrightsville
Beach pd the pier that Marshall,
now nine years old, was identi
fied.
During the three years, the
photograph—which had turned
out to be an intriguing study of
boy nature and fish nature and
the contrast between the two
heads—^had won prizes, had been
published in the 1961 annual of
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Yow took the stand at the inquest Hanover Fishing Club,
Largest Fishing Club in Amer-
[ iea,” of Wilmington, had received
local and statewide publicity,
had been on television and had
been puWished in outdoor and
sporting magazines, with an ap
peal made for identification of
the boy.
Also, the photo was posted at
the Crystal Pier, with a request
that anyone knowing the boy
identify him.
As John Lockfaw, president of
the New Hanover Fishing Club,
related the most recent chapter
of the story to The Pilot, the
Lewises, with Marshall Wayne,
recently visited the Crystal Pier
again. Fishing on the pier at the
time was John Wood, a member
of the board of. directors of the
Fishing Club. He noticed the boy
pass but said later it didn’t dawn
on him until after he had gone
to say he recalled no argument
to say he recalled no argument
nor anything about a knife or a
stabbing. To questions of Moore
Coroner Ralph G. Steed, he said
“there must have been a scuffle”
but as to what actually happened
and why, he replied, “I don’t
know, I really don’t know.”
Yow was accused by Mrs. Rose
SuHivan, wife of the deceased
man, who testified that he came
into the kitchen where she was,
seized a butcher knife and said,
“I’m going to kill the S.O.B.” She
followed him out the door in time
to see him draw back his hand
with the knife in it. Then, she
said, June was lying on the
ground with blood on his chest
and someone said, “June is hurt.”
An ambulance was called, but it
turned out he was dead.
Mrs. Sullivan, who admitted
that she had had “three or four
drinks of gin, recalled no argu
ment but said “June must have
said something, or else why
would Frank have killed him?” o* Vacc*
’The two men were friends of ctl. ▼
more than 20 years’ standing,
though Yow testified, ‘T was
afraid of June. We had lots of
arguments and one time he put
me in the hospital for a week.”
He had a home in Carthage but
said he had been staying at Sulli
van’s “off and on for about a
year,” while Mrs. Sullivan re
called that it was about three
years, and that on the Friday be
fore the killing on Monday she
had asked him to leave.
Yow is presently under suspend
ed sentence in Moore Recorder’s
Court for public drunk and pos
session of illicit whiskey.
The only other person who had
been present who was called to
the stand was Gilbert (Bud) Par
rish of Carthage, who said, how
ever, that he had gone into the
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EYE TO EYE — Identity of the boy in this prize winning
photograph, made three years ago at Wrightsville Beach, re
mained a mystery until recently when he proved to be Mar
shall Wayne Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Lewis of
Pinehurst. Marshall, six years old when the photograph was
taken, didn’t seem to mind looking a king mackerel in the eye
in spite of the fish’s big mouthful of saw-like teeth.
home that night that the boy he
had seen could well be the one
who had posed with the macker
el.
Wood spotted the boy again on
the pier the next day and then
took Lockfaw to see Marshall
Wayne and his family to confirm
the identification. It turned out
Wood was right. They had found
the lon^-lost boy in the photo.
Thereupon, Marshall Wayne
was accorded an honorary mem- I
bership in the New Hanover Fish
ing Club, was given a number of
prizes and made an appearance
on WECT television, Wilmington.
Marshall Wayne will be in the
fifth grade of Pinehurst School
this fall. He is a Cub Scout of
Pack 7, plays Little League base
ball and is a member of the Com
munity Swimming Association of
which his father is vice president
He attends Beulah Hill Baptist
Church near Pinehurst.
Sandhill Firemen
Barnes President
Baby Care Course
Days, Times Set
Days and times have been set
for a baby care course to be giv
en by Sister Mary Catherine at
St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital.
Open to anyone, it is designed es
pecially for expectant mothers.
For convenience, two sets of
the same classes will be given,
each course consisting of six class
es of two hours each. An after
noon class will be held Tuesdays
and Thursdays at 2 p. m. and an
evening class on Wednesdays and
Fridays at 6:45 p. m.
Interested persons are asked to
register soon with Sister Cather
ine so that dates may be set for
start of the two series.
The course covers the interests
and needs of expectant parents,
how to prepare for a new baby,
how babies grow and how to meet
their developing needs.
Some 150 persons, firemen and
their wives and guests represent
ing 21 member companies of the
Sandhill Firemen’s Association,
enjoyed fun and fellowship at
Vass despite the heavy showers
yesterday.
The occasion was the annual
convention of the association
composed of volunteer fire de
partments of Central North Caro
lina, from Roxboro on the north
to Pembroke on the south, Cum
berland County (several compan
ies) on the east to Wadesboro and
Ansonville on the West.
Archie L. Barnes, Carthage fire
chief, was elevated from vice-
president to president at the
afternoon business meeting held
at the high school. Henry
O’Briant, past fire chief of Rox
boro, was elected vice-president,
with E. P. Leatherbury of Ham
let, secretary-treasurer since
1945, returned to this office.
S. T. Dunn, assistant Southern
Pines chief, was named chaplain
succeeding George H. Barnes of
Laurinburg, who is moving from
the area to Charlotte and was ac
corded an honorary life member
ship in the association. Barnes
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MOORE MEMORIAL
GIVEN $50,000
Aimouncement was made
this week by the board of di
rectors of Moore Memorial
Hospital of a gift of $50,000 by
the Irene Heins Given and
John La Porte Given Foun
dation, Inc., of 14 Wall Street,
New York.
The grant is to be used to
acquire special equipment for
the new addition to Moore
Memorial Hospital.
Major equipment items list
ed for purchase include a
Coulter Counter ifor bloodi cell
counts, cardiac monitoring
and pacemaking eqwpment
for surgery, and automatic
film processing units for x-
ray.
In June, 1961, a grant was
made by the Foundation of
$55,000 for x-ray equipment
in the hospital's proposed new
x-ray department.
FLAG SERVICE
Southern Pines Elks Lodge and
BPOE Does will conduct a flag
service at the Country Club at
8 p.m. Sunday. Harold Cuff is in
charge of the event which is as
sociated with the annual national
celebration of Flag Day, June
14. The public is invited.
ENTRIES CLOSE JUNE 29
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of the past
week were recorded as follows at
the U. S. Weather Bureau obser
vation station at the W E E B
studios on Midland Road.
Pinehurst Beauty Contest Scheduled
Contestants in the “Miss Pine
hurst Swimming Pool” bathing
beauty contest, to be held Satur
day, July 7, must register before
Jun.e 29 with Mrs. A. N. Derouin
of Pinehurst, it was announced
this week.
Max.
Min.
June
14
64
June
15
83
72
June
16 ...:
85
61
June
17
89
62
June
18
93
67
June
19
92
66
June
20
90
66
Mrs. Derouin said that a pre
liminary to the contest will be
held at the Pinehurst communi
ty swimming pool Monday, July
2, at 8 p. m.
The contest, open to any single
girl 14 years of age or older, is
on.3 of numerous features of the
Pinehurst Community Day cele
bration, an annual event that
originated with dedication of the
Pinehurst Community swimming
pool last year when the first Miss
Pinehurst Swimming Pool contest
was held.
There will be swimming races,
a diving exhibition, other races,
a baseball g£«ne and other activi
ties. Various civic groups are tak
ing charge of the sports events.
The N. C. State and Open Skeet
Championship will be held that
day at the Pinehurst Gun Club.
'There will be a “Prince and
Princess of the Wading Pool”
contest for children through six
years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. John
McKenzie will be in charge of
the refreshment stand that will
have a variety of picnic foods
available.
The Pinehurst Community Day
celebration last year attracted
persons from throughout the
Sandhills area and Moore Coimty
and county-wide attendance is
also expected this year.
Both the winner and the run
ner-up in last year’s Miss Pine
hurst Swimming Pool contest
will be in the Miss North Caro
lina contest this year. Mary Lou
Troutman of Addor, 1961 winner,
has been chosen Miss Robbins.
Last year’s runner-up, Bettye Mc-
Caskill of Pinehurst, is the new
Miss Carthage.
District Committee
Of ‘Teeno'Dems’ to
Meet Saturday
A group of about 10 young
people is expected here Satur- (fi/l HAD •
day from the counties of the 8th leeClUff
Congressional District to make
plans for the part “Teen-Dems” Tfi
can play m the upcoming politi-1 ^UVeSU^aieU
cal campaigns.
Megginson Quits
Recreation Post;
Seymour on Staff
The Southern Pines Recreation
Committee, meeting on Monday
night, accepted the resignation of
Bill Megginson, high school coach
and faculty member, as director
of the summer recreation pro
gram.
Mrs. J. P. Marley, committee
chairman, in announcing the res
ignation, gave no explanation of
the former director’s action, but
it was learned on good authority
that financial considerations were
involved.
The recreation program is con
tinuing as planned under John
Williams, school physical educa
tion director and coach, with the
addition of Bill Seymour to the
staff. Miss Arden Fobes is con
tinuing as playground director for
younger children, on the town
park block.
Mr. Megginson and Town Man
ager F. F (Bud) Rainey attended
the committee rroeting. Commit
tee members present, in addition
to Mrs. Marley, were Gene Black-
welder, Frank Buchan and W. S.
Thomasson. Not present were Mrs.
J. D. Hobbs, Joe Garzik and W.
D. Peerman.
In West Southern Pines, Joe
Wsmn, high school coach, directs
the program, assisted by Miss
Cora Steele. Numerous activities
are available at the school from
10 a. m. to 4 p. m. and at the
“town lot” after 4.
In East Southern Pines, there
is tennis instruction at the town
courts Tuesday and Thursday
mornings at 9:30. On Monday,
Wednesday and Friday mornings
a supervised trip to Aberdeen
Lake for swimming starts at 9:30
a. m. from Memorial Field for
youngsters in the fifth grade and
up,^ with athletic and playground
activities also available for this
group at Memorial Field from 2
to 5 p. m. daily.
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Many Town Officials fo
Meet Here Next Week
GOVERNOR VISITS
NATIONAL GUARD
National Guard units of
North Carolina's 30th Divis
ion, camped a few miles &om
Southern Pines in wdstem
areas of the Fort Bragg mili
tary reservation underwent
an all-day inspection and vis
itation by Gov. Terry Seui-
ford Wednesday.
Among the units training
there during the annual sum
mer encampment is Moore
County's Company D, 2nd
Medium Tank Battalion,
196th Armor, commanded by
Capt. James E. Harrington,
Jr., of Pinehurst, with head
quarters in the armory on
Morganton Road here.
The governor spent Tues
day night at Howard John-
son's Motor Lodce. between
Southern Pines and Aberdeen,
prior to an early morning,
pre-breakfast trip to the en
campment area where he
spent the next 12 hours, re-
tiurned to Howard Johnston's
by helicopter late in the af
ternoon.
Ralph Hendren, Southern Pines
High School student, who
elected chairman of organization West
for the 8th District at lai L
statewide Teen-Dems convention connection with a
in Raleigh, said that the district
executive committee will meet at
the town hall at 2 p. m. Satur
day. All teen-agers interested in
the Democratic party and all
other interested persons are in
vited to attend.
Other officers of the district
organizing group, elected at Ral
eigh, are Ronald Williams of
banford, vice chairman, and Anne
King of Charlotte, secretary.
Hendren said the executive
committee to meet here Satur
day will make plans for a rally
for Rep. A. Paul Kitchin of
Wadesboro, Democratic candi
date for reelection as 8th Dis
trict Congressmann. Hendren
said it is hoped the rally can be
held here in October.
A Moore County Teen-Dems
g'oup IS ‘in the planning stage,”
Hendren said. Representing the
county with him at Raleigh Fri
day and Saturday was Tommy
Springs whose
mother, Mrs. Harold Blue, is vice
chairman of the Moore (bounty
Young Democrats.
The Moore County sheriff’s de
partment is investigating a com-
poker game in a room at the Hol
ly Inn, Pinehurst, Friday.
Chief Deputy Sheriff H. H.
Grimm said that Friday night,
with the assistance of Army CID
and Cumberland County officers,
a Fort Bragg soldier and a civil
ian who was with him at his
house on the post were arrested
for larceny by trick and spent
most of the weekend in the Moore
County jail at Carthage before
making $2,000 bond each.
An-est of another Fort Bragg
soldier, in connection with the
case, was reported by the sher-
riff’s department Wednesday. He
was also placed under $8,000 bond.
Investigation is continuing, the
deputy said.
Peach Buying by
CK>vernment Will
Support Prices
U. S. Agriculture Department
officials in Raleigh said Wednes
day government buying to sup
port sagging peach prices may be
gin by the end of the week.
“We are getting the mechanics
set up,” said A. P. Hassell, State
executive director for the Agri
cultural Stabilization and Conser
vation Division of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture.
Government buying operations
were ordered in North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia Tues
day after grower representatives
appealed for assistance.
Hassell said the government
will buy only If. S. No. 1, two-
inch peaches at $2.35 per 3|4 bush
el basket. The government-
bought fruit will go into a free
food program.
The grower representatives ap
pealed for government help after
a glut developed on the market.
Hassell said that at Candor this
past weekend there were about
20 trucks of peaches and no buy
ers.
ASC officials said they expected
the price emergency to be only
temporary. Peaches now moving
to market are of the early, cling
varieties, less desirable on the
market than the free-stone varie-
Southem Pines will be host
Thursday of next week to one of
a state-wide series of biennial
regional meetings of the North
Carolina League of Municipali
ties. The League, with headquar
ters at Raleigh, provides advisory
services on municipal problems
and other seiwices to most of the
towns and cities in the state.
Purpose of the regional meet
ings is to give mayors, governing
board members and key munici
pal officials and employees an
opportunity to meet with the
League staff for an n ,
discussion of League affaii^
important, current munic.'.-.
problems.
The meeting next week wiU
begin at 10:30 a.m. and will ad
journ at 3 p.m., with a break for
lunch. Following adjournment,
the League staff will be avail
able for consultation. ’The meet
ing here will be the seventh of
eight over the state.
Mimicipalities whose officials
have been invited to the local
meeting are: Aberdeen, Angier
Ansonville, Autryville, Benson)
Biscoe, Broadway, Bunnlevel,
Cameron, Candor, Carthage,
Coats, Dunn, East Laurinburg)
Ellerbe, Fairmont, Falcon, Fu-
auay Springs, Gibson, Goldston,
Hamlet, Hoffman, Holly Springs,
Hope Mills, Indian ’Trail, Laurin
burg, LilesviUle, Lillington, Lin
den, Lumber Bridge.
Also: Lumberton, Marshville,
Maxton, McDonald, McFarlan,
Monroe, Morven, Mt. Gilhead,
Orrum, Parkton, Peachland, Pem
broke, Pinebluff, Pinehurst, Pitts-
boro, Polkton, Proctorville,
Southern Pines, Spring Lake,
Star, Stedman, 'Troy, Vass
Wadesboro, Wagram, Waxhaw
and Wingate.
Jury Trial Asked
By Young Brothers
Held In Robberies
Thomas B. Keehnen, 18, and
James B. Keehnen, 20, soldier
brother from Fort Bragg, asked
for a jury trial when they were
brought into Southern Pines Re
corder’s Court yesterday, on
charges of breaking and entering,
larceny and receiving, in connec
tion with two robberies here.
The brothers were transferred
from Carthage to the local jail
following their conviction Mon
day in Moore County Recorder’s
Court on larceny and receiving
charges in another case. (See
story, page 16).
Judge W. Harry Fullenwider
set $2,000 bond each for the
young men, for their appearance
in the August term of Superior
Court at Carthage.
.. , . , - They could
ties which will come along later, not immediately make bond, al
though their father is expected
ON TV SHOW
Linda Edwards of Aberdeen,
young pianist who was one of the
10 finalists in the Sandhills Tal
ent Show conducted in March,
will appear on the Peggy Mann
TV show, Channel 11, Durham, at
1 p. m. Wednesday of next week.
QUALIFYING TO START MONDAY
Moore County Golf Tournament Set
The North Carolina state-wide
Teen-De^ organization is the
first of its kind in the nation.
Telephone Answering
Service Now Available
Joe R. Kimball, district manag
er of the United Telephqne Com
pany of the Carolinas, has an
nounced the availability of 24*
hour answering service for the
company’s patrons. A number of
firms in Moore County already
have installed this new service
which records a message when
the person called does not answer,
the manager said.
United Telephone Company
serves Southern Pines, Pinehurst,
Vass, Carthage, Robbins and ad
joining areas.
Qualifying for the 1962 Moore
County Golf Championship be
gins next Monday, June 25, at the
Pinehurst Country Club, scene of
this year’s 54 hole tournament
that is expected to attract the
largest entry in the history of
this annual local event. With the
U. S. Amateur Championship here
at Pinehurst this fall, golf irftert.
est is at its peak in the Sandhills
and plans are being launched now
to make the yearly county title
tourney one worthy of the Sand
hills golfing community.
Registration for the qualifying
round will be, at the Pinehurst
Country Club, any day from June
25, through Sunday, July 8. The
low 16 qualifiers will make up
the championship flight, with the
beaten eight going into the first
flight. Each flight for the match
play following the medal round
will comprise, eight players.
The first roqnd must be played
between July 9 and 15; the sec
ond round between July 16 and
22, and the third between the
23rd and 29th. Entry fee will be
$5 this yeai,.as against $3 former
ly, the inccgj|&3 to provide for
purchase Q|«||fcennanent trophy
and for til^ro^ing of records of
all championship events in the
fuiure. There will be prizes for
-medalist, the winner and run-
*ner-up in each flight. It is pro
posed to inscribe the winner’s
name each year on the champion
ship trophy.
A proposal has been made that
the tournament be held each year
at the Pinehurst Country Club,
with play alternating on the club’s
five courses and the club serving
as headquarters for the keeping of
records of the events.
Present champion is Bill Wood
ward of Robbins, who will defend
his title in the 1962 event.
Residents of Moore County are
eligible to compete, plus out of
county residents who are mem
bers of any of the golf clubs in
toe county. Among those active
in arrangements for the coming
title competition are Harry Davis
of Carthage and Peter V. Tufts of
Pinehurst.
to come here from Clarksville,
Tenn., to make arrangements for
bonding, if possible.
The brothers had admitted the
larceny of a toolbox , with tools,
valued at about $13(), from the
garage of Alfred Chiswell on
Weymouth Road, also of a radio-
phonograph console and records
from the home Of Mrs. Lloyd T.
Clark near No. 1 highway park
way, south, according to Police
Chief Earl Seawell.
They denied breaking and ti
tering, however, as they said both
the Chiswell garage and the back
door of the Clark home were un
locked. But Chief Seawell said
his department has regularly
checked the Clark home, which
has been vacant for some time,
and the door had been locked.
At Carthage, the soldiers had
taken a toolbox and tools, motor
. (Continued on Page 8)
131 Pints Blood
Given in 2 Days
The local office of the Moore
County Chapter of the American
Red Cross reported today that 48
pints of blood were given in a col
lection at West End Tuesday and
83 in another collection at Aber
deen Wednesday.
The two visits by a bloodmoWle
from the Red Cross blood center
at Charlotte were part of Moore
County’s continuing program that
makes possible supplying of blood
by the center to the county’s two
hospitak.