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VOL. 43—NO. 25
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1963
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Sentence Of 7 To 10 Years Given To
Local Youths In Willie Dowdy Case
Two 18-year-old local youths age.
drew stiff prison terms in Moore
County Superior Court last Wed
nesday for the beating-and-ex-
posure death of Willie Dowdy,
crippled war veteran, in West
Southern Pines last February 22.
Herbert Ewings, Jr., and Wil
liam Charles (Bobby) Gibson,
pleaded guilty to Involuntary
manslaughter and were sentenc
ed to not less than seven nor more
than 10 years in State’s Prison,
the severest penalty handed down
by Judge Walter E. Johnston,
Jr., during the one-week term for
trial of criminal cases at Carth-
Former Officer’s
Arrest Ends Long
Break-In Probe
The arrest last week at High
Point of John Henry Tillotson, 38,
former Winston-Salem police of
ficer and Forsyth County deputy
sheriff, ended a year-long investi
gation by local police and the
SBI of the break-in and taking
of six portable TV sets from
Curtis TV and Radio Service
here nearly a year ago.
Officers in about a dozen
towns where TV robberies had
taken place cooperated in the in
vestigation, said Southern Pines
Chief Earl Seawell, and with the
SBI worked together in drawing
the net around the former police
man whose home is in Winston-
Salem.
Seawell and SBI Agent Gary
Griffith went to High Point last
Thursday on word of the arrest.
Seawell said Tillotson admitted
to him the breaking and entering
of the Curtis Store on S.
W. Broad St. last May 29, and the
theft of six portable TV sets
which, he said, he sold for $85
apiece.
The former officer spoke frank
ly about his downfall, which he
said began when he was fired
as a deputy sheriff for embezzle'
ment. He drew a suspended
sentence and repaid the money,
then couldn’t get a job, Chief
Seawell reported.
He robbed places in High Point,
Winston - Salem, Greensboro,
Thomasville, Lexington, Burling
ton, Salisbury, Hickory and
(Continued on Page 8)
1ST VICE president^
State Medical
Society Elects
Dr. Hollister
Dr. William F. Hollister of Mid
land Road was elected first vice
president of the Medical Society
of North Carolina, Sunday, at the
109th annual meeting of the group
in Asheville. He was also named
as one of two alternate dele
gates to the American Medical
Association.
Dr. John S. Rhodes of Raleigh
is the new president of the So
ciety.
Dr. Hollister, who is associated
with the Pinehurst Surgical Clin
ic, is a member of the board of
governors of the American Col
lege of Surgeons, president of the
North Carolina Surgical Associa
tion and chairman of the Negotia
ting Committee of the N. C. State
Medical Society.
Students To Present
'Mikado' May 17, 18
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta,
■T’he Mikado,” will be present
ed by East Southern Pines High
School students in Weaver Audi
torium at 8 p. m., Friday and Sat
urday, May 17 and 18, it was an
nounced this week. Details of the
performance will appear in next
week’s Pilot.
The grand jury had previously
handed down true bills, indicting
Ewings for murder and Gibson
for manslaughter. The State, how
ever accepted their pleas to the
lesser charge.
Southern Pines police had con
ducted an intensive investigation
of the case after the frozen body
of Dowdy had been found early
in the morning, alter the temper
ature had dropped to around 16
above zero, in the yard of Ewings’
home. They had first arrested a
27-year-old Scotland County Ne
gro who had been present at a
party held there during the pre
vious night, but he was subse
quently released and the investi
gation continued. Chief Earl Sea
well presented its results to the
court.
He said the defendants had ad
mitted beating and kicking Dow
dy, dragging him from the house
to the yard and leaving him
there. Scratches and bloody marks
had showed where they dragged
him across the porch. There had
been considerable drinking in the
Ewings home that night, the Chief
said.
Ewings and Gibson were rep
resented by court-appointed at
torneys. Judge Johnston directed
that a mental examination be
given Gibson immediately upon
his arrival at State’s Prison. Both
the defendants are Negroes, as
was their victim.
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Final PTA Meet
Set On Mav 21
Final meeting of the East
Southern Pines Parent-Teacher
Association for the current school
year will bs held Tuesday, May
21 at Weaver Auditorium at 8
p. m., featuring election of next
year’s officers and the. annual
fashion show presented by Miss
Loree Keen’s Home Economics
students.
Mrs. Albert Grove, president,
points out that the meeting is
scheduled lor the third Tues
day of the month, not the sec
ond Monday which has been the
regular meeting date, in order
to accomodate the Home Econ-
onucs class and avoid conflicts
with other events.
TAKING OATH— Five members of the Sou
thern Pines town council, elected Tuesday,
take their oath of office, administered by Mrs.
Mildred McDonald, town clerk, Wednesday
morning, just prior to their first meeting in
which they elected a mayor, mayor pro tern
and town treasurer from among their number.
Left to right, they are: Fred B. Pollard, Felton
J. Capel, town treasurer; Mayor W. Morris
Johnson; Mayor Pro Tern Norris L. Hodgkins,
Jr., and C. A. McLaughlin.
(Humphrey photo)
Johnson Elected Mayor, Hodgkins
Mayor Pro Tent; Capel Is Treasurer
Meeting at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday,
still weary from their campaigns
and a late vigil at the polls on
Tuesday’s election night, the five
winning candidates for the town
council took their oaths of office
and immediately organized for the
next two years, electing:
W. Morris Johnson, incumbent
with two prior years of service
SCHOOL BANDS TO
PERFORM FRIDAY
Th* beginning, intennedi-
ate, junior andi high school
bands of the East Southern
Pines schools will give a free
concert in Weaver Auditori-
lun at 8 p. m. Fridlay (May
10).
All directed by William
McAdams, the bands will
play separate programs of
overlxires, marches and light
melodies. Students in the
bands are from the Sth
through 12th grades.
General Hays At
‘Medal’ Reception
Lt. Gen. George P. Hays of
Pinehurst was among 234 win
ners of the Medal of Honor—^the
nation’s highest military deco
ration for valor—who were greet
ed by President Kennedy at a re
ception on the White House lawn
in Washington, D. C., last Thurs
day. General Hays, as were many
of the visitors, was accompanied
by his wife.
The Pinehurst resident, who is
the highest ranking retired Army
officer in the Sandhills, com
manded a division in Europe in
World War II, becoming, after
the war, deputy to Gen. Lucius
Clay, military governor in Ger
many. Subsequently, he was dep
uty to U. S. High Clommissioner
John J. McCloy, remaining in
Germany until 1952 and having a
key role in the dramatic Berlin
airlift.
The President saluted the
Medal of Honor winners as he
roic symbols of the strength and
courage of American fighting
men in past wars and present
Cold War struggles.
on the council, as mayor.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., new
comer to local politics and front
running candidate, as mayor pro
tern.
Felton J. Capel, with two terms
on the council behind him and
second place in Tuesday’s voting,
as treasurer—the offical who
signs all checks for town expendi
tures.
Mayor Johnson was the former
treasurer.
All choices were unanimous wid
there wefhe no other nominations
for any of the positions.
Hodgkins nominated Johnson,
citing his experience on the
3 Incumbents, 2 New
To Office Win Seats
In Council Election
OFFICIAL RESULTS
IN TOWN ELECTION
(In order of votes received)
FOR TOWN COUNCIL
ELECTED
N. L. Hodgkins, Jr,
.: 647
Felton J. Capel
... 573
W. Morris Johnson :
...531
Fred B. Pollard
.. 496
C. A. McLaughlin
... 459
ALSO RAN
Harry H. Pethick
.... 444
Dr. Charles Phillips
.... 404
W. S. Thomasson
... 403
Dante S. Montesanti
.... 174
Donald D. Kennedy
37
FOR JUDGE
W. H. Fullenwider
... 587
(Unopposed)
FOR PROSECUTING ATTT
Howard C. Broughton...
.... 553
(Unopposed)
council. McLaughlin nominated jin his behalf.
Hodgkins; and Pollard nominated
Capel.
All the officials expressed their
appreciation to the voters. Mayor
Johnson said he was thankful
that he had served with the re
tiring Mayor, John S. Ruggles,
and Mayor Pro Tern, J. D. Hobbs,
neither of whom filed for relec
tion. Both Ruggles and Hobbs
spoke briefly.
Pollard recognized his mother,
Mrs. Arthur Pollard of Greenville,
S. C., who v/as in the audience
of some 50 persons who attended
the swearing-in and organizing
session. The councilman said his
mother, visiting here for a few
days, had campaigned vigorously
SECOND SET IN 30 YEARS
Blue of Carthage, he said, but
the name of the family was not
recalled.
Triplets Born; Only One Survives
The triplets (three girls) bom t also died. The mother was
Saturday at Moore Memorial ,ferred to him by the late
Hospital to a Negro couple, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert A. Gamer of
Star Route, Robbins, are the
second set of record in Moore
County in nearly 30 years.
The babies, two of whom did
not survive, were delivered by
Dr. Michael Pishko of the Pine
hurst Surgical Clinic. The surviv
ing baby was reported in good
condition at the hospital today.
’The mother has gone home.
The same hospital was the
scene for delivery of triplets in
1935 by Dr. F. L. Owens who is
now chief of staff at St. Joseph
of the Pines Hospital here.
Questioned about the incident
this week. Dr. Owens said he re
called that two of those babies
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THE WEA'raER
Maximum and
minimum
tern-
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.
Max.
Min.
May 2
73
36
May 3
78
36
May 4
82
35
May 5
82
45
May 6
84
53
May 7
77
54
May 8
86
53
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CGA SENIORS— Clyde Mangum of Southern
Pines, second from right, executive secretary of
the Carolines Golf Association, presents the
winner’s trophy to CGA Seniors tournament
winner Jack Norman of Winston-Salem. At left
is Tom Robbins of Pinehurst, mnner-up with
226, to Norman’s 218 in the 54-hole event that
was completed at Whispering Pines Country
Club Sunday. At right is R. S. Wilson of Bur
lington, placing third with 227. Some scores by
other Moore County competitors in the tourney
were: Harry Davis, Carthage, 233; Will Wiggs,
Southern Pines, 234; Art Wittig, Southern Pines,
240; Ray North, Pinehurst 245; and W. W.
Welker, 246, and Don Morse, 250, both of
Whispering Pines. (Humphrey photo)
Certified Public
Accountants To
Hear Blue Friday
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
Speaker of the North Carolina
House of Representatives, will
deliver the principal address of
the 44th annual meeting of the
N. C. Association of Certified
Public Accountants here, today
through Saturday. He will speak
to the CPA’s at their banquet
session Friday nighi, in The Mid
Pines Club, convention head
quarters.
Helping to host the occasion
will be four local CPA’S—Gar
land McPherson and Roscoe Mul-
lis of the McPherson firm; Ezra
Quesenberry of the local John C.
Muse office; and J. E. Sandlin,
controller of the Amerotron Di
vision of Deering-Milliken, at
Aberdeen.
A feature of the meeting will
be presentation as door prizes of
some 30 different industrial and
craft items manufactured in
Moore County, comprising a dis
play that has been exhibited at
the Southern National Bank here,
last week and this week.
As golf prizes, two putters
made by Roy Grinnell, profes
sional at the Southern Pines
Country Club, will he presented.
To represent Moore County’s rec
reation “industry,” some member
of the association will be given
a quitclaim deed to the 18th
green of the Mid Pines golf course.
Election of new officers for the
coming year wiU be a major item
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Local AF Officer
Saves Children In
Submerging Auto
Capt. Charles Snyder of Sou
thern Pines, an Air Force officer
stationed at Pope AFB, pulled
two little girls from an automo
bile that was unintentially sub
merged in Lake Tillery, Mont
gomery County, Sunday.
Another rescuer saved the
children’s mother who backed the
car too far into the lake in at
tempting to shove a boat on a
trailer into the water.
The .girls were described as
about six and eight years old.
The father of the family had left
the car before the incident took
place.
Both Captain Snyder and Cecil
Hutchinson of Aberdeen, a wit
ness of the event who reported
it to the press, are members of the
Moore County Topsiders Club, a
boating organization. Their fami
lies were with them for the visit
to Lake Tillery. The captain was
the first of several rescuers to
reach the car as it went under
water.
Names of the rescued persons
were not learned. The car was
pulled from the lake by a wreck
er later, after having submerged
20 or 30 feet from shore.
Hutchinson described the
strange incident as “like watching
a silent movie.” Nobody shouted
or said a word, he reported. He
called the rescue “a thrilling ex
ample of quick thinking and
courage.”
■F In a vigorously campaigned,
closely run municipal election
Tuesday, 1,034 Southern’ Pines
voters elected three incuments
and two new members to the
town council. The' winners and
other candidates .are listed in the
accompanying tabulation.
With eight of the 10 candidates
polling more than 400 votes each,
the outcome was in doubt until
the counting of ballots ended
Tuesday night.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., in his
first try for elected office, held
a commanding lead Tuesday, as
in last week’s primary. Running
second Tuesday, as in the primary,
was Felton J. Capel, West Sou
thern Pines resident who has
served two terms on the council.
W. Morris Johnson, still fol
lowing the order of votes received
in the primary, maintained his
third-place spot. He was com
pleting his first council term.
But from that point on, the
primary eggs were scrambled in
Tuesday’s voting.
Running fourth Tuesday— up
from seventh place in the primary
—was Fred B. Pollard who had
served 21 months of a two-year
term on the council after appoint
ment to fill a vacancy.
In fifth spot, completing the
roster of the five elected, was C.
A. McLaughlin who ran eighth of
11 candidates in the primary.
Only 15 votes separted Mc
Laughlin and Harry H. Pethick
who ran sixth Tuesday. In the
—primary, Pethick, a veteran of
two non-consecutive terms on the
council in former years, had been
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BANKS TO CLOSE
Banks in Moore County towns
will be closed Friday, in observ
ance of Confederate Memorial
Day, a general bank holiday
throughout the state.
TAG DAY SATURDAY
TO HELP MOTHERS
The annual Tag Day of the
Moore County Maternal Wel
fare Committee, a project of
the Woman's Auxiliary of
Moore Memorial Hospital,
will take place in all towns of
Moore County Saturday, with
sales of tags to benefit needy
mothers during the coming
year. (See another story, page
9, and editorial, page 2).
Elections Held
*
In Other Towns
Results of municipal elections
in other Moore County towns
Tuesday are:
Pinebluff
Citizens, casting a total of 122
votes, returned their mayor and
old board to office.
Mayor E. H. Mills, unopposed
officially for his eighth term, won
97 votes. A pre-election campaign
for write-ins for an opposition
candidate had been reported.
Write-in votes for mayor were:
Clay Parker, 11; John 'Tulloch, 2;
Coolidge C. Thompson, 1, and
Harry Charles, 1.
For the three-man board, Ro
bert Brock led the ticket with
97, with 93 for Walter Davenport
and 91 for Timothy Cleary.
Also-rans were Ralph Foushee,
55, and Mrs. Donna Spence, 24.
Vass
Mayor D. H. McLean, running
unooposed for reelection, garnered
88 votes out of 111 cast, while two
newcomers and three incumbents
were elected to the board.
Leading the ticket for commis
sioner were George M. Blue, with
91, and Dr. Russell J. Tate, 89.
Returned to office were Robie
Futrell, 85: William B. Frye, 73,
and Roy Frye, 71. Trailing was
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HERBERT TO SPEAK
George R. Herbert, president of
the Research Triangle Institute,
will speak to the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club at its luncheon meet
ing Wednesday of next week in
the Pinehurst Country Club.
MAYOR TO THROW FIRST BALL
Little Leag;ue Baseball Season Will
Open Saturday With Parade. 2 Games
The 1963 Southern Pines Little
League baseball season will be
gin Saturday evening at the Little
League park on Morganton Road
with doubleheader games sched
uled each Friday and Saturday
evening thereafter until school is
out. Games are set for Monday
and Friday, following the closing
of school in June.
The local league will again field
four Little League teams and four
Minor League teams with up
wards of 140 boys participating.
'The Southern Pines league is a
chartered member of the National
Little League which entitles it
to participate in the State and
National playoffs and is gov
erned by a board of directors, ac-
, cording to the National Little
(League regulations. An 18-game
schedule is also compulsory.
The regular season schedule
will end July 8 in order to have
time to train the All-Star team
which will begin play in the State
Tournament July 19.
Saturday Events
This Saturday has been pro
claimed Little League Day in
Southern Pines by the mayor. Ac
tivities will begin with the annu
al parade Saturday morning at
10 a. m.
The parade will feature all Lit
tle League players and coaches,
convertibles, “queens” for each
team and the high school band.
Photos of all four Little League
teams and other information ap
pear elsewhere in today’s Pilot.
Festivities at the Morganton
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