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N. C. MARKET reports “AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND . . . COTTON, Middling 1-in. 33.95 EGGS, A large_54 to 57 BROILERS ___23 HOGS _24.50 . . . THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE” LEAD TO ABERDEEN Paved highways from seven different directions and railroads from four directions lead to Aberdeen—the trading center of the Sandhills. Volume 51; Number 18 Aberdeen, North Carolina, Thursday, January 7, 1954 2 SECTIONS - 14 PAGES (Section 1' / ^ 10c Per Copy; $3.00 Per Year SANDHILL MUSINGS "A Ckiel’s Amang Ye Takiri Notes, and Faith BVU Prent It.”—Burns. m MEETING — The Aber deen-Pinebluff PTA meeting will be held on Thursday evening, •, January 21, instead of the usual second Thursday in the month. DIMES DISCREPANCY — On adding up the 20 individual quotfs for Moore County com munities in the March of Dimes drf.re, we have $7,560 for the of ficial county quota. This is $20 more than the amount listed in the. appeal on page 4 of the second section, which was printed before the proper figure was available. McLEAN’S STYLE SHOP — The new addition to McLean’s •on South Street, dressed up in modernistic« style both inside and out, is nearing completion. The opening date has not been set, but it should be in about two weeks. A removal sale starts tomorrow at their regular shop next door. They will utilize both adjoining sections of the build ing when the new part is opened. GRILL — Interior decoration of the old Aberdeen Restaurant building, soon to be the new headquarters of the Mid South Grill, is going forward with opening date to be the latter part of this month. Mike Kalodes is looking to a much more spacious and beneficial arrangement in the new location at South and Poplar Streets. ' OLDE CHRISTMAS—The Olde Christmas party for the hospital f- patients at Port Bragg given on m$dnnd&y night under auspices i. of Sandhills Post American Le gion, made a very happy ending for the holiday season for these wounded and sick veterans, ac cording to a report received from Shields Cameron, Chair man of the Cheer Committee. A group of entertainers as sembled by Mrs. John Ostrom, Millie Montesanti and Colonel Francis Dwight all of Southern Pines, danced and sang Christ mas Carols and other popular songs for the boys as entertain ment, and then distributed gifts amoflg them, while Mr. Yarboro and Gurney Bowles en tertained with some real old time fiddler’s music and ballad songs. Others also joined the troupe, and a generous contribution from various sources made pos sible the bountiful gifts which the hospitalees received. WITH OUR SUBSCRIBERS— We all like to get mail—that is Continued on last page Senior 4-H Club Organized Here A senior 4-H Club has been organized in the Aberdeen High School with officers elected for the coming year as follows: Gwyn Voss, president; Pau. Bullard, "vice president; Eliza beth Mathers, secretary-treasur er; Elaine Colnett, repdrter, and Paul Connelly, song leader. Helping The March Of Dimes 4 A<>y • •v r* ■_ Miss Chaworth Ann Lawrence, left is shown handing her March of Dimes contribution to W. H. McNeill. Jr., Aberdeen fund raising chairman. Miss Lawrence, now secretary in the J. D. Arey and Company office had 'polio in 1941. She received treatment at the Warm Springs Hospital in Georgia in 1942 and again in 1946. In Aberdeen. Chairman McNeill is being as sisted by Mrs. F. L. McNeill, Mrs. G. B. Kimball, Mrs. Sam Tarl ton, Mrs. Albert Caddell and Curtis Mclnnis. Other co-workers will be announced next week. March of Dimes Rolling In Moored ' i4uoias.net, nans Made At Meeting Held In Carthage Community leaders of Moore county’s March of Dimes, meet ing Friday night at Carthage, accepted quotas for the January campaign totaling $7,460, the same as have been accepted and successfully passed in the coun ty for each of the past several years. The meeting was dominated by enthusiam, and the convic tion that the 1954 fund drive may be the most momentous in the long history of the fight against polio—that on its suc cess may depend whether or not the dread child-crippler is at last put on the run. The hope and belief were ex pressed that far more than the quota may actually be made, as County Campaign Chairman H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen in formed the group that this year one-third of the returns are to be earmarked for the great polio prevention project schedule^ to begin in February. One-third will be retained by the local chapter, and* one-third be sent to the National Infantile Para lysis Foundation for epidemic aid, patient care, education and research. In the past, the March of Dimes proceeds have been di vided half and half between the Continued on last page SPEED WATCH ON The speed watch, that accu rate little mechanism, is on watch all over Moore county this week, being: moved from place to place under super vision of State Highway Pa trolmen, SHP Cpl. M. S. Parvin of Carthage reported Monday. A big haul of speeders is an ticipated but “we’d a lot rather you just slowed down than to have to arrest you,” the corporal advised. Purpose of the use of the device is to make and keep the highways safer, not to get drivers in jail, and that was why he was issuing the warn ing, Corporal Parvin said. The speed watch prill be in use in Moore through next week end. R. O. Taylor To Head Negro Polio Drive In Carthage Miss Bessie McCaskill, chair man of the 1954 Carthage March of Dimes this week an nounced that Professor R. O. Taylor, principal of the Pinck ney High School in Carthage would hegd-up the Negro so licitation in the Carthage com munity. Campbell Installed Occoneechee Prexy; , Brown Presented Silver Beaver Award W. o, CAMTim Moore county’s delegation of 60 Scouters attending the an nual Recognition Dinner of the Occoneechee Council Tuesday night at Chapel Hill had oc casion to feel very proud. Heat, they saw one of their number, W. D. Campbell, of Southern Pines, installed as president of the 12-county coun cil—another chapter in a dis tinguished career of service to the Boy Scout program. Second, they saw another Qf their group, W. Lamont Brown of Southern PineB, become one Of six recipients of the Silver Beaver, highest award in vol unteer scouting. Third, the delegation carried away the coveted Attendance Continued on hurt page Vehicle Kills ' J. N. Daugherty In Southern Pines Dr. L. M. Daniels Exonerated By Coroner’s Jury James Norbert Daughtery of Southern Pines was Moore County’s first fatality of the year. The 78-year’cld man was in stantly killed at 6:15 p. m. Mon day when he stepped in front of a car while crossing Broad Street in Southern Pines three blocks from the heart of town, near the Southern Pines Florist The. driver, Dr! L. M. Daniels, a Southern Pines dentist and business man, was exonerated oi blame by a coroner’s jury, which i'cund no culpable negligence on his part in the death of Mr. Daugherty. Policeman C. E. Newton testi fied at the inquest held Tues day afternoon that he had re cently warned him to be more careful about crossing the street. At the time of the accident, he was on his way home to supper after an afternoon downtown, and started across before reach ing the intersection. Services were held Tuesday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. C. K. Ligon, Presbyterian min ister. The body was shipped to McKeesport, Pa. for graveside service and burial this (Thurs day) morning. He was born in Erie, Pa., son cf Cornelius and Myra Hurd Daugherty. He came to Southern Pinest several yeajs ago to make his with ffis daughter. Survfying are two children, Mrs. Harold T. Dutton and C. H*» Dau$*tgrty, both of Southern Pines; six grandchildren and 11 greSt-grandchildren. Wm, A, Wright Commits Suicide Friday Morning Prominent Sandhills _ Citizen Shoots Self; Services Held Memorial service was held at the Village Chapel in Pinehurst Sunday afternoon for William Alderman Wright, 42, promi nent resident of the Sandhills, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home, Ridgecrest Farm, between Pine hurst and Jackson Springs, early Friday morning. The service was followed Mon day afternoon by graveside ser vice and burial in Greenwood Memorial Park, Greenville, N. C. Officiating at both services was the Rev. Adam Weir Craig, pas tor of the Village Chapel. Pallbearers were W. A. Leland McKeithen, Thomas C. Darst, Lord Carriok, Harold A. Collins, Gen. Ira T. Wyche, Col. Wallace Simpson, J D. Parker, Carey Mayo, James Moye, James Flem ing, Iverson Skinner, Edward Stevens, Henry Florey and Dr. Charles Williams. Surviving are his wife, for merly Mrs. Ruth Eberhardt Haynesworth; one daughter, Mary Ann, and two stepsons, •Harry and William Haynes worth; his mother, Mrs. Pearl Murphy Wright, of Hampton, Va.; one brother, Dr. Robert H. Wright, Hampton, Va., and one sister, Mrs. M. Donald Cadman, Chappaqua, N. Y. The tragedy, which shocked the.Sandhills,, where Mr. Wright waj^tfell kiiown and esteemed, Occurred after the couple had returned about 3:30 a. m. to their home qfter attendigggNew Years Eve festivities in Fine Continued on last page Aberdeen Troop Receives Memorial Award For 1953 Billy Sheppard Awarded Eagle Badge At Court Of Honor The W. M. Storey Memorial Award for 1953 was presented to Aberdeen Troop No. 68 at Mu January court of honor held at Robbins Wednesday night. On the same program a member of the troop, Billy Sheppard, aged 13 years and three months, was awarded his Eagle Badge. The dTorey Award was pre sented by Voit Gilmore of South ern Pines, who at the same time presented to Frank McNeill, scoutmaster, a small replica of the handsome silver bowl to re tain as a personal keepsake. James Whitt is assistant scout master of the troop. This was the second time the coveted award had been won by the Aberdeen troop, which re ceived it two yedrs ago for lead ership in 1951. The award is based on progress and activity in a year-long competition among troops of the county, scored on a point system in the fields of advancement, enrollment, hik ing, camping, civic service, budg et, uniforms and exhibits at the county fair. The award was established in 1950 by the late Mrs. Storey, Mr. Gilmore’s mother, in mem ory of her husband. A similar award is made each year in Winston - Salem, where the Storeys lived. The cup’s first winner was Pinebluff, Aberdeen was second, and Pinehurst the third. Pinehurst, Troop No. 7 was ' Continued on last page j JL L. Bryant To Head Negro Polio ; Drive In Aberdeen I W. H. McNeill, Jr., Aberdeen chairman of the 1954 March of Dimes this week announced that ' Professor H. L. Bryant would head up the Negro aohottatlon in the Aberdeen community. $50.00 FROM JCs TO CHILDRESS FUND At their regular meeting Monday night the Aberdeen Jaycees voted to donate $50.00 to the Childress Fund which is being raised to build Mrs. Spencer Childress of the Cameron community a house in which to live. Mrs. Child ress’ husband died in Decem ber and she has nine children ranging in age from 10 weeks to 15 years. Robert N. Page III and H. Clifton Blue will be glad to receive contributions for the Childress Fund in the Aber deen community and see that the money gets to the trea surer? Roy M. Bender Heads Aberdeen Civilian Defense Lt. Col. Roy M. Bender haj been named Aberdeen Civilian Defense Director and has start I ed work coward interesting the I people in a disaster program | should such an cccurance take i place in this vicinity. Col. Bender told The Citizen Wednesday that he planned tc discuss the matter with Mayor Medlin and that he hoped tc interest the civic organizations of the town in a disaster pro gram. On Thursday, January 21 there will be a women’s civiliar defense meeting at the Sir Wal ter hotel, Raleigh at which tim( Continued on last page Ministers To Meet In Aberdeen Monday The Moore County Minlsterla Association will meet at the Pag< Memorial Methodist Church ir Aberdeen Monday, morning a 16:30 o’clock. Afl members an asked to attend. i Mayor Medlin Talks On Town Accomplishments, Objectives Billy McGuire Loses Life In Auto Wreck Thursday Night Funeral Services Held Here Monday With Military Honors A large crowd attended the funeral of Airman 3-C Billy O. [ McGuire, 18-year-old Aberdeen I youth and a member of the j United States Air Force, in the Page Memorial Methodise i Church here Monday afternoon. I Home on Christmas leave the i young airman was killed in an automobile accident near Rock fish, in Hoke County, when his car went out of control and overturned on a curve just about midnight last Thursday, New Year’s Eve. His companion, Miss Betty Thomas of Aberdeen, RFD (in Hoke County) was injured, but not seriously. She remained a patient for two or three days at Moore County Hospital. Full Military honors were ac corded Airman McGuire at the funeral service and burial was in the family plot in Old Bethesda cemetery. Officiating was the Rev. W. A. Tew, church pastor. He was born at Draper in 1935 and the family moved to Aber deen in 1948. He attended Aber deen schools, and volunteered for service with the Air Force last. April 2Ss. He v/as stationed at Chanute AFB, Illinois. I Surviving are his parents. | Mr. and Mrs. W. O. McGuire, oi Aberdeen, and two brothers, Air man 3-C John Holt McGuire of Sheppard AFB. Texas, and Charles Lee McGuire, of the home. Billy was a popular young man in the Aberdeen community and his sudden death cast a pall over the entire community. The many beautiful floral of ferings along with the hundreds of friends who called at the home and attended the funeral bespoke the high esteem in which he was held. Cars Collide On U. S. No. 1 Wed. Two automobiles collided be tween Aberdeen and Plnebluff on Highway 1 about 9:45 Wed nesday morning. No one was huft in either of the cars. The wreck occurred, accord ing to Patrolman Johnnie Low rimore, who investigated the ac cident, when John Harrison Thomas entered the highway from a private drive-way The left front wheel of his 1933 Chevrolet panel truck collided with the right front wheel of a 1951 Pontiac 4-door sedan driv en by John Robert Hughes of Continued on back page BILLY McGUIRE Mrs. E, McDonald Funeral Set For Friday Afternoon Mrs. Elm a McNeill McDonald, 69, died early this (Thursday) morning at Moore County Hos pital after a lingering illness. Funeral sendee^ will be held Friday at 3 the Old Bethesda Presbyterian Church, conducted by the former pastor, Rev. Charles W. Worth, now of Bunaiwill be in the family plot at Old Bethesda Cemetery. Mrs. McDonald was born on January 26, 1884 on the old Capt. Archie Ray place, located on Bethesda road, homestead of the Ray family, and she spent all of her life there. She was the daughter of John A. and Sarah Jane Ray, both of whom were members of old Scottish families of this section. Surviving are her husband, Archie D. McDonald, of the home; and 3 sons, Ray and Woodrow of Southern Pines, and Alton, of the home. Several grandchildren also survive. PERFECT ATTENDANCE PINS PRESENTED SUN. Sunday School perfect at tendance pins were presented at Bethesda Presbyterian Church Sunday to the following: Three months: Tommy Cruc", Carlton Cruce, Clifton Blue, Jr., Glenda Caviness, Allen Maurer, Martha Wicks and Barbara Cav iness. Six months: Mrs. R. M. Cald well, Martha Ann Smith and Calvin Cruce. One year: Susan Bridges and Judy Hall. Reviews Past Accomplishments, Future Objectives In a, talk before the Aberdeen Lions Club last Friday evening, Dr. E. M. Medlin, Aberdeen Mayor, reviewed some of the town’s accomplishments during ! the past few years and also list ed objectives for the future. Mayor Medlin recalled that he was appointed Mayor of Aber deen on May I3th to succeed Forrest Lockey who had resign ed to become highway commis sioner. He said that since that time he had had the full co operation of the Town Board. Some of the Town accom plishments since becoming Aber deen Mayor listed by Dr. Medlin were: 1. Presenting service awards to Forrest Lockey and J. B. Ed wards. 2. Installation of a sand filter to keep sand out of the water j pumps. 3. Arranging a bus station for Aberdeen. 4. Paving of Blue street and also area in front of gym. Street from highway to lake straight ened and surfaced, through the cooperation of Highway Com missioner Lockey. 5. Town jail put in good re pair. 6. Electric addressograph ma chine installed in Town Hall to facilitate clerical work. 7. Police' car purchased. R Tewo *girag«. constructed 21x63 feet room for old fire truck at Town Hall. , k 9. Signs around lake regarding alcoholic . beverages. Large 600 watt light installed at bath house. 10. Col. Roy M. Bender named Civil Defense Director for Aber deen. Seven Objectives Mayor Medlin then reviewed seven objectives announced at the beginning of his adminis I tration as follows: 1. Beautification. This project is coming along nicely. So is the clean-up campaign which is a part of the beautification ob jective. 2. Increase the friendliness of the town. Mrs. J. Wylie Babb has bgen named Town Greeter. 3. Additional fire truck. The town now has two trucks. One is 30 years old; the other over I 15 years old. The purchase of j an additional truck is scheduled j to be passed upon by the people j in a bopd issue vote, together j with a vote for' a filter plant ! bond issue sometime in the future. 4. Survey of Town boundaries. This has been completed arid permanent markers, will soon be erected. 5. Nice entrance sighs to the town from the different high way approaches. He suggested Continued on back page March Of Dimes Workers Map Campaign Couldn’t get them all In the picture but here’s a portion of the crowd of Dimes campaign kickoff dinner held Friday night at the Carthage are Mrs. Frank Wilson, Manly ((barely visible!; Mrs. June Harrington, Lakeview; Howard Kennedy, Westmoore;*J. F. Sinclair. West Ehi Bob Coulter, Raleigh, NFIP state representative for central North paign chairman; Paul C. Butler, Southern Pines community cf Mrs. S. W. Bruton and Mr. Bruton, Jackson Springs; Mtft Eldbn Mr. Adams; Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officer; C. H. Bowr and Miss. Be|W McCaskill, Carthage, chairman.
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