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‘AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND COTTON, Middling EGGS, A large_ BROILERS _ HOGS .. THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE” 26.00 LEAD TO ABERDEEN Paved highways from seven different directions and railroads from four directions lead tb Aberdeen—the trading center of Vhe Sandhills. « Volume 51; Number 37 Aberdeen, North Carolina, Thursday, May 20, 1954 2 SECTIONS - 12 PAGES 10c Per Copy; $3.00 Per Year SANDHILL MUSINGS "A ChieVs Amang Ye Talcin' Notes, and Faith He’ll Prent It.”—Burns. GREETINGS — Mrs. J. Wylie Babb, the town’s official greeter has recently extended the greet ings of the town to the Rev. Eu gene Deese family, the Rev. Jack Ewart family and to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Yarborough and their two children who live at 233 Keith street. Mr. Yarborough is an em ployee of the Montgomery Dairy and moved to Aberdeen from Troy last week TALENT SHOW — The JSGA of the local Grammar School will sponsor a talent show Tues day, May 25 at 1:15 o’clock in the gym using talent from the fourth through the eighth grades. The public is invited to attend. FIRE — The Southern Pines fire truck was called out late Tuesday afternoon to a fire in Manly. According to a report a smoke house belonging to J. B. Short was destroyed along with a large amount of meat. FIREMEN SUPPER — The Aberdeen Volunteer Fire De partment was given a barbecue chicken ^upper at the firemen’s shed near the lake Tuesday evening with Mrs. Gertrude r-age aeiraying me expenses. In appreciation for the splendid work of the local fire depart ment when the late Henry A Page home was destroyed by fire several weeks ago Mrs. Page gave the Aberdeen fire depart ment a check for $100.00 to be used for a supper. Some fortv people were ip atten*3a:.i.; at the supper including a. few guests. The barbecue chicken was some of the tastiest and best served in this section in a lnng time according to reports. Words of appreciation for the supper and the work of the volunteer fire department were expressed by Frank D. Sham burger, Forrest Lockey and others. Elbert Garner and Matt Matthews entertained with a few jokes. CO-MANAGERS—The Lennon For Senator forces in Moore County have announced a couple of co-managers this week, they being J. Alton Shaw of the Cameron community and Howard Callahan of Vass. LIONS MEETING—There will be a joint meeting of the Aber deen and Carthage Lions clubs at the Legion Hut here on this Friday evening, May 21 at 7 o’clock after which a zone meet ing will be held. E. P. Hinson of West End is zone chairman. HIGHWAY 1—A 24-foot high way parallel to the present Highway 1 from Aberdeen to the Richmond County line is Continued on back page Aberdeen Playground Conies To life Again With spring here and the approach of summer the Aberdeen playground has become a bee-hive of activity these days after the equipment was given necessary repairs and painted a few weeks ago. The above picture was taken Sunday afternoon as the above young parents attended their babies at play. Pictured left to right are S-Sgt. and Mrs. Wayne Hendrickson of Pope Field and their 6-month old son, Mark; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Poole of Aberdeen and their 6-month old daugh ter Debra: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Buchan of Aberdeen and 1-year old Lee II. The Hendricksons are natives of Grinnell, Iowa. For the past year he has been stationed at Pope Field.—Citizen photo. Aberdeen Commencement Program Starts Sunday <s DEDICATION SERVICE At the 11 o’clock worship service Sunday morning at the P i n e b I u f f Methodist Church the organ will be dedicated with the Rev. G. W. Crutchfield of Carbow, for mer pastor of the church, de livering the sermon. Following the service a pic nic lunch will be served on the church grounds. Every one is invited to attend. Politics Quiet With Voting Time Only Week Away Quietness features the Dem ocratic primary campaign in Moore County which is only eight days away. Moore County voters will de cide four county races head lined by the contest over the Sheriff’s office. Charles J. McDonald who has held the office for nearly 2tt years is being opposed by R. G. Fry, Jr., sen of the man Mc Donald defeated for the nom ination in 1928 and Wendell Kelly, retired highway patrol sergeant. All are from the Car thage area. The three have been active Continued on last page Roseland Methodist Church Set To 1 Observe‘Rural Life Sunday’ May 23 Roseland Road To Be Extended Highway Commissioner For rest Lockey this week told the Citizen that a 2-mile strip ot road intersecting the West End Hoffman road at Patterson’s Store at the Taylor Memorial Church crossing Drowning Creek and connecting with the Hoff man-Derby road would be built sometime after July. This will be an extension of the Rose land road People in the area where the road is to be located have been requesting this road for several years. Lockey said that this was found to be a much needed road and that it would shorten the distance from the Ellerbe sec tion to Aberdeen by about five miles. 1 The road will cross Drown I ing Creek about a mile from that It would be built with State labor and equipment. Patterson’s store. % Picnic Dinner At Noon; Dr. Robbins, Others To Speak Rural Life Sunday will be oh.-, served by the Roseland Metho dist Church next Sunday, May 23. Rural Life Sunday, which has its roots in the Rogation Days is a day set apart for em phasizing the meaning of Christianity for Rural life; for the invocation of God’s blessing upon the seeds, the soil and those who plant the seeds and cultivate the soil. This special day was first ob served in 1929. at the sugges tion of the International Asso ciation of Agricultural Missions, and has since been adopted by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and is therefore observed by many re ligious bodies. The program at Roseland will begin with a picnic dinner at 12:30. At 1:30 the worship ser vice will begin. Some of the 1 Continued on la#» W Rev. Worth To Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon Here Sunday Night Commencement exercises will get underway at the Aberdeen High school on this Sunday evening, May 23 with Rev. C. W. Worth of Whitevillfe Srfu former pastor of Bethesda Presbyterian Church here delivering the bac calaureate sermon. This service will be held in the Page Memo rian Methodist Church at 8 p. m. On Thursday evening, May 27 the High School class night exercises will be held in the Aberdeen gymnasium at 8 p. m. This exercise will feature ‘'The Wedding of Miss Senior Class and Mr. Life of Service. The cast will be as follows: Flower chain and song to seniors, junior class; response to juniors, senior clas; salutato rian, Fay Matthews; bride, Jackie Holden; groom, Hubert Edge; ringbearer, Bobby Mor Continued on last page Bloodmobile At Southern Pines Next Wednesday The Moore County Red Cross Chapter announces the sched ule of the spring bloodmobile visit, slated for next Wednes day at the Southern Pines Country Club between 11 a. m. and 4:30 p. m.. John "Z&sfkolz, permanent Blood Chairman, re vealed last week. This wall be the Jast visit which the unit will make in Moore County, barring unfore seen developments, and it is hoped that as many donors as possible will sign up to give a pint. Rather than wait, it. is asked that donor ; telephone the Rod Cross office and make ap pointments, or do so through blood doner cards which are be ing distributed- fcy several vol unteers. Calls to the office (dial 2-8571) may be made "collect’' from out of town. In Aberdeen, call J. D. Arey at 8701. Refreshments will be served at the ‘ blcodmoble, and every Continued on last page Rev. and Mrs. Deese and Children . PlctUied above Is the Rev. and Mrs. F. Eugene Deese and their children, Jean Marie, 11, and Charles Eugene, 4. The above picture was taken Sunday afternoon at the Baptist parsonage at 403 Summitt street in Aberdeen. The Deese family recently moved to Aberdeen from Ellerbe. Rev. Deese is pastor of- the First Baptist Church here.—Citizen photo. Moore Democrats At State Meeting | Held In Raleigh W. P. Saunders And Bessie McCaskill On State Committee j Some seventy-five men and women attended the State Democratic Convention a n d i caucus held in Raleigh last I night and today. | At the Moore County caucus held Wednesday night in the Sir Walter Hotel the following i nominations from Moore Coun i ty were approved: I State executive committee. W. ! P. Saunders of Aberdeen and [ Miss, Bessie McCaskill of Car i Congressional committee, J. | Hubert McCaskill of Pinehurst | and Mrs. Lessie G. Brown of Carthage. ' v Judicial committee, W. La mont Brown of Southern Pines and U. L. Spence of Carthage. Solicitorial committee, Bobby Page of Aberdeen and J. Doug las David of Pinebluff. Continued on last page H, T, Lane Elected American Legion Commander The Aberdeen Post of the American Legion has elected the following officers to serve during the next twelve months: H. T. Lane, commander; Ver non Davis, Jr., vice command er: Robert Veasey, adjutant: J D. Arey, Jr., finance officer; Willie Calcutt, sergeant-at arms. These officers will be install ed at a dinner meeting next Tuesday evening, at 7 o’clock at the Legion hut here by Rob ert ChriScoe of Pinehurst, pa^t district legion commander. Reception For New Ministers Set For Tonight There will be a public re ception at the Aberdeen com munity house on this (Thurs day) evening from 7 to 9 p. m., honoring Rev. and Mrs. F. Eugene Deese and Rev. and Mrs. Jack W. Ewart. Rev. Deese and Rev. Ewart are pastors of the First Baptist and Bethesda Presbyterian churches respectively. The public is cordially in vited to this reception which is being sponsored by the First Baptist and Bethesda churches jointly. Dr. (lecil Robbins Will Preach Here Sunday Morning DR. C. W. ROBBINS Dr. Cecil Robbins of Greens boro and editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate will preach at Page Memorial Methodist Church Sunday morning, May 23 at 11 a. m., according to an announce ment by Rev. W. A. Tew, pas tor who will preside at the service. Supreme Court Jolts People In Aberdeen Boykin Convicted Of Manslaughter; Gets Long Term Many Jury Trials In Criminal Term Now Cutler Way Robert Boykin', GO, of Adder, fried in Mooie superior court for second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his neigh bor, Leroy <Toyt Clyburn, last April <5, wa; found by a jury to have been guilty of manslaugh ter. Judge Frank M. Armstrong sentenced him to not less than 15 nor more than 20 years in prison. The trial started Tuesday morning and concluded about noon Wednesday, the third day ot the criminal term. It was long, rambling and somewhat confused. However, the main facts stood out clearly—Clyburn had paid two early-morning visits to Boykin's log-cabin home, next to his own: had threatened and cursed him, gone home and then returned; and Boykin had opened the door as he approached and killed him with one blast of his shot gun when he was about 30 feet away. Two surprise witnesses, who had not appeared at the #iorU n.er’s inquest, were Sara Mc Rae, who had been in Boykin’s Continued on last page A. & K. President HENRY McCOY BLUE Henry McCoy Blue who on May 11 was elected President of the Aberdeen and Rock fish Railroad Company, is the son oi the late John Blue who founded the A. & R. in 1892. Henry Blue is the third pres ident of the railroad. His fa ther served as president un til his death in 1922 at which time the late W. A. Blue was elected president and served until his death on April 26. Before his elevation to the presidency of the firm Henry Blue served as Vice President and General I&anager of tlie company. He also carries on extensive farming in Moore and Hoke counties. School Plans Must Await Leadership Of Governor, State Dept,—Thomas “Any plans we might make row toward integration of our white and Negro systems of ed ucation would, I believe, be pre mature,” said H. Lee Thomas, superintendent of Moore County schools, this week. “We must wait on plans and instructions from our Governor, the Gener a) Assembly and the State De - partment of Education.” Mr Thomas said “there are too many problems to be worked out on a higher level before any real planning can be done. I be lieve, though, that these will eventualiy be worked out in a Continued on last page Rev. and Mrs. Ewart and Children Pictured above is Rev. and Mrs. Jack Ewart and their five children. The picture was taken last Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian manse on Bethesda road. Rev. Ewart is holding David and Mrs. Ewart is holding William, twin sons born in December. In front are Steve, 4 1-2; McCrea, 5 1-2; and Laurie, 2 1-2. The Ewart family moved to Aberdeen a couple of weeks ago where Rev. Ewart has taken up his work as pastor of the Bethesda Church.—Citizen photo. ’ Local reopie uommeni On Historic Decision Banning Segregation The decision of the United States Supreme Court handed down in Washington Monday by Chief Justice Warren came as a shocking announcement to Aberdeen people as it must have been to the countless hundreds of communities and villages throughout the Southland. When asked for his comment on the ruling Robert E. Lee, principal of the Aberdeen schools said: “It will present problems that we don’t even think of at the present time.” Jure McKeithen, member Of the county board of education: “The Moore County Board of Education has devoted much of its thought, tfcrte and effort and has spent a majority of its money for the past several years toward providing equal facilities for our colored students. We have had the wholehearted support of the colored school patrons. They have expressed their approval at our plans and their appreciation at the prog ress we have made. I, personally feel that the Supreme Court de cision will hinder rather than help our race relations which have improved so much in the last decade.” Earl Freeman, President of the Sandhill Telephone Com pany said: “The reversal of the forxher opinion of the Supreme Court has not solved any prob lem, it has created one. This de cision could destroy the good race relations that have been built up over a period of years. It appears to me that an honest effort has been made here to give the colored people equal facilities.” Forrest Lockey, former mayor and highway commissioner: “I consider it purely a political de cision which certainly invades every vestige of ‘states rights*. In my opinon North Carolina has been working out its so called racial problem in its own way with very satisfactory re sults for all concerned. The su preme court’s decision, if put I into effect in North Carolina Is bound to interrupt that pro gram.” Gordon Keith: “There is noth ing to do but to accept it but I hope it will take a long time to put it into effect.” A1 Cruce: “No comment.” Continued on last page Hugh Hardee To Operate Aberdeen Warehouse 1954 Hugh T. Hardee, of Greenville, will have complete charge of the New Aberdeen Warehouse, this season, and is already spending the week days here. Tom Faulkner, also of Green ville, will return as the Auction eer, he said. In commenting on his plans, he said further, T will be in and out of Aberdeen all summer, contacting the to bacco fanners, but will maintain residence in Aberdeen.” John Murray, who was asso ciated with Hardee last year, will not return for the coming tobacco selling season. CANDIDATES FORUM Democratic candidates, op posed and unopposed, for dis trict and county offices haw been Invited to attend the Fine* League of Worn* Voters at a mooting to be bei
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