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I LEAD TO ABERDEEN Paved highways from seven different directions and railroads from four directions lead to Aberdeen—the trading center of the Sandhills “AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND Volume 51; Number 39 10c Per Copy; $3.00 Per Year Aberdeen, North Carolina, Thursday, June 3, 1954 2 SECTIONS - 10 PAGES (Section 1) I SANDHILL MUSINGS "A Chiefs Amang Ye Talcin' Notes, and Faith He’ll Prent It.”—Burns. TOMATO—A ripe tomato was reported picked from the gar den of G. W. Laton on May 28. SICK—David Blue Keith, 10 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Keith has been in the Moore County Hospital serious ly ill since last Saturday with pneumonia. We are glad to re port that he is better at this time. SPEAKER—One of the most sought-after speakers in the Sandhills these days is J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen who a few weeks ago returned from a several weeks tour of the Bible countries, where he followed the road traveled by Paul and other early Christians. On Sunday night at 7:30 p. m., Mr. Johnson will'speak at Cypress Presbyte rian Church located some nine miles east of Vass. On Tuesday night he will speak before the Bethesda Men of the Church at 7:30 p. m. LOST A SALE—We understand that a shoe salesman was to see Paul Kellis a few days ago. The salesman before getting down to business with Paul as Is often the case got into a dis cussion of business and eco * nomic conditions in general. The salesman painted a pretty bad picture of coming conditions and seemed to feel that a de pression might be on the way. ^ Finally he got down to his busi ness of shoe selling. But he had talked too much. Paul told him that if a dcp?> ssion was Ground the corner that he believed he would put off his shoe buying, * save the money and when the depression struck that he would be able to buy three pair of shoes for what he would have to pay for one pair now. CLYDE KNEW—T. Clyde AU man of West End and a mem ber of the 3-man committee that directed the Scott for Senator campaign in Moore County said that he never had any doubt that Moore County would go for Scott. He said that the only pre cinct that he figured would go for Scott which did not was Pinebluff where the vote was Lennon 114, Scott 84. WEST END — In last week’s Citizen an advertisement con gratulating and listing the Moore County high school graduating classes of 1954 was published. Through oversight the seniors from West End were omitted. This we regret. A list of West End seniors will be found in another story in this issue of The Citizen. HARRINGTONS — Mr. and Mrs. E. L. (Bill) Harrington of Lakeview are operating the Journey’s End Motel at Kitty Hawk. N. C., this summer. LIONS—The regular meeting of the Aberdeen Lions club will tbe held this Friday evening at the Legion Hut at 7 o'clock. E. L. Oavln, Jr., of Sanford, promi nent Sanford attorney and Re publican candidate for Cong . ress in this district will speak. “ TO GRADUATE — Roland Cooke of Everett, Mass., a Continued on last page Sarah Inman of Hallison, Polio Victim Graduates In Wheel Chair By VALERIE NICHOLSON A pretty young girl with softly curling brown hair and big blue eyes received some special at tention at the Carthage High School commencement exercises Tuesday night. In her cap and gown, she was sitting in an odd-looking metal chair. Marshals wheeled her I down the aisle, and two senior 'boys lifted the chair up to the stage. The diploma was laid gently in her lap. Her smile was bright and gay. From the applause that welled up, and resounded again and again, she was the most popular member of the graduating class. That applause recognized more than the love the boys and girls had for 17-year-old Sarah Inman, of Hallison. It saluted also the achievement represent ed by that diploma—the many hours studying alone, the hard slow work with pen and pecil and the great fidelity to the task at hand. For sweet-faced Sarah Inman was Moore county’s worst-stric ken child in the great polio epi demic of 1948. According to doc tors at Warm Springs, Ga.. where she has been several times for treatment, she was Continued on last page 1954 Vass-Lakeview Graduation Glass Pictured above are seventeen of the eighteen members of the 1954 Vass-Lakeview High School graduation class to whom diplomas were presented on Tuesday night. They are, left to right, front row: Johnnie Davis, J. T. Hennings, Jimmy Thomas, Hugh McDermott, Vivian Matthews, Peggy Willard, Sylvia Coore, Ernest Evans and Harriett Hardy. Second row: Bill Hall, Johnny Ferguson, Bobby Trogdon, Ronald Haynes, Crawford Rollins, Joan Eailey, Virginia Taylor and Shirley Patterson. Clayton Chavis was absent when the picture was made last Friday. Mascots i are, Mary Mac Pope and Bruce Morgan.—Citizen photo. Mrs. Pauline Duncan Elected Head Moure County Classroom Teachers At the last regular meeting of the Moore County Classroom Teachers, Mrs. Pauline Duncan, who has been at Aberdeen school for three years, was elected president for the year 1954-55. Mrs. Duncan is from Ffafftown, N. C„ teaches Social Studies and is counselor in the Aberdeen High School. Mrs. Duncan is also president of the Guidance ^Services depa rt.ment of t. h « Tlorth Central District. Mrs. Kenneth Foushee, who has been in Moore County for six years, was elected vice-presi dent. Mrs. Foushee teaches fourth grade at Cameron and lives in Sanford. Miss Jeannette Hinson who teaches fourth grade at Rob bins, was elected Recording Secretary. Miss Lucy Reynolds, who teaches first grade at Highfalls, was elected Treasurer. Mrs. John MeCrummen who teaches fifth grade at Vass Lakeview, was elected Corres ponding secretary. The Moore County CTA is af filiated with the Classroom Teachers Division of the North Carolina Education Association. Diplomas, Awards Presented Here On Monday At Finals The 1953-54 term of the Aber deen Public Schools came to a close Monday night with diplo mas being presented to 31 Aber deen seniors by R. E. Lee, princi pal of the school. The salutatory address was given by Fay Matthews with Adelaide Schnell delivering the valedictory. Dr. Perry Case of Wilson, N. C., delivered the ad dress for the occasion. Members of the Aberdeen graduating class were: Hilda Marie Allred George David Anderson, Jr. Sybil Newton Burton Theodore Macon Carrington Carol Feather Carter Barbara Ann Conrad Elizabeth Ann Dunn Hubert Jesse Edge, Jr. Dixie Averitt Eubanks Janice Ruth Garner Betty Greene Gerald Kipling Griffin Jacquelyn Elmeda Holden Shirley Ann Johnson Hugh A. Keith, III Rebecca Fay Matthews Gene Harris Maynard Jo Anne Ruth Morton Continued on page three Several Civil Cases Tried In Court Last Week Mrs. Georgia Hackney o f Southern Pines received $3,200 for accident injuries, with the defendant, Bradford Ritter, pay ing costs, in a settlement of her damage suit approved at the j civil term held at Carthage last I week. Judge Frank M. Arm- • strong of Troy presided. In another case arising from an accident, Ruth Oliver, suingi through her next friend S. H. j Oliver, settled for $500 from de- j fendant John A. Matson and j $1,500 from A. P. Flinchum, ad- j ministrator of the deceased, Vir- ! ginia E. Oliver. Miss Virginia j Oliver lost her life in the ac- j cident in which her young sister ! Ruth was seriously injured, when the car she was driving was in collision with one driven by Matson. The $5,000 suit of Spence and Boyette against Leroy Lee for payment alleged due to the^legal firm, for services against the Town of Southern Pines, was re, Continued on page three Vass-Lak e v iew Diplomas Given Out On Tuesday The Vass - Lakeview com mencement exercises came to a close on Tuesday night with the presentation of diplomas to 18 members of the graduating class. On Monday night the class play, “One Foot on Earth” was presented. On Sunday night Rev. Leigh ton Black McKeithen, Jr., of the Fayetteville area delivered the baccalaureate sermon which was termed by many a “master piece.” On Friday night of last week Mrs. Herbert Mclnnis presented her music pupils in recital. Page Reopens Linen White Plant Here The Robert N. Page, Jr., Com pany, Inc., of Aberdeen, this week re-opened the Linen White plant on Roseland Road under its old ownership, and has re sumed production o f “Linen White Washing Solution,” Mr. Robert N. Page, Jr., announced this week. The plant was sold in 1952, but has not been in operation since last August. It has recent ly been returned to the Page company. In commenting on the manu facturing operations, Mr. Page said the product would become available in quantity by the end Continued on page three BLUE REUNION SET FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 27 The annual Blue reunion will be held on Sunday, June 27 in Lakeview. according to an an nouncement by Wayland Blue of Southern Pines, president of the clan. The last Sunday in June is the fixed date for these occasions. Official Vote in Moore County Primary. Saturday. May 29,1954 Prepared By THE CITIZEN PRECINCTS Sheriff P 3 Reg. Deeds O £ County Comm. Board Edu. U. S. Senator (Regular Term i Cong. Aberdeen_ Cameron_ East Carthage._ West Carthage. Deep River_ Eureka_ Bensalem_ Highfalls_ Pinehurst_ Pinebluff_ _ Southern Pines. Spies_ Spencerville_ Robbins_ Ritters_ Vass_.... West End_ 600 171! ns: 238! 54! 39 541 70! 344| 92| 600 5! 14! 220! 37! 93| 1641 2791 142 153 287! 441 98! 821 29 i 98! 94! 230! 29! 66! 1811 25 158' 80) 51! 702 50! 325 70! 296 140! 5531 34! 100; 16; 114; 15! 1271 17! 89 58! 413 15! 177! 79! 589| 189! 680[ 24! 268! 56 102 20 36 21 19 58 272 471 78 100 109 110 372 34 74 366 67 259 19| 144 299! 683 321 236| 28 60 306 64 181 214 123! 4341 57! 53 731 143! 168! 318 39! 471 40 136 29! 75! 6 27! 79! 244! 321 106 400! 530 288 70! 194 118 314 212 54| 27! 17 63! 60! 130 8 16 82 12 59 498! 5! 40! 190! 29! 18l! 208! 322! 811 114! 316 516 31! 3i 33! 32! 188! 240 421 134i 43 64' 118) !9| 511 ini CO 367 2791 227 i 429) 99 1231 761 79; 161! 84 355! 34! 45 184 60! 218 158; $ H ca n 0 606 0 268 2; 297 5 556 0! 103 0! 137 0 120 0| 83 0! 413 01 152 4 680 0 30 0! 64 l| 328 0 68 O' 224 0| 227 244 51 42 73 9 7 23 12 50 41 168 6 9 56 7 31 36 TOTAL--- |2940|2075| 666!4521| 943|4140| 9951266012472! 2499129781 63| 14| 15| 4| 12|4358| 865 McDonald Wins Sheriff Race; Mrs. Griffin Register of Deeds West End Seniors Receive Diplomas On Monday Night P. J. Weaver Of Greensboro Delivers Address By MRS. ARCHIE FARMER Rev. Geo. F. Houck, pastor of Ashpole Presbyterian Church near Rowland, delivered the Baccalaureate sermon Sunday morning, May 30 at 11 o’clock in the West End High School audi torium. The High School Glee Club under the direction of Mrs. L. R. Sugg, sang “Thanks Be To God" and a double quintet song “I Shall Not Pass Again This Way.” On Monday night, May 31 twenty-one seniors were pre sented diplomas from the West End High School. The program was as follows: Invocation, Rev. H. L. Yancey, Jr.; Salutatory. Bobby Jenkins: "On The Road To Mandalay,” High School Glee Club; Presen tation of gifts to mascots, Pau lette Luck and Bobby William and class gift to the school of three hundred new song books, Bobby Jenkins. Superintendent H. Lee i nom as introduced the speaker of the evening, P. J. Weaver, director of Instruction in the Greens boro schools. J. F. Sinclair pre sented diplomas, certificates and awards as follows: Citizenship, Miss Helen Martin; Dramatics, Betty Martin and John Lauch lin Monroe; English award, Charlotte Cox; American Legion Loyalty, Nancy Harris, John Lauchlin Monroe; Salutatory, Bobby Jenkins and Valedicto ries, Betty Martin and Elizabeth Williams. The Valedictorians also received certificate of one year’s subscription to Readers Digest. Members of the Senior Class arc: Helen Martin, Shirley Thomas, Cardie Smith, Elizabeth Continued on last page LIFE GUARD ON DUTY Norman R. Ingraham, math teacher in the Aberdeen high school for the past two years went on duty as a life-guard at the Aberdeen lake today and will serve, during the months of June, July and August. Ingraham will be on duty each day from I to 7 p. m„ with the exception of Mon days. This has been the sche dule in past years. The lake will be without a life-guard on Mondays. The life-guard announce ment was made by J. B. Ed wards of Aberdeen who in past years has headed up the fund-raising efforts for this purpose. Charles j. McDonald MRS. BESSIE J. GRIFFIN Scott Wins In County, State Congressman Deane Wins Renomination In Landslide Vote Most interest in Moore County Saturday centered in the U. S. Senate contest between Alton Lennon, the incumbent and Kerr Scott, the challenger. Scott carried the county, lead ing in 12 of the seventeen pre cincts. Lennon led in five. The other five candidates, Wingfield, j Turner, Sprinkle, Bostick and j Boyd received only 108 votes al together in the county for the ' regular term. The official vote in the County for the regular (6-yeari term stood: SCOTT ... - 2978 LENNON - 2499 . WINGFIELD - - - 63 SPRINKLE - - - 15 TURNER - - - - 14 BOYD 12 BOSTICK - - - - 4 Short Term The official vote for the short term, from November to Janu ary was: SCOTT - - - - 2621 LENNON - 2340 [ WINGFIELD - - 114 SPRINKLE 33 Turner, Boyd and Bostick did not seek the short term. Congress In the race for Congress, C. B. Deane led in each of the seventeen precincts in Moore County. He also led in every county in the district except Union, home county of his op ponent, Coble Funderburk. The vote in Moore was: DEANE - - - - 4356 FUNDERBURK - - 865 This gives Deane his fifth nomination which he first won in 1946. Continued on back page STATE SENATE VOTE s> According to the best infor mation the Citizen was able to gather and compile this (Thurs day i morning the vote for United States Senator (regular term* was as follows: SCOTT - - - 311.828 LENNON - - 286,592 WINGFIELD - - 8,299 TURNER - - - 2,347 SPRINKLE - - 2,432 BOYD - - - - 1,647 BOSTICK - 1,275 This count shows Scott’s lead over Lennon at 25,236. This tabulation gives Scott a ma jority of 8,236 over the entire filed of his six opponents. On Wednesday In Washing ton Senator Lennon issued a statement congratulating Scott on his victory and promised “full support" in the fall gener al election. Scott Wins Hoke; Hodgin Tops Willis W. Kerr Scott led in nine of Hoke County's ten precincts in Saturday's primary. However, in several of the precincts the vote was close. The total unofficial vote in Hoke for U. S. Senator was: SCOTT - - - - 1180 LENNON - - - 752 The precinct carried by Len non was Antioch, the vote being, Lennon 88, Scott 79. In the race for Sheriff, D. H. Hodgin, incumbent who was first elected in 1928, carried six precincts and William E. Willis carried four. The total unofficial vote was: HODGIN - - - 1115 WILLIS - - - - 845 Hodgin carried Allendale, Antioch, Blue Springs, Little River. Raeford No.l and Raeford Continued on last page I John Currie And W. H. Matthews Win Saturday More than 5700 Democrats went to the polls in Moore County last Saturday to register their preference in county and state contests for public office. Sheriff In the Moore County Sheriff’s race. Charles J. McDonald, the incumbent since 1928 won a clear majority of 199 over his two opponents, Wendell Kelly and R. G. Fry, Jr. McDonald led in nine precincts, Kelly in eight, Frye in none The official vote was: MCDONALD - - 2940 KELLY ... 2075 FRY 666 Register of Deeds In the race for Register of Deeds, Mrs. Bessie J. Griffin, the incumbent won in a land slide over C. L. Worsham of Southern Pines, carrying every precinct in the county. The ratio was about 4 1 -2 to 1 in her fa vor. The County vote was: GRIFFIN - - - 4521 WORSHAM - - - 943 Mrs. Griffin led the ticket, both county and state in Moore County in her race for a seconc 4-year term as Moore Count-* Register of Deeds. County Commissioner In the only County Commis sion*** race John "M. Currie, in cumbent, was an easy winner over Benjamin David Sineath ir„ district 4, but voted on county® wide. Currie carried every prf j cinrt in the county. The toti vote was: CURRIE - 4140 , SINEATH - - - 995 Board of Education In the only race for the Coun ty Board of Education, W. How ard Matthews who was named to succeed the late T. L. Blue, won in a close race with E. E. fBlue) Monroe. Matthews who lives at Clayroad Farm in the Farm Life community carried eleven precincts, Monroe who lives near Cameron carried six. Most of the precincts were close with the exception of their home precincts, Eureka and Cameron, which went for the home candidate by a large ma jority in both Instances. The county vote was: MATTHEWS - - 2660 MONROE - 2472 Carthage To Vote On Beer Sales Residents of the town of Car thage will vote August 28 on whether beer may be sold with in the city limits. The date was t set this week by the town com missioners, following receipt of a petition some months ago. An active campaign for both “pros” and "antis” is expected. Carthage is now dry, as beer and wine sales were both out lawed in a county referendum held in August 1951. Since then Southern Pines and Plnehurst have voted the sales back in. A Primary Post-Mortem Political post-mortems are customary so here goes another. In Moore the county races went about as were expected. Most predictions were that Sheriff McDonald would be re nominated in the first primary. He was, with a 199-vote majority over his two opponent Kelly and Fry. It was felt te.it Mrs. Griffin would win renomlna tion for register of deeds in a big way. She won almost 5 to 1. John Currie was expected to be renominated without difficulty. He won better than 4 to 1. The only uncertainty was In the race for membership on the county board of education from . * district 4 between W. Howard Matthews and E. E. (Blue) Mon roe. Both were regarded highly but neither had participated in politics on a county-wide basts. Neither had sought public office before. It was felt that It would be a close race and it was. Mat thews who was named by the Moore County Democratic Exe cutive Comnfittee to succeed the late T. L. Blue when it was the intention of the committee to name his brother Herman Mat thews won out 2660 to 2473, * molnrHv rvt 10M f: ‘‘s-t'mM
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