The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina • Page 1

1 TNiM'. 1 A i VOL. 74 WEATHER ClvM Lumbertoa ferttxi itmiumm. At Saturday No COUNTMY, GOO and TftUTM LUMBERTON, N. SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1954 0AILV SATURDAY tUNDAV FORECAST: Partly dowdy cloudy today; with scattered derchowerf and east portions.

Monday partly cloudy and TWENTY PACES--Pric. Five fciitir Malcolm McLeod Re-Elected Sheriff Of Robeson Scott Wins Democratic United States Senate More Than Million Tar Heels Vote In Demo Primary RALEIGH, May 30 (Sunday) --Former Gov. Kerr Scott won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator, an unofficial tabulation of returns from yesterday's primary showed early today.

More than half a million Tar Heels voted in the election. after a stormy campaign which was marked by the racial Issue in its closing days. U. S. Sen.

Alton Lennon, Scott's top rival the voting, early today congratulated Scott "on the very fine vote he received." Lennon, however, did not fully concede Scott the nomination. With only a scattering of pre- unreported Scott held a lead of 25,523 votes. Returns from 1,887 of the state's 2,027 precincts gave Scott 287,347 votes and 261,824 for Lennon. As the returns poured in, and Scott continued to hold a majority over enire field of seven candidates, Lennon and his campaign manager called on the Scott headquarters where "a joyous celebration was underway. Scott met his adversary at the door of his headquarters.

Lennon said: "I want to congratulate Mr! Scott on the very fine vote he received. If the official returns disclose he is indeed the nominee, I will give him my gracious, whoJe- hearted and all-out support." Scott, the Haw River dairy farmer, answered In typical fashion, "I thought the'branch head boys would come through." The campaign was bitter in its closing The Scott, forces charged Lennon backers with trying to use -'the race issue to win votes following; the U.S: Supreme Court decision on school segrega- The five other candidates trailed far behind. Alvin Wingfield Jr. of Charlotte had 7,665, Bostick of Gary 1,120, Henry L. Sprinkle of Greens- boro 2,091, A.

E. Turner of Pal- 1,890 and Olla Ray Boyd of Pmetown 1,339. Despite Lennon's use of the Supreme Court decision on segregation as a vote-getter in the closing days of the primary, it appeared that the East remained loyal to Scott. Perhaps the voters remembered the thousands of rural roads built while Scott was governor. Lennon was running strongest in the big urban areas and i the mountain counties.

These western counties traditionally back the candidate of the state administration, and Lennon ran with the strong support of Gov. Umstead. KOBESO.V FOR SCOTT The 7,245 vote for Scott in Robeson County was a clear majority of more than 500 above the total vote for the six other candidates for senator. The complete unofficial returns: Sc 7245 Wingfield $4 Sprinkle Bostick 44 Turner 35 State Treasurer Edwin Gill had an overwhelming majority of Robeson votes, 7,646, as compared with Joshua S. James' 2,625.

For state insurance commissioner, Robeson voters gave Charles F. Gold 5,543 votes, and John Fletcher 4,464 Winds Injure Dozen Men In Texas Oil Fields MIDLAND, Texas Tornadic winds spun across the oil-rich per- main basin of West Texas late Sat- smashing 2 rigs and injuring dozen men. Four of the 12 were seriously surt. A small twister smashed the workshed of an oil well drilling rig near Andrews. Tornadic winds another rig 14 miles west of Crane, strewing wreckage over 10 mile area.

The rig near Andrews was first. The one near Crane blown apart about 6 p. m. Both rigs were owned by Odessa tompantes. All of the men worked out of that city.

Elmer Quinn said a piece of the house of the rig near Crane found 10 miles away. SHERIFF MAtCOtM McLEOD waV re-elected chief law enforcemtnt officer county by a majority of 1,035 votes over five competing candidates for toe He was far ahead tte nearest W. 'C. Britt 'whom ke de-' feated-4 yeanaro. -rln the race' for, Coanty Commissioner Frank: S.

White, was returned to office, opposed by Kobcrl Davis, Maxton James' Challenge In Demo Primary RALEIGH, May 30 Sunday Wl --State Treasurer Edwin Gill beat back the challenge of Joshua James in yesterday's Democratic primary. A Insurance Commissioner Charles apparently was victorious over his challenger, Raleigh man John At 11:25 o'clock Jast night James, former state utilities commissioner who now practices law in Raleigh, admitted-'defeat in seeking Gill's state treasurer's post. He said, "I concede that Mr. Gill has won the victory and sincerely congratulate him. I wish further to thank the many thousand loyal supporters throughout the state who supported me against odds and under difficulties." With.

1,340 of 2,027 precincts reported, Gillled to 94,381. Gold led Fletcher 156,189 to 109,630 with 1,268 precincts tabued! in the race for the insurance commission post The voters also decided on Democratic nominees for three Superior Court.posts and nine Superior Court solicitorship. THE STATE SENATOR from the State rf son Hill acain be Cuilar Moore who defeated challeorer, Frank MeNetll. h.ndily. Wayland Floyd rff Fairmont waa returned to the Splicitor Sea well Is Awarded Office For Second 4-Year Term Unofficial Vote In News Reports All returns in the Democratic primary up to this time are unofficial.

The official returns will not be available until elections boards meet and review the voting records turned to them by precinct voting officials. The Robeson. County board of elections usually meets on Tuesday after a Saturday primary. The unofficial returns are as accurate as the rush job of election reporting permits. Reports come in by telephone, wire and messenger, and are rapidly entered'on scoreboards and tabulated.

The official returns usually are brought in person to the elections board secretary by pollholders, on Monday after an election. The official returns for an entire county usually show some minor differences from the unofficial returns, but it is very rare that the outcome of a race is affected, and then only in closely- contested races in which the can- are only a few votes apart. Splicitor. Malcolm B. Seawell was awarded the office for a second four-year term by the voters of.

four, counties i yesterday. Incomplete returns gave him 17,759 votes compared -to, John B. Regan's 11,511. This included. 83 of 91 precincts in Bladen, Hoke, Cumberland, and Robeson.

Seawell carried every county. Robeson witnessed the closest race as Regan got 6,012 and Seawell, polled 7,161 in the unofficial returns. Cumberland gave the solicitor his biggest total with 6,676. to 3,623 in 31 of. 32 precincts, but for Seawell came from Hoke in which the ten precincts favored him, 1,271 to 432.

Bladen county with one precinct (Bladenboro, good for about 1.400 ballots) not reported gave eSawell, 2,851 and Regan 1,444. Seawell's campaign was his first major one. In 1948 he was appointed solicitor to succed F. Ertel Carlyle when the latter was elected to Congress. Seawell was unopposed in the 1950 election for solicitor.

The son of the late A. A. F. Seawell who became a Supreme Court Justice in 1938, he was born in Jones county in 1909. He got his law degree from the University of North Carolina in 1934 and worked lor the Institute of Government there until 1935 when he was admitted to the N.

Bar. From then until 1938 he was with the State Paroles Commission and after that came to Lumberton to practice law in the firm of McKinnon, Nance and ISeawell. He was named solicitor, of the Lumberton. Recorder Court in (Contfnwcd OM Pace IS, 9) Representatives by voteri yesterday, and elecled to th In hi, first political adventure. can- 'Jldaie'waa Lowry of Pembroke.

leads Wet Giitlar Moore Wins Decisive cotintv vntfrm A V- For NC; Senate Seat county their confidence in Ertel Saturday iriying him Uir. vote of any candidate for any of fice In the county. Garlic polled a total of votes from KobeMn ents in overwhelming Seavy Carroll in home county. The congremman faced only one opponent, however, while' tome had with many for name office. For Sheriff Malcolm McLeod had six opponent but came out with a clear majority over all of them with a vote of 7567.

Had he run againnt only one opponent, he might have aurpaaa- ed even Carlyle. Incidentally, the heavy vote Car- got in the almost exact margin bj- which defeated Carroll. Floyd Returned To N.C. House For Fourth Term Contrary to speculation, there will be no second primary in the nominations to the State House of Representative F. a 1 a Floyd 'was returned for a fourth term with a total tally of 8,612.

Low man Rev. D. F. Lowry of Pembroke, well known as the instigator of the legislation changing the name of the of Robeson county. He polled.

4,231 votes. Middleman G. P. "Doc" Henderson was favored by 6,340. This was his first venture Sn politics and his election gives Maxton a representative for the first time since 1S20 when Marshall Thompson wasr in the Assembly.

Mr. Henderson, who is a native of the Piedmont section, came to Maxton as coach at Presbyterian Junior College. He has extensive farming inte'rests there now and Js much interested in experimental agriculture, such as establishment OK is, 01. RETURXS BY TOWNSHIPS A of Moffictkt election. The taMe is com- hKte te correct except tfcat to Mbject to CM- vass fcy OM Rofcewm Cewrty Robeson county voters apparently decided that the selling charge for marketing tobacco at auction was not the only issue at stake in the for State Senator Cutlar Moore, the incumbent, defeated Frank McNeil), a former member of house, by a very decisive 4,093 margin.

Moore's vote was 8,406, and McNeill's tally was 4,313. Moore had expected no opposi- tron in the campaign until McNeil! announced strictly on the basis of reducing the charge made by tobacco auctioneer firms for selling tobacco, McNeill concentrated on this one issue, while Moore ran on his record, of previous service and a platform of dealing with all problems of a legislative nature that might affect Robeson county. Senator carried 23 of the 34 precincts. The 'only-ones In which he Back Swamp Britts, East HoweJIsviile; West HowellsviHe, Lumberton No. 4, Orrum, Saddletree, North and South St.

Pauls, Shannon and Whitehouse Only in the Pauls' precincts were the margins decisive. The present defeated in and very close contest in 1952. has a long history of political activity but previously had held only arf appointive office, state secretary of the Democratic, Executive committee. He made an exceptional record in his first term as senator. The defeated candidate, McNeill, is a real estate dealer and farmer, and makes his home in Lumberton.

He served in the 1939 session of the general assembly as a member of the house. Overwhelming Vote Swamps Upponents Incumbent Sheriff Malcolm Mo. Leod froaifiii opponents tonight to win; an whelming majority vote to succeed himself as High Sheriff of Robeson County for another four-year term. McLeod, who swept into' of. fice four years ago by, an even lap- closest challenger, Willis' Brittf by nearly 2-1 margin.

Me Leod, gathered 7567 votes to Clyde ai'foriner sheriff and aspirant expected "to give'Me- Leod trouble, accounted'for only 875 votes. The other, tor the' office offered only' mild" position to the three' major seeli- 1 ers to the position 'of Sheriff. Admittedly all to tho, political scene, David Bristow, Willis Walters, and Pike Little dtd little to cause any 'dutrubffrice in the race that waa supposed to go Jhto a second primary between McLeod and Britt. Lovette got only 641 votes; Bria- tow accounted fop a 101 total; and Walters was.high man in the bottom three with 649 ballots In his favor. The re-elected Sheriff carried 28 out of the 34 precincts, losing out only in Smyrna, Saddletree, Lunv berton's 4th precinct, Gaddy.

Brttts and Back Swamp." McLeod, well'known throughout the county, is native born and re- celved his early education at Lunv berton high school. He is the" son of the late Alfred H. McLeod, who was one-time Lumber ton a member of St. Masonic Lodge, in Lumberton. where he has served as Past Master, and is the nephew of the late George B.

McLeod, who one time served the-people of Robeson both, as a'State Senator and' Sheriff, The present Sheriff of Robeson recognized this past the Adrian B. AtcRae award as Robcson's Man of The Year. When he was elected to his present position in 3950 he was swept into office by an overwhelming majority. Willis Britt served the county as deputy sheriff for eighteen years under Bob Lewis, Frank McNil- lian, and Mark Page, and was Sheriff of the county for four years until repJaced by Sheriff McLeod in 1950. Mr.

Britt became sheriff in 1946, by defeating Clyde Wade, who was then sheriff and later Billy Chason. Britt.is a resident of Lumberton and a retired farmer. QnG)iiiity Board Frank of. Pembroke, only contested candidate for reelection to the Robeson County, Board of Commissioner, was elected to another two-year term by, defeating Hobert Davis of The incumbent Commissioner defeated Davis in three of the four precincts. He led in AlfordsviUe by 204 to 55, in Maxton (Davis' home precinct) by 402 to 227, and in Pembroke by the margin of 389 to 250.

Davis took the mapority vote, in Smiths Township by a 274 to 195 margin. Carlyle Has Majority Of 6,590 Over Seavy Carroll T. Ertel Carlyle, Lumberton attorney, swept a fourth Democratic nomination to congress Saturday with a clear 6,590 majority over 19 21 Harriett rave Cariyle I.CJ7. the 4b- triet in Cartyle a matwity S.l to his only opponent in 'the primary, Seavy Carroll, Fayetteville lawyer, with many non-Robeson precincts not reported. The vote for Carlyle was 27,847, as against the losing total of 21,257 for Carroll, on returns received.

Thus, unless miraculously defeated by a Republican candidate in the general elections in November, Carlyle will go back "to congress representing the Seventh Congressional district for a fourth term. No returns from Harnelt County are available. The only precinct missing in Bladen county was Bladenboro which was expected to vote about 1,500. With 14 of 15 precincts reported, Carlyle led br 2.S43 to F. ERTEL CARLYLK 543 for Carroll.

Carroll squeezed by in his home county of Cumberland where all 32 precincts reported a vote of 6 958 for Carroll and 5,394 for Carlyle. New Hanover county, which had no congrcssioMl candidate this time because it had to on backing Senator Alton Lennon, gave Carroll a lead of 6,721 to 6,200 for Carlyle with 24 of 27 precincts reported. Only six of IT precincts in Brunswick county had reported and thej gave Carroll a slight edge of 965 to 876 for Carlyle. Columbus was giving Carlyle a good majority with 18 of 24 precincts reported with 2,. 745 votes for Carlyle and votes for Carroll.

KOBESON OVERBOAKO Robeson, of course, went overboard for Carlyle with a huge 9,989 vote for Carlyle, while Carroll drew only 3,168 votes. Although the margin of victory so far is smaller, the Cartyle victory was considered even easier than previous primaries. In three previous campaigns Carlyle has had to fight stiff oppo sition, and twice was extended a second primary before winning the nomination. Carlyle first sought the office Jr following the retirement Rep. J.

Bayard Clark of Fayette ville. He defeated Hargrove Bel iamy of Wilmington and J. Rober frao 15, 4).