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ONE OF ROBESON COUNTY’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS
16 Pages
Red Springs, N. C
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1949
5c A Cor ”
Red Springs Budget Set At
$127,439.38, Levy Still $1.60
। Charlie Hail Post I Tobacco Control Referendum
Installs Legion
And Aux. Officers
Planned At Big Rally Monday
RED SPRINGS' — A $127,539.38,
budget for 1949-50 was adopted Fri-]
day for the Town of Red Springs]
by the Board of Commissioners, it’
was stated yesterday by Durham I
Ratley, town clerk.
The tax rate for the year was
set at the same as last year with
a change of 10c added to the Gen
eral Fund, and a like amount lop
ped Off the Debt Service Fund.
During the past year 80c of the
rate went to each of the financial
branches. Next year 90c will be
used in the general fund and only
70c will go for debt service.
The same schedule as 1948-49 was
adopted for the business privilege
taxes; $1,000 was again appropria
ted from the general fund to the
summer recreation program; and
Durham Ratley, the new town
clerk, was named tax collector.
It was announced at the meeting
Friday that Mayor Hiram Gran
tham had been appointed to mem
bership of the executive commit
ted of the Robeson County Munici
pal association.
VIDEO IS HERE
The
539.38
from
034.30
Budget Breakdown
anticipated receipts of $127,-
was expected to be derived
the following sources: $88,-
from the public utilities op-
crated by the
625.16 from the
general fund,
cash on hand
municipality; $19,-
90c tax rate for the
plus a balance of
at the end of the
past fiscal year; $19,880.02 from
the 70c tax rate for the debt ser
vice fund, plus a balance of over
$9,000 in the fund at the end of
the past fiscal year.
Expense Breakdown
The expenditures are anticipated
as follows:
Administrative
Street Dept. ...
Fire Dept
Police Dept. ...
Debt Service .
$ 6,146.92
12,925.00
1,000.00
9,755.00
LUMBERTON---At Fast one
television receiver in Lumber,
ton is ready for the first regu
larly scheduled broadcast from
Charlotte’s WBTV tomorrow.
Jack Pait completed installa
tion of a 55-foot television
aerial, atop his store on South
Chestnut Monday and received
clear test programs from Char-
lottle Monday night. A pro
gram was also received from
Houston, Texas, a station
which has been consistently
received for a week or more
even with a simple FM aerial.
Freak signals from Memphis,
Baltimore and Dallas were
also received with the image
faint and jumny and the sou d'
almost inaudible.
installation of the aerial was
an all-day job. Its peak is 81
feet above street level; the di
rection in which it points is
controlled electrically from the
receiver. A power booster on
the electric supply was neces
sary for images.
WBTV, a subsidiary of WET
in Charlotte, plans no local
programs immediately. That
calls for expo sive cameras
and other equipment and en
larged studio space not yet
available.
Eventually the station plans
to install relay transmitters to
beam its broadcasts through
out the Carolinas.
Another telestation is get
ting ready to begin broadcast-
irg at Greensboro, N. C., and
applications are in for TV per
mits at Raleigh, Wilmington,
O. L. HENRY WAS TOASTMAS
TER at the opening banquet of the
annual convention of Rotary Club
presidents and secretaries, which
was held at Wrightsville Beach
Monday night. Mr. Henry is past
district governor and past president
of Lumberton. Maynard O. Fletcher
of Washington, N. C., past district
governor of Rotary International,
was principal speaker The first;
business session of the meeting was
held Tuesday morning and confer
ences on Rotary matters continued
through the day. H. A.
“Ham"
Marks of Wilmington, district gov
ernor, led the Tuesday sessions.
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। Carolina Issues
RED . SPRINGS-—Fairley. Morris,
of Maxton, 13th District Command
er of the American Legion installed
.he new officers of Charlie Hal
Post and Auxiliary unit of the Le-
-fon here Monday evening -it a
joint meeting.
Mrs. R. D. McMillan, Jr, is the
new president of the Auxiliary and
J. B. McCloskey is the new com
mander of the Legion Post.
Other officers of the Legion are:
Sam Laney and Warren McNeill,
vice commanders, Loren Epton, ad
jutant, Martin McKinnon, service
officer, and Johnny King, Sgt.-at-
Arms. Other officers of the Auxil
iary. are: Mrs. J. D. MeRacken.
vice president, Mrs. John Q. Adams,
secretary, Mrs, I. P. Ray, treas
urer, Mrs. C. M Rakestraw, chap
lain, and Mrs. Ferris Love, histor
ian.
Committee members of the post:
are as follows:
Membership: Morrison Peterson.
R. D. McMillan, Jr., and Sam,
Thomas.
Program: Dan Klarpp and James
McDonald.
Americanism and National De
fense: George Forloin.es and W. R.
Pullock.
Child Welfare: Neill Clinton; Em
ployment: J. B. Campbell: Boys
State: E. H. Alexander; Athletics:
R. H, Cathey; Publicity: Dougald
Coxe; Oratorical contest: Jack,
Beverly; Boy Scouts: John Gra
ham.
Commander McCloskey announ-!
ced .that the program committee;
was a new one for the Post, and;
that it was named in order that
at least a 15 minute program on the
work of the Legion could be pre
sented at each meeting throughout
the year.
Patrolman Recovers
Three Stolen Autos
RECREATION
FAIRMONT — Three
biles stolen in Robeson
were recovered the same
SOFTBALL
Thursday the National Guard
found a bulls-eye target against
the High School and walked away
with a 20 to 12 score. F riday the.
Preps won high scoring honors
ror the season with a 31 bracketed
against a hapless Methodist team
ana edged the High Schools out
of first place by the margin of
several percentage points. The
Preps got six hits and seven runs
in the opening inning and Buck
Hutson and Slugger Martin each
got rive for live tor the Preps.
Biake Watts hit three for four for
the Trinity team.
The Rounders and the
Sj .g
Macs fought one out on Friday
chat went to the Rounders
tinal trame by a 13 to 12
coming from behind a 12
score.
vv arren
Wade Oavis ana
in the
score,
to 8
Alien
ea.cn had three .or roar
aid Whitey Collins and ca Nor
lis collected homers to about bal
ance batting honors.
±»ionuay the National
Guard
19,880.00
(balance to be retained 10,059.26)
Asheville, Winston-Salem
well as Charlotte.
as
Electric utilities
Water utilities
Sewer utilities .
58,674.12
8,864.00
10,293.82
Total expenditures planned for!
the year total $107,659.44, with, a
margin of $19,879.94 allowed for]
variation in revenue from the util
ities, uncollectible taxes, water and
light bills and other contingencies.
Still Two Vacancies ]
The Board of Commissioners is
still functioning without two mem
bers. Present for the meeting Fri
day were: Mayor Grantham and
the following’ commissioners: Dun
can McGoogan, Bart Lewis, R. D.
McMillan, Jr., and James Owen.
Five Army Branches
Open To Enlistees
RED SPRINGS—Telephone cus
tomers in Red Springs,. Maxion
and Raeford this week are receiv-
ing new telephone
There have been
directories
a number of
[changes in numbers, especially in
Sgt. L. A. Morrison, recruiting Red Springs, and R. M. Gupton,
officer for Robeson and Hoke local manager, urges all users of
counties, states that five brat ches telephones to refer to their direc-
of the army are now open for en- lories before making calls. He
listment of men. . i states that there ate
Field artillery, armored cavalry, |
coast artillery, engineers and the
infantry, all of which except the
closed for the
infantry have been
past nine’ menths.
Sgt. Morrison is
Springs Post Office
phones in service in
516 in Maxton and
Raeford, with many
being 1,"stalled each
The new directory
how 720 tele-
Red Springs,
about 410 in
new phones
week.
, , morning, from 8 to
Mr. Owen was named to take the the othe . r iec ruiting
at the Red
each Tuesday
12, and is at
centers in the
place of John McManus, who re- coun t y at his regular times
signed because of ill health within .,.’_1.., .:——__^——
a few weeks of the recent munici
pal election. Two others elected in
May, Ed Bodenheimer and Leslie
E. Baldwin, resigned the following
week giving as their reason that
they “had no voice in the town’s
management.” Since that time
there has been no selection for
the two vacancies announced,
though it is understood that a num-1
ber of men have been interviewed
relative to filling the commissioner
posts.
Robeson Health
King And Queen
Receive Crowns
Madge Martin and Billy Byrd,
both of
Tolarsville, have been
crowned king and queen of health
by Dr. E. R. Hardin, county health
officer, after an examination in
the home demonstration office on
Thursday, July 7. Winners in the
junior contest were Alice
Britt of Barnesville, and
Ray
Ezra
Page, Jr., of Fairmont.
The senior king and quene will!
compete in the State Contest and
take part in the Health Pageant
in Raleigh, Aug. 1-6.
Local health winners competing
in the county contest were Mar-1
cella Wilson, St. Pauls; Elaine
Graham, and Hal Dixon Ivey, Or
rum senior club; Patricia Sellers,
Jimmy Oliver and Ezra Page,
Fairmont; Betty Byrd, Madge
Martin and Gerald Graham, To-
larsville; Mary McRae and
Herbert Fraser, Rowland;
Lou Butler, Parkton; Joyce
Edmund and Carl Branch,
Branch; Sue Falls e d J. B.
John
Betty
Anne
Long
Davis,
Philadelphus; Margaret Cox
Richard Hord, Red Springs;
Cox, East Lumberton; Jean
and
ring,
Mile;
Charles
Billy Byrd, Barker
Betty Rose Taylor
automo-
County
day by
Bill McGougan
Installed Head
RS Lions Club
RED SPRINGS — William
Vote On B-Year
Control Program
Saturday, July 23
Ernest McGougan
Takes Wildlife
Commission Oath
Ernest McGougan, L u m b
e
Bridge, was among the four new
members of the N. C. Wildlife
Commission who took the oath of i
office Monday morning. Chief I
Justice W. P. Stacy administered
the. oath of office.
Following the meeting the com
mission chose as chairman Frank
T. Erwin of Durham. D. K. Sing ;
is not entire-j o f Charlotte was named? vice-
ly complete due to installations , chairmen. Secretary of the group
since the book went to press, so will be q E Beal of Red Oak who
users will find it necessary at I succee ds Harry A. Green of Rae-
times to inquire: of information f or d and formerly of. Lumberton.
for recently Installed number
Architect’s Drawing of Southern Bell Telephone Building
Work Begun on Phone Building;
Hector McLean Breaks Ground
LUMBERTON
Groundbreak-
ing ceremonies for the new build
ing of the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph company building
were held yesterday morning on the
site at the corner of Fifth and
Cedar streets. The first spadeful of
soil was turned by Mayor Hector
McLean following a breakfast for
Carolina. I by the erection of the new build-
Mr. Clements told the group of ing the Southern Bell company was
businessmen attending the break-;
fast that plans made about a year
ago for the expansion of the South-,
ern Bell’s facilities here were about
to be transferred into action and
that the day marked the beginning
of a period of expansion and de
velopment of telephone facilities
telephone company officials given
by the Chamber of Commerce. ■ throughout the area. He stated that
The building, which will be a
modern structure of two stories,
will be the center of the company’s
$900,000 expansion program in the
Lumberton area. Here will be
J ean 1 housed the equipment for a new
Her-
Ten ,
and
Calvin Ivey, Smith.’s;
Daphine Phillips and James
Branch, Allenton club; Hattie Lee
Ford, South Robeson; Mary Ellis
Byrd, Orrum jw ior club; Mary
Dot Byrd and Wilford Hardin,
Barnesville senior club; Alice Ray
Britt and Ray Britt, Barnesville
junior club; Margie Humphrey
and Robert Lewis Rozier, Saddle
Tree.
Among the many new hormone
or growth regulating chemicals is
one that makes transplants stur
dier, with shorter and thicker
while present demands for service
included applications for about 5001
additional phones to the 3137 now
in service here, one of the main
areas of expansion would be the
extension of service to all rural
areas where the people were will-.
exchange with the latest dial tel ¬
ephone installation to care for the , ing and able to pay for the ser-.
local telephone service and long vice.
distance toll center for the entire
area.
He estimated that within a year
the entire plant would have been
IH. E. Stacy, president of the transferred to their new building
Chamber of Commerce, presided I and that the company would then
both at the breakfast which was | be able to extend its service]
held at the Lorraine Hotel, and at
wherever there was a demand. He
the ceremonies on the new site. He
presented P. R. Ovell, of Hamlet,
group manager, W. A. Stewart of
Lumberton, plant superintendent,
L. B. Eisenhardt, manager of the
Lumberton area, T. A. Morris, of
Hamlet, former group manager, and
E. A. Clements, of Raleigh, district
manager and director of public re
lations for he company in North
took the Preps by a 6 co 5 seme
and took them out of first place
which they had gained Thursday.
Outhit by a 16 to 5 count, the
Guard put together two walks and
five hits to score five runs in the
7th inning, to win their fifth
straight.
The Rounders and the Method
ists had another of those 13 to 12
The Rounders
games Monday.
again came irom way behind to
win the fracas in the final frame.
Friday games:
High School vs. Sing Macs at
No. 1 field.
MeArXiists vs. Baptists at No. 2
field f
Rounders vs. National Guard at
Mill.
JUNIORS
- The Mill Scouts took
bination Juniors for a
scoring jamboree in
Junior league baseball
the Com-
22 to 17
the only
game of
the week. Earlier the Town down
ed the Mill Scouts 8 to 2; Pem
broke won 11 to 6 from the Mill
and the Combination team scored
a 10 to 6 victory over the Town.
Games Wednesday:
Town vs. Pembroke Scouts.
Mill vs. Combination.
Games Thursday:
Pembroke vs. combination.
Mill vs. Town.
MEN’S SOFTBALL
the
b; the only game Tuesday
Sing Macs pushed over a tally in
in the last half of the TtKUo^reak
a 7-40 tie to keep the
Baptist still in the
for the season.
Standings:
winless
luckless
column
High School . . .
Preparation . . .
Nat. Guards .
Rounders . . . .
Sing Macs . . .
Methodists . . .
Baptists
TO PAGES LAKE
The Juniors of
keeping step with the remarkable
growth and progress of the City
of Lumberton and that he was
proud to greet officially the offi
cials of the company on such an
occasion, and happy or the City of
Lumberton that its growth and
progress justified such a financial
undertaking as that planned in its
building and development pro-
Won
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the
Highway Patrolman C. E. Phil
lips of Fairmcr.t.
A 1939 Buick, stolen from Lum
berton Sunday morning, was
found by Phillips on the Fair
mont-Rowland road Sunday aft
ernoon. It, had been abandonei.
A 1941 Buick sedan stolen be
tween Fairmont and Orrum, was
recovered later in the day at the
home of Nathaniel Taylor, Negro,
of the same section. Taylor was
charged with theft of the auto and
will be given a preliminary hear
ing in Recorder’s Court Tuesday,
Juiy 19.
A 1941 Chevrolet coupe stolen in
the White Pond section was
round Sunday night in the posses
sion of William C. Hill, Jr., a sol
dier, and. Hill was held for a hear-
ing July 19 in Recorder’s Court.
Dr. Walker Haley
Is Moderator
01 Presbytery
MAXTON—Dr. Walker
Haley,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Fayetteville, was elected
moderator of Fayetteville Presby
tery at the summer meeting held
Tuesday, July 12th, at Presbyterian
Junior College. About 150 mem ¬
One of the most representative
groups ever to gather in the Robe
son County Court House met there
Monday night to prepare for the
July 23rd referendum on the con
tinuation of tobacco acreage con
trol. A delegation was present
from every community in which
a polling place will be set up, and
interest in polling the largest pos
sible percentage of growers was
enthusiastic.
Marketing quotas are designed
to furnish growers with a method
of adjusting supply to demand and
help them obtain fair prices, tor
the tobacco they produce.
The referendum is being held in
accordance with the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938, which di
rects the Secretary of Agriculture
to call for a referendum to deter
mine whether growers want quo
tas continued. Growers may vote
for quotas for three years begin-
t ing With the 1950 crop; may vote
for quotas for 1950 only; or may
vote against quotas.
Marketing quotas will be in ef
fect if approved by at least two.
thirds of the growers voting in the
referendum. A grower is any per
son who has an interest as own
er, tenant, or share cropper in the
1919 crop of flue-cured tobacco. No
producer, however, is entitled to
mure than one vote, even though
he may have been engaged tn pro-
town struggled along with but one deletion of flue-cured tobacco in
motion picture house, and the old two or more communities, counties
Red Springs Theatre appeared to or states.
be about all-the town needed. Now; Under the law, price support
McGoogan, postmaster, was
stalled as president of the
in-
Red
Springs Lions Club at the club’s
annual Ladies’ Night and Installa-
tion dinner which is
year at Marshburns
White Lake.
Zone Chairman H. M.
held each
Hotel at
Leckie, of
Lumberton, head of District 31-B,
was in charge of the installatic*
ceremonies, and he was assisted
by J. D. Peacock, also of Lum
berton, who is vice president of
the Lumberton club.
Baldwin is the
president.
club’s
Leslie E.
1 curing
Officers inducted into office be
sides Mr. McGoogan were: Jas
per M. Culbreth, secretary-treas
urer; Murphy McNeil, R. B. Mc-
Racken and H. E. Shipper, vice-
presidents; Charles A. Gardner
and Jack T. Reverly, diivau.«
Albert R. Horton, Lion-tamer and
William C. Lemur, Tail..wirier.
4 Theatres Vie
For Patronage
In Red Springs
RED SPRINGSG—For years this
baseball
league will have an outing at
Page’s Lake this afternoon and
Bob Van Hoy, recreational direc
tor, states that about 35 boys are
expected to make the trip.
TRIPLE HEADER
Friday night’s double header
between the Robins and Sanford,
will have an intermission period
in which two of the Junior League
teams will play a three-inning
The Presbyterian Juniors
game.
versus the Mill Juniors will
bers attended the meeting.
The Rev. E. L. Stoffel, pastor;
of First Presbyterian church of
Maxton, and retiring moderator,
preached the sermon, on the sub
ject “The Rod and The Cauldron."
The communion service was led
by Mr. Stoffel and Dr. R. L. Whor
ton.
Dr. Dan Caldwell, director of re
ligious education of the N. C. Synod,
reported an increase in the amount
contributed to the educational in
stitutions this year.
The Presbytery appointed a com
mittee; to study reorganization, in
line with the General Assembly
reorganization.
Rev. R. H. Poole was received
from Wilmington Presbytery, and
will be pastor of St. Paul’s Pres
byterian church. .
The members enjoyed a delight-1
ful lunch, served in the college]
cafeteria.
School Board Ok's
Magnolia Plans;
Rents Offices
The Robeson County
Education met Tuesday
er revised plans for
School and to approve
plans for Long Branch
torville consti uction.
en-
deavor to show some of their eld
ers just how baseball is played
s neriod between the
during the rest period between
two Weed circuit teams.
Charlie Willis Dies
At Boston Wednesday
RED
SPRINGS—Funeral ser-
it boasts of two full-fledged movie loans at 90 per cent of parity will
houses, and two modern
film theatres.
drive-in be available on the 1950 crop of
The Red Springs Theatre still
operates at the old stand in the
100 block of South Main, and in
the 100 block of North Main the
new Center Theatre is now in op
eration, under the same manage
ment, the McSwain brothers.
Out on Fayetteville highway near
the Johnson pecan grove is the
flu-cured tobacco if producers
rif-prove quotas In this referendum.
A-.-irdless of the outcome of this
referendum, price support loans at
90 per cent of parity will be avail
able cn the 1949 crop as protec
tion to farmers.
Production Marketing Associa
tion Secretary Hilbert Lovette
chairmaned the meeting and ex-
new Red Springs Drive-in Theatre, plained the proceedure for voting
which opened last week under .the to the group. He introduced Carl
managership of Carl Mcllwaine l D. Bunn, district tield man for
and Paul Horton, who are also op | PMA who explained in detail the
erators of the Westside Theatre at purpose of controls ai d who led a
Pembroke. And on Raeford high- , discussion in which the audience
way is the new Airport Drive-In
.scared across irom the weeds and
grasses of the Red Springs Muni
cipal Airport. It opened Saturday.
Both the theatre buildings have
air-conditioning, and all the the
atres are vying for patronage with
a generous lot of first-run features.
The McSwain drive-in has a loud
speaker system for its sound, and
its pictures are projected upon a
screen which towers about 40 fee:
above the adjacent highway, and
there are parking slots for approx
imately 200 cars.
Mcllwaine and Horton have in-
took part.
I County Agent Otto Owens pre
sented M. A. Morgan, field repre
sentative of Tobacco Associates,
Inc., who cited progress made by
tobacco produers since controls
were instituted, with particular
emphasis on the growth of the ex
port market which, he said, is now
five times what it was ar 1931.
When foreign markets are expand
ed, he said, competition is increas
ed and the auction price stays up.
Tobacco Associates is supported by
a payment of ten ents per
acre
1 made by growers, and Mr. Morgan
stalled individual car speakers and I
says
that the fact that producers
Board
of
to consid-
Magn olia |
completed
and Proc-'
In addition
the board signed a lease, acord-
ing to Supt. B. E. Littlefield, on
four offices in the new building
cn North Court Square opposite
the Court House, to be used by the
superintendent of schools,
supervisors of instruction
board of education.
The offices were rented
the new
and *he
because
of the inefficiency arising from
the crowded quarters allotted the
school system in the Court House
and because of the necessity of
having school offices a the City
of Lumberton. A move to the new
quarters will be made as soon as
the building, to be occupied by
Colonial Stores, is completed.
Magnolia school plans approved!
were revised preliminary sketches.
a completely new Simplex projec-, are thug trying to help themselves
tion outfit, with dual-channel sound ;
system. They have arranged seven
parking ramps which will hold 200 j
cars, and have 200 individual speak- [
ers. Their screen is 45 by 44 and
has a picture 40 by 30. Mrs. Jerry .
Hansen is box office manager and
her brother, Harold McEachin is
projectionist. Elbert McPhauls, Jr.,
has charge of a concession stand
which features pop and crackers.
Rest rooms are being completed
this week.
More than two and a half mil
lion cows, are now enrolled in ar
tificial breeding associations
throughout the country. Wiscon-
sin
with
up.
leads in state
nearly 421,000
New Yo
is
enrollments,
cows signed
second and
Pennsylvania third.
ditorium, and a cafeteria.. Final ;
plans were approved for Long”
^. ^ , Branch and Proctorville
The finished plans wiu include i and contracts on these
space for 11 class rooms, and au-j will be let on July 22.
schools
projects
makes legislators more prone to
give government help to the to
bacco program.
Will Currie, field representative
of the National Cotton Council
gave a short talk explaini 1g what
his organization is doing in four
fields: (1) cutting production
costs, (2) increasing sales of cot
ton materials, (3) increasing for
eign. trade, (4) finding new uses
for cotton through research. ’
Following the meeting commu
nitv committeemen of the PMA
met to plan balloting proceedure.
The “saw pack” method .of
canning tomatoes has several ad
vantages over the “hot pack’
method, say food specialists of
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture. The main advantage is that
raw-packed tomatoes hold their
color, shape and fresh flavor bet
ter.
7-Year-Old Is Killed
Jr.,
vices for Charles D. Willis,
aged 2 1-2 years, will be held this
mon ing (Thursday) at Boston.
The young son of Charles D.
Willis and .Emma Brown Gran
tham Willis of Wakefield, Mass.,
The opening of the building and; Charles died early Wednesday
morning at Children’s
Boston, after an illness of four
gram.
-Work will proceed immediately,
Mr. Eisenhardt said. The building
construction is expected to require
several months, and installation of
equipment will take additional time.
start of dial telephone service in
Lumberton is scheduled for the
middle or latter part of 1950.
The new building of reinforced
concrete and brick, will have a
basement and two stories. The
basement will house the cable
Hospital,
By Car Near Fairmont
months
Mrs.
Hiram Grantham of Red
FAIRMONT—A 7-year-old In
dian boy was instantly killed Tues
day night at 7:45 when he was
reviewed briefly the 40_ year his-' vaults, power plant, heating and
tory of its operations here, having
purchased the Lumberton Tele
phone company from the late A. E.
White in 1909. At that time there
were about 100 phones in operation
with No. 1 in the name of John
H. Wishart, who incidentally still
has No. 1.
ventilating equipment.
The dial
Springs has been with her sister-, struck by an automobile in front
> -law, Mrs. Willis, for the past; of his home o^ tie McDc> aid road
three weeks. She will remain for severa ] miles irom Fairmont. The
several days, and will be accom- victim was Danny Walter Free-
panied home by Mrs. Willis and man. •
her infant child.
victim was Danny Walter
Patrolman Phillips report
ed that reports differed as to
how the accident had occur
red.
The officer quoted. Lewis as say
ing; that he was going about 40
miles an hour and that a passing
truck had thrown up such a cloud
of dust that he did not see the
Indian boy until he was right at
him.
Phillips said other witnesses told
him that the death car was trav
eling at least 60 miles an hour.
The little boy had gcre across
the road from his home to take
some matches to his grandfather
. at a tobacco barn. He was re
turning home when the car struck.
Patrolman Phillips said the
lad was struk bv the right
front fender of the car and
the body carried 71 feet. The
car continued another 85 feet
before stopping, the officer de
clared.
The young boy made his home
with his grandfather, T. L. Free
man.
The funeral will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 2 o’clock from
Fair Point Free Will Baptist
Church with Rev, J. C. Chavis of
ficiating.
Highway Patrolman C. E. Phil
lips reported that Warren Alfred
Lewis, 25, white, of near Fair.
equipment and business office will
be on the first floor, and the sec- , NO FLOWERS
The family requests that
flowers be sent, explaining that
in lieu of flowers those wishing which struck the lad.
.... me uuu- to do so may make contributions placed under $1,000 bond pending
of telephone operators,! to the Children’s Medical Center, the outcome of an inquest to be
300 Longwood Avenue, in Boston, held Thursday night at 8 o do. K
Mass., in memory of their son. in the Fairmont courtroom.
ond floor will have long distance
telephone equipment.
A dinette and recreation room
are to be provided for the con ¬
venience
At the ground breaking cere- who
monies Mayor McLean stated that | day.
whose work goes on 24 hours a
no
mont was the driver
the car
Lewis was