HAPPY NEW YEAR 1952 ' L. 33—NO. 6 10 PAGES THIS'WEEK SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1951 r-AGES THIS WEEK isonic Bodies )ld Elections r Coming Year iUiamson Heads oage; Woolley, handler Reelected ;i,ae, V ass, junior warden; L. L. alley, Southern Pines, secre- R. L. Chandler, Southern NEW YEAR HOUDAY ections have been held recent- )y the four Masonic bodies ch have their headquarters in them Pines. lese are the Southern Pines ge 484 AF & AM, with mem- hip drawn from the Southern iS-Pinehurst-Vass area; South- Pines Chapter 16 Royal Arch ons; Southern Pines Council loyal and Select Masters, and them Pines Commandery 16 Knights Templar, all three 1 jurisdiction over all or most loore, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery Richmond counties, ioyd L. Woolley was reelected etary (or recorder) and Ralph Chandler, Sr., was reelected surer of each of the four bodies two SouthernPines men have ;ed in these positions through ;essive reelections for almost a rter of a century, fficers of the Southern Pines jonic Lodge, elected December vere installed December 17 r the retiring Master, Herbert Next Tuesday. New Years Day, will be generally observ ed as a holiday here, with the food stores, the bank and most other businesses closing for the day. The two large chain stores. Colonial and A 8s P, wPl close both Tuesday and Wednes day. The post office will dose Tuesday in all departments. No windows will be ooen, no roail doUvered or placed in bcxes. Mail will, however, be collected and disoairhod to the outer wofrld, and "spe- da’'’" a»>d perishables will be delivered. PnbUc schools will reonen Wednesday after the Christ mas recess. March of Dimes Campaign Supper Will Open Drive Making Port For a Happy New Year New Fire Tower Starts Operation State Highway Patrol 'Commander Will Aid F or Carthage Area j Safety Drive Chairman Blue Will Be Host At Aberdeen Wednesday Moore County’s March of Dimes EhrUardt, Jr., Pmehurst, as campaign will get under way with insiaihng officer. They are a meeting of all the community 'bur H. Williamson, Southern chairmen at the Aberdeen restau- es, master; A. G. Edwards, Jr., rant in Aberdeen Wednesday eve- s,senior warden; L. RusseU ning, according to an announce- ment by H. Clifton Blue, county fund raising chairman. Chairman Blue states that the ^’s, treasurer; Edwin L. Finch, community quotas will be assign- s, chaplain; Alden G. Bower,'ed at this meeting and fund rais- ithern Pines, senior deacon; !ing material given out for the ise I Lawson, Southern Pines, I drive to get started with a bang ior deacon; C. Robert McCor- the next day. ;, senior steward; Edd C. Cole, The campaign period has been or steward; Ralph L. Mills,'doubled this year because the Na- jtional Foundation has been forced Ifficers for the other three into debt four years in succession ies, elected at meetings held by surging polio incidence. The week, wftU be installed drive, starting with next week’s a joint supper meeting to be meeting, will continue until the ' ^ wv , Sv. V. J Douglass Donnell, 10-month-old son of Capt. and Mrs. Carroll H. Donnell, takes a serious look at a strarige new country—his homeland —from the U. S. Naval Transport E. D. Patrick, when it docked at a west coast port early this month. Born in the Philippines during his father’s three-year tour of duty at Clark AFB, Manila, young Douglass and his parents arrived to spend Christmas and New Years at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. W. T. Medlin, 350 West Vermont avenue. His mother is the former Nancy Medlin of Southern Pines. The Donnells will go next month to their new post at Ellington AFB, Texas. We hope by now Douglass has decided the States are better than that first look seemed t,o indicate, and that all will have a Happy New Year “stateside.” I Three Towers, Two j Power Wagons Mean | I Tops In Protection I I ' 1 The new fire tower at Carthage ’ went into operation Monday morning, giving Moore county [three towers from which every ccrner of the county can be fire- I spotted except in the most ad- V'^rse conditions, it was announc- . ed by County Forest Ranger E. W. ; ravi?. I I With the addition of a second power wagon with the latest im proved firefighting equipment, and two-way radio coverage of t'’e entire county, N. C. Forest Service crews are in the best posi- : tion r'f their history to spot for- : est fires before they have gained : headway, and to reach them in a ilrr’Tii^un^ r-f time. i I II The added equipment means ; also that equal power can be tnrown into the fighting of two large fires at the same time, the ranger pointed out. Hitherto when one sprang up at the time another was under way, as fre- quentlv h^pnens in the winter and earlv spring, the crews have been „ , handicapped in fighting one or Funeral services for John R. the other. This was the case when'McQueen, 78, who during a long Col. Smith Will Send Patrolmen, Also a ‘Whammy’ Two Big Basketball Games Ahead — ‘‘The Game” Tonight, All-Stars Wed. d Monday, January 14, at 7 p. at the Masonic Temple here. Ihey are as follows: loyal Arch Masons—Clarence Thomas, Pinehurst, high priest; ph G. Steed, Robbins, king; yland R. Kennedy, Robbins, ibe; L. L. Woolley, Southern les, secretary; R. L. Chandler, ithern Pines, treasurer, loyal and Select Masters— Ed- 1 L. Finch, Vass, master; Henry end of the month. Chairmen had been selected in all communities in the county with the exception of Westmoore and Roseland, where Chairman Blue said he-expects to have lead ers named by the end of the week. Chaimfen who have been named are as follows: Aberdeen, Mrs. J. A. Smith: Carthage, Harry Davis; Cameron^ J 4. Mrs. Pete Phillips; Eagle Springs, _ Williams Ro^bms deputy j Life, T. H. ,ster; John A. McRae, N. I’ Fry. Niagara, Mrs. Elwood Parker; Pinebluff, Mrs. W. R. Griffin; Pinehurst, J. Frank McCaskill; 3tor of work; L. L. Woolley, uthern Pines, recorder; R, andler, Southern Pines, treas- Mis, Same Greea Alii ss, generalissimo; Albert B. lly, Pinehurst, captain general; L. Woolley, Southern Pines, ler; Vass, M. M. Chappell; West End, J. F. Sinclair; Manly, Joe Cameron; Glendon, Mrs. June order- R L. Chandler, South- Harrington; Hallison, Mr. and Pines, treasurer; Ralph G. Mrs. A. L. Poe; Lakeview, Mrs. sed, Robbins, senior warden;' Louis Bellet. arence W. Thomas, Pinehurst, Raised In 1951 lior warden; Edwin L. Finch, ss, prelate. [rs. Mechling reaks Her Leg ►n Monday Hunt In 1951, with a quota of $7,550, a total of $11,286.64 was raised in Moore county*. In 1950 the total amount raised was $10,000.78. Commenting on the forthcom ing March of Dimes drive. Chair man Blue said: “This year must call forth the greatest volunteer effort, ever made in the fight against infantile paralysis. In the past four years the disease has ac counted for 132,000 victims and Mrs. Peggy Mechling suffered rious injury out hunting Mon- .v with the Moore County i j 4- aunds when her mount dodged has cost the National Foundation to a tree crushing her leg ainst the trunk. The experienced horsewoman, le of the Moore County’s leading embers, was riding a young irse and the accident took place Rowing a long run and kiU, dur- g which the horse had gone ex- sptionaRy weU. • When hounds lund again, the pace was fast and irs. MechUng said she thought jr mount did not see the big tree Qta too late to avoid it. A member of the field, James elvage, of the Mid Pines club, iministered first aid and applied spUnt to the injured limb, while vo deer hunters, near the scene, rhich was in the Carroll’s Branch Duntry, took Mrs. Mechling to the loore County hospital in their ar. There X-rays were taken, [lowing the leg to be broken in aree places. Mrs. MechUng, her leg in a cast, now home with her mother. Its. Edgar Ewing, and, though in onsiderable pain, is reported to •e making good progress. for Infantile Paralysis $79,000,000 for patient care alone. We have reached the point when the March of Dimes must catch up with the march of polio.” FATALITY TAX LISTING Tax listing time starts Jan uary 1. and the tax listers for all Moore townships wiU have their schedules set up and be on the job Tuesday or Wed nesday. Mrs. D. J. Blue, Carthage Rt. 3. tax lister for McNeills, had not announced her sched ule by Thursday morning. Anyone in Southern Pines de siring to list taxes before fhe announcement is made shoiild call the city hall, to learn when she is expected ther». . Mrs. Adelaide Schnell, of Pinebluff, is tax lister for SandhUls township, which in cludes Pinedene and other sections of the southern end of this community. She will start work at Aberdeen Wed nesday, January 2, and will be at Jackson Motors the fol lowing Wednesday, January 9, to serve the taxpayers of that section. Swells Injured In Accidenl On Chrislmas Trip Alumni* Varsity* Home Team Slate Contests At Gym John R. McQueen Buried Monday Al Union Church destructive fires swept areas near both Southern Pines and Pine hurst on a Sunday afternoon and evening of last March. Barber Is Towerman and busy lifetime contributed much to the upbuilding of Moore county and the SandhiUs, were held Monday morning at Union The new tower, 100 feet high, Presbyterian church, conducted Commendation and a promise of wholehearted cooperation were expressed last week by Col. James |R. Moore, State Highway Patrol commander, in the Moore County civic clubs’ 100 per cent highway safety program. To assist with their declared en dorsement of rigid enforcement of all highway safety laws starting January 1, Commander Smith’s cooperation will begin at once in the form of additional highway patrolmen. Patrolmen will be moved in from other districts as they are available throughout. the coming month, especially on Mondays, Commander Smith told club rep resentatives at Raleigh last week. Monday is the day practicaUy aR regular law enforcement of ficers in the county are tied up with court cases at Carthage, leav ing the highways open to speeders and other traffic lawbreakers. WiR Gel "Whammy" In addition, said Commander Smith, Moore will be the first county to get a “whammy”—^the radar-controlled “mechanical eye” which spots speeders as they pass, clocking their rate of speed for has been erected at the Priest Hili the pastor the Rev. C. K Taf-. Church Road intersection on the north edge of Carthage. LaVerne # rf -r • i -j • -4 i 4 mv. Barber. 25, of Carthage, a farmer I ^^^fai^on of Dunn. Burial was evidence m a law court later. The living ahmit a mile awav the family plot in the church evidence in a law court later, blen emploved as toweS’. He cemetery, beside his wife, who | The State Highway Patrol has preceded him in death last Febru- gjx “whammies” on order for use about the state. It is not known just when they will arrive but Two great basketball games wiR'^'^f® Mr. Barber s services. He has take place at the school gym dur-i^elped us fight fires in a volun- ing the next few days as a happy capacity many times, and climax to the holiday season for himself capable and is on duty at the tower from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, and on call, 24 hours a day. He is being train-1 .^r- McQueen died Saturday ed as a radio operator and is ex-'^S^J home of his brother,, peeled to secure his license short ly, Ranger Davis said. He added, “We were glad to be able to se- hosts of young people and their elders here. The first wiR be the annual Alumni-Varsity game, a tradition al contest in which Southern Pines graduates home for the courageous in this work; The tower is equipped with a pickup truck containing firefight ing apparatus and a two-way port able radio. It forms a triangle with the 120- holidays meet the current varsity 4®^4 Springs and the 85-foot tower at Southern the Rev. Angus McQueen of Dunn, where he had stayed during the months of his final illness. Active pallbearers were Wilbur H. Currie and Pat McDonald of Carthage; Richard Tufts of Pine hurst; Howard Butler of Southern Pines; Curtis V. Dowdy of Gulf and Stanley Winborne of Sanford. Honorary pallbearers were offi cers, elders and deacons of the church. John McQueen was born March (Continued on Page 8) when they do, the first wiR come to Moore. The “whammy” is movable. Placed inconspiculously by the roadside, it is invisible to passing motorists. Yet it watches with its unblinking radar eye, and tat tles on the speeder. Gets Them Into Court The state’s first “whammy,” em ployed experimentaRy in Guilford county during a recent month, was instrumental in getting hun dreds of speeders into court who (Continued on Page 5) teams in a battle to the death. “The Game,” is it is caRed, wiR take place tonight (Friday). The second, sponsored by the Pines as its other corners, supple- i Soldier Husband On Red Prisoner Lisl mented by the tower at Hoffman which works closely with those of John Boyd post, VFW, for the|M°o*’® • benefit of the school bus fund,! ^gle Springs tower will be held Wednesday evening., for radio communi- It WiR pk against each other a nation among the towers, with home team and a home-for-holi- M^®. Dorothy Cagle at the con- days team-the “Local AR-Stars” (Continued on Page 8) vs. the “CoRege AR-Stars.” Both events wiR be double- headers, including both boys’ and girls’ games.*The first game for r'rtiiTitv r’rtl'nTl both will start at 7:30, the second l.iOroner, approximately an hour later. Informal Lineups A number of the same players will be seen in both, and wiR in clude members of some of the great basketbaR teams of recent Hugh P. Kelly, Dies Al Carlhage Hugh P. Kelly, 59, Moore Coun ty coroner, died early Sunday years. Lineups, except for the!morning following a heart attack varsity teams, are informaRy ar- at his home in Carthage. The closing days of 1951 saw another highway fatality ad- ed to Moore county's list, and the appointment of an acting coroner to replace the late Hugh P. Kelly. Dead was William Leake Harrington. Negro, of Jackson Hamlet. instantly killed when strudk at Pinehurst Wednesday evening by a car driven by Clyde Hunt, taxi- driver of Pinehurst. To handle this and other cases until a new coroner c&n be elected. Clerk of Court C. C. Kennedy apoointed Dr. Francis L. Owens of Pine hurst. Time for the inquest was not immedieitely set. A Christmas trip to visit their daughter and son-in-law was rudely interrupted Saturday for Mr. and Mrs. James B. Swett, when their car was struck by an other in heavy traffic at Sanford. The accident occurred when the other car, driven by a woman, with five small children along, puRed oi^suddenly to pass some trucks. Both Mr .and Mrs. Swett were knocked unconscious by the im pact. Mr. Swett was cut about the head and had to have several stitches taken. Their car was con siderably damaged in the crash. ’The Swetts were brought back home in a badly shaken-up condi tion, and phoned their daughter, Mrs. Marshall Barney, at Rocky Mount what had happened. The Barneys immediately drove to Southern Pines and the next day took their parents home with them to spend the anticipated Christmas holiday, though under somewhat unforeseen conditions. The name of the driver of the other car was not learned here, nor whether she or the children were hurt. ranged, and all those who are here and want to play are invited- and expected to appear. For the girls, arrangements for both games are in charge of Mrs. Helen Grey Smith of Wilmington, Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Carth age Methodist church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. George W. Blount, assisted by the Rev. W. I S. Golden, pastor of the Carthage former SPHS and Wake Forest j Presbyterian church. Burial was ! athlete, who is visiting her pa- in Cross Hill cemetery, Carthage. - rents, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Grey, Pallbearers were M. G. Boyette, |i for the holidays. Lineups for the!Bernice Cameron, Clement Bar- S' boys are in charge of Supt. A. C. Dawson, Jr. Among alumni in the probable reserve of players for both occa sions are, for the boys, BiR Baker, Tink Bowen, Jimmy Harrington, Bobby Harrington, Norris Hodg kins, Bobby Dunn, Ray Copley, BiR Sledge, Ort Stewart, Tommy Avery, Davis Worsham; for the girls, Helen Grey Smith, Peggy rett, A. W. Lambert and C. A. Me Callum of Carthage and John S. Ruggles, of Southern Pines. Mem bers of the Carthage Masonic lodge, of .whidi Mr. Kelly was a member, served as honorary paR- bearers. Mr. Kelly was a native of Moore county. He founded the Moore j County News at Carthage and was j its publisher for several years. Cameron, Danny Frassineti, Shir- During the past few years he was ley Dana, Mickey Nicholson, I a justice of the peace associated Peggy PhUlips, Catherine Sitter- son, Janet Menzel, Louise MiRi- ken, Audrey West Brown and perhaps Betty Jean Hurst. Age vs Youth There will be plenty of others, including college students, service lads home on leave and hoys and girls employed here, who wiR on (Continued on Page 8) with the sheriff’s office, and was also coimty coroner, to which of fice he was selected and reelected several times without opposition. Surviving 'are his wife, the for mer Mis|5 Daisy Conder of Car thage; one son by a former mar riage, Hugh P. Kelly, Jr., of New Jersey, and one sister, Mrs. May Gardner of Carthage. I# It was a wonderful Christmas present for Mrs. Henry R. Bradford to read on the Communist prisoner Rst that her husband was alive— and it wiR be a Happy New Year if it brings him back safe to his family in Southern Pines. Reading the glad news above are Mrs. Bradford, the former Cleecy Renegar, and her daughters Gail, 12, and Ida Lou—“Tinkie”—who will be three in March. Corporal Bradford has been missing in action in Korea since July 11, 1950. He was Rsted as a prisoner of war in September 1950 by the International Red Cross, but no further information ever came. He. is a native of MiR Shoals, IR., a veteran of World War 2 and formg| member of. the local police department. (Photo Emerson Humphrt

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