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Work Under Way
On New Municipal
Swimming Lake
Board Authorizes
Building Permit
For Leroy Lee
Preparations going forward
for the new swimming lake at the
north end of town, it was reported
Wednesday night by Mayor C. N.
Page to the town board in regu
lar session. The town bulldozer
has been at work clearing stumps
and debris from the drained bot
tom of the lake, and sand is being
spread out from the banks, in ex
pectation of opening the lake for
use by summertime.
Various organizations are ex
pected to undertlake projects for
development of the park.
It bids fair to become one of the
nicest recreation spots in the
Sandhills, and one which the peo
ple are anxjous to get into opera
tion, he said. “From the way tliey
talk to me about it, this is really
one town project everybody is in
favor of,” the Mayor declared,
adding, “and that goes for me
too.”
However,' proper operation of,
the lake, once it is ready for use,
will take some study, all members
agreed. This is to be largely in
the hands of the Municipal Recre
ation Commission.
Title of the property has not yet
been transferred to the town by
its-donor, E. R. Mills of Pinebluff,
but Mayor Page said he expected
that Mr. Mills would see the town
soon had it in hand.
Lee Gets Permit
A reading of the minutes of a
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Three-Year-Old
Thrown From Car
In Sunday Wreck
Judy Stevenson, three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alton
Stevenson of Pinebluff, was seri
ously injured Sunday afternoon in
a collision at Indiana avenue and
Bethesda road. She was thrown
from her parents’ car in the col
lision and the wheels of the other
car, driven by Leroy Dowdy of
West Southern Pines,' passed over
her body.
Judy’s mother, weeping, plead
ed guilty to driving without an
operator’s permit, but not guilty
to careless and reckless driving,
in a preliminary hearing before
Justice D. E. Bailey here Wednes
day afternoon. Dowdy, similarly
charged with careless and reck
less driving, also pleaded not guil
ty. Justice Bailey found probable
cause in both cases and bound
them over on their own recogni
zance for their appearance Tues
day in recorders court.
'The accident was the tragic cli-
to a happy day spent by rel
atives together. The Stevensons
with their three children and
little cousin had spent the day
with Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Blue
and their children at Vass. In the
aftemocai they all went for a ride,
with Mrs. Stevenson at the wheel.
In the car were 10 people—^Mr.
and Mrs. Stevenson, little Judy
and her brother Jimmy, 6, on the
front seat; and in the back Mr.
and Mrs. Blue, their daughters
Mary Belle, 11, and Daisy Lou,
nine; Brenda Stevenson, aged two.
and Dawn Stevenson, five, a niece
of the Pinebluff couple.
According to the State High
way Patrol report, the collision
occurred in the center of the in
tersection as the Stevenson car,
going east on Indiana, and Dow
dy’s car, traveling north on Be-
^esda road, crashed together. ’The
impact knocked Dowdy’s car
against a light pole, shearing it
off at the. base. The right-hand
door of the front seat of the Stev
enson car apparently flew open,
and Judy was thrown out.
She was taken to St. Joseph of
the Pines hospital where she was
foimd to have a fractured pelvis,
badly gashed head and probable
internal injuries. For several
hours her life hung by a thread,
but she passed uie crisis success
fully and at mid-week was re
ported “much improved.”
Her parents, Jimmy and Bren
da, were also taken to St. ^Toseph’s,
where Mr. Stevenson was found
to have a broken shoulder while
the others were badly shaken up.
The Blues, their daughters and
Dawn Stevenson were taken to
Moore County hospital. Mr. Blue’s
chest was bruised but otherwise
no injuries were reported.
School Band Will Give Annual Concert Next Week
From left, front row. Majorettes Gladys Bow
den, Louise Johnson, Shirley Garner, Johnsie
Ferguson. Second row—Director Lynn H. Led-
den, Jane Lorenson, Thomas Vann, James Prim,
Jon Speller, Charles Covell, John Chappell’
James Humphrey, Charles Baker, Drum Major
Robert Speller. Third row—John Seymour, Al
lan tojjping, Billy Hamel, Claude Reams, Harry
Haynesworth, Donald Fobes.
Fourth row Katharine Dwight, Fred Dixon,
David McCallum, Billy Haynesworth, James
Morrison, Byron Naum, Lillian Bullock, Betty
Jo Britt, Paul Propst. Fifth row—Robert Sprin
ger, Mary Matthews, George Patterson, Jimmy
Hatch, George Cotton, Kenneth McCrimmon,
Stanley Allen, Billy Huntley, David Bailey. Not
in picture, Gilbert Harbort, Bobby Cline, Stella
Voyles.. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
UNION SERVICE
Protestant churches of the
community will unite in a
three-hour service from noon
to 3 p. m. today. Good Friday,
at Emmanuel Episcopal
church.
, Taking part in the service,
"The Words from the Cross"
will be the Rev. C. V. Covell,
the- Rev. C. K. Ligon. Dr. W.
C. Holland and Dr. R. L.
House, each, of whom will
conduct a meditatfon.
All members of local
churches, non-church mem
bers and visitors are invited
to take part -in this solemn
service commemorating the
Crucifixion of Christ.
Homewood Garden
Will Be Opened
Sunday, Monday
Climaxing “Garden Week” in
Southern Pines will be the Easter
Sunday and Easter Monday show
ing of the beautiful Homeward
Gardens at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Denison Bullbns, on Crest
road, KnoUwood.
Famous for many years as the
Beckwith Gardens, they under
went a change of name last year
when the handsome home and
grounds were purchased by Mr.
and Mrs. BuUens, but their beau
ty remains the same and the new
owners are generously allowing
the annual opening of the gardens
to continue as before, under
School Band Will
Climax Year With
Public Concert
The Southern Pines school
band, the community’s pride, will
give its first annual concert for
the public next Friday evening,
April 18, at Weaver auditorium.
The concert is not only for the
community’s enjoyment, but also
so the townspeople can see just
how far their school band has pro
gressed in its short history of four
and a half years, said Lynn H.
Ledden, director since last Sep
tember.
The band was started in the faU
of 1947 under J. G. Womble.
Funds were raised from time to
time by various organizations for
uniforms. It was not until last
year it became completely uni
formed.
Last year also, the band started
marching. At first only the drum
mers could play and march at
the same time. In recent months,
with much^ractice, it has learned
to march with practically all in
struments going—a spirited sight
and sound.
It has taken an increasing part
in community and school events
of various sorts, playing for va
rious local fund-raising i events
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FIREMEN'S BALL
Come on out, folks, and
shake a foot at the Nine
teenth Annual Fireman's Ball
—the yearly fun-frolic staged
by the Southern Pines Volun-
feer Fire department for the
whole community.
All year long the volunteer
firemen rush to the rescue
when danger threatens. Once
a year the community turns
out to do them honor, enjoy
their company and aid their
welfare fund, to which all
proceeds go.
The ball will be held Wed
nesday evening at the South
ern Pines Country club, 9 p.
m. till 1 a. m. Music will be
provided by Bob Smith and
his Orchestra, from Fayette
ville. A good time for all is
guaranteed.
Youthful Pair
Escape Hurt In
Three-Car Crash
One-Way Traffic To Begin!
90-Day Trial On Broad St. Starts Monday;
Read Directions—Cooperate, Mayor Asks
One-way traffic on Broad street, between Massachu
setts and Vermont avenues, will be given a 90-day trial
starting first thing Monday morning.
Traffic will be northbound on East Broad street—south
bound on West Broad. Cars may cross over at any intersec
tion, provided they remain with the flow of traffic
Angle parking spaces on certain blocks will be changed
to accord with the traffic flow.
The new pattern was set up by State Highway Division
engineers on request of the town board, and they have also
prepared signs and markers which are now on hand ready
to be put in place over the weekend.
For the first few days, policemen will be on duty at both
ends of the one-way traffic lanes to help eliminate confusion
which may result from the change. Motorists are asked to
expre^ their opinion of the new traffic patterns to Mayor
C. JN. Page or any town commissioner or policeman, as it is
being installed purely on a trial basis.
We ask the cooperation of all in giving the one-way
plan a fair trial,” said Mayor Page. “We believe that, after
people are used to it, it should work out for the benefit of all
and go a long way toward solving traffic and parking prob
lems which have lately become acute.
the signs, learn how it works and we believe
you will like it.”
At the same time parking time limit hours are being
extended from 5 to 6 p.m., on recommendation of the Cham-
?f Commerce, and th@ parking limit zone extended on
New Hampshire avenue to the alley beyond The Manor.
Otherwise, parking remains the same, with time limits
clearly indicated on signs.
Easter Services In Local Churches
Will Tell Joyous Resurrection Story
Special Sermons,
Masses, Cantatas
Mark Festive Day
Phone Co. Asks
*^atience As New
^onsorship of the Moore Countyl Strike WoeS LoOlU
Hospital auxiliary. Hours on both! -i-ivrwu
days will be 2 to 5:30 p
The gardens were planned and
planted 18 years ago by E. A.
Morell, Southern Pines nursery
man, to fulfil the desires of the
owners for beautiful arrange
ments of shrubs and flowers
which would reach their height
of bloom together in the early
spring.
Azaleas and bulbs, dogwood
and other flowering trees were
selected.
Garden after garden within the
whole were planted in crescendo
of colors, with massed azaleas
forming the background for daf
fodils, tulips and pansies, filigreed
with the ‘bloms of sho-wl^r white
double dogwood and pink dog
wood. This riot of color rims spa
cious lawns which allow the vis
itor to inspect and enjoy the blos
soms at close range. The sequence
of gardens ends in a silvery spring
and pool shadowed with trees.
The gardens Ue behind the Bul-
lens home, a copy of historic
Westover in Virginia, the James
River home of Whliam Byrd,
founder of. Richmond,
All proceeds of the tour will go
to the benefit of the Moore
County Hospital auxiliary. Hr>st-
esses from the auxiliary will in
clude Mrs. R. M. McMillan, Mrs.
Harold Peck, Mrs. Volt Gilmore.
Mrs. Talbot Johnson, Mrs. Joseph
S. Hiatt, Mrs. Hoke Pollock, Mrs.
Harry Norris, Mrs. Thomas Lock-
wood, Mrs. A. P. Thompson, Mrs.
I. C. Sledge, Mrs. Ihomas Black
and Mrs. Clement R. Mbnme.
As the 'Wiestem Union strike
lightened up, the telephone strike
this week closed down over the
nation, keeping communications
in a slowed-up condition with
prospects that they will become
worse.
At the Central Carolina Tele
phone Company office here,
spokesman said,/“We ask the pa
tience of the public while these
conditions prevail. We’re doing
our best, but we have some big
problems, far beyond our con
trol.”
These problems have been ag
gravated by the Western Union
strike, which has thrown an ex
tra burden of long distance calls
on the company, and also by the
fact that this is the peak of the
busy season here.
At the local Western Union of
fice, Mrs. Nellie Mann, manager,
and her assistant Mrs. George B.
Little went back to work Monday
at 11 a. m., as the Raleigh relay
center came alive again. Actually,
the local staff had never gone off
the job, but could get no tele
grams through over the weekend.
Thw week, while the strike re
mained in effect in scattered spots
throughout the nation, they said,
“We’ve been able to get every
thing through okay so far, since
Monday.”
The Central Carolina, and other
independent companies, are af
fected by the new strike only in
sofar as toll calls to many BeU
stations are concerned. Employees
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A Vass-Lakeview high school
boy and girl going to the drive-
in theatre Saturday evening had
a miraculous escape from Injury
or death when their car was
struck by two speeding cars in
Succession, khocked off the road
by the first one and overturned
by the second. *
Donald Ray Jessup, 18; of Lake-
view and Joanne Chappell of Vass
emerged from Jessup’s upside-
down car badly shaken up but
•otherwise unhurt. The Pontiac
coach was described by the in
vestigating patrolman as “total
ly demolished.”
He said the car, heading sdlith,
had reached the center lane, as it
turned into the Starview drive-
in on US 1 south, when it was
struck in the right rear by a
Pontiac coupe driven by Emman
uel McPhatter, 26, Negro, of
Southern Pines. McPhatter’s car
knocked Jessup’s to the left shoul
der, and was itself bounced over
to the right one. A Buick coupe
behind McPhatter’s swervfed to
the left from the center lane
knocked Jessup’s car into the
cinderblock embankment at the
theatre entrance and over on its
top, then came to a stop across
the way, ahead of McPhatter’s.
A portion of the cinderblock
wall was broken by the impact.
The highway was crowded at
the time and traffic was slowed
up for about a half hour, with
three patrolmen at work to pre
vent a jam.
McPhatter indicted for careless
and reckless driving causing an
accident, received a 60-day sen
tence in Moore recorders court
Monday, suspended on payment
of $50 and costs, Gilbreath
received a 30 - day sen
tence, suspended on payment
of $25 and costs, for following
too closely behind another car.
No law violation was found in
Jessup’s driving, the patrolman
said.
Easter services in local church
es will mark the greatest festival
of the Christian year with cele
bration of the Resurrection in
song and sernion, with flowers of
spring symbolizing life’s renewal
and prayers carrying the deep
felt hope for peace.
At Congregational Church
At the Church of Wide Fellow
ship there will be a special note
of joy. After months without a
home while the fire-damaged
church building was being reno
vated, the congregation and their
pastor will be back in their beau
tiful sanctuary.
The interior of the church has
been painted in muteR pastels.
Chimes and organ have been ren
ovated and indirect lighting in
stalled. The oid-time choir loft
has given way to a new chancel,
as yet with only temporary furn
ishings, but providing a handsome
background for the three choirs.
This was a project of the church’s
Fellowship Forum.
The beautiful new stained
glass window given by Mr.
and Mrs. George Case, longtime
members who recently moved
away, has been placed in the new
masonry wall between the sanc
tuary and the educational annex
now under construction.
Services will include the H.a.
m. worship, at which the sermon
theme of Dr. R. L. House, pastor,
will be “The Glory of the Latter
House.” All three choirs will sing.
At 4:30 p. m. the choirs will
present a cantata, “The Easter
Story,” with Mrs. L. D. McDon
ald as director and organist.
At First Baptist
At the First Baptist church,
Easter Sunday will see the choir
robed in new vestments of ma
roon. At the 11 a. m. service Sun
day the choir will be heard in
an anthem, “Behold the King of
Glory,” by Handel, with Mrs.
Douglas Rowe as soloist singing
“I Know ’That My Redeemer Liv-
eth.” Sermon theme of Dr. W. C
Holland, pastor will be “The
Birthday of Hope.”
At 7:30 pm Sunday the 26-voice
choir will be heard in a cantata,
“King of Glory,” by R. S. Mor
rison, directed by Marvin Beasley
and accompanied .by Mrs. C. R.
Mills at the organ and Mrs. C. C.
McDonald at the piano. Soloists
will be Mrs. Douglas Rowe, MSss
Jacqueline Davenport, Mrs. W. L.
Wonderly, Myron Adams and Joe
Cameron, with a duet by S. B
Richardson and Joe Cameron.
At Brownson Memorial
At Brownson Memorial Presby
terian church, some 25 new com-
rnunicants will be received for
mally as members by the pastor,
the Rev. Cheves K. Ligon, as mod
erator of the Session, at the 11
a. m. service. Seven of the group,
young people 10 to 15 years of
age, who are graduates of a recent
new communicants’ class, will be
baptized.
The church will be adorned
with flowers by Mrs. J. Wl Atkin
son in memory of her husband,
who died during the past year.
“The Meaning of the Resurrec
tion” wiU be the Rev. Mr. Ligon’s
sermon theme. Special hymns and
anthems will be sung bythe 15-
voice choir led by Mrs. D. E. Bai
ley, with Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins at
the organ.
At Emmanuel Church'
Fourlncumbents^
New Candidate File
For Commissioner
Monroe Seeks Place
On Board Replacing
W. J. Dunlap
T. R. Monroe, Robbins barber
and a member of the town board
of that community, filed this week
as a candidate for the Moore
County board of commissioners,
succeeding W. J. Dunlap, who has
represented District 2 (Bensalem
and Sheffield townships) on the
board for one full term and part
of another. ^
Dunlap was appointed to fill
out the unexpired term of W. H.
Jackson, who died in the fall of
1948. He had previously served as
Hubert McCaskill, of Pine-
hurst, has been commissioned
as a Democratic member of
the county board of elections,
replacing W. Lament Brown,
of Southern Pines, who has
withdrawn in order to file as
a candidate for county solici
tor.
Mr. McCaskill was named
as an alternate on the original
list submitted to the State
Board of Elections for approv
al. He will be sworn in at 11
* a.m. Saturday at Carthage by
C. C. Kennedy, cl^rk of supe
rior court.
Others to be sworn in at
this time are Sam C. Riddle,
Democrat, and L. G. Thomas.
Republican.
a commissioner several years in
the past.
Incumbent commissioners filing
this week, subject to the Demo
cratic primary of May 31, include
all the rest of the board: J. M.
Pleasants, Southern Pines (Dis
trict 4, Greenwood and McNeill
townships) who is completing his
first term; G. M. Cameron, Pine-
hurst, chairman (District 5, Sand
hills and Mineral Springs); J. M.
Currie, Carthage (District 1, Car
thage) and L. R. Reynolds, Lea-
man (District 3, Deep River and
Ritters).
Others who have filed are also
incurhbhnts — Judge J. Vance
Rowe, judge of recorders court,
and Ralph G. Steed, of Robbins,
coroner.
Mr. Steed at present is an ap
pointee, filling out the unexpired
term of H. P. Kelley, deceased.
EASTER CLOSINGS
Easier Monday will be a
general business holiday in
Southern Pines, though no
holiday for the schoolchil
dren.
The Citizens Bank and
Trust company will be closed.
Garages will be closed but
ifilling stations will stay open.
Post office services will
continue as usuaL with one
exception. Since stores and.
offices are expected to be
closed, there will be 'no par
cel post dtolivery in the busi-
nesti district.
At Carthage, the courthouse
will be closed up tight from
top to bottom. Recorden
court wiU be held Tuesday in
stead of Monday. City offices
and the libracnr will be closed
here.
In the local s<diools the
spring holiday, already heldl
now lakes the place of the
oldfime Easter recess. In the
county some schools will
dose, others not.
Robbins Church
Plans Cantata
The Tabernacle Methodist
church at Robbins will observe
Easter with a sunrise service, to
be held at the church at 6 a. m.,
and a cantata presented at 11
o’clock.
The cantata, “Man of Sorrows,”
by Van Denman Thompson, will
comprise the entire 11 a. m. serv-
At Emmanuel Episcopal church
the Easter Sunday program in
cludes Holy Communion at 8 a.
m., the Church School mite-box
presentation service at 9:45 and
Holy Communion at 11, with a
sermon, “The Risen Life,” by the
rector, the Rev. C. V.‘ Covell. Eas
ter anthems will be sung by the
choir, directed by Mrs. P. T. Bar-
num.
After the H a. m. service the
Young People’s Service League
will hold open house for all in
the parish hall, with refresh
ments. Mary Johns Cameron,
president, will have as her com
mittee for this event Lucy McDan
iel, Gene Cordon, Joan Howarth,
James Menzel, Robert Butler and
Charles Covell, Jr.
Holy Baptism wiU be held Sat
urday at 3 p. m.
A1 St. Anthony's
At St. Anthony’s Catholic
church, Easter Sunday masses
will be held at 7, 8 and 9 a. m..
with high mass at 10:30.
On Good Friday, mass will be at
8 a. m. with a special devotion.
“The Seven Last Words,” at 4
p. m.
bn Holy Saturday mass will be
at 8 a. m. Lent ends at noon Sat
urday. Confessions preliminary to
Easter communion wUl be from
5 to 6 and from 7:30 and 8:30 Sat
urday.
Father Peter M. Denges, pastor,
will be assisted in the services
by Father O. T. Carl, of tte Order
of Preachers, Columbia, S. C.
Singing the cantata will be the
choir of 16 voices, eight men and
eight women, directed by J. A.
Culbertson.
Soloists will be Mrs. Jean Klutz,
soprano, singing “'There is a Green
Hill”; Mrs. Beatrice Kinlaw, con
tralto, “He Made Himself of No
Reputation”: Joel Cranford, ten
or, “Lo, I Am With You Alway”;
and C. L. Williams, bass, “To
Gethsemane.”
Mrs. Dixie Peace will be ac
companist on the Hammond or
gan. 'The cantata was written es
pecially for this instrument.
There will be no sermon at this
service. However, the Rev. Jack
N. Page, pastor, will preach at
the sunrise service.
A large attendance from all de
nominations is anticipated at
these traditional events.
FIDDir^ERS MEET
Th* fnuiifional Easter Mon
day aquara dkaoa and Old
Tima Flddlan Convanfion of
tha Sandhills post. Amariean
Legion, will ba held Monday
night at the X.agion hut on
Maliw avenue.
Tlddlan, banjo and guitar
playass uid players of other
string and wind instruments
are invited to come out and
compete for merchandise
prises, also square dance
bands and dfuaea teams with
callers.