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‘tGlmdon [iiridor /, riafe^- l^conct ^arsnaqc ‘E^leopqs. Cameron fni , , Vife^Did talMviqi/’Vass r fllerbc ^jA^ratter I JUST FRESH OUT of its sealed boxcar—the new fire truck, photographed immediately after it had been driven from the train to the fire house. In the driver’s seat, Mrs. Grace Kaylor has just replaced her husband. From left, Fire Chief Harold Fowler; Norman Calcutt, who just happened by; Resident Fireman Kaylor, Fire men Joe Garzik and George Little; Roy T. Rog ers, LaFrance engineer, who supervised the un loading and stayed a week to commission the truck and train the firemen in using the equip ment; Fireman Frank Viall. (Pilot Staff Photo) N. C. Elks Holding Annual Convention At Country Club The N. C. Association of Elks is holding its annual convention here today (Friday) and Satur day, with headquarters at the Southern Pines Country club. Registration opened Thursday evening at the clubhouse, and aU the convention events are being held there. These include business sessions both mornings, starting at 9:30; a memorial service and ritualistic contests by degree teams today; a social hour, ban quet and dance, with special en tertainment, this evening; the past presidents’ breakfast Satur day morning, and golf tourna ment Saturday afternoon. Election and installation of of ficers will take place Saturday morning. About 200 Elks and their wives are expected to compose the del egations coming from the 35 lodges all over North Carolina. Many will spend the night in lo cal hotels, while others will com mute from nearby towns. The BPO Does will prepare and serve the banquet, also Friday luncheon and the past presidents’ (Continued on page 5) Kids Get Rides On ‘Tire Truck Day”, Parade And Demonstrations Saturday *‘Firp Triiplr Fiov** le • MM TTT A H -mm., ^ “Fire Truck Day’’ is being ob served here Saturday, by procla mation of Mayor L. T. Clark, to give citizens big and little a chance to inspect and admire their new fire truck. The splendid new American La France will lead a parade along Broad street starting at 10 o’clock in the morning, and wiU then be taken to Ashe street near the city park to give demonstrations and rides to the youngsters until about noon. At 2 p.m. the truck will be driv- Swett Memorial To Be Dedicated By Bishop Penick A memorial to the late James Baldwin Swett will be dedicated in the Parish Hall of Emmanuel church this evening (Friday). Bishop Edwin A. Penick, Epis copal Bishop of North Carolina, will hold the dedication ceremony, to which are invited all parishion ers and friends of the late Mr. Swett. The memorial is the new kitch en given by the Guilds of the Women’s Auxiliary, together with a door and ramp permitting en trance to the hall from the Ridge street side. The plaque inscribed to the memory of Mr. Swett will be over the entrance, symbolizing the friendliness and human un derstanding and sympathy of the late vestryman and church war den and beloved member of the community. Prior to the evening affair. Bishop Penick will hold a service of confirmation of a small group to be presented by the rector, the Rev. Charles Covell. The Junior choir will sing. Following his address the Bishop will install re cently elected officers of the Guild for lay leadership in the parish, the ceremony to be follow ed by a picnic supper in the Par ish HaU. Guests are invited to bring their picnics, with the Guild supplying refreshment. Moore Closed Championship [Opens Wednesday f The senior tennis events of the summer will get under way next week with the fifth annual re newal of the Moore County Clos ed Championships, to be played Wednesday through Sunday on the municipal courts. All players who are permanent residents of the county are invi ted to take part, said Harry Lee Brown, Jr., president of the spon soring Sandhill Tennis associa tion. This includes military per sonnel stationed in the vicinity on a permanent basis, and living in the county. Application forms may be se cured from W. F. Bowman, tour nament chairman. Box 406. Events are scheduled as fol-. lows, with trophies to be award ed to both winners and runners- up: men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles, women’s doub les and mixed doubles. Finals are expected to be held Sunday night under the lights. Women’s events will start at 2 p. m. Wednesday, men’s events at 7 p. m. They will continue both afternoon and night throughout the weekend. Defending champions are Mil dred Gruebl and Harry Lee Brown, Jr., both of whom are ex- nected to be on hand to defend their titles. en to West Southern Pines, and the same demonstrations, with rnore rides for the kiddies, will be given on New York avenue at Gaines street. In the morning parade, all the department’s wheeled equipme'it will be on display, with most or all of the volunteer firemen in at tendance. Also on display in the parade will be the new Air-Ground school fire truck, recently assigned by the Air Force to Highland Pines Inn, which will be used as a sup plementary apparatus for civilian protection in case of emergency. It will be manned Saturday oy officers and airmen making up the school’s firefighting detachment. The school bands of both the Southern Pines and West South ern Pines school will march in the parade. Neighboring towns have been invited to send over some of their equipment to take part, said As sistant Fire Chief Joe O’CaUag- han, who is in charge. Authority was delegated to his assistant by Fire Chief Harold B. (Continued on page 5) New High School Building May Get Started Next Fall Part of Money Already In Hand For lO-Room Unit Plans are well along which may lead to the construction of the first unit of a new high school building starting in the fall, to go into use in September 1954, it was learned' this week from Supt. A. C. Dawson. An architect has been selected and drawings are now in prepara tion. He is Leslie M. Boney, jf the Wilmington architectural firm of that name. With the present building con demned for future repairs, hopes are high that the building may go forward in unit form as planned. It depends, the superintendei..t whether the county com- missioners, at budget-making time this summer, find themselves able to add about $100,000 to some $45,000 the Southern Pines school board already has in the bank. The commissioners have ex pressed their wish to cooperate, as far as they are able, with a “five- year plan’’ laid before them by Mr. Dawson a year ago. The plan IS designed to take care of aU present school needs'on a gradual basis. The first cooperation took the form of $60,000 given to the Southern Pines district last year, of which some $12,000 or $15,000’ has since been spent for improve ments at the West Southern Pines school. The first unit of the new high school building will consist of 10 classrooms, facing Massachusetts avenue in a line down from the auditorium and gymnasium. Once these are in use, the old building can be torn down, and another new unit added later fronting on May street. The project is ex pected to cost about $250,000 al-I together.. Architectural design! will be harmonious with the mod- f ified Williamsburg style of the rest of the school plant. 1 School Finals Start Tuesday Ni^ht; 22 Will Receive Diplomas Tuesday i Local Ministers ‘■’f / COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS. Dr. W. Amos Abrams left associate editor of North Ca rolina Education, wiU deliver the ad dress to the graduates Tuesday night, while the Rev. Joe W. Flora, right, minister to youth of Greensboro’s First Presbyterian church, will preach the baccalaureate sermon Sunday evening. Burns Voted Out As Council Elects Norfolk Man To City Manager Job Council Splits In Speed-Up Vole; Clark Breaks Tie In a dramatic five-hour session at the city hall Tuesday night the town council interviewed six applicants for the city manager position, received petitions and heard speeches in behalf of the candidacy of Howard F. Burns for the job—also some against him— and voted three to two against retaining the services of Mr. Burns, town cletk and treasurer for the past 27 years. Elected by vote of Mayer Clark, Councilmen Voit Gilmore and Joe O’Callaghan, against fhe votes of Little League Tryouts Saturday Teen-Age Father Indicted In Wreck Fatal To Infant Moore County will have a lit tle League this summer, South ern Pines will have an entry in it and tryouts for the 15-boy base ball squad will be held on the high school field at 9:30 Saturday morning. All boys from eight to 12 years of age are eligible to try out for the privilege of wearing the new uniforms to be given by the Southern. Pines Lions club, and of playing in the Little League games in Southern Pines, Pine- hurst, Carthage and Robbins. Twelve-year-olds who will be come 13 before August 1 are not eligible. These feur towns will contrib ute teams to the League, said Irie T.eonard, Southern Pines director be part of the recreation program here during June and July. The local squad will be made up of five boys 12 years old, five who are 11 and five who are 10 or younger. The Commission will provide equipment, transporta tion, and coaching by Director Leonard as coach. The Lions club will provide the uniforms. Games will be held every Mon day and Wednesday at 5:30 p, m., {starting June 15 and continuing through August 1, rotating among the participating towns. A group of 25 recreation, school and civic leaders from Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Carthage and Robbins, organizing the program at Pinehurst Tuesday night, elect- OOPS! We are so used to the bank having many... holidays through the year that, in re porting the observance of Memorial day (Saturday) by the post office on Page 7, we added the bank, too, for good measure. We were wrong, though. On account ctj extra work at the end of the month, the Citizens Bank & Trust Co. is not observing the Saturday holiday. The Page 7 announcement was already printed before we discovered the error. Sorry! James Junior Allred, of Rob bins Rt. 2, 17-year-old husband and father, faces trial in Moore recorders court Monday on charges of careless and reckless driving causing an accident and the death of his five-weeks-old infant. Cpl. M. S. Parvin of the State Highway Patrol said that Allred, driving south on NC 705 about a mile above Robbins Friday night, and traveling at a high rate of speed, lost control of his car and collided with an oil tanker. He said Allred’s 1951 Ford se dan, skidding sideways down the highway, first hit the left rear wheel of the tractor section, then the rear wheel of the tank, which ran over the car practically shear ing off the entire front end. The occupants—Allred, his 16- year-old wife and the baby, Ron ald Lee, were thrown from the shattered vehicle which proceeded to continue its wild skid along the highway until it ended up in a ditch 75 or 100 feet from the im pact point. All three were taken to Moore County hospital by ambulance. Allred and his wife suffered cuts and severe abrasions. The baby, its skull fractured, died about an hour after being admitted to the hospital. Funeral services for Ronald Lee Allred were held at Robbins Sun day. This was Moore county’s fifth highway fatality of the year. of summer recreation, revealing |ed the following officers:’Dr. J ^ a X 2 /~1 /*^ 1— Y.. YV?. la • plans made at an organization meeting held Tuesday night at the Pinehurst school. The local entry will be spon- "orod iointlv bv the Southern Pines Recreation Commission and C. Grier, Jr., Pinehurst, presi dent; W. S- Evans, Robbins, first vice-president; Dr. D. W. White- head, Southern Pines, second vice-president; Bobby Dodds, Pinehurst, secretary; La Verne Lions clubs, and the project will Womack, Carthage, treasurer. National Guard Plans ‘‘Open House” Moore county’s National Guard unit. Battery D of the 130th Auto matic Anti-Aircraft Artillery Bat talion, will hold “open house” at the National Guard Armory (garage) from 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday. Capt. W. J. Wilson, commanding officer, extends an invitation to all the battery’s friends throughout the county to attend its first pub lic event since the building was completed a year and a half ago. Designed as a motor garage for the housing of the unit’s equip ment, it is large enough to serve as an Armory until one can be built, and has become so desig nated by the public in general. The spacious building stands on a wooded tract 400 feet square donated by the Town, on the Old Pinehurst road adjoining the town showgrounds. Several displays will be ar ranged by the outfit for the pub lic’s. enjoyment at the “open house.” On view will be the unit’s primary armament, the 40mm anti-aircraft gun of such proud achievement in World War 2; also the secondary armament, the 50-caliber air-cooled machine gun. The communications section will have on display the latest in army radio equipment, the ANj PRC 10, a walkie-talkie set newly issued to the National Guard. Other basic communications equipment will be shown. The motor section will display the new XM 211 2% ton hydra matic GMC truck, the army’s new experimental “work horse” re cently issued to National Guard units for testing. Varied equip ment will be shown in the moss section. The battery will be on duty throughout the afternoon so the visitors may see their National Ciuard in action, against the set ting of their own home, become acquainted with their equipment and learn more of their important mission. Refreshments will be served. Following the “open house” the unit will participate in the Memo rial Day observance to be held at Mt. Hope cemetery at 5 o’clock. Councilmen W. E. Blue and C. S. Patch, Jr., was Marvin W. Lee, 26-year-old administrative assist ant to the city manager of Nor folk, Va, Mr. Lee, who had been inter viewed during the early part of the evening, was in bed and asleep by the time this decision was reached at city hall. He was called back to the council meet ing by telephone, since he was to leave for Norfolk by an early- morning train. He had spent a night and a day in Southern Pines but told the council he was not sure he could, of should, accept. To do an ef fective job of city management, he said, he felt the 'services of a full time engineer might be needed and he was not sure the town budget could stand both salaries. Will Study Budget He asked for a week ip which to make a study of the town bud get and audit report, after which, he said, he would present to the council his necessary require ments. He m^y recommend in stead that the town employ some one as city manager who can sup ply the essential engineering background, though he might be short on administration, Mr. Lee’s forte. He will telephone his answer early next week and, if he ac cepts, assume the position early in July. The midnight session followed a sequence cf motions made and passed in which the vital decision was rushed to a head before dis cussion could be held of the rela tive merits of the visiting candi dates. Three Motions Made This was done by action initi ated by the council’s minority faction as follows: (1) motion by Blue, seconded by Patch, that the screening be concluded; (2) mo tion by Blue, seconded by Patch, that the council proceed at once with the selection of a manager; and, following a lengthy discus Will Have Share In Commencement Twenty-two boys and girls will receive their diplomas in com mencement exercises of Southern Pines High school, to be held at Weaver auditorium Tuesday at 8:15 p. m. Four of the group are listed as honor graduates, with a general average of 90 cr more for each of their four years in high school. These are Ursula Sieger Herr, first honor graduate;; LaNelle Kirk, second hopor graduate; Irene Eliza Easton and Janet Sar- alyn Hamel. "'the’- members of the class of 1953; David Ernest Bailey, Carl iiowrr.an Bowers, Mary Johns Cameren, Steven Page Choate; Phyllis Carol Faircloth, Joe Clement Horner, Carolyn Celeste Hoskins, William Thomas Hunt- ley HI, Edith Grace Johnson, Elaine Johnson, Esther Louise Johnson, Mark Jay King. HI, Ronald George Luketz, James Aubrey Matthews, William Ken neth McCrimmon, Ernest Charles Pitts, Raymond Lee Williams, Frederic David Woodruff, Jr. The exercises will climax three days of finals, which will open with the baccalaureate service Sunday evening. Monday evening, the senior class play will be presented. Tuesday at 11:L5 a. m.. Honors and Awards Day exercises will be held. All events will be at Weaver auditorium, the evening ■ ones starting at 8:15. The public is cordially invited to attend them all, said Supt. A. C. Dawson. Guest speakers will be, Sunday night, the Rev. Joe W. Flora, min ister to youth of Greensboro’s First Presbyterian church; and Tuesday night. Dr. W.’Arnos Abrams of Raleigh, author, for mer teacher and coUege professor, Shakespearean authority, for the past seven years associate edPor of North Carolina Education and other publications of* the Stare NCEA. According to local tradition, every minister of the communi ty will take part in one or the other of the two main commence ment events. The school choir will sing Sunday night, with Mrs. L. D. McDonald at the organ. The school band will play two selec tions Tuesday night, also the pro cessional and recessional. Diplomas will be presented by (Continued Mt page 5) Memorial Service At Mount Hope Sunday Afternoon A vesper Memorial Day service will be held at Mt. Hope cemetery at 5 p. m. Sunday, under the united auspices of the Sandhills pest, American Legion; John Boyd post, VFW; the N. C. Na tional Guard and 'USAF Air- Ground Operations school. Everyone is invited to take part in the ceremony, with war vet- sioi) by beth council and visitors erans and their families given a of Mr. Burns and his job. (3) nomination of Burns by Patch, seconded by Blue; nomination of Lee by O’Callaghan, seconded by Gilmore. (Continued on page 5) SENIOR PLAY "Willie's Weekend," a farce comedy, will be presented by the senior class Monday at 8:15 p.m., at Weaver auditori um. This is the first time the • seniors have put on their own dramatic offering with no as sistance from other classes. The cast of 14 boys and girls, props and arrangements com mittees and all, are made up of the graduating perspnnel. That is. all except the coach, Mrs, Ted Barrow, eighth grade teacher, who has been in charge of the direction. Entertainment galore, as well as a chance to swell with parental or friendly pride is in store for the audience, it is reliably reported. special invitation. Speaker will be Capt. James J. McDonald, pedagogy instructor oh the USAFAGOS staff, who served during World War 2 as an intel ligence officer with the Air Force in England, France and Germany. Ministers of all local churches will assist in the service. Boy Scouts will form honor guards for each veteran’s or serviceman’s grave for the decoration cere mony. The Sandhills Men’s chorus will lead the singing. The American Legion and VFW auxiliaries will provide flowers for the decoration, and are asking all who have them to contribute as many as they can. Flower donors are asked to de liver them to the home of Mrs. John McLaughlin, Wayside Inn, at May street and Indiana avenue, by 3 p. m. Sunday. The National Guard unit will march to Mt. Hope for the Mem orial Day ceremony at 4:30 o’clock, following “open house” to be held Sunday afternoon at the Armory.