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K w ill'll Springs Cittern Vol. 52 No. 26__10 Pages County Budget Approved For 1948-49; Tax Rate Remains At $1.55 Per $108 Increases In Education, Welfare, Health, Register Of Deeds LUMBERTON — The board of county commissioners in regular session Tuesday (delayed one day by the July 4th holiday) approv ed the county budget for 1948-49. Increases were made in the bud get for schools, for the welfare department, for the health de partment, and for the Register of Deeds. Other differences between this and the previous year’s bud get were minor. The tax rate re mains the same and the total levy will again be $1.55 per $100 valuation. The budget for the Board of Education was increased from the 1947-48 total of $220,960. to $314,- 0000 and the increase came from items all through the budget cre ated by increasing costs and by an, increase in the number of students. The budget for the welfare de partment rose from $73,075 to $94,- 838 and is accounted for by very much expanded activity on the part of this department and by the necessary increases in grants of assistance. One Of Robeson County’s Hometown Newspapers Red Springs, N. C Thursday, July 8, .1948 Fans Play Ball LUMBERTON. The folks from the woods and bottom lands of Columbus county don’t just go to a ball game to see the boys play—they watch harder than most clubs play. When 200 Col umbus folks came to the Legion Junior scrap at Armory Field last night they inade a noise like 200 June McIntyres; June was there too—so lost in admiration of all that lung-power that he didn’t make a sound—just sat there watching the visiting spec tators with his mouth hanging open. Maybe it’s that they don’t have enough baseball in Whitevlile and they’re just not used to the game. Whatever it is, Brooklyn’s Dodger fans could take lessons. If such a tumult can be justi fied, it was last night. Good game! Lumberton 3-2, with the winning run in the 10th. Funeral Services Murdock McLean Held Tuesday The budget $36,020 The Deeds county health was increased to $40,420. budget of the department $4400, from Register of is $18,030 more than last year; this increase is largely ac- counted for by $15,000 which is set aside for the re-indexing of the county records. The total cost of this re-indexing will be $45,000 payable over the three years the job will take. The total general fund budget amounts to $407,710.50; for debt service $138,000; for sinking fund $33,029.50; for board of education $314,000; for school debt service $100,000. The tax levy is distributed follows: CONTY WIDE LEVY .General Fund ... Feo; Relief Ftthd Pensions Beg. & Aid to Old Age .... Reg. & Aid to Dep. Children S. S. Adm. Cost Health County Debt Service as .15 .05 .01 .09 .06 .04 -14 .32 MAXTON Funeral were held for Murdock Tuesday morning from Paul Methodist church services McLean the St. ton. Rev. C. J. Andrews, in Max- pas- tor of the church, was assisted in the service by Rev. W. L. Clegg, a former pastor. Masonic, rites were conducted by Morri son Peters, Red Springs. Mr. McLean, aged 63, died at his home near Maxton afternodh after an illness eral months. He was a nent farmer, a member Sunday of sev- promi- of the church from which services were conducted, and a member Maxton Lodge 417, AF&AM. was a son of the late James and Mary Blue McLean. of He C. Miss Maggie McLean and Mrs. Robert W. McCutcheon of,Bishop ville, S. C., both sisters, survive as do es^en nieces aud nephews. Active pallbearers were E. P. Williams, J. Hasty, J. Smith, and Honorary G. L. F. Gainey, C. A. Pace, Ernest C. Frostick. SCHOOLS Current Expense Capital Outlay School Debt Service .86 .16 .28 .25 sons L. F. Ford, wards, J. B. pallbearers were ma- Martin Sr., Dr., B. C. L. Green, R. P. Ed- P. Stansel, C. J. Cot- tingham and Lawrence Jones. Flowers were in charge of Miss Carrie Lee Shaw. To Effect 25% Economies In School Modernization * Bur-Mil Group 1.55 Red Springs Officer Charged With Assault LUMBERTON Mrs. Minton Meets Last Week A meeting of the supervisers’ management group from the east ern area of the spinning division of Burlington Mills, was held Tuesday night, June 29, at Greece Landing, near Fayetteville. Din ner was served and a program followed. J. C. Cowan, Jr., of Greensboro, president of Burling ton Mills, was ‘he principal spea ker. Plants represented at the meet ing, where about 70 persons were in attendance, included the Lake- dale mill at Fayetteville; Robe son and St. Pauls Mills at St. Pauls; the Smithfield Manufac turing company at Smithfied; Johnson of Lumberton indicted her husband, a Red Springs po lice officer, Tuesday charging assault on their 12-year-old son, Albert at their home in Lumber- ton. T,he mother said that the child required medical attention after the beating his father adminis tered with a leather belt. Chief Floyd Whitman of the Red Springs police stated today that Johnson had been employed four days ago on a temporary ^asis pending an investigation of references, and was not a regu lar member of the force. He add ed that all new members of the force were employed on a trial and the plant at Oxford. Shedd of Fayetteville is Olin group manager for these five plants. The supervisory group from the plants was on hand. , Attending the meeting from Greensboro executive offices all Burlington Mills, President Cowan, in addition the of to were Arthur Burnet .division manager of spin ning for Burlington ,and Tom Foster of the personnel staff. At the program which followed the dinner. Group Manager Shedd presided. He presented Division Manager Burnet, who in turn in troduced President Cowan. Following the brief addresses, a premiere showing in the east ern group area was given to the new Bur-Mil motion picture, The Fabric Of Our Lives, been made with color for showings to the ployees before of Burlington civic clubs, groups, and organizations which has and sound 25,000 em- Mills and community on request. The film was made in Burlington Mills plants and in the Greensboro and New York offices of the firm and shows the beginning, present Mills. the growth, and the status of Burlington In his remarks, President wan traced the growth of spinning division as a part Co- the of Burlington Mills and reviewed the Burlington Mills story, told those present that the ning division has done an standing job in connection He spin- out- with the meh’s wear program and in the production pf sun rayon suit- cgs. W 30-day basis to give time for a thorough investigation. Johnson was recently employed by the town of Marion, S. C., and piioi to that time had been a mem ber of the county police depart- men! under former Sheriff Wade. Joseph Mitchell Has New Book Clyde FAIRMONT— Joseph Mitchell has delivered to his publishers the manuscript of his new book, Old Mr. Flood. Mr. Flood is a short story character developed by Mitchell; he is a retired house wrecking contractor, in his mid dle nineties, who makes his home in a New York waterfront hotel. Mr. Flood is a self-styled sea- foodetarian and plans to live to the his the age of 115, while retaining title as Honorary Mayor of Fulton Fish Market. Except for a daily quota of a loaf of Italian bread, Mr. Flood has eat en little of since 1885. that fish is sible for his anything but Mr. Flood an elixir and long life. Mr. Mitchell’s previous fish believes respon- book— McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon sold more than 300,000 copies. Joseph Fairmont Mrs. A. achieved interview Mitchell is a native of and a son of N. Mitchell, fame for his and to put Mr. and He has ability to in scores of highly diverting alters in New York life. North Carolina leads all print char- other states in the nation in the number of sawmills in active operation. The total in 1946 was 4,3$6. THIS BUILDING AT THOMPSON INSTITUTE SCHOOL was authorized Tuesday by the board of commissioners when they withdrew $218,894 from the county’s capital re serve. fund for the use of schools. The total sum is to be used in the construction and improvement of schools in Rowland, Maxton, and Lumberton. The picture above is the architect’s conception of the building in south Lumberton for which $100,000 of the total is earmarked. This building will be erected on the Thompson Institute property for the use of negro pupils. The old building on the site will be remodeled and used for auditorium, recreation and vocational training. The $118,000 allocated to Maxton and Rowland will be used for improvements and additions to the white schools there. Bodies 0! Several War Heroes Soon To Arrive In U.S. Waccamaw Bank In New Home FAIRMONT RED SPRINGS several men from Families of this who died in service have section been maw Bank and Trust opened its doors of building for the first The Wacca- notified that the remains of these heroes are now enroute to the United States for burial. Among hose expected to arrive within a few weeks are: Staff Sgt. Frank Humphrey, who serv ed with the air forces, from Phi- morning—ready for What a new home! The Chamber of company the new time this business. Commerce was the first depositor in the new edifice, the deposit being taken by Mrs. Ethalyn Davis. W. Jones, owner of Jones Radio Service, was the second ladelphus, the Humphrey of Henry Ervin and Mrs. W. Springs; Sgt. son of Mrs. Hattie Fayetteville; .Sgt. Deaton, son of Mr. J. Deaton James E. son late bor (no Mrs. of Frank Douglas Mrs. Douglas of the community; Gaston of Red Douglas, and the Mt. Ta- Dunn depositor of the Business was and interested dropping in to pleted building, ern of its kind of the state. day. really booming, friends were view the com- the most mod- in this section rank given), son of Mr. and Bridge; Frank Dunn of Lumber and Pvt. Violet Lock- lear, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie B. Locklear /of the New Prospect s ection. Two More Polio Cases Reported Juror List Given For Civil Court The list of jurors for the one week term of civil court begin ning July 12 has been named by Sheriff Willis C. Britt. Jurors are Dozier Pail, E. Lum berton; John H. Taylor, Lumber- ton; G. E. Thompson, Britts; Walter Blackmond, E. Lumber- ton; John Smith, Wisharts; Wel lington Wishart, Lumberton; Aaron Penny, W. Lumberton’; J. B. Bland, Lumberton; Francis L. Bowen, Lumberton; B. C. Britt, Lumberton; V. D. Baker, Jr., Lumberton; Robert H. Carr, Lumberton; Nash B. Kinlaw, Lumberton; D. B. McNeill, Lum berton; H. H. Memory, Lumber- ton. Inspection Lane In New Location RED SPRINGS—Mechanical spection Jurney will be 16 and In- Lane No. 28 of which Edgerton is supervisor, in Red Springs July 15, 17. Mr. Edgerton states that the lane will be located on Fifth Avenue next to the home of Dr. H. H. Hodgin, instead of the old Maxton road where it was set up when here previously. The lane is in Lumberton, next to the Fair Grounds ,this week and, will remain theie through July 13. It will be located in St. Pauls July 20-22, and then be at Rowland July 24-27, Edgerton stated. will Mr. MAXTON.—The Junior Woman’s Club of Maxton will meet Monday night to hear a talk by Senor Arjibay, summer session Spanish instructor. The talk will be on. Cuba, of which the professor is a native. The meeting will be at the Max- ton Community Club at 8 o’clock. CHIEF myelitis additional cases, of poilo- have been reported in Robeson county; both children became ill on Sunday and were hospitalized Monday. Oscar Simpson, III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Simpson of Lum berton has a mild case and was carried to James Walker Memo rial hospital in Wilmington. Dolly Faye Owens, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. arid Mrs. Hub- bard Owens, who Rex and Lumber been hospitalized live between Bridge, has at Highsmith hospital in Fayetteville. These cases bring the total ported in the county to 6. SE iJistrict NCEA Meet In Lumberton Lumberton will be host to re ¬ the annual meeting of .the North Car olina Education Association in the Southeastern District on Oc tober 15, according to a schedule of state meetings released, by the executive secretary of the group. C. H. Pinner, Tabor -City, is president of the southeastern dis trict. Mrs. R. R. Christie, Wil mington, is vice president. DDT Service Planned By Health Dept. LUMBERTON The Health Department in tion with the officials of of Lumberton will begin spray service in flow areas of County coopera- the city a DDT the river over ¬ Lumber tons on Monday, July 13. Spray will be applied to the terior of houses the control flies. There cupants will be will of of be in the area mosquitoes no charge. houses in the in- foi and Oc- area called on the day before the spraying crew expects to reach the houses to assure co operation. j CONTENDERS RS Town Board Approves Budgel Of $123,81432 Surplus of $14,000 Seen By Auditors; DDT Spray Coming RED SPRINGS—The Board of Commissioners of the town ap proved a budget for the 1948-49 fiscal year of $123,814.32 at its July meeting Tuesday night. This is an increase of $9,814 over the previous year’s budget. Also approved tion in the tax per hundred to knowledged was was the reduc- rate from $1.80 $1.60, and ac- the prospect of a $14,000 surplus . from last year’s funds. The condensed form of the budget will be published next week. DDT SPRAY Alleys, . outbuildings, kitchens and other buildings to be strayed with a few days, it was by Reece Snyder, who explained materials were in town are* DDT stated town that the within today clerk, spray now enroute and should arrive this week. Trained spray operators ed to apply the charge will be ing within the have been secur- insect poison. Nc made for spray- town limits and persons living near the town but outside the corporate limits may have their premises treated for insect covers bor. control for a $3 fee which cost of materials and la- GARBAGE Another service being made available to persons residing out side the corporate limits but near town is a garbage collection ser vice. Wet garbage will be col lected for 50c per week, with the charges being billed on month ly utilities statement. Those de siring this service may secure sama by applying at City Hall. The clelk stales that privilege licenses for the new year are now due and payable at City Hall. Huntley Inducted Rotary President LUMBERTON-L. J. Huntley was installed as new Rotary pres ident at the club’s dinner meet ing Friday night. He succeeds B. E. Lohr in the post, who was presented a gift from the club by Dr. Gates McKaughan. Appointment of program chair men was made for the year; C. E. Sullivan, W. D. A. McIntyre, and were named. Other mittee appointments Reynolds, R. Sam Miller major com- were Dr. L. R. Hedgpeth, community serv ice; John Luther McLean, club service; Fred Lennon, vocational service E. M. Johnson, interna tional service. FOR TOP PRIZES IN Ann Hale Brown Just Leads In Baby Contest Stephen Chason Second, Ann Malloy In Third Place TUESDAY’S HONOR ROLL 1. Ann Hale Brown 2. Stephens C. Chason 3. Ann Malloy 4. Susan Singleton 5. James Malcolm Varnum 6. Betty Jean McNeill 7. Barbara Jean Dudley 8. Carolina M. Bardell 9. Richard Watson 10. Marsha Lee Spivey 11, Donna Jean Beacham. Today’s tabulation of the votes in the Popular Baby Contest saw Ann Hale Brown, just managing to hold her position at the top of the Honor Roll with Stephen C. Chason climbing from fifth place to second and Ann Malloy from fourth to third. Most of the leading candidates made a determined effort to better their standing with Stephen Cha son and. Ann' Malloy making the biggest' drives for top positions, subsequently their climb to second and third place. However, as hap pens so many times in contests of this kind, everyone gets imbued the same week with the idea of heading the Honor Roll, and each contestant stepped up materially in votes, bunched closer together it the top and now today, with but a little more than a week to go to the final count, it is almost an impossibility for anyone to pick Pictures Prove It It took a long time for the tale to get from Columbus to Robeso,n but it’s a good one and is scheduled for the next issue of Field and Stream. Hobson Sanderlin, Council Station farmer and sawmill op erator, was fly fishing two weeks ago in Black River . On his fly line he had a six pound leader; and he actually landed that 1212 pound rock that struck his fly. With Sanderlin was a com panion who took movies of the mile and a half chase and of $3 Million Bond Estimated Sufficient For County Education Needs SCHOOL BOARDS, COMMISSIONERS REACH INFORMAL DECISION the three top winners out first seven. Friday evening at 5:00 the second period in the of the o’clock content lends and then down go tlie votes to.^'vlf Zinal lowest 'values. The winning of the prizes is now up to the contestants that will work with redoubled effort. There will be no more bonus vote offers to help. All subscriptions and coupons MUST be in the ballot box by 5:00 p. m. Friday if they are going to be tallied at their Second Period values. Any and all turned in after that time will be counted in the Third Period. Now, right now, while the vote schedule is still high is the time to realize on all those promises of subscriptions that people have made the various contestants. Get them in while they will count 7,500 votes, Saturday they will be worth only 5,000. Friday night’s Roll will be posted in the window following the tally. The the next tabulation Honor Citizen of the votes will be held Tuesday evening at 5:00 p. m. and from that time Until the contest closes', Saturday night at 8:30 o’clock the ballot box will be locked so that no one will know the voting strength of the various candidates until the box is opened by the group of local busi nessmen who will act as judges, tally the votes and award the, prizes. As close as the top candi dates are to each other now the winners will be the v>orkers from now on! Trudy Walton Sails Friday For London LUMBERTON — Miss Gertrude Walton sailed Friday from New York for London where she has been assigned to the United States embassy by the state de- partment. as editor pers last post with Trudie left a position of the Hometown Pa- December to take a the state department’s Office of Information and Educa tion in Washington, D. C. Howard Hasty, student at State college summer school, -pent the weekend at home. the prize when They claim the tually caught, had to chase it it was landed, fish wasn’t ac- but that they down. And they say that Sanderlin kep shout ing '‘Paddle man, paddle.’’ Car Inspection Rules Tighten The State Department of Mo- tor Vehicles announced today a new set of rules and regulations, effective immediately, designed to speed up the mechanical in spection program of vehicles. The regulations set five dead- lines for the remainder of during which various models vehicles must inspection. The new rules be presented essaty, according Moore, . director ment’s mechanical vision. because June only 250,185 862,252 registered been inspected. were made to Arthur 1948 of for nec- T. of the depart- inspection di ¬ al the end of of the state’s vehicles had The new requirements require that: 1—All motor vehicles of models up to and including and vehicles of year models and 1948 r.-’ist ^,e inso“■ . August 31. 2—Year models must be inspected 30. 193.’ Ly and 3—Models 1938, 1939, year 1936 1947 by 1946 September, 1943, 1944 and 1945 must be inspected by October 31. 4—Models 1940 and 1942 must be inspected by November 30. 5—Models 1941 and 1349 be checked by December must 31. RS Lions Install New Officers At Ladies Night RED SPRINGS Officers of the Red Springs Lions club were installed Wednesday night at the summer Ladies Night program, which was held at Freddies sup per club at Lumber Bridge. J- F. Sinclair, deputy district gov- ernor, was the guest and had charge of the tion ceremonies. Leslie E. Baldwin was speaker installa- install- ed as president to succeed Wav erly S. Barham. Other officers inducted into position were: Wil liam T. McGoogan, Charles Gard- ner and William C. Lenoir, presidents; Jasper Culbreth, retary and treasurer; H. ■Skipper ,tail twister; Galen ris, Lion tamer, and ham, Walter Spivey Snyder, directors. Barbecued chicken Mr. vice sec- E. Har- Bar- and Reece ■Tinner and trimmings were served to forty- two members and their guests, after which Mr. Sinclair made a humorous talk. “Changing Times”, the 1947 an nual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, has just been published. Copies'are ob tainable free from the Agricultural Editor, State College, Raleigh. POPULAR BABY CONTEST Betty Jean McNeill James Varnum Ann Malloy Stephen C. Chason ANN HALE BROWN Comniissioners Await Formal Requests From School Groups LUMBERTON.—In a joint meet ing Tuesday afternoon here the Robeson County Board of Educa tion, the school boards of the three special charter districts (Fairmont, Red Springs and Lumberton) and the county commissioners infor mally agreed that it is practical to revise downward the estimate Of county school needs placed at four and a half million dollars by the recent survey of the county edu cational facilities. The proposed revision would lop 25 per cent from the original figure and would reduce the necessary bond Wie from four million to three million dollars. Next step toward putting Robe son's school system on a par With the state average will be request^ for specified improvements by the special charter districts to thp Board of Education and by. the latter to the Board of commiss ioners asking for a bond issue vote. The county commissioners then will call for an election on whether the county shall issue the bonds. COST AND ESTIMATE" The reduction in estimated' CO^ will be effected by certain revisions in the recommendations of t h d survey committee, by economy ' construction arid by the dispositions £ of some properties which now Jm^Shs .or r to. the school system. : The survey report handed /th$ county commissioners last ifiOBliU^i by the committee of educational experts detailed the needs of each school in the county and’ estimated the cost of supplying those needs'. These figures were only estimates and in round figures and county . and school officials believe that the needs of the school system can probably be satisfied for ; ICss money. It is generally supposed that $25 million of the states surplus Will be made available to counties for educational purposes by the next legislature; Robeson’s share of this would probably be near half a mil lion, and if and when made avail able could be used if the proposed, $3 million proved less than ade quate to meet the county’s mini mum needs. ’ ' Of the total expenditure contem plated the county has available $500,000; this would reduce' . .the bond issue necessaty if the .'survey committee’s estimate were used, to $4 million; the 25 per cent revision in this estimate by school and coun ty officials brings the proposed bond issue to $3 million. ' / The review of the county schpol system was requested by school authorities and interested citizens in the knowledge that Robeson’s educational standards fall far be-* low the state average. The survey group was asked to make recom mendations which would bring the schools to the level of the 1vetage only; even the proposed expendi ture will not make Robeson « schools superior to those in the majority of the state’s counties. Colonial Mills Earn $5.68 Per Share Colonial Mills, Inc., announced consolidated net warnings of $4;- 517,759 on net sales of $21,540,M3 for the six months ended May 31, 1948, after taxes an all other, charges and after special provi sion for amortization of postwar- construction and machinery costs ’ in the amount of $700,000.’ This net profit is equivalent to W per share on. the WMIft abates of $5.00 par capital stock out standing. This compares with ' a net profit of $3,384,915 after taxes and all other charges on sales of $17,012,534 for the comparable six- months of last year which ' was; equivalent to $4.26 per share' on the same shares. The net earnings for the quart ier ended May 31, 1948 totaled $2,? 225,530 after taxes and all other charges and after special provi sion for amortization of postwar construction and machinery costs in the amount of $350,000. This, net profit is equal to $2.80 per share on net sales of $10,847,625 as compared with the profit of $1,756,967 on net sales of $8,354,413 . or $2.21 per share on the 794,95$ shares for the same quarter last year. ‘ ' Spring harvest of North Caro lina’, cabbage crop 'ended Just 5. '