ONE OF ROBESON GOUNTY’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS
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Vol. 52, No. 33 16 Pages
Red Springs, N. C., Thursday, August 19, 1948
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State School Meet
The State Board of Education
will meet in Raleigh tomorrow
morning at 10:30 o’clock to wind
up last minute details about
school openings this fall.
While the polio situation
might be discussed, the board is
not expected to take any action
Maxton-Laurinburg Guard Unit
Begins Recruiting For Activation
District Governor
Rofarv Sneaker
All Grades Higher
IM Last Year
At Fairmont
FAIRMONT.—Happy days are
still in Fairmont on the tobacco
market. Prices are still higher
than on any other market in the
□order belt and more tobacco is
sold per day than on any other
Market.
According to C. R, Stafford, Sales
supervisor for the Fairmont tobac
co market. Fairmont sold one
million, four hundred thousand
pounds on Monday, the first day of
this selling week, at an average of
$58.50. All grades sold higher than
at any time this season.
Fairmont still holds the record
of not having a tag turned and
having all growers highly pleased
with both the sales and price.
Nine New Members „
Grand Jury Named
LUMBERTON.—Nine new mem
bers of the grand jury were select
ed on the opening day of superior
court here this week and R. J.
Furmage, Parkton, was named for-
man of the jury. Other, members
and J. A Townsend, Philadelphus;
W. M. Davis, Wisharts; W. F.
Taylor, Wisharts; J. L; Hatchell,
Sr., Lumberton; D. E. Canady,
Parkton; Davis Blanton, E'ast
Lumberton; Herod Allen, Lumber-
ton; B. J. Allen, Lumberton; and
W. A. Bunch, Maxton.
Conlesl Planned
For Wheal, Oat
Growers la County
..County ^gent^V. Ovens’ an
nounces that this year, for thA‘
first time, North Carolina will
have a : wheat and oats contest,
the contest being designed to
create more interest in the pro
duction of higher yields and better
quality.
Prizes will be awarded on the
basis of township, county, and
district, and the state winner will
be crowned at the Farm and
Home Week in 1949. Each town-
ship winner for oats and wheat
will have first chance to obtain
six bushels of the available sup
ply of the spectacular new NC-
5450 and NC5466 Wheat which
will be.released for the first time
in- the fall of 1949.- These two
varieties are especially adopted
to the Costal Plain and the Pied-
* mont only.
To stimulate interest in the con
test Robeson County has been as
signed one carload of Ammonium
Nitrate to be used as top dress
ing in the contest and each farm
er is limited to 800 pounds of
this additional nitrogen material.
The carload will provide an 800
pound allottment for 75 farmers
and the first 75 entrants will
have, the privilege of securing it
through regular dealers. Entries
must be received by the county
agent by October 15, 1948. Contest
fields will be about five acres or
more.
Application blanks and details
are available from the county
agent’s office in Lumberton.
Lum-Ion Market
Tops 10 Million
Lbs. Yesterday
LUMBERTON. —-After passing
the 10 million pound mark yester
day, the Lumberton Tobacco Mar
ket pushed ahead today with an
other million-pound sale at the
same near-record prices that have
prevailed all season.
"The market this morning looked
just about the same strength as
yesterday,” in the opinion of Sales
Supervisor M. R. Alexander. “A
few common grades were down a
bit, but lugs were up to make
prices about even.”
The total sales for yesterday
were 974,704 pounds, which netted
the growers a total of $529,814.78,
or an average of $54.36.
This brought the season total
for the first 12 days of the market
to 10,371.059 pounds for a total of
$5,761,765.33 and an average of
55.56 cents.
The total was more than double
the sales last season at the same
time, and the amount of money
paid to the growers was an all-
time high in the history of the
local tobacco center.
Each of the Lumberton ware
house firms, which have a sale
every day and which book each
farmer’s space for prompt, orderly
sales, cleared its floors yesterday,
then filled up • again for full sales
today.
"Everything is running like clock
work,” Mr. Alexander commented
today. “The market is drawing a
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“School Case” To
Be Heard Next Week
LUMBERTON.—The hearing of
the injunction against the officials
of the county in the “school suit”
was originally scheduled for Mon
day of this week, but because of
th- G^ness of 1 L. Henry - has-
been postponed until August 28.
when it will'be herad before Judge
Q. K. Nimocks in Hoke County
unless the Hoke court ends before
that time, in which case it will be
heard in Fayetteville.
Grid Practice
At Jr. College
September Sixth
MAXTON.-—Football practice will
begin September 6th at Presbyter
ian Junior College with fourteen
lettermen returning. A tough seven
game schedule will get underway
October 2nd in Laurinburg Legion
Stadium against Brevard College.
Outstanding lettermen returning
will be Horace Prevatte, 210 pound
full back from Laurinburg; Ankie
Rowe and Charlie Mohn, two fast
stepping backs from New Bern.
It is hoped that Leon Bizzell, all
state guard, will return but it is
questionable. The Scotties will
again be coached by R. R. "Peanut”
Doak, his second year at Presby
terian Junior College. J. R. Ed
mundson will handle the line and
the feeling is good that the four
wins, one lost, three ties of the
’47 season will be bettered.
Piano Recital At
College Friday
Hurt In Wreck
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Humphre
were seriously Injured in an acci
dent near Columbus, Ga., las!
week. They were returning to theii
home at Bay Manette, Ala., after
attending the burial services at
Philadelphus church for Mr
Humphrey’s brother, Frank, which
were held last Thursday. Both are
hospitalized at Columbus.
MORE TYPEWRITERS
Six new typewriters were receiv
ed this week by the Red Springs
high school to be added to the
equipment of the school’s commer
cial department.
Typing instituted last year has
proved to be a popular course of
the School.
POWER CLEARANCE
A piano concert will be present
ed to the public tomorrow night,
Friday, August 20 at 8 p.m. by
Miss Mary McQueen, of Maxton,
and a graduate of the Julliard
School of Music in New York.
The concert will be presented
in the auditorium of the Presby
terian Junior College, and will
include Bach’s English Suite, No.
23; Beethoven’s Sonata, Opus 26;
Chopin’s Nocturne; Schumann’s
Preambul and Pierrot from the
Carnival; Griffis’ White Peacock;
Debussy’s Prelude No. 12 and The
Submerged Cathedral; and Bra
hms’ Rhapsody, Opus 79. No. 2.
Eastern Bell
Weed Marls Open
The eastern belt markets opened
today and this year the number of
towns in the belt is increased by
five. Dunn is in the tobacco busi
ness for the first year and four
The Carolina Power and Light
Company has asked for a clear
ance for Sunday afternoon in Red
Springs, and power will be off
from 2 p. m. until 4:30 p. m., it
was stated today by Reece Sny
der, town clerk.
The power concern will install
aft additional bank of transfor
mers at the substation hete, for
the purpose of supplying power
to several additional industrial
customers in Bed Springs.
middle belt -markets have changed
affiliation — Carthage, Aberdeen,
Fuquay-Varina and Sanford.
Regular Eastern Belt markets
are Ahoskie, Clinton, Farmville,
Goldsboro, Greenville, Kinston,
Robersonville, Rocky Mt, Smith
field, Tarboro, Wallace, Washington,
Wendell, Williamston and Wilson.
The move of four markets froth
the Middle Belt ii caused by the
fact that the ctpp in their area
is ready for marketing before the
Middle Belt opens.
since State health officials last
week recommended that the
mattar of postponing opening
dates be left to local school and
health officials.
Several delegations will ap
pear before the board in regard
to proposed consolidation of
schools, accrding to Controller
Paul Reid.
RS Rotary Club
Sponsors Guide
To Students
RED SPRINGS.—A vocational
guide service to students of che
Red Springs schools is to be offer
ed this year by members of the
Red Springs Rotary Club, accord
ing to C. B. Detwiler, member of
the Vocational Service Committee.
The membership of the clun,
which represents a wide range of
businesses and professions, has
agreed to work with students in
every way possible to aid them in
the selection of the business or
profession to which they are best
suited, according to Mr. Detwiler
It is expected that most, of the
businesses will be opened to these
students for practical training and
experience when they have shown
aptitude toward them, and selec
tive examinations and placement
tests may be used as a part of the
program.
Mr. Detwiler states; that the
group was formed by the club be
cause a great many young men
and women waste precious years in
the beginning of their lives by not
knowing the direction in which
their special talents lie, and floun
der around searching for a voca
tion in which they can make a liv
ing. "We have in this community,”
Mr. Detwiler stated, “‘Rotary mem
bers who have spent years in their
particular business, who will be
glad to outline to the students' the
details of operating such business
es so that the young people can
decide which intents, them and th
which they feel they can achieve
a just measure of success.
Each student of the high school
will be given an opportunity to
learn about these various business
es through personal interviews and
other special programs presented
by members of the club. The com
mittee is composed of Lambert
Lewis, Mr. Detwiler, Walter Dudley
and Hiram Grantham, president of
the club.
The new national *guard unit
which is being formed in Maxton
will definitely be a Maxton-Laur
inburg outfit, with an effort being
made to distribute the ratings and
strength equally Detween mem
bers from the two towns.
This decision was reached dur
ing the meeting held last Monday
night in which committees from
both towns met to discuss all
phases of the activation stage.
The members of the committees
(Maxton: R. F. Morris, Major
Guy W. Pulham and J. B. Mc
Callum, Jr. Laurinburg: R. F. Mc
Coy, Jr. and Frank Marks.) gave
approval to the selection of Capt.
Rufus Pittman as commanding
officer and 2nd Lt. W. W. Reid
as Training officer, and also the
selection of the parachute hanger
at the Maxton-Laurinburg air
base as the armory site. The air
port commission will be contacted
tor their permission of use of the
building. Also attending the meet
ing were Lt. Col. Younger Sneed,
Major Lemont and Capt. Moench,
officers of headquarters battery
of the 677th A.A.A. nation guard
in Raeford.
As yet no deadline has been
given to the local unit, as to the
tiine they have in which to recruit
the required activation strength,
but it is desired to obtain the
needed enlistments as soon as
soon as possible. Given below are
the ratings now open, with the
weekly drill pay for each: 5 staff
sergeants, $3.83; 9 Sergeants, 3.33;
17Corporals, 3.00. Privates First
Class will receive $2.67 and Pri
vates, $2.50 Veterans may enlist
in their discharge grades or in
some cas-i, a higher rating may
be obtaiAd according to quali-
fications. Bizonal guard training
calls fodHMMK nour drill each
week weeks summer
encamphi.ut per J.
Those interested in joining the
new unit, Battery ‘D’ of the 677-
th, may contact either Capt Pitt
man of the Maxton Oil and Fer
tilizer Co. or Maxton Legion Com
mander, Percy Phillips.
Jean Patrick Booth
Faculty List For Fairmont Grammar
School Completed With Six Additions
High School List To
Be Released Soon
FAIRMONT. — Announcement
was made today by B. E. Littlefield,
superintendent of Fairmont City
Schools that grammar school facul
ty list for the coming school ses
sion has been completed. There are
still one or two vacancies in the
high school list.
The new teachers added to the
faculty include: Miss Flora C.
McLaurin, second grade, from
Washington, N. C., and Miss Vir
ginia Riddle, second grade, of St
Pauls, N. C. Each of these tea
chers is experienced and comes
here highly recommended. For the
fourth grade Mrs. Mary Bracy of
Lumberton and Mrs. Alton Cook
of Lake View, S. C., have been
secured. Mrs. Bracy has been
teaching in the- Lumberton city
schools for the •’",-t few years. Mrs.
Cook was graduated from Coker
College in the class of ’48. Miss
Mildred Tunnell of Swan Quarter,
N. C., has been secured for the
fifth grade. She is a graduate of
the Woman’s College, class of ’43,
and has five years experience. Miss
Faith Cantrell of Chesnee, S. C.,
who was graduated from Flora
McDonald in the class of ’48, has
been secured for public school mu
sic teacher. Mrs. Wiley Taylor will
teach piano.
The complete list with grade
replacements are: first grade, Mrs.
Martha Rusher, Mrs. Roscoe Bar
nes, Mrs. Edward Hales; second
grade, Miss Betty Baker, Miss
Flora McLaurin, Miss Virginia
Riddle; third grade, Miss Agnes
Ashley, Mrs. Wright Jones; fourth
grade, Mrs. Alton Cook, Mrs. Mary
Bracy; fifth grade, Mrs. Jake
Shockett, Miss Meredith Tunnell;
sixth grade, Mrs. Wallace Floyd,
Miss Fern Hines; seventh grade,
Miss Sarah Floyd, Mrs. Maurice
McRae; eighth grade, Mrs. Mark
McDaniel, Mrs. Raibe Lewis; pub
lic school music, Miss Faith Cant
rell; piano, Mrs. Wiley Taylor.
The faculty for South Robeson
has been completed with the excep
tion Of the principal. Teachers for
this school are: Miss Jessamine D.
Ashley, Mrs. Clarice Bullock, Mrs
Irene Page, Mrs. N. E. Farrior and
Mrs. Flora Ford.
Mr. Littlefield states that the
faculty list for the Fairmont high
school will be released in the next
few days.
Opening date for school has been
set for September 6 unless some
thing unforeseen happens.
"Peanut" Optimistic Over Prospects
County Prepares For Colton Harvest;
Ginners Modernize Plant Equipment
Farm Bureau
Meets AI
E'TownJuesday
Greensboro, — Five district
meetings involving 37 county
Farm Bureaus will be held next
week in preparation for the North
Carolina Farm Bureau’s annual
state-wide membership campaign
to begin early in September, it
was announced today.
R. Flake Shaw, Greensboro,
executive vice-president, in an
nouncing the meetings urged the
units to 'put forth every effort to
have a good representative group
from your county at the meeting
scheduled.’ A. C. Edwards, Hooker
ton vice-president and Membership
Committee chairmen, will announ
ce details of the campaign short
ly-
District meetings scheduled, all
at 3 p.m., and the counties to be
represented at each are; Monday,
. August 23, Reaford School Build
ing — Cumberland, Scotland,
Hoke, Harnett, Lee, Moore, Rich
mond and Anson. Tuesday, August
24, Elizabethtown Courthouse —
Pender, New Hanover, Brunswick,
Columbus, Bladen, Dublin, Robe
son and Sampson. Wednesday,
August 25. New Bern Courthouse
— Craven, Beaufort, Hyde, Pam
lico, Carteret, Onslow, Jones and
Lenoir. Thursday, August 26, Wil
son Courthouse — Wilson, Edge-
comb, Nash, Johnson, Wayne,
Green and Pitt. Friday, August
27, Scotland Neck — Halifax,
North Hampton, Martin, Wash
ington, Bertie and Hartford.
Soldiers Arrested
For St. Pauls Theft
ST. PAULS.—Two soldiers are
accused of the robbery of Kinlaw’s
Men’s Shop in St. Pauls early Sun
day morning. John W. Shepherd
and Earl W. Davis, both of Fort
Bragg, were arrested Sunday night
near Parkton as they were loading
stolen merchandise into an auto
mobile. The arrest was made by
St. Pauls police chief M. L. Sver-
ette, patrolman Clinton Cameron,
and St, Pauls policeman Jimmy
KinlaW.
On arraignment the bail for each
was set at $2500.
For Strong PJC Grid Team In Fall
Draft Board
Nominated
LUMBERTON.—The Robeson
County draft board has been ree
commended by the committee set
up for the purpose in the county,
but formal appointments have
not as yet been issued by Gover
nor Cherry.
Named to the Robeson board
are J. A. Sampson, Pembroke,
Avery M. Powers, St. Pauls, I. P.
Graham, Proctorville, Bob Burns,
Rowland, and J. H. Hayswood,
Lumberton. The board as recom
mended included all races and
one veteran, Bob Burns. Dr.
Frank P. Ward will act as medi
cal examiner. The appeal agent
reccommendation has not yet
been recommended.
The appointing committee is
composed in each county of the
chairman of the Board of Elec
tions, the superintendent of
schools and the Clerk of Superior
Court; in this county they are E.
P. Bond, C. L. Green and Frank
McMillan respectively.
Auto Inspection
Deadline Near
Autos through 1937 and ’46, ’47,
and ’48 models should be inspected
before the end of this month ac
cording to Inspector Gurney Ed
gerton. The law requires inspec
tion of models through 1936 and
’47 and ’48 models to be inspected
by the end of this month, but the
lane will not be back in the county
until after September 30 which is
the deadline for 1937 and 1946
models.
The lane is at present in Lum
berton where it will remain through
Monday (operating for half a day
Saturday). On the 26th, 26th, and
27th it will be in Fairmont, and
on August 30 and 31 it will be in
Pembroke.
Failure to have a car inspected
by the date set for its particular
model makes the owned liable rc
prosecution.
Models other than those specified
for a period may be inspected at
any time.
Sixty per cent of North Caro
lina’s farm families now have
radios.
‘We will not be as strong as
last year, but I’m not expecting
any other conference team to be
as strong this year as last either,
except maybe Belmont-Abbey’.. .
such were the words of Coach
‘Peanut’ Doak, concerning this
year’s football squad. That, coming
from a coach who is faced with
the task of building a strong
eleven with only four of last year’s
first team returning, might even
be classed as a mite too cheerful,
When practice starts September
6th, only first stringers Horace
Prevatte, Zeb Vance Powell Jones
and Joe Morgan will be on hand
to form a foundation, unless Leon
Bizzell, who was all-state guard
last year, decdes to return to P. J.
C. this fall. It’s too early yet for
the coach to know what the new
enrollment group will bring in,
but he does know that he will
have, in addition to the four first
team members, ten letter-men re
turning: BACKS: Ankie Rowe,
Charlie Mohn, Bruce Coats Clyde
Ussery, and Buddy Powell;
GUARDS: John Dwyer and Char
les Javins; and TACKLES: Tom
Mullins and Wallace Robinson.
Only one center, Clayton Mitch
um, will be on hand this year.
The ‘Scotties’, a mem
ber of the Carolina Jr. College
Conference, will hit competition
in five conference games this fall
with only two outside games be
ing played (Woffbrd Freshmen
and Davidson Frosh). Coach Doak
also made a cautious prediction
about the conference, when he
! stated- that ‘Campbell won the
conference championship the last
two years, but they lost a lot of
good boys and I don’t knw whe
ther they’ll be very strng this
ther they’ll be very strong this
bell on October 9th.
FAIRMONT.—Highlighting the
weekly dinner meeting of Rotary
club Tuesday was the annual re
view and address by the governor
of the 188th District of Rotary In
ternational, Jean Booth, who is
also head of the City Schools of
Kinston, N. C.
Mr. Booth met with President
Daniel Lane and Secretary F. C
Purvis at 5:30, and with the assem
bly including the Board of Direc
tors and Chairmen of the four
major committees at 6. Following
this he addressed the club at its
regular meeting hour.
Governor Booth captivated the
club by his thorough mastery of
his work, to which he is.giving
so much time and thought and
ability, and by his simplicity, sin
cerity and genuineness. He review
ed the most interesting and instruc
tive phases of the recent Interna
tional Conference in Quebec, Can
ada, at which the 180 District
Governors, 6,500 clubs from 80
countries with 315,000 members, and
geographic areas of the world were
represented, of which the Fairmont
Rotary Club is typical, based on
service, better understanding
through fellowship among business
and professional men, promoting
Community betterment, raising the
ethical standards of all worthy
businesses and professions, foster
ing and advancing good will arid
peace among people of the world
Eah year world wide Rotary
service organizations continue to
grow in numbers and strength.
Last -year th^/e were 278 new
Rotary clubs organized in 39 coun
tries of the United States, Europe,
Asia, Africa and the Islands of the
Pacific.
Governor Booth highly praised
Fairmont Rotary club and Fair
mont as a town. He was accom
panied by his wife, Rotaryann Peg,
R. B. Holbrook of Raleigh, N
C„ was a visitor at the meeting
Ballon Wins 1st
Prize In Home
Improvement
RED SPRINGS.—Oscar L. Bat-
ton wen first prize of $50, Mrs
Ollie Crobb won second prize of
$25 and James A. Fields won third
prize of $12.50 in the Robbins Cloth
Mills contest for improvement of
home exterior and yard which end
ed August 15.
The contest which started on
April 1, in conjunction with a gar
den contest which ended June 15,
is an annual event. Judges for the
event Were Ozzie Avant, Mrs. J. C
Maness and Ben Campbell.
Not content with operating one
of the most modern weaving plants
in the country, the Robbins con
cern stresses community coopera
tion throughout the mill commun
ity, in recreation, home improve
ment, organized sports an I social
and religious activities.
Recreation Group
Readies For Football
LUMBERTON-The Lumberton
Recreation Commission yesterday
placed orders for more than $1700
worth of football equipment, ac
cording to the commission director,
Bob Hartley.
The commission will begin train
ing junior football teams in the
city as soon as school begins. Its
activities depend on the polio situa
tion in the same manner as the
school system does.
The football season will see con
tests between four city groups of
boys in much the same manner as
the baseball league was set up.
Seawall Back From Ohio
Lumberton. — Mayor Malcolm
B. Seawell, legal consultant for
the Secretaries of Army and Air
returned Sunday from Dayton,
Ohio, where he had been for a
week examining civilian attorn
eys for the U. S. Air Force. The
examination was to establish the
elegibility of attorneys for Air
Force Service as civilahs.
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The type of livestock suited to
a given area depends on many
factors’.
Missing Youngster
Found At Beach
Lumberton — Louchlin Lee, 14-
year old who was missing from
home last week, was recognized
at Kure’s beach and his parents,
Mr and Mrs. Henry N. Lee, brou
ght him home Sunday .
Young Lee, missing from his
Lumberton home since the pre
vious Tuesday evening, had been
the object of a widespread search
by parents, friends and police.
RED SPRINGS.—With a 17 per
cent increase in acreage and 17
total statewide planting of 750,000
acres, North Carolina is preparing
this week for the 1948 harvest of
its second big money crop—cotton.
Robeson county, always at the
top in staple production, has a
greatly increased acreage this year,
and picking got underway thin
week in many areas of the county
Some gins are expected to be oper
ating the latter part of this week
and by the end of next week it
expected that most all Will be
going steadily.
Improvements in drying and
cleaning facilities of the gins have
taken great strides in recent years
and recent weeks have seen installa
tion of a great many of the im
proved machines in most of Robe
son ginneries.
Two years ago, the Lumber River
Gin Company set up an entirely
new plant in the McGirts Bridge
section, and last year the Maxton
Oil and Fertilizer company erected
a new Murray system outfit com
plete with specially built housing.
This year marked improvements
are being made in the plant of
Liberty Manufacturing company,
the B. C. Smith Wakulla. Gin, and
the Red Springs Gin company.
The Liberty concern is preparing
a cleaning and drying system which
is designed to do a top quality
job on ali types of cotton and is
designed especially for an excell
ent cleaning and drying of staple
harvested by their International
cotton picking machine. New mach
inery being added includes an
overhead burr machine, two im
pact cleaners and a specially con
structed oil burning furnace to
supply heat for their new dryers
and conditioners.
Their gins have new saws
throughout and all ribs and brushes
have been reconditioned at the
Two Sentenced
For Entering Home
LUMBERTON.—Wicker Bullard
drew a 12 to 18 months, sentence
on the roads and Daniel McLean
was given a 30 day sentence sus
pended on payment of costs and
good behavior for 2 years, in the
entering of me ’home of^sIrs. Ha:-
tie McMillan and Miss Myrtle Mc
Millan in the Philadelphus com
munity on the night of February
21. H. B. Oxendine was released by
order of Judge Q. K. Nimock.-',
presiding over the present term of
Robeson Superior Court.
The defense contended that the
men were only seeking help to get
their car out of, a ditch, but Miss
McMillan testified that they had
entered the house forcibly at the
time she arrived at her home; and
that though they left when ordered
to leave, Bullard returned returned
and for 40 minutes attempted to
re-enter the house, and that he
was prevented from doing so by the
arrival of John Pat Buie and Paul
McQueen, at that time chief of
the Red Springs police department.
When the men were being placed
in the police car, Bullard broke
and ran and was not retaken for
several weeks.
Indoor Hit=Run
LUMBERTON. — George T.
Pate, colored, is being sought for
an alleged hit and run offense
inside Carolina Warehouse No. 1
last night.
Victim of the incident war
Miles Melvin of Roseboro who
was not seriously injured and
was released from the hospital,
where he went for a check up,
immediately.
Pate was driving a blue 1938
Ford; his license number was
not taken. He is supposed to
live in the vicinity of Rowland.
LUMBERTON.—Among the sum
mer session students of the Uni
versity of N. C. Arts and Sciences
College making the Dean’s List
was Raymond L. Sarbaugh, Lum-
bertqn.
Continental factory, as have their
Huller-extractors. The four stand
gin, formerly powered by a diesel
engine, will be directly driven from
a new 175 horsepower motor, in
stallation of which was completed,
today. To house the new equipment
one third additional space has been
added to their building space, ac
cording to George T. Ashford,
general manager of the concern.
ONE-VARIETY-GRADING
Carolinas - Virginia Ginners asso-
Carolinas-Virginia Ginneres asso
ciation, states that Liberty will
provide Smith-Doxey government
classing facilities for all growers
under the Robeson county One-'
Variety cotton program. This pro
gram was sponsored in the county
by Mr. Ashford. . . ■
At Wakulla the Smith ginnery is
also adding new drying equip-,
ment which includes a 24-shelf tow
er dryer to which heat is supplied
by a million BTU capacity specially
constructed gas heater. The plant
this year will be powered by a
new 175 horsepower diesel unit.
Impact cleaners are being installed
this week. Mr. Smith states that
the gins have been completely re
conditioned at the Murray factory
and super-Mitchell Huller-extract
ors have been installed over each
of the four gins.
The Red Springs Gin company
is another plant with the Murray
system and new impact cleaners,
seed weighing equipment and
stoker-fired heaters are being in
stalled, according to Purdie Dor
man, general manager of the con
cern. Dunk Sinclair is to manage
the gin. Other on the staff Will in
clude C. C. Adams, bookkeeper arid
Roy Everleigh, cotton buyer. This
gin also has one of the new 24-
shelf tower type Murray dryers,
and will also have in operation
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147 Approved As
County Dixicrat
Petitioners Sal.
Lumberton. — 147 signatures of
Democrats petitiriff for inclusion
in the November elections were
■certified Saturday aw being q.uali---!',’;
fied voters by ‘ HLbeson County's "
Elections Board Chairman, E. P. W
Bond. This much larger percentage
of certificatin than was obtained
by the Progressive Party is ex
plained by the fact that only the
General Elections' Registration was
checked; the Primary Poll Book
was not’' checked, as the Dixicrats
plan to seek legal decision as to
the validity of the State Board of
Elections rule that the fact of
having voted in one primary bars
an election from seeking the for
mation of another party .
Petitions' for the recognition of
the States Registers were circul
ated under the direction of Col.
Phillip S. Finn, Jr., chairman of
the party, from Hendersonvlle.
The petitions went to the: State
Board of Elections in Raleigh and
were then sent to the county
boards to have the signatures
checked against the registration.
The Progressives complied with
the disputed ruling of the State
Board and will be recognized on
the November ballot by virtue of
having more than the required
10,000 qualified names on their
petition. The Wallace party found
that only about 30 per cent of its
petitioners in Robeson were qual
ified by the State Board.
Suit was entered in the Wake
County Superior Court Monday
by the States Rights Democratic
Party Monday against the State
Board of Elections: the suit asks
that the board be ordered to al
low the would-be party to partiei-
I pale in the election. A hearing in
I the matter has been set for Fri-
(day morning by Judge W. C. Har
ris.
Passes In S. C.
Maxion Library
Ends Tenth Year
MAXTON.—Maxton’s Patterson
Memorial Library marked it’s 10th
year, of organization, with a check-
out total of 2051 books for the
year July 31, 1947, to July 1, 1948
Of this total, which is highest yet
for any one year, 1609 were adult
readers and 443 were of the young
er set of library perusers.
160 new books were added dur
ing the past year, bringing the total
volumes on the library shelf to
nearly 3000 in number. Among the
new books awaiting readers are:
The Bishop’s Mantle; Melissa;
Peony; Lucinda Brayford; Came a
Cavalier; Raintree County; No
Trumpet Before Him; The Fool
ish Gentlewoman; The House of
Divided, Tobias Brandywine; Shan
non’s Way; tomorrow Will be
Better; and The Gathering Storm
Of the 2051 readers, fiction read
ers led the list, followed next bj
non-fiction with historical novels
coming in third; the last two were
not even close to the leader. ,
MAXTON. — Ralph Henderson,
56, of Ravenell, S. C., died in St.
Francis Hospital in Charleston, S.
C., Friday following a serious ill
ness of two weeks. Mr. Henderson,
a former resident of Maxton, had
been living in Ravenell for seven
teen years. He was the son of
Waiter and Claudia Burns Hender
son of Maxton, and the nephew of
Mrs. T. O. Evans, Sr.
Mr. Henderson is survived by
his wife, the former Miss Jessie
McKay of Maxton, two sons, Ralph
and Tommy, two daughters, Jean
and Dell, three sisters, Mrs. W. E.
Lewis, Orlando, Fla., Mrs. Walter
Cler, Savannah, Ga., Mrs. Lloyd
Smith, New London, Conn,
See Senators And
Red Sox Split Sunday
Lumberton. — Gordon Drive,
June and Tallett McIntyre, Jariaes
Small and Jesse McDuffie saw
Boston and Washington split a
double header Sunday on the Sen
ators’ diamond. The five left for
Washington Saturday night at 10,
were in the stands with, their
dinner in a poke by ten Sunday
morning, left the capital at-6:30
P.M., arid were at home again by
2:30 Monday morning.