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1 I » to Springs Citizen ONE OF ROBESON COUNTY’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS Vo 1^52, No. 35 16 Pages Robeson Safety Council Meets Again To Further Organization Of Group Red Springs, N. C., Thursday, September 2, 1948 5c A’ Copy To Request 24-Hour Duty In Sheriffs Office LUMBERTON. — In its second organizational session, held last night at the courthouse in Lumber- ton, the Robeson County Safety Council enlarged its plans for a year-round campaign against traf fic accidents. In contrast to last week’s meeting v'hen the gathering was largely confined to the people of Lumber- ten and to law enforcement officers, representatives from other towns in the county were in evidence. Main business of the session was Capt. James R. Smith, comman der of Troop B, State Highway Pa trol, and Sgt. "Ham” Bailey spoke to the group outlining the exper iences of the Cumberland county unit of the National Safety Council and making suggestions for furth ering the work of the National Council in Robeson. The enlistmen: of the active support of all men’" and women’s civic clubs, truck fleet operators, ministerial associa tions, and law enforcement agen cies was urged by Capt. Smith. The secretary of the Robeson group wan instructed to extend in vitations to all of these and to all town officials in the county fol- participation in the next meeting of the Robeson County Safety To Open Bids On New Police Car RED opened mobile here, it Snyder, SPRINGS. — Bids will be Tuesday night on an auto- for the police department was stated today by Reece town clerk. The two has asked for bids on a two-door, five passenger standard make automobile, without accessor ies. It is to be used by the police department, and will be car the town han owned purpose. • AUDIT STUDY Mr. Snyder also stated the first for this that the the passage of a resolution to ap point a committee to request addi tional law enforcement officers so that the sheriff’s' office can have a man on duty throughout the night. The committee composed of representatives of all civic clubs in the county and Corporal W. A. Baxter of the highway patrol, is scheduled to appear before the next meeting of the county commission ers to request the employment of additional deputies. Souncil. Capt. Smith stressed the fact that the program was not a tem porary campaign and could not be successful on a short time basis; he said that it must be a perman ent educational organization and that only through education as to accident prevention methods could it be successful. In the absence of chairman John A. Tudor, Frank Hackett conduct ed the meeting. town audit for the past fiscal year is to be presented at the Tuesday meeting by the auditor, Preston Douglas, of Lumberton. The audit is expected to show that the town has a noperating surplus for the year of approximately $14,000, in addition to previous surpluses of a similar amount: REGISTRANT JACK DANIEL STONE WAS THE FIRST Car Crashes Into Truck Hurting 4 RED SPRINGS—Radford ins received a broken leg other injuries and his wife Col and was body •iurt about the head and when their ear crashed into the rear of the Watson Gin company truck Friday A.M. 1 mile north of here. Eugene Smith and Wil- liam Cothran and bruises, and Ransom the car, were also received cuts Jimmy Woodhouse Baucom, riding in not injured. The four injured were to Scotland hospital menu. The car wias demolished and the for taken treat- praictically truck badly damaged. No one on truck was hurt. was the Fall Registration Sep!. 7 AI PIC Faculty And Staff Are Announced County Schools Open September 16; Ban Continues On Traveling Shows LUMBERT'ON. — The Robeson County Board of Health ruled Tuesday that schools would, open on September 16. This postpones for one week the former tentative date set. The quarantine of child ren under 16 will be lifted, said the board, on September 12; after that they may attend public gath erings without restriction. The quarantine on attendance at travel ling shows was continued, until October 15. The quarantine was, of course, instituted as a defensive measure against the polio epidemic in July. The ruling comes as a relief to school officials' whose plans for the school year have necessarily been in a state of suspension. Tea chers will be grateful fop the ruling 1 which will prevent cue-' necessity of continuing school into the summer of 1949, a possibility which threat ened college summer school schedules for next year if the quarantine had been continued much longer. । Commissioners Seek County Home Ideas LUMBERTON.—The Board of County Commissioners will ad journ after their regular meeting Monday, to re-convene at the Robeson Coimty Home. As an nounced at their last meeting, the commissioners will there meet anyone interested for a tour of the premises and to receive sug gestions as to the use that could be made of the property. County Manager W. O. Reynolds said yesterday that anyone would be welcome and that suggestions as to the idle property’s use was not only invited but was earnest ly sought. The building and property, ,f haTdoned as a eqiintr home. Is unfortunately, Io- .^i/HEfee milts from the courthouse, and for that reason departments of the coun- to government are understandab ly reluctant to move their offices even though crowded in present quarters. More About Those Scottish Nickels LUMBERTON.—As predicted in the press last week, the idea of John Stedman’s Scottish Bank flinging nickels around like an Irresponsible Irishman has become suspect. Bank employees, you re member, put nickels in parking meters here that show the viola tion flag and put a card in the car saying that the bank has kept the offender out of jail. John’s boys are hearing more sob stories than the cops; folks see them fiddling with the meter and rush up begging for mercy—” “Please don’t give me a ticket!” They just don’t believe in Scotch Santa Claus. Deacon Sib Smith, janitor at the bank, put in a nickel the other day and when he went to the car found that John T.aw had heat John Stedman to it. But insisting on credit for trying he added the Scotchman’s note to the somewhat less welcome one already there. There’s no report yet on the reaction of this citizen who probably thought the joke an exceptionally poor one. MULE CAR COLLISION RED SPRINGS-T. G. Young, driving near Aberdeen early Mon day morning, hit a mule which wa" loose along the highway. The ■ car had to be towed in, but the mule walked away from the acci dent. Guard Recruiting Pembroke Fair Date Sel This Month; Week-Lona Event Starts Sept. 27 F PEMBROKE-September 27 has Makes Progress MAXTON. Several National to appear before Mirs. H. C. Stanton, draft board clerk, in the registration for selective service which began Monday. Mr. Stone (bareheaded) is just under 26 and will not see service. He is a veteran of five years service and has the Bronze Star, is married and has one child. He is a son of Mrs. Mary Stone and lives in the vicinity of the East Lumberton Baptist church. Another of the first was John W. Phillips, also a veteran and a Lumberton man. —Print Courtesy Moffitt-McLeod. Draft Board "Snowed Under" As Youth Registration Continues C. E. Parrish Is College Chaplain LUMBERTON.—The first peace- time draft in the nation got under way here Monday when Jack David Store, 26 year old veteran of Lum berton, signed on the dotted line for Mrs. H. C. Stanton, clerk of Robeson Draft Board No. 79. Originally scheduled for the of fice of the board in the new Row land building on West Fifth Street the registration place was moved to the auditorium of the Agriculture building at the! ast minute The registration has been going at top speed and Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Will McGoogan, also a clerk of the board, have issued an ap peal for volunteer workers. Both expressed the opinion that bran ches of the board would have to be set up in other parts of the county to take care of the flood of young men who must register. Registrants have made the board’" task more difficult by not observing the schedule of registra tion which calls for men of diffre- ent ages to apply on different days. With the single draft board some distance from the homes of many of the men, the board clerks have found it impossible to refuse reg istration to men who appeared on Cily Delivery Of Mail Sought By Maxton Board MAXTON.—Free mail delivery to homes in the town limits of Maxton may soon come into being, as the town board is now waiting for an answer to their recommen dation from the postmaster gener al in Washington. Mayro Castevens stated that he had brought the matter up to the other board members after he had been approached on the subject by the local postoffice. The board, in their letter to the pastmaster gen eral, recommended that the sown of Maxton be granted free deliv ery service. MAXTON.—Registration of the 1948-49 Presbyterian Junior College students, which begins September 7th, is expected to top the 200 mark. Dr. L. C. LaMotte, president of the school, stated that the facul ty and administrative list has been completed, and that the college is ready for the school term to be gin. Faculty and administration nem- bers returning from last veari school term are: Dr. LaMotte, Max- ton, president; O. W. Ferrene, Max- ton, dean of instruction, registrar and professor of chemistry and biology; Floyd E. James, St. Pet ersburg, Fla., dean of students, teacher of physics and mechanical drawing; Leroy B. Martin, Jr., Maxton, business manager.; Janies H. Thornwell, Maxton, dean of preparatory dept., Latin and high school math.; C. H. Maury, Hous ton, Texas, Bible, Greek and social science; Thomas H. Hall, Powha tan, French, public speaking and a new course, Marriage in .he Home; Claude L. Darling, Char lotte, English; Herman J. Presser- en, Pinetops, social science; R. R. (Peanut) Doak," Raleigh, physical education; Leland Crawford, Syra cuse, N. Y., English and social science; Mrs. Florence D. Helleck- son, Maxton, typewriter and short hand; Arthur D. Lyles, Maxton, Mathematics Miss Norma Ann Lewis, Bessemer City, biology and laboratory asst.; Robert L. Horton, Havana Cuba, Spanish; Ernest Wil liams, Maxton, asst. bus. mgr.; Mrs. John McCallum, Maxton, diet itian: Mrs. Thomas Caddele, Max- ton, financial secretary; Mrs. L. C. LaMotte, Maxton, asst, registrar; Mrs. Floyd E. James, St. Peters burg, Fla., bookkeeper; Miss Laura F. English, Maxton, secretary 1 .and Samuel G. Whiteville, custodian and electrician. - ' -. . This year’s new-comers .to the college staff are: J. R. E’dmunson, . Jacksonville, Ala , business admin istration; Charles E. Parrish, Ral eigh, college Chaplain and profess- . or of Bible; Miraslaw Simonis, bl. Y. C., German and Russian, (a new course at PJC); Mrs. Gladys 33. Skinner, Floresville, Texas, librar ian; Miss Lucille Penney, Angier, secretary. In charge of the infirmary will be Don Covington of Rock-Hill. Other officials of the college are Henry A. McKinnon, college attor ney; J. C. Lundin, college auditor, Dr. J. L. McClellan, honorary col lege physician and Dr. R. D. Croorn, college physician. . Actual enrollment at the college will begin on September 6th .at which time aptitude tests will be given to the prospective students. ■ This will be followed by registra tion on the 7th, and then a party at the Presbyterian church on Thursday night. Classes will start , on the Sth, but formal opening will not be untli Friday, the 10th, at which time Rev. W. B. Haywaid, pastor of the Raeford First Pres byterian Church, will speak to the faculty and student body. If the postmaster general proves the recommendation, means that Maxton will frr.ve ap- it it’s first house-to-house postman. Also, that the houses in town will have to be numbered. The new service will necessite an upping of the stamp rate for local mail. An inside-the-town let ter, which now mails for one cent postage, will require a three-cent stamp under the new service. MRS. MAXWELL DIES RAEFORD.—Mrs. J. N. Maxwell, 84, mother of N. A. Maxwell of near Red Springs, and H. C. Max well of Shannon, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Burkehead of Candor last Thurs day. Funeral services were held Saturday at the home of son, W. S. Maxwell of and interment was in the cemetery. NEW EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SCHEDULE another Raeford Raeford College Gels Deed To Air Base Land; A Boon To Growing Student Body Riles Sunday For Plc. Jr. Oxendine, Luzon Victim FAIRMONT—Arriving by bulance with military escort am- from Charlotte, the body of PJr Junior Oxendine if being held at the Stephens, and Prevatte -Funeral home until 3:00 o'clock next Sun will be held at the Pleasant View day afternoon when the fueral MAXTON.—A deed to the prop erty being used by Presbyterian Junior College at the site of the * former Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base was delivered to the college today by E. M. Hairfield, Jr., attorney for the War Assets Administration. The deed requires the use of the property for ten years for educational purposes, it covers 259.5 acres of land, more or less. The buildings on it have been used by the college since August 24, 1946, and eleven faculty “»nd , staff and caretakers’ families/ are -. now housed on the property. -A : ^/^ teen set as the opening date 6f the Pembroke-Robeson County Fair. The date was decided upon pt a meeting of the board of directors held in Pembroke Tues day, and the group plans to con tinue the fair through October 2. Last year the fair was held for the first time and was desig nated ar. the Robeson County Indian Fair. This spring the organization was incorporated and plans were made to perpetuate the event and m"''e it a perma nent part of the county’s farm activity. Details of plans are not yet available, but an enlarged premi um list has been indicated. Center of activity for the week will again be the back campus and the gymnasium of Pembroke State College. An added event this year will be its stock show, and the corporation has secured an 80 foot tent to house this attac- tion. Farm Bureau . PEMBROKE^—The first of the county-wide group conferences of Tie Robeson County Farm Bureau is being held tonight in Pembroke, according to an announcement by I. T. Graham, president of the Robeson bureau. Group meeting^ were suggested, on a community basis, at the last meeting of the county bureau and John L. Carter and Lonnie H. Oxendine requested that the first such meeting be held in Pembroke. The gatherings are the opening guns in the membership drive for 1949, and programs for the com munity meetings are being arran ged with the assistance of the State Fatm Bureau. R. Flake Shaw, State president, will be speaker tonight. Guard recruits from Maxton have already been signed up by Percy Phillips, who is the Maxton recruit ing member for the proposed Max ton-Laurinburg National Guard outfit, but the post will not begin actual operations until it has been I federally recognized. A meeting will be called for next week to be attended by those al ready signed up for the local or ganization, and those men who are interested in joining. No definite date or place has been announced as yet. No word has been received as to how the recruiting in Laurinburg is progressing. Fairmont Scene Of Two Serious Auto Accidents * Collon Price Support Program And Loan Rates Announced On 1948 Crop 31-37c Support Range On 15-16 Middling Commodity Credit Corporation loan rates for this area on 1948 cotton ranging from 31, 37, per pound middling basis 15/16 inch, to 32, 57c middling, 1-1/32 inch gross weight, white and extra white have been established according to E. G. Ballance, chairman, Robeson County ACA Committee. Loans will be made on cotton represented by warehouse receipts issued by warehouses approved by CCC; cotton to be eligible for a loan must be classed by a board of Cotton Examiners of the United States Department of Agriculture. Loans will be made direct by Commodity Credit Corporation or through lending agencies, princi pally banks, approved by the cor- 1 oration, the announcement said Loans will be available through April 30, 1949, and will bear inter est at the rate of 3 per cent per annum from date of disbursement. Loans will mature July 31, 1949, or co demand by CCC, and if a pro- ducer does not repay his loan by maturity, CCC, will sell or pool the cotton in satisfaction of the loan. Any payment due a producer as a result of such sale or any payment due from the pool will be paid to the producer only, or his personal representative. The chairman states that several warehouses and lending agencies in the county have applied to Com modity Credit Corporation for ap proval and number of clerks to execute loan agreements have been approved by the county committee. It is expected that warehouses and lending agencies will be approved and will be in position to begin receiving cotton and making loans within the next few days. 4 com plete list of approved warehouses, lending agencies and clerks will be published as soon as available. A majority of the gins in the county are offering classing ser vice under the Smith Doxey Class ing Program. F’roducers planning to store cotton should take advan- take of this srevice when available. A table of loan rates by grade and staple also information relative to the loan program is available at the Robeson County A. C. A. office. MAXTON.— The Reverend Char les E. Parrish is to be College Chaplain and Professor of Bible at Presbyterian Junior College be ginning with the fall session on September 7. Mr. Parrish received the A. B. degree from Presbyter ian Junior College in 1940 and the A. B. degree from Davidson Col lege in 1942. He completed the full course in Religious Education at Union Theological Seminary, Vir ginia in 1946. He was born in Raleigh, March 15, 1921, and graduated at Cary High School in 1938. For the past two years he has served as pastor of Spring Valley Presbyterian Church, Huntington, West Virginia. Other experience includes service as student pastor of Mill Village Church near Davidson, and home mission work for five summers in North Carolina and West Virginia. Mrs. Parrish and their little daughter will accompany Mr. Par rish to Maxton. They will make their home on the .north campus. FAIRMONT. — Two serious wrecks involving automobiles have occurred in Fairmdnt during the past few days, according to F’atrlo- man C. E. Phillips who was the investigating officer. The first, on Saturday afternoon at approximately 3:30 o’clock, hap pened on U. S. Highway 41 just in front of the South Robeson school Rufus W. Miller, Jr., of Hamer accompanied bv Ellery Page was driving a ’42 Mercury. Rupert Col lins, Jr., of Lumberton, accompan ied by John H. Oliver was driving a ’46 Pontiac. According to the of ficial report, Miller ran off the road approximately 48 yards before the impact. In attempting to cut back on the pavement he ran into the front of the car driven by Collins, turning it completely up side down. An estimated two thou sand dollars damage was done to the Pontaic. Page suffered minor bruises and abrasions but no ser ious bodily damage was done Miller is charged with operating with no license, operating under the influence and reckless driving. He was released under $50 bond .pend ing his hearing in Recorder’s court The second of the two accidents accurred Tuesday night just east of Fairmont on highway 130 and involved a ’39 Buick driven by Furman Little of Fiarmont. Dur ing the downpour of rain around 7:30 p. m., Little’s car skidded, turn ed over twice and landed in the swamp. Little suffered injuries to his back and is at present in Eak- eFs hospital. No charges have been made as the accident was classed as unavoidable. the wrong, day, but it has their work immensely more cult. Records as to the number made diffi- regis- tered are not yet available but on Tuesday 299 registration cards were issued, Mrs. Stanton said. Registration continues until Sep tember 19, after which the board will move to the Rowland Building where regular office hours will be maintained to register 18-year olds as their birthdays come around, end to issue “greetings.” Few of the older registrants will see service for the overwhelming majority who ard’ physically fit are veterans and, at the moment at least, The quota pects exempt. army has set its first draft for November when it ex- to induct 10,000 men. Later quotas will be increased as training facilities become organized. Miss Frances Spears of Green ville, S. C., spent the week end : with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Daniel to attend the Daniel-McNair wedding ! Saturday evening. THE LUMBERTON RECREATION COMMISSION GIRL’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE pennant race comes to a close tomorrow night when the Polly Ann Shop meets Roses for the pennant on the fair ground diamond. The two teams have met four times this season and each has won twice. Roses has 8 wins and 3 losses with 143 hits in the 11 games—an average of 13 hits per contest. Pictures above left to right kneeling are Margaret Small, Ruth Marie Adams, Marguerite Webster, and Melba Ivey. Standing are Sally Harrison, Marguerite Lewis, B. Alford, Helen Stone, and Carolyn Bullard.—Photo by Billy Norment. The N. C. Employment Service office at Lumberton has announced a change in its itinerant service to points which it serves in Robeson, Bladen, and Columbus counties. The new schedule, effective Sep tember 1, puts a representative of the office in Fairmont each second and fourth Tuesday from one to three o’clock P. M., in Whitevilla every first and third Wednesday from 9:30 a. m. to 2:30 p. m,, and Elizabethtown each second and fourth Monday from nine a. m. until 12 noon. church, Purcell Chesley dating which near Fairmont. The Rev. Locklear and the R.ev Maynor will be the offii- ministers in the service will include' full military rites. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Enlisting in the Army on April 22, 1943, he was sent overseas the same year and was killed on Luzon Island on January 17, 1945. His parents, Howard Oxendine and Corina Oxendine, survive as do also two sisters and one broth er; Christine Hunt and Hal Oxen dine, both of the home; and Mrs. Alton Hunt 3. of Fairmont, Route c^wa^^ ^tobacco^ Markel Stronger In Lumberton; 21 Million Sold Fairmont Market Pays Over StP/z Million In Month Market Closed Monday For Labor Day Vacation By MARIAN ALEXANDER Sales Supervisor LUMBERTON.-21 million in 22 selling days at an Government average of Those words sum up the pounds official $53.32 unique record of the Lumberton Tobacco Market to date this season. Another 1,012,936-pound sale yes terday dropped in average to $47.08 but the only reason was the volume of common . and leafy to baccos on the floors. The prices were high as ever, grade for grade. The lower and nondescript grades looked slightly stronger if any thing the first few rows, and al though they slumped slightly later in the day, they were back again this morning at their old levels. In fact, the market today stronger if anything than high looked it has looked all season. Good smoking tobaccos were still clicking off 65- 6-7- regularly, and when a choice wrapper came up, it hit 75 The local tobacco center its floors of all tobacco laid sale yestreday, but booked and 80. cleared out for up full for another capacity sale today. Labor Day Monday will be a holiday, but the growers are al- Continued on Page 8 Daily Average Over Million Pounds By “Strick” FAIRMONT—According to official market report of the the 1948 season of the Fairmont Tobacco Market, over eleven and one half million dollars have been paid out to farmers for the bright gold en leaf this year, during the first month of the season. According to C. B. Stafford, sales supervisor, 21,166,962 pounds of tobacco have been sold at an average selling price of $54.71 for the month, making a total paid out of $11,580,168.76. That is a lot of moola in any man’s language. The market which opened for the season on Tuesday August 3rd, ended its first month on Fri day, August 27, and this report is given out offically for this per iod. Almost seven million pounds of leaf were sold during the fourth week of the market for a total sum of $3,732,048.47. The larger part of the tobacco on the floor is still not choice grade, although there is much more now than at the opening of the market. To date, most of the tbacco has been lugs and prim ings, with only a few scattered baskets of the special golden variety. More and more good to- Continued on Page 8 Apartments for married students are available for the session be ginning Sept. 6. It is expected that a number of single students will also occupy rooms there under the supervision of the faculty. The woodworking machinery, is now being utilized ot manufacture chemistry laboratory desks for the ■ college and ha? already produced library fixture. Pre-engineering stu dents will be able to get machine shop experience, also, ^ 1 The college will use the land to produce food crops for the cafe teria so as to improve diet at low cost. Visiting teams will be enter tained in two buildings. Last fall two conferences were held on the property. Groups from the college will use one building as a week- end lodge. The property has been of great utliity to the college in. caring for the veteran influx, which increased enrollment from an average of 130 in 1940 to an average of 300 last year. Further utilization and de velopment is made possible by the receipt of the deed. - James L. McNair, Jr., secretary of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Louis C. LaMotte, president of the college, received the deed at the college at 10:00 a. m., August 31, 1948. School Principals Hold Conferences In County LUMBERTON.—Following a cus tom established last year, adminis trative conferences between ele mentary and secondary school principals are being held through out the state and were held in Pembroke and in Lumberton yes terday. The conferences were at tended by A. B. Combs and Miss. Murray V. O’Briant of the State Division of Instructional Service. The conference in Pembroke was confined to principals of Indian Schools and the Lumberton meet ing included the principals of the Lumberton, Fairmont and Red Springs units. Matters discussed, trative nature which were of in terest to members of the teaching profession. The conferences are designed to promote and stimulate more effective teaching, organiza-, tion and administration in the school system. The conferences cover such-sub jects as acceptable practice-Tin Au dio-Visual Education, guidance and the use of records, new textbooks and textbook regulations, some basic school laws, supervisory prac tices, library, health, athletics, a balanced curiculum, promotions, in structional equipment and sup plies. Mias Lucille Fenny is spending part of her vacation at her home in Angier this week.
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