Your Paper Is Now Dated Thursday MORNING
or Belt Springs (Kitten
Volume 52, Nc. 32 — 16 Pages
ONE OF ROBESON COUNTY’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS
Red Springs, N. C. Thursday Morning, January 20, 1949
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Tremendo us Crowd Expected
PAPER TO ARRIVE A DAY EARLIER
For Presidential Inauguration
The capital of the United States
finished preparations fox' today*e
big doings yesterday morning and
the inaugural round began with
various luncheons yesterday follow
ed by an evening of entertainment
for the million estimated partici
pants in the celebration.
Pennsylvania avenue is lined
with bleached seats for the vast
audience which ha. been converg
ing on Washington far a week,
and the thoroughfare is flag be
decked from end to end. A big'
reviewing stand is in front of the
White House, from which Presi-
de.t Truman and vice-president,
Barkley will view the two and one-
half hour parade which will follow
the inaugural address
A million people to witness a
ceremony. It’s an unbelievable
number and most will be visitors
to the city. Many will be -here
just for the day but many more
have travelled uncountable miles to
crowd into the District of Colum-1
bia and struggle for accomodations.
This inauguration is President
Trumao’s first. President already
fox’ less than three months short
of a full term of office, his other
inauguration was a quiet mitten:
of privately taking the oath of
office when Franklin Roosevelt 1
died. And this inauguration has a
special sort of flavor for the man
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
VICE-PRES, BARKLEY
With this issue Robeson County’s Home
town Newspapers begin publication on Thurs
day morning instead of Thursday afternoon.
Papers each week from now on will reach sub
scribers a day earlier and are scheduled for
delivery Thursday morning on local RFD
routes as well as in the towns for which they are
published.
Early Tax Listing Needed
To Speed Value Equalization
Reynolds Speaks
Al Rotary Dinner
RFD SPRINGS.—GueU speaker
MEMORIAL TO
A. W. McLEAN
GIVEN CHURCH
The change is being made so that readers;A sp ™ gs ^ub
, ” P j last Friday night was W. D. Rey-
will get their paper before their week end IS I nolds pf Lumberton, Robeson coun
” ty manager.
who some think won the election
almost single-handed.
The route of the parade extends
for about a mile and a half and
alo g it the President will greet
the cheering throng for he has
agreed to ride in the parade, and
tens of thousand of parade parti
cipants will follow him and Mr.
I Barkley.
| 120,000 of the audience will be
I accomodated around the stand at
I the capitol building where the
president and vice president will
take their oaths. Tae customary
presidential address will follow and
is expected to last 15 or 20 min-
| utes with foreign policy as its
I principal subject.
planned and so that they may have a chance to
check up on merchants’ bargains a day earlier.
It is probable that some contributors will
fail to find news items they expect’to see in this
the first Thursday morning issue. Missing items
will appear next week and moving up the publi
cation date should make no difference after
this first week of change.
The paper being delivered Thursday
morning will have to be printed Wednesday
evening. Type is set for the papers throughout
the week and it will obviously be impossible to
set all of the type on Wednesday. Contributors
and advertisers are requested to begin submit
ting copy on Thursday and Friday for the
paper to be published the following Thursday.
Mr. Reynolds gave an interest
ing talk on the various school
systems throughout the county, and
compared salaries among the tea
chers of white, colored, and Indian
schools. He pointed out that one
solution to the county school prob
lem was to equalize property val
uation in the county’s various town
ships.
Mr. Reynolds also spoke on the
agricultural wealth of Robeson
county. He stated that a survey
had found Robeson county to pos
sess the richest agricultural wealth
in the state and rank as the sec
ond richest territory in the South.
Guest speakei- of the Rotarians
for Friday night, January 21, will
be Chaplain Wakefield of Fort
Eragg’ who has spent sometime
Korea.
CARLYLE GETS POSTAL
! COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT
in
A. W. McLEAN
LUMBERTON.
The Sunday
morning service at the First PreS-
IKO For Carlton Britt tn 30 Seconds
Bol Trojans Lose To Whiteville 4-2
By BILL NORMENT
LUMBERTON.—Last Thursday
- evening Whiteville defeated -he
Lumberton Trojan Boxing Team
4-2 at the Whiteville gym. There
Wer. . 'ly six bouts because of,
fact that Whiteville could ng'
match the Lumberton weights
which ranged from 74 pounds io
180 pounds. “Red” Burrows, Roy
Herring, Carl Stoker, and Charles
Palas were unable to obtain mat
ches.
Little 75 pound Frank Stallings,
Trojan boxer, decisioned Carter of
Whiteville in the first bout to put
Lumberton ahead 1-0. Whiteville
came baca th ugh to win the next
4’ bouts.
In the ' ' ”
I’amsan of Whiteville decisioned
A'rojan Haywood Davis in one of
!he most thrilling fights of the
■night.
In the final m itch C’r’to.x Britt
of I.umberton scored a TKO over
Smith of Whiteville in 30 seconds
of the fir t round It was one of
the quickest TKO’s .ever to have
been scored at Whiteville. Britt’s
win gave Lumberton ,ts scco;m a d
last win of the evening.
Results of all matches:
75 pounds—Stallings Trojan, ds-
xisioned Carter, Whiteville.
80 pounds — Nance, Whiteville,
decisioned Moore, Trojans.
118 pounds—Duncan, Whiteville,
ilecisioned Stoker, Trojans.
136 pounds—Bridge , Whiteville.
TKO ovex- Virgil Britt, Trojan in
first.
145 pounds—Williamson, White
ville, decisioned Davis, Troian .
145 pounds—Britt, Trojans, TKO
n 30 seconds of first ovex’ Smith,
'Thiteville.
l ' ” ' , .CARLTON BRITT
| Photo By Bill Norment
Dr. Garber leads
Ji-Day Church
White
RED SPRINGS.—Dr. Paul Leslie
Garber. professor of Bible at Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Ga., will
conduct the second of,the institutes
of the Presbyterian church here on
Itno.arv 30, 31 and February 1.
Dr. Garber will speak on the
subject of “The Church and Its
Ycuth” at a series of meetings to
be held dvri'g the three days. He
will speak to several organisations
of the church and to the student
body' at Flora Macdonald College.
On next Sunday, January 23,
there will be i a congregational
meeting following the morning ser
vice at which time, two elders '.v’ll
be elected and the annual- election
of five deacon'’ will.he held.
The De-.'Graham Kubanks, pas
tor 'f TiT'i y Methodist Church,
was the guest speaker at the regu
inr meeGr:" nf the Men of he
Church la-t night.-
I.. E. Baldwin and A. Si McKei'-h-
an represented the church at the
meeting of Presbytery which was
held Tuesday at Jackson Springs.
Go O. Goodyear Rites
Are Held Sunday
As you read this parts of your next week’s pa
per are already being set in type.
Pres. W. S. B ARHAM
Red Springs Merchants Officers
Secty. T. L. TUCKER
Annual Area Council Seoul Heeling
Fairmont Sgt. On
Berlin Airlift
LUMBERTON.—George O. Good
year, who died suddenly Friday at
I the age of 83, was buried Sunday
afternoon, at Meadowbrook ceme-
I tery. Services were conducted from
the home near Nyetown by Rev.
I Forrest Hodden who was assisted
by Dr. Fred Paschall of Laurin
burg.
Pallbearers were J. D. York, Da-
I mon Floyd, Bert Williams, Jim
j Williams, and Ambrose Lovette.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
U. S. Representative F. Ertel
Carlyle has been apnointed to the
post office and civil service com
mittee, a major committee of the
lower house. Carlyle expressed
himself as well pleased with his
assignment, although his first
choice was public works.
'Barham Is flamed
President few
Merchads Graus
; RED SPRINGS. — Waverly S.
j Barham was elected president of
the Red Springs Merchants asso-
pre-
County Manager W. D. Reynolds
and tax listers of the county say
that an extension of time for list-*
ing taxable property is unlikely
this year. The deadline for declar
ing tax liability is January 31, and
due to the fact that this year, is
revaluation year it is essential that
all listings be in on time so that
appraisers can start the long job
of revaluation for the purpose of
equalizing the tax burden. .
Tax li ters this year are asking
questions in an effort 10
make the work of the appraisers
more
faster- and more just. Property own
ers are asked to be prepared to
give the number of elearned acres
on their property and the number
and condition of buildings on the
property. In the case of towh prop
erty owers the number of the
lots concerned is needed, together
With then- dimensions and location
and a description of the buildings,
if any.
Appraisers will refer to the listed
descriptions of property to supple
ment their knowledge of the prop
erty and their observations of it.
County-wide appraisers have been
appointed to equalize values be
tween townships after equalization
has been furthered within each
township.
Revaluation and equalization is
a long hard job and the men who
byterian church here saw the pre- a long hard joo and the men wxij
mentation of a memorial to the late have the task to do will have their
Angus Wilton McLean. The Me- hands full completing it before
July 1 when the next budget will
be established. After listing, values
Lea : family presented to
the
church a silver communion service
which was accepted by the pastor,
Rev. R. L. Alexander. Hector Mc
Lean, younger son of the late Mr.
McLean made the presentatioti.
Other members of the family are
Mrs. Scott Sheppherd, A. W. Mc-
Leaxx, Jr.,, and Mrs. A. W. McLean,
The gift honored a man who
served the church for 30 years; as
Deleon from July 1905 until June
1918. and as Elder from 1918 until
June 1935. The picture of
Mr. McL.au appeared in
newspaper in 1905.
The communion service
the,late
includes
sliver trays and silver serving traps
for the crystal cups.
are fixed and the tax rate is set to
balance income agsisnt the
get.
The month of January ,is
bud-
more
than half up and Mrs. Leila Ivey,
the tax supervisor, says that listing
as far from complete. Citizens of
the countyy, she says, will have to
come in much fastex- than they are
if penalties for late listing are to
be avoided.
Rowland JOIIAM
Council Formed
ciation at a meeting of the directors
held Friday evening at Legion
Hall. Other officers named were
Hiram Grantham, vice president,
and Tommy Tucker, secretary-
treasurer.
James A. Graham was elected
member of he board of directors
of the North Carolina Merchant"
association
The board approved a notion of
Funeral For
Mrs. McAllister
Yesterday
Special commendation
to
I Tucker, Randy Bullard and
i King for the excellent work
'promoting the organization of
' merchants group.
Bill
the
AI Flora Macdonald Tomorrow High!
The annual meeting of the Cape m sQlo selection wil ] be render- ’
Fear Area Council, Boy Scouts of n
America, will be held tomorrow
evening, January 21st, at seven-
ed by A. Middleton Norris of W
mingtbii, accompanied on the
Kiwanis Founds
Key Club In LHS
LUMBERTON.—The Key
Club
of the Lumberton high school
was
presented its charter Tixes-
LUMBERTON.—Funeral services
”’erc held yesterday afternoon at
three o’clock for Mrs. Elise Ram
say McAllister. Mrs. McAllister died
Monday night at nine at Baker
Sanatorium here; she had been in
the institution for ten days and
had been critically ill for several
months.
Services Were held at the First
Presbyterian church and interment
followed in Meadowbrook cemetery.
ROWLAND.—A council of the
Junior Order United American
Mechanics was instituted at Row-
’a d last Thursday night. Luxuries
council No. 221 of Lumberton had
charge of the program, with Dewey
Williams. W. Milton Hughes, H.
B. Cranfill. David Leviner, occupied
the officers’ chair:. Bernie Tames
gave the obligation. Hon. Webley
Watts gave a lecture on the order’s
purposes.
A. Z. Goforth, state vice coun-
celor of Statesville, Forrest G.
Shearin, state secretary from Scot
land Neck, and Charles W. Snyder
past state councilor from Winston
Salem were present at the organ
izational meeting and made short
talks to the Rowland group.* L. T.
McColl, national organizer and
Held manager from Cordele,>Qeqr-
Rev. R. L. Alexander, pastor of 1 gia, was present as organizer.
Red Springs PM
Is Assn. Head
RED SPRINGS. — Postmaster
William T. McGoogan. was named
today as chairman of the North
Carolina Association of Postmasters
for Robeson County, according to
an announcement notice received
from W. M. Shaw of Fayetteville.
There are 2 postoffices in the
county, only one of which has suf
ficient postal receipts' to be rated
first class, this is the office at
Lumberton, of which R. Gordon
Cashwell is postmaster. There are
5 second class offices in the coun
ty. These and their postmasters
are: Fairmont, T. S. Teague Max-
ton, M^rs. Clarkie Belle Williams;
Red Springs, Mr. McGoogan; Row-
land, Guy S. Crawford; St. Pauls,
Berdis R. Stone.
Postmasters of the three third
class offices are: East Lumberton,
Mrs. Mamie B. Williams; Parkton,
Mrs. Virginia O. Martin and Pem
broke, J. B. Lowry.
Postmaster of the sixteen fourth
class offices are: Allenton, B. H.
Stansel; Barnesville, Mrs. Elizabeth]
Walters; Buies, John C. Davis;
Elrod, Mrs. Evelyn B. Pargoe;
Lowe, Delesline T. Daniels; Lum
ber Bridge, Willie E. McGoogan;
McDonald, Tom McKee; Marietta,
Mr.'s. Kate Temple; Orrum, J. Carl
Nile; Proctorville, Patterson Y.
Graham; Purvis, John E. Williard;
Reinert, Mrs. Ruth Taylor Tolar;
^ e k Mrs. Flora G. Dearing; Shan-
nqi, Paul R. Dozier; Wakulla, Ezra
J- .Walters! and Daystrom, Miss
M |ry C. Patterson.
FAIRMONT — The following
announcement was received this
week from the Public Information
Office of the United States Ar
my. The late line on the commu
nique is Frankfurt American
Zone, Germany.
Fairmont residents can follow
the progress of the USAF’s Ber
lin Airlift with renewed interest
and pride.
Harold L. Mitchell, nephew of
Mr. Durham R. Mitchell who re
sides in Fairmont, represents the
people of this vicinity at Frank
furt Air Base, Germany.
He is a sergeant with the Air
ways and Air- Communications
Service, the organization provid
ing aii’ communications, traffic
conrtol and radar landing aids
for the plajnesa-minute schedule
into Berlin.
Major General William H. Tun
ner in command of the combined
U. S., British air operations in the
Airlift recently paid outstanding
tribute to the men of the AACS.
He attributed a great measure
of the success of the airlift in
all kinds of weather to their un
tiring efforts and technical skill.
Sergeant Mitchell as an ACS
radio operator is one of the many
men commended by General Tun
ner. Through his work of supply
ing important flight information
and weather data by radio, he
is helping maintain uninterrupt
ed flights along the Berlin air
corridors.
Remember the 1949 March of
dimes Jan. 14-31. This year, give
at least 50% more to fight polio.
I Stella Elvington Goodyear; 4 sons,
Rufus, Elbert O., • and Boyd of
Lumberton and Lacy of Wilming-
‘ton; there are five daughters, Mrs.
Joe Doares of Lumberton, Mrs. W.
D. Small of Wilmington, Mrs. B.
O. Merritt of Robbins, Mrs. M. H.
Barfield of Nichols, and Mrs. M. M.
Huggins of Mullins.
Rev. Fry Speaks
To Centre Youth
MAXTON.—Rev. Tom Fry, pas
tor of the Red Springs 'Presby
terian church, spoke to a number
of young people on Sunday eve
ning, at Centre Presbyterian
church at the vesper hour. His
subject was /Forming the Right
Habits.” The Centre youth groups
invited young people from Smyr
na Presbyterian church, Maxton
and Red Springs Presbyterian
churces to attend the program.
Miss Ann McArthur, president
of the Centre Young People, pre
sided at the devotional while
hymns were sung and scripture
read. Following the program, the
young people and their guests
were invited to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Gentry, next to
the church, where the enjoyed t
delicious refreshments of sand
wiches, cookies, cake and coca-
colas.
MAXTON.—There will be an
important meeting of the Ameri
can Legion Post No. 117 on Fri
day night at the Community Club
at eight o’clock. All members are
urged to be present.
: thirty o’clock in the dining room
of Flora Macdonald College, Red
Springs, according to announcement
made today by Council President,
Dr. W. T. Rainey of Fayetteville.:
Some three hundred men and
women and friends of scouting are
expected to gather for the annual
! dinner to witness presentations of
various awards and to hear an j
1 address by W. A. Dobson, of At--
lanta, Georgia. Mr. Dobson is
i regional scout executive of Region
.Six, Boy Scouts, comprising the
states of North and South Caro
lina, Georgia and Florida, and is
well known for his leadership in
scouting and civic activities as well
as being an outstanding public
speaker. Mr. Dobson will be intro-
I duced by E. Hervey Evans of Laur-
; inburg, vice- president of the coun
cil.
The p-esentation of the Silver
Beaver Award, scouting’s highest
honor to a volunteer in the local
council for outstanding service to
boyhood, will be made by James
,'H. Clark of Elizabethtown, chair
man of the Silver Beaver commit
tee. Recipients of the award are
unknown to anyone other than the
committee until the time of pre
sentation.
Josiah A. Maultsby of Whiteville,
chairman of the council’s nominat
ing committee, will present the
slate of officers nominated by that
committee for 1949, and election of
new officers will be held.
Units qualifying for the Presi
dent’s Round-Up Award will be
recognized at the meeting and Dr.
Rainey, assisted by Commissioner
James R. Poole, Jr., of Lumberton,
will present attractive plaques to
i the leaders of the units of the area
that have ended the year 1948 with
a net gain of five members over
their September 1st, 1948, member
ship. Units in Central District
qualifying for the award and lead
ers who will be presented plaques
are:
Troop 28, A. L. Dial; Troop 81,
W. O. Maynor; Troop 88, P. C.
Brooks; Troop 89, J.’R. McCollum.
During the course of the pro-
piano by Miss Mary McQueen of
Maxton.
Climaxing the evening’s program
an unusual tableau will be present
ed depicting the volunteer in the
scouting movement, and cub scouts,
boy scouts and senior scouts of
the area will participate. The tab
leau will be directed by Gordan A.
day at the regular meeting of
the church
ceremonies.
Survivors
was in
of Mrs.
the
Lumberton Kiwanis Club.
charge of the
Blair of Wilmington and the
rato'r will be Ben McDonald
Wrightsville Beach.
President Rainey has urged
all friends of scouting make
nar-
of
that
ad-
vance reservations for the meeting
either through scout headquarters
or through a local scout leader
your community.
Symphony Drive
On In Scotland
in
Key Clubs are organized interna
tionally in schools just as Kiwanis
Clubs are formed, except that a
Key Club must be sponsored by
a Kiwanis Club, and that Key-
Club membership depends on
leadership qualities of students.
Kiwanian T. L. White, who is
also principal of the school, is
acting as counsellor for the group.
Students nominated fox' mem
bership have met and elected
officers. They are: president,
Russell Cashwell; vice-president
Carl Seawell; treasurer, Nicky
McKeithan; secretary. Lean Ham
ilton. The board of directors is
composed of John Hardy, John
Hyce Barnes, and Bob Alexand
er.
Purpose of the club is service
to its school in the same way that
its sponsoring club is a “service
club” to the community.
her husband, Hugh
her so", Dr. Hugh
McAllister are
M. McAllister;
A. McAlliser;
The. following members were
elected and installed for the Row-
land JOUAM: I. D. Butler, junior
past councilor; J.
her daughter. Miss Jean McAllister;
two grandchildren, Hugh A. Mc
Allister, Jr., and -Elise Forrest VIc-
Allister; and three sisters,
Mrs
Douglas Hamer of McColl, S.
Mrs. Charles Redfern and
John Fairley fo Monroe.
Mrs
councilor;
councilor;
chaplain;
Ray Townsend,
Barrow,
vice
Herman P. Rodgers,
Edward Sellers, record-
ing secretary; Paul Smith, finan
cial secretary; Woodrow Miller, as
sistant financial secretary! Dan
A. Murry, treasurer; William Smith
MAXTON.—The Scotland county
branch of the North Carolina
Symphony Society opened its con
cluding drive fox- memberships on
Monday, January 17, continuing
through Monday, January 24 th,
under the direction of Dr. Sim
mons' Paterson. Tickets for. mem
berships may be purchased in
Maxton from Mrs. J. P. Stansel
at two dollars each. Student mem
berships are one dollar and don
or memberships are twenty-five
Lee Wilson Will
Assist RS Zone
Commission Plans
Mr->. McAllister was prominent
in social, church, and civic affairs
in the city, county and state. A
native of Monroe, she was educat
ed at Queens College and later
studied piano in Boston and in
Germany. Before her marriage she
was instructor in piano at Elon
She has been an officer in the
state Federation of Music Clubs,
in various church organizations,
both local and Presbyterial, in the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion, in the Red Cross, in the Wo
mans Club, and in a variety of
social organizations.
Active pall bearers were nephews
of Mrs. McAllister.
Honorary pallbearers were mem
bers of the Session and the Diacon-
ate of the First Presbyterian
church.
Assisting with the floral tributes
were Misses Martha Adams. Sue
Blount Shaw, Helen Cole, Doris
Sutton, Sarah Hamilton, Lois
Johnson, Mabel Stephens, Sadie Rao
conductor: Bill Hodge,
Everette Hayes, inside
warden,
Sentinel’;
! Wilbur Stoughan, outside sentin
el; Jack McGirt, trustee six
months; Dan W. Inman, trustee 12
months; H. M. Watson, trustee 1$
months.
Paul Cranfill, captain of Lum-
bee council No. 224 degree team
will bring the team to Rowland
January 25 to complete the work..
RED SPRINGS, — Lee Wilson,
field consultant of the North Caro-
Pope, and
Ailene Ramseur; and
Mormax Club
Hears Mason
MAXTON.—James Mason, attor
ney of Laurinburg, addressed the
monthly meeting of the Mormax
Club last Thursday night at the
Community Club, on the subjet of
"Communism.” Mr. Mason, a. for
mer FBI employee, was intro
duced by J. V. Henderson Jr., and
emphasized the danger of com
munism spreading throughout the
dollars each.
The North
Orchestra will
theater in
Carolina Symphony
appear at the Bast
two concerts on
Wednesday, April 20th. There will
be an afternoon concert for the
children and the evening perfor
mance will be for society mem
bers.
Last year the North Carolina
orchestra played more concerts on
tour than any other symphony in
the world. The orchestra is con
ducted by DA Benjamin Swalin
and is a state-supported project.
April 20th will mark the third
appearance of the group in this
section.
country. He also discussed the
Penn Grav. M. F~ Cobb, J. E. John- histor y a n d background of the
; communist party.
Mmes. Carl
Fridgen, C. P. Douglas
lina League of Municipalities ar-1
rived here Wednesday afternoon to son > Worth
spend several days working with' Norment.
the Zoning Commission in planning I
an ordinance to be submitted to
the Town Board for regulation of
building here.
The commission will study the]
various sections of town and the'
ordinance will set out certain areas!
for commercial and industrial ex
pansion and other areas for resi
dential construction only. The new
ordinance will be co-ordinated With
the building cede adopted last year.
Members of the commission are:
D. M. McMillan, W. N. Weaver,
Murray McManus, Morrison Peter-
Williams and W.
PRE-SCHOOL CLINICS
SET NEXT WEEK
M.
The
group enjoyed a barbecue
dinner served by Hugh McCall
and J.
ducted
L. Pace, president, con-
a brief business
Reports were heard on
session
the Bo
The Robeson county Health De-
partment
pre-school
week.
Clinics
announces a series of
clinics beginning next
will begin with the
Sauth Robeson white school on
January 25 at 9:30 a. m. Another
clinic will be held on January 31
at Green Grove Indian School
at McDonald at the same hour,
and Ashnole Center Indian pre-
son, George Spell and James A. school children are asked to use
Singleton, Jr, j that clinic.
Scouts and community club, main
projects of the Mormax club. R.
E. Hellekson, was chairman of
the program committee. , ;
MAXTON PTA TO MEET
The monthly meeting of the Par
ent-Teachers Association will be
held on Monday ’evening at eight
o’clock at the grammar school.
Mrs. G. P. Henderson, president,
urges that all parents and teachers
attend this meeting. 1