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Published Weekly By Lumberton High School Students
The LHS Echo
Lumberton, N. C.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949
A Part Of Robeson County Hometown Newspapers
THE RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
THURSDAY APRIL 7, 1949
Gov. Scot! Opens
Cancer Drive
RED SPRINGS, N. C
PAGE FIVE
Book Jackets
By BETTY ANNE WILLIFORD
Mrs. Davis is receiving each
month more interesting and edu
cational books for us to read. Her
choices have been very wise and
she is trying to select
that we will derive the
the books
most good
Tattle Tales
Teachers Will
Attend Meeting
Weekly Legislative News
By Institute of Government
from.
One
books
Agnes
story
of her newest
is The Bishop’s
and best
Mantle by
Sligh Turnbull. This is the
of Hilary Laurens, who is
beginning his ministry at St.
thews, a large, fashionable
church. Hilary Laurens is a
religious and devout person
Mat-
city
very
and
love
intensely human. He is in
with a beautiful girl who finally
marries him, but wno finds it hard
to give up the gay life she enjoy
ed before her marriage to Hilary
Laurens to observe the quiet and
conservative manner of a min
ister’s wfie. You will live every
fnoment with them as they try to
work out the problems concerning
their marriage.
scenes of the
You will also see
lives of Hilary’s
parishioners.
Another great book added to
Inglis
Fletcher’s
the library js
Roanoke Hundred. This is another
triumph for North Carolina’s tal
ented author. This is a magnifi
cent story about the founding of
the first English colony in the New
World on Roanoke Island off the
coast of North Carlina.
It is charged with excitement,
By PHYLLIS McLEAN
Did they hold Key club conven
tion meetings at the Burlesque
Show? Yeah boys.
Alva and Jack really looked
cute after going to the beach
Sunday. Julia and Taddy weren’t
as red. I gu^ss that pi^ves which
is the weaker sex.
Well its all in the family. We
hear that Betty Floyd dated John
Hal but things didn’t turn out the
right way. These scheming peo
ple.
April we hear that you, Willy,
Cora, and Nigel had quite a time
"trying” to find the Maco Light?
Why didn’t you find it?
What startling discovery did
Mrs. Bullard make when she went
to see the Maco Light? Jimmy
had to tell her.
Did you know that Betsy’s new
name was “Coal Baby”?.
Naughty, naughty, in the show
too—Tolly’and Nancy, that is.
Who thought that the coal pile
was a slang expression? Dear me,
L. P. B. Guess who!
The chemistry class wants to go
on a house party, but with only
14 boys in the class, the girls
want more, naturally. The boys in
the study ’hath next door better
watch "out.
Who’s the artist in the lab? Joe
The-51st annual meeting of the
North Carolina' Education Asso
ciation will take place in Ashe
ville on April 7, 8, 9. Those from
the Lumberton School attending
will be B. E. Lohr, directorof the
NCEA from Southeastern district,
Miss Elizabeth Shaw, secretary of
the Classroom Teacher Division,
Mrss. Christabel Wilson, retiring
NOTE: This is the twelfth of a
series of weekly summaries of
the work of the 1949 session of
the General Assembly of orth
Carolina. These summaries are
not intended as a report on all
legislation, but are confined to
discussions of matters of
Sen ¬
has been drawing shades!
drama and tragedy, Great names has Deen drawing sna u e»
in history—Sir Walter Raleigh.. Kitty, what makes Hedgepeth s
m 5 ) John White and ! so interesting to you these days?
Francis Drake,
many others play important roles
in thiZ exciting novel. Mary Green-
her
Employees or ball players.
president of the
Classroom Teachers,
Lumberton
Miss Mabel
president of
eral interest or pf major [im
portance.
ville;
worldly
Philippa
Tremayne,
sister-in-law;
and
the
young squires Richard Prideaux
and John Arundlel provide scenes
of breath-taking suspense as they
fight for the desires of their life.
This is truly Mrs. FlectcMer s
greatest creation of her Carolina
Nigel, who’s car were you
ing last Wednesday night?
she drive?
Tickie was that little
driv-
Can’t
snake
series.
A Navy wind tunriel developed
air speed of 4,000 mph at a tem
perature of Minus 377 degrees.
really so 'fearful as some people
made out?
How does it feel to cart a dea.d
’possum around all Friday night?
Do you think it would work if
there was a ladies “‘Billiard Hall ?
Who in the world is Betty Anne
Williford’s new flame? Can you
guess?
Seems Catherine Humphrey was
ECHO STAFF
having all sorts of
one time. Wonder
straightened it all
really nothing like
men all around at
Editor-in-chief
Nora Dean
Parker
Assistant editor
John Hyce
Editorial writers
Jeanette Chance
Barnes
, Margaret
Floyd, Jane Carpenter
Stephens, retiring
the local unit of the NCEA, Miss
Evelina Beckwith, president-elect
of the local unit and Misses Sara
Hamilton and Sue Underhill.
Mr. Lohr will leave Lumberton
on Wednesday afternoon, April ,
in order to attend a Board of Di
rectors meeting on Thursday
morning, April 7. The other mem
bers of the faculty planning to at
tend the Asheville meeting will
leave on Thursday mornig or
Thursday afternoon.
All Lumberton representatives
are
ton
male trouble
if she ever
out. There’s
having seven
once.
What quaint humor the teach
ers have—all those April-fools
tests!
Where do people go when they
cut classes? Well, I really don’t
know, hut its getting about time
to start patronizing the Ole Swim
ming Hole.
"What was" Carl doing Sitting
out in a Buick talking to women
the
expected to return to Lumber-
on Saturday vening, April 9.
GRAD NEWS
stu
dents were able - to come home
this week end for the senior play,
it was worth traveling, to see
Those home were: Flora Mac,
Teeny Kittrell and Peggy Hardee;
WCUNC; Betty McCallum, Doris
Williams, Marion Skinner, Marie
Blake, Rachel Sarbaugh, Bunkie
Ashe Kitty Edens, Ann Baker,
Jean’ Ann Lambeth, Oriana Mc
Arthur, Martha Lohr, and Joann
Wicker; Queens—Caroline Collins,
Levonde Caldwell, and Reid Reg
an' RPI—Mary Johnson Stephens;
Duke — Bobby Barker, Charles
Barker,'and Eddie Glover; State
—Dickie Prevatt and Billy Mc
Duffie; Carolina —Robert Wil
liams Ertle Stephens, and Jimmy
Phillips; Wake Forest—Charles
Kinlaw, Lula Williams and Frank
Quite al few of the college
The twelfth week of 1947 Gen
eral Assembly was its last; 1949
legislators hope their twelfth week
will be the last save one. Lt. Gov.
Taylor has appointed a commit
tee to meet with Speaker Ramsay
to coordinate the efforts of the
houses to that end. In longer and
more frequent meetings the mem
bers have amended and argued at
length on a few public measures,
and have continued to deluge the
calendar with a diturbing num
ber of local bills—all this with the
number of introductions this ses
sion only a few behind the total
for 1947. Following the usual 1949
pattern, minds, ears and mouths
were filled last week with school
and money matters. The road
bond bill is in a House commit
tee, but this week will see that
issue opened on the House floor
again.
ed favorably on Thursday in form
calling for $1,027.50 more than
the $72 million measure recom
mended by the Advisory Budget
Commission. Significant, however,
were new provisions freezing
specifications for all approved
-building projects, directing that
unexpended balances resulting
from a drop in construction costs
revert to the General Fund.
Before voting on arty bill calling
for specific expenditure of the
$30 million Post War Reserve
Fund, the House on Tuesday was
given the opportunity of voting on
the more fundamental question—
should be spent at all?Just as de
bate on SB 203, the school build
ing measure, was opened, a House
Resolution was introduced calling
for retention of the Fund as a
“cushion” against any decrease in
General Fund revenues in the
coming biennium. The resolution
was soundly defeated on a roll
call vote of 81 to 32, after which
the House proceeded to consider
and the Post War Reserve Fund
was untapped. Though this was
hailed as a victory for Governor
Scott’s school program, it remains
to be seen, first, whether the Sen-
ate will approve the bill in its
present form, nad second, whether
the Post War Reserve can now
be drained for school teachers’
salaries as was proposed by the
Appropriations Committee.
Port Bonds.
Wednesday of last week was, in
the minds of many legislatros and
on the lips of at least one, a
“great day in the history of North
Carolina” because on that day the
House passed HB 936 which au
thorizes the issuance of $7,500,000
GAL TWO Weekly Bulletin
RALEIGH.—Over 400 volunteers
of the American Cancer Society
met in the Executive Mansion last
Friday to hear an address by Gov-
he
ernor Kerr Scott, in which
heartily endorsed the cancer con
trol work that the American Can
cer Society has done in North
Carolina during the past 8 years.
April has been declared “Cancer
Control Month” by Presidential
Proclamation, by Act of Congress,
and by Resolution of the North
Carolina General Assembly, the
governor said. “On this morning
day of Cancer Control
of the first
Month,” he
to tell you
behind your
and for the
continued, “I wanted
that I stand solidly
purpose for the month
year, that I appreciate
The
Appropriations.
Biennial Appropriations
Edens.
What Do You - -
Think Of Yo-Yo’s?
Kathleen—I’m, not saying.
Sarah Margaret —J ust a
fad
that comes every spring.
Tickie—I think they’re silly, be
cause I cen’t work ’em.
Sarah—I think thev’re a device
to nass the time with.
George—They are fine toys.
Jane Carpenter—I think they
in bonds for the
seaports” in our
tin is forseen in
Beer, Wine
In interesting
"construction of
state; no opposi-
the Senate.
and Spirits
contrast to
prolonged struggle over wine
ulation two years ago, bills
the
reg
ex-
whether or not to spend it
county school buildings.
School Building Aid.
Two weeks ago when SB
arrived in the House, it called
ior
203
for
a $50 million bond issue to be sub
mitted to the people, with the pro
ceeds to be allocated $500,000 to
bill ws reported out of committee
to the House floor on Wednesday,,
May 30, but was then pushed'
down the calendar to Tuesday,
April 5, just four days before the
planned sice die adjournment. i
This bill carries alt increase of
almost $38 million over the $381
million recommended by the Ad
visory Budge Commission. Most
of this increase can be attribut
ed to (1) over $26 million addi
tional for raising teachers’ sal
aries and reducing the per-teacher
load, 2) $3 million for increased
county health ser-
State aid to
vcies,and (3)
merit salary
employees in
the biennium.
$1 1-2 million for
increases for State
the second year of
Since the Revenue
income sufficient
Bill provides
only to meet the Advisory Budget
Commission recommendations, the
committee moved to meet the
possible $38 million deficit by re
leasing the $30 million Post War
to the General
Reserve Fund
Fund, hoping
future General Fund
that available and
future
surpluses
would take care of the difference.
The Permanent Improvements
Bill came up for committee con
sideration on Tuesday. May 29,
tending State ABC Board regula
tion of beer and wine (SB 282
and SB 370) have enjoyed smooth
sailing so far—weather conditions
that might possibly be accounted
for by a willingness ofthe liquor
referendum opponents to place
curbs on been and wine in antici-
pation and
preparation for the
battle to come two
years from
each county for school plant con
struction. As the bill passed its
second reading on Friday, the cn-
ly change from the Senate version
was in the allocation, the House
having amended it so that $250,-
000 would be distributed to each
county, and the remaking $25
million wouljl be distributed on
the basis of average daily school
enrollment in the several coun
ties. Behind this change in the al
location, however, was a week of
bitter wrangling and floor debate,
with an ensuing * parliamentary
snarl that some observers said
was the worst in years.
The fight centered around the
House Finance Committee version
of the bill; it called for an ap-
propriaticn of $30 million from the
Post War Reserve Fund and the
submission of a $20 million bond
issue to the people. In that form
it was unacceptable to the “school
forces" in the House, as their plan
now.
Varying in minor details, but
agreeing in the principle of reduc
ing the liquor option unit from
county to city in a dozen in
stances, the House bills allowing
municipal ABC elections have
been assigned to a subcommittee
of House Propositions and Griev
ances for further study. The one
Senate bill doing the same thing
passed the Senate without much
difficulty, but will undoubtedly
find its way to the same subcom
mittee upon arrival in the House.
Local Interest
Two bills by which olcal govern
ment stood to gain financially
went by the board last week when
they received unfavorable reports.
Cne, SB 329, would rpobably have
resulted in wider realidation by
counties and cities of tax revenues
from interurban motor carriers
under a formula described in this
bulletin when introduced. The
other SB 327, would have allowed
r’ebmates to municipalities of all
way.
Propositions And Grievances
Three recent bills have one un
pleasant thing in coalmen—their
connecting directly or indirectly,
with departing this life. SB 369
certainly has as cne of its pur
poses postponing the inevitable
event—it prohibits the .handling
of venomous reptiles under con
ditions usually associated with
the rites of a cult recently come
to this State, SB 352, by way of
promoting some good out of the
generally unhappy, gives legal
sanction .and encouragement to
the donation by will of one’s body
or parts thereof for "medical use.
SB v44, indicating behalf that “the
evil that men do lives after them”
the work you have done^for this
state in the 8 years of your organ
ization, and. that I recognize the
need for continued expansion of
that program.”
The Governor continued," “I wish
to tell you personally and the peo
ple of the states as well that as
governor, I support the. work of
me American cancer Society and
urge the people to join itte in that
support in a definite, determined
way.” .
Governor Scott, in his address,
briefly discussed the progress that
had been made in cancer control
in North Carolina, giving consid
erable credit for the creation and
advancement of the program to the
North Carolina Division o fthe
American Cancer Society.
Following the Governor’s address
was an informal speech by E. Y.
Floyd of Raleigh, Director of the
Plant Food Institute, member of
the Executive Committee of the
American Cancer Society’s North
Carolina Division, and State Chair
man of. that’ organization’s April
fund-raising campaign. -■
“Doctor’s tell us that one-half
of all cancer cases can now be
cured,” Mr. Floyd said. “But we
aren’t curing nearly that percen
tage, largely because people still
do not know the cancer 'symptoms,
or danger signals, which may in
dicate early, curable cancer. We
are prone to wait for pain, and
pain is a late symptom of cancer,
often a too-late symptom;”
Mr. Floyd spoke brefly. about the
research work of the .-American
Cancer Society, stressing' the fact
that definite progress "has been
made in the last year, much of it
now improving the treatment of
the disease.
Mrs. George E. Marshall of M.t
Airy, State Commander and Exe
cutive Vice-President of the North
and not wishing to prolong the
makes unlawful the in--Carolina Division of the American
memory,
scription on one’s tombstone of an
accusation of criminality and di
rects the eradication of any such
inscriptions already carved. It
wsa not inconceivable that these
bills might all have figured in
the same law suit some day—
imagine a snake-handler who will
ed a part of his body to science,
had the rest of it buried as the
result of a playful nip by one of
his pets and on whose monument
was written the statement, “Died
while violating the Snake-Hand
ling Act of 1949”—(but any chance
of this are now remote, since SB
352 itself met an untimely death
on Friday when it was reported
unfavorably in the House.
cancer Society emphasized
the
work of other groups ..interested
in cancer control, amongrthem the
Medical Societies and —Women’s
Clubs of the State. “The closest
cooperation now exists between the
Medical Society of the State of
North Carolina, the State Board
of Health and the American Can
cer Society.
The program was concluded by
Mrs. C. M. Brickhouse, Raleigh
Commander of the Wake County
Unit of the American Cancer So
ciety and Commander - of the
Wake County District.
Almost 80% of 322 Navhl
Training Centers- planned for con
I struction by 1950 are completed.
called for the use of the Reserve
Fund to provide for an increase
Ti school teacher salaries to a
minimum of 2,200. After several
postponements, the bill finally got
to the House floor for debate on
Thursday and was met by a flood
of amendments. When the smoke
cleared the proponents of the $50
swiftly approved, and report-! million bond issuehadjanurnphed.
was
every-
people
Humor and puzzle editor
Lee
Kitty
Nelson
Wagner
T.
H.
Spivery
Doug
Hyce .
Leon
Billy
Billy
John
Clarence
.. Leon
Margaret
Nora ...
Kathleen
Wisconsin is the leading dairy
State.
Social editors
Alumni editor
Mary Jo
Exchange editor
Gertie
Feature writers
Nell Boone Crofton, Eunice
Saunders
MM 1 MA
PHONt 495 \ . -
Kathleen Bennett, Leon
Hamilton
Gossip editors
1 Carl Sewell, Phyllis McLean
! Faculty advisor
Mrs. Paul Davis
I News editor
' Sarah Williams
Night Shows Begin 7:30 and 9:30
Week of March 31
'. during school, and keeping
iceman waiting at that.
Meefa has-been!
(CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY)
Enchantment
David Niyen - Teresa Wright
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
APRIL 7-8
DATE SHOW SAT. NITE ,10:15
JHURSDAY and FRIDAY
APRIL 14 - 15
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
SATURDAY, APRIL 9
Maxton Theatre
Maxton, N. C.
A Theater Especially For Your
Comfort and Enjoyment ,
MONDAY and TUESDAY
APRIL 11 - 12
Sports editors
John Hal Oliver, CorinLd
Lambeth
Photographer
Billy Doug Norment, Leon
Hamilton
Indian Agent
Tim Holt
Old Fashioned Girl
Gloria Jean — Jimmy Lydon
Who Was Your
First Sweetheart
Cassell ...
Burk
Rosylyn ..
Gertie
Sarah W.
Betty Anne
Rupert ...
George ....
Belle Starr’s Daughter
George Montgomery - Ruth Roman
No Minor Vices
Dana Andrews - Lilli' -Palmer
That Wonderful Urge
Tyrone Power - Ann Baxter
Billy Musselewhite
.. Nora
Doris P.
Jeanette
.... Beth Paschall
“The Undwon”
Virginia Everleigh
George
James Sea
Rupert
John Hyce
.. Margaret Floyd
.. Elizabeth Smith
sti nk!
Gertie—I think they’re
where.
Ralnh—That's up to the
that have them.
Pillv Doug—I like '
Mary Jo—I like tl
x^t.-t- ^orr^bodv
meone. -^"^WlWWTi
■—The'' look li
lot of fir 1 , but T-yist can't seem
to make them work.
Jeanette—I think its lots of fun
watching people’s heads going up
and down watching them.
The procedure to be followed
by cotton farmers in obtaining
cotton classification and market
news services in 1949 under the
Smith-Doxey Act will be the'same
as in 1948, ' the U. S. Department
of Agriculture announced.
3
and 4 Ply
TOBACCO
TWINE
This YEAR as ALWAYS for-84 YEARS
LUMBERTON
NORTH CAROLINA
Friday - Saturday - Double Feature
Lash LaRue - Fuzzy St. John
"Son 01A Bad Man
also
"UNKNOWN ISLAND
Virginia Grey Phillip Reed
Sat. Late Show - Mon. - Tues.
Clark Gable - Van Johnson Walter
Pidgeon
COMMAND DECISION
Wednesday
Merle Oberon - Robert Ryan
"BERLIN EXPRESS"
Thursday
Rosalind Russell
THE VELVET TOUCH
taxes paid on gas used in munici-
pally-owned vehicles.
Three sources of local legisla
tion which can be counted on at
every session to contribute a de
luge are eJP appointments, pri
vate claims and county board of
education appointments. These are
acted upon in three “omnibus
bills whose” advent is one of the
signs of impending adjournment.
The JP omnibus bill was ratified
Friday—the other two are on the
Meet Mr. Mercury! The old Romans
thought he was the messenger of the gods.
With those winged feet he got around
fast, doing all sorts of useful little jobs
on the way. This Roman messenger
is out of date now. For speed,
you can’t beat electricity.
It’s on hand 1/10,000,000th of a second
after you flip a switch.
You can’t beat electricity for usefulness,
either. It’s like an extra pair of
hands for the homemaker-always ready
and willing to help clean and sew
and cook, do the laundry, make life easy
and healthy and comfortable. And you
can’t beat electricity for cost! Just think,
one penny’s worth of electricity will
run your radio for a full evening—
or swish the dirt from two tubs of
wash-or tell you the time for a week.
In this era of sky-high costs, what
other item in your family budget
does so much—for so little?
Helen Hayes stars in the Electric Theatre!
Hear it every Sunday/ CBS t 9 P,M., EST/
$22.95
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