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ONE OF ROBESON COUNTY’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS
Volume 52, No. 44 16 Pages
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Red Springs, N. C.
Thursday Morning, May 5, 1949
5c A Cop-i
Grantham Tops
Alexander In
^Springs Vote
same two candidates for mayor.
RED SPRINGS — Six hundred I On completion of the mayorality
and four voters went to the polls
here Tuesday in a’'municipal elec
tion which drew the largest total
ever cast in a town balloting.
Hiram Grantham unseated the in
cumbent mayor, E. H. Alexander,
by a margin of 25 votes and two
count Mayor Alexander congratu
lated Mayor-elect Grantham and
the battle of personalities was ap.
of his running mates
cu the six-man board
tioners.
won seats
of commis-
parently at end after a
endurance contest.
Organization of the hew
governing body will take
this week. Just how the
two-
town
place
new
Duncan McGoogan.
the board for several
member of
terms
vious to his defeat two years
made a strong come-back to
the ticket with a total of
votes. R. D. McMillan, Jr.,
cumbent, was next in order
pre-
ago,
lead
440
in-
with
435.
with
win
369;’
local
with
John McManus, incumbent,
390 was third; Leslie Bald-
incumbnet, was fourth with
Bart Lewis, a newcomer to
political affairs, was fifth
349; E. C. Bodenheimer, in-
cumbent, was the sixth with 341.
Of those not winning seats on
the commission, James Owen, with
338, Ben Campen, Jr., incumbent,
with 291, and Gus S. Edens, with
245, finished in that order.
A. L. Boatwright and Warren
McNeill, unopposed for two places
on the Red Springs School Board,
ware re-elected.
Characterized by a drive of per
sonal contact and small group
work, the campaign was far dif
ferent from the bitter battle,
fought two years ago between the I
board will line up and how it will
effect the present compliment of
the town employees is yet to he
seen. Reece Snyder, town clerk and
Floyd Whitham, chief of police,'
have had numerous attacks level-;
ed at them during the campaign, |
and whether their heads are to
roll under the new administration
depends on how far Mayor Gran
tham will be able to carry his cam
paign promises to fruition.
Mr. Snyder was brought to Red;
Springs from High Fo:i.t nearly
two years ago under the
der administration as a
Alexan-
trained
and widely experienced adminis-
The annual spring conceit of
the Flora MacDonald College Glee
Club (above), will be presented in
the college auditorium on Sunday
afternoon, May 15, at 4:30. Robert
Reuter Dean of Music, will con-
Robins Go Atop
Weed Loop
trator of municipal affairs. He re ¬
placed Preston M. Covington who!
had held the post of town clerk, RED SPRINGS. — Bobbing up
for several years and was man-I with a 17 to 4 win over the Sanford
' Spinners Tuesday night, plus an
ager of the lucrative municipal
utilities system for about 20 years.
Mr. Covington has recently been
in Atlanta preparing for a tele
vision engineer post with a Char
lotte broadcasting firm, and re
cently stated that he was not in-
terested in returning to
Springs as town clerk.
Red
HECTOR McLEAN IS
LUMBERTON MAYOR
8 to 1 loss by the Wilmington Pi
rates to Smithfield-Selma, put the
Robins on top of the Tobacco State
league standings.
The Robins have a 7-2 win rec
ord, and the Pirates have won 7
and lost three, a half game ahead
of the Lumberton Auctioneers.
Dunn, Sanford, Smithfield, Fay
etteville and Clinton were strung
out in that order.
Few teams played more than
three games in the past week, with
nearly all having five or six rained-
out game since the opener, so a
long string of doubleheaders are
expected to begin next week.
City Clerk Re-
Appointed; Lindsay
talevens Jolls
^Id School Bus
Mayor Pro Tern
LUMBERTON.—Hector McLean
was named mayor of the City of
Lumberton yesterday at the initial
meeting of the new city counsell-
Jewelry Store
MAXTON — M. S. Singletary,
formerly of Bladen County, recent-
ly purchased Castevens
Jewelry
Store from C. M. Castevens,
Jr.,
School In RS
RED SPRINGS — The
bus drivers’ school for this
will be held on Tuesday,
annual
district
May 10.
duct the Glee Club,
cordially invited to
concert.
Sixteen members
T'ne public is
atte-41
of the
Club, accompanied by Dean
tiiis
Glee
Reu-
ter, wre guests at the banquet of
Cancer Drive In
Red Springs Ends
the Bankets Association at
Carolina Hotel
Pinehurst
Monday evening of this week.
Flora MacDonald girls were
the
on
The
tea-
tured in a musical program durin;
the banquet.
Mrs. Carrie Jones
Rites Held Monday
RED SPRINGS — Mrs. Carrie
Carter Jones, age 66, died at her
RED SPRINGS^Vith a $400,
goal to reach, Red Spri gs ended
its Cancer drive on Saturday, April
30, by going over the top on its
quota and receiving the sum total
of $401.32,. Soliciting was done
throughout the community by a
committee
composed of W.
Dorman, E. C. Bodenheimer, C. A.
Gardner, and Jasper Culbreth.
Mrs, Lacy John, in charge of the
drive at Robbins Cloth Mill, re
ported donations of $152.60 con
tributed by the employees there.
Neil P. Clinton, chairman of
local dfivrr in expressiny his
light ovre the outcome of
the
de-
the
like
solicitation, states, “I would
to thank all who participated in
'making this drive a great success.
The fine cooperation an i interest
shown by the generous donations
for such" a worthy cause will be
greatly appreciated.”
home in Red Springs Sunday
morning after an illness of two
years. She was a daughter of the
late John C. Carter and Ellender
Ingram of Cumberland County.
Mrs. Jones is survived by her
husband, John H. Jones;' four
sons, James Davis, of Red Springs,
Tom Jones of Chadbourn, Clar
ence Jones and Merlin Jones of
Fayetteville; three daughters, Mrs.
Irene Redmond of Red Springs,
Mrs. Beulah Williams of Spray,
Mrs. William Dennings of Virginia
Beach, Va.; five grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held from
the West Side Baptist Church
Monday at 4:00 FT M., conducted
by the pastor, Rev. Otha Hilliard,
assisted by Rev. E. C. Taylor and
Rev. ^. C McQueen, form. !- pas-
tors. Interment was in the
way cemetery.
Allo.
ors, and Carlton Lindsay
elected Mayor Pro Tern.
Mrs. Ruth S. Atkinson was
nimously re-elected city clerk.
was
una-
and is now in the process of open
ing for business as
Jewelry Store.
Singletary’s
Harold Kelly of Marion, is work-
at the Red. Springs High School
and will be opened to high school
students from the Maxton, Phila-
delphus, Parkton. St. Pauls, and
Bible Class To
Stage Program
MAXTON — Students of
Mrs.
MAXTON—Mrs. Maizelle
lianr chaiiman of the local
Fairmont Fat Stock
Show To Be Friday
IMPRESSIONS OF WASHINGTON
Spinners, Cherokees
In Game Saturday
The Lumberton Spinners and the
Cherokee Chapel nine will meet
Saturday night on Armory Field
in Lumberton. The game
called at eight o’clock.
The Lumberton team has
on the record with three
will be
three starts, but the visitors
for a chance to better their
of one win in three tries.
an edge
wins in
look
tally
Tom Thumb Show
Set For May 26
MAXTON — The Tom Thumb
Wedding, which was recently post
poned, will be presented by the
Junior Woman's Club and Kinder
garten, on Thursday evening, May
26th, at eight o’clock at the high
school auditorium.
The wedding is under the direc
tion of Mrs. J. B. Hord and ap
proximately 40 local tots are par
ticipating in the cast, which re
mains unchanged. Rehearsals will
begin about one weke prior to the
date of the wedding. Tickets al
ready purchased will still be ac
ceptable and more tickets will be
sold by pupils of the local schools.
Mrs. J. G. Gainey is serving as
ticket chairman. Mrs. J. P. Stan-
sel will be the accompanist for
the tiny tot wedding.
Operetta AI
Philadelphia
By Ann McArthur and
Eunice Duncan
At 3:30 the morning of April
18,
sixteen members of the senior
class of Red Springs High School,
chaperoned by Miss Bessie Cov
ington and Miss Cornelia Ayers,
set out "with kerchiefs, lunch
boxes, and suit cases for a much-
anticipated trip to Washington.
Stopping at St. Pauls, 18 of their
seniors and Mrs. Roebuck, their
sponsor, joined the sleepy group
on the bus and soon we. were well-
up the road towards our nation’s
capital.
We had our first glimpse of the
mighty Potomac from Mt. Vernon,
the first point of interest on our
schedule. From there we proceed
ed to the Washington Monument,
FAIRMONT.—Fairmont is set
for a big day of entertainment
Friday when a large crowd is ex
pected here for the Second Annual
Fairmont Fat Stock Show and
Sale.
M. S. Huston, chairman of the
show committee, reports that much
interest is being shown among
contestants and their friends; and
that he expects a record throng
here for the event.
The program is being sponsored
jointly by the Fairmont Chamber
of Commerce and Rotary and
Civitan clubs.
In addition to the show and sale,
there will be a
parade featuring
school band with
new uniforms.
A pit barbecue
gigantic street
the Fairmont
the twirlers in
dinner will be
Wil-
Can-
cer Drive sponsored by the Public
Welfare Department of the Max-
mar gravies of the Philadelphus
school are presenting an operetta,
Cinderella in Ft wA Land, on
Thursday, May 12, in the school
auditorium.
The following children will take
part: Arita Tyner, Louise Pre-
vatte, Jo Anne Knudson, Marjorie
Humphrey, Harry Davis, Jr.. De
laine Humphrey, Kathleen Davis,
Stanley Tyner, Billy Wright, Edna
the Jefferson Memorial, and
Arlington Cemetery, where
were very much impressed by
guard at the Tomb of the
known Soldier. After supper
the 1
we
the
at
the Arlington Hotel, a large num
ber of the party went to the city
to a movie.
The next two days kept us on
the go. Our sight-seeing included
the Smithsonian Institute end all
the buildings around it, tne Na
tional Gallery of Art, the Capitol,
the Supreme Cbur-t and F. B. I.
served at noon by the Fairmont
Grange and sandwiches and cakes
will be on sale during the day by
members of the Marietta Home
Demonstration club.
The program will be topped off
with a Minstrel show to be pre
sented at the school auditorium at
8 p. m. by the Fairmont Civitan
club.
SWINE
Seventy fat hogs will lie exhi
bited by forty-three 4-H Club mem-
buildings, the Folger Shakesper-
ian Library, Lincoln Memorial and
Museum the White House, Dee’s
bers in the Stock Show. They
been fed out from weaned
during the past four or
months as regular 4-H Club
have
Pigs
five
pro ¬
!jects. Fifty-six dollars in prize
money is offered for the three best
home,” the Washington Cathedral, I individual hog and pen of three
the Franciscan Monastery, and the I entries. Hogs entered will range
Zoo. Nights we went into Wash-' in weight from „160 pounds to 300
ington
prize
rrd went to the movies pounds and will be divided into
lightweight and heavy-weight class
or other places,
Thursday morning was free for
shopping, and we left for home
about 1 P. M. that afternoon. We
arrived in Red Springs late th^
night, tired but happy. Our trip
was a great success, surpassing a
our hopes. We , learned a rot
about our American heritage as
well as having a wonderful time
be! g there together. We le-om-
mend this’ trip to all fll ure
seniors, , - ,
es. Champion and Reserve Cham
pion ribbons will be presented to
the winners in each class.
The following is a list
boys and girls who have
their hogs in the show:
Allenton Club: Elwood
Lloyd West, Bobby West,
of the
entered
West.
Ronald
ing with Mr. Singletary, who is at
present attending the School of
Watchmaking in Spencer. Mr.
of commissioners and the swear- Kelly is a graduate of the School
ing in of the new counsellors by of Horology in Spencer and is an
Ed J. Glover.
The election of officials followed
the final meeting of the old board
Red Springs schools.
The drivers’ tests and
safety
. Kittle business was
and the counsellors will hold an
adjourned session Monday after-|
noon. First business of the group
will be selection of a city mana
ger.
experienced watch repairman. The
transacted ; shop is now open for watch and
jewelry repair and a fine line of
jewelry and rings is being stock-
In the election held Tuesday H.
Marvin Barker led the ticket with
ed for future sale.
Mrs. Singletary was Miss Elea
nor McQueen before her marriage
and is now making her home with
her father, Chief of Police John
109 votes. Hector McLean tallied' W. McQueen, while■ Mr. S^ngietary
Cecil Thompson 105, Carlton, is attending school.
undsa e y c w a°nd P R A Hedgpeth .Singletary and Mr. Kelly are army
I veterans of World War 11.
Hellekson, Marlin, Phillips, McGirl
Elected In Maxton
Evans Is Mayor
study course on traffic regulations
will be conducted by a representa
tive of the North Carolina Division
of Highway Safety.
All schools having prospective
bus drivers for the coming school
year are urged to send them to
this training school for prepara
tion.
Arch Campbell’s Bible classes at
the Maxton public schools, will
present a Bible program on Wed
nesday evening, May 11th, at eight
o’clock at the high school audi
torium.
ton Junior Woman’s Club, an- 1 Rose Duncan, Linda Parnell, Nor-
nounced this week that the drive ma Jean Boyles, Francis Gibson,
had been completed and
topped
the local quota of two hundred
dollars with a total of
$279.55
turned over to the Robeson Coun
ty Chapter of the American Can-
I cer Society.
MAXTON—335 of the 483 regis
tered voters of Maxton went to
the polls in Maxton Tuesday to
name T. O. Evans, Jr., who was
unopposed, as Mayor of the town.
R. E. Hellekson, L. B. Martin, Jr.,
Percy Phillips, and Murphy Mc-
Girt were elected commissioners.
The first meeting of the new
town officers will be held Monday
Patrol Head Still
Not Named By Gov
night, when they will be sworn in.
The official tally was as fol-
The official
LUMBERTON — The appoint
ment of “Tony” Tolar as head of
the State Highway Patrol, which
was announced last week on con
firmation by Mr. Tolar, has not
yet been made by Governor Scott.
Mr. Tolar has been accused of
lows: „ ,
T. O. Evans, Jr., 292; R. E. Hel-
lekson, 289; L. B. Martin, Jr., 283;
Percy Phillips, 275; Murphy Mc-
Girt, 248; Gus Speros, 68; Charles
Brewington, 42.
Mrs. J. L. Pace, registrar, con
ducted the election with the help
of E T. Carrowan and W. M. Cur
rie.
an attempt to “fix”
citation in .Scotland
a speeding
Neck last
County Bus Service
Begins Saturday
Alton Hunt has announced that
beginning Saturday he will run a
bus twice each Saturday over a
route beginning at Stone’s Store
on US 301 and running through
McDonald, Fairmont, Rowland,
Prospect, Pembroke, and Union
Chapel to Red Springs; the bus
will return to Stones over the
same route. The schedule calls for
one round trip each Saturday morn
ing leaving Stone’s at 7 o’clock,
and an afternoon trip beginning
at 1 o’clock.
Alton Hunt, proprietor of Chero
kee Strip service station on the
Lumberton-Rowland highway for
eight years, has operated two
buses for Daystrom Laminates,
Inc., for almost 4 years. Prior to
that time he carried war workers
to Fort Bragg. His equipment con
sists of two 28-passenger busses
with modern Wayne bodies; one
of the buses is new and has been
run less than 1900 miles. Buses will
Adrian McRae School Bd. Chairman;
Committees Hamed For Co. Schools
Dale Cleiss, Sophie Arm McColl,
Margaret Ann Quick, Betty Jean
Powers, Lessie Rae Hanchey,
Francis Ann Lewis, Mary Ellen
Ellis(. Edna Mae O’Briant, Lora
Ann Tyner, Carolyn Taylor. Eliza
beth Duncan, Martha Lou Brisscr.,
J. C. Odom,’ Martin McColl, Don
ald McNeill, Irvin McNeill, Dickie
Batten, and Kenneth Tyner.
Red Springs Student
Awarded Scholarship
RED SPRINGS — Archibald
Tames McNeill, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. McNeill of Red Spring,
has been selected by the Navy as
one of the 13 candidates from
North Carolina for its four-year
scholarship program, beginning
Isaac M. Jordan
Passes In Red Springs
RED SPRINGS—Isaac Jor
dan age 68, died at the home of
his daughter, Mrte, Annie Beck,
Red Springs, with whom he had
lived for the past eight months.
Until his retirement two years ago,
Mr. Jordan was a farmer of Con
way, S. C.
He is survived by one daughter,
Mrs Annie Beck of Red Springs,
one son, Mack Jordan of Conway,
S. C., and one sister, Mrs. Sarah
Cooper of Conway.
Funeral services were held at
Juniper Bay Baptist Church near
Conway, at 2:00 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon, conducted by the for
mer pastor, the Rev. Davis Har
rell, and assisted by the Rev. Otho
Hilliard, pastor of the West-Side
Baptist Church of Red Springs.
Interment followed in the church
cemetery.
Resolution Praises
N. A. Townsend,
Will Hammonds
Brake, W. A. McCormick, Jr.
MAXTON—J. D. Medlin, G. P.
Henderson, Mrs. M. P.
College Gets Gift
From Donaldson Fund
With the 1949-50 term.
■Arch” was graduated from the
high school of Presbyterian Col
lege in Maxton last year with the
highest scholastic grades in his
class, and is this year a member
of the freshman class at Georgia
Tech in Atlanta, where he is ma
joring :»i' engineering. His mater
nal grandfather, the late Dr. Alex
ander Mack of Decatur, Ga., prac
ticed medicine in Red Springs in
his
Musselwhite, Laverne West, Len
nie Ruth West, Eugene West.
B. T. Club: Dwight Kinlaw,
Billy Byrd, E. G. Inman, Alex Mc
Lean, Jr., Dewey Inman, Norwood
Powers, Douglas Edge Buddy How
ell Mary Powers, Jimmy Wilkins,
Naish Powers, Henry Powers.
Smith’s Club: Robert Lewis Kin-
law, Delton Cain, Asberry Hayes,
Rwood Wilkins, Edward Wilkins,
Jackie Wilkins, Jimmy Sessoms,
Barbara Jean Wilkins, Gordon
Baxley.
Red Springs Club: Ernest Brun
er.
Rozier-Saddletree Club: Worth
Humphrey, Asburn Baxley.
Rowland Club: William T. Pow
ell.
Orrum Club: Harold Tharp.
Parkton Club: Clyde McGoogan.
South Robeson: Gene Hill, Mark
Collins, Aubry Morgan, Bobby
Floyd.
Tolarsville: Gerald Graham,
George Monroe.
Barnesville: John Howard Sott,
Steve Leggette.
Fairmont Club: Ezra Page, Jr.
fall. The police chief of Scotland
Neck has been quoted as saying
that when stopped Tolar asked
him to forget it” as he was “due
to be appointed head of the State
Highway Patrol.” A companion
of Mr. Tolar at the time says that
he made so such statement.
Springers Defeat
Fairmont 1 To 0
RED SPRINGS.—Red Springs
Hi defeated Fairmont in a tight
pitcher’s duel Tuesday by a 1-0
score. Ertel Edwards, the Spring
ers pitcher, tossed great ball in
the clutches and struck out 15.
Edwards allowed only 4 hits.
Ford, who beat Red Springs last
Wednesday, giving them the only
loss of the season, pitched 2 hit
ball but his walk to Beck and his
wild throw to Edward’s bunt scor
ed Beck with the only run in the
bottom of the 9th. By virtue of
the win, Red Springs took over
undisputed possession of first
place in the District IV Class B
race.
MAXTON—The American Le
gion is staging a fish fry cn Fri
day evening, May 6th, at the Le
gion Hut, with proceeds going for
more equipment on the new Le
gion playground project.
be available for special trips
vhree.
any-
District Legion
Meelina May 10
The newly elected RobesOn
County Board of Education held
its initial meet’ng last Friday and
was sworn in by Clerk of Superior
Court B. F. McMillan. The board,
composed of I. P. Graham, George
T. Ashford. W. Scott Shepherd,
Grady Townsend and .A. B. McRae,
named. Mr .McRae chairman. Mr.
McRae was also chairman of the
board which has just finished its
term of office
The Friday meeting was chief
ly for organizational purposes, a
matter which had to be postponed
on April 4 because the legislature
had not at that time named the
board, but several delegations
were heard after the members
took their oath of office, and ap
pointment of school committees
was begun.
The regular, session Monday was
largely occupied during the morn-
Mrs. Rosa Croom
Hamer.
PHILADELPHUS
Mrs.
James,
John
John
Brown, W. Pope Humphrey, John
Pat Buie, Rowland Townsend,
Rooert Williams.
PEMBROKE—J.
K. Culbreth G. E.
PARKTON—Dr.
John G. Hughes,
H. Hood,
Bracy.
w.
D. S. Currie,
James Parnell,
W. G. Marley, F. P. Edwards
ST. PAULS—Dr. J. F. Nash,
Walter Smith, T. J. Allen, Jr.,
Avery Powers, W. D. McCormick.
BARKER TEN - MILE — C.
C Hatchell, Vester Musselwhite,
Charlie Malone, Rowland Mussel-
white, J. Bradley Smith.
SMITHS—Sandy Kinlaw, John
Kinlaw, J. Gurvin Sessoms.
ALLETON—Shelton West,
John
Ns, ce, Harry Taylor, Clarence
Phillips, Rudolph Meares.
ORRUM—Okey Stephens, P. A.
ing with hearing
recommendations
by
requests and
from county schools.
‘ ernoon session the
school committees was
MAXTON—The annual meeting completed, and the board
of the American Legion will be
held in Maxton next Tuesday
night, May 10, with a supper serv
ed by members of the local Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary at 7:30
o’clock. The local post, No. 117,
will be hosts at the meeting.
The nine posts of District 13,
in Scotland and Robeson counties,
will be represented at this meet
ing with Morrison Peterson of
Red Springs, district commander,
presiding. Division Commander
Louis Parker of Elizabethtown,
will be one of the special guests.
Mr. Parker is being mentioned as
a candidate for commander of the
North Carolina State Department
of the American Legion.
Approximately fifty Legion
naires are expected to attend this
meeting and election Of new dis
trict officers will be held at this
time. Delegates from the local
post will be Commander Percy
Phillips, Russell Hellekson and R.
F. Morris.
delegations
In the aft-
matter of
largely
made
plans to visit each school under
its jurisdiction within the next ten
days, as a preparation for plan
ning the new construction. re
pairs' and remodeling provided in
the recently approved $3 million
bond issue.
The board declined to accept
the resignations of John Pat Buie
and P. A. McRae from the boards
of Philadelphus
and Orrum
schools, and passed a resolution
in commendation of the long and
faithful service of N. A. Townsend
and Will Hammonds at Barker
Ten-Mile and Magnolia.
School committees to direct the
units under the county board have
been named as follows, the com-
mittee for Little Zion
and for Pembroke and
(Negro) schools have not
appointed.
(Indian)
Parkton
yet been
WHITE
ROWLAND—R. L. Campbell, J.
C. Ward, Lindsey Norment, R, W.
McRae, Walter Lewiss, J.
son, Lawrence Freeman.
LONG BRANCH —
Rice, Eddie Meshaw,
Britt.
H, John-
Durham
Johnson
BARNESVILLE-E. T. Lewis,
H. D. Herring, Wilbur Britt, C. A.
Sealey, Edwin O. Johnson.
WEST LUMBERTON — E. L.
Musselwhite, John H. Britt, Ral
eigh Farmer.
EAST LUMBERTON — W. J.
Coleman C. F. Flowers, C. L.
Clewis.
INDIAN
PEMBROKE HS — Burleigh
Lowry, Willoughby, Tracy Samp-
son, Marvin Lowry, John
Lowry.
PEMBROKE GRAMMAR
R.
Willard Oxendine, Joe F. Oxen
dine, Lacy Cummings.
DEEP BRANCH — Archie Low
ry, Ed. Sampson, Leonard Hunt.
HARPERS FERRY—Franklin
Dial, Albert Locklear, Clarence
Oxendine.
HOLLYWOOD—Gilbert Bullard,
Haywood Locklear, Hector Lock-
leaf.
HOPEWELL — John Bunyan
Locklear, Mrs. Dora Lowry, Mc-
kinley Strickland.
PROSPECT — Neil A. Lowry,
Continued on Page 4
MAXTON — A gift of $900.00
from the Donaldson Fund has
been received by Presbyterian
Junior College, in accordance with
an action of the Donaldson Fund
trustees last year. The money
will be used for the operation
fund of the college. The Donald
son Fund was established from
the proceeds realized from the
sale of the Donaldson Academy
buildings to the Fayetteville City
Schools some, years ago. The
trustees of the fund are elected by
Fayetteville Presbytery.
In April, 1832, at a meeting of;
Fayetteville Presbytery held in
Centre Church, three miles from
the present site of Presbyterian
Junior College, a committee of
education was appointed to receive
gifts from the congregations and
to advise and assist young men
who wished to study for the gos
pel ministry. The record is that
“At the house of the Rev. John
McIntyre, where many of the
brethren staid on their return
from Presbytery, the subject of
a Manual Labor School was' in
troduced and apparently met the
views of all present.”
Shortly afterward Mr. Robert
Donaldson of New York agreed
to give a lot in Fayetteville for
the proposed school. The next;
year the school was organized ini
the session house of the Presby-1
terian Church in Fayetteville and I
chartered by the state legislature.!
The school continued many years
in Fayetteville and after its close
income from the fund was help
ful in founding and supporting
Presbyterian Junior College.
Steals Ford
Instead Of Buick
MAXTON—Passing up a
Buick, a thief took a 1949
parked next to it, last night
1949
Ford
both
cars had the keys left in them.
The theft occurred in front of
the M. P. James home on Flor
ence Street some time during the
hour before 7:30 when the theft
was discovered and reported
Chief of Police McQueen.
to
its early years.
On completion of their four-
year college ROTC training, which
will include summer classes, the
candidates who were awarded
these scholarships will be given * MfUfAV rlr*H
Men 1946 Must
commissions in the Naval Reserve. |
and must serve at least two full.|
years full-time active duty. The
program is designed to supple
ment Annapolis 'Naval Academy in
Questionnaire
providing officers for the Navy.
PJC Christian Assn.
Chooses New Officers
MAXTON-Student elections for
officers of the Student Christian
Association resulted in the choice
of Boyd Hector Smith, Morgan-
to', as president; Sydney Venable
Carraway, Farmville, as vice-presi-
dent; and Coy Thomas
All men between the ages of 19
and 26 who have not filled out a
Selective Service (draft board!
questionnaire since they last reg
istered, must do so at once. This
information was released by the
Robeson County
your Hometown
Tuesday.
Questionnaires
Draft Board to
Newspaper on
have been mailed
to those registered with the board
Fields l in ” the 19-26 a & e groups. If any
Carthage as secretary-treasurer.
These new officers will be inau
gurated May 3 and serve for a
year.
member of this group did not re-
Parents, interested persons and
others are cordially invited to at
tend this annual program which
is presented by grammar school
and high school students of Bible
under Mrs. Arch Campbell.
turn the questionnaire or did not
receive one. he is required to go
to the draft board office in Lum
berton and fill one in at once.
The Robeson County Draft Board
offices are located in the Rowland
building in Lumberton. opposite the
Freeman Printing Company on
West Fifth street. Office hours are
from 8:30 to 5:30. The office is
closed all day Saturday.
Registration For Referendum On
$225 Million Bond Issue Opens Sal
Registration begins Saturday for
the June 4 election to decide wheth
er the state will issue $200,000,000
in road bonds and $25,000,000 in
school bonds. The regstration will
continue each Saturday for three
weeks and the election will be on
Saturday, June 4. It is not a new
registration and only those not on
the books register.
Big question in the election is
the monster road bond which was
roads at the same time that new
surfacing was addde on the sec
ondary system. Governor Scott has
said that the secondary system is
of utmost importance in the trans
portation of school children.
The $25,000,000 referendum was
approved by the legislature to
supplement a like amount appro
priated bp it for the use of county
school systems in building and re-
I pair. The fund is to be distributed
a major item in Governor Scott’s t0 counties on the basis of average
. 1116 m ° ne y school attendance.
would go for farm roads through-
I campaign platform.
out the state and would be an
about face in the state’s policy of
Paying for roads out of current
funds. It would provide funds for
the roads now, and Governor Scott
proposes to spend the entire bond
issue in four years. Previous road
McMullan,
According co Harry
State Attorney General the cost
of the referendum will be borne
by the state, although the respon
sibility for the cost was not spe
cified by the legislature. Estimated
cost of the election will be $130,-
programs have built up the primary 000.