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SELF. YOUR TOBACCO AT HOME "' IN ROBESON COUNTY & ^eh Springs Citizen ONE OF ROBESON COUNTY’S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS Vol. 53 No. 3 ZZ rAGtS ^ed Springs, N. C” THU.SDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1949 - Fairmont Market Set For Opening Bay Sales FAIRMONT—All of Fairmont and vicinity this week was eagerly awaiting the opening of der Belt market next August 2. Local tobacconists who the Bo:- Tuseday. attended the opening of tae Georgia-Florida markets Tuesday were highly op timistic upon their return, and joined Fairmont Sales Supervise Charlie Stafford in predicting a banner yea: for the Fairmont market. " Last minute preparations were being made in the town’s 20 auc tion warehousse for handling of this year’s leaf crop and ware housemen are reported ready to give tobacco growers the same prompt and courteous service they have always received here. Sales wil open at 9 a. m. and Funeral Sun. For Walter S. James No Arrests will be conducted for 2 hours and 45 minutes in the mornings and for a similar period in the after noons. □ Four sets of tobacco buyers will Xbe on the Fairmont market again this year. All of these buyers, with combined experience of many .years, have a host of farmer farmer friends who a; e welcoming them back to town. Many of them have ben buying for years on the local market. Many of Fairmont’s tobacco handling facilities have been en larged since the past season. Person and Garrett Tobacco company has added a new, large, modern redrying machine and had increased tobacco handling space by 20,000 feet. Also, a sprinkler system has been installed in order to reduce fire hazard. Imperial Tobacco company also has installed a sprinkler system and a large force has been here tor the past st: a 5 nrontns checking and working on machin- ery. imperial mode, nized plant here. Planters Corp, and remodeled has its been Improvements als« have noted at the prize houses operat ed by Liggett and Myers, Export Tobacco Company, American Sup pliers, R. J. Reynolds and W. H. Graves Tobacco company. Branch managers who have ar- Fairmont in preparation opening of the market (lived in for the include: John Garrett T. D. Planters W. H. R. Hodges, Person and Tobacco company. International Herndon, Corp. GBraves, W. H. Graves Tobacco company. Harrell Carter, American Sup- MAXTON Funeral serveies were held at 2:30 o’clock on Sun day at the First Presbyterian No arrests had been made in the Pembroke Bank robbery at a late hour yesterday. Mem bers of the Robeson County sheriff’s department and ol the FBI were still concentrating company Church in 3. James, broker and of Maxton, Laurinburg, for Waiter 55, Laurinburg cotton brother of M, P. James who died Fridav night on the case, but no new dence was released. evi- in a Mt. Airy hospital. Funeral services we.e conducted by Dr. 3. H. Fulton and interment was at Hillside cemetery. Mr. James was born County March 8, 1894, late Alexandr Land Patterson James. He in Scotland son of the and Mary was a vet- Brothers Held For Assaulting Constable Gray Erberl J. Wallers [Ousting Plane Died Wednesday Pilot Injured After Short Illness RED SPRINGS—Funeral ser vices for Erhert Jennins Walters, 34, were held Friday morning at the home on South Main Street, with the Rev. Graham Eubank, pastor of Trinitv Method's! Church, officiating. Burial was in Alloway Cemetery. Pall bearers were: John Mc Arthur, Jr., Bill King, Thomas Walters, Bill McArthur, Smith Civerstreet, Hecto Watson. Bobby Graham, and Mickey Crips. Mr. Walters, veteran of World War was Two and farmer-merch"nt, taken ill Sunday, suffe ing MLAXTON—Brooks Sumner, Jr. 28, of Hartsville, S. C., received se vere head and face lacerations, an eye injury and several fractured ribs and numerous cuts over his body when his plane crashed Fri day morning while crop dusting near Rowland for Mosely Crop Dusting Company. The pilot was taken immediate- lyly to the Scotland County Memo rial Hospital where doctors de scribe his condition as good and gave him a chance for recovery. The accident occured when the plane Sumner was flying struck a high tension wire after making a dusting pass on the Grady Currin frdm an infected tooth. Rneumon-[ ia developed. He died Wednesday evening at Pittman Hospital, Fay- 1 etteville^ The son Walters of of Mr. and Mrs. E. J Wakulla, he was mar farm near Rowland. The plane totally destroyed. This is the second dusting hap reported bv counts flyir" cerns ■ this season. was mis Hudson Predicts Fine Season For Lumberton Mart Improvement AI Flora MacDonald Include Kitchen and Dormitories RED SPRINGS—Since the close of the young peoples’ conferences 2 Carlyle Aids Quit By MARION ALEXANDER which brought about 650 people and their leaders to MacDonald during June and a number of improvements been made at the college. young Flora July, have eran of World War I and a mem ber of the James Company en gaged in the cotton produce and agriculture business in Laurin burg. He was visiting his father- in-law, E. C. Foy, Sr., of Mt. Airy, with his wife, when he was strick en ill. Surviving are his wife, the for. mer Miss Frances Foy of Mt. Airy, two daughters, Scherer Grace and Frances Louise, one sister, Miss Pattie James of Laur inburg; and three brothers, Major A. L. James of Charlotte, A. Hand Janies of Raleigh and M. P. James of Maxton. FAIRMONT — Four Marietta [ Negro brothers are facing trial in Fairmont Recorders court next Tuesday on charges of assault with deadly weapon with intent to .... L.e former Miss Mary Hod-, gin. He is survived by his parents, j his wife and one daughter, Carol- 1 ine. Also surviving are three sis- [ ters: Mrs. Leon Spencer of Flor- ried to the Cashwell dent but Veterans also had a similar acci- is now improving at the Hospital in Fayetteville. kill, as the result of an at Marietta Saturday which Constable Dolph disarmed and beaten. altercation night in Gray, was •’nce, Mrs. Truman Brock of Laurinburg, and Mrs. Hampton Nicholson of Wagram. Airbase Buildings Leased For Cotton Storage Houses Having Fun Rewards 4-H’ers In National Recreation Program The 199 National 4-H Recreation and Rurlf Arts prog’-am—a new in the field of sponsored 4-H in comer activities—is well launched North Carolina, according to State Extension office, State lege of Agriculture. Introduced only last year, the Col- the P W. B. Williams, Liggett and Myers. Jeff Kiny, R. J. Reynolds. R H. Potts, Jr., Export Tobacco ^Cfcoppy Fields, Imperial Tobacco .company. No Parking In Front Maxton Post Office MAXTON—At a meeting of the Town Board held on Monday even ing, it was decided to enforce the no parking restriction on the circle of Main Street in, front of the pos office. Mention has been made fre quently to members of the board about the congested parking at the post office during rush hours and this practice is considered unlaw ful. Automobile drivers are asked to comply with this ordinance. The brothers also will be given I hearings on charges af assaultin an officer, resisting arrest and in terfering with an officer in the dis charge of his duties. The defendants are Ray, Frank, James and Henry Cammedo, ran gingin age from 17 to 30. Frank and James are at liberty under bond pending the preliminary hearing, while the other two bro thers are being held in the county jail. ' ,! Rural Policeman Bill Lewis and Lee Shepard, who investigated, re ported that Constable Gray was disarmed by Ray Cammedo and beaten bv the 'bur brothers with bottles after hr had attempted to place Henry under arrest on a charge of public drunkenness. The four then flashed the pistol Jail, Ag. Building Get New Paint the jail Painting of the interior of jailer’s quarters at the county was completed this week and work on the exterior woodwork at the Agriculture Building continues. On I the inside of the latter building several rooms have been refinished and the couny agent’s office has been completed. The interior of the jail proper was painted last year, according to County Manager Reynolds. Work on the Agriculture Building had been long delayed and is being done to preserve the woodwork as well as to improve the appearance of the structure. MAXTON — The Edenburg Com pany, which is connected with Morgan Cotton Mills of Laurin burg, has leased buildings at the Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base from the towns of Maxton and Laurin burg. to be used as cotton storage warehouses. The lease covers ten years with the privilege of renewing each ten years over a period of forty years. The contract signed by officials of the Edenburg company is subject to action by the Federal Govern ment in the case of transfer of the property back to the United States for a national defense program. Leasing of the buildings has been These, improvements, under the supervision of Dr. C. T. Johnson, chairman of the buildings and grounds committee for the board of trustees, have centered chiefly in the kitchen department. This department, which already con tains excellent new equipment, is being entirely remodeled and mod ernized into a model kitchen, in accordance with the regulations of the State Board of Health. A new refrigeration plant, with two units for vegetables and meats, has been installed; a com pletely reconditioned storage room for foods is almost com pleted; all the walls have been re- plastered, new floors finished with quarry tile, and new and adequate drainage has been installed. A complete hot water system has been installed throughout the college buildings, and new equip ment is being added to the music and business departments and to the science laboratory. The work begun last year in the dormitories will be completed before the opening of college in Miss Maitland Kinlaw and Marion J. Shuffler, secretar ial aides to Congressman F Er- tel Carlye gave notice of their resignation last Fridav will terminate their jobs July 31. Congressman cently appointed assistants. Steve Fayetteville and and on Carlyle re- t-vo other Nimocks of Mrs. K. S. Beam of Lumberton. Neither Miss Kinlaw nor Mr. Shuffler would give a reason for thir resignation. Maxton Misses At Girls' Stale MAXTON—Misses Ann McLeod and Betty Evans are among the two bundled and twenty-six girls attending the 10th annual Heel Girls’ State, being held wee,k at Woman’s College Greensboro, sponsroed by Tar this in the the fall. This includes the refur-j nishing of all robots on Fleming Ha’I, by the women of the church in Orange Presbytery, and those pending for nearly,a rear ard has - Verdel’Second. by the Women now been approved all tV way 0 f the Church, in Wilmington through by the Civil Aeronautics Presbytery. North Carolina American Legion A" ciliary. The local girls, standing members senior class at who are out. of the rising i School, are delegates Maxton Hi eh The Lumberton Tobacco . Mar ket, which has grown from^S to 39 million pounds in only 26 years, is all set to open what is expected to be one of the finest seasons in its history on Tuesday, August 2nd. In fact, many of the local wate.- hoUsemen, who rank with best end most experienced judges of tobacco in the business, predict! cd today that the 1949 sales will push, if not quite equal, the all- time record. Their predictions, of course, were based on the prices being paid or. the early sales:in Georgia, plus the fact that the Border Belt crop is gehefal'y, though sdmeyyha,t and it brings a good in quality, off in weight. better price’ be- cause it is graded and tied. No matter whether the opening day average is 45 or 50 cents, To bacco Town, as Lumberton is fast becoming known, was all-optimism today, and the local tobacconists and merchants were busy com pleting final preparations for the big event—Opening Day. Lumberton will greet the new season with the same adequate facilities and staff as Is,st season. This includes buyers from all the. major companies, three large in dependent companies With their own re-drying plants in the same, town, and six firms operating ninj warehouses with a prompt, high sale by each firm every day. ■ The personnel on the warehouse floors, which is made up of the most skilled and experienced sales managers, auctioneers, clerks, and hire. assistants that money can will also In familiar to Lumbe: •My and sat- ton*' tho ands of isfied patrons. In fact, the only portance are that E. C. Lacks, Paul Legion Auxiliary, this, being the first year the local Organization has sent delegates. changes, i f irii- Wyatt Chaffin, Edmunds, and J Administration. Highlight of the week’s program will be an all-day tour to Ralegh to visit the state capitol and vari- Grad-dock Chaffin, who have been Food Handlers Need Health Certificates .38 Colt special—at bystanders nea: E. M. Spivey’s store. Some of the spectators fled and others were herded by the brothers into the store, the officers said. The; the brothers departed —a N^T IRIES NAMED program has already chalked up an unusually good record which in cludes 7,150 junior and 4,390 adult 4-H Club leaders in recreation. In addition, 1,005 clubs in 44 states were awarded blue ribbons for out standing performance; 350 counties won $25 each in cash toward buy ing recreational equipment; 21 states received $50 each for crafts i : premiums, while five boys and three i girls were given educational trips to the National 4-H Club Congress | in Chicago. A total of $25,280 will again be' awarded in the same manner by United States Rubber compan”, I sponsors of the program. Awards 1 I are based on well-rounded recrea- tion activities developed and car-. j ried out by local 4-H Clubs. The ' eight trips are provided for 4-H’ers j who have excelled in recreation I leadership. Among the events designed for club groups are indoor and outdoor games; dances, festivals, fours and plays. For members there are nu- I merous types of recreation such as leather, metal or wood craft; stage and set designing; sports and hob bies; singing or dancing leader, an serving as a committee-member. Warren Mallard of Trenton, ar eight-year 4-H’er , was one of the 1948 trip winners. Counties win- ning the $25 cash award were: Jones, Wlayne, Iredell, Cleveland Guilford, Mecklenburg and John ston. North Carolina also received $50 for crafts premiums. The entire program is conducted "no parking” sign will be posted under the supervision of the Co at this spot in the near future. operative Extension Service. Georgia Market Opens al About $50; leaf Quality Beller Than last Year the Se Henry who was injured in the scuffle for the gun, was located later that night at Mullins hospit- al and arrested. was found and arrested at Lake View Sunday and Constable .recovered in Marion Gray’s gun The other brothers were brought to Rural Policeman Shepard by their father, the officers reported. Dr. E. R. Hardin, county health 1 officer has issimd a statement re minding all cafe proprietors that | M’s. Mildred 3. Council of lt i Peuls and Mrs. Ramona health certificates are necessary | on all employees. The reminder is issued for the particular bene fit of cafes open only during to- bacco season and of year-arouna cafes who will employ additional help during the rush season. Dr. Hardin’s statement: ■ The managers of all cafes, ho, ex- Thorndyke of Lumberton St. W. were named notaries public this week by Governor W. Kerr Scott. [ New Doctor Arrives In Maxton This Week i te’s and meat markets, who j fiect to employ additional help for the tobacco season, shall require j FAIRMONT—A town ordinance limiting automobile parking in the business district was passed Thursday night by the Fairmont hoard of commisionefs. The new ordinance will take ef fect Monday, Aug.. 1 First offense for overtime park ing will be punishable by impris onment for 1 day of $1 fine. Sub sequent offensese will be l ,uniu " I able by 10 days imprisionment or all new employes, before begin ning work, to submit a medical health certificate, signed by a health officer, certifying that said employees are free from com- n.unieable diseases. Each health certificate shall be renewed an nually. All seasonal cafes shall have on file a medical heath cer tificate for each employee, before MAXTON-Dr. J. J. Bunn of Mt Pleasant will arrive in Maxton on Wednesday or Thursday and will open his offices next to the Safe way Market upon his arrival. Dr. Bunn is a physician and surgeon Rites For Child Held MAXTON Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at Bethesda cemetery, Aberdeen, for Thomas Edgar Bow- man,, four-year-old son of Mr. and ous administrative buildings oil Thursday. An intensive period of instruction in government has been outlined for the visiting gills with the study program planned by officers of the Legion Aux- associated with Britt’s Warehouse for several yea.i's, will become the r41e.proprietorsrthis year. The proprietors o ^ Lumberton S other warehouses, who rank with the best in the game, are: a permit to operate a cafe Robeson County is issued. in Mrs. Edgar B. Bowman »f Selma, The week of instruction will be The child died in Alabama als0 suppl i me nted by a variety of Carolina Warehouses Johnson, Adrian; McRae; J. E. Marvin Ala. on Monday. Surviving are sisters, and his and Mrs. H. E. his parents, three grandparents, Dr. Bowman of Aber- recreation and social events. 175 communities of North Carolina are represented by the 226 Roycroft, and Alf Forbes. Dixie Warehouses — Neil Mc Keithen, F. K. Biggs, Sr., Alex Kinlaw, and Joe Sharpe. gates. deen. ! Parents of the child are well known in Maxton, Mr. Bowman p n li o Case having managed the Maxton and comes to Maxton highly tec- theatre several years ago. ommended. $14,000 Budget Is Set For Pembroke; Property Valuation ls$90y45 dele- Hedgpeth Warehouses — Hedgpeth, Johnny Royctoft, Rom H. H. Hicks, and R. L. Rollins. Liberty Warehouses — Ed Wil kins, Frank White, H. D. (Mutt) T The Georgia—Florida tobacco I ma-kets opened Tuesday with ar average estimated at ab^^t ^^ £ This nuts the price ’ower than the record of’ $53.20, but Indicates a border ^elt average of somewhede ( near $55. Yield this 18 per cen* the ouality to be better. year is estimated at above last year, and is generally exnecte’ The total income ma’' the Valdosta than on last and growers mood. h-tter Po''nda"'e O’ market was greats yeor^ o-ienio" were in a holiday The departm. nt ci ag/culturr estimated a drop of iron $1 to $- in top grades, medium was off $ to $9, and common qut 'ity and lugs dropped from $5 to $11. Market offerings, comnarod with last year, showed a greats. BOYD WILLIAMS will teach science at Pembroke State College next year. Mr. Williams replaces M”;. C. G. Phillips, according to an ■ L. vuneement 1 astweek by Dr. R. L. Wellons. A case of polio has been report ed to the County Health Depart ment by Dr. J. L. Shepherd of Pembroke. A four year old child, Delano Godwin, son of James Leonard Godwin, Pembroke, was first stricken on July 17; the case was reported on July 22 and Ahe Goode, Jr. Smith and Russell Livermore. Warehouses Tom J. $ The ordinance provided that vi olators may waive indictment oay fines to the town clerk. ■ The ordinance also provided a UPminute parking \ be eastern side of main street and the southern side of Center street ad jacent to the Waccamaw Bank & Lions Continue Musical Programs LUMBERTON — At Armory Field Sunday night the Lions Club continued its weekly music program under the stars to the delight of a small crowd of music „ and on the eastern side , lovers. .a to the The Trust Co., — of Main street adjacent to oostoffice. The 1-hour and 10-minute p - ing limits will be effective from 8 a. m. until 6 p. m. of “any day ex cept Sundays and legal holidays observed by the closing 0 sore in the Town of Fairmont’. One-hour parking will be enfor ced in the following areas: 1. Main street frm the ALL railrad suth to intersection of Red Cross street. 2. Center street from Main street east to Walnut street. . 3. Thompson street from Main street to intersection with McLean street, McLean street being ad jacent - to the eastern me line of the Farmers Warehouse property, street 4. Iona street from Main west to intersection with street. Dead Beats Make At Lions Meeting George program Gershwin’s consisted of Concerto in F, played by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra; followed by Ava Maria (Bach-Gounod’s), Now The Day Is Over, Holy, Holy, Holy, This Is My Father’s World, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, No body Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen—all being sung by the Fred Waring Glee Club. The program ended with the playing of Hadyn’s Symphony No. 97 in C. PEMBROKE — The budget as outlined for the Town of Pem broke for the year 1949-50 amounts to $24,000. The income anticipated is as follows: $15,500 property tax, $1,- 000 privilege tax, $6,500 water in come, $375 intangible, $125 pav ing tax, $500 miscellaneous. Outgo anticipated is as follows: $5,250 salaries, $2,000 labor, $350 insurance, $1,000 street lights, $700 electric power for pumps, $450 gas and ‘oil for truck, $100 truck repairs, $600 supplies, $1,- 000 truck payments, $500 street plow payments, $225 postage and stationery, $3,000 bond payments, $1,350 interest payments, $1,000 ditching, $3,500 addition and re- paiis to water and sewer system, $1,500 miscellaneous expense, $1,- 475 surplus anticipated. Property Valuation The total property valuation amounts to $909,945, which can be broken down to the following fig ures: real estate, $409,765; per-, sonal property $395,180; utilities,. $105,000. The property valuation for the year 1948-49 was $733,690 which was $176,255 less than this year. The increase this year is due to new buildings erected in the town and selling of farm land as city property lots. Non-Service Disability May Bring Pension North Carolina vetera» s of Floyd Dead RED SPRINGS — The Peats, an organization composed if five loaal musicians, made their first apnearance Tuesday evening I.ions before Club. the Red Springs The group presented a ha’f- proportion of leaf, and a corres- boul . program of dance tunes plus pondingly smaller Proportion’ of cutters and lugs. Fair N fine lugs ; we u received. and low and fair leaf p:edomin-| Members of the band ated the market. a. brief comedy skit which was are j Charles Brown, saxaphone; Alton (McNeill, Jr., saxaphone; Elbert What this country needs is not McPhaul, Jr., trumpet; John a working majority, but a majority McNeill, Jr., drums and Mrs. working. I ton McNeill, Jr., piano. T Al. child was 23. sent »o Duke on July HENS HOARSE MAXTON—Mrs. L. D. Rice re ports that her eighty hens have a bad case of bronchitis this week and that ten of them have died to date. Mrs. Rice called the uov tor to her brood who prescribed for them and she has been treating them each with argyrole. They are row improving, but are not laying their customary amount of eggs. Smith, Paul Sands, and Pitt Al len. The heads of Lumberton’s three big local independent companies which are a major part iri the building of any market, are W. E Elmore, InterstaW R. Mr Gar rett and E. K. 1W,. 4 Person- Garrett and J. Rountree, Whitehead and. An .Mion. Mrs. Nobles ♦ow With Modern Shop RED SPRING'S. -Mrs Retha ABTles of Wi .ir igton, arrived this week and is now associated wun Mrs. Bertha Carlyle of the Modern beauty skip. Mrs. Nobles is an expert hai stylist and an operator of ^ experience, ac cording to Mrs Carlyle. 5500 ot 6165 Voters Favor Control World War I or II who are unable to follow a gainful occupation be-i cause of disability may be entitled In County Weed Quota Referendum ...sr..*/ THE MULLINS TOBACCO FES- kuriUxibn'lloG ROBESON AT TIVAL next, Tuesday will be Miss 1 1" ■ Knight Lennon (left) of Fairmont, and Miss Nora Dean Parker of Lumberton, These two will take par: in the festival parade and will be entertained by the Mullins festival committee. Tuesday night they will take part in the competition for the title of Queen of the Festival. to a pension ability is not service. The North even though the dis- a result of a military . Export Promotion Carolina Commission announced Veterans that pen- si > laws for non-service connect ed disabilities have been liberal ized, thus affording older veter ans an opportunity to qualify for total disability despite the fact that the specific degree of disabil ity may not be total. Many veter ans who have been denied total disability in the past are eligible to apply again. Single veterans whose income annually is $1,000 or more, or vet erans with dependents whose in come is over $2,500, cannot qualify. Veterans whose employment is limited because of a disability should contact the nearest office of the North Carolina Veterans Commission immediately. Service officers are familiar with the re quirements to be met and are ready to assist veterans in mak ing proper application. The commission office serving Robeson County is located at S. Main Street in Red Springs, N. C. County Veterans Service Officers in the various counties can also assist veterans in making proper- application. Export Promotion Orthopedic Clinic Program Ako OK’ed Will Be August 5 State Vote Similar Figures released by Hilbert Lov- ette, secretary of the Robeson Agricultural Conservation Associa tion reveal an overwhelming ma jority of tobacco growers in favor of three more years of acreage con trol and in favor of continuation of Tobacco Associates, Inc,, the or ganization which they support to enlarge foreign markets, A ref erendum on both questions was held in six states and returns show about 97 per cent of all growers freeing with Robeson County farmers. The monthly orthopedic clinic will be held Friday. August ' 5, 1949, in the basement of the agri cultural building, in Lumberton. r. J. E. Jacobs of Charlotte will be the surgeon in charge. Please vegiste" at the desk between 8 and 11 o’clock. REV. STOFFET. CONDUCTS CHURCH MEETINGS Total vote in Robeson was 6560 for continuation of quotas in 1®-1 cttevillc.- MAXTON—Rev. E. L. Stoffel, ’'antor of the Maxton Presbyterion Church, is conducting a series of meetings each evening this week at the McPherson Presbyterian Church between Raeford and Fa”- The services began on 51-52, only, posal. bacco 98 for continuation in 19") and 107 against either ”r j 6182 voters approved the T - Associates levy of ten cents Sunday evening and will close on rU T. F. Menius is pastor of the McPherson cSurch. per acre to rthe next three yeart- and 172 votes were cast against it. Only two townships cast mors than ten votes against the contir uation of quotas, Fairmont ar 1 Wisharts. Five townships cas more than ten votes against con tinuation on Tobacco Associates. Fafm production from meat animals in 1948 totaled about 2 per cent less than in 1947 and 17 •’e cent less than the record pro duction in 1943. Last year was the fifth consecutive year of de clining production.