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THE SCOTTISH CHIEF FOUNDED 1887 RED SPRINGS CITIZEN FOUNDED 1896 CONSOLIDATED 1944 Published Thursdays * Maxton Community Clubs To Open Former USO Building As Civic Center For Town Formal Opening Set For Monday Enrollments THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN Red Springs,. N. C.. and Maxton, N. C.THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1946 NEW MAXTON CIVIC CENTER A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN ROBESON—ANDI TOWNS OF MAXTON—RED SPRINGS PARKTON—ROWLAND Volume LVII, No. 22 Born during the hectic years of war and nurtured through its critical infancy by the United Service Organization, the recreation building located on highway 74 in Maxton will reach' its adolescent stage as it reopens Monday night, June 24, under the auspicious, title of Community Clubs, Inc. This bawling and 'lusty war baby has been placed into the com petent hands of a board of sev en directors, one representa tive from each of seven out- * standing civic organizations, and Mrs. Glennie McCormae and it will be their job to di rect it through a successful manhood. Formerly known as the USO building, the recreation cen ter was constructed in 1943 at a cost of approximately $22,- 000 and opened in November of that year under the guid ance of the Army and Navy Committee ana directly under the Young Men’s Christian As sociation, under whose leader ship this club operated until ship this club operated until High At Marion Bible Schools During the closing week of the annual Daily Vacation Bi ble Schools, enrollment in creased considerably at each of the three Maxton churches and much interest has been shown in the schools. METHODIST The commencement exercis es of the Bible school will be held Sunday night at the Me thodist church at 8 o’clock. All the departments of the school will participate in the final exercises. Enrollment has shown a considerable increase this second week. The Bible school will close at noon Fri day. COMMUNITY CLUBS, INC March 1946. The club was BAPTIST A picnic Friday afternoon wil celebrate the close of a very successful Bible school. Enrollment this past week has jumped from an original 67 to a very high 105. The com- Rev. T. E. Davis Director Of Conference Rev. Thomas E. Davis Southern Pines is director of of the Young People’s Conference this week, the .second of a se ries of three consecutive con* ferences of Fayetteville Pres- bvtery being held at Flora Macdonald college during this month. One hundred and fifty-eight delegates, representing 47 churches of the Presbytery, are registered for this conference, which opened Monday, June 17, and will close Saturday, June 22. STRIKES TWICE Surplus Sale At Maxton Air Base S. S. STRICKLAND HAS FIRST BLOOM S. S. Strickland, Maxton far- Juniors Win Summer Session Comes To (lose staffed during the war years by able directors sent especial ly to Maxton to supervise this type of work. , They were ma terially aided by the volunteer workers of the town of Max ton, eager to do their part in making more comfortable the , off-duty hours of the men sta- , tioned at the Laurinburg-Max- 4 ton army air base. A certificate of recognition was later pre sented to Maxton in gratitude mencement exercises will be for this work by the recting organizations ^ ed above. The building was purchased from the two di- mention- recently federal government by the town of Maxton and at their regular May meeting z seven leading city clubs nominated a mem ber to serve on a guiding board of directors. These seven directors and the clubs they represent are as follows: C. A. Hasty, chairman of the board, the Mormax club; Mrs. J. H. McKinnon, secretary, Junior Woman’s club; C. M. Castevens, treasurer, the Am erican Legion; Mrs. C. H. Phil lips ,board member, Home Demonstraten club; Mrs. R. A. McLeod, board member, the American Legion auxiliary: Mrs. G. P. MacKinnon, board member. Woman’s club; and Marshall James, board mem ber, Maxton Chamber of "Com merce. Mrs. Glennie McCormac has been selected to be in charge of the building and its general operation. The building has been leas- held Sunday night at the church at 8 o’clock. It will con sist of demonstrations of the week’s work by each group: beginners, primaries, juniors and intermediates. PRESBYTERIAN Certificates and awards will be given to those attending the Daily Vacation Bible school at the Presbyterian church when the commencement exercises Captain John E. Havas, Sal vage Officer of the Laurinburg- Maxton army air base, has an nounced another small lots sale of surplus property at the base in Maxton. Propert yto be sold includ es: office furniture, circular and jig-saws, drill presses, hand trucks, scales, jacks, lu brication pumps, hardware sup plies, typewriters, power units, Singer sewing machine, com munication equipment, plumb ing supplied electric heaters, automotive supplies, garden hose, electrical equipment and supplies, air compressors, nails, skeet traps and build ings, blankets and barracks. These items will be open to :’clock d t^ h^ ^^ Public inTpection at th7 b;s: o clock at the church. Enroll- ! from 8:30 to’ 12:00 ment has increased to 75 this 1-30 to 4-30 p r second week of the school. The I a. m. and m. Mondav closing program Sunday night will include illustrations of the work done the past two weeks. through Friday, June 24 to Maxton Library To Take Half Holiday The Gilbert Patterson Mem- orial library in Maxton will be closed on Wednesday after- noons during the summer months, Mrs. Luther McNeill, librarian, has announced. This will be in keepin in policy with Maxton merchants, who have been observing a Wednesday half-holiday for the past few weeks. Mrs. McNeill has only re cently returned to her library post after being out for an in jury to her knee suffered in a fall. Mrs. R. M. Williams, chair man of the library division of the Woman’s club, reports that June 28. No public inspection will be held on Saturday or Sunday. The bids will be opened on Monday, July 1. Military per sonnel and civilian personnel employed by the war depart ment are not eligible to sub mit bids on these items. Captain Havas reported that at the last surplus property sale which was held June 10 to 14 with bidding on June 17, over 100 bids were received. Bidding is sceret and highest bidder takes the property up for disposal. All surplus property sold at the base in Maxton will be sales of small lots as this dis posal unit does not handle items with an original c^st ov er $300. The War Assets Ad ministration handles sales con cerning higher ve^ jl surplus property. a new shipment of books, in- ed from the Town of Maxton. eluding all popular best-sell- It will be operated and kept up Lers, will soon be ordered for by the corporation. The Max ton Community Clubs, Inc., has agreed to assume all oper ating repairs and keep up the insurance on the building. * The seven directors, after many meetings, have drawn up the by-laws of the corpora tion, which are still subject to change. A charter was applied for^in Raleigh by J. A. Shaw * this past week. Membership cards have been the library^ Smitty And Bob In New Location Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Black were the guests this week of Mrs. E. L. Coxe. Dr. Black came to assist in the funeral services of D. E. Smith Tues day afternoon. Smitty and Bob’s Cleaners, well known Maxton firm, has moved to a new location be tween Burns and Drennan’s Garage in a new building re cently completed on highway 74. Their establishment Mrs. Thomas A. Fry, Sr., of Decatur, Ga., is visiting her son, Rev. Thomas A. Fry, Jr., and his family. designed all club families, entitled follows: and will be issued to members and their Outside interests are to purchase cards as Boy Scouts of Ameri- been closed during the week while moving to the building. The grand opening of has past new the mer who lives on Route 1, brought the first cotton bloom of the new season to the Scot-' tish Citizen office at 9:30 o’ clock on Monday, June 17. Following established cus tom with the Scottish Citizen. First Three Contests The Red Springs American Legion junior baseball team Mr. Strickland has now been has won the. first three games placed on the mailing list and of the season, by taking two will receive a year’s subscrip- wins over. Dunn and one win tion to the paper. Mr. Strekiand, who lives about five miles from Maxton, has approximately 40 acres of cotton and admits that they were planted on the 28th day of March. The first bloom in this area was brought to the Citizen of fice last year during the week of June 9-14, which means that the cotton season is just about a week behind time in Maxton. over the Sanford nine. In the opening game of the year, the Red Springers beat Dunn in Robbins park, 11-3, and in a return match, played at Lillington because of the bad weather in Dunn, the Springers came out on top by the same score. The local team won over Sanford here Monday, 14-7, and the return engagement was Ben K. MacKinnon Now Maxton Editor Editorship of the Maxton of- fice of the Scottish Citizen has been taken over by Ben K. The Red Springs team was to eet Laurinburg at Red Springs Friday and at Sanford Satur day. The juniors will go to Laur inburg Monday and will play Fayetteville here Wednesday. Next”T7ursday the play will be The summer session in the Conservatory of Flora Mac donald college, under the di rection of Dean Robert Reuter, drew to a close Thursday with two piano recitals by students in the school. Betty Blue Mc Callum of Rowland played a junior recital at 2 o’clock. An other recital at 3 o’clock includ- the following pianists: Bar bara Ogilvie, Frances Pendley, Winiford Powers, Mrs. R. C. Melton, Sue Wilson. Judith Autry played a group of organ numbers. On Thursday afternoon, June 20, Margaret Goodman of Chadbourn, student in the sum mer session, was presented in a piano recital. Tillie Ruth Ward of Bladenboro and Win ifred Beasley of Lumberton played a joint piano recital on the same afternoon. There were in all 16 stu dents in the summer session: Judith Autry, Charlotte;. Win- Lighting, as the old say ing goes, never strikes twice in the same place but ap pendicitis does, a stwo Max- ton boys are ready to de clare. Johnny Medlin was strick en with appendicitis on May 31 and was operated on in ' the Hamlet hospital. On Thursday, June 13, he call ed Maxton to report that the doctor was ready to release him from the hospital. Before a car could be pro cured to send after “John ny,” his brother, “Sonny,” was taken ill and a local doc tor diagnosed another case of appendicitis in the fam ily- Sonny Medlin rode to Ham let, to be operated on, in the same car which brought his brother back home from a similar operation. Johnny , stood by to see his brother come out of the operating room and personally escorted him to the same room he had just vacated. Johnny is now home and Sonny is recovering satisfac torily. Bishop To Speak On Radio Hour ca and the teen-age group of Maxton will pay $1.00 per year for membership at their own request. Students of Presby terian Junior college will pay 50c per semester for the priv ilege of using the building. A plan will be considered to take Rare o fthe general public included in any of these ganizations. .Membership cards are transferable and entitle not or- not the bolder to use the club room (Subject to the rules and regu lations bn reverse side of the card which read: “In accept ing this card you agree to abide by the by-laws govern- ^ ing the use of the building. Should you fail to do this, you will be asked to surrender this card and be denied the privi lege of using the building. Cards will include the signa ture of the holder and the sig nature of the president of the board of directors. Each club will have the pri vilege of using the building for its regular monthly meeting without cost. All members of the seven club sand their families are invited to attend the opening night program at the club, which has been arranged by the Woman’s club and will commence at eight o’clock on Monday night. This invitation also includes the Cotillion club, Presbyterian Junior col lege faculty and students, Boy Scouts of the Maxton troop and teen-agers. The building includes in ad dition to an excellent dance floor and banquet hall, a snack bar, reading room and library, lounge, public telephone ser vice and a cloak room. new building will take place Monday, June 24, at 9 o’clocK and souvenirs will be given to the _first 25 customers. They will be open at that time for inspection and for business. S^mitty and Bob first opened their dry cleaning and pressing firm on December 12, 1941. Smitty was in service for two years and 8 months and when he returned in December 1945 the partnership was of - --' re - newed. Bob, who has had over 14 years experience in this type of business, carried alone during the war years. The building- is built of on cement blocks and is modern and well equipped for business. Bob reports that new equip ment has been added and that the firm has very competent help. .Mrs. Ben Jones is spending this week at Holden’s Beach with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mc Neill. Baptist Bible School Begins Neri Monday Bishop Charles C. Selecman, former president of Southern Methodist university and resi dent bishop of the Dallas area of the Methodist church, will be heard on the Methodist Hour on Sunday, June 23. He will speak on “The Supremacy of Personality,” will originate and the progt^^h from WSB in -At- MacKinnon, now on terminal leave from the navy. Mrs. J. D. Croorp, for many years as sociated with the Scottish Chief and later with the Scottish Cit izen, has retired from the news paper business. Her farewell column appears in this issue. Mr. MacKinnon received an A. B. in Journalism at the University of North Carolina in 1943 and while in school there worked for the Universi ty News Bureau and wrote fea ture articles for state newspa pers. Since graduation he has been serving with the navy and was discharged from that branch of the service at Camp Shelton, Va., early in June. at Rowland. J The last two games of the initial round of play will bo July 1 with Fayetteville there and July 3 with Rowland here. CufhrellWill Attend Sessions ARMY RECRUITER TO BE IN MAXTON Sgt. H. L. Koon, of the Unit ed States Army Recruiting Service, will be in Maxton ev ery Monday for an indefinite period to interview army vol- unteers. Working out of the United States Army recruiting sub station for Rockingham dis trict, Sgt. Koon has announced that he will be in the vacant store next to Austin Drug Company between the hours of eight in the morning and four in the afternoon. He has full information con cerning a special plan for fea- turing the educational oppor tunities in connection with en listment in the regular army. Ben Campbell At Lions Convention Ben Campbell. .president elect of the Red Springs Lions club attended the Lions State convention in Raleigh June 14, 15, 16. Notables- present in cluded Dr. Ramiro Callazo. president Lions International of Havana. Cuba, and former Gov. J. M. Broughton. Services Sunday At Philadelphus Rev. Eugene Alexander of Manchester will preach at Phi ladelphus Sunday. June 23, at 11 a. m. and at Mount Tabor on Sunday afternoon at 4 p. in. ifred Coan Jones garet Betty land; Beasley, -Lumberton; Bell, Fayetteville; Ann Bell, Fayetteville;. Mar- Goodman, Chadbourn; Blue McCallum, Row- Frances McPhaul, Fay- etteville; Mrs. R. C. Melton, Rockingham; Barbara Ogilvie, North Wilkesboro; Kathleen Rizk. Laurinburg; Frances Pendley, Fort Bragg; Winifred Powers, Fayetteville; Mrs. Rehm, Fayetteville; Sue Wil son, Fayetteville; Tillie Ruth Ward, Bladenboro. The Vacation Bible school at the First Baptist church of Red Springs will begin Mon day, June 24 and will continue one week. Registration will be made at the Sunda yschool hour on Monday, June 23. Everyone planning to attend the Bible school is urged to be present for the registration. Hours for the school will be 9 to 11 a. m. Monday through Friday. Workers for the departments are as follows: General affairs, Mrs. Troy Jones, sunt.; Mrs. John M. Mc Manus. Mrs. F. M. Ammons. Beginners department. Mrs. G. A. Furloin, supt., Eunice Durear, Doris Young. Primarv department, Mrs. E. N. Barden. sunt.. Dorothy Shook, Meta McManus, Jackie lanta at 8:30 a. m. EST. Bishop Selecman is a former president of the Council of Bishops and is the founder of the Golden Cross society. As president of the General Board of Evangelism he is the leader in the “Year of Evangelism,” which is the current emphasis in the Crusade for Christ—the present four year program of the Methodist church. His two most recent books are “The Methodist Primer” and “The Primer of Evangelism.” This program will be heard over WPTF at 8:30 a. m. APPEARS WEDNESDAY The publication date of the Scottish Citizen has been changed from Friday to Wed nesday. This will necessitate all copy for the Citizen reach ing either the Red Springs or Maxton office by Monday night at the very latest. Service Club To Morgan. Jerry Shook, Peggy Junior department, Miss Ed-IServe As Center George F. Cuthrell, manager of the Maxton Chamber of Commerce, will attend the an nual Southeastern Institute for Commercial Organization Executives which will be held at the University of North Carolina during the week of June 23-29. Sessions will include a high ly specialized short course in organization management and technique. Program includes class instruction by a selected faculty, forum sessions with a moderator, assuring broad ex perience discussion and a se ries of lectures on current sub ¬ jects of national interest, with j special application in southeast. Marvin Campbell Joins Mormax Club tht Marvin Campbell, Maxton businessman, was voted into the Maxton Mormax club at the regular monthly meeting held last Frday nght at the USO building. Dr. R. L. Wharton, former president of La Progressiva college in Cardenas, Cuba, and now a member of the faculty at Presbyterian Junior college was guest speaker and brought a very interesting message on the work of the Thousand Men club in Cuba. • This was a regular business meeting of the club and after dinner was served by members of the Woman’s club, the club voted to participate in the or ganization of the Community Club, Inc., of Maxton. Mr. and Mrs. Connie Kin- cheloe and children of Manas- as, Va., arrived Tuesday to be he guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Campen. The Campens and their visitors left Wednesday or a two-weeks’ stay at Long Beach. Daniel Smith Of Red Springs Taken By Death na McLaughlin, supt., Blanche Fis1f?r, Rev. Jones, John Lee Davis, McGugan. Miss Troy Jean Of Recreation Daniel E. Smith, prominent Red Springs merchant and cit izen, died Sunday afternoon in a Lumberton hospital follow ing an operation. He was 57 years old. A native of Red Springs, Mr. Board Takes Control Of Army Hospital The Scotland County orial Hospital association has Mem- Smith was the son of the late itaken over control of the Laur- Catherine McRainey Smith and , inburg-Mjixton army air base D. MacArthur Smith. He was ’ " " ~ The Red Springs service club will be continued as a recrea tion center under the supervi sion of the Charlie Hall auxil iary of the American Legion it was decided by the group this week. It was voted to have the ser vice cl?j) open from 7 til 10:30 p. m. on weekdays and 4 "gg p. m. on Sundays. 2X2J Several persons will serve daily a schaperones and a ,^ of those to serve will be post ed soon at the club. *2’’'’ an elder in the Presbyterian church, a member of the Ma sonic lodge and a member of the Red Springs town board for 20 years. Mr. Smith had been in the mercantile business for 30 years and had done a large amount of unheralded charity work, which , had caused him to be respected and loved by people in all walks of life. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the home with the Rev. Thomas A. Fry, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officia- hospital property. The war de- I partment transferred the pro- : perty last week to the towns of ting, assisted Black and Dr. Burial was in cemetery with at the grave. by Dr. J. B. H. G. Bedinger. the Alloway Masonic rites Surviving are the wife, the : Maxton and Laurinburg and they turned it over to the hos pital board. It is hoped that the new hospital will soon be in oper ating order. The equipment in the buildings is adequate and modern and has all the re- quirements of an excellent hos- ■pital. i The hospital’s executive com mittee has announced thaton- ly members of the American Board of Surgery will perform surgical operations in Memor ial hospital and that all stand- dards of the new hospital will be high. s This transaction means that the people of Maxton and Red Robins Wins 10th Straight ^3®!^ ^■%S ^W^ -x^ Red Springs Red Robins worn their 10th game in a row We^ n’esday by defeating the^Ste Pauls Twin-State league club 11 to 2. St. Pauls entered the . loop as a replacement for the Fay 1 - etteville Clippers, who'e§§$4 quished their franchise. -^^^ Cathey pitched for the S^fc' ins, allo-'hd four hits and. struck out six. . ..At ouiviving are tne wire, tne , Laurinburg will soon ^ ave at foimer Miss Lena McNeill; one j t be j r disposal a hospital ser- daughter, Miss Mabel Smith-J V] - ce comparable to the best f ou r brothers, Neill Arch the countrv. Smith of Red Springs; John 1 D. and Murphy Smith of At lanta, Ga., Sam S. Smith of Columbia, S. C.; one sister, Mrs. A. D. Evans, Sr., of St. Pauls. Charlie Hall Post Monthly meeting of the Charlie Hall post of the Ameri can Legion will be held Mon day night at which time new officers will take over. in Gus Speros Stricken With Appendicitis Gus Speros was stricken an attack of appendicitis Thursday morning and by on was carried to Baker sanatorium in Lumberton for an operation. This is the third recent case of appendicitis in Maxton. Clinics Planned The Robeson county health department will hold vaccina tion clinics at Mt. Airy church at 10 a. m. June 27, July 5, 11 and 18. .Vaccinations will be given for .Rocky Mountain spotted ever for children 1 to 15 years; typhoid 3 years and up; diph theria and whooping cough, from 6 months to 7 years; smallpox 8 years and up. It was pointed out that all children should ' take the whooping cough and diphthe ria vaccinations first and those who have .had all other shots should take the shots for spot ted fever.
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