1946-TOBACCO EDITION-1946
4
^ THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN
CONSOLIDATED 1944
Published Wednesdays
Red Springs, N. C. and Maxton, N, C.’ Wednesday, July 31, 1946
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS
OF MAXTON—RED
SPRINGS
PARKTON- ROWLAND
Volume LVI1, Number 28 .
Springers Enter State Title Series
Robeson Marts Ready For Opening
Georgia Markets
Off To Good Start
Best Marketing
Year On Record
CHINA EXPORT
MARKET OPEN
Is Foreseen
Robeson county is poised
on
the brink of what many say
will be the best tobacco mar
keting season ever seen.
The Lumberton and Fair
mont markets open Thursday
morning, August 1, as the Bor-
. der Belt swings into action,,
encouraged by reports of ex
cellent prices brought by weed
on the Georgia-Florida marts
which opened the past week.
The season will see a number
cf new warehouses in both the
Robeson county market towns
as well as the old warehouses
which have served farmers of
this section in past years.
Sales supervisors report in
dications of an excellent mar
keting year and say Robeson
county should experience its
best yet.
Workmen are busy putting
the finishing touches on the
warehouses.
. Warehousemen are busy rid
ing the country, getting their,
sales lined up.
The farmers
are busy as
they keep their curing vigil,
Preliminary estimated place
the 1946 crop of flue-cured
tobacco in China at about 80
million pounds, according to
a recent release from For
eign Crops and Markets, dis
closed W. P. Hedrick, execu
tive secretary of the N. C.
Tobacco Advisory Council.
The leaf is expected to be
of low quality, the release
stated, owing to deterioration
of seed, shortage of fertiliz
ers, and lack of proper atten
tion.
During the period 1935-39
production of flue-cured leaf
in China averaged about 150,-
000,000 pound'll'. This means,
said Hedrick, “that China
will need her usual amounts
of flue-cured imports, which
averaged 34,000,000 pounds
before the war.
In the first three months
of 1946, Hedrick stated, Chi
na imported from the U. S.
6,400,000 pounds of flue-cur-
je tobacco. Total flue-cured to
bacco exports from this
country during the same pe
riod totaled 30 per cent great-
*"■ volume than for the first
NEWS IN BRIEF
STATE
NATION
WORLD
Plan Locker
Plant For Town
Of St. Pauls
^o Methodist
Services For
Two Sundays
New Cashier Fer
Red Springs Bank
putting in barn
tobacco.
after barn of
All will be rewarded for their
work Thursday morning when
the song of the auctioneer rings
out in the warehouses and the
1946 marketing season gets un
der way.
For weeks the highways lead
ing to Lumberton and Fairmont
will be lined with vehicles of
all description as the farmers
of the area bring their tobacco
to the markets.
Reports from the countryside
are that tobacco growers have
raised one of their best crops
this year. Some of the crop has
been damaged bv hail and oth
er weather conditions but on
the whole, growers report the
befit crop for several years;
many report the best crop ever
raised.
Dr. WJ. McKinnon
NowInWadesb'ro
Dr. W. J. McKinnon has lo
cated in Wadesboro and is now
associated with Dr. Charles I.
Allen at the Anson sanatori
um.
• Dr. McKinnon graduated
from the University of North
Carolina and received his med-
• ical degree at the University
of Maryland school of medi
cine. He then completed a
four year internship and resi
dency in surgery at the Mary-
^ land General hospital, Balti-
nfore Md. He is a nassociate
Fellow of the American Col
lege of Surgeons and has re
cently been discharged from
the U. S. Navy after two and
one-half years of active duty
at home and overseas.
He is a native of Maxton and
a nephew of Mr. McKay Mc
Kinnon and of the late Dr. W.
L. McKinnon, who was associ
ated with the Parsons Drug
Company in Wadesboro
many years.
for
three months of 1945.
Rooms Needed For
Students Of PJC
There is an urgent need
for
rooms for students of Presby
terian Junior college who have
registered for the fall term
but have no place to live. Mrs.
L. C. LaMotte, who is handl
ing housing arrangements for
the college, has stated that all
of the dormitory rooms and
other housing facilities that
belong to the college have al
ready been aissigned and appli
cations for admittance to the
fall semester are still arriving.
She requests that the peo
ple of Maxton make every effort
to provide a place to stay for
these students. Especially she
is looking for rooms that will
accommodate two, four or six
boys. If necessary the college
will be able to furnish beds.
It is requested that all po-
ple in Maxton who think they
can supply housing facilities
for students, write—do not tel
ephone—Mrs. L. C. LaMotte at
PJC giving full information
about the room and price for
its occupancy.
Air Show Sunday
Al Pope Field
A flying demonstration
Troop Carrier tactics will
ture the air show and
of
fea-
open
house program at Pope Field on
Air Force Day, August 1, to
which the public is cordially
invited, Col. Richard L. Walk
er, commanding officer of Pope
Field, announced today.
In addition to the afternoon
air show, an exhibition of Third
Air-Force cargo planes and
gliders will be
bration of the
the Army Air
strating that
Peace Power.”
part of the cele-
39th birthday of
Forces demon-
“AirPower is
W.H. “Bill” Dunn
Out Of Service
Continuous motion
of combat in the air
graphed by the Army
Corps during World
pictures
photo-
Signal
War II
and recently released for pub-
William H. Dunn, son
Mrs. C. N. Dunn of Maxton,
ceived his discharge from
of
re-
the
lie view, will be shown at
post theater.
the
United States Army last Tues
day and spent a few days in
Maxton before leaving for Wil
mington. Mr. Dunn was in ser-
. vice for 21 months and lias
just returned from Frankfort,
Germany. He had been serving
overseas with the Troop Car
rier Command since November
5. 1945. After a short stay in
Dance Thursday
The Cotillion club of Maxton
will sponsor a dance at Evans
Hall on Thursday night, the
first of August. The dance is
semi-formal (you gotta wear
shirts and shoes) and will start
at 9 o’clock. Ther ewill be no
harge and all of the Maxton
young people are invited. Music
will be furnished by a band
THURSDAY, JULY 25
President Truman signs bill
reviving a weaker OPA until
June 30, 1947.
James Edwin Webb, N. C.
native, named budget director
of the United States.
James C. Dunn of New York
named ambassador to Italy.
United States 'signs up in a
world group committed to “safe
and orderly” development of
commercial flying.
Representative May notifies
Senate war investigating com
mittee that he will be unable
to appear before that body be
cause of a heart attack.
FRIDAY, JULY 26
United Stated accuses
Plans are being considered
for the construction of a new
and up to date freezer locker
plant in St. Pauls, it has been
announced by H. E. Dickerson,
secretary of the St. Pauls
Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce
is at present conducting a sur
vey among the residents of St.
Pauls and the immediate vicin
ity to determine oif they are
interested in having a locker.
It was pointed out by Mr.
Dickerson that it will be neces
sary to secure a minimum num
ber of applications for lockers
before work can begin on the
plant.
Those interested are asked
s in the absence of the pas
tor, there will be no ’church
services at the Maxton Metho
dist church on Sunday, August
4th and August 18th. Sunday
school will be held at the reg
ular time on those Sundays.
The board of stewards voted to
give the pastor two weeks va
cation during the month of
August. There will be regular
services on August 11.
Indian Killed,
Another Held
; James Evans Locklear,
ian of near Red Springs,
Ind-
was
Rus-
sta of creating economic chaos
in Hungary by stripping her of
vital food and
to contact the Chamber
Commerce office in person
telephone 271, St. Pauls.
of
or
terials.
Senate war
committee lays
into income tax
industrial ma ¬
investigating
plans to look
returns of alll
officials of lumber company for
which Representative May was
fiscal agent.
Rejuvenated OPA pours out
price orders in large batches.
Bloody massacre of two Ne
gro farm hands and their wives
by an armed and unmasked
band of white men brings pro
mise of a federal investipatinn
Jewish
make two
American
Germany.
federal investigation.
displaced persons
organized attacks on
soldiery in Southern
SATURDAY, JULY 27
President
“decontrol”
ercise final
revived but
Gertrude
name,’ three-man
board that will ex-
authority over the
weakened OPA.
Stein, renown Am-
erican author, dies in Paris at
age of 72.
Gov. Ellis Arnall of Geor
gia offers rewards up to $10,-
000 for the inob of desperadoes
which lynched four Negroes
Thursday. . '
SUNDAY, JULY 28
Clothing prices will soon be
gin shooting up and by fall
will have reached unprecedent
ed heights as a result of the
new price control law, a high
OPA official says.
A. new struggle for suprema
cy in the Holy Land between
divergent Zionist groups looms
when a spokesman for the
“New Zionist organization”
calls for the dissolution of the
Jewish agency for Palestine,
which he terms a “front” to
obstruct realization of Jewish
national aims.
MONDAY, JULY 29
A sweeping indictment of
government wartime spending
practices is made by Comptrol
ler General Lindsay Warren,
who cites “fraternization” be
tween army officers and con
tractors and contract loopholes
which cost the nation “untold
millions. From my seat, it has
looked as if everybody and his
brother were out to get the
government during the lush
war years,” he told the senate
war investigating committee.
The United States and Brit
ain take steps toward economic
merger of their zones in Ger-
many and officials in Washing
ton look for France to join
the plan later.
Barn Burns
A tobacco barn belonging
Mr.
waft
fire
in
to
W. M. Currie of Maxton
completely destroyed by
last Saturday night about
10 o’clock. The origin of the
fire has not been determined
Efforts to save the barn pro
duced negligible results as the
tobacco inside was very dry
£ x ”, a BnurIslay in win ue lurnisneu oy a Dana touacco insiue was vei
Wilmington he. plans to returnfrom Presbyterian Junior col- and burned like tinder.
to Maxton.
1 lege.
The
barn was covered by insurance.
Jones Company
To Move Army
Base Buildings
Jones Construction Co.
arrested Sunday in connection
with the death of Alex Lock-
Ihar, who died immediately up
on having his throat slashed
With a knife. The incident oc
curred Sunday afternoon near
Red Springs, just off the Lum
berton road.
Sheriff E. C. Wade said Lock
lear’s juglar vein was cut on
the right side and that the
victim died immediately. He
Said he understood the cutting
Allowed a drunken row.
First hour sales at the op
ening of Georgia - Florida
flue-cured tobacco markets
averaged an estimated price
of between 42 to 46 cents for ^
jthe bulk of the sales with
extreme range from seven to
50 cents, according to J. A.
Winfield, market newsman
with the N. C. Department of
Agriculture, who released
USDA figures in Raleigh.
Principal offerings were
low to fair leaf, good to fair
lug;s and low cutter grades. ;
The demand was strong for
all good offerings with poor
est demand for small pro
portion of non-descript, Win
field stated.
General qquality of tobac
co was much improved over
last year and condition was
good. Growers appeared well
pleased and there were bjut
' few rejections. All floors
ware well filled.
Juniors Make If
Two Straight
Over Wilmington
Rain Stops Riot
In Seventh Frame
of
Charlotte has been awarded
the contract to move approxi
mately 365 buildings from the
L.firinburg-Maxton Army Aii-
Base. Of this number, 40 will
be transported to Lynchburg,
Va., and the destination of the
remainder has not been decid
ed.
P. Ryan of Charlotte, super
intendent of construction, has
been in Maxton for some time
attending
portation
ings will
moved by
to details of trans
procedure. The build-
be torn down and
trucks. Later the va-
rious sections for the buildings
will be reassembled for their
new usage.
Mr. Ryan hopes to get start
ed this week on the actual mov
ing procedure and believes
that the process will take from
30 to 60 days.
Mihs Betty Jean Sinclair is
Neil
become
P.
Clinton, above, will
cashier of the Red
Winners Io Phy
Auto, Home Supply
Firm Opens Thursday
Modern Tire and Electric
company ifi opening Thursday,
Red Springs American Legion
Juniors made it two straight
yesterday over Wilmington and
won the right to meet Kanna-
polis Juniors for the North
Carolina championship title in
a series'to be started Thurs
day. - _
Defeating the' New Hanover
lads in their home park Tues
day afternoon, the Springers
won 9 to 0, to win the two out
of three series in two games.
Red Springs took the opener
at Robbins Park Monday 4 to 2
The second game was delays
ed in starting’ slightly by rain
and rain ended it . in the sev
enth inning after the Spring
ers went on a murderous hit
ting rampage that netted six '
run's. •
Opening up with their scor
ing attack in the first inning
through errors and walks the
Springs got one tally, skipped
the second and added two in
the third. They went scoreless
in the fourth, but in the fifth
in -the fifth, but in the sixth
the barrage from murderer’ll
Kannapolis cinched the Cen
tral-West title Monday night
in malting a clean sweep of a
three of five feeries with Meck-
Jenburg county, in the Junior
Legion race.
Springs unit of the Scottish
Bank in August, succeeding D.
J. Reese, who has resigned to
become affiliated with the El
kin Furniture company at El
kin.
Mr. Clinton has had 15 years
banking experience and . . at
present is cashier of the Rock
Hill, S. C., National Bank, hav
ing returned to his position
there following his discharge
from the service.
Mr. Clinton, who expects to
move to Red Springs the mid ¬
Red Springs, winners of the
Eastern 'title will meet ‘Kan-
rfapolis in a four out of
seven row was too great for the Port
M&^i^ te and^ their pitchers,
if were- powerless to stop the at-
series will have to be worked tack before six counters had
out today by officials of the(been tallied: Rain stopped the
two Legion posts and the statejriot at the end of the seventh
commissioners'of Legion base-■ inning. ' '
ball.
- „ —- _, ... .._ _.„J die of August, is married, has
street, Red Springs, next door no children.
I Mr. Reece, who is leaving
The new store will carry a Red Springs the last of August,
complete line of auto and home ■ has been cashier of the Red
August 1, at 102 West Third
to M & S Motor company.
supplies and will handle West-' Springs bank for a year and a
inghouse Electric appliances.
half.
J. D. Owen will be manager
of the firm. Incorporators
, W. B. McLean, J. J. Bender
Mr. Owen.
are
and
CLINIC
Monthly orthopedic clinic
will be held in the Robeson
county farm building Friday,
August 2, with Dr. L. 0. Miller
of Charlotte in charge. The
clinic is free to all indigent
children, under 21 and thofee at-
tending are asked to register
a patient at Memorial hospital, at the desk between 9 arid 11
Charlotte. a. m.
Confusion Of Korean Situation Is
Detriment To Foreign Mission Work
Noted Missionaries
Spent Five Days
Visiting In Maxton
to the Korean prisoners of
is
“The mission field in Korea
opening slowly because of
Russian occupation and the
present state of affairs is very
confusing to Koreans,” Dr. L.
O. McCutchen, representative
to the foreign mission field
from the First Presbyterian
church of Maxton, stated Tues
day morning.
“I don’t know how long it
will be
down,”
present
flation
before things quiet
he continued, “but the
state of unrest and in-
has practically stalled
Commenting on Mr. Reece’s
resignation, President John P.
I Stedman of the Scottish Bank
said: “He is leaving the bank
with our very best wishes and
appreciation for doing a fine
job.”
Durham Loses To
Springs Juniors
Two wins over Durham last
week advanced the Red Springs
Legion Juniorb to the finals
for the Eastern state title
Wilmington this week,
first scheduled game at
ham Monday was rained
and on last Tuesday,
Springs lads won ever the
with
The
Dur-
out
the
Bull
: Coleman pitched for
Kannapolis, at one time,.ap-:'Springers and allowed but
peared out of the running, but; hit for the six innings,
a commission ruling that Sal-1 . ' ——
ishury play off a tie-game with
Albemarle, which Salisbury
lost, gave the Kannans 1 a tie
with iSalisbury . for their dis
trict second place. In the
playoff the Towels defeated
Salisbury and then went on to
defeat Lexington for the dis
trict title.
A ruling this week by the
Legion commissioners prevent
ed the Red Springs—Wilming
ton series from going , beyond
today. They ruled that the
State Title series must be end
ed by August 7, that district
titles must be ended by July
31, and that if Wilmington—
game and others were rained
oh.it, the winner of the one
game would be declared East
ern Champion.. If two games
were played and were divided
then the winner of the first
game (would be the titleholder,
arid that all games must be
concluded not later than Wed
nesday (today) •.
Monday’s Game
Series Opener
the >
one
trip
In the Monday game,
Springers drew fir'st blood tn
some 2600 in number,
past five years.
Jointly supported
Presbyterian church
ton, the Bethel church
for
by
war,
the
the
of Max-
of South
Carolina, the Pendleton church
of South Carolina, and the St.
Elmo church of Chattanooga,
Dr. and Mrs. McCutchen have
been very instrumental in car
rying the word of God to the
foreign field in their evangeli
cal and teaching work in Chun-
ju, Korea. Dr. McCutchen is
well known for his evangelis
tic work and seminary teach
ing while Mrs. McCutchen
brought to the Koreans an in
timate study of the Bible. They
both hope to return to Korea
all mission work in that area as soon as the. Mission
because the Foreign Mission,can assign them.
Board
Dr. McCutchen spoke at the
Maxton Presbyterian church
Dr. and Mrs. McCutchen, who Sunday morning and brought a
originally started their mission (brief resume of his work on
work in Korea in 1902 and have (the.foreign field to the congre-
been active on the foreign field I Ration. Monday night Dr. and
for over 40 years, returned to Mrs. McCutchen were guests
the United States in May of at the annual watermelon cut-
Board is sending only a few
workers to Korea now.”
this year. They arrived in Max-
ton last Friday afternoon
have been guests of Miss
lian Austin during their
here.
They left Korea on a
and
Lil-
stay
fur-
lough in 1940 and in 1941 their
work carried them to Honolulu
on the . island of Oahu where
they have been ministering to
city lads 8 to 7. The Springs
collected 13 safeties and 11
walkh off Craig and Moore.
CAA Approves PJC
William
game and
first after
Wright started the
was relieved in the
two runs were scor-
ed. McKeithan finished the
inning. Kinlaw then took the
box and allowed a score in the
sixth and two in the
McKeithan again did
ing job and
game,
in the
in the
th.
Red
third,
eighth
wound
Springs
1 in the
and 3 in
eighth;
a reliev-
up the
scored 2
fifth. 2
the nin-
In the second game
Durham
ting party for officers of the
church and Sunday school giv
en at the home of Mr. Fairley
Morris. Tuesday night a recep
tion was given in their honor
by the Presbyterian church.
won 5 to 4. The Durham lads
scored once in the first and
the Springs came back with
3 in the third and another in
the fourth, Durham scored a-
gairi in the fourth and two in
the seventh to tie the count.
Durham scrambled a fifth tal
ly across in the last of the nin
th to win.
In the third game at San
ford the Springers took a free-
hitting affair 9 to 6, with the
locals using Wright, Coleman
and Edwards a^s pitchers, and
Durham using Tilley, Moore,
and R. Craig. The Springers
collected 10 hits and Durham
7. each team erroring 4 times.
With the score 4-3, the Spring-
Presbyterian Junior College
FJying School has been notified
by the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration'that it has met
full requirements for an ap-.
proval as a primary flying
school and the air agency cer
tificate No. 5620 is being for
warded for display in the op
erations office. By September
9, when the fall session opens,
the Presbyterian Junior college
flying school expects to enroll
a large class in primary com
mercial and flight instruction
courses in flying and in air-
I.craft and engine mechanics in
the mechanics training school.
Other vocational courses will
be offered.
The college is using the fa
cilities of the former Laurin
burg-Maxton Army Air base
and has one of the best
ports in the south.
air-
the Korean citizens there and - town.
They left this morning, Wed
nesday, for Bethel and will go
by way of Bishopville, S. C.,
which is Dr. McCutchen’s home
ers came from behind in the
Mr., and Mrs. Clyde Rushin
and daughter, Jane of Atlanta,
Ga., were weekend guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Fry. Mr!s. Fry’s
sister, Miss Doris Sullivan of
Decatur, Ga., arrived for a
week’s visit.
Miss Ruth Graham is visit-
ing Miss Inez Moreon in Kings
seventh with a 6-run rally, put- po ht, Tenn.
ting together three hits,
an
error, sacrifice, stolen base and ham added two more scores in
la pair of walks for 6. runs io the Sth with two hits and a
sew up the game, though Dur- walk.
the third inning when Fuller
hit safely, went to second on
a sacrifice by Wright. Con-
oly hit safely, advancing Ful-
er to third. Fuller was thrown
out by Heath, Port city catch
er, McKeithan got on by an er
ror, Kinlaw and Moser each
hit safely to score Conoly and
McKeithan, Beck flied out to
end the rally.
In the sixth, Kinlaw and Mo
ser ''hit safely, and Beck hit
one through the second base
man to bring in the two run
ners, Beck tried to stretch his
chances to three bases and was
safe, then was pulled off base
and tagged out.
Wright kept the Wilmington-
hits well spread out until the
9th when a rally by the visit-
orb netted two runs and two
outs. McKeithan replaced him.
and retired the side when
first base. ■ - '
Wright allowed eight hits
and walked two in 8 2-3 in
nings, fanning 8; the Spring
ers errored twice. A nice
throw from Duller in right
field caught a Wilmington run-
ner out
thrown
field to
another
at home, and a strike
by Moser from left
Beck at home, kept
Wilmington runner
from getting home. Moser and
Kinlaw each got 2 hits, with
Conoly, McKeithan and Beck
getting one each.
Heath hit wto safeties and
otherwise played a bang-up
brand of ball. Fennell wari the
starting pitcher for the Visit
ors. He was relieved by Hew- ,
errored five times, and Conoly
on
dw Mosr drew passes from
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Hewlett. Feripell
end Hewlett 3;
Wil .' 000
R. S 002
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002 OOx—4
Batteries': Wilmington. — Fen
nell. Hewlett and Heath; Red
Vpririgs, Wright, McKeithan
and Beck.
AT OHIO STATE
Ohio State University’s)
summer enrollment of more
than 11,000 includes quite a
feiy students from North Caro
lina and one from Robeson
county. It includes: Abner N.
Locklear of Maxton.