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e THE SCOTTISH CHIEF FOUNDED 1887 RED SPRINGS CITIZEN FOUNDED 1896 CONSOLIDATED 1944 THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN One Of Robeson County’s Hometown Newspapers Published Wednesdays Maxton Chamber Of Commerce , To Honor President Of ATF Red Springs, N. C. and Maxton, N. G. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1946 A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN ROBESON—AND TOWNS OF MAXTON-RED SPRINGS PARKTON—ROWLAND Volume LV11, Number 30 Banquet Friday Evening For Thomas R. Jones The Maxton Chamber Com merce will honor Thomas Roy Jones, President of American Type Founders Incorporated, at a banquet Friday night, Au gust 16, at 7:30 o’clock in the evening at the Community club house. The banquet will be for members, associates, and their wives or guests. Mr. Jopes, an outstanding business man of our day, will be introduced by Colonel Mar shall Barnum, head of Day- , strom Laminates Incorporated, • which is an affiliate of Ameri can Tyne Founders. Mr. Jones arrived in Maxton on Wednesday, August 14, and will spend several days in this ♦ vicinity. In addition to being president and chairman of the Board of ATF directors, Mr. Jones is also president of New Jersey State Chamber of Com merce, a member of the execu tive board of National Associ ation of Manufacturers, a member of American Manage ment Association. an organiz er and active director in the Committee on /Economic De velopment and a director of A. G. Spalding Co., one of the lead ing manufacturers of sporting goods. C. A. Hastv will preside at the banquet. The highlight of the evening will be a speech by Mrs. Jones. It is expected that many prominent out of town visitors will he at the banquet to meet and hear this famous industrial leader. The American Legion, which usually meets on the third Fri day night of the month, will hold its regular meeting on V August 23. The Chamber of Commerce wishes to thank Le vion memlbehs fo rrelinquish- ing the club house for the ban quet. 16 Lettermen On Wake Forest Squad Sixteen lettermen head a squad of approximately 60 men who will report to Head Coach D. C. (Peahead) Walker for Wake Forest college’s initial pre-season football drill Thurs day. Drills are expected to be held twice daily excepting Sundays until the fall term opens at Wake Forest. Maxion Men On Advisory Board Maxton holds the unique dis tinction of being two of its pro minent businessmen serving on the National Advisory Board of the Plywood Industry. Consid ering that there are only nine members of this board and on ly three from North Carolina, this fact becomes a coveted honor. C. A. Hasty of Hasty Veneer Co. and Colonel Marshall Bar num of Daystrom Laminates, Inc., are the Maxton members of this important board. Executive offices of the ad visory board are in Chicago and members meet every three months in Washington. Purpose of the organization is to main tain high standards in the ply wood industry, to promote co operation in the industry and to serve the nation’s best inter ests by securing production to relieve existing shortages. R. W. McGinnis Practicing Law Roy W. McGinnis, graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School and for mer prosecuting attorney for the Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court, has opened a law office in Maxton. Mr. McGinnis will have his office's in the Carpen ter building. During the war Mr. McGin nis was chief patrolman of the Auxiliary Military Police Force at Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base. When that department was terminated a year ago, he became civilian supervisor of maintenance property. Prior to arriving in Maxton, Mr. McGinnis practiced law in Chapel Hill for 12 years. Dur ing that time he served as nrosecuing attorney in the Chapel Hill Recorder’s court for three different two-year ter mis. Mrs. McGinnis taught.in the Maxton public school in 1943 and 1944. Mr. and Mrs. McGin nis and their 12-year old son. Roy, are now living at Skyway Terrace. McLean Family Reunion Held Descendants of John Mc Lean, Esquire, held their first reunion since 1942 at the old home place two miles from Maxton on last Friday. The usual bountiful basket dinner was little affected by the high pricesand scarcity of food stuffs. Murdoch McLean, who with his sister, Miss Maggie Mc Lean, live in the old home, was re-elected president of the family group, McBryde Austin of Maxton, vice president, F. E. Coxe and Miss McLean sec retaries, and Frank McLeod, Sumter, S. C., historian. Date of next year’s gathering was changed to the last Friday in July. Residents of some six states attended this year’s meeting. Rev. James Appleby To Preach Sunday Rev. James Appleby, former pastor of the First Presbyteri an church in Maxton, will fill the pulpit of that church both next Sunday, August 18, morn ing and night. Mr. Appleby was with the Maxton Presbyte rian church a number of years and made many friends in Max- ton. From Maxton he went to Anderson, S. C., and is now as sociated with Union Theologi cal Seminary in Richmond. Rev. T .Layton Fraser, pas tor of the First Presbyterian church, is studying at the Sem inary in Richmond and will re turn to take up his ministerial duties on Sunday, August 25. Guest minister for the past two Sundays was Dr. I. E. Phillips of Jacksonville, Fla. PJC Purchases F6F Fighter Miss Marion Makepeace .of Providence, R. L, is visiting the Browns. Maxton Public Schools To Open The First Week In September School Faculty Announced By W. K. Cromartie Conforming to opening date set for Robeson county schools by C. L. Green, county superin tendent, the Maxton public schools will open on September 5 at 9 o’clock in the morning. All children who enter for the first time must be six years ♦ old on or before Oct. 1, 1946. All children must be vaccinat ed for smallpox and inoculated for diphtheria and whooping cough before entering school. * Birth dates of children just beginning school will be check ed with the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Raleigh. Any chil dren brought to school without birthdates must wait until the necessary certificates can be obtained before entering class es. W. K. Cromartie, superinten dent of Maxton high school, ha's announced that the school faculty is complete except for one exception. Mr. Cromartie believes that this open position will be filled immediately as he has been interviewing a pros pective teacher this week. The present faculty will in clude: Miks Marguerite Town send of Maxton, Mrs. Edith Williams of Maxton, Miss Alice Martin of Polkton, Miss Esther Cobb of Pinetops, Miss Lilis Cousar of Maxton, Miss Mar garet Purcell of Maxton, Miss Anne Baker of Rowland, Miss ^Lillian Lee of Clayton, Miss Mary Kathryn MacOueen of Maxton, Mrs. Ida J. McKinnon of Maxton and Mrs. Lois M. McLeod of Johns. Smith’s Greater Shows In Maxton Smith’s Greater Shows, now appearing in Maxton, will be in town through Saturday night. This is the largest carnival to play Maxton for sometime and features a giant ferris wheel, $12,000 carousel, a dive bomb er ride and a kitty ride for children. Professor Seller’s Side Show is the outstanding attraction of the midway which contains 25 all merchandise concessions. K. F. (Brownie) Smith of Sal isbury and Fayetteville, own er of Smith’s Greater Shows, has been in the amusement in dustry for 40 years. He states that this carnival is the oldest traveling carnival under the same management in the Unit ed State's. It started in busi ness in 1907 at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk. This marks the first appear ance of Smith’s Greater Shows in Maxton. The show played Raeford last week and left there with a cordial invitation from town and county officials to return there at any time. From Maxton, the carnival will go to Rowland and Fairmont. The midway will open each evening at 7o’clock while the show is playing in Maxton and will be open until 11 o’clock. On Saturday the midway will open at 2 o’clock in the after noon and remain open until midnight. Admission price to the midwav is only 10 cents. Mr. Smith hopes to receive a shipment of fireworks in or- ider to have night displays but is not sure that they will ar- 1 rive while the show is in Max iton. An F6F fighter plane, known in the service as Grumman Hellcat, has been purchased from the War Assets adminis tration by Presbyterian Juni or college for use in its Air craft and Mechanics school and for ground instruction in the flying school. The plane is at the armyairfield in Camden, S. C., and will be flown to the Laurinburg-Maxton Airport by James N. McDonald, manager of the airport, and W. T. Led ford, Director of the A and E Mechanics school. Already a P-51 is being used for ground instruction and several cubs, including a new 1946 model, are used for flight instruction. Dr. L. C. LaMotte, president of the collee, and Edwin Pate, president of the board of trus tees, have just returned from Washington where they spent several days in consultation with officials of the War As sets administration concerning future developments at the base. The project, according to Dr. LaMotte, is proceeding satis factorily but government red tape has been a drawback to rapid progress. Jones Construc tion Co. of Charlotte has con tracted totear down and move to new sites some 365 buildings. Other buildings are now being used by Presbyterian Junior college and the future of a large numberof buildings has not been determined as yet. Clinics To Be Held Dr. E. R. Hardin, Robeson county health officer, has an nounced that a clinic will be held at Mt. Hebron church,, near Maxton, on August 15, 22 and 29th, for immunization shots. All children who have not re ceived whooping cough, diph theria and small por vaccina tions can be vaccinated at this clinic. Typhoid fever and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever immunizations will also be giv en at this time. All of the clinics will begin at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Mills Kirkpat rick and small son, Jay, and Fred Cashwell spent the week- end at Ocean Drive. Mr. Fred Cashwell, Sr., who had been spending a vacation at the beach, returned with them. Words of the Wise Whether doing or suffering or forbearing, you may do mir acles by persevering. — (Robert Burns) Marine Barracks, Naval Air years, Townsend was in action Station, San Diego,’ Calif. —• against the Japanese on Guad- Marine Corporal Grover C. alcanal, Cape Gloucester and Townsend, 23, son of Mr. and New Guinea as well as the Pe- Mrs. G. C. Townsend of Red leliu campaign. He attended Springs was awarded the Pur- Red Springs high school prior pie Heart medal here recently to entering the Marine Corps for wounds received in action Townsend is now with the at Peleliu in September 1944. guard detachment here. Serving overseas for two! Guest Of PJ( Student Has Left Hand Slashed On Friday Night Attacked While Riding Bike To Skyway Terrace Michael Hozian, Presbyteri an Junior college student, his wife and their two guests were riding bicycles from Maxton to Skyway Terrace last Friday night when they were sudden ly attacked by a Negro youth carrying a knife. Miss Nell Wil liams was badly slashed on her left wrist, necessitating 12 stitches to close the wound. Her fiance received a slight cut on the arm. The Negro boy was recog nized on the main street of Maxton Saturday morning and was immediately arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Since the inci dent occured in Scotland coun ty, he was taken in custody by Scotland officers and the trial was held in Laurinburg. De tails of the trial will be pub lished in next week’s paper. Mr. and Mrs. Hozian live at Skyway Terrace and Miss Nell Williams and her fiance of Washington are visiting them. The two couples, according to Mrs. Hozian, were riding side by side on two bicycles and had turned off the highway toward the Skyway Terrace area of the base when another bicycle suddenly drove up from behind and crashed into the bike driven by Mr. Hozian. Thinking it an accident, tne group proceeded without stop ping. The other bicycle had been knocked down, however, and its rider soon righted it, drove up and crashed into the bike car rying Miss Williams and her friend, Buddy. They were knocked off the bike by the force of the blow. Buddy had a flashlight and -snapped it on the other rider, enabling them to discover that it was a Ne gro youth. Mrs. Hozian then said, “We are not attempting to start anything. Will you please leave.” Drawing a knife, the Negro boy grasped Miss Wil liams’ hand and slashed it 'se verely. Buddy swung at him with the flashlight. He struck at Buddy with his knife, nick ing his arm, jumped op his bi cycle and rode away. The two men were walking down the main street of Max- ton Saturday morning when they were surprised to 'see their assailant of the previous night ride by on his bicycle. They had him arrested at once. MAC JOHN Mac John, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy John of Lumber Iridge, has enlisted in the Ma rine Corps and is now station ed at Parris Island, S. C. Watermelon Slicing John Tucker Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will have a watermelon slic ing for the children of Red Springs and vicinity Tues day afternoon between 4 and 5 o’clock at the Flora Mac donald college outdoor the atre. Many of the members of the post will be on hand to look after the guests, it wa^ announced. Record Highs In Farm Prices Although the index of pro duction costs rose to a new high figure, North Carolina far mers also received “record breaking” prices last month for most of their varied output with the exception of peaches and commercial apples, accord ing to the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service of the N. C. Agriculture Department. All grains showed increases over the rhid-June prices and were at their highest level since 1920. Corn at 1.98 per bu'shel had advanced 25 cents; wheat at 2.25 per bushel was up 18 cents. Rye rose another 19 cents a bushel and averaged $2.14. Oats averaged $1.08 and were up six cents a bushel from the previous month and barley climbed 23 cents per bushel to advance to $1.70. Prices for all livestock ad vanced, with those for beef and sheep only moderate but veal calves and lambs were the highest on record. Hogs aver aged $16.80 per hundredweight and were up $2.60 from last month. Beef cattle averaged $14.90 a hundredweight, show- in an increase of $2.30, while veal calves were up to $17.10, an advance of $2.70. Sheep ad vanced 60 cents a hundred and lambs $1.90, and they averaged $9.00 and $15.00 respectively. Prices received by farmers (for both milk and milk products were higher than those receiv ed in mjd-June. Wholesale milk advanced 55 cents per hundred weight and averaged $4.70 pei- hundred. Retail milk per quart advanced 1.5 cents and averag ed 17.5 cents per quart. Butter advanced eight cents over the preceding month and averaged 53 cents a pound, while butter fat averaged 58 cents, showing an increase of 12 cents pei- pound. Household Hint — , To make dishwashing easier, I soak a glass baking dish in warm water to which baking soda has been added. Red Springs High School Plans For Basketball, Baseball Red Springs high school will enter boys teams in Class C competition in both basketball and baseball this school year, with both teams being under the direction of James W. Car- uth of Florence. S. C., who is joinin gthe faculty for the first time this year. The Red Springs boys won the county championship last vear in basketball and the base ball team came out with about 50 or 60 per cent wins. A girls basketball team will be under the coaching of Miss Elizabeth Dukes of Williston, S. C. The Red Springs girls were winners of the county championshin year before last. In Class C competition, Red Springs will plav against schools having a high school It is anticipated that basket- enrolment of less than 225. ball practice will get under way around November 1. NEWS IN BRIEF STATE NATION WORLD THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 Soviet Foreign Minister Mo lotov demands that the Euro pean peace conference reject Faculty And Courses Announced For Red Springs Schools 1946-47 Yousifs Legion Executive Staff Complete Except For 1st Grade Teacher Greensboro. Appointment Rled Springs school faculty for the year 1946-47, which will begin September 2, has been completed with the 'exception of a first grade teacher, it was announced today by Superin tendent Walter Dudley. The teachers are: Elementary principal, Miss Lillian Nance of Red Springs; second grade, Mrs. Pearl K. Prevatte of Red Springs; third grade, Miss Sara Strom of Mc- Corm|ick, S. C.; fourth grade, Mrs. Frances S. McNeill of Red Springs and Miss Emogene B. Stephens of Raeford; fifth grade, Miss Helen Roberts Buie of Red Springs; sixth grade. Mrs. Lois C. Brown of . Red Springs; seventh grade, Miss Rachel S. Perkins of Washing ton, D. C.; eighth grade, Miss May S. Boone of Waynesville. High school: Physical education, James W. Caruth of Florence, S. C.; home economics, Miss Eliza- beth Caldwell Currie of Springs; Blanche math, Miss Red Laura Fisher of Raeford; of Paul R. Younis of Charlotte history, Miss Elizabeth Pauline as executive vice-commander of the North Carolina Department voting procedure already ap I proved by the rules committee and Herbert V. Evatt of Aus? traKa accuses him of trying to use veto power in action having “the suggestion of intimida tion.” British government rejects Russia’s claim for $10 billion reparations from Germany. President Truman signs leg islation carrying money to pay some fifteen million former and pre'sent enlisted men for terminal leave they did not get. of the American Legion was announced here today by De . partment Commander W. M. York. Mr. Younts is a veteran of World War I and II and is a Dukes of Williston. S. C.; Eng lish, Miss Bessie Covington of Red Springs. The list includes six new teachers. They are: Mr. Car- uth, Mrs. McNeill, Miss Steph ens. Miss Currie, Miss Fisher and Miss Dukes. past department commander of | Mr. Dudley also listed the the Legion in North Carolina required and elective subjects and a past national vice com- that will be offered in the high i mander. He recently retired school. from active service in the army ! Ninth grade, required: Eng- , with the rank of colonel. jlish I, math I. civics I. health The executive vice-command- 1 elective, home economics I, sci- er will serve as a full-time ex- ence I. ecutive and administrative offi I Tenth grade, required: Eng- cial and will handle many of , lish II, math II, bioloy; elec- FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 Peace conference the duties that have been dis-tive, home economics II, charged in the past by the de- i rejects Russia’s demands for two-third partment commander and the majority vote rule under Sec- department adjutant. retary of State Byrnes declares OFFICE IN RALEIGH United States will not be dic-1 His office will be at depart- tated to. Iment headquarters in Raleigh Tennessee Governor Jim Me- and he will be in direct charge Cord declares that the state will take no action in the Ath- of the Legion’s program in the state. The Legion’s membership SCI eneo I, economics-sociology. Eleventh grade, required: English IV, U. S. history; elec tive, economics-sociology, che mistry, physics, math III. It was pointed out that phy sical education will be a re quired course for all students except those exempt for health ens affair in which veterans passed the 67,000 mark this reasons. Choir will be an elec- drove out political ring with year and department estimate that it likely ballots and bullets and adds that he is satisfied laws and or der once more in McMinn coun ty- Temporary truce announced on China’s western front. SATURDAY, AUGUST 190 Italy’s premier term's propos ed Italian peace treaty “puni tive” and beyond his country’s capacity to fulfill. Several Negroes knocked down and trampled at Athens, 1 reach 150,000 in the coming year. officials tive subject for all students, will 1 No student will be allowed Larger Coffon Crop This Year to carry five subjects the last three years of high school un less he maintains a “B” aver age and is recommended by his teacher. PTA Plans Set cotton 1946 is bales, official in es- ac- es- Production of North Carolina for timated at 485,000 Ala., by a mob of white men wording to the fiist gg^ timate of the Federal-State Crop Reporting service. who assembled after a fight between two white men and a Negro. This represents an increase Britain announces unofficial-! 0 ?- p er cent over last years ly that her warships would in-' short cr °P’ b'^ 18 21 P er cent tercept, search and arrest any vessels of another nation car rying illegal Jewish immigrants to the Holy Land. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 Reports in Nanking are that American Marines are expect ed to withdraw from China and let the Chinese fight their ci vil war undisturbed. A smuggled appeal for help brings disclosure that 13 Am erican civilians and soldiers have been held in a U. S. Army jail in Germany as much as two months without formal charg- under the 10-year (1935-44) average production. The acre age planted this year is 34 per cent less tha nthe 10-year av erage. Based on present conditions, it is expected that 406 pounds of lint cotton per acre will be produced this season. This is 37 pounds more than was rea- lized in above yield.. The 1945 and 65 pounds the 10 - year average acreage planted es being brought or legal sel being provided. MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Britain declares civil threatens in the Holy coun- war Lan ( and invokes a ’total blockade against illegal Jewish immi gration. Government official tells of process in which a Washing ton public relations counselor and ex-convict profited through dealings in government surplus property. Spokesman for railroad la bor unions declares that if gov ernment fails to control food prices during emergency, it is doubtful if to prevent protest. TUESDAY, anyone will be able wildcat strikes ir A British AUGUST 13 colonial office spokesman charges that Amer ican financial sources are re sponsible fpr encouraging and year is placed at 580,000, three per cent more than year. If abandonment follows this or last the average for the past 10 years, about 573,000 acres should be [harvested, said the estimate. The condition of cotton is running around 76 per cent of a full crop compared to 75 per cent last year at this time. Boll weevils are doing considerable damage this season, with heavy Executive committee of the Red Springs school PTA adopt ed a program for the coming year at a meeting Monday night and will present its recommen dations to the first meeting of the PTA. The group voted to repair or purchase a new stage curtain, buy shelves and lights for the high school library and to buy equpiment for the laboratory and first grade. First fall meeting of the PTA is expected to be at a dinner Friday, October 4. Memberships will be sold at this meeting for 25 cents. Plans are being made for a Hallowe’en carnival Nov. 1, for a Christmas party Dec. 19 and for programs by. the grammar and primary grades about the first of April and the first of May. Members of the executive committee are Perdie Dorman, president; John McGirt, vice president; Mrs. Jimmie Wat son, secretary; Mrs. J. L. Dun can, treasurer; L. E. Baldwin, past president, and Superinten dent Walter Dudley. infestations being reported some areas of the state. Odd Fact When the In vernation,. I War Crimes Court was about to recess for lunch one day a few wec, s ago, the marshal] of the court gave the audience their usual instructions ind then added the results of the 'ecent Louis-Coen fight directing illegal immigration delay.” in if Jews to Palestine. Generalissimo Chiank Kai- shek promises to end one-par ty rule and institute a consti tutional government “without Two Lumberton Men On USS Little Rock Two Lumberton navy Ven, William S. Lawson. 18, seaman first class, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lawson, and Grady V. Bis- ' sell, 18. 'seaman second class, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bis sell, are crew members of the cruiser USS Little Rock, which with five other United States naval vessels during July, made a month-long good will cruise to Scandinavian and Low Coun try ports. Mrs. Annie E. Roberts of Leak’sville, N. C.. is spending a few davs with her daughter, Mrs. Ned Croom.