THE SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED 1887
RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
FOUNDED 1896
CONSOLIDATED 1944
THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS
OF MAXTON—RED
SPRINGS **
PARKTON—ROWLAND
Robeson
s Home
town Newspapers
Published Wednesdays
The Scottish Citizen (Red Springs and Maxton, N. C.), Wednesday, September ?5, 1946
Volume LV1I, No. 36
Thomas (, Carrington Named
Secretary Chamber Of Commerce
Prominent Midway
Farmer Dies At
Home Last Thursday
Plans Retail
Credit Bureau
For Maxton
Bab's New Friend
The Maxton Chamber of
Commerce and Merchants As
sociation has chosen Thomas
C. Carrington of Norfolk, Va.,
for the post of secretary of the
local civic organization. Mr.
Carrington comes to Maxton
with a wide and varied exper
ience in chamber of commerce
work.
For four years, he was sec-
retary of the
in Frostburg,
four years as
Punxsutawny,
of Commerce.
Commercial club
Md., and served
secretary of the
Pa., Chamber
In Gatesville,
WEALTHY French champagne mag
nate, Count Alain D’Eudville, ac
cording to reports from abroad, is
said to be the new heart interest in
Barbara Hutton’s life. The dime-
store heiress, incidentally, has just
purchased a $75,000 home in the
native quarter of Tangier, Morocco,
because, “I’ve always wanted to
live like an Arab." (International')
Rites were held for Joe C.
Smith, 78, on Friday afternoon
at 4 p. m. at his home in Mid
way. Mr. Smith, a prominent
farmer with a wide range of
friends in the Midway and
Maxton section, died at his
home on Thursday, September
19 at 6 p. m.
The services were conducted
by Mr. Smith’s pastor!, Rev.
Jones, who was assisted by
Rev. McLaurin, a former pas
tor of the Midway church. Bu
rial was in the Midway church
cemetery.
Mrs. Dan Stewart and Miss
Anna Whitlock helped with
the many beautiful floral
Story On Carl
Dunn In Saturday
Evening Post
wreaths. Pallbearers
Texas, he served as secretary
of the Commercial club.
Mr. Carrington was pub
licity director and convention
manager of the Chamber of
Commerce in San Antonio,
Texas, for two years and serv
ed for three years as secretary
of the chamber of commerce in
Blairsville, Pa. For three years
he did publicity work for com
munity fund organizations and
has done research work for the
Virginia State Chamber of
Commerce in Richmond. He
has also been associated with
the Standard Oil company and
the United States Employment
service.
Mr. Carrington is married
and has been residing at 750 1
McKinnon Gets
New Assignment
■ Col.
Kinnon
ifornia
and
left
for
McKinnon’s
porting to
Mrs. Robert
last week for
a visit with
family before
Me-
Cal-
Mrs.
re-
Mismarck, North
Dakota, where Col. McKinnon
has been assigned to a station.
Baldwin Place, Ardsley Apt.,|They have spent
Norfolk, Va. He has taken sum-j here with Mrs.
mer courses at the University non.
several weeks
Neil McKin-
of Chicago and served as pri
vate tutor for four years.
Mrs. McKinnon
this week that
received word
another
son.
There were many applicants Major John H. McKinnon had
for the position of secretary of reported to Fort Jackson for
the Maxton Chamber of
merce and officers of the
organization chose Mr.
rington because of his
standing past record and
his
Corn- an assignment following
local recent return from Germany
local recent return
Car-land France. Major McKinnon
out- returned to the States i"
the
States
in
Sam McRae,
Sherwood
Leach, Jim
McRimmon.
Surviving
W. H.
McLean,
McIntyre
included:
Stewart,
Rufus
and Tom
are Mrs. Joe C.
Smith, five sons, Lonnie Smith,
Blue Smith, Glen Smith
two daughters, Mrs. G. C.
Donald and Mrs. Earnest
Lean.
and
Me.
Me.
Acorn Furniture
Company Begins
Wardrobe Work
belief that he will be a real
asset to the community.
Mr. Carrington is we,,
quainted with the establish
ment of Retail Credit Bureaus
their charge of a group of prisoners
sent home from the occupation
zones.
Mrs. Oliver Scaiffe of Chad
bourn and Alfred Love of Ev-
and his first objective in Max-iergreen spent the weekend with
ton will be the establishment ther parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
of such a bureau.
I A. Love.
Jones Consiruclion Foreman
Reports On Base Buildings
Over Hundred
Already Marked
For New Location
Buildings that have already
been assigned and their desti
nations include 68 to Lynch
burg, Va., 16 to Washington
and Lee at Lexington, Va., 4
to Lenoir-Rhyne at Hickory, 4
Preston Rion, representing ^ 0 Siler Citr, 4 to Erskine at
Jones Construction Co. of[ Fue West, 16 to the University
Charlotte, has announced that 0 ^ North Carolina at Chapel
156 of the buildings at the' BB L 4 to Newton and 15 to
JONES Construction
former Laurinburg-Maxton Ar
my Air Base have been pro
cessed and assigned by the
Federal Public Housing au-
. thority. There are approxi-
North Carolina State
leigh.
Other well known
tors now engaged in
buildings in addition
at Ra-
contrac-
removing
to Jones
Acorn Furniture Co. of Max-
ton started manufacturing fur
niture wardrobes at 7 o’clock
Monday morning, September
23. Originally scheduled for
earlier production, the ward
robe manufacture was held up
because of existing shortages
in various materials and the
difficulty encountered in rea
dying the building for use.
Acorn Furniture Co. is lo
cated next to the ACL freight
station in what was formerly a
cotton warehouse. All cotton
has now been Removed from
the warehouse. At present A-
corn is operating on a reduced
scale using only one-third of
their plant. As soon as an air
compressor can be installed, it
is likely that the entire floor
space of the plant will be util
ized.
Clyde Hedrick, cabinet-room
superintendent, reported that
the plant will soon be able to
produce 100 cases a day. The
wardrobes are being made of
5-8 inch plywood on the sides.
Wardrobe size is 34 inches
wide, 20 inches deep and 62
inches high. They have a three
coat finish: Walnut stain, a
sealer and the finishing coat.
Acorn Furniture Co. is now
hiring carpenters, cabinetmak
ers, cabinet assemblers, spray
ers and helpers, also stock
movers and shipping room help
ers. They, now need over 100
workers and are receiving ap
plications daily at the plant
mately 700 buildings located I Construction Co. include Doyle
on the base property and 358 ' and Russell, who have the con-
of these have been put in the itract to move 68 buildings to
custody of Jones Construction Lynchburg and Allen J. Saville
Inc., which is moving 21 build-
next
tion.
G.
dent
John
to the ACL freight sta-
Norman Hutton is presi-
of the corporation. Tom
of the
company. Of this number ap- . .
proximately 90 will be torn lngs ^ 0 t ke University of Vir-
down and moved by the Jone's
Construction Co. So far
have moved 16
proceed orders
19 more.
The transfer
being handled
sion of the
and now
on more
they
have
than
of buildings is.
under supervi-1
ginia in Charlottesville and 1
to Salisbury, N. C.
Mrs. Dickson’s
i Brother Passes
, Tom McLeod of Ashford, Al-
Federal • Public abama> brother of Mrs. R. S.
Housing authority. This organ- , Dickson of Red Springs, died
ization can authorize trans-
fer of buildings to institutions
and other bidders,
noted that most of
ings to be removed
base property have
It will be
the build-
from the
been as-
signed to educational institu
tions.
Friday ■ morning at his home
after a lingering illness. Sur
viving are two sons, E. L. Mc
Leod of Orlando, Fla, Dan
McLeod of California, and one
daughter, Mrs. B. J. Killhouse
of Atlanta, Ga.
The transfer process has been^HE REASON WHY
slowed up because of lack of
proceed orders. While the con
struction companies know how
many and what buildings they
are to remove, the actual trans ¬
McCall, Idaho.—When
Maxton, N.
dent and F.
surer and
Mr. Harris.
Hasty Veneer Co.,
C., is vice presi-
M. Harris is trea-
general manager.
who is now living
ii Laurinburg, hopes to move
to Maxton soon but has been
inable to find an apartment.
Riles Held For
Mrs. Mary Smith
Of Argyle Section
Mrs. Mary Smith, 69, of the
1 Argyle section
died
home Saturday night.
.Smith was the
Edi-Smith. Funeral
Maxton people were surpris
ed to read in a recent copy of
the Saturday Evening Post an
article about Carl Dunn, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Dunn|
Titled “Newsboys Are Sprout
ing Wings,” the article can be
found in the August 24 issue
on page 54 of this famous mag
azine.
The story concerns distribu
tion of the Fort Myers News’
Press, a Florida newspaper, 1
Whit Ansley, crculation man
ager of the Fort Myers paper,
was worried because papers
from Tampa and Jacksonville
could be shipped to the many
hotels and private estates on
the Mangrove Coast at the
same time as his News-Press.
Fort Myers was much closer to
the islands but the paper had.
to travel ot of the way to reach
the islands.
Ansley was talking the situ
ation over with his close
friend, Carl Dunn, and they hit
upon the
delivery
aviation
wanting
anyway.
idea of starting an air
service. Mr. Dunn, an
enthusiast, had been
to start an air line I
He and Mr. Ansley in-
augurated their air delivery
service and enlarged it to in-
elude a shopping
help the island
service to
residents.
PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN SEA RCH OF A JOB
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THE MAN who made today’s headlines, Henry A. Wallace, reads them as he sits on a park
bench near the Commerce Building in Washington. A few hours before he had submitted his
.resignation as Secretary of Commerce after he had been requested to do so by President
Robins To Tangle
With N. C. Major
Leaguers Oct. 6
Breakable items, which were
sent from the Fort Myers stor
es to the islands, were deliv
ered by way of parachute.
Mr. Ansley and Mr. Dunn
are now managing two import
ant southern airports and the
paper route, which is called the
dawn patrol, is operated by
the Royal Palm Flying Sery-
Truman.
(International Soundphoto)
Maxfon American Legion And Legion Home Coming
AI EMC Set
ice.
The News-Press is plan.
ning to add a second dawn pa
trol route that will cover the
Everglades and the country
round Lake Okeechobee.
Endowment Gift
Honors W. H. Hasty
a-
A gift of $1,000 in memo
ry of W. H. Hasty, mayor of
Maxton, who died last week,
has been made to the endow
ment fund of the Scotland
County Memorial Hospital,
it was announced today by
Edwin Pate, chairman of the
endowment committee
This gift will serve as a
permanent memorial to Mr.
Hasty, who was born and
reared in Scotland couty
and who, during his life
time, was an active and in
terested leader in the busi—?
ness. civic and religious life
of this section.
Auxiliary Plan Big Joint Meeting
Many Legion
Dignitaries
Will Attend
State and national
executives
of the American Legion have
accepted an invitation to at
tend the special joint meeting
of the Maxton American Le
gion Post No. 117 and the Am
erican Legion auxiliary to be
held at the Community club on
Friday night, October 15.
Plans have not been com
pleted for the special joint
meeting but the following Le
gion dignitaries have already
announced their intention of
attending: R. O. McCoy,, 10th
District Commander; Mrs. Tho-
cas W. Bird of Charlotte, state
auxiliary president; state aux
iliary chaplain, Mrs. R. L. Mc-
Past National Vice Commander
R. L. McMillan of Raleigh. Ma
ny other outstanding Legion
naires have been invited and
are expected to attend.
The joint meeting will be a
barbecue dinner. Tickets to the
joint meeting are now on sale
at Austin Drug Co., Maxton
Drg Store and Knight’s Esso
Station.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Legion was held’Friday
night at the Community f club
and the most important item of
For Sept. 28
Halbert McNair Jones
of
Laurinburg, who was recently
elected chairman of the board
of trustees of Flora Macdonald
college and general manager
of the $300,000 endowment and
improvement campaign now be
ing organized, will be the prin
cipal speaker at the morning
program of the 51st homecom
ing day at the college Sept. 28.
Miss Kae McIntyre, alumnae
Leading baseball stars in the
major league who hail from
the Old North State will be
seen in an exhibition game at
Robbins Park in Red Springs,
on Sunday, October 6, when
Buddy. Lewis of the Senators,
brings his Major League All-
Stars for a benefit game with
the Red Robins..
Tom Cope, the Springers’
sports impressario, has booked
the game for the purpose of
raising funds for the purchase
of electric lights for the park
and promises that the Springs
will be treated to some night
games next season, if the ne
cessary equipment is obtain
able by that time.
These North Carolina lads,
who are among the outstand
ing players of the bigtime cir
cuits will include: Bill John
son, Aaron Robins and Tom
mie Byrnes of the New York
Yankees; Taft Wright of Lum
berton and the Chicago White
Sox who has been seen on the
Robbins park line-ups in sev
eral service games during the
war, with teammates Ralph
Hodgin and Joe Haynes; from
Washington Senators will come
Lewis, Gil Coan, Jake, Early,
Al Evans and Rae Scarbor
ough; and there will be three
or more members of the St.
Louis Cardinals or the ; Brook
lyn Dodgers teams, depending
on which one fails to Avin the
Natiaonl League championship
this week.
Hamp Coleman, Vinnie de
Lorenzo, Bob Warren, Johnny
CoIones, Both Cathey a^d Torn
Clayton, University of’ North
Carolina stars who summered
with the Robins, will be back
to participate.
Coleman and Clayton have
just returned from Detroit
where they were the guests of
the Tigers for a week’s stay,
warmed up and participated in.
I batting practice with them.
Hamp did' some pitching’ during'
the sessions' and breezed some
of his fast ones' by the; Tiger’s
best batsmen.
•^
Millan of Raleigh;
national
auxiliary president, Mrs. Wal
ter C. Craven of Charlotte and
Plans Are Completed For PJC
Endowment Campaign In Maxton
College Needs
Endowment Fund
Of $100,000.00
approved a campaign among
the churches to raise the need
ed endowment fund.
It is proposed
this undertaking
to major on
• jthis undertaking between the
While Presbyterian Junior present date and January 15,
college is frlly accredited by 1947. William G. Coxhead,
a
the North Carolina State De- Presbyterian elder who has
partment of Public instruction j just retired from, the YMCA
it is denied membership in the secretaryship, has been secur-
Southern Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools
because it has not met the re
quirements of the association
as to total amount of endow
ment funds. Membership in the
Sodthern Association is consid-
ed to assist the board of
tees
head
with
ter
in this effort. Mr.
will be available to
sessions present the
to congregations and
counsel with individuals.
president, Swill preside
. over
business discussed was -the ten the; ^mecbming, to begin at
tative plan for the meeting on 11:30 a. m., and musical num-
October 15. The membership hers by alumnae and conserva-
and program committees made tory students will intersperse
a report and announced names the one-hour program,
of the distinguished guests
All alumnae will be guests
who have already signified in- of the college for luncheon at
tention of attending the joint 1 o’clock, and the luncheon pro-
meeting. , I gram will feature
This meeting will undoubt- stunts presented by
edly be the outstanding Le-lof the four classes under the
skits and
members
National Leiter
Writing Week
To Begin Soon
Mrs. C. B. Williams, ' post
master of the Maxton post of
fice, has announced that Na
tional Letter Writing week
gion event of the year and all
persons desiring to attend are
urged to purchase tickets
ly.
Two Robeson
Men Killed As
Car Overturns
John Charles Cobb, 40,
ear-
and
trus-
Cox-
mee't
mat-
to
He
and Dr. Louis C. LaMotte may
cred by the trustees the great- .be addressed at Maxton at any
est present need of the college, (time regarding the campaign
ofin local churches. It is believ-
Toed that if the 556 churches in
The present endowment
the college is $53,432.31.
.meet, the requirements of the ।the Synod of North Carolina
at her Souhtern Association will
re- ( with their
100,945
communi-
Mrs. quire the raising of $100,000,- cants will each cooperate hear-
of Lee 00 in additional endowment, tily, the endeavor should sue
Services were [funds. The staunchest standby ,ceed without being a burden to
widow
tor M. 0. Brown increased theiheld Tuesday afternoon at theof the college through the anyone
page size of his weekly news-^ome and were conducted by jyears, W. H. Belk of Charlotte, I All investment
paper recently, * " T . , ... - ■
the anyone.
following
terse
he gave the)Rev. C. J Andrews of the St.[has generorsly offered to add went funds will be^adTwith
explanation: ■ Paul’s Methodist church
fer operations can not be ac-^The Star this week will have ,Maxton.
complished until proceed or- I arger pages because we’ve Grove cemetery.
ders arrive for each building, been getting complaints from) Mrs. Smith is survived by
These orders come from the a lot of folks that our papertwo daughters, Miss
Atlanta office of the Federal was too small to wrap a whis- Smith and Mrs. Melvin Hickox
Public Housing authority. I key bottle in.” and one son, Bob Smith.
complished until proceed
Burial
was at
in ( ten per cent to all money con- great care and
Oaktributed for the endowment। vised
thereafter
closely suner-
jUi)
Bertha
. 1. by the follow-
fhnd. The Synod of North Car- mg Investment Committee of
olina, of the Presbyterian Trustees: C. E. Beman, Edwin
church in the United States, Bate and. E. Hervey Evans of
which owns and controls the'Laurinburg and F. E. Coxe of
Presbyerian Junior college, has Blenheim.
olina,
direction of the class presi
dents. Miss Ethel Bateman
director of physical education,
will be in charge of group sing
ing for the program in the din-
will be held again this year.
Because of its general appeal
and real human interest, Na
tional Letter Writing Week has
become a popular annual ev
ent.
This year it will be observ-
ing room.
After luncheon the alumnae ^ d October 13 to 19 apd .the
will adjourn do the college par- office d rtment is p i an .
lors where the members of the again t0 participate in
faculty will be their guests at; Such observance as in former
a coffee hour. Following this until war conditions pre -
social period a brief business ^ ented doj so p ostera caU .
meeting of the alumnae asso-. attention to Letter Writ-
ciation will be held be Miss
McIntyre presiding.
ing week and copies of a fold
er featuring the theme, “Soma-
Thomas L. Chason, 27, both of
the Lumber Bridge community,
were killed Friday afternoon
when the automobile in which
they were riding left the road
and overturned between Park-,
ton and Lumber Bridge.
Cobb was instantly killed in , ,
the crash and Chason died weekend Wlth F ’ B ’ Thrower, jounce and fraction thereof be-
four hours later in the Veter- ! F ’ B ’ Thrower and George comes effective on the first of
ans hospital at Fayetteville. Thrower spent Monday in Mon- - " — -
Coroner D. W. Biggs said he 10e ’
was informed that the sedan
occupied by the men was
being driven at a high rate of
speed when it turned over and
one Feels Better When. You
G. T. Ashford and son, Tom-)Send a Letter” will soon be
my, spent Saturday in
leigh.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
rams of Charlotte spent
Ra- distributed in Maxton. .
I Mrs. Williams also wants to
Ab- remind local patrons that the
the reduced air mail rate of 5c an
October and the postal service
He was a son of the late Ar
thur B. and Lula Lovett Chas-
on of Lumber Bridge and serv-
ed for two years in Europe with
plunged off an embankment, the Parkton company of the
The coroner said that
quest would be held.
Funeral services for
were held at Lumber
Baptist church Sunday
loon at 5 o’clock.
no in-
120th infantry, 30th division.
I Funeral services for Cobb
will attempt to bring use of
air mail to unprecedented
heights. There will be no spe
cial rate to the a#Red forces.
However, the new air mail
rate will be cheaper than the
old 6c charge for letters going
to service personnel.
Chason were held at the home Sunday
Bridge afternoon at 2:30.
after-! Cobb was the son of the late
Chason is survived by a bro
ther, A. B. Chason of New
York City, and two sisters, Mrs.
T. B. Forbis of Lumber Bridge
and Mrs. George Weaver of
Wallace. «
W. S. and Martha Harris Cobb
Mrs. Shelton Holds
Teachers Position
Mrs. Rurin Shelton of Red
IIT. XYXXO. xvuxlll V 1 xvyv
of Lumber Bridge, and is sur- Springs has been elected trea-
vived by two brothers, Freder- surer of the North (Carolina
ick A. Cobb of Laurel Hill and Classroom Teachers. Mrs. Shel-
Edward G. Cobb of Henderson, tor has been a member of the
and a sister, Mrs. Ernest Me- State Council as representative
Gougari of Lumber Bridge. lof the Northwestern district.