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:- i« THE SCOTTISH CHIEF FOUNDED RED SPRINGS FOUNDED 1887 CITIZEN 1896 CONSOLIDATED 1944 THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN One Robeson s Hometown Newspapers Published Wednesdays STAGING OFF STAGE MOB SCENE IN HOLLYWOOD The Scottish Citizen (Red Springs and Maxton, |sl. C.), Wednesday, October 2, 1946 Lacy Slone Now Treasurer Big Leaguers Meet Robins SURVIVORS ON WAY TO HOSPITAL EFFORTS TO CROSS the picket lines established by striking Hollywood studio workers meet with opposition in front of the Warner Brothers plant in Burbank, Cal. A crowd of pickets is shown trying to stop an auto from getting through the gate to the movie lot. Several arrests were reported. (International Soundphoto) Maxton Chief Of Police Resigns After Year Of Continuous Service Cotillion Dance J. A. Thompson Assumes Duties As Police Chief Alumnae Hear Jones Appeal For Campaign T. A. Fisher submitted his At Daystrom Sunday, Oct. 6 Continung the policy making local people leaders of in J. K. “Buddy” Lewis and his A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN ROBESON—AND TOWNS OF MAXTON—RED SPRINGS PARKTON—ROWLAND Volume LVII, No. 37 its many branch companies, American Type Founders, Inc., has approved the recommenda tion of Lacy Stone of Maxton for treasurer of Daystrom Laminates, Inc. Colonel Marshall Barnum, 1 vice president and general manager of Daystrom Lami- ■ inates, Incorporated, nominat- ( ed Mr. Stone for this position ; at a board of directors meeting i in New York recently and his nomination was unanimously approved by the board. Mr. Stone has been serving in this new capacity since Sep- major league all-stars, prod ucts of the baseball lots of North and South Carolina, with one “foreigner” from Georgia in the group, face the Springs Robins Sunday, 6, at the ball park in Red 1 Oct. ; Red Springs i.n what is probably the latest but best diamond at traction ever presented here. The fame a Tar Heel its baseball club caused this .place of Red Springs as town which likes and supports its Lewis to select as a stop on the itinerary. Then, too, the Red Robins are eager to tember 20. He was recently ap . 1 themselves financially pointed comptroller and treas- drive to instal1 lig . hts fortify in their in the urer. Comptroller is an ap-| park ’ and they belie Ve the cit-( pointed position and treasurer' izenS ° f Red Springs and sur ’■ ■ rounding territory will fill the is a position attained ap- only j through nomination and vot- The Cotillion club will spon-! ^ n ® Procedure. sor a dance at Evans Hall in Mr. Stone was born in Rob- Maxtonon Thursday night, , , . x nt eson county ans has lived in - v October 3. The dance will com- . xo 1 J Maxton for 13 years. He went Imence at 9 o clock and will be , _ , - , u j u to Orrum high school and bus iness school and has had ex tensive training in accounting. For 18 years he was associat ed with the Seaboard Air Line /informal. Script, as usual, will be 50c per person. The last dance held by the club was a success and this one promises to be even better. Ma ny PJC boys have signified their railway. In January 1945 he i stands to capacity witnessing the major leaguers in action. It’s not just a slip-shod ag gregation the Gastonia boy is bringing, either. He has as sembled such players as Aaron Robinson, the sensational Yan kee catcher who began his; baseball career at Rockingham; and stepped into the shoes of fabulous Bill Dickey, the iron LYING ON STRETCHERS, some of the 30 or more persons injured in the wreck of a crack Union Pacific train at Victorville, Cal., await ambu lances at an airport in Burbank. Army ambulance planes flew them from the scene of the crackup to Burbank for hospitalization. Six per sons died in the tangled train wreckase.^antemationa^Sotindphotb)^ Legion's Drive For Members in Full Till At least 24 the American pected to take tiatory oath meeting to be new members of Legion are ex- the Legion’s ini- at the October held at Legion Hall on next Monday evening, according to E. H. Alexander, commander of Charlie Hall Post of Red Springs. The Legion’s memUsrship drive is now in full swing, and the half-way mark toward the goal of 144 members by No vember 1, was passed yester day, when 76 applications had been received by the ' drive committee. Several matters of vital im portance are expected to be discussed at the meeting Mon day evening, it was stated, and a full attendance is urged.! Commander Alexander states that he wishes all officers and as many old members as pos sible to attend the meeting on Monday evening to greet the large number of new appli- cants who will be given the resignation as chief of police to the town of Maxton, Mon day, September 30, the resig- tion to become effective im.- mediately. The board met im mediately an dvoted to accept this resignation from Mr. Fi sher. The board expressed its appreciation to him for the long and faithful serfce' that he had rendered to the town. J. A. Thompson, former night policeman, has been appoint ed chief of police and assum ed duties.Jn > this office Tues day. G. A. Hendricks has been appointed night policeman. Mr. Fisher first' became as ¬ sociated with the town of Max- their cooperation in this move ton in public work when hei men r. He pa j d tribute to the ac ed as special officer in 1931 j as t record of this group, recall- tor a short while. He was night j lg their constant loyalty in the policeman in 1932 and 1933. . - j , 'began work with Daystrom Approximately 100 alumnae intention of attending the dance; Laminates Incorporated . M1 , representing many sections ot and a cordial invitation is ^u- g ig a counceBor of; .. , North and South Carolina and ed to all members of the Max- JOUAM and is secretary a ndl pitcher Virginia gathered at Flora Mac- ton and Red Springs social set treasurer of Daystrom Lamin- d 7 ald c o ”eg e on Saturday, to to attend, as well as those of ;atgg Commuit corporation, celebrate the first home com surrounding communities. - i - ing ’Say of the second half cen tury of their alma mater. Miss Kate McIntyre, president of the alumnae association, pre sided at the morning program in the auditorium, which marked the first public presentation of the plans for the $300,000 cam paign for endowment and im provement, now being organiz ed. Halbert McNair Jones of Laurinburg, general chairman of the campaign, made an ear- fst appeal to the aluinnae for McKinnon Discusses Special Tax Fer Scheels AI Puritan Meeting man behind the plate; “Honey Boy” Joe Haynes of Columbia, S. C., the Chicago White Sox who married I Griffith’s daughter and Clark has been in the old man’s hair ever since, on the diamond, that is, when Griffith’s Senators play the White Sox; Ray Scarbor ough, right handed Washington pitcher who was a winning sen- past, and the valuable contribu In 1937 Mr. Fisher was ap- tion of the Flora Macdonald al pointed night policeman and has served continuously with the force since that date. In December of 1941 he was na med chief of police and acted in that capacity until his re signation. Mr. Thompson Joined the umnae in many fields of serv ice throughout the world, since the first class was graduated, and asked that they give their support 1(10 per cent in the im I portant work now being under- I taken, to enable the college to I The advisability of allowing smaller school districts to vote special tax supplements for school purposes was discussed before the Parkton Ruritan Lumberton bar and coming club Thursday night by Henry A. McKinnon, member of the state senator for Robeson coun ty. Under present law, school J districts must have a school I population of more than 1,000 ton district would raise only about $2,000 a year as the lare- est levy that can be made is 2.5c per thousand dollar valu ation. In his discusseion Mr. Mc Kinnon declared that he had not formed an opinion as to whether the law. shoudl be changed or ot but thatn he ex pected to governihis actions go forward to a bigger and bet ter future. in order to vote a plement. There has been tion in the smaller a revision of th" special sup- some agita- districts for law-so that they could vote extra funds fol- schools but it was brought out that a special tax in the Park force in December of 1941 and; has served continuously since! board has doci^D. MeW® Au^!l Is Chairman to consolidate some of the du- ^* ■ - - — — ties of the police department with those if the Street de- parment in order to relieve Jim Jones of the heavy duties he has been carrying. Mr. Thomp son will be superintendent of streets and tax collector in ad dition to his duties as chief of police. Mr. Jones will now Superintendent of water drainage for the town. be and Salvation Army Drive in Maxton $2000 Goal Should Be Reached Soon MAXTON BOY NAMED SOCIAL LIFE DIRECTOR John R. MacKinnon of Max- Plans for the campaign in Robeson county to.raise $3,000 for the Salvation Army were completed at a meeting of the county service unit at the of- •fice of Gordon Cashwell in the Lumberton post office. D. McBryde Austin of Max- ton has been selected to direct the drive for funds in the Max- FMC Names Red Springs Special Gills CommilleeFor Endowment Antioch’s Annual Ingathering On Next Thursday C. T. Johnson Is County Chairman “Red Springs will take the oath at that time. Other veter ans who have not yet joined are cordially invited to attend the meeting at which time they may join if they desire, or they may -apply to any member of the membership committee im: mediately for an applicatior card. Those serving in the drive this year are R. D. Mc Millan Jr., Dan Klarpp, Morri son Peterson, Sam Thomas ape Commander Alexander. Time of Monday’s meeting i^ 8 p. m. The post’s annual dinner! The annual ingathering held each October at Antioch Pres byterian church will be held; one of the most widely attend- safiop with the Senators- be- tore going into service and a i nd i ca ti on s are that it will be big help to them since return-' ing. Taft Wright, the Lumber-■ ever held at this church which ton boy who hits the ball as(has pioneered the ingathering hard as any man in the big movement in East Carolina. next Thursday, October 10, and Johnson, chairman initiative in the $300 000 ca ™-! ed Legion events of this seel P T „ for ? ac ^ na ’ d j tion, will be held early in No- college, said Di. Chailes T. vember, possibly on November for Robe-in „ son county. one of the largest church sales - ■ 4 01 w^-wi, with State Commander E Dr. Johnson has, y. York as principal speaker. leagues; and al reknown. ■ In addition man in the big movement in East Carolina. others of nation- appointed George T. Ashford;. chairman for Red Springs xr i and vicinity. Mr. Ashford an- Vocational Courses . nounced members of his spe- Have Commenced At as Starting some fifteen years j cial gifts committee as fol- ago as strictly a community lows: J. C. Graham, R. D. Mc- affair, th-e Antioch, 'ingatihen- Millan Jr., D. M. McMillan, Al ton has been elected director of social life for the junior class of the Union Theological seminary in a recent election. Following his graduation from Davdson college in 1942 MacKinnon served two years overseas with the United Stat es armed forces, seeing action in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippine Is lands. During the past sum ton section. George will handle the Aled campaign. Mr. Austin reports Ashford Springs that the town of Maxto has only been asked to raise $200 for its part this figure is startlingly low of the county drive. He thinks and was surprised that the county was gnot iven a larger quota. mer >i he served as a member of the staff of the First Presby terian church, Columbia, S. C. As Union Theological The $3,000 asked from Rob eson county is only slightly more than the $2930 spent last year by the Salvation Army on sento Robeson county citizens and inary opened its doors for the was much less than the amount J35th session, more than one- third of that has been spent in the the undergraduate county by the Salvation Army student body are veterans military service. North Campus Of PJC ’Classes . have ; begun: on ■ the north campus of Presbyterian Junior college. 106 students had enrolled through Septem ber 24. These students are tak ing either standard freshman work, refresher courses or vo- to those already,. , , „ „ , — r T mentioned, there will be Gil ’ ng ba « become really a sec- Grant Ben Campen, J. L. Dun Coan. Washington’* roukip not-' tlonal Homecoming With pe^an, A; b Boatwright W.C. ple attending from all neigh- "McNeill, ;H. B. Ashley Jr., Hi- boring towns and! copimunities ram Granijiam Jr., C. T. John- basen^n“Zho hTil/fro'mGeor-; a ^ sal ® s 0 ^ handiwork, ®as- sog W. b toMeRa^ H. G Bed- cakes, farm produce and inger,jand T. A. Fry. Coan, Washington’s rookie out-] fielder from Mineral Springs Bill Johnson, the Yankees’ 3rd in ^ "t^ 6 senate according to ' gi£ -’ and ig the 0nl non _ Caro wishes of the majority of the Hna performer; ----- people he represents. 1 [ President George I Watson presided over the meeting and had as his guest his father, G. W. Watson of Pennsylpa- nia. Also attending as a guest was F. L. Toler of Lumber ; Bridge. i The Ladies Missionary So- •. ciety of the Baptis tchurch served an exxcellent meal. The served The board of directors and committee chairmen will meet Oct. 11 and the next regular meeting of the Ruritans will be Oct' 24. j tries. .The committee held a ing at Flora Macdonald meet- col- ; Jake Early of 4’°™ 20 + 1 (Kings Mountain and Al Evans year total $5,000 to $7,-. of Rocky Mount, Washington 1 °°0 annuaBy. catchers; Outfielder Ralph’ barbecue Hodgin of the White Sox, a na-1 ^ alad . dinne1 , 1S x , } + n + , (drawing card of the event, and i beginning tomorrow, October this year preparations are be- 8, and continuing with their jlege Monday and made' plans and chicken business firms in Red Springs the principal ( to call on all the citizens and cational work. The class is frigeration and the class electrical sales and service re in be- tive of Greensboro; Jimmy! Brown, shortstop of the Pitts- burgh Pirates; Tommy Byrne, Yankee southpaw who got his start on Murray Greason’s Wake Forest team; and Frank “Rube” Melton of the Brook lyn Dodgers, who is also from Gastonia. He will be there un less the Bums are in the World ' Series. ing made to serve an even ■ solicitation until every citizen greater crowd than the thous-j has had an opportunity to and who attended the last year. dinner.make his or her contribution. j “Flora Macdonald, as most p Household Hint’ " V ’ * If bread becomes too dry for the table, brown it lightly in the oven and serve like melba toast. ■ everyone knows,” Dr. H. G. ■ Bedinger, president, said, “is j under the supervision of the I three Presbyteries of Fayette- | ville. Orange and Wilmington. gan. The new vocational class es in carpentry and-cabinet making will open just as soon as a sufficient number of stu dents enroll. H. J. Bryson is dean of the vocational school, Ernest Wil liams is business manager, Mrs. Annie W. Rozier is dietitian, E. N. Henderso is airport man ager. Teaching personnel is as follows: refrigeration, air ^ W ■The three Presbyteries embrace ! conditioning and heating, Tho- I the following counties in south-! mas b ' Alford, electrical sales ■ eastern and central sections of , and . seivice, Fred Crews, car- ■ North Caroilna; Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus, Cumber land, Duplin, Guilford, Har nett, Hoke, Jones, Lee, Moore, New Hanover, Orange, Onslow, Pender Randolph, Robeson, Rockingham, Sampson, Scot land. ( “The Presbyteries have offi-' cially approved the campaign’ for $300,000; the money, when raised, to be used for the im provement of the lighting sys-; Alamance Den t r y and cabinet making, H. Caswell D ' Pulliam, German and math ematics, Frederick K. Schultze, English, French and social sci ence, E. T. Crowson, aircraft and engine mechanics, T. E. Ledford, math, W. B. Owen, flight instruction, C. T. Med- j lin. New students may be ad- I mitted during a period of two weeks. CHORAL SOCIETY An organizational meetin tern in all buildings, a new! water tank, the modernization i to f° rm a choral society in Red of the bathrooms, replacing offsprings is Palnned for SCunday worn out floors, installation! aftennoon, October 10, accord- of new equipment in class-j n g to Robert Reuter, dean of rooms and dormitories, the in-■the school of music at the col sulation and weather stripping of buildings, laying campus walks and drives, which latter j items have been under con- IStruction for the past few ! weeks. * I “Of the $300,000 fund, $200,- ; 000 is to be devoted to endow- of over a period of years without I local assistance. AARON ROBINSON, pop ular Yankee catcher, is one of the many major league players haili g from North Carolina who will appear Red Springs Sunday, Oct, 6, Robinson started his ball playing days at Rockingham. Sunday’s game will be for tjhe Robbins Park lighting fund. ■ ment, increasing the ! tion’s institu- BRINGING TAR HEEL all stars of the major leagues to Red Springs Sunday, Oct. 6, for a game with the Red Robins is J. K. “Buddy” LeL- wis. A veteran of eight sea sons with the Washington Senators, Lewis is a native of Gastonia. endowment to $400,000, i making it eligible to the Sou- [thern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The re- maining $100,000 will be used for the improvements.” lege. Plans call for a meeting to be Held at the American Legion hall at 3 p. m. on the 10th when an executive committee will be named to attend an organizati onal details and other matters pertaining to the launcching of the choral group at going nsti- tution. Invitations are being xeten ded also to choirs and idividuals of nearby towns who desire to sing and study the great reli gious masterpieces to be present j at the meeting.
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