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4 - a * * ♦ THE SCOTTIS^ CHIEF FOUNDED 1887 RED SPRINGS CITIZEN' ri FOUNDED 1896 CONSOLIDATED 1944 Published Wednesdays THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN 4 ROBESON—AND TOWNS ? 8 OF MAXTON—RED SPRINGS PARKTON—ROWLAND Robeson s Hometown Newspapers IM ScottishCitizen (Red Springs and Maxton, N. C.), Thursday, October 31, 1946 ErHinriol Homecomers, LOIlUrid Asbury Church Magazine Racket Comes word another racket which has just been exposed, in Louisiana in which both the! public and ex-servicemen seek ing legitimate work are the victims. Here is the way the racket works: An ad is placed in a newspaper asking for “over- seas veterans, 19 to 24; must be free to travel U. S. A. and assist manager in circulation work; no experience necessary, $40 per week to start.” Those who answer the ad are lectured on playing on the sympathies of prospects; walk ing canes are furnished and each agent is told to practice walking with a limp. And to prospects they are told to say: We are disabled veterans. This is rehabilitation program put on by national magazines and the Army Medical Corps to get us disabled veterans used to talking to people again etc.” The $40 a week catch is only for the first week; thereafter the agent is on a commission and bonus basis entirely. REBUKES SOCIALISM In Oklahoma where a lot of pressure has been put on the ■ residents of local towns to take on electric service from publicly owned or public sub sidized electric systems, some astonishing results have been reported in local elections Where the question of iferiew ing that franchise of a pri vate power company came up. X Evidently residents of Oklaho ma realize the advantage of highly-taxed private enterprise W^to a local community, as con- _, trusted with tax-exempt public M. business which depletes the lo cal tax rolls and public treas uries. * Three towns have just re corded their vote in no uncer tain terms for 25-year franchis es for the local power compa- ; ny. Gore voted 135 to nothing, and Webbers Fall 175 to noth ing. Arkoma voted 307 for, to 3 against a franchise. That kind of a vote is a re- - buke to Socialism in the power field, and encourages private enterprise and private inves tors to go ahead with a feeling of security in uilding up tax- Paying industries and assets in local communities. Other stat- es can well take a lesson from these Oklahoma communities in encouraging local prviate terprise. en- At Hear Townsend The Rev. Paul Townsend, pastor of the First Waynesville, homecoming that historic Methodist church of preached the annual service sermon at Methodist meeting house on Sunday, when the 20th homecoming service was held. One of the largest crowds to at tend this service, which was start ed 25 years ago, was present to re new old acquaintance with friends and former members, and to par- ticipate in Holy Communion worship together at this service. Memorials were presented late John S. Thompson of and yearly to the Dillon, S. C., whose great-great grandfath er, Charles Thompson, was one of the leaders in the establishment of the church by Bishop Francis Asbury in 1812; to Lon P. Town send, late prominent churchman of Lumberton, who was a leader in the movement to establish the homecoming service. 'Phe Thomp son memorial was preoared and read by David Townsend, and the Townsend memorial was prepared and read by Mrs. W. A. McCorm ick. A. E. Watson of Rowland was elected president of the Asbury as sociation for a two-year term, to succeed George Lewis Pate. Mrs. Lindsay Norment of Rowland was named chairman of the program committee. Mrs. W. A. McCormick is secretary; Lindsay Norment, treasurer; David Townsend, ceme tery chairman, and N. L. Cox, care taker. The program this year was ar ranged by the following commit- tee: Mrs. Gerald Pittman, man; Mrs. David Townsend, E. W. Stone, Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Norment. chair- Mrs. Pate CP&L Will Erect Sub-Station Soon Near Daystrom 0. H. Broadway, manager of the local office of the Carolina Power and Light Company, has annouced that the increas ed load fro mthe Daystrom Laminates plant has necessited the setting up of a 22,000 volt sub-station which w^lI be a ground type station and be placed near the plant. The Daystrom plant is demanding approxmately will now 1000 KW operating at full capacity and when present expansion is completed, the plant will have double its power load. At present power is coming to the Daystrom plant through two electrical banks and this system will be used until new transformers can be installed Hospitals To Be i Operated Jointly / Beginning Friday Plans For Modern Plant Discussed The Baker-Thompson Mem orial hospital will begin oper ation as a single unit Novem ber 1st. it was decided at a meeting of the corporation held last Thursday. K. M. Barnas, prominent Lumberton businessman and churchman, was elected president. Other officers named includ ed: E. M. Johnson and J. E. Johnson, vice presidents, and R. L. Britt, secretary-treasurer. Members of the executive committee are R. H. Livverri more, chairman, E. T. Williams, R. C. Adams, John P. Stedman, W. W. Davis, and R. D. Glad- yell. E T. Britt and Dickson McLean were chosen as attor neys for the combined hospital. Future plans of the organ ization werte announced in a statement issued this week, in which the committee states that a new and modern hospital building will be planned by cap able architects and built as soon as possible, and that an application will be filed immed iately after the plans are com- nleted with the North Carolina Medical Care commission for both Federal and State Funds, Until these plans can be exe cuted it was decided to operate both the present hospitals, and that they 'will, be designated the Baker Unit and the Thom pson Unlit. Mr. R. L. Britt was named division administra tor of the Baker unit, and Miss Lucille Hall is to be admini strator of the Thompson unit. The statement adds that there will be no change in the present set up of the two in stitutions and that the present staffs will continue as in the immediate past.' The necessary legal papers for transfer of the properties' of the two hospitals to the new corporation are expected to be in order today so that the new' corporation may assume control and operation l& the Baker- Thompson' Memorial Hospital, Incorporated on Fridav. The new president. Mr. Bar- DCS, was one oT the original promoters nT the ^oun^ing of Thompson Memorial hospital as member to ths late Dr. N. A. Thompson, and has been chairman of its Lon,-a n f fnis . tees since its establishment. STAKES ALL ON PRICE CHOP : ®MW 1 CAUGHT WITH A HUGE SUPPLY of meat, purchased at 4 top prices, Sidney Alexander, owner of two Chicago butcher shops, decides to unload at cost. Above, housewives who have refused to pay the high prices wait in line to buy at costs indicated on window while (below) a butcher holds up a choice cut to show them what’s what. (International) Raeford To Red Springs Star Route Kayoed Bank And Library Discussed Before Parkton Ruritans Salvation Army Campaign Fails “ Maxton fell short in the local drive to collect funds for the Sal vation Army campaign. The quota asked from Maxton was $200 and on. October 23, 1946 the report of funds raised was announced by D. McBryde Austin, local chairman Most of the bus- amount county of the driye,- as $198.00. this sum Was donated by inessmen of Maxton.This- £ was forwarded to the chairman at Lumberton. An answer to the failure of this drive is that more than five camp aigns to collect money have been * going on id Marton during the past three months: Library Drive, Bible teachers Salary Campaign, Boy ^cout Campaign, Campaign to raise funds for the Presbyterian Church, PJC endowment drive and the" cur rent campaign to raise funds for veteran’s lots for building.' : The -Scottish Citizen Red Springs, N. C. ' Telephone 305-1 Maxton, N. C. Telephone 59-W Dougald Coxe Publisher Bell-MacKinnon Maxton Editor Subscription Rates 1 Year 6 Months ....... 3 Months 52.00 1.00 .65 Published Every Wednesday S n j Cre ^ . a $ the Post Office at Red Springs, N ; C.. as second class mail matter. and the new carry the load sub-station can alone. The line is being installed now and work on the sub-stat- ion will be" commenced within the next week. However it may be a year before the new transformers f c)fn be received as they have to be built to order. “We will continue to supply them with power through a makeshiftprocess of two elect rical banks until the new trans- Prowlort Break In Rack Willflow Maxion Sunnily Co says Mr. Unknown prowlers broke into Maxton Supply Co. last Wednesday, attempted to break open the safe unsucessfully andt hen stole a rifle. The burglars entered by break ing out a window in the back of the store. Although it has not been proved definitely, Dutch Holland, formers arrive Broadway. The main Maxton power ™ ana s er °f Maxton Supply co., be- station is located next to the ^ e e v n s that the j ° b was done by tw ° lot where Boyles Veneer Co. Maxton Quite a bit of change had been formerly wae ho nre1 . The Max- , e „ ,„ ,„. ^we" ^ c „ h ton station has a potentia of registers and this, along With a 22,000 volts on the line and rifle, seems to be the only thing forthat is missing, although the prow- it transforms this to 2300 town use. Boy Scout Drive The drive to collect funds for the Boy Scout Troop: in Maxton sponsored went over lection of for this $225.00 by the Mormax Club the top with a tfetal'-col- $250.00. Original goaf drive had been set at Twelve committees were appoint ed by O. H. Broadway, president for the Mormax Club, to assist in canvassing the town munities. Response orable and the business section of and surrounding co,m- to this drive very fav- considerable interest has been shown in the Boy Scout troop since it was reorganized. Luther McNeill, Jr., is Scoutmaster and C. M. Castevens, Jr. is Assist 1 ant-Scoutmaster. cash a lers could have made off with va- rious minor items ,too small to be noticed without inventory. . It is evident that a concerted ef fort was made to break open the safe and the combination dial was battered with some heavy blunt instrument. , The extent of dam age to the safe has not been de termined but a complete new com bination system will probably have to be installed. The electric clock in the office stopped at 3 a. m. thus setting the time that' a violent jar occurred in the office. This was probably when the marauders were working witH the safe combination and trying to batter the door open. Through August th.? CCC had purchased 33 million pounds of canned horse meat and another 5 million pounds of cur^d horse" meat for the UNRRA program. Amendments To Constitution To Be Voted On Two amendments to the State Constitution arte to be voted on in the election on next Tues day. One would change the word ing of article 1, sections 1-7-13- 19-and article 6 section 26 to make both men and wemen of the state “created equal” and endow them with certain in alienable rights. These changes would permit both men and women to serve on» juries, a duty of citizen ship from which women are now barred. Sections would be changed to conform with the change in section one and Vol. LVII, No,”42 New Daysfrom Plant Will Produce Minimum 30,000 Board Ft. Per Day;: SJiouldBeginProduclion In Nov. j Chamber Comm Plugs Maxion For 1000 Bed Hospital Discussion of the decision, of the Veterans Administration at Wash ington to locate in Eastern North Caiolna the new 1000 ted neuro- make the criminal laws equally annlicable to men and women, and also make laws reguarding property equally applicable: pnrl would bring section 1, of article uD t odate to allow wo men to vote as in allowed un- d 0 ” o+her sections of the con-. ptHntion. The second amendment is to change the rate of nay of mem bers of^the General Assembly for each term. It now provvides that each -.member be paid i 8600. and the presiding offic-! erq of each house to $700 per : ^'m. with additional pay of j ; $10 ner day for each day of : ■^rial sessions for the pre- i riding officers and the mem-, [hers to receive $8 per day for. | each day of an evtra session. I psychiatric hospital featured the meeting for veterans industrigs committee of the Max- ton Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association held cn Monday evening at the Commun ity Club. Those present were R. P. Edwards, chairman; O. H. Broad- way, D. Barnum ton. Facts Constructed Of Cypress Cut At Mill In Currie Construction of a $75,000 band- mill at Daystrom commenced ear ly in the summer is nearing com pletion and Marshall Barnum, general manager of Daystrom La-: minates, Inc., believes that the new mill will be operating end of November. The new addition to plant at Daystrom of the nc ^ , signed by Robert McBryde Austin, Marsha.* and Secretary Carring- and figures stressing the advantages of the Maxton area for the location of this institution al ready have been sent to Washing ton by the secretary, including the exceptionally fine climatic condi tions, intelligent labor and excel lent railroad facilities. Discussion of the possibility of securing specific industries emph asized the section’s unusual at tractions for the production of all articles made of wood, especially the manufacture of chairs, tables, cbingts and other articles of fur- niture. The need in steam laundry also Maxton for a was declared The amendment would add that! b ^ thos e present to be most evi- has before the the main been de- Maxton, who was tioned at the army Anderson of formerly sta- air base there. and has been associated with Day strom Laminates in an engineering capacity since his discharge'from service. Mr. Anderson has sisted by Clarence Julian, an ex-serviceman. The primary purpose of been as- Jr., 'also the min* The Hometown Newspapers were notified today by Congies^man J. Bayard Clark that the Post Office Department had failed to approve a star route application for direct mail service between Red Springs and Raeford. There has been considerable dis satisfaction about the mail service between the two towns for several years, principally because there is a large part of Hoke county’s rur- a l population which is served by routes from post offices in Robe son county, and rural deliveries fsonr Raeford to these rural routes have been delayed, many times unreasonably, without justification or reason. Postmaster J. C. McPhail of the Red Springs office states that mails to all rural route patrols are han dled with as great speed as possi ble by the Red Spring office em ployees and that the unreasonable delays have come at dispatching points and transfer points and not rn the Red Springs post office. Following a rigid investigation by post office inspectors and field L. L. McDonald, retired railway labor leader, told members of the Parkton Ruritan club Thursday he had been studying the possibilties of a bank at Parkton. Mr. McDonald has devoted much time to the consideration of a banking house there and in his talk advised members of the club just what he had learned and made some pertinent and worthwhile suggestions in proceeding in the organization of a bank to serve this large section of Robeson and adjoining counties which is now without immediate banking facili- ties. ri: officials the post office department has reported as follows to 'Clark: Mr, “The matter of improving postal service in Hoke county be tween Raeford and Red Springs has been made the subject of care ful investigation by a post office the inspector. The matter has also been considered by one of our field officials who concurs in the opin ion of the inspector that the limit ed amount of mail that would be expedited by a star route between Raeford and Red Springs would not justify the cost of operation. The report continues: “There fore, in view of the facilities if_w afforded the two offices for the re ceipt and dispatch of mail, and the fact that the families residing be tween Raeford and Red Springs are provided service by rural car rier, it does not appear that the Department would be justified in taking further action in the mat ter at this time.” This statement A bookmobile library to serve Parkton and other rural sections of the county was discussed by Mrs. Anne Gaitley Chandler, coun ty home agent. Mrs. Chandler gave a rather depressing picture of the situation in Robeson in reference to library service. She stated that while a library service will cost something to establish, operate and maintain, after all a citiamship ‘s entitled to an opportunity, especi ally young people, to read some thing better than the smutty trash that is available to them from the newsstands. “It assuredly is,” she concluded, “something that merits the attention and consideration of our thoughtful citizens.” The bountiful turkey dinner was served by the members of the Wo man’s Auxiliary of the Parkton Presbyterian church. Mr. McDonald is a native of Parkton. and has recent.lv return ed tn his home here after a num ber Of years in Chicago. $10,000 Damage Suit Filed In Superior Court was signed by Gael Sullivan, sec ¬ LATE DR. H. M. BAKER ond assistant Postmaster General. 1 Mr. Clark states that effort for improving the service at the pres ent time apparently have been blocked by the findings of the pos tal investigatory but that he would continue to do all possible for'the improvement of the mail service for the people affected. Ingathering At Mt. Tabor Set ^ For November 2 The ingathering of Mt. Tabdr Presbyterian Church, near Buies, will be held on Sunday, November 2 Hhe Rev. Dr. Tucker Graham will preach the sermon at noon, and the dinner will be served at one o’clock. combers be paid the sum of, dent and ur ° ent - $10 per day for each day not | Among other distinct attractions to exceed sixty days for any, existing here, Mr. Barnum e m Pha- one session, in addition to sal-I sized the very reasonable power aries now provided, for expens- rates made by the Carolina Pow- es incurred for travel to from homes to the seat of erment, for subsistence other necessary expenses. an d er & Light Company for industrial gov- and use, also the strongly cooperative attitude of that company towaid .new enterprises. Additional Shortages Discovered Former Cashier's Accounts: Trial Jet For Robeson Superior Court Audit- Discloses? $8,139.01 More Money Missing Trial of Claude Harrill, for mor cashier of The State Bank in Maxton has been set for the r^xt term of Superior Court of Pobeson County for the trial of criminal cases on November 6, according to infer mation received today from the office of the Clerk of Sup erior Court for Robeson Coun ty- Mr. Harrill's bond has been set at $10,000 and the bond was justified by Paul II. Harrill. Other signers of the bond were G. B. Harrill and Charles D. Harrill. The defendant was re leased under this bond on Oc tober 26. An additional shortage of $8,139.01 has been discovered in accounts at the Maxton of fice of the State Bank, Vice- president John F. McNair, Jr. announced on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Previously, shortages of $24,000 had been reported in wo accounts and Claude E. Harrill, former cashier of the j Maxton office, signed a state- I ment in which he said he with- , (drew these funds CHARGED WITH FAILURE bank forhis TO SET ARM PROPERLY A suit asking $10,000 for perma nent injury due to negligence on the part of the late Dr. H. M. Ba ker of Lumberton has been filed a- gainst the estate Of Dr Baker in the Robeson County Superior court by Willie Pate of Robeson county. The plaintiff in his suit, charges that due to the negligence of Dr. Baker in failing to set a broken arm properly following an acci dent on October 23, 1943, he, the plaintiff, has been unable to earn a livelihood and is permanently disabled "through the loss of use of his arm. The plaintiff charges' also that Dr. Baker knowingly let him suf fer from the effects of the broken arm and dis not inform him ?hat the fractured bone was not heal ing properly. Stafford Gives Final Figures For Weed Sales Final figures for the 1946 season at the Fairmont toacco market have been released by from the own use. This ishortage of $24,000 had been withdrawn, from two accounts. ' The extra shortage of $8,139, 01 was discovered in four ac counts and a complete audit of the books "of the bank is now being 1 made by G. C. Lundin, certified public accountant, to determine if .there are any ot- I he shortages or incorect entries ;in the books of the bank. It 'is likely that. this audit will ibe' completed within the next Hen ddys. I The bank carries ample in surance and neither the bank or any of its depositors will suffer any loss. The bonding company has already completed their -preliminary investigation and the matter was reported (Continuedo n page 5) will be to provide additional lum ber for the main plant operations at Daystrom and it is planned also to make building lumber available for veterans that hold priority' building permits. Mr. Anderson studieda similar, mill at Wilson, N. C., and then , drew up plans for the Daystrom bandmill The saw and all related machinery were purchased in Wil son and moved to Daystrom from there. •.■’■■') The bandmill is 36 x 126 plus an 81 x 28 addition for lumber segrega tion, a 54 x 8 platform for convey ing scrap to a grinder and a filing - room of 28 x 29 feet. The building , has been constructed of cypress, cut at the mill, operated for Day strom, at Currie, N. C., and will be ■ covered by aluminum sheeting. An additional 200 feet of rail-, road siding has been added to the Daystrom yard and when the bandmill is operating approximate ly nine carloads of logs from Oce- da. S. C., Currie and Charleston will be rolling in daily, which will" make Daystrom one of the largest; lumber shippers on the Eastern * seaboard. All logs will come in by rail. A huge crane will lift logs- from the cars and the logs will then be segregated into veneer logs (which will go to the vats) and sawmill" logs which will come by a convey or to the second floor of this mod- • ern buildings. The loga. will be roll ed on a carriage and put through ? the bandmill and trimmer and will then go to a grading platform. After grading, the lumber, will be ' allowed to air dry in the yard for 90 days and the kiln. It bandmill will minimum of will then be sent to is believed thatthis be able to produce a 30,000 board feet lumber per day and operation of of such a plant will probably require an additional 25 employees at the plant. « All lumber scrap will be ground C. B. Stafford, Sales Supervis-. an d a 400 toot long con”eyor will or, and show that nearly fifty-' two million pounds were soled throughout the season at an average of fifty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents per hundred; an increase of nearly seven dollars per hundred over last years’ average of forty- four dollars and thirty-four cents. 1 The figures as released by i Stafford show thata total of 51,957,870 pounds of tobacco was sold on the Fairmont mar ket, slightly less than 2 million more pounds higher than the goal of fifty million set at the carry all waste to a central boiler house. One central steam gef)?rat- ing plant will supply power to the * main plant and to the bandmill de partment. The bandmill department will be imodern in all respects and will uti- ' lize not only the heart of the tree but also slabs and bark as all,scrap not worthy of building lumber will be ground and used in the boilers of the main plant. '’■■ Practically the entire work of the new bandmill department' will be done on the second floor of the building leaving the ground floor free for the necessary conveyor beginning of the season, high poundage compares 42,252,874 pounds sold This with here during the 1945 season. Much of the tobacco sold at the local market came early in the season, as full sales were experienced by all warehouses. Farmers from all parts of the state, as well as from South Carolina. Georgia and Virginia placed market tge of feeling their , product on the in order to take advan-, the high prices. The was prevalent among, farmers that the prices were good and might drop at any'time. thus the rush of weed at the beginning of the season. High prices prevailed, how ever, and sales were satisfact ory up until the market closed last week . Thus the local market clos ed the most successful season in history,leading all markets on the border belt in poundage sold as wel las prices paid. racks. The filing room will also located on the second floor. be Midway To Have Ingathering On Thursday, Nov. 7 The annual ingathering will. .. be held at Midway church'-on Thurs- * day, November 7, 1946. Farm pro duce, fancy work and various items will be offered for sale. A barbecue dinner will be serv ed between 12:00 and 1:00 p. m. There will be plenty of barbecue and all friends of this church are invited to attend the ingathering. Rev. L. I. Jones, pastor of Mid- . way church, will conduct a morn ing worship service at the annual ingathering. Midway was T'he ingathering at held on October 25 last year and was attended by ma ny people. I S. Tn 2940 there were 14 1-2 ratty lion as compared with 11 1-2 mi’'- lion todav. This is the end result of high farm wages and high feed costs.