THE SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED 1887
RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
FOUNDED 1896
CONSOLIDATED 1944
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THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN
$One Of Robeson County’s Homeown Newspapers
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ;
SERVING WESTERN
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OF MAXTON—RED 1
SPRINGS
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Phe Scottish Citizen (Red Springs and Maxton, N. C.), Thursday, November 14, 1946
Vol. LVII, No. 44
Editorial
Have You Given?
Another of the worthwhile
activities of the Charlie Hall
Post of the American Legion
is the post’s efforts to pur
chase the McLean Building on
East Third Avenue for use as
a Legion Hall and a commun-
tiy center. This project is mov-,
ing rapidly towards success,'
and the building committee is
hopeful that the entire sum of
$5,000 necessary for the pur-,
chase of the building will be'
on hand by November 17th,
when papers for the transfer
of the property to the Legion
will be ready.
Over 90 per cent of the
funds are on hand, and only
about $400 more is needed to
make the project a reality on
the date set for completion of
the drive. Already citizens,
young and old, have made gifts
to the Legion in the interest,
of the community enterprise,
that will supply the town with
a longineeded building avail
able for community gather
ings, club meetings, and a cen
ter for all civic activities! ’
Have you given? If you have
not, drop a check in the mails
today for the — Legion Hall
Purchase Fund, care M. Pet
erson, Red Springs, N. C., or
hand your gift to Mr. Peter
son, E. H. Alexander or James
A. Graham.
PIANIST—Rosalyn Tureck, bili-
liant Amercan piianist, who will'
open the FMC concert series wi'h
a recital in the college auditorium
in Red Springs, on next Monday
evening.
Rosalyn Tureck
Will Present
Concert At FMC
Air Mail Week
Contest Winners
‘ Mrs. C. B. Williams, Maxton
Postmaster, has announced that
the three winners in the recent
Airmail Week contest were Miss
Lena Carter, Miss Dorothy
ters and Fred Fay Randall.
Three five dollar prizes
awarded the winners by the
ton Chamber of Commerce.
Win-
were
Max-
The
Rosalyn Tureck, brilliant young
American pianist, who will appear
at Flora Macdonald college Mon
day evening, November 18, at 8:15.
as the first number of the 1946-47
concert and lecture series, has ris
en, at the age of 31, to the very
peak of piano achievement, and is
listed as “one of the greatest liv
ing interpreters of Bach.” The fact
that Miss Tureck knows and plays
every composition of Bach with
impeccable technique, would be a
remarkable achievement at any
age, but for one of Tureck’s youth,
it is phenomenal.
However, let it be noted quickly
that Tureck is a versatile and gift
ed interpreter of the romantics,
such as Schumann, Brahms, Cho
pin, and Liszt; such classicists as
Mozart and Beethoven; and the
modernists, as Stravinsky, de Fal
la, and Ernest Bloch. Her very di
versified and brilliant program at
Flora Macdonald will include only
one group of her beloved Bach
While Bacfti holds the highest niche
in Tureck’s temple of music, Bec-
Special Tax Funds Not Available
This Year For Red Springs Schools
In a statement issued Monday
night following a meeting of the
School Board of Red Springs, the
board announced that money from
the special tax levy voted by citi
zens of the special charter dis
trict was not made available for
use this year, and could not be ob
tained for the needed improve
ments until the 1947-48 school term
The statement explains that the
county manager, E. K. Butler, has
Choral Society
Gives "Messiah"
December 13
The Civic Choral Society
Red Springs will present
of i
a'
ONE CAUGHT
ONE SOUGHT
County police took James Frank
lin Howell, 18, into custody Tues
day for the shooting of his broth
er, Quincey Howell, 16, in an argu
ment over the use of a boat. Quin
cey is reported to be in serious con
dition at Thompson Memorial hos
pital, suffering from effects of gun-
shot wounds in the back and shoul
der. The shooting is supposed tr
have taken place on Raft Swamp
near Raft Swamp church.
Police are seeking for Henry
Council, who is wanted for ques-
stated that it
for his office
books so that
available for
would be impossible
to arrange the tax
the money could be
the 1946-47 school
year, even though the special elec
tion was held on April 25, 1946,
some nine weeks before the coun
ty budget was to be approved.'
Members of the board said that
this explanation was being made
because of the many inquiries from
citizens and patrons of the school
who desired to know what the spe
cial tax money was being used for,
and what progress was being made
by the school ^ securing the ne
cessary materials and equipment
for the expansion of the teaching
facilities.
COMMERCIAL DEPT.
The board announced the re
ceipt of a gift of 10 typewriters to
the school by the Army Air For
ces. These machines have been re
ceived and are now being over-,
hauled and reconditioned. Supt.
Walter Dudley states that the type
writers are expected to be deliver
ed to the school about the 20th of
this month and that classes in
typing will be started at that time.
Desks and chairs for the commer
cial department have been receiv
ed, and several additional new
typewriters on order are expected
in January.
Typing classes will be open to
seniors arid juniors this year and
next year, when the special tax
funds ar^ available and a full-time
commercial teacher can be hired,
business English, bookkeeping. I
shorthand and other commercial
subjects will be offered, it was
stated.
number of selections from' ...,,,...
Tr , I tioning in the shooting of his wife
Handels Messiah in a Christ-j Anna Council of Centenary near
mas season concert
evening
on the, kow ] and who died Tuesday morn-
of Friday, Dec. 13,
it was stated
D. McMillan,
the society.
The choral
direction of
this week by R.
Jr., president of
group, under the
Robert Reuter,
dean of music at Flora Mac
donald College, has been re-
ing from pistol wounds said to have
been inflicted by her husband
weeks ago.
। Truck Rips Up
Gas Tanks In
hearsing weekly for the past-
month and over a hundred, ■ ■ —
voices are to compose the choir, Qammimm D|if
for their first public concert^ UU3
Arangements for soloists for
the Christmas concert are now
two
hank manager — Miucumi
Andrews of Fairmont, who has
been elected manager and cash:*'.'
of the Garland unit of the Scottish
bank. Mr. Andrews, a veteran of
the past war, has been connected
v/ith the St. Pauls unit of the bank
for nearly a year.
A McLeod and Sinclair lum-
'ber track ploughed into the gas[
being made by the executive oer track ploughed into the gas,
committe, and it is expected, tanks in front of W. McLaugh-
that an announcement will be, Ho 8 service station on High-
made next week listing these.; wa Y 74 near Maxton laate Mon-
Mr. McMillan has appointed day afternoon , damaging the
Maxton Negro
Shot In Leg
Saturday Night
James McRimmon, Berry
Me
Rimmon and one of Oscar Lock
James A. Graham chairman of ( main ^ank, two oil drams and J ear > g boys went to see
1... A. ± J. W. ‘
the patrons’ committe with Mrs.jt wo bi^ck stanchions.
W. C. McNeill as co-chairman; I Quick, the
G. T. Ashford is chairman of
the publicity committee and Al
H. Grant is chairman of the
committee on arangements. The
executive committe has approv
ed an annual contributing mem
bership fee of $5; a sustain-,
ing membership of $10; sup
porting membership of$25; and
a life, membership of $100.
These memberships are open to
everyone; whether Alley part
icipate in the work of the
chorus, as singers or as mem
bers of the executive committe.
or contribute as supporters of
the organization and entitles
not hurt.
According
was driving
J.
Tom
truck driver,
was
to Mr. Quick, he
at moderate speed
Maxion Burglars Elope With Western
Union Sate Saturday Night; Use Hand
Express Truck For Honeymoon Trip
Maxion Men Are
Guests AI Hydro-
Electric Plant
No Peace For
Western Union
On Armistice Day
Mayor F. C.
members of the
mittee of the
were guests of
Frostick
executive
Mormax
and
com-
Club
O. H. Broad ¬
way and the Carolina Power
and Light Company staff last
Tuesday on a conducted tour
through the Tillery Hydro-
Electric plant near Mt. Gilead.
The following men left Max-
ton in three cars early Tues
day afternoon: F. C. Frostick,
C. A. Hasty, L. W. Anderson,
L. C. LaMotte, R. F. Morris,
McKay McKinnon, G. P. Hen
derson, C. M. Castevens, T. 0.
Evans, Jr., C. H. Whitlock, 0.
H. Broadway,
Pat Patterson.
I of Laurinburg
• party.
The'group
through the
McQueen in Maxton Saturday Electric plant
By BEN MacKINNON
Although the Maxton Branch of
Western Union undoubtedly spent
a safe and sane Fourth of July
and Labor Day,
that this same
affairs did not
Armistice Day,
reason that the
it is a definite fact
pleasant state of
exist for them on
November 11. The
Western Union
Maxton office did not spend a safe
and sane Armistice Day was that
they had no "safe” to spend as the
aforementioned piece of property
was escorted out of the office and
out of town by mean old burglars,
who had adopted for their slogan,
“Safety First;” especially Western
Union safes. ,
The safe was discovered approx
imately two miles out if Maxton
Sunday morning, November 10. It
Ed Ervin and had been broken open with an
Glonn Croon 3X6 and currency amounting to
! $132.31 had been gently removed,
was also in the Numerous money order drafts,
wail conducted
Tillery Hydro-
which is located
night to discuss the salary that about 20 miles above the Ble-
they were being paid. A quar- witt Falls Dam by plant sup-
rel ensued and Berry McRim-[ rintendent McNeill. The Til-
behind a bus on the way from
Lumberton to Maxton. He says
that on the long curve about
two miles from Maxton, the bus
stopped s uddenly, giving no
signal. He was forced to
clamp down on his brakes;
payroll vouchers, a bank book, a
code sheet and some stamps had
been burned. It would have been
possible to have cashed some of
these vouchers with forged signa
tures, this reporter has been in-
formed. However,
the vouchers
I were not completely destroyed by
mon was shot in the leg just.lery plant is a $14,000,000 in-ithe fire and the remains have been
above his knee. He was carried ■ stallation and the dam which stowed away in a box in the West-
to Scotland County Memorial [ crosses the upper Pee Dee river ern Union safe—er,
A t« 0 000 -Paa+- i aaJ Union office.
Hospital for treatment and a is 2,000 feet long and between
hospital report Wednesday, 70 and 100 feet high. r "Li
the Western
It seems that the burglar or
(burglars, premeditated little rascal
contest was a feature of National
Air Mail week which was from
October 27 to Nov 2.
Miss Carter submitted the win
ning essay on "Advantages of Air
Mau” in Maxton High School and
Miss Winters was winner in the
same contest held for students of
Presbyterian Junior College,
thoven is not far removed,
some of the finest works of
master composer will appear
and
this
on
the carefully chosen program to
be presented at
next Monday.
Following the
formal reception
college parlors,
Floia Macdonald
program, an in-
will be held in the
when the guests
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Despite the lack of money from
the special tax levy, plans for the
physical education department
have been put into action, and ma
ny new features of this branch
of the high school’s activities are
Being carried on under the direc
tion of J. W. Carruth. Some addi-
ticnal science instructional mate
rials have been received, according
to Mr. Dudley, and instruction in
member to admittance to
concerts presented by the
cietv.
Use of the auditorium of
all
so-
the
Fred Randall submitted the best from in and out of town will have
poster on the same theme, an opportunity to meet the artist. standa f d high school science cour-
~i»*L_li'‘ i “J.'" 1 ■ -—r- —.. - — . . ..-..■—,..■..— . — —1 r ».—■—- ■—.-,■. ses are being offered this year for
County Commissioners and Lumberton
School Board Hear Pleas For Better
School Facilities For Lumberton
the first time in some years, but
complete courses cannot be given
until the funds from the special
tax levy are made avaueble, it was
explained.
high school has been granted
for the Christmas concert, and
rehearsals, are npw being held
in the Presbyterian Church.
For accompaniment both a
piano and a Hammond organ
will be used for the presenta
tion of the “Messiah”, accord
ing to Mr. McMillan.
FMC Girls Expected
At PJC Homecoming
DELINQUENCY
It. is expected that many Flora
Members of the board and school Macdonald girls will attend the
Two Factions Give
j Views On Solution
* Present Problem
.Tuesday night pleas of two
groups of Negroes were heard at
adjoint meeting of the school board
of the Town of Lumberton and the
Board of Commissioners of Robe
son county, in which the argu
ments for one, and for two school
buildings for the two larger and
widely separated Negro residential
sections to be built to eleminate
the present use of privately owned
and poorly equipped buildings were
presented.
:C. A. Hasty of Maxton, chair
man of the commissioners, presid
ed and opened the meeting with a
statement of the purpose of the
meeting, explaining that the com
mission had made an effort to re
medy the present condition of the
Two factions among the ^“groos
presented their arguments for the
schools, one group wanted the con
struction of one large school plant,
including gymnasium; cafeteria,
auditorium, playgrounds and other
facilities, equal to that of the white
schools of Lumberton, centrally lo
cated in town.
The second faction wants two el
ementary school plants, at least,
and would settle for a centrally lo
cated high scho '
E. M. Johnson, attorney for the
county school board, concluded the
discussions with a recommenda
tion that the two factions study a
plan for two elementary and
mar grade schools and one
school plant.
Speaking fo'r the Negroes
the Rev. R. D. Sharpe, Dr.
gram-
high
were:
C. I.
Smith, Edna McLaren. Lawrence
Stephens and Gus Bullock, leader
of the striks which took some 400
Negro schools of Lumberton, hut students out of the schools here for
that scarcity of building materials -
had halted plans temporarily, tie
stated that the commission
had
borrowed $167,000 for this purpose
last July and that the funds were
now on hand for new buildings in
the Lumberton district.
The Scottish Citizen
Red Springs, N. C.
Telephone 305-1
Maxton, N. C.
Telephone 59-W
Dougald Coxe Publisher
Ben MacKinnon Maxton Editoi
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$2.00
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officials are greatly perturbed over annual homecoming football game
an investigation of reported delln- at
Maxton Saturday afternoon
1 with great force to avoid hit
ting the bus.
Proceeding into Maxton, the
bus stopped suddenly again in
fuont of the service station,
■ which is approximately 1000
[yards distance from the curve.
Mr. Quick says he could not
pass the bus as a car was ap-
proching and he stamped his
brake pedal but the brake failed
to hold. There was a car in
the yard of the service station
and one also in .the drive..
I leaving the truck driver one of
! two alternatives; dither hit the
j bus or smack into the gas tank.
I Mr.-Quick says he chose the
; latter and ripped into the tanks,
completely uprooting two brick
stanchions, knocking over two
■ large oil drums and damaging
the main tank to an unknown
exlent.
It is his belief that the driver
of the bus made no hand signal
|at-either stopping time. The
i bus driver could not be reach
ed for a statment.
morning stated that the boy plant is the second largest con-| 01 . rascals that they were Snitch .
trolled by the C. P. and L. in , ed an express truck from the cot-
The disturbance was invest- North Carolina and the largest ton platform in Maxton Friday
' hy County Policeman,is in the Pigeon river near the, night. Then this same unknown
According to [Tennessee line. It is possible ,Party wheeled the express truck up
McQueen, the other three come [ to generate 93,300 HP at the to the Seaboard Freight Station
Tillery plant j sometime in the small hours of
. A./ A I Sunday morning with the “ex-
After the two hour inspec-[ press „ purpose of making a . W
was recovering satisfactorily.
|igated by ’
I Ralph Purcell.
to his house near Maxton about:
SJx. o’clock Saturday night. [
When he went to the door ( tion of the dam, turbines, con-' getaway with" one article of prop-
they immediately started an ar-jtrol boards and associated mac-'erty belonging to Western Union;
gument concerning the money
that McQueen, their employer,
was paying them.
Tom says that he went back
in the house and came out
four people began scuffling
around and-.the shotgun went
off, hitting Berry McRimmon
in - the leg.. i -
hinery, the group adjourned to to wit, one safe.
It is possible that they confront-
the clubhouse for la chscken
dinner.
Urernr‘lovrnent On
T Incrrsde Since
Tobacco Season
ber of students, including at least
two girls, are being required to
have thorough physical examina
tions and blood tests made this
week, as result of the investiga
tion. Parents of those involved are
being notified of the condiiton. It
was stated that while a number of
alumni luncheon, football game,
.barbecue and homecoming dance.
I In the past there have always
,been a large crowd of visitors from
PJC Homecoming festivities and it
Hatcheries of the N. C. Division
of Game and Inland Fisheries in
1946 released 103.1*00 adv.-meed fry
Flo^a MacDonaid College at
and fingerling bass and 68,57!
to four inch fingerling bass.
$31,875 in fish and game law
two
cases
is understood
youth of the town are involved, vitation has
most of them are not students.
nearly two weeks recently, all ar- !
guing for the single plant; and Fe- !
lix Brown, Atlanta Lewis, John D
Lewis and W. M. McNeill, who ask- '
ed for two plants. Brown was act- 1
ing as a property owner and for
mer resident of Lumberton and aS
representative of Dr. J. H. Hay
wood, elderly principal of Red
stone Academy, who is at Duke
hospital undergoing treatment.
Atlanta Lewis pointed out
traffic hazards that would be
volved if one plant was built
the
in-
Mc-
Neill, acting principal of Redstone
declared that many of the group
opposing the two-school plan did
not represent the northeast sec
tion, some had no children to ^o
to the schools built anywhere, and
that many of them did not attend
Lumberton churches either. He
claimed that two plants would best
Published Every Wednesday .. . , „ ..
X serve the two large Negro sections,
, at th e Post Office at now and in the futur3 and give
J* 6 ’ PD n !?®> C.. as second the tax payers the most for their
class mail matter. money.
that a blanket
been issued to
girls to be present this year.
the
in-
tit e
I brought by protectors of the N. C.
; Division of Game and Inland
$773 Realized From;
Hallowe’en Carnival
The executive committea of the
Red Springs Parent Teachers as
sociation in a meeting last night
completed their report on the Hal
lowe’en carnival and with all bills
paid it was found that $773.18 had
been netted by the entertainment.
Funds will be used to purchase
a new curtain for the stage in the
main auditorium. Members also
voted to take the cloth from the
present curtain and make draper
ies for the auditorium. The pres
ent curtain, it was said would yield
sufficient material to make drapes
for all windowse which would serve
as blackout curtains whenever day
time movies were to be shown in
the school.
Claims ^for unemployment
Sensation-in Fairmont have
rapidly since
bacco season.
Fish-
'eries in the first nine months of
.1946.
CONFERENCE OF PROGRESSIVES MEETS IN CAPITAL-
IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL to weigh election results and map a legislative program are leaders of organizations
who are attending the Conference of Progressives. The meeting is jointly sponsored by the National Citizens
PAC, the Independent Committee of Arts, Sciences, and Professions, and the CIO-PAC. Prominent among
those at the confab are (I. to r.): Former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; Jack Kroll, director
of the CIO-PAC; Former Interior Secretary Harold Ickes; CIO President Philip Murray; and C. B. Baldwin,
of the National PAC. The Conference will delve into every chase of the election. (International .Soundphoto)
corn-
risen
he close of the
according
Sadie H. Jones, representative
ed the frightened little safe and
demanded, “Open up, Sesame.”-And
perhaps this brave little safe de-
liberately spit in' their eyes. The
burglars, assuring that there were
J more than one, quite' probably
I rushed at the safe but found out
,that they were unable to make a
I good “combination.” Things' were
1 probably at a definite standstill un-
t c . til suddenly the nocturnal prowlers
to Mrs.i wh >sked in their purloined express
of Truck and went “trucking off”
the North Carolina Unemployment ; down the road with the helpless
Compensation Commission. I n . pittle s af e - Probably not even both-
eluded among the claims which are
handled in this area are approxi
mately one thousand from farm
ers who have filed self-employed
claims, she said.
Mrs. Jones, who is in Fairmont
every Tuesday from 9:30 til 11:30,
also handles the claims of veterans
for unemployment compensaiton
from the Veterans Administration
The Commission representative
called attention to the fact that
should those who draw compensa
tion for unemployment refuse to
accept jobs, they are then disal
lowed from any claims.
Thomas Berry Charged With Reckless
Driving After Wreck Injures Three
People Near Maxton Slog-Light Fri.
Berry Released
After $500
Bond Posted
Adains’ car was knocked 47
yards from the point of impact
and crashed into the hedge
bordering a house on the other
ering to hitchhike as it must have
i been pretty late and passing cars
at a minimum, the safe-snatchers
pushed the express truck a consid
erable distance out of tcwn-l And
went to work on the combination
with an axe. At any rate, Maxton
police believe that the safe was
forced opin by using an instru
ment of this type.
Miss Mary Shaw, Maxton opera
tive of the Western Union, closed
up her accounts Saturday night
and went home for the weekend.
When she returned Sunday night,
she was informed that a certain
item from the office was missing
and sure enough it was.
It is believed that the door to the
building had not been locked Sat
urday night and that certain win
dows in the Seaboard station can
not be locked. There are marks on
the station floor where the safe
was moved out the door by means
of the hand truck.
It is hoped that Western Union
in Maxton will have a “safe”
Thanksgiving and Christmas, Ar
mistice day, notwithstanding.
Thomas Berry, it is charged s '^ e o f the road. —..,. „ —.
charged with reckless driving, Was turned completely around
and inflicting property and an d the windshield
Thomas Berry, it is charged
Berry’s car
shattered
personal loss, as a result of an an ^ the right fender crumpled.
automobile accident in Maxton
Annie Bell Turner received
on Friday night, November 8. man y cuts about the head and
Berry is at present out on $500 , was unconscious for some time,
bond. J Lister Locklear had his face
Thomas Berry, it is carged | an d arms cut, Berry received
was driving a 1942 Ford with ; minor cuts about the face and
F. K. Biggs Named
New President
Merchants Ass'n
Lister Locklear and Annie
Turner as passengers in
City limits of Maxton at
cessive speed that night.
Bell
the
ex-
cording to Chief of Police
Thompson who investigated the:
wreck, Berry and another driv-
Henry Adams’ little boy receiv
ed a bump on the head, which
was not serious.
Annie Bell Turner and Lister
Locklear were taken to Scot
land County Memorial Hospital
er were racing,
driver passed a
let about three blocks from the
I for treatment. Locklear refused
to remain at the Hospital and
The other pv icmaui at tue nuspitai aim
1935 Chevro- left after treatment against the
Stop Light in Maxton on the
Lumberton Highway. Berry
I doctor’s orders.
I Annie Bell Turner was treat-
I ed for shock and abrasions and
was unable to pass and crashed , the hospital reported Wednes-
into the Chevrolet driven by day morning that sh£ would
Henry “Bluejay” Adams. soon be released.
New officers of the Lumberton
Merchants Association chosen for
1947 at the association’s meeting
Tuesday night include: F. K. Biggs
Sr., president, C. E. Sullivan, vice
president, and H. Franklin Biggs,
secretary-treasurer.
Directors include: J. LeRoy
Townsend, retiring presidents, Bo
wen G. Ross, Fred Lennon, and
Walter Lemmond. I. P. Hedgepeth
was elected attorney.
The program for the session in
cluded an illustrated talk on sales
manship presented bv A. E. Brck-
thal. district sales manager of the
Allied Feeds corporation, who pre
sented movies on the subject as
prepared bv his firm for dealer
ship training.