THE SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED
RED SPRINGS
FOUNDED
1887
CITIZEN
1896
CONSOLIDATED 1944
THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN
One
Robeson
County’s
H o m e o w n
Newspapers
Published Thursdays
Fhe Scottish Citizen (Red Springs and Maxton, N. C.)
Thursday, Nov. 28, 1946
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS
OF MAXTON—RED
SPRINGS
PARKTON—ROWLAND
Vol. LVII, No. 46
Editorial
KNOW YOUR
VETERAN
CAPTAIN L. R. ROBINSON, USA
Horace A. Baxley, the son
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Chippewa Street
was wearing a
ton the other day
him on the sreet.
M. Baxley
of
of
in Lumberton,
discharge bu-
when I passed
Discharge buttons are fascinat
ing gadgets to me and when I see
one in some fellow’s lapel I al
ways stop him and ask: “Where
did you serve, buddy?"
Well ,this day when I stopped
this veteran, he anticipated all
of my questions and gave me the
following information about him
self:
“I was drafted on December 16,
1944, and sent to Camp Croft, S.
C„ but I was there only one week
when
Bragg
Field
”o to
iected
they shipped me to Fort
for basic training with the
Artillery. I volunteered to
Radio School and was se-
to attend an advanced Ra-
dio School at Fort Sill, Oklaho
ma. While I was there they sent
me to Motor School too — so I
learned quite a lot.
I really enjoyed working with
radios—it was very interesting
but we certainly had to keep plug
ging to get our messages through.
Sure, I was in combat, but let’s
not talk about that.
Right now, I am trying to make
up my mind what to do—I like
radio very much and I like me
chanics—the army taught me a
lot about them—but for the life
of me I don’t know which one to
choose.:
And then the ex-corporal con
tinued his way down the street
mind busy trying to choose
ms life s work.
“The Lost Colony”
Produced Friday
Members of the grammar and pri
mary grades, students of Fairmont
High School and a number of visi-
. tors attended the simplified ver
sion of “The Lost Colony’ present
ed by the combined fifth grade on
Friday afternoon.
The 75 members of the combined
class became interested in “The
1 xr^ Colony" after hearing about
Manteo production and studying
historical fact in their text books.
They worked very hard construc
ting scenery and perfecting their
own version of the famous pageant
arid deserve a lot of praise for the
fine production they presented.
Mrs. Shockett and Mrs. Ayers
directed the play and Miss Burton
was in charge of the music.
Beta Club Clears
$69.00 On Plays
The Beta Club of Fairmont High
school, sponsore of two 1-act plays
“Twelve Old.^ds” and Roundup
of Minnie,"-at 'the school audi
torium last Wednesday morning
cleared $69.00 on the program. Ad
mission price to the plays' was 15c
and a large number of people turn
ed out for the Beta Club Produc
tion.
Proceeds realized from the per
formance will go into the treasury
to be used for a double cause: a
gift to the school and to defray ex
penses for the annual birthday
banquet.
Mrs. Edward B. Wells of the
school faculty directed both plays.
Cast of “Roundup of Minnie” in
cluded Pat Pittman, Albert Fisher,
> Billy Mitchell, Bobby Weinstein,
Zegna Grantham and Janice Mc-
Kenize.
The following people were seen
in "Twelve Old Maids:” Artie
Grantham, Dot Fioyd, Sara Turner
Janice McKenize, Sara Leggett,
Sara Hedgpeth, Docia Willoughby,
Ksthryn Oliver, Grace Jenson, Mil
licent Simon, Dixie Ivey, Zelma
Grantham, Joanne Page, Dixie Lee
Fisher, Tom Butterworth and Ima
Joyce Huggins.
The majority of the farm hom
es in North Carolina with electric
service are improperly wired, ac
cording to agricultural engineers
at State college.
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Meeting Of Standing Committees
Maxion Clean-Up Campaign Held
Town Offices On Monday Evening
Town Divided
Into Five
Equal Areas
The standing committees of th;.
Clean-Up campaign in Maxton re
presenting the white sections of
town, had a meeting in the town
offices on Monday night, Novem
ber 25, at seven thirty o’clock.
The following representatives at
tended: Rev. T. L. Fraser, Rev. F.
L. Young, Rev. C. J. Andrews, W.
D. Kiser, Miss Lillian Austin, John
Pace, Mrs. L. D. Rice, Mrs. F. C
Maxon C. Of C.
Recommends Cily
To New Industry
Following
ion of the
tee of the
Commerce
of textiles
from wood,
the unanimous opin.
new industries commi-
Maxton Chamber of
that the manufacture
and of articles made
such as chairs and
Frostick, Mrs. John Pace, J.
Daniel, R. P. Edwards, Mrs. R.
Williams.
Using the Seaboard Rairway
C.
M.
as
a dividing line, areas to be super
vised by the above committee mem
bers were divided into five sections.
Section one is the area between the
highway leading to Red
and the dirt road leading
Springs and Mrs. L. D.
chairman of the district,
two is the area adjoining
Springs
to Red
Rice is
Section
section
one and leading toward Lumberton
and will be under the chairman
ship of Mrs. F. C. Frostick. Section
five is that area from the Red
Springs highway toward Laurin
burg on the Presbyterian Church
side of the railroad tracks and a
chairman for that district has not
yet been appointed.
Section three includes the area
or. the bank side of the tracks ex
tending in the direction of Lum
berton and Rev. C. J. Andrews is
chairman for that district. Section
four is the area toward Laurin
burg and is divided from section
three by the main street of Max-
ton. Rev. F. L. Young is chairman
for this district.
It was suggested at the meeting
that area chairmen organize sub
committees at once, that they note
things ot be done to further the
campaign, that the actual work
does "start on December 2, that
posters describing in detail the
town cleanliness ordnances be dis
tributed and that lots are checked
to see if any burning will be need
ed.
Regular meetings of the Clean-
Up committee will be’ held the
first Friday in each month at the
town offices at seven thirty o’clock.
tables; were the industries for
which Maxton was preeminently
adapted, Secretary Carrington has
contracted a number of manufac
turers of these different products
and emphasized the special advan
tages the community possessed for
factories of these types, especially
those employing female iabor.
Replies from these letters indi
cate that the manufacturers of the
country, especially the larger ones,
anticipate an increased demand for
standard articles of merchandise
as soon as the exisiting labor trou.
bles are settled.
Owners of idle buildings suitable
to house industries of the types
mentioned, located in or close to
the town of Maxton, are asked to
communicate with the Secretary oi
the Chamber of Commerce; also
information will be welcomed from
the owners of vacant property, es
pecially if located on railroad sid
ings that might be advantageously
situated for the location of manu
facturing plants.
The continued interest of the Sea.
board Air Line Railway in Maxton
as a desirable site for industries
was manifested by the visit here
last week of R. L. Mansfield, as
sistant industrial agent, of that
line. Mr. Mansfield visited several
available sites and also examined
with care the vacant hangars at
the Army Air Base, especially those
(made of metal. Railroad officials
agree with the Chamber of Com
merce committee regarding the
unusual advantages for industries
of certain types that Maxton has
to offer.
Every dozen eggs contains a-
bout one pint of water. If hens.
New Officers Take
Office Monday
Several new county officers will
be sworn in Monday at noon when
the terms of present office hold
ers expire.
First on the list of new incum
bents will be Willis Britt, who be
comes sheriff to succede Clyde
Wade. Sheriff-elect Britt has nam
ed the following to places on his
staff of deputies: R. C. Cox, to be
jailer to succede Pete Chason,
Ralph Freeman
Walter Ward to
ton; Bill Lewis
tman, Fairmont;
Rowland; Lacy
I. P. Britt, and
serve in Lumb r-
and Willard Pit-
Grady Jackson,
Prevatte, Red
Springs; Ralph Purcell, Maxton;
D. J. Jones, Pembroke; J. J. Kin-
law, St. Pauls; and Paul McMillan,
Parkton.
In the Lumberton recorders
court Robert Floyd steps down and
W. B. Ivey will be installed as
judge; and L. J. Huntley will be
succeeded by I. M Biggs.
At St. Pauls A. B. Johnson be
comes recorder to succeed Clayton
Ross and to the board of County.
Commissioners, from district 3,
comes J. Talmadge Graham tosuc-
ceed R. B. Tolar.
PJC Dramatic
Club Presents
First Production
The Dramatic Club of
sented a two act play
Wedding and A Cukoo
the college auditorium
PJC pre-
Court” at
Tuesday
night as their first production of
the season. Robert B. Grip’, for-
m e r1y ass
burgh Players,
Cast for the
included: C. C.
ociated with
directed the play
two act production
Caldwell, A. E. Ms-
Rae, D. J. Winters, L. C. Brisson,
B. J. Edwards, C. Beam, W.
Coppedge,
Maston, May
w.
E.
Manesse, B. C. Burns, W. Taylor.
C. Thomas, A.
B. Leckie, Howard
Reed, H. McClintock.
B. C. Burns acted as business
manager, T. L. Maston vzis stags
Stage Manager and M. E. Manesse
took care of the costumes.
This first production was largely
an experiment and the play was
are given all the water they wish, I not highly publicized. Howev
Fairmont Girl Will Represent
Robeson County In Good Health
Oratory Contest in Red Sorings
they will respond with more eggs. I good crowd turned out to laugn at
| the antics of Pastor Rice, played by
. Coppedge; Judge Howard Reed
I and Clerk of Court H. McClintock,
I "A Crazy Wedding and A Cukee
'Court” was a creditabs perfor
mar.ee and good enough to indicate
that the Dramatic Club shows de
finite promise for future produc
tions.
'Expendable' Kiss
KISSING his Australian fiancee, No
reen Dale, on her arrival at San
Francisco is Lt. John Blalog, USN,
a member oi Comdr. John Bulke
ley’s famous “They were expend
able” PT-Boat squadron. Parted
since 1943 when he was in Australia,
the couple will wed in the chapel
of the U.S. Navy Hospital, in San
Francisco.
(International)
Giving Away Passes
To Theatres Easy
For Army Recruiters
Army recruiters, working in
Red Springs and Lumberton found
it pretty easy to give away pass
es to the Red Springs Theatre and
the Riverside Theatre of Lum
berton, this week. Stopping peo
ple on the street, they queried
them on the news content of a
story run in the Hometown News
papers last week concerning ar
my activities. Those who had
read the story were up quickly
with the right answers and won
a pass to a show. In Red Springs
the winners were: Alton McNeill,
Miss Eupha Baker, Miss Myrtle
McMillan, Mrs. Ruby Ray, and
Chief Norman McRainey of the
police department. Sgt. Mauldin
stopped the six people, and got
six correct answers for a perfect
quiz day.
In Lumberton, Sgt. Hayne L.
Koon had to quiz ten folks before
he found five who could
the questions correctly,
in Lumberton getting the
Oakleys were: L. G. Dya,
answer
argaretM Wilkerson, James
Those
Annie
Miss
Pre ¬
Dorothy Floyd
One Of Two
Winners Chosen
Miss Dorothy Floyd of Fairmont,
competing against Miss Ellen
Jeann Wicker of Lumberton, was
elected as one of the winner’s to
represent Robeson County in the
statewide oratorical contest, “North
Carolina’s Number One Need-Good
Health. : ' ^ . '_ •
Four contestants "competed at
L-imberton Higfi School building
Tuesday night, November 26, and
Miss Floyd and Luther J. Britt oi
Lumberton were chosen the win
ners. Runners up were Miss Ellen
Mariella Grange
Plans Parly And
Elects Officers
Lt. Dorn Pittman
Assigned To Army
Medical Center
Lt. Dorn
and Mrs.
mont,- has
C. Pittman, son of
Mr.
Carl Pittman of Fair-
reported for active du-
Wicker of Lumberton
Davis of Philadelphus.
The oratorical contest
sponsored by the North
Good Health Association
and Dale
is being
Carolina
and four
$500 college scholarships will be a-
warded to the winning orators. An
other round of eliminations are
scheduled for December 6 and on
that date Miss Floyd and Mr. Britt
will go to Red Springs to compete
in the semi-finals. Asheville,
Greensboro and Greenville will al
so be hosts to district contests.
Winners will be declared at each
of the four locations and on Janu
ary 10, 1947 four finalist speakers
will be selected in the West and
four in the East. Representatives
of the Eastern section of the state
will meet at Greensboro. The loca
tion for the grand finals has nol
yet been decided.
The number of Fairmont school
students that originally entered
tha oratorical contest was 65. Com-
ictition narrowed this group down
to six: Dorothy Floyd, Joanne Page
Nelda Grantham, Kathryn Oliver
Jack Britt
this group
Miss Page,
Li^berton
and
two,
were
but
Leo Bullock of
Miss Floyd and
chosen to go to
Miss Floyd was
the only Fairmont represenattive
speaking there on Tuesday night
Judges at the oratorical contest
in Lumberton included Dr.
J.
Glenn Blackburn, Mrs. H. A. Ol
iver and J. C. Hutto. Master of
ceremonies was I. B. Hudson, Jr.,
of the Lumberton Student Coun
cil,
Two Men Shoot
Each Other To
Death Tuesday
Henderson Hunt, 56, and Luther
H. Lorwy, 47, both Indians of the
Back Swamp section, are dead fol
lowing a gun battle at Hunt’s store
and service station near the Lum
berton Airport about 7 o’clock on
Tuesday evening.
Lowry, it is
wrought up over
grandson, Junior
reported, was
the death of his
Graham, follow-
ing an explosion of a can contain-
ing kerosene
mixed with
was bought
The Graham
believed to have been
gasoline, and which
at the Hurit station,
child and his moth-
er, the daughter of Lorwy and
wife of Worth Graham, were both
badly burned when the can ex
ploded after some of the oil had
been used to make a fire. Lowry
carried the victims to a hospital.
The house and its contents are re
ported to have been a total loss.
Lowly went to Hunt’s station a
short time after dark, and ap
proaching the doorway started
shooting, Hunt returned the fire.
As Lowry neared the door he fell,
having been hit twice with one
' bullet taking effect in the head.
Hunt walked from the station and
fell in the yard, having been hit
three times.
Coroner D. W. Biggs and officers
of the sheriff’s department inves
tigated the shooting. No inquest
will be held due to the fact that
both participants were killed, ac-
coring to the coroner. The cor
oner states that an analysis of
the fuel oil showed that there was
gasoline in the oil. And, since the
explosion it is understood that
employees of the company servic
ing the station have sought out
il throughout the area about the
Hunt station for any of the oil
that might have been sold to peo
ple of the section.
Town Board Says
No Sunday Sperls
In Lumberton
Four Soloists For "Messiah" Secured
By Red Springs Choral Society; Will
Present Oratorio December B At FMC
con ospondent
H. R. Knickerbocker, foreign
Chorus Of Hundred
Voices Under Baton
Of Robert Reuter
Soloists for the production -of
the Handel oratorio, “The Mes
siah,” were announced this, week
by R. D. McMillan, Jr., president
of the Civic Choral Society, of
Red Springs, which will present
the Handelian work on. Friday,
December 13, in the auditorium of
Flora Macdonald college.
Mr. McMillan states that Cldria
Bailey Robeson, soprano, for the
past five years professor of voice
of the college and now of Rock
ingham; Frances Lehnerts, con
tralto of New York; Robert Top
ping, tenor, formerly of Fayette
ville and now of Pittsburgh, and
Maury Pearson, bass, of Spartan
burg, have been secured to sing
the solo parts of the great religi
ous choral work. These will be
supported by a chorus of a hun-
lecturer, who
I will be presented at Flora Mac-
' Donald college on Monday even
ing, December 2, as the second
lecture series.
Miss Townsend
Attends School
Meet Saturday
Miss Marguerite Townsend
re
presented the Maxton Graded
School at the regional meeting of
the Association for Childhood
Education held at Flora Mac
Donald College on Saturday, No
vember 23.
dred
from
voices composed of singers
Red Springs, Maxton, Rae-
ford, and surrounding areas, and
from
the student bodies of Pres-
byterian Junior and Flora Mac
donald colleges.
Accompanists for the perform
ance will be Martha McLean of
Red Springs, pianist, and Ruth
Topping of Pittsburgh, organist.
The production will be under
the direction of Robert Reuter,
dean of the school of music at
FMC, who has directed the work
in a number of performances by
choral groups in Pittsburgh and
Chicago.
The Civic Choral Society was
formed two months ago, “the Mes
siah” was selected for study and
plans for its presentation during
the Christmas season were imme
diately adopted. Rehearsals have
been in progress since and a num-
been
ber of the fine choruses have
selected for the first public
formance of he group.
Mr. McMillan also explained
while the performance
per ¬
The Marietta-Oakdale Grange
held its November mestarig^Thurs-
day, November ;21, at .the Commu
nity House.:. Plans 'WeTe made for
the -formation of a degree team,
and for a Christmas party to be
held on December 20. -1^11 service
men and their families'-' are to be
guests of the Grange at this par
ty.
Paul S. Oliver was elected a
master for the coming year. Oth
er officers elected were J. S. O1-
iver, overseer; Mrs. Joseph Page,
lecturer; Mrs. Grady Hayes, chap
lain; Mrs. Bracy Ford, secretary;
Cliff Morgan, treasurer;
Artye Grantham, steward;
Miss
Sybil
Morgan, and Jimmy Oliver, as
sistant stewards; Justin Spivey,
gatekeeper; and Mrs. Justin Spi
vey, Mrs. W. B. Byrd and Miss
Janie Spivey, the three graces.
The Rev. J. Paul Edwards has
irrived to assume the ministry of
the Marietta-Bethesda charge of
the Methodist church. Usual ser
vices will be held at these church
es wih services at Olivet on the
first and third Sunday mornings
a 11 a. m. during December. Mr.
Edwards is a native of Wilming-
on and a recent graduate of
Duke University.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.,
ittended the teachers meeting for
veteran instructors held at Rock-
ngham last week.
Miss Helen Oliver of Rowland
spent last week with the Paul Ol
ivers.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt McCormick
left this week to spend
with Mrs. McCormick’s
:n Iowa.
Miss Jessie Page
several days this
zille Beach with
harney.
Mr. and Mrs.
week
Mrs,
W.
Brooke Army Medical
ty at the Brooke Army Medical
center ,at Fort Sam-Houston, Tex-
as
It is here: that The army has
concentrated jts ipedical training
program arid is now the largest
and most completely military med
ical installation of its kind in the
world.
Lt. Pittman is a graduate of
the Bowman Gray school of med
icine and is a member of a class
of officers beginning an eight-
week basic training program.
vatte, Miss Lela Britt and Harold
C. Keith.
Next week's quiz will be on the
army’s new announcement con
cerning the expansion of the com
missioned officer ranks, which
follows: The army is seeking can
didates for 25,000 regular Army
commissions in the greatest peace
time expansion of its officer corps
in history. New applications for
commissions must be filed before
December 31, 19,46. .Candidate? will
be screened at Fort Bragg, N. 1C.
New appointments will * be an
nounced early in January. Appli
cation blanks may be secured at
Fort Bragg, or from any regular
army recruiters, who are in Red
Springs on Monday.- At; USO in
Lumberton on Wednesdays and
Thursdays and at Fairmont' and
St. Pauls on Wednesdays. ' . ’
Sunday baseball will not be al
lowed in Lumberton, according
to the action of the board of com
missioners at a special meeting
held Monday afternoon and eve
ning, when after hearing promot
ers of the sport asking a change
in the town’s ordinance, and min
isters and church leaders oppos
ing any change in the law, the
commission ordered that no change
be made in the ordinance without
due notice of a public hearing.
It was stated at the hearing
that a league club, the Chicago
Cubs, was interested in establish
ing a farm club here, and that
the Cubs would not require Sun
day baseball to establish the farm,
particularly if night baseball were
possible, and that the action of t* J
board would not eliminate Lum
berton from its chances to have
professional baseball in 1947.
The program at the meeting in
cluded such topics , as “The PAS
poses of A. C. E. and Its Services
to Teachers,” “Current Reading
Problems of the Elementary
School,” “Mental Hygiene of the
ginally scheduled
school auditorium,
for
was
the
that
ori-
high
due to impos
is
at
a month
relatives
spending
Wrights-
R. J. Spin-
■ ., , , T. Jenrette
visited their son, Thomas, in Roa
noke, Va., over the weekend.
Miss Kathryn Oliver and Jim
my atended the 4-H achievement
lay in Lumberton Saturday.
Elementary
other phases
Outstanding
these fields
The meeting
School Child,” and
of child developments,
leaders in each of
led the discussions,
began at 10:30 A. M.
and closed at 3:15 P. M.
Lunch was served in the college
dining hall at one o’clock after
which the teachers resumed their
discussions of child problems.
Mary M. Conoly, Head of the De
partment of Education at Flora
MacDonald College and Annie M.
Cherry, Professor of Education,
were leaders of the A.C.E. Regi
onal Conference program.
Red Springs Rotary Hears Mrs. Brown
In Talk On Better Pay For Teachers
Jimmy Byrnes
Returns Home
From Hospital
Jimmy Byrnes, who has been
a
patient in Charlotte Memorial hos
pital for some time, arrived in
Fairmont Wednesday. Jimmy, who
suffered a badly fractured leg in
a recent fall, was brought from
Charlotte in an ambulance.
At present his leg and hip are
enclosed in a plaster cast and it
may be some time before he will
be able to walk again although
the break is healing satisfacorily.
Jimmy was associated with the
Capitol Theatre this summer in
Fairmont and the many patrons
of the theatre have missed his
New Directorate
For Former
Maxton Resident
T. Lynwood Smith, who in the
fall of 1945 was elected to the vice-
presidency, board of directors and
personnel advisor of Adams Mills
Corporation of High Point, has re
cently been elected to the board of
directors of Highland Cotton Mills,
which is engaged in spinning
cotton yarns. Adams Mill’s is
fine
one
I of the largest seamless and full
I fashioned hosiery mills in
South.
the
I Mr. Smith is also associated with
1 Cloverdale Dye Works, which dyes
cotton yarns for knitting, and is
cheery smile and “ticket please” general counsellor for each of
since his recent accident.
Although his injured leg
keep him out of school for
will
ap-
proximately three months, Jimmy
is planning to study at home and
keep up with the rest of the mem
bers of his grade.
J eleven corporations located at High
Point, Kernersville and Tryon and
I in which more than 2500 people are '
employed.
Mr.
Leak
many
Smith is the son of Mrs. T.
Smith of Maxton and has
friends in this section.
TOBACCO HOLIDAY
Tobacco markets of all
belts
now operating in North Carolina
have been closed down,
it was
stated today, and would probably
be closed until after Christmas un
less the coal strike is settled.
About two-thirds of the poultry
diseases in North Carolina trace
their beginning to poor care and
management of the flock, says
Prof. Roy Dearstyne of State col
lege.
sibility to secure an organ for use
there, the executive committee ap
proved transfer to the auditorium
of the college the use of which
was offered he Society by college
officials. *
Ticket sale is now in progress
and tickets may be secured from
George Ashford or Mrs. Warren
McNeill of Red Springs, or from
any member of the chorus. Adult
admission will be $1.20, and child’s,
admission 60c, including tax.
Large Air-Lines
Investigating
Army Flying Field
Mrs. Douglas Brown, member
of the faculty of the 'Red Springs
schools, Was the principal "speaker
at the Red Springs Rotary club
Friday when “Schools:’ was the
program subject.
The program was presented by
Reid Grantharh, who first intro
duced Supt. W. R. Dudley, who
presented briefly some statistical
facts which showed that North
Carolina ranked 6th from the
bottom in dollars per pupil spent
for public instruction. A. C. Ste
phenson, former teacher and now
a businessman of Red Springs,
told briefly why he had had te
leave the teaching profession and
pointed out that the average ser-
high school education
are Tat ¬
vice
better
station employee received
pay than
an advertisement
eachers, ciing
from a news-
paper where a service station in
charlotte was offering bigger pay
to “car-washers” than a teacher
with an “A” certificate received.
After Mrs. Brown’s talk there
was a general discussion, with
the club approving a salary in
crease for teachers commensur
ate with present-day living costs.
Mrs. Brown’s talk follows:
Education makes a people easy
to lead, butdifflcult to drive; easy
to govern, but impossible to en
slave.”
I realize that you have read,
heard, and discussed, perhaps,
that the teacher is a poorly-paid
underprivileged individual, and no
doubt you have become bored with
the subject. Nevertheless, the
blem is still before us, and you.
and it is not the same but
pro-
be-
I comes more serious and alarming
as each day passes, as is evidenc
ed by the fact that Charlotte, one
of the best supplementing school
units in the state, is losing teach
ers at the average rate of one a
week. Too, at the present time—
class rooms in our state are va-
| cant, and—persons without any
1 teacher preparation and only a
tempting to leach boys, and girls
of our state." We Iftay ’ ask 5 why
■this sudden exodus of well-prepar
ed. capable teachers from the
school rom? We may answer in
one word this question—money.
.Money for board, room, clothes,
'summer school expenses, church
and tithes, insurance and some
semblance of future security is a
necessity for a well-rounded life.
For example, let me tell you
some facts about one of our teach
ers in the white school. She has
taught six years, and is giving to
Red Springs'the best years of her
teaching service. She receives a
yearly salary of $1,442.97. Of this,
there is withheld $61.92 for retire
ment and $154.80 for withholding
tax, leaving a net income of $1,-
226.25 or $102.17 a month on which
to live decently as you expect a
teacher to live. ' Perhaps it will
help you to understand the seri
ousness of the situation if I tell
you how she must spend this mo
ney. First of all, $17.50 a month
must go to pay for a place to
sleep. Since no adequate provision
is made for teachers in Red
Springs to room and board, she
must secure meals at the cafe,
which means that an average of
$54.00 must be spent for food, even
with lunches at school selling for
15c a day.. She has an insurance
policy which demands $5.20 a
month. A hospital savings policy
gets $1.25 a month. Laundry and
Iry cleanin gamount to $8 or $10
1 month. We have now spent a
total of $87.95 of her $102.17, leav
ing her $14.22 for clothing, sum-
Keen interest in the advantages
of the Army Air Field, clcge to
Maxton, for both passenger and
freight trasnportation was _ ex
pressed by j^h officials of the
large aviation companies in letters
received this week by the Maxton
Chamber of Commerce in reply to
communications sent by the Secre
tary..
Not only the air lines engaged
in north and south traffic, but es
pecially those occupied with the.
growing east and west transporta
tion of passengers, freight and mail'
business, expressed interest in the
superior facilities existing at tins'
field, provided ground transporta
tion can be arranged, which is
assured.
C. >', iete detail-' concerning
field i.nd its advantage? have
this
also
baa presented to t. •  ivil Aer
onautics Board. — Washington
members of whicn have the final
word in determining those fields
which shal lenjoy permanent and
regular air service.
Rotary Hears
W. G. (oxhead
mer school, church medical
ex-
penses and incidentals. Now, you
are wondering how she lives on
the salary which she receives for
teaching in our school. Were it
not for the fact that she receives
a check for $50 or so from her
father once in a while, and re-
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The Rotary club met in weekly
session at the Fairmont Hotel on
Tuesday night, November 26 with
38 members present. Featured-'
speaker of the evening was W. G.
Coxhead, assistant to the presi
dent of Presbyterian Junior col
lege in Maxton.
Mr. Coxhead was formerly as
sociated with the YMCA in Pet
ersburg, Fla., and recently came
to Robseon county to supervise-
the campaign for funds to aid' 1
PJC in meeting endowment de
mands of the Southern Associa-
tion of Colleges.
Mr. Coxhead once
to Rico and chose
as his topic at the
lived in Por-
“Porto Rico”
Rotary meet-
ing. He brought a very interesting
and informative discussion of that
country to Rotary members. ...,