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THE SCOTTISH CHIEF IOUNDtD WS? Pro SPRING® CITIZEN I ouNori> 18911 consul IDATEDSI944 * THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN One Of Robeson County’s Home town Newspapers Vol. I-Vill, No. 33 Sixteen Pages Red Springs, N. C Thursday, September 11, 1947 SERB HOBEBB PARKtI OF M. Cotton Farming Revolution Foreseen At Field Tour Of Rural Robeson Wedding Party Of 50 Years Ago Two Bales Per Acre Possible According To Farming Experts Consen na It was the consensus th • group tijat many improvements tin staple production and harvest ing and insect control were viable but id using the the now were ^ -— .. ^ , not using the practices and much- 'Two bales of cat toil per acre, 1 - •-•* even with the weather and the intry whirl! would give them I !f- ban weevil at their worst. Hite possible for all good land In Robctyn county, farmers may show the we Jr is done on a c^mnierc Robeson rid how j lower costs tlon. This was AshforiX i BaveA Her and greater summed up ids appeal prod Gr ¬ by Mr. | to Mr 1 farm which would it plans dtscuscell Tuesday mater ialize. A cotton farih with modem ! 1U i VJ ,n rd practices Mr was off***’- ; staled that men could be ed ,to the Extension Division of | Hvailablr. mechanical equipment State college for its practical farming be op-j ■frilled on a commercial basis with nil the latest equipment and most Raver made use in a Attending the luncheon were mechanized | w p • Evans, American Cynamid ,i a commercial scalene GHinshoro; W. I.. Nelson, Ashtord. general mana- research prole ;or of Agronomy. ger ot ine i^r.ert.v ri^nurariuriiig । ^t al p c company uf R.-d Springs. L. D-; niingH. Raver, Dean of the School of Ag runoiny, i(culture uf State college, staled r^i head the Dei college; National Cotton W. Cum- t man the project. The offer was made Dr D W 1. Council r, dean at a meet ; A Shanklin iag of farmer experts and repre j g tatp college; sentatives of farm organizations oi . USDA Pet following a visit to Hie farms of It. B. Ashley, Jr., of the Phlladel-1 phus Community, many mechanized cultivation bite been operation- ot planting and insert control carried out this yeai. Station. Agent county; Dept. Plate college; J. cotton specialist. Dr. Bondy, direct * Dee Experiment re, S. C.; County Owens. Robeson Fred P. Johnson, N. 1 I Agriculture, Raleigh W. D. Reynolds, Robeson county The Field Tour manager; j Ashley. Ji Mr. Ashford: H B. where different farmer; K. J. Shaw f •"’ ®- Aycock, of the John I ^ IF. McNair farms, Laurinburg; i T F«'K"Hfn. Extension ° *' 1 1 4 I State college; L. M. Upchurch, of I and M. t«ol worq used tests conducted Boody and J. Dr. F. Shanklin. dace the would that pro- Mr. A." for the luncheon which of th) A >xperiment fol Iov inspect ion hley farm. In the fori^n conducted at the luncheon Mr. RS lions Approve J Community Projects Fun Will Be A-Poi " Cornzaponnta IV ACC AM AW FEATURED The "Tale* Tarheelin low Sept Guests Present New Members Received column by John Harden this week features nearby latke Waccamaw, the largest natur al lake on the entire eastern Liberty Post 1 Sponsors Homi Talent Corned; seaboard north Floridu'w Red ; projects Springs -Three community were approve meeting of the Lions club at th Tuesday Oktechobee. The article, in the second section of tills Is sue, recounts history and tra. evening. The projects, presented by i tiie Community Betterment com-• i mittee, as approved are* i. A re 1 creation park or center for {Springs. This can be done by verting the airport property cash if the site itself is not , able. Unanimous approval. Red con- info ‘ Project No. 2. Parking meters I for Main Street in the business , (district of Red Springs. This can be done without cost to the tax payers of the town. This was ap proved 10 to 1 Project No. 3, A Community Chest for Red Spring:. This will pave the time of both the solicitors and contributors for charitable causes in the community. This re ceived unanimous approval. , Guest Speaker Guest speaker at the meeting lake and give scription of , a colorful de the lush, still primitive wild* around it Election On Wine And Beer Sough! By Commissioners Maxton Fun, and a flock is in st ore for folks all Dir lullbillv -luiw "Coruzupo]^K| rt t u m-xt ’I huisday and ni lit;bv the Liberty Post 117 of the American Legim^^H t’u? Maxton high school. Rehearsals of the all-local started this week under the dix^H , tion of Miss Carolyn Hilt-^B j professional director, and special feature entr’Acts are being plan- i .ted to make the two perform ances a fast-moving two hours if amusing entertainment. The cast of ten players in eludes: Ed McLeod, Mrs. Pulliam, iMac MeConneghey. Langdon The Rev. I P. Hedgpeth of Lumberton, pastor of several Baptist churches in Robeson, poses above will, the Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Thomas Rogers of Tabor City during their Gulden Wedding annivers- ary Not only did he take part lit their golden wedding anniversary, but also Mr. Hedgpeth officiated at, " n ’ u ° n ■““' their wedding ceremony 50 years ago. Another unique feature of the celebration was that the combined 1 " uions were J. eve!' of the trio totals 227 years. Mrs. Rogers being 60 years old, Mr. Rogers 78, nod Mr. Hedgpeth 80 years Naw pasturing five Baptist churches in Robeson, Mr. Hedgpeth completed 60 years in Ilie ministry last July. He has been pastor of the Big Branch church in Orrum, which is al>o his Imine church, for 53 years. His other churehey are Long Branch, Proctorville. Tularsx Ilie, an.! Bules. He was horn and grew up in service. : ,*.,. h . )h of Daniel ant ) Uij za parvis |ledgpet h. (Photo Courtesy of Star News, Wilmingt on) Raeford, representing the N. Seederushers ald Coxe, 1 Hometown 1 Stedman of association; Robeson Newspapers; Doug County's John I‘. Scottish Bank Miss. Elizabeth Best of the Agri cultural Research Bureau, Ra- teigh; R. L. Sarbaugh and George Knudson of the Robesonian. Business Courses Added To School Yum-m, Steaks!! Furniture softball team as they “The Lantern Got Action” Curriculum Paver spoke of tiie general pto- grass in recent years made in | implements for planting, cultiva tion and control of insects, stat Pig farms with power units need greater range in implements to Red Springs—Twa*: an old. time reminder of the years gone past such as "The Lamp lighters Serenade," when one noticed the novel "street- Demand For More Typewriters At Acute Stage diamond al the high school field Monday night alter de feating Graham's softball team in a post-season two out-of ¬ three game scries. 1 ne team uas headed for a steak smulh. 71—on Grahams' team, defeated team ate, too. Club The •’•“tin*—*f»U »^a ct /hg ,.tcaotftr r f Ughl" taint at the corner of and tint plows and hitTOWf tiw^ WoH Third fat reel and Peach- not constitute sufficient nuinber tree si reel IRM TfeunMiay night. of gadgets for the tractor to dis place the mule. Cotten breeding of special types fibres for specific spinning utes is now being canted out and line-variety areas uf the staple would become more general in the coming years Fertilization Methods Better fertilization methods and a new emphasis on insect control, in particular that ot the boll weevil and the Loll worm would The that some le’ght there. regular street light has out for Home time .on particular corner No clever soul had the Idea of hanging a lump The light It threw may* not have been very effective but the method used certainly was. Wednesday saw new, modern light place of the lantern. Recce Snyder, says bulb In low'll be nece sary t production “P^tun mast efficient tilled they've even had to keep the street with oil. volnn lamps processors Mr. Baver decl.>i*d. cheaper Synod Seaton nis expensive production methods. Light new nearly 75 percent of In RS Ends i ur land that ton tohact o I lli I produce Mail d peanuts. We gr-aier yield per but we must part of our cut cate of some ill, too. .so that Red Spring.! T ie North Caro lina Synod of the Southern Preu- bvterian church ended its annual meeting today at Flora Mardon aid college. The 1948 meeting will be In-Id at Montreat, summer av sembly grounds, the first week ilit r great Fad. financial of the elected Farm Labor Problem 1. Shaw, brought into the Mission the problem of what do with farm labor when * Illation goes into mechanical .superintendent of home at Barium Son Ot Oto ton Lumberton Board Asks Prerequisite Poll For County : Stone, Mrs. Jap Gainey, Doris M ! Laughlin Annie MeEachin, Hugh Drennan, Mary Edna George and McCaskill. There will also be a chorus of 30 girls se lected from the public school mu Lumberton The Lumberton ! s i c commissioners classes the high school. prouetion. ft was the opinion vi moT of the group that little In i.ui ^ould be actually displaced a- a greater production of oCui crops would he possible if avail able labor was relieved from tin ooO in ca h has tedium of cotton, lobace peanut production an 1 Dr. Bondy, d'rector of the IF DA experiment once. H U, st lieVed tiie new control of the Firn that he warm would pro^e bull weevil and but there that of poisons needed upplyin ■ much im provetnent. Present machines are about the same as those used 20 or more years ago, he said Be) ter insect control, side placement of fertilizer and lower cost plant | Ing up cut and cultivation would pull the production per acre and the per pound ousts of tai' Cotton The Scottish Citizen Red Springs, N. C. Dougald Coxe Publisher Red Springs, N. C. Telephone 305-1 Maxton, N. C. Ed Black Editor Telephone 59 W Subscription Rates 1 Year 6 Months 3 Months $2.00 . 1.00 .65 Published every Thursday Entered at the Post Office at Rad Springs, N. C., as second •, ass mail matter. Revival Begins Monday AI First Baptist Church G. Durracott, Kings Mountain; W. S. Putter.-on, Davidson; Eugen? Davis. Whiteville; F. W. Faires, Wallace. New Members The Red Springs Lions club has re ently enrolled the following new members: Randolph Bullard, by transfer from Andrews, S. C, club; Galen D. Harris, Clean Pur ler ami C. L. Young. vol's an election to uen*i nun * whether wine and beer should be sold in the city, they revealed Tuesday in a written decision re Beauty Show A feature of the Thursday pet- formance wil beauty con- fusing on grounds of lack of evi- U.-nre revoke tiie beer license* of U>K test for the selection of "Little Miss Mavton." This will be held immediately proceeding the open ¬ the comedy. End Revocation if the city licenses and two other local Fourth Ages for this competition aro • I from 6 to 10 years; this will be j followed by a "Teeney Tots" con- ^ age) (children under 6 years of for the selection of the Indebted Lumber'll!) — InformatN it oncerning the building of rhikidelphus in 1858. the Meetings Being Held This Week the*N. C. committee of the U. S. Brewers Foundation, at a hearing before the city board last Friday. The board took no action on two End tavern, owned by A license to Rr.tha Rioudy, both county anil Hate I Wil- both king and queen of Toyland. Win ners of the two contests will be announced Friday evening a^d the coronation ceremonies will be held just before the opening of the show on the second night. Group prizes will be awarded, and tiie loving cups for the Teen- donated by Red Springs Several pupils in the Red Springs high school have rxpies eji a desire to enroll in the | typing cliMs. now in Ilk i^cond . year. ThAwoUmwit. In thin piytieu • tar class has increased frtftir 12 laid year to 20 this year The in crease has brought an acute de maud for additional typewriters and other equipment. Typing desks and chairs have already been installed with only hi typewriters supplied Additional. Their series began on Mon day evening. September I. with Graham's defeating HF 9-6. The game was called at tiie sixth inning on account of darkness. Th* next game was played the following Wedties, day evening at fl o'clock with HE winning out 7-5. The firm! hoson county’s historical know- all. Mr. Brown has in his pos- sen ted. Ent raffia into may secure further TION AND RULES TWO CONTESTS F C. M. Cas- will lie pre- ihe contest IN FORMA and gamt* was run off tills past Monday evening with HF running circles around the Graham*’ team to walk off, hot hut happy, with Red had 22 Cottage meetings this week in preparation for then dv ’out mug at 10 o’clock. (The visit trig minister tin tiie occasion 1 will be five Rev, R. A. Thompson State Street list church, Columbia. . Rev. J. Lloyd Mauney ular pastor. Meetings will be by Mayor Malcolm ihop. THE Mrs. Beau- has .been received Although rmt. ndent W. R Dudley has Ed Bodrnheimvr pitched for til', while DIxon Currie pitch Mi . will nut meet month is charged each pupil KAer the cu-t of repairing, re- and to help meet the expenses of ribbon alone now co: Additional Business CimrseH n uldit un I I a typing cla ■ ‘.ebon 1 i' now offering a-’ ual I’ll ine-s ctHirses Gen* will spend senior will Individ I a part of cu^alon of moving to a site took place. dis- .statement that the beer industr Oine f >r tiie aged in was huthori^ed In yoHterduv. Over 455,- aml fluoilo in pledge? received *nd a site Lunch Servings Increase in th" il bar lucre 426 this week. The vnruilment boot the Synod ilia iks wa . ill uppreci- atlon of Hie gift of the late Mis. Knife Bitting Reynolds, of Wir •Hon Salem, both for her ine-mie of from $400,000 for aged minis lent and her gifts to the educa tional institutions in her will. The clerk was instructed la sit'd thanks to her husband, W. N. Reynolds. Ed Lyon Buried In RS Last Week bore, a former resident uf Red- nil in was buried in Alloway • emetery here last Wednesday af- lernuon, following his death in Creembuio la-t Monday night, September 1. Mr. Lyon was a bro ther-ln law of Mrs. D. B. McDon ald and J D Mason. YOUNG GENE WALNEY SITTERS BROKEN LEG Red Springs small son of the .1 Lloyd Mauney, Scotland County Gene Mauney Rev. and Mrs. is a patient ’n Memorial Iios pdal. Maxton. following an acci dent Tuesday morning at his home here. Young Gene suffered a broken leg when a car shed door fell on him. The leg was broken in two places last week's. The L'lementarv reboot 1947 FMC Graduate Wins Poetry Contest Honeycutt, who r Drama Given AI TRolary Meeting only the licenses of sales outlets that .discredited the industry in the eyes of the public. folk in ridiculous up in u laugh pi of the type of” sit mJ •ovoki Ip k es held morning during the week uvlock and begin each each at 10 veiling Blddell Springs The vocational committee with Howard of Pembroke as chairman, "We are not interested in. the | indicate, bill beer industry." the statement /Con tinued. “We are very much Kifer- ected in the public welfare./ We the people of Lumbert to the beer industry." an tT-nro ing agaii Free 4 this week] New Self-Service laundry In RS I K^BRprings A self-service 1 laun^Lu, being erected on North I Main street adjacent to Hie Autu Set vice center and directly behind the Scottish Citizen office. Cu at 7:45 o'clock. II. D. Baxley an.I c L. Norwood will he tiie song directors. Special music will also lie given during the week. The church has been under- tiling a complete redecorating an 1 repainting jub during the past weeks and will be in leadiness ny Sunday. Pointing out the difficulty In differentiating between (dares which exist for tiie retail, on 1-^ t tei Miss Mollcent H E Tin Mel the Rogers of Philadelphia nut Graham Jr, of Rel Will houHe 10 Jury Receives Brooks Assault Ease At Noon >unean McNeill. , and Charles j fundi meat said, "We feel that all such places are the modern equivalents of the open saloon. We feel, further, that all such places should, by vote of the people, he closed." North Carolina law provides f s on eAllier call a simil.il that a i peak, similar election. might have a Inynard the Will Fil be Junto: n with registration of- high tool and aircraft and engine vo- I maul students and flying stu nts Sept, J. Freshman uudenu fur ich nine pounds of dry clothes. There will be someone m the building at all times to do the wash lor you if laundry soap furnished and at - a slighth lib ber rate of 4. r :C per nine pounds of dry clothes. The opening of the laundry is it Freak Plant Pembroke—A freak tobacco plant grown by Carlie '.tun’ monds of rural Rowland Is ovr It) fret tall and has grown I«H) large leaves. According t" Mr. Hammonds, all of them are of suckers and to date has shown unl\ plant of its kind in entire field. the the RS School Students ^r^Xn^ Aid In Synod Program Flora class of 1947. has been Red Springs Several of the Red jury A •ourt the shortly employe noon today to find one of tiv Commissioners signing the state ment were H I'. Allen, W. R. Al len. and C. P. Britt. The other commissioner. L. W. Wicker, f i- diets Chief tie case of Pembroke Police Perry Brooks. rhargqi with assiiul' with a dead The jury late this afternoon •’.urmd a verdict of guilty ■ a vault causing serious ijury. Judge Chester Morris ute'wed Brooks to six months years’ good behavior with sev teral conditional requirements. One was that he turn in bls badge and comiiiis Ion to the Town Board uf Commisslon- Presiding Judge (’hi ris, after speaking ove to the court, said the might be found guilty a guilty of assault with retirement plans, proving working roll the will register tomorrow a ad soph- omores on Mon lay, September 8 Two hundred and ninety-eight students have in ape room reseWa- tions and others are being acciVt- ed within a period of three weJ^ from the opening of college. M Dr O Somers Rih lumberton Horse Show Program UNC To Offer School Workshops made the address at the opening of college al 10 a. Tuesday. Sept. 9. EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORS M MEET THIS WEEK AT FJC Maxton A conference of dir»^ I tors of religious education serving in churches in Synod of North More Than 40 Events; Novel Features Listed Her Mor ¬ an hour Lumb defendant division Classes for deadly tarv weapon; guilty of assault causing here serious injury; guilty of simple as- her .vault, or not guilty. Maynor told the court he wa; shot by Chief Brooks after a tus ; igmiEv honored when her poem 1 , . . "The Artist Speaks", was awarded 1 N” "^ high school buys and Kills fir-t prize in the poetry eon- "" - ■‘"^ ."' ''' 1 '“’"- c "' lent, sponsored by the Presbyter-1 ''' 1 "' Synod prourmo xt Flop, tan Outlook, and appeared In the ‘ J.''” 1 ’, 1 , '," T 1 T u are a •■Gain,; To-College Handbook”, off ! >' '"" l ' 1 ’'" ’' "•"' - '"n press late In Augurf. ' “fj the college They are: Miss Huneyoutt. daughter of m^,,, GrBce B Oraho ,„. Eunice the Rev and Mrs W. J Huney t) , 1I10a „. Joan Stevens. Ann Me cult of Laurel Hill, achieved a sle during which armed. He asserti that Brooks I Synod program had not inked him for a gun he had under his shirt not told him he was under arrest. The same testimony was given by Charles R. Paris, manager ot Fay I the store before gle took place, horse show to be presented Friday and Saturday. Octo 10 und Featured a mo nr the 40 events will he three gutted, five-galled, roadsters, walking horses, Unc hurras horses, hunters, jumpers, ponies, local horse-, pleasure horses ^ind a special class for horsemen administrators portunity this in educational which will give chers mid school will have tiie op- year to take par: workshops offered Extension division credit toward both Junior Carolina at Flora Macdonald cM- lege. Red Springs. teachers' certificates and master': degrees, according to an announce County Supt Arthur. Doris Young and Patsy Mc Neill. Tin Boy Scouts, under the di . , .rection of Scoutmaster Thomas A. cepted and published by "Arts, Fry, are acting as guides and Forum. , messengers for the convenience uf She was one of the represents j those attending the Synod. They colleges ate: Tommy Ashford, Gene Me reputation an an amateur poet ot promise while In college, and In her senior year had a poem ac- throughout the nation to bring poemH for discussion to the forum held at Woman’s college Greensboro last March. She Is now director of relig ious education at the Fifth Ave- nue Presbyterian church In Knox ville. Tenn. Racken, Alex Byrne. Elbert Mc- Phalli, Jr., Garnet Brooke. Evens Skipper, Zeb McMillan. Jr Leon Tucker and Ferrell Gentry. Lowry, endine. Chief Maynor day of Ramond which the strug- and by Claude anil Roscoe Ox- testified he saw 11 nd fifty for The horsewomen more years old and a Negro grooms, show, one of the than class last the Carolinas this season, in will be held In the ring fronting the grandstand ill fairgrounds. Box Robeson '''he Extension division will also offer classes if they are requested by teachers, but experience has shown, said Mr., Green, that work shops are more beneficial profe- sionally and more helpful in class room work. In the workshops tea chers rin’l principals will work on the major problems and needs of their schools with the purpose of making definite progress ard im provement in their schools Extension work is ri pertinent this year, the tendon; said, as many will need to renew their upei In certifl cates before Sept. 1. 1948. As much connlv IUH night semester hotTrs u Brooks at 5 p. the shooting, in the cafe, p'lens McIntyre has announced. He said he saw the butt of a Being the final show on rn. on the Sator-I able. Hors* concealed weapon inside May nor's shirt, but didn’t arrest him then "to keep from starting trouble in the cafe." Some 55 minutes later, Brooks said he saw Maynor on a street bench with the Oxendine boys, called him to the car and told him he was under arrest. The post office In Red Springs has recently received a new coat | •of paint inside and out. IPRIVE SAFELY-SAVE A LIFE Carolina sure the to sent* are avail- full courses of credit may it Show President Ste ¬ circuit. Lumberton attract top stables the is of Carolinas and neighboring states. Plans are now being made to entertain a capacity crowd of exhibitors and spectators. Near- by barns are being prepared to house more than 130 horses. More than $4,000 in cash a* wards, ribbons and trophies will be awarded. ed in the school year. Principals, teachers and substi tute teachers who are interested in cither of the two types of ex tension service should sent’ thur names to Mr. Green's rifle? by Sept. 16. Many school systems In the state are renuesting extension service, and if Robeson county is [ to secure the work it is necessary I that application for it be made at I an early date. Dr. J. O. Mann, d ligiouv education of lina, and Miss Sara director’s office were the conference which day afternoon with Little of the Maxton. begins Tuss- a gathering church in In Red Springs * Have You Noticed? The group of ardent young base ball fans who occupied the corear lot by the First Presbyterian church any time ail day ah sum mer . . . The enthusiastic response to the softball teams competition summer . . this The traffic sig.is erected for Iha safety of school children . . . The new houses being erected in various parts of town . . . The change In Render’s store name to Colonial Stores . . . The number complimenting tors and brides of August . . . of Social affairs out-of town vixi- durlng the month The unenthustastic reaponae of women to the longer hem-line fa shion . . The sudden buret of Hah fond building ... The hot weather (allly qflatlon. Isn’t nn .. . ■ DRIVE SAFELY—SAVE A LIFE DRIVE SAFELY-SAVE A LIFE
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