SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED 1887
BED SPRINGS CITIZEN
FOUNDED 1896
CONSOLIDATED 1944
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS
OF MAXTON—RED
SPRINGS
PARKTON—ROWLAND
One Of Robeson County’s Hometown Newspapers
Vcftime LV1II, No. 52 Pages
(Red Springs and Maxtori,' N C.) Thursday, January 8, 1948
Committee Com
pletes Plans;
Individual Payments
Limited To $500
RED SPRINGS.
Francis J
The 1948 program of the Robe
son County Agriculture Conserva
tion Association is being released
by the association secretary, D.
Hilbert Lovette, from the Lumber-
ton office today. The program is
essentially what it was in 1947
/but there will be some slight re
ductions in payments and a. limit
of $500 has been established on
payment to any individual; the
former Maximum payment was
$10,000.
All payments are subject to ap
propriations by the Congress and
the action of Congress must bl;
awaited before the amount of pay
ment can be established.
Eligibility will be based on
plans submitted by farmers which
will show the need on the farm,
will include the farmer’s re-
quests,
farmer,
will -be
County
arrived
and the intentions of the
Assistance in
decided by the
committee and
each case
Robeson
will be
at cn the basis of funds
available.
Approved practices for Robe-
son .county under the 1948
program have been selected
the approved practices for
nation and are made up of
pro-
from
the
the
A items which are adaptable to this
W locality. Approved practices are:
(1)- Superphosphate, (2) Potash
to eligible crops, (3) Limestone,
(4) Winter cover crops, (5) Per
manent pasture, (6) Open ditch
CAROLINA GRAIN AND FEED CO. ELEVATORS
—Hometown Newspaper Staff Photo—
drainage, (7) Tile drainage,
Crotalaria planted
summer cover crop.
E. G. Ballance,
alone as
(8)
a
the Robeson
chairman
of
county committee.
urges that farmers submit and;
sign their plans and applications
^t once. Marclh 15 is the dead
line for participation;, but early
application is important.
'Detailed information about the
pwigram;.jwill be carried ^y your
tws^aper* in it s -»*x* '
itfesue. ' U*
Lumberton Youth
Gets 710 Years
In Armed Robbery
$50,000 Structure
Only One OF Its
Kind In 100 Miles
Visual Education
Conference For
Red Springs
Walker, of Durham, governor of
the 31-B district of Lions, was the
the principal speaker at the New-
Year’s meeting of the Red Springs
Lions club last Tuesday, when the
Lioness's were special
the club.
Mr. Walker reviewed
of the accomplishments
ganization in the past-
discussed goals for 1948.
guests of
a number
of the or
year and
He point-
ed out that the Lions had become
the largest civic organization ot
the world, with active clubs in 18
countries on four continents. To
tai membership now has passed
the 375,000 mark in" 6,660 different
clubs. North Carolina now has a
total of 160 clubs, he stated.
Waverly Barham, president, wel
comed the guests and the speaker
was presented by L. E. Baldwin,
secretary and treasurer of the club.
The ladies were presented corsages
as favors of the dinner served by
the UDC, under the direction of
Mies Cornelia MacMillan.
Schoolmasters
To Meet Jan. 14
Superintendent C. L. Green has
announced that Robeson County
Schoolmasters will met on Wed-
nesday evening,
6:30 p. m. This
meeting and will
ford’s Cafe, east
January 14, at
will be dinner
be held at Craw-
of Lumberton.
Schoolmasters are . asked to notify
Supt. Green -whether they
will attend so that a place may be
reserved.
Dot Clark Now
Citizen Editor-
RED SPRINGS—Miss Dorothy
Clark, for the past five years
manager of the local Western
Union office, began work this
week with, the Scottish Citizen
as society editor and office man
ager. Miss Clark was succeeded
by Mjss Jean Blackmon of Spen
cer, who is now WU manager.
! The Citizen office is open daily
from 8:30 to 5:30, and the phone
UHHSlfeS.W Js . 3051. It is located , in
tlie same'' building whidh Wj-^FW' 1
also occupied by the Jolly Wash-
j Tse five 52 foot by 16 ’foot)
: bins; of the Carolina Grain andy
! Feed Co., Inc., eleva'tor which is'
! er^n,ft^ Plet |° n T on n th r n0rth ^^l. education department of the
° Um e rton, aie ; University of North Carolina, will
Me-; designed to handle ad types of ^ ofiduct conferences on the use of
Lean, 23, of Lumberton, received] grata for farmers in the vicinity 1 T .
a’ sentence of seven to ten years I in tie most efficient manner pos- lI?lu d lec01ds ln classroom
county Superior: sible; Purpose of the building is
court Monday for armed robbery not only to provide safe, rodent-
; RED SPRINGS. -'^ .Charles ' F.
: Milner, director of the” Audio-Vis.
ROCKINGHAM — Leon K.
in Richmond
of Snuggs & Webb Esso Service
station three
blocks from the
, center of town on E. Washington
St., October 20.
McLean plead guilty, Judge Wil
son Warlick suspended larceny
arid receiving charge and pro
nounced sentence on robbery
charge.
free .storage, but to handle grains
so efficiently that storage and
handling costs will be held to a
I instruction Lr the white and negro
; schools of. Red Springs next Mon-
1 day.
I Superintendent Walter R. Dudley
I states that the forum will be held
Teachers’ Workshop
Monday Afternoon
minimum, and the saving can be
passed on to growers. Present)
plans do not call for storage for I
individuals but for purchase and
resale of grain by the company,
the savings of efficient handling*
, being passed to the grower ini
I better prices.
The building, which was begun-i
in August, is expected to be com-’
plete in the next ten days; mean-
at the colored schools Monday after
noon from 3, to 5:30 and the even
ing session will be held at ;he
white school beginning with a
supper in the school cafeteria.
Teachers of the college and mem-
bars of the school board have
invited to participate in the
ference
Difficulties experienced in
beer-
con
the
while, some small quantities
Principals- of white schools
the county pave been notified
County Superintendent C. L. Green
, that the second workshop will'be
hell Monday at the East Lumber
ton School at 3:30. Supt. Green
states that the workshop is a state
requirement and urges attendance.
corn .
stored
which
sively
shuck
age in
are being purchased
of 1
and
operation of the audio-visual class
room work since inaugurated in
the schools last September will be
given the major part of the time
in anadjoining building!
will later be used exclu-' set f ° r the discussions, it was stat-
for handling corn in the
for cleaning before stoY-
the main building.
The entire structure is 70 fee®
high arid is made up of a small
basement for machinery, four cir
cular bins surrounding the fifth?
bin, a sheet iron structure up the
$;de for the conveyer belt and ,
stair, and the roofed-in top which !
contains machinery. 34,000 pounds!
of steel went into the reinforced!
conciete walls which rest on a:
16-inch, doubly reinforced foun
dation. The bins are fat-proof and
fireproof. Location of the build-
ing is on the Fayetteville high
way just beyond the Texas com-
Accident Prevention ,
- ; pany. bulk plant on the site of
Course for Teachers the old brick mill. Besides the
Begins In
Lumberton
main building there is a sheet
iron building housing corn shuck
ing and shelling equipment (re
moved from the elevator to mini-
ed. Miss Mae Boone, director of
this
side
work in the schools will
at both sessions.
Dr. Bear To Speak
Twice Sunday
pre-
RED SPRINGS—Dr. James
E.
Bear, professor at Union Theo
logical Seminary in Richmond,
Virginia, is to be at the Presby-
terian church in Red
Sunday, January 11.
Springs
He will
speak at the regular morning
service at 10:55 and also Sunday
evening at 7:30. Dr. Bear was
educated at Fredericksburg Col
lege, Washington and Lee Uni-
The instructor courses in Acci-’
dent Prevention sponsored by the
Robeson County Red Cross Chap
ter for teachers of Robeson
County will be taught by William !
Fix, a special representative of
mize fire hazard) and a
block office building.
Grain will be unloaded
vehicles into the basement
cinder
from
where
versify, Union Theological Semin
ary, University of Edinburgh, and
Princeton Theological Seminary.
He was born in China, and went
back to that country as. a mis
sionary for seven years.-
Dr. Bear’s topic for
the American National Red
Accident Prevention Staff,
uary 8th-16th inclusive.
For teachers who plan to
Cross
Jan-
teach
students of the 7th, 8th and 9th
grades a class will be conducted
on January 8th and 9th at 7:30
P. m. in the Lumberton high school
building.
An afternoon class for teachers
who plan to teach the 7th, Sth and
grader-will be conducted in the
high school building
the 13th, 14th and 15th
the sessions will con-
hours each.
for teachers who plan
Home and. Farm Ac-
Course to stu-
11th, and 12th
be conducted each even
p. hi. in the Lumberton
school building on Januarv
13th, 14th, 15th and 16th.
an auger conveyor will carry it
to .a conveypr belt which will lift
it tb the top of the building; here
another auger conveyor will car
ry the grain to its designated
bin.
The bin floors are funnel shap
ed and grain will be removed
through an opening in the floor-
center, falling to 'the auger con-
veyor in the basement which
ries it to the same vertical
veyor belt; it
dumped into
which it falls
or box cars.
is then lifted
car-
con-
and
ing service is
Ours.” At the
topic will be
And Today.”
“God’s
evening
“China
the morn-
Love And
service his
Yesterday
DUCK HUNTERS
A number of Maxton men
ore on a duck hunting
few days. They went with a party
(&:.
Children’
Mrs. Maggie Brown
Newton Dies Tuesday
Mrs. Maggie Brown Newton of
Red Springs died Tuesday night-
after a short illness. She was
the daughter of the late John G.
Brown of Robeson- county, and.
er, Main Street, nek^'Dun^l the WA°fs 7^ neS A &f ’
n 11 W n 0 ° n at 3:30 c 1 o c k, conduct-
- McGoogans Auto gef^e coft^ by the ., Rev Thon ^; Fry,
i pastor of the ^irst Presbyterian
pany.
Licensed During
church, assisted?by the Rev. A1-
leh C. Leg, pastor, of Trinity
Methodist church. » I
-•Interment followed in AlloWay
cemetery. She is
three sisteis, Miss
Brown
Mrs
Allie
Miss Polly Brown,
home,
and
one
survived by
Katie h R.
B. Williams,
ail of
nephew,
the
Neill
Shaw Brown of Pembroke.
? Active pallbearers were N. A
Lumberton Office Reports M™pAui, Ja im s c.
4593 Tags For Autos
Sold In Robeson
McDonald, Cecil
T. Johnson, Dr.
' H. H. Hodgin, Dr. W. L. McRae,
J. H. Townsend, arid W E. Mc-
Connaughey, all of Red Springs.
Mrs. W. E. McConnaughey was
1 in charge of the flowers, assisted
Maxton Lodge
Installs Officers
The Maxton Lodge AF&AM 417
met or. Monday night, January 5. -
at 7:30 for the purpose of install-?
ing the newly elected officers. The:
PJC Endowment
Total $150,096.02
Barely Tops $1*50,-
000.00 Sought; Late
Gifts Expected
MAXTON—The successful com
pletion of the campaign of Pres
byterian Junior college for $150,- .,
000 endowment to meet the fi
nancial . requirements for mern-
| bership in the Southern Associa-
i tion of Colleges and Secondary
Schools was announced today by.
Edwin Pare of Laurinburg,. chair
man of the board of trustees /of
Presbyterian Junior college.
: Mr. Pate expressed thanks, in
’ the name of the trustees, to all
those whose gifts and efforts.”
helped to make the campaign a
J success. The closing date was De
cember 31. Several days of grace
are being allowed to permit re
ceipt of late donations before the
final tabulation is announced. ,
On January 1 there was $3,146
in pledges. $43,540 in living en
dowment, and $103,410.02 in cash
and invested funds, making a to-
I tal of $150,096.02. It was hoped
] late gifts would provide the fund
a margin above
needs.
The statement
Mr. Pate was: “It
the minimum
released for
is a pleasure
4
: to announce the success of the
campaign. We hope other gifts
! will still be sent in so as to pro
vide a gratifying margin above
1 the minimum goal. In the name
of the trustees of Presbyterian. ,
’ Junior college I wish to express „
! oui thanks to all those who. gave
! of their means and time.”
’ This endowment will permit
jinembership in the regional ac- -
crediting association and gives
the college added stability and:
! assured permanency. The new'
Young - Polio Victim y ear °P ens 3 do ° r ° f npportun-
victim. ij;y fer greater educational excel
lence and increasing service to.
Has Made Miracul
ous Recovery From
Paralysis
By R. W. MADRY
Eleanor Butter, 12-yeg
officeis are as follows: Worship-
ful. Master, R. C. Holland; Senior , , , . , ,
R M EngilS ^ T1 ; ea5 ' U ^^^ .hairAad everi leamres.' ,
5 The .boys would S y she's pre!-
H. Whitlock; Senior .Deacon, R. F. f. ' • - *
Morris; Junior Deacon. IL S.-Jack-, EIeaOTr ,.- iust 1U;e ”^ other’
son; Stewards, C. M. Casteveris, normal,"girls of heritage Except
Jr., and D. L. Stone^Jr.; Tyler, .uee
she wears a brace on heE left
leg and carries a cane in her
Two of these officers were out right hand wll^n she walks.
of town at the time Of the meeting But she caftfes "herself with
. and will be installed at. a liter : such grace youXare not conscious
; meeting. They are R. C. Holland - of these props. ' V
I and H. S. Jackson: *- " Three and a half years ago, in
This was a well-attended meet-- the summer of 1944, North Caro
ling and the members: were very lina
; IVey.
of town at the time Of the meeting
experienced its worst
in fan-
enthusiastic over the new officers. . tile paralysis epidemic, and Elea-
They are looking forward to
great new year. -s. .
MRS. MCMILLAN ILL
young people.;
REQ. SPRINGS. -I/^Ians for m;. ,
t hree-day festival to'’ be held - in
April will bfe-Jiscussed at: the first ”
mid-rwinte? meeting of. the Cfyi^;/
Choral Society which/js.to bp: held-
January 11, . it was stated h£re to
day by Hiram Grantham, president ] -
of the society. ‘ : . -f 1 -
^.hp ,Aieeting will be held; at the
Usual rehearsal hour of rithrem
o’clock at the Presbyterian Church
;X^
a nor.
one
just nine years old then,
of the victims.
T^EATKD FOR 16 MONTHS
For weeks she hovered between
Mrs. Neil A. McMillan of Park- Iife and death in the Hickory
ton is a
LUMBERTON.—With 31 days to : by Mrs - J - H - Turner, Mrs. W. L.
; McRae, Mrs. Donald Brank, Mrs. ;
go before the use of 1947 auto li-
( cense tags makes one subject so
arrest, Mrs. M. V. Harrill reports
that total plate sales in Lumber-
James F. Blue, Mrs. J. H. Town
send, and Mrs. George Ashford;
Memorial hospital. Mr
patient ,At Thompson Emergency hospital.
5 Nan Fair ? S11C couldn’t turn
couldn’t
turn
For weeks
over
bed.
ton.
son,
4593
sed
the only sales branch in Rob
amount to 6935 pairs; of
pairs are auto tags,
motorcycles- have been
and 669 private trailers
these
licen-
have
been issued plates. Farm trucks
licensed through December total
128; CA Trailers 703; CI Trailers
41-
Mrs. Harrill reports the sale of
766 Lumberton city tags and
that
half
1947.
this is something over
the total’ number sold
STATEWIDE SALES
SON BORN
of Weir, Miss., has’, arrived to be
with her sister during her illness.
Mrs. V. D. Baker of'Lumberton :s
a daughter- of Mr. a rd Mrs. Me
Millan.
cept
She
was
for
wa s
completely helpless ex-
her . arms a nd hands
treated in- the Hickory
hospital for eight months, and
says
one-
for
The State Department of motor
vehicles reporting for the first 16
i days of December only has sold
I a total of 152,709,«a gain of 35,709
I over 1947 for the same period. To-
tai sales in 1947 by the
partment of Motoi-
amounted to 883,407, a
103,477 over 1946 sales.
state de
Vehicles ]
gain
Maxton City Auto
Tags Arrive
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allen Mc
Laughlin. of Wake Forest announ
ce the birth of a son. Charles Allen
Junior, on December 27, «at Rex
Hospital, Raleigh.
Commitments for 1947-48
have
already been made to ship 28 pei-
cent of the total US supply of
fertilizer nitrogen to foreign
countries.
BIRTH
Mr. and
announce
Roger, Jr.,
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mrs. Roger E. She:
the birth of a. s
on January 7 at Pi
man hospital. Mr. Shoals i:
former Johnny McKellar of
Springs. ’
The
world
there
most valuable dust in
the
the
is pollen. Without pollen
will be no plant life and,
therefore, no animal life.
Anna Turkel Al Flora Macdonald
For Concert Monday Evening
Anna Turkel, soprano, will be
piesented at Flora Macdonald
of
college on Monday evening, Jan-
■ uary 12, as the second number
C. H. Whitlock has announced
that the Maxton City Automobile
tags has arrived and must be pur
chased by all car owners at then-
earliest convenience.
The tags are on sale at the Max-
ton Town Office and may also be
have j bought from the Chief of Police
trip for a j J. A. Thompson. Purchase price
of men from Red Springs- to Davis
Island. Those who went, from Max.
ton are Dutch Holland, Herman
Jackson, Alton Greene, Ed Carro-
$1.00.
is
Cottrell Is Named
Police Chief
for the
months
Warm
gia.
After
ments,
next seven- and a half
she was a. patient at the
Springs . Center in Geor-
two braces
Now
these 16 months of treat-
she was able to walk with :
and two
she uses only one
and cane, and before
will probably bg able
these aids.
CH’M CHILDREN'S
Eleanor's miraculous
presented such
of the winter’s series of artists.
Born of Viennese-American par
ents, Miss Turkel is a singer of
wide operatic experience. She
was, the first American ever to
I sing the role of Aida, in Cairo-a
peculiarly exacting
was greeted with
feat which
unprecedented
Ovations. The New York Times,
in a dispatch from Cairo, said)
“Curtain calls and shouts for the
American prima donna went on
for many minutes, until Mr. Jar-
dino, American Minister,
ting all precedent, went
stage to congratulate the
..... she was cheered and
back dozens of times.”
upset-
back-
singer
called
MISS TURKEL
and a report of the presentation ot
“The Messiah” will be made by
officers of the society.
Tentative plans- for the Spring
Festival, which will include the
singing of the famous Faure “Re
quiem” by the society; an evening’s'
concert by an. internationally
known concert pianist; and pos
sibly two concerts by the North
Carolina Symphony Orchestra,with
several choral numbers sung to.
orchestral accompaniment, have
been discussed by officers’ and the-
director, Robert Reuter. No action
on the festival will be taken until,
approva l by the society. ,
All members of the society, both
active and patron members of last
year and this year, are expected
tch ? 10 attend the meeting. Mr. Gran
j^p tham stated. The festival will re-
to discard Wire a great deal of planning and ,
cooperation, it was stated, to make
it one of the outstanding musical
DIVISION : events to be presented it the state
recovery I this spring.
a typical case of; It is hoped that she rld the fes-
what marvelous cures may be ef- tival plans be approved by the.,
fected through speedy and prop- ; society, the active membership can:,
er treatment that Philip 8. Ran-j be extended so the chorus will hava
dolph and Mrs. Phillips Russell,^ between 100 and 125 voics and that
in chaige Or Noith Carolinas In- । mom him h-
be extended so the chorus will hav
membership can be drawn from a
man of the
for this year’s
Gus
DAVID BEUTER IN NEWS
children spent several days
to
due
His
Row-
with
week,
visited
News,
of a
the
In the upper part of the build-:
ing grain will pass through an'
automatic weighing device which
can be used either during the
bin-filling or emptying operation.
a chute through
to waiting trucks
[ing grains before storage. Corn, for which he is carrier boy here
Not . yet installed, but contem- ; friends in Charlotte last
plated, is a cleaning device in While there David Reuter
the top of the elevator for clean- the office of the Charlotte
j after shucking' and shelling, will j and Friday he was the object
be carried to the elevator for circulation promotion story in
I —^Continued on Page. Seven , News, with a picture included.
wan. Doc Henderson and
Hasty.
accept private employment,
to the housing shortage,
family at that time lived in
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reuter and
and South America.
Especially noticeable since her
American, debut at Town Hall last
season, has been the shimmering
quality of her voice, combining
po- ies in Bologna, Naples,
Turin, San Romo, Malta,
sue-: tro Realo in Home in Tannhaus-
re- er, under the direction of Tullio
the Sorafino. This was followed by
leading roles with opera compan-
RED SPRINGS—C. E. Cottrell: Forza del Destino resulted in an
has been appointed as Chief of! invitation to appear at the Tea-
Police in Red Springs. He is
ceeding Paul McQueen, who
signed to accept a job in
county sheriff’s office.
Cottrell resigned from the
lice force here in September
Miss Turkel’s professional de
but in Genoa, where she sang the
leading role of Leonora in La
wide range and power, or. as a
leading New York critic express
ed it, “for poetry, mood and dis
tinguished vocalism.” Miss Tur-
kel is as engaging a personalit
off-stage as she is on it.
operatic repertory includes
eighteen operas
tic talents
and her linguis-
extend to
Como
Cairo
French, Germ-an,
Spanish.
Her program at
aid will include,
English
Flora Macdon-
in addition to
several operatic numbers, groups
by Strauss, Debussy, ending with
a group of American songs. ,
L ’
wider group of towns. Invita-
Idicns I, ivision greater participation, both from
towns which have participated in
: activities of the society and from
polio
which extends from
SEES GOVERNOR
Governor R, Gregg
formed of Eleanor’s
- 1
campaign
January 15-
CHERRY
Cherry in-
acceptance,
others from which
there are
it is thought'
to join in its activities.
ngers who would like
invited her to the State Capital
the other day for an interview.
She was accompanied by her mo
ther, Mrs. Charles Butler, and T.
Earl Franklin, who. has served
Rev. Appleby Will
Preach In Maxton
for several years
as chairman of
the Burke county chapter of -the
National ’Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis and who is one of the
most active and interested chap
ter chairmen in the state.
John W. Harden, the governor’s
Reverend James A. Appleby, Di- '
rector of Field Work at Union'
Theological Seminary, Richmond,
ba., will conduct the quarterly
Communion Service at the First
Presbyterian Church, on Sunday,
January 11th, at the morning wor
ship hour. His sermon topic -is
"The Soh of.David.” At the even
ing service at 7:30 his topic will be
“Secretly Armed.”
Reverend Appleby was pastor of
the Presbyterian church from 193P
to 19.39, at which time he resigned
to accept a call to Anderson, S. C.
.children
Carolina to lead the
contributions
to the March of Dimes.”
Eleanor
help save
.rn-
the
Her
over
group.
“We
North
tion
of
na-
contributions did
fold Governor Cherry.
“I shall never forget what such
want the.
my life in 1944 when ' I was
this year in
mong 600 boys and gjrls, a fflict-
Italian, ed with, polio, who were provided
secretary .arranged for the
terview and for pictures of
hospital care and nurses, doe
tors, and equipment. “I’m told
that the average cost for treat
ing each patient is $1500 and that
North Carolina is still $150,000 in
the red as the result of the hea-
Continued on Page Seven
Maxton Tax Lister
At Town Office
Mrs. W. H. Hasty announced to
day that she will be at the Town
Office in Maxton listing County
taxes during the entire month of
January. There will be a fine for ,
late listers. *