THE SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED 1887
BED SPRINGS CITIZEN
FOUNDED 1896
CONSOLIDATED 1944
• VOL. LIX, NO. 5^12 PAGES
THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN
OneOf Robeson County’s Hometown Newspapers
(Red Springs and Maxton, N C.)
Commissioners Allocate Funds For
Survey 01 RobeswftJchool Needs
Survey Asked By
Red Springs, Fair
mont, Lumberton,
County Board
COMMISSIONERS
TO RECEIVE
REPORT
H. A. McKinnon Is
Candidate For NC
Senate Again
Denies Present
Ambition To Seek
DUART FARM HAS NO CASH CROP
Lack Of $5 Million
In Plants Expected
To Be Revealed
Congressional Post
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS .
OF MAXTON—BED
SPBINGS
PABKTON—BOWLAND
At their last regular meeting on
February 2 the Robeson County
Board of Commissioners authoriz
ed the expenditure of $200 for the
purpose of making a survey of the
school facilities in Robeson. This
action was taken a: the request of
Adrian B. McRae and Dr .L. R.
Hedgpeth who presented the mat.
ter for the s-hool boards of Fair
mont. Lumberton and Red Springs
and the county board of education.
The three school boards of the s.pe-
cial
and
the
the
charter districts in the county
the county board represent
entire educationai ’anilities of
county.
The State Department
Instruction will be asked
mend some one or some
make the survey which
at this time, largely with
of Public
to recom-
group to
will deal,
the plant
facilities
county,
dations
sary to
county.
i of the schools in the
and will make recommen-
as to the additions neces-
equalize facilities in the
This means that suggest-
LUMBERTON — Senator Henry
A. McKinnon announced to mem
bers cf the Robeson County Bar
Association at a dinner meeting
at the Hotel Lorraine Monday
that he will seek re-election to
the state senate. Senator McKin
non has been mentioned as -a pos
sible successor to J. Bayard
Clark in congress.
Prior to the meeting at which
the announcement was made
Wesley C. Watts, who has con
sidered offering for nomination
to the state senate^ stated that he
would not offer if Senator Mc
Kinnon cared to seek re-election.
Mr. Watts re-affirmed this deci
sion after Senator McKinnon read
[ the following statement;
“Some have honored me by sug-
I gesting that I become a candi
date for Congress. It seemfs to me
that if the people of this county
get "behind some Rabesonian he
would have a good chance of be
ing the next Congressman.
“However, having recently serv-
ed a term in the State Senate, I
that my experience there
mean something to me and
feel
ed improvements will be made with
a view toward bringing all schools
to the level of the best. A know
ledgeable source of information
estimates that such improvements
will cost in excess of $5 million.
The needs of the school system
as they are understood by school
men, making education a career,
include additional plant, additional
equipment, additional
teachers,
proper location and consolidation
of some smal schools (the latter
need being largely peculiar to
Negro and Indian schools). The
presently contemplated survey will
'Iw.^ .prjacipftlly ^ concerned... with
school plants, but a cohsidefSttoTT
of plants will inevitably bring on
the question of consolidation. The
buildings which some schools lack
are nearly all gymnasiums and vo
cational training buildings.
The suggested need of $5 million
will not, of course, be met at once;
the survey is intended by school
men to give direction to educational
expenditures in the future.
Latest official figures
Robeson’s expenditure per
place
child
for education next to last among
the states 100 counties; only John
son county spends less. The exact
amount spent in the school year
1945-46 in
year was
County
school of
Robeson per child pern
$65.36. 'l
educators say • that the'
the Red Springs' special
charter district is the best equip
ped in the county but Red Springs
lacks both gymnasium and voca
tional training building and is
lacking in laboratory space and
equipment Red Springs in 1945-
46 spent $79.12 per student and was
37th among the 71 special charter
districts' of North Carolina in this
respect. Lumberton was 64th on
the list spending $67.99; Fairmont
was 66th on the list and spent
$66.05 per student. In reverse this
puts Red Springs just below the
average for the state (among spe
cial charter districts), Lumberton
Sth from the bottom, and Fair
mont 6th from the bottom.
The survey will presumably make
recommendations for bringing even
the city schools to a higher point
of educational efficiency.
In allocating the funds for the
survey the board of commission
ers specified that the report would
be returned to it before it was
submitted to any other group.
Emphasis Week At
PJC Feb. B-N
MAXTON.—Religious Emphasis
Week is to be observed February
23-29 at Presbyterian Junior Col
lege with the Rev. Sam H. Zealy
leading the services.
Mr. Zealy is a native of Augusta,
Ga, where he attended junior
college. He graduated from Col
umbia Theological Seminary in 1940
and has served a pastorate at
Greensboro, Ga., and is now at
Washington, N. C. He will speak
twice daily at the college.
The Religious Emphasis Week is
annually sponsored by the Student
Christian Association and the col
lege.
J. D. McLean, J r ., and Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Gibson, Red Springs,
spent the week end in Knoxville,
Tenn. Mrs. McLean and son,
Dickie, returned with them to Red
Springs after a visit of several
weeks with her family.
Mrs. Warren McNeill and Mrs.
W. N. Gibson, Red Springs, spent
Sunday in Greensboro, visiting Mrs.
Gibson’s sisters.
can ---
the county, and I have had no
experience in running for or serv-
ing in Congress.
Tt is my plan to be a candi
date for the State Senate this
spring. My platform will be the
same as two years ago—to serve
the people of the county as a
whole and the State to the best
of my ability.”
Small talk at the dinner was
chiefly concerned with politics,
but when Mr. McKinnon, presid
ing in the absence of President
Dickson McLean, called on oth
ers who have been mentioned as
prospective candidates all were
noncommital
Music Festival
Rehearsals Begin
RED SPRINGS.—French music
is to be featured on the program
of the Spring Festival to be held
April 13 and 14th by the Civic
Choral Society of Red Springs it
was decided at the rehearsal Sun
day. .
The society’s choral group will be
heard in the famous Requ.m of
Faure in the first half of the open
ing program and will be accom
panied by the. North Carolina
Symphony orchestra. The second
half of the evenings’ program will
alE'o include the Fourth Piano Con
certo by Saint-Saens in which
Maurice Dumesnil pianist will be
the soloist.
On the next evening, Mr. Dum
esnil will again be heard in a
concert presenting the piano works
of Debussy, Ravel and Faure.
Robert Reuter, director of the
choral g
roup, states that arrange-
ments are being
completed for the
festival and that both events will
be held in the auditorium of Flora
Macdonald College. A special addi
tion to the stage will be constructed
to accomodate both the 65 piece
symphony group and the approxi
mately 100 singers expected
compose the choir which will sing
the Faure Requiem.
Rehearsals for the choir
Vo
will
commence in earnest on Sunday,
February 15, and will be held each
Sunday afternoon, with a special
rehearsal with the orchestra and
soloists on April 11.
This will be the fourth concert
program to be presented by the
society since its organization
the fall of 1946.
Funeral Services
For Mrs. McPhaul
RED SPRINGS.—Funeral
vices for Mrs. Louina Watson
in
ser-
Mc.
Phaul, 76, were conducted yester
day afternoon at the First Pres
byterian Church. The Rev. T. A.
Fry, pastor, assisted by Dr. H. G.
Bedinger and Dr, J. E. Purcell,
conducted the services. Burial was
in the McNeill cemetery here.
Pallbearers were: M. M. Mc
Manus, J. G. Conley, W. L. McRae,
Neil H. Watson, Dougald Coxe, Gil
bert Hodgin, N. P. Watson, Jr., and
E. C. Bodenheimer.
Mrs. McPhaul was the widow of
the late Danial Archie McPhaul,
The daughter of the late Charles
and Mary Jane McNeill. She was
a descendent of pioneer Scottish
settlers of this section. A lifelong-
resident of Red Springs until 18
months ago when she moved to
Morrison, Virginia, to make her
home, Mr. McPhaul died at the
home of her daughter there.
Surviving are her daughter,
M. B. Brooks; a son, Elbert
Phaul of Red Springs, and
grandson, Elbert McPhaul, Jr.
Mrs.
Mc-
one
Also
surviving is one sister, Miss Nannie
Watson of Red Springs.
—See Story on Front Page Second Section—
Pictured above is the dairy barn of Duart Farm, owned by
Scott Shepherd, operated by Myron Duncan, and located on the
Fayetteville road about four miles from Lumberton. Below is a
part of the pure-bred Duart Guernsey herd grazing on permanent
pasture on February 6. Standing in the barn doorway are the
dairymen; from left to right, Bert Ivey, James McGirt, Johnson
Jacobs, and Silvea Bolin; the first and last named spend all their
time with the dairy herd, the others are part time employees.
On the front page pf the second section of this paper is a story
of the operation and aims of Duart Farm.—Photos by ^Fenn Gray.
Dimes March On At Red Springs
RED SPRINGS.—The March of
Dimes was continued through this
week in the Red Springs area due
to the weather and the fact that
schools were closed, it was stated
today by Walter Dudley, chairman
for Red Springs.
With a goal of $1,000, Mr. Dud
ley stated that $801 had been re
united by various committees on
Monday. $305 was solicited by the
business district group composed
of Purdie Dorman, Warren Mc
Neill, E. H. Alexander and Bart
Lewis. Mrs. C. L. Norwood, chair
man for Robbins Cloth Mills dis
trict, reported $260 or $60 more
than was contributed last year;
the school contribution for only a
part of the rooms was $100 and $136
was taken in collections at the
Red Springs Theatre, according to
Carl McIlwain, manager. Collec
tion cups have not been taken up,
nor has Prof. Peterson, chairman
of the negro campaign, reported.
THEATRE SPECIAL
A special show for the school
will be held Friday afternoon’ and
all admission fees will be a |j0htri-
buted to the campaign. Mr. Mc
Ilwain has secured a number of
short subjects and cartoons' for
this show which will be tomorrow
if weather permits reopening of
schools by that time.
From The Lumberton Argus, July 28, 1905
McLean - Rozier Company
Lumberton The Place
If there be any one pharmacy
in Robeson County, that place is
the McLean-Rozier Company, Lum ¬
berton.
It is just the place where
can get an advanced, careful,
well-learned physician, careful
you
and
and
a prescription that will be filled
by a skilled, experienced and pains-
taking registered
a fresh stock of
been purchased
organized stock
pharmacist from
gods which have
by the recently
company;
thing of the “old school”
every-
and
every new article which the resui
sites of an
demands.
Then too,
site for the
up-to-date pharmacy
so many things
uses as well as
Now, if she
article she can
there is every requi-
ladies—and they need
for their practical
their adornment.
needs any toilet
get anything she
needs in endless variety and of
the best quality.
Everything for the boudoir and
bed chamber, including those many
necessities of our women—parti
cularly our mothers of to-day—
are displayed to the purchaser of
the very latest patterns and the
very best quality.
Alex T. McLean
Thursday, February 12,1948 -’ ——— ——— Copy
rmSt?^ Judse Nimocks Issues Order
is Naoe i fusing _
Of JuniorCollege To Stop Beer - Wine Election
Appointed To Fill
Unexpired Term Of
Late J. P. Wiggins
MAXTON.—The election of Mr.
Charles R. Hunter of Blenheim,
S. C., to membership on the Board
of Trustees to fill the unexpired
term of the late J. P. Wiggins of
Bennettsville, S. C., was announced
by Presbyterian Junior College to
day. Mr. Wiggins was one of the
founders of the college and a life-
long trustee.
Mr. Hunter has been associated
with the college over a period of
years. Mr. Hunter graduated from
Davidson College in 1925, was
principal at Minturn High School,
S. C., Clio High School, S. C., and
superintendent at Elizabethtown
for two years; he took graduate
work at the University of North
Carolina during the summer and
became professor of history and
economics at Presbyterian Junior
College in 1929. In 1932 he was
made Dean of Instruction and
served until he resigned in 1934
to assume the position of superin
tendent of schools in his home
town, Blenhiem, S. C.
Later Mr. Hunter was connected
with the State Board of Education
of South Carolina in the State
Schoolbook Commission. In Octo
ber of the past fall Mr. Hunter
became Director of the campaign
for endowment being carried on
by Presbyterian Junior College and
under his leadership the goal of
$150,000 was reached on January
1st of the present year. He has
been appointed chairman of the
trustee’s committee on Alumni Re
lations.
Red RobinsWill
Train Atjlome
RED SPRINGS—Arthur Ehl
ers, director of the Philadelphia
Athletics farm system, spent Fri
day in Rdd Springs conferring
with Business Manager Tom
Cope and Manager Red Norris
Lumberton Team
OuTFor GG Glory
BOY HERRING
By Billy DougNorment
LUMBERTON — Boxing Coach
Charles Barnes says that Lumber
ton’s Captain Roy Herring, fly
weight champion of the Fayette
ville Bi-State Golden Gloves held
January 5-7, will lead his fight
ing team of boxers, the Lumber-
ton Trojans, into the Charlotte
Carolinas Golden Gloves boxing
tournament to. be held Feb. 18, 20,
21. 23 at the Charlotte armory.
Herring will be a logical contend
er for the novice flyweight cham
pionship. He is as fine a flyweight
boxer as you will find in this
section and has fought among
the best.
The Trojans have other fine
boxers also on their team. The
team is composed of Captain Roy !
Herring, flyweight; Carl Stoker,!
bantamweight; Haywood Davis,;
lightweight; Charles Palas, wel
terweight; and two brothers from
Whiteville fighting for Lumber-
ton, Crbwell Williamson, feather-
weight, and Eldred Williamson, ;
lightweight. Crowell Williamson !
Restraining Order Served On
Elections Board Last Night
Weed Allotments
Out Tomorrow
Will this be a lucky or un
lucky day for Robeson farmers? '
Only time will tell. Local com
mitteemen will distribute allot
ments to farmers at thirty-six
different points in Robeson Cour:!
ty on Friday. Many farmers will
realize more fully the importance
of the acreage reduction on their
1943 income. “Some people are
still thinking and hoping the
acreage cut will be reduced. Most
of the agitation for a lower cut
is of a political nature, politicians
bidding for the farmer’s vote,”
says County Farm Agent
O. P. Owens, “my prediction is
the cut will remain at 27.52 per
cent as announced.”
Presbyterian
Church Notes
RED SPRINGS.—The Rev. R.
Murphy Williams, of Greensboro,
presented the cause of the Pres
byterian home for the aged at ser
vices at the Presbyterian Church
last Sunday. He explained that a
goal of half million dollars had
been set for this purpose and that
a site at Greensboro had been
secured.
Neill P. Clinton will be installed
and James W. Carruth will be or
dained and installed at the morn
ing service next Sunday, it was
stated today by the Rev. Thomas
Fry, pastor.
The Day of Prayer service has
been postponed from Friday until
Monday afternoon at 3:30. It will
be a union service in which all the
churches will participate. Place of
the service will be announced at
services Sunday.
The Boy Scout collection of cloth
ing for European relief will be
conducted on Tuesday. February I
Plaintiffs Charge
Unqualified Voters
Signed Petition
A temporary restraining order
signed by Judge Q. K. Nimocks,
Judge, Superior Court, was served
on “George Lewis Pate, chairman,
Mrs. Daisy Meehan, secretary; and
J. W. Sellers composing the County
Board of Elections of Robeson
County” last night; the order ‘en
joined the board from holding the
scheduled beer-wine election on
Saturday, February 14.
Plaintiffs in the action were “A.
C. Penny, Kenneth M. Boyd, James
A. Smith, W. G. Smith, L.’ T,
Late Bulletin
HEARING TOMORROW
In a telephone convefrsa^ion
from the federal court building |
in Fayetteville late this after-J
noon, Judge Leo Carr revealed
that Judge Q. K. Nimocks has
agreed, at the insistence of par
ties concerned, to modify his
restraining order issued yester
day, to the extent of moving the
hearing originally scheduled for
February 23 to tomorrow after
noon. , _
Judge Carr said that although?
he has received no written order
Judge Nimocks has told him that
such an order is being issued
today and that the hearing will
be tomorrow, February 13, at 2
o'clock p. m. in the court house
in Fayetteville.
Judge Nimocks has illness in
[his family and the Hometown
papers were unable to contact
him.
Since no county paper will be
printed after the hearing in
Fayetteville tomorrow, results of
the hearing will be broadcast by
radio, and, according to infor
mation received, by a corps of
volunteers on the telephone.
Combs, tooth brushes, hair
brushes, whisk brooms, powders,
syringes, tooth and talcum pow
ders very choice soaps of all
aromas and of all qualities and
| prices—of the purest that can be
made or purchased.
As fine a line of jewelry, silver-
ware and cut glass as can be pur
chased anywhere, of the latest
designs, in solid gold and sterling
silver; real cut glass is displayed
by them representing a purchase
price of several thousand dollars,
and all new. Ladies, you will lose
the chance of your life if you do
not get your sweetheart, brother
or your son-in-law to take a trip
there! Father, too, but mothers-in-
law, take a timely warning and
get that fellow to keep his promise
that he made before you gave him
the hand of your daughter, and
land him in your net before he
goes broke on the first set of fur
niture. The writer doubts if there
is any better selection of jewelry
and ladies’ hand-bags in the State
than those displayed by the Mc
Lean Rozier Company, Lumberton.
they have purchased which has
cost the firm over $1,000.
As fine a line of cigar, pipes',
smoking tobacco, etc., as are to be
found in any first-class cigar store
are offered for sale here—and are
sold, too, because the prices are of
the best and the quality advances
most of the cigar stores of any
note in Robeson County.
Sale of Sherwin-Williams paint
is a big feature of their business,
as are also the sale of pure extracts
and of the best makes of proprie
tary medicines at factory prices.
Mr. Alex T. McLean
was born in Robeson County, near
Maxton, November 3, 1880.
He attended the local schools
in Maxton and also at Prof. W. G.
Quackenbush’s High School, Laur
inburg. He is a Presbyterian, and
I regarding the plans for tbq. 1948,
Tobacco State League season.
Red Springs will train at home
this year with about 25 boys
scheduled to report April 5 to
start working out. Manager Red
Norris will hold workouts both
morning and afternoon in getting
the club in shape for the league
opening April 23 with Lumber-
ton here in Red Springs. Four
teen men will be back with the
club from last year and several
men with professional experience
have been added to the Robins’
roster; 12 of the rookies that
have been signed by the Athletic
scouts have been assigned to Red
Springs.
Mr. Ehlers stated that all the
boys assigned to clufis have been
scouted and they are known to
be good ball players. All players
with ho experience and who have
not been actually scouted are be
ing sent to Moultaire, Ga., where
the Athletics will iho’ld' a tryout
camp and school. These untried
players are not being sent to the
clubs in order to better give the
managers a chance to get their
ball clubs set and in playing con
dition as early as possible.
Welch, West Virginia, of the Ap
palachian League, will come to
Red Springs for their training
April 20 for a three weeks stay.
Welch is managed this year by
Woodey Wheaton, former Win
ston-Salem roommate of Red Nor
ris of Red Springs.
Mr. Ehlers also announced that
the Philadelphia Athletics would
play in Red Springs April 14 pro
vided train schedules would per
mit them to come into Fayette
ville, come over to Red Springs,
play and return in time to catch
a train to Martinsville, Va., to
be in there the next day for a
game. Definite confirmation of
this game is expected within a
few days.
is one of the top contenders .for
the featherweight crown.
The Trojans have had a cham
pion every year in some out
standing golden gloves tourney.
They have won three team cham
pionships in the six years that
they have been organized. In
1944 the Trojans won the Char
lotte novice team championship
trophy. That was the year they
had such outstanding boxers as
J. B. Walters, flyweight champ
ion and winner of the knockout
trophy, and Fred Barnes. In 1946
the Lumberton Trojans won the
Piedmont Golden Gloves novice
team championship at Greens
boro. On January 7, 1948, the
outstanding Trojans won the
17. ........ i , /:, l > ; i>-.*r 1(
Rebecca 'Mclvmn.my^^^
of Col. and Mrs. Robert 'McKin
non, received the sacrement of
baptism at the morning service last
Sunday.
Fayetteville novice team crown.
Besides the team championship
they emerged with two champ
ions, Roy Herring, flyweight, and
Howard Martin. Jr., welterweight.
Not only did they come
with two champions, but
back
they
also had 5 runnersup. The Lum
berton team is a good bet to come
back with the Carolinas novice
team championship again this
year.—Photo courtesy Billy Doug
Norment.
Pianist Hilde Somer Concert Feb. B
Second In Lumberton Assoc. Series
is a solid business man.
Sketch of Dr. Rozier
else-where, but we desire
that he is indispensabe
cess of the institution
sician of some note.
J. S. Norman, the
to
appears
to state
the suc-
as a phy-
registered
Club Entertained
By Miss Robertson
A native of Vienna, Hilde Som
er, young pianist, will appear at
the Lumberton high school au
ditorium on Monday evening of
February 23. This is the second
of three concerts which will be
heard by the association this sea
son. Last artist in the series is
Igor Gorin, baritone, who will ap
pear on April 14.
Even in Vienna, where musical
prodigies used to be as thick as
the whipped cream on the cof
fee, Hilde Sojper was a special
little girl. Born on February 11,
1922, she was the child of musi
cal parents. Her mother ,a grad
uate of the Vienna Music Acad
emy, was a piano teacher; her
father, a lawyer by profession,
was a singer by avocation.
Her first teacher, Anka Bern
stein-Landau, guided her so well
that at eleven she played Moz
art’s Concerto in A major in
public and at twelve gave her
first piano recital in Vienna. At
thirteen she was assisting artist
in concerts of the opera singers
j Elisabeth Schumann and Erna
i Sack and made her Italian debut
in Milan.
MISS SOMER
All kinds of soft
dispensed.
There is a soda
all out of press
installed a new
drinks are also
fountain where
they will have
fountain which
pharmacist of the company, is a
scholarly, whole-s'ouled Kentucky
gentleman. He has attended several
schools of note, in Kentucky, New
York and Chicago, and graduated
with high honor after receiving
several special marks of honor and
distinction in his classes.
Miss Carol Robertson, faculty
sponsor for the Flora Macdonald
student International Relations
club, entertained the club mem
bers at a delightful birthday par
ty in the college recreation room
on Friday evening in celebration
of the third anniversary of the
organization of the club.
The Valentine motif was stress
ed in the decorations of red
hearts and red candles. The two-
tiered cake, topped with three
red candles, was cut by Evalyn
Waddell, club president, and the
candles were blown out by Lil
lian Sneed, vice president, Janet
Smith, secretary-treasurer, and
Flora Riggan, custodian of the
scrapbook.
Helen Turner was chairman of
the decoration committee, Claire
Williams of invitations, Irene
Barden of entertainment, and
Dorothy Fields of refreshments^
Ice cream cherry tarts, nuts
and mints were served with the
birthday cake.
All this time Hilde continued
her studies, working two years
intensively under Hedwig Rosen-
thal-Kanner, the wife of Moritz
Rosenthal. She then gave a con
cert — November 18, 1936 — at
which, with the Vienna Sympho
ny Orchestra, she played four
piano concerti, of Bach, Mendels
sohns, Mozart and Liszt. It was,
wrote the papers, a spectacular
performance for so young a girl.
Concerts in Zagreb, Prague, Gen
oa and Rome followed, as well
as appearances with major or
chestras such as the Czech Phil
harmonic under George Szell. By
1938 her reputation had spread.
An intensive tour was booked,
covering all of Central Europe
and Italy, with the Vienna May
Festival as its climax. But only
the concert in Budapest was des
tined to take place. On March 11,
1938, the Germans occupied Aus
tria. Hilde and her parents left
for America.
To Rudolf Serkin, the famous
pianist who years before had
written ‘ to my dear young col
league with best wishes for a
bright future,’’ she now turned
for advice. On his suggestion
she enrolled at the Curtis Insti
tute on Music where she won a
scholarship, took general musical
courses as well as special work
under Serkin, and was graduat
ed after only two years study in
May 1941.
-Broad-wet;'^W. ’Tfe" NeWberry, CE L:
■ Dees, citizens, tax-payers, and qui*
lified voters of Robeson County,'
North Carolina.” Bond was .set.
by Judge Nimocks at $200 and wad
made by A. C. Penny, as principal,
and A. L. Wilson as surety.
The plaintiffs base their plea on
what they claim to be a faulty
petition for the election. It is
necessary that 15 per cent of the
qualified voters petition for a spe-
cial election and it is claimed that,
besides, other technical flaws in
the document, the necessary 15 pen
cent of qualified voters was noj
on the petition. 1
THE JUDGMENT 1
Judge Nimocks in his order said:
“It appearing from said complaint
and the court finding, for the pur*
pose of this order, only, that the
said petition is insufficient.-to jus*
tify the holding of said election,
and that the holding of the said
election would be illegal, and that
an election would be an unflegds-
sary expense to the qualified Voters
and taxpayers ... it is ordered:
The defendants .... are hereby
restrained and enjoined from con
tinuing or holding sard special
election . ... It is further ordered
that said defendants appear before
His Honor, Leo Carr, Judge Super
ior Court, at the courthouse in
Lumberton on the 23rd day of
February, 1948, at 2:00 o’clock p.
m. . . .land show cause . . . . why
this restraining order should- rmt.be
continued to the final hearing.”
THE COMPLAINT
The complaint asks that the*
board be enjoined from holding the
election and says that ”the petition
for the election” “does not disclose
that the signers of the said petition
were registered voters in the last
election for Governor of the State
of North Carolina nor .... that
the signers of the petition were
registered voters in Robeson Coun
ty and that they voted in the last
general election ...” The com
plaint also says that the petition
for the election does not meet the
requirements of' sub-section 0,'
section 1, of chapter 1084 Public
Law of N. C. for 1947. The plain
tiffs believe that a “great number
of names appearing are under '21
years ... ”, and that the petition
ers do not constitute 15 per cen| of
the qualified voters. ......
FAIRMONT 1*0 SOON
HAVE SAW MILL
Another summer was spent in
preparation for a New York re
cital. On October 20, at Town
Hall, Hilde Somer proved her
self, at nineteen, a pianist well
on the road to fame. The pretty
little Viennese prodigy had
grown into a fine artist with big
things ahead.
Since that time Miss Somer has
worked under Jose Iturbi, and
has appeared with the Philadel
phia Orchestra, the Indianapolis
Symphony, the Cleveland orches
tra, the Scranton Philharmonic,
and the Chicago Symphony. This
year, 1947-48, is the young artists’
fifth concert tour of 'the country.
FAIRMONT. — Announcement
was made this week by Wilton
Lewis and Carl DeVane that the
DeVane Planning Mill is to install
a saw mill as soon as weather
permits. The planning company,
located directly behind the Lewis-
Brady Builders Supply buildings,
will be equipped to do custom saw
ing and lumber dressing for the
general public. .
Mr. DeVane will serve as mana
ger of the new mill.
Hiram Grantham of Red Springs,
returned today from a trip of
several days to Alabama and Geor
gia.