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* A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER THE SCOTTISH CHIEF ' “ rouxDBD „„ FTP i » t^ o ^ /^ Tnni oil ^ inni r 7 n in hS^™ ™ ; :=z 1 HE SCO 11ISH Cl 1IZLIN One Of Robeson County’s Hometown Newspapers. Volume LIX, No. 7 . Twelve Pages (Red Springs and Marion, NTD.) Thursday, February 26, 1948 5c A Copy Armory Grandstand To Have Root; Cubs To Have Dressing Room County Cotton Contest Winners Flora Macdonald Host To Margaret Bourke-White, Wednesday, March 3 Roof Considered Necessary To Protect Stand LUMBERTON. — City commis sioners voted last night to accept the bid of A. L. Jarrell and Sons for the construction of a roof over the grandstand at Armory Field at a cost of $7200.00; in addition they accepted the bid of the South- eastern Construction Company for the construction of a players dress ing room under the stand at a cost of $1022, less the cost of the water heater which will be provided from another source. The Lumberton Cubs’ committee composed of a number of citizens asked, in the name of the Cubs, that the roof should not be built this season because of the fact that its construction would interfere with practice which begins on March 29 and with the games which follow. The ’ commissioners agreed unanimously that further delay in building the roof would result in further damage to the stands by weather; A. L. Jarrell and Sons agreed to start construc tion immediately and to add to their contract the stipulation that should .their work interfere with practice or play in either the opinion of the commissioners or of the manager of the Cubs, they would regulate the hours during , which they worked as directed and would work at night if necessary to avoid such interference. Mr. Jarrell stated that, weather per mitting, the necessary steel fram ing along the front of the stands would be complete before March 29 and that interference with prac tice is unlikely. The comm* isioners based their decision to go ahead with con struction not only on what they believe to be the wishes of the people of Lumberton, but on their i opinion that it is necessary to protect the present investment at Armory Field. Over a period of years a great deal of money has had to be spent on repairs to the stands because of weather dam- agb and it is necessary this year tb replace rotted timber's. '‘Ooii- 7 Tstesetiiw^ef. *4 ‘Utiopa^ ^ ^ seats was postporied indefinitely. The dressing room under' the stands will will be a modest affair; it was requested by the manage ment of the Cubs- and they will pay a rental on it. Maxton Makes Relief Shipment MAXTON.—The Reverend C. J. Andrews, Chairman of hte Over seas Relief Drive in Maxton, an nounced this week that shipments to the Church World Service in New Windsor, Maryland, were made by the St. Pauls’ Methodist Church and the First Presbyter ian Church. The colored churches of the community also plan to get shipments of clothing contributions off this week. The drive which started the last week in January in Robesoh County, with Dr. R D. Welloris, County Chairman. was delayed due to adverse weather conditions. The goal for Robeson County was a pound per person and 3?9 pounds were shipped from the Maxton Methodist Church while the Pres byterian Church whipped a total of 200 pounds. Smyrna, Centre and Midway Presbyterian Churches also brought their clothing contri butions to Maxton. Nearly 200,000 pounds of relief supplies, collected in less than a quarter of the state’s -one hundred counties, are already on, their way to New Windsor, Md , it was stat ed by Mr. Julian A. Lindsey, state director of the drive. The results of the drive this week will again take North Carolina into the leal in contributions of material aid at the New Windsor Relief Center, Mr. Lindsay said. Stoffel To Conduct Sunday Services MAXTON.—The Reverend E. Stoffel, of Unipn Theological Sem inary in Richmond, Va., and pastor- elect of the First Presbyterian Church, will conduct both services on Sunday, February 29th. Chris tian Stewardship Sundav will be observed and Mr. Stoffel’s sermon topic for the morning service will be “My Money and My Christian ity.’’ His evening sremon will be “To Worry or Not To Worry.” Mr. Stoffel will also be guest of honor at the Youth Fellowship Supper Forum held at the church at six o’clock on Sunday evening. AIR BASE RATES MAXTON.—The Laurinburg and Maxton Airport Commissioners met jointly with the Maxton Town board on Tuesday night in Max- ton. The group discussed mainly the setting up of rates for water and electricity at the Laurinburg- Maxton Army Air Base. Follow ing further business discussion,the I meeting adjourned. F. Wayland Floyd Seeks House Seat Win Nine Awards H. B. Ashley, Jr., Tenants Produce Five Of Best Acres F. WAYLAND FLOYD FAIRMONT.-—The following an nouncement was given out through the office- of F. Wayland Floyd, local attorney and Solicitor in Fairmont Recorders Court, this week. '. “After much thought and con sideration. I have decided to offer myself as candidate for one of Robeson County’s two seats in the House of Representatives of the General Asembly of North .Caro lina subject to the action of the Democratic Prifnary in May. “I have been encouraged by friends from all sections of Robe son County to run, for this import ant office. However, I am not being drafted and I consider it an honor to represent our great county in the lower house of the General Assembly, and will appreciate the opportunity to serve the people o . Ytpheson County in this capacity, ! v^pted; - M^wS^W«r«W > $3&£i pose to be guided by the w”.sj^^ of the people of this county .ind I shall represent them to the best of my ability. Mr. Floyd is a lifelong native of Robeson County; he was born in Lumberton, May 23, 1904, but his family moved to yairmont when he was only four years of age, and he has been a Fairmonter ’’.’om that time to this. He is a graduate of Wake Forest college,^ and has been practicing law in his home-town, since 1932. A past president of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Civitan Club, and now Lt. Governor of the North Carolina District of Civitan International, Mr. Floyd is 1 at pres ent serving his fourth term as Solicitor in Fairmont Recorders Court. SI. Pauls Attorney Announces For Slate Lower House John B. Regan, St. Pauls at torney, announced today that he would seek nomination for the house seat for which John Pat Buie, who has served three terms, has announced he will not run. Mr„ Regan did not issue a formal statement; he simply au thorized the press to announce Isis candidacy. Mr. Regan, a native of How- ellsviile township, has been soli citor of: the St. Pauls recorders court for two terms and opposed Wesley C. Watts in the race for Clerk of Superior Court, losing by a very narrow margin. He is serving for the third year as president of the St. Pauls Cham ber of Commerce and is serving a second term as president of the Rotary club. He is a mem ber of the St.Pauls Methodist church and served as Sunday school superintendent and as teacher of the men’s ■ Sunday school class for 2 and 5 years re spectively. Twice past master of his masonic lodge, he is a mem ber of Sudan Temple. Mr. Regan is married and has four children. John Regan was educated at Barker-Ten Mile school, at Ap- palachain State -Teachers college, and at the Cumberland, university law school where he received his degree in 1936. He passed the NC State bar in 1937 and- has prac ticed since in St. Pauls where he ha,s made his home since 1930. Mr. Regan, now 35 years of age, says that he has issued no formal statement of policy be cause he feels that the people he asks to elect him will know that he intends to work for the best inteiests of Robeson. The hardy climbing varieties of roses, those which bloom only in the spring, should be pruned im mediately following the period of flowering.. RED SPRINGS.—H. B. Ashley, Jr., and six of his tenants of near Red Springs produced five of the nine best yields in the Robeson County Cotton Contest for 1947, according to George T. Ashford, chairman of the contest, who pre sented prizes amounting to $350 to the wi oners at a meeting in the Legion Hall here Tuesday after noon. Elmore Locklear of the Ashley farms was county winner and also district winner for the best cotton yield on a specified 5-acre plot and was awarded $100 first prize money in the county contest. Lock lear had also won $200 as a dis trict contest winner in the state wide cotton yield contest. He pro duced 5750 pounds, or an average of 11550 pounds per acre, on his 5-acre plot. Pete Patterson produc ed 5285 pounds lint cotton on his 5-acre plot or an average of 1057 lbs. per acre, and won second prize money of $75; third prize money went to E. P. Sinclair for ah aver age yield of 952 lbs. per acre. Fourth prize went to George W. Leeper of Parkton for 4,625 lbs. Eli Edwards of Fairmont won fifth prize for 4,400 lbs; Ed Locklear, winnei’ of the 1946 contest, was ineligible for a prize award, but his 5-acre plot produced 4280 lbs. and was just 25 lbs. less than that produced on an adjoining plot tended by Mary Cattie Locklear who won the $25 sixth place con test prize. V. D. Baker of Lum berton was in 7th place with 4225; and James Franklin also of the Leeper farm at Parkton won the Sth prize position with 4200. Mr. Ashford brought out that these yields were attained in one of the worst cotton producing years in the history of this section, and oredicted that with normal rain fall, fertilization and cultivation and the proper use of chemicals for- insect control the Robeson Comity cotton farmer could pro duce from 2 to 3 bales of lint cotton per acre. The meeting was presided over by county agent O. P. Owens who presented J. A. Shanklin, cotton specialist of State College who discussed the latest methods and practices in cotton production; Dr. F. F. Bondy of the S. C. ex periment station of Florence who told of insect control as carried out in experiments at the South Carolina station. He pointed out that there were two very effective chemical prepartions which would control both boll weevils and plant lice. “The cold weather of this winter has not appreciably reduced the live boll weevil count, except where the hibernation areas have been flooded by high waters,” Dr. Bondy stated, “and the best meth od of control of this insect is through regular use of Toxaphene plus 40 per cent sulphur, or a mix ture of 3 per cent benzine-hexa- chloride with 5 per cent DDT and 40 percent sulphur.” (NOTE—a cotton insect control bulletin—Ext. Circ. No. 312 is available through the extension service of State col lege or the county agent’s office. It gives a complete description of applications and instructions'. The average cost per acre is about $15 for dusting 10 times, and the aver age increase of yield in. 1947 was 100 per cent in lint cotton.) Fred Johnson of the N. C. Cot ton Ginners Asociation and J. T. Conner, insect control specialist, also spoke on the afternoon pro gram which was attended by more than 100 cotton growers of the county. Rotarians Hear Ashfort Report The Red Springs Rotary club Friday night heard George Ash ford report from a special com mittee appointed last week to study the educational problem as confronts Red Springs, Robeson "ounty and the State of North Carolina. Mr. Ashford reported that it was the feeling of the committee, under existing cir cumstances, that it might not be wise for the governor to call a special session of the legislature ’due to various reasons revealed in the committee’s meeting which would require too long to go into detail at the Rotary meeting., A motion was made by Mr. Ashford that a standing commit tee be appointed on education to stud., the conditions of education in Red Springs, Robeson county and North Carolina and report to the club at regular intervals. The vote was unanimous in fa vor of the motion, and President R. D. McMillan appointed a committee composed of George Ashford, Tom Fry, Hiram Gran tham, Walter Dudley, Clement Stephenson, Bill Coxheade and John Graham. Noted Woman Photographer Appears At FMC Margaret Bourke-White ,whc will appear at Flora Macdonald on Wednesday evening, March 3, [at 8:15. has justly earned the } right to add to her already fa- ' mous name as America’s foremost I woman photographer, that of ; ! “documenter of history.” Miss Bourke-White's latest as signment for Life, the ma.gazine with which she has been associ- ' ated since 1939, has been a months’ study with her camera of India, where she photograph ed not only British officials and India’s political leaders, but with her painstaking ability recorded on film the essence of a people, and captured graphic shots of the teeming millions of that con troversial land. Her over-stay in | India (which has twice postpon- I ed her engagement at Flora Mac donald) resulted in her having been the last person to officially i interview Mahatma Gandhi, the great Indian leader ,only 10 hours before his assassination. [ During the war, Miss Bourke- - White was the first woman pho tographer to be accredited to the US Army. She spent 1942-’43 with the USAAF in Great Bri tain in North Africa. Then fol lowed assignments to the Euro pean battle front, where more than once she appeared on the scene before the shooting was over. Following V-E Day, she in terviewed and photographed, peo ple throughout Germany—in the zones occupied by the British, American, French and Russians. The results of her survey are incorporated into her latest book, Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly, which has ever 100 pictures and a full length text of conditions in post-war Germany. It was while attending Cornell University (of which she is a dis tinguished alumna) that she real ly discovered her interest in and talent for photography.. When j her father died, and she found it! necessary to augment her s'len- Red Robins Sell Three, Sign Two RED SPRINGS — The Red Springs Red Robins announced Monday the sale of two members of last year’s squad to Ports mouth, Ohio, of the Ohio-Indiana league. Outfielder Dick Brown and catcher Tom Hookenbury were sold outright to the Ohio team which is also in the Philadelphia Athletics farm system. Tom Clayton, the Roxboro boy who played leftfield for the Rob ins last year, was sold outright to the Savannah club of the South Atlantic league. All re maining members of last year’s squad have been mailed their 1948 contracts and four have al- ready ^een signed, Robert Wolfe, 3rd baseman; Angus Rogers, 2nd baseman; Al Parnoil, cutfielder, and Harold Wood, pitcher. The Robins also announced on Monday the signing of the two rookies who are counted on to make strong bids for regular- berths this spring. Pitcher Walter Cobak of Silver Springs, Md., and First Baseman Harry Overton of Roanoke Rapids, N. C., have both been signed. Tom Cepe, of the Red Robins, has stated that spring training will get underway April 5 at which time Tom Turner of the Athletics scouting staff will come to Red Springs to help Manager- Red Norris begin getting his club into shape for opening day. The first game scheduled for the Rob ins is against the Lumberton Cubs, to be played in Robbins Park, April 23. Red Devils Win, Red Devils Lose! RED SPRINGS — The Red Springs Red Devils lost a triple Friday night to Fairmont here. The Pink Imps lost by a score of 27-10. Ammons was high scor er for the Imps with 7 points. For the winners, Perry tallied 8. The girls played hard to be defeated by a score of 29-30. Mc- Phaul was high scorer with 21 points. Stevens tallied 6 and Mc Arthur 2. Excellent guard work was shown with Duncan, Town send and Armstrong making up the defensive job. Floyd for the Fairmont sextet scored 13, Hug gins 8. McGirt 9.. The boys played a fast hard game only to be defeated 33-27. Morris scored 7 for the losers, and Floyd for the winners tallied 17. In Raeford the Red-Devils won one and lost two at the end of a well played game. McPhaul scored 10 points, Stevens tallied 7 and McArthur 3. Lewis for the winners scored 16. The Red Devils boys defeated the Raeford quintet 30-29. Norris scored 9 points, while Gulledge I tallied 13 points for the losers. Photographer Ocean Air Line Operates From L'burg - Maxion William B. Umstead Announces His Candidacy For Senate Seal MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE der resources, she began to take pictures of the campus and uni versity buildings, for which she found enthusiastic buyers among the college authorities. This was the encouragement she needed to embark her on the photographic career which was to bring her international acclaim. She was the first person to photograph in dustry from a dramatic angle, to see the beauty and design in an industrial scene, and the human relations to it. Her success in this field took her to Russia in 1931 to make the first industrial photographs showing the progress of the Soviet Union’s Five Year Plan. The admiration of the Rus sians for her work gave her the opportunity in 1941 to achieve one of the major scoops of her career—a private interview with Stalin, whom she photographed in the Kremlin. She is the author of Eyes On Russia, Shooting the Russian War, and in collaboration with her husband, Erskine Caldwell, she did the photographs for You Have Seen Their Faces, the sto ry of the sharecroppers of the South. PRE-SCHOOL CLINICS LUMBERTON.—Schedules- for the County-wide pre-school clinics being held by the Robeson Coun ty health department have been announced for next week. All clinics are being held at the schools. On Monday March 1 a clinic will be held at Rowland (white) at 9:30; Tuesday, March 2, 9:30; Red Springs (colored), Thursday, March 4, 9:30, South Robeson (white). March Of Dimes Report Told MAXTON.—The final report of the annual March of Dimes drive held in Maxton, and sponsored by the Maxton Junior Woman’s Club, was announced early htis week by Miss Wilma Bodiford, Chairman, with a total of $581.19 collected. The drive was extended in Maxton and throughout the county by W. D. Reynolds, County Chairman, due to the bad weather recently. One of the highlights of the campaign in Maxton was the win dow display at Ed Carrowon Com pany featuring a crippled child in a wheel chair, with posters and placards urging the public to ojin the March of Dimes. The Maxton Theatre featured a movie short with little Miss Margaret O’Brien, sponsored by the National Founda tion of Infantile Paralysis a n d audience collections amounting to approximately seventy dollars were made through the cooperation of H. S. Jackson, theater manager. The Maxton Kindergarten held daily at the Community Club with Mrs. J. B. Hord, director, contri buted ten dollars', although they were not in session very long. The sixteen Maxton kiddies of the Kin dergarten were enthusiastic contri butors to the local campaign. Contributions made in the Max- ton public schools according to grades were as follows: First grade $30.00; second grade, $15.20; third grade, $17.05; fourth grade, $11.50; fifth grade, $32.00; sixth grade, $4.90; seventh grade, 35c; eighth grade, $2.55; ninth grade, $1.35; tenth grade, 50c; eleventh grade, $1.70. Contributions placed in collection boxes located in downtown firms amounted to $64.04 and Maxton merchants made generous dona tions to the drive, netting over $300.00. The Robeson County Training School contributed $8.95 to the local campaign. Those assisting Miss Bodiford during the drvie were Mrs. Kenneth G. Welsh, Mrs. Jack Castevens and Miss Lilis Cousar. CANDIDATES POST FILING FEES F. E. Carlyle formally entered his name as candidate for congress by posting his filing fee of $125 with the State board of elections Tuesday. Hargrove Bellamy filed for the same office yesterday and Forrest H. Shuford posted his fee of $75 for reelection as commis sioner of labor. Connects Cities Of Europe And South America MAXTON Hangar space at the Laurinburg-Maxton airport has been leased by Ocean Air Tradeways for use as a mainten ance and operating base for their airline, operating passenger ser vice between Europe and South America. The announcement concerning the lease was made last week by C. T. Modlin of the Scotland' ’ountv Flying Service. Mr. Mod- lin stated that the using one hangar which during the heme of one of airline is now at the airport war was the the country’s largest glider installations. The airline has already sent person nel and equipment to the field. E. er, of in N. Henderson .airport manag- commented after the arrival Ocean Air’s DC 4 which flew the first personnel last Wed- nesday that the plane was the largest to land at the field since the Army relinquished operations. Formerly operating out of La Guardia Field in New York, the, Senator W ILJ J AM B. UMSTJAD Appointed Senator Has Filled Bailey’s Post Two Years Senator William B. Umstead, ; who has served as an appointee ; to fill the unexpired term of the , late Josiah W. Bailey, announced ; yesterday that he would ask “to serve at least a full term under a commission directly from the ple.” The senator's life of publia vice is best described in his peo scr ew n formal statement jf his candidacy which follows: ’ ' ’ ANNOUNCEMENT “Appointed to fill the unexpired term of Senator J. W. Bailey in the United States Senate, I shall have been a Member of the Senate for about two years at the end of said term, serve at least a commission people is but The ambition to a full term under directly from the natural, and this Mayne Albright line which is now more than a 1 If■ *1 A L year old, is transferring head- | If IClIV UAhAfAll quarters to the local field which} ■ MIU IwVMvJVII they expect to be quite adequate; to take care of the needs of the' line’s huge Douglas planes. Ex pansion plans now underway for the line which connects Euro-' pean and South American cities^ call for three additional Douglas DC 4s in the near future.. ROBESON COUNTY COTTON CONTEST RED SPRINGS. — George T. Ashford, president of the Caro linas Cotton Ginners association announced here today that Robe son county would again have a county-wide 5-acre cotton contest and that prizes similar to those awarded last year would be of fered. First prize of $100; second $75; third $50; and several $25 prizes for runners-up. Every cotton grower in the county is urged to enter a 5-acre plot into the contest and com pete for these prizes, in addition to those prizes offered to district and state contest prizes offered. Mr. Ashford urges proper cu’t tivation, fertilization and effec- tive boll weevil and plant control which he states will ble and triple the average cotton per acre yield. Clinton JavCees lice dou- lint Want Scottish Bank CLINTON—The Clinton Junior Chamber of Commerce in regular weekly meeting voted unanimous ly in favor of inviting the Scot tish Bank to open a branch bank in Clinton. Several other banks were considered and discussed before the vote was taken. The Banking committee of the organization was instructed to go forward with plans for securing another bank for Clinton and it is understood petitions asking the State Banking Commission to al low the Scottish Bank to open a branch here will be circulated. The Scottish Bank, with head- quarters in. Lumberton, already has branches in a number of towns, including Garland and Sa lemburg in this county. Duart Farm Cow Makes Hi Record Candidate For Governor On Tour Of State R. Mayne Albright, youngest candidate for governor of North Carolina in the Democratic pri- mary, arrived in Robeson County } today; this is the 73rd county he and his wife have visited in their trailer headquarters, the “Chall enger.” Mr. Albright arived in St. Pauls this afternoon and will visit Fair mont, Red Springs, Maxton, Pem broke and Lumberton, ending his visit tomorrow night in Lumber- ton where he will address a joint meeting of the Rotary and Kiwanis Albright 4# taking his campaign direct to the people—in country stores, filling stations, farms, of fices, mills, civic clubs, women’s organizations, veterans’ groups, la bor organizations, as well as in Court houses and city halls. With this method he expects to talk personally with individuals. Albright, 38-year-old veteran of World War II, lawyer an ' former director of the North Carolina State Employment Service, campaigning on a platform is of “planned progress and clean poli tics.” His trailer is named the “Challenger” because Albright says "This is a challenging time of opportunity for great progress in North Carolina”-and he says he is “challenging both, machine control and the theory that a man must spend huge sums of money to be elected.” He has “pledged ic conduct his campaign within the legal limit of expenditures,” and is counting on small contributions and volunteer workers. Albright says the response has been so good in the counties visited that he is encouraged to believe he will be elected Governor in 1948. March Of Dimes Quotes Exceeded In Red Springs Peterborough, N. H.—A regis tered Guernsey cow, Kerr’s Fore most Virginia, owned by W. Scott Shepherd, Lumberton, N. C., has completed an outstanding Ad vanced Register record of 12,938 pounds of millj, and 683 pounds of butterfat, starting her record as a junior four-year old. Virginia is sired by the out standing Guernsey, Klondike Ken ley, that has fifteen daughters in the Performance Register of the American Guernsey Cattle.club. This record was supervised by the North Carolina State College and reported to the American Guernsey Cattle Club for approv al and publication. APPOINTS ZONE LAW ADJUSTMENT BOARD Mayor Malcolm B. Seawell of Lumberton has appointed a board of adjustment as specified in the new zoning ordinance in effect in Lumberton. The board of commis sioners approved the appointments unanimously. The new board is composed of Charlie McIntyre (ap pointed for 3 years), Leslie Hunt ley (2 years), Dick Prevatte (2 years), Rupert Collins (1 year), and Henry Lee (1 year). Turkeys are usually kept in a bYooder house during the first six [ to twelve weeks. After that time! they may be placed on range. i Walter Dudley Directs City- Wide Drive Citizens of Red Springs have contiibuted a total of $1202.82 in the current March of Dimes drive which has just ended. The as signed quota for Red Springs was $1,000, twice the amount of the 1947 quota when the contri bution was $1,084.19. .This year Red Springs again exceeded the quota despite the fact that it was doubled since last year. Walter R. Dudley, chairman of the Red Springs March of Dimes drive, expressing his appreciation to all contributors and those who helped in making this drive a success, states that throughout the campaign the people of Red Springs have been most generous and courteous for this worthy cause. Special praise and commenda tion should be given the business- men’s committee, Purdie Dorman, E. composed of H. der, Warren McNeill and Alexan- Bart I.ewis, who reported from busi- nesmen and businesses a total of $327.85. Mrs. C. L, Norwood, chairman of the Mid-State Cloth Mills area reported $260.15. Red Springs Theater, under the di rection of Carl McIlwain report ed $186. J. W. Carruth of the Red Springs school reported $148. 61. J. T. Peterson, chairman of the colored division, reported $180.95. formal announcement that I am a candidate to succeed myself in the , Senate will not be surprising. “It was my privilege to serve in the House of Representatives dur- ' ing the hard years 1933-1938, dur ing whcih time so many difficult problems of the gravest nature had to be met and dealt with firm ly by the President and the Con gress. It is not comfortable even j now to think of what conditions were at that time. The banks were / closed, industry and business were at a standstill, agriculture was prostrate and unemployment wide spread. A drastic program of je- covery had to be formulated, enact ed into law and executed without loss of time. In the establashment of a broad national program of recovery I tried as a Member of the House to do my part. I hope it may with due modesty be sug- * gested that, the experience I had , on a tobacco farm in Durham County where I lived and worked until twenty-one years of age may have added something helpful in a practical way to the establish ment of a farm program that has meant so much to our State. "During those years much val uable legislative experience andl^j knowledge a^out governmental af-isS fairj. flas acquired. This plus my da present service -is of great advan* ^ tage to anyone in the Senate, and is suggested herd because it may be worthy of consideration by the people of the State in selecting, a . candidate at a time when our nation faces so many grave prob lems. Whether it should be so or not, it is true that seniority and experience count in. Washington.. “In 1916 I finished college at Chapel Hill and taught in the High School at Kinston. In May 1917, I entered the military seryicp. in World War I. Upon my return after twenty-three months of ser vice, eight of which were over seas, I attended Law School at. Trinity College (now Duke Uni- , versity). I was licensed to practice in 1920. I served as Solicitor of the Tenth Judicial District from 1927 ot 1933. After voluntarily leaving Congress at the) end of 1938 I resumed the practice of law at Durham. Elected Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee in 1944, I served in that capacity during the campaigns • of 1944 and 1946. This greatly broadened my knowldege of peo ple and conditions throughout the State, which is of great help to me every day now in seeking to nerve the best interest of all. “There is a public record of my service and the position I have taken upon the issues of the. day during the times mentioned. There ‘ are presently many important and grave questions of public concern . which will doubtless be discussed in the course of the campaign. Any support that may be given me will be appreciated more say. and if the people honor me with a full United States Senate them the best efforts am capable.” than I can of the State ; . term in the I pledge to of which I SOAP BOX DERBY MAXTON. — Mayors in towns throughout Robeson this week an nounced that all boys between the ages of 11 and 15 inclusive, were invited to participate in the Fay etteville Soap Box Derby to be held on July 5, 1948. Fayetteville has been designated by the Chev- rolet Motor Company, the annual Soap Box in Akron, Ohio, as an in which will be held many local and state sponsors of Derby held official city one of the derbys.. A small race was held last year in Fayetteville with some 35 racers and it proved to be one of most outstanding events- of kind ever held in Fayetteville, nounced Mayor Charles Rose, the its an- Jr., Honorary Chairman of this year’s Soap Box Derby. Plans ate being made for a gala day with racers entering from seventeen communi ties in and around Fayetteville, Director of the Fayetteville Soap Box Derby Association is B. Fay Ridenhour of Fayetteville. Robeson county boys interested in further details with regard to making their own racers and entering in the Derby should contact their local mayors. ^^Mittii 1. ' -
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