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THE SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED 1887
RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
FOUNDED 1896
CONSOLIDATED 1944
THE SCOTTISH CITIZEN
One Of Robeson County’s Hometown Newspapers
VOL. LIX, NO. 9—14 PAGES
Red Springs and Maxton, N. C.)Thursday, March 11, 1948
Vets. Day At Pembroke;
Mrs. C. G. Vardell County Cops Cop Corn Likker Still
Burial Tuesday
Wilkins Wakes Too Late To Leave
Foil Bragg (0 To Speak
Flora Macdonald
Dean-Emeritus
Dies Sunday
To Complete Chorus
For Requiem
RED SPRINGS—’Twas just a
tip, but the county police, Paul
McQueen and Fred Russell decid
ed to see if there really was a
Major General
LeRoy Irwin To
Speak At College
RED SPRINGS—Burial
servi ¬
SPEAKER
ces for Mrs. Charles G., Vardell,
83, noted woman
dean-emeritus
educator- and
of the Conserva
PEMBROKE.—Veterans Day
Pembroke tomorrow will come
in
to
a climax when Maj. Gen. S. LeRoy
Irwin, Commanding Officer of Ft.
Bragg, delivers an address at 8:00
o’clock in the college auditorium.
The general will speak on ‘The
Citizen and National Defense” and
his talk will be the third and last
in the Citizenship Institute series.
General Irwin is a West Pointer
and received his commission as a
cavalry officei- in 1915. He was
commissioned a brigadier in 1942
and a major general in 1943
overseas. Commanding the
Infantry divisions artillery,
while
9th
the
55th division fo the Third Army
and the XII corps during the war
he saw combat duty against Rom-
mel in Africa and in Normandy
and in the Battle of the Bulge
distinguished himself. His decora
tions include the Croix de Guerre
with Palms and a Russian medal.
Plane for the third annual Vet
erans Day start with a basketball !
game at the Pembroke State Col
lege gymnasium at 12:30 p. m.
Both girls and boys college teams
will play selected teams chosen
from the recent high school tour
nament; The girls game is sche-
MAJ. GEN. S. LeROY IRWIN
tory of Music of Flora Macdon
ald college, were conducted from
the Second Presbyterian church
of Charleston, S. C., Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2 o’clock. The
were conducted by Dr.
P. Anderson, pastor, and
services
Frank
ward
Scotch
G. Lilly, pastor
Dr.
of
Presbyterian church
Charleston. Interment was in
church yard there. ,
Ed-
the
of
the
On Monday afternoon funeral
services were held for Mrs. Var
dell at the First Presbyterian
church of Red Springs. The Rev.
Thomas A. Fry, assisted by Dr..
H. G. Bedinger, president of
Flora ■ Macdonald, conducted.
Ill for a number of years, Mrs.
Vardell died suddenly Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Vardell was the daughter
of the late Dr. and Mrs. Jethro
Rumple of Salisbury. She was a
RED SPRINGS—Sunday after
noon will be the last opportunity
for singers to participate in the
presentation of the Faure “Re
quiem” which will be given April
13, it was stated today by Robert
Reuter, director of the Civic Cho
ral Society.
The choral society has planned
a two-day music festival which
will be one of^ the outstanding
events of the musical year in
this section, with a piano concert
by Maurice Dumesnil, noted
French concert pianist. This con
cert will be on Monday evening,
April 12.
On Tuesday evening the choral
society will be heard in “The Re
quiem” by Gabriel Faure, the
accompaniment for which will be
played by the North Carolina
Symphony Orchestra.. Also M.
Dumesnil will be heard Tuesday
evening with the orchestra in the
Fourth concerto of Saint-Saens.
still
the
C.
sell
operating on the banks of
Big Raft, near Shannon.
E. Cottrell and Fred Rus-
of the Red Springs
police
The
chorus
School Page A
Model For Others
graduate of Peace College
studied at the New England
servatoryof Music. Upon
founding of .the Red Springs
and
Co..-
the
Sem-
singers from
Red Springs,
is composed of
Maxton, Raeford,
Flora Macdonald
I force were asked to go along,
because the swamp in that area
: is wide and jungle-like and —
I there’s always the possibility that
! there will be several men at a
! blind tiger, and some will surely
I break and run.
| Carefully the approach was
i planned and the four officers
soon spotted the smoke of a corn
[ likker plant running at full blast
|. . . and drifting towards them
were the strains of the hillbilly
i melody, “She’ll Be Coming ’Round
the Mountain.” The officers clos
ed rapidly under cover of the mu
sic, all arriving at the still at
' about the same time.. Ther e was
j the still, with a stream of white
j lightning flowing from the con-’
I denser at the rate of about 5 gal-
i lons per hour—and atop the box:
! was a radio playing away. Over
' beside a tree a lone attendant,
lulled by the music, was sleeping
soundly. Lee Wilkins, the opera-
inary, which later became Flora
Macdonald, Mrs. Vardell became
dean of the school’s department
of music and her
came president of
She served as dear
ignation in 1926
husband be-
the school.
until her res-
and Presbyterian Junior colleges.
This will be their fourth concert
in the past two years, each of
which have been heard by ca
pacity audiences made up of mu-
sic lovers from a number
towns of this area.
of
tor of the still was awakened,
police got a gallon of the
juice for evidence, destroying
still and the other distillate,
now Wilkins is enjoying his
the
joy
the
and
mu-
sic through the bars of the coun
ty jail.
duled first and the boys game
go on at 2:00 o’clock.
The Veterans Day parade
form at 4:00 o’clock p. m. and
be followed by a barbecue at
will
will
will
5:30
Lumberton.—The LHS
page set aside for the
Lumberton High School
Echo, a
use of
in each
Surviving are her husband, thej
ev.. C. G. Vardell, president-’
NY Giants Sign
Rev..
which wll be free to all veterans
in uniform. Veterans of both wars.
He urged to participate in the
parade and to wear their uniforms.
Business establishments will enter'
floats in the display and there
will
issue of your Hometown News
paper, has been noted by papers
of other counties. The editor of
the Hamlet paper has requested
permission, which was granted,
to reprint this week’s issue of the
LHS Echo in its pages as an
example to the Hamlet schools
emeritus of Flora Macdonald col
lege; one son, Dr. C. G. Vardell,
Jr., dean of music at Salem col
lege, Winston-Salem; and five
daughters: Mrs. W. B. McNett
of Philadelphia, Pa, Mrs. J. J.
Murray of Lexington, Va., Mrs
Alexander Sprunt, Jr., of Char
leston. S. C.., Mrs. Gaston Gage
Floyd Moser
Maxton Red Cross
Drive This Week
be a band.
Pic Gallery Of
War Veterans
of what they could do.
The page as it appears in The
Voice is prepared entirely by stu
dents of the Lumberton High
• School uakler the direction of
) Miss Sara Hamilton. Mrs. Emily
of Clemson, S. C., and Mrs.
son Smyth of Blacksburg,
Also thirteen grandchildren
vive. The children attended
services except Dr. Vardell,
Elli-
Va.
sur-
the
Jr.,
who is a patient at a Winston
Salem hospital,. -
MAXTON—Of special interest
in Maxton this week, was the
news that Floyd Moser, popular
young baseball enthusiast, had
signed a 1948 contract with the
New York Giant Baseball farm
club. Floyd has recently been in
Sanford, Fla., to try-out with the
Giants for approximately three
weeks. He received his contact
following his first weeks’ trial,
with the famous Giants..
MAXTON—The 1948 Red Cross
drive got underway in Maxton on
Monday, March 8, with Alton C.
Greene, local chairman. Mr.'
Greene stated that he most sin
cerely hoped that the goal of $700
would be reached by the close of
A WEEKLY NEWSTAP^ 8
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS
OF MAXTON—RED-**
SPRINGS
PARKTON—ROWLAND
5c A Copy
New Manager For Qty B 0ar d j re j^j
Southern Bell
In Lumberton
L. B. EISENHART
Charlie Williams To
Go To Companys’
Greensboro Office
L. B. Eisenhart, office mana
ger of Raleigh has been ap-
Down On Airport Building
Robeson Child
Dies In Flames
PEMBROKE, March 7.
Six-
Mayor Casts , 4
Deciding Vote >
For First Time
Being Assembled
RED SPRINGS—A pictorial ser
vice record of each .of the men
who served during World War
II, is being compiled by the Io-'
cal post of the Veterans of For-
Butler directed the page with
Miss Hamilton until she accepted
the editorship of the Lumberton
society page recently.
PJC Diamond
t 'Now home in.Maxton on^
vacation, Floyd will lea’Ll
eign Wars, it was stated
day by James Dickson
commander of the post.
The material is being
here to-
McLean,
Lumberton To Be
Bird Sanctuary
Opener April 3
MAXTON—The opening
19th to
the Fort
ager, at
report rtff Jack
abort
^ the
Smith, Arkansas. >
gon,
nan-
Sanford, Fla., where he
game
gathered
so that a brief account of the ser
vice of each man or woman ,their
picture, and other information
will be used in the publication of
a book which will contain such
information ch all the men from
the Red Springs community.
Proceeds from the sale of the
service record will be used by
the post in the erection of their
club house, construction of which
Was started recently.
The post has_ recently purchas
ed property on the Raeford road
next to the airport. The 2-acre
tract has been graded and
dations footing
room 30 by 60
materials will
construction
poured for a
feet. Conder-
foun-
club-
block
the
be used for
cf the building,
funds for which are now in the
post treasury. Mr. McLean stat
ed that it was hoped that sales
of the service record publication
would provide sufficient funds
for furnishing the building
The grounds are to be landscap
ed and an area will be devoted to
recreational facilities, picnic
grounds and the entire facilities
are to be integrated into the com-
munity recreation program..
Ma-
teriais for construction of a bar
becue pit have been purchased.
The buildirig ,at first, will con
sist of a single 30 by 60 assembly
room, and as the demands for
other facilities arises it is expect-
ed that suitable rooms
added to the structure.
Officers of the post
McLean, commander; J.
can be
are Mr.
F. Blue,
Jr., and James McKellar, vice
commanders; Buddy Singleton,
quartermaster, and Glenn Parler,
adjutant.
Soap Box Derby
In Fayetteville
year old Janice Fay Bonnett, dau
ghter of Mrs. Stella Hammonds
Bonnett, became the "Second fire
victim in Robeson county this year
when she was burned to death at
her farm home six miles north of
Lumberton yesterday morning.
The girl and a four-year-old
brother had been left alone in the
house, situated on the Dennis Pre ¬
LUMBERTON.—Meeting in adr
journed session Wednesday after
noon the board of commissioners
of the City of Lumberton declined
to take advantage of a federal
grant for building an administra
tion building at the municipal air
port. The granting of federal funds
was contingent on an equal contri-
vatte farm a mile off highway 301,
according to Coroner Dennis Biggs.
Apparently her clothing caught fire
from paper being put into a heater.
The child ran cut into the yard,
where she fell dead, horribly burn
ed. The house did not catch fire.
bution by the city.
A motion to accept federal aid
and build the administration build
ing was made by L. W. Wicker and
seconded by C. P. Britt, both, of
whom voted
in
favor of the con
struction. H. P. Allen and W. R.
Allen voted
no to the proposal.
The funeral was* conducted at Mayor’ Malcolm B. Seawell resolved
Ten-Mile-Center Baptist Church
J today at 3 p. m. by Rev. C. E.
Locklear, with burial in Hammonds
family cemetery.
The child was a granddaughter
of Will Hammonds, well . known
Indian of Lumberton, Route 1. Her
father is dead.
The first fire victim in Robeson
during 1948 was James Rozier, 35
pointed Lumberton’s manager for Lumberton merchant, who died of
the Southern Bell Telephone and suffocation when his home caught
Telegraph ”" " - -
March 15,
manager,
Eisenhart
company,
T„ A. Morris, group
announced today. Mr.'
effective fire January 28.
succeeds
C. O. Wil-
liams, manager here since Janu
ary 1, 1947. who is being trans-
ferred to
Greensboro
The new
a widely
other duties in the
office.
Lumberton manager is
experienced
man, having completed
telephone
twenty
years of service with the tele-
the drive on Saturday, March 13. ; phone company on March 6. Like
Residential and business can- ’ most telephone officials, he has
vassing assistants appointed by ) come up from the ranks, having!
are Mrs._ R. E. ! started with the company as a!
Mrs. M. A. Biles, ! clerk and has served successive-!
M. S’. James, Mrs. J. B. i iy in various capacities — ail of
Hord, Mrs. Luther McNeill, Jr., ' which has been in Raleigh except)
Mrs. Marvin McConeghy, Mrs. J. for four months in .1943 . S-^^ch )
D. Medlin, Jr., Mrs. A. C. was spent in Wilmington.
Mrs. Eisenhart and their two
daughters, aged 3 1-2 years and
Mr. Greene
Burns,
Mrs
Jr..
the deadlock with a vote against ",
the motion, using his vote for the !
first time since he had taken, of- .
Ace,
PSC Battles All
Tourney Teams
A vote on the proposition had
been delayed pending the /receipt
of information as to the possibil
ity of using the federal funds for
; the building only without the con
struction of taxi strips and apron;
such a proceedure was found,pos
sible but future alocation of funds
for such later improvements was ,
only tentative.
Those in favor of the motion
took their stand because funds for
airport improvements may not be
available at a later date and be
cause they felt that the city’s
present investment at the airport
PEMBROKE
The Pembroke
State College Braves will clash
with the All-Tournament teams
in the college gymnasium tomor
row, March 12. The first game,
the All-Tournament Girls vs.
Pembroke State College girls,
will be at 12:30 p. m.; the second
game ,the All-Tournament Boys'
vs. Pembroke State College Bra-,
ves, is scheduled at 2:00 p. m.
should be protected with
structures.
Mayor Seawell, W. R.
H. P. Allen adopted the
with no assurance of
additional
Allen and
view that
regularly
scheduled air service for the ter
minal and because considerable
expenditures for improvements to
the water and sewage systems are
necessary, the added investment in
the airport was unsound. Mayor
LUMBERTON.—On petition from
the Lumberton Bird Club, repre
sented by J. L. Stephens, Jr., and
Ingram Hedgpeth, and from the
Lumberton Garden Club, represent !
ed by Mrs. W. W. Parker, the City
Commissioners of Lumberton
agreed to make the City of Lum
berton a sanctuary for birds. ;
Mr. Hedgpeth was requested by
the board to draft a suitable ordin
ance based on those in use in!
other cities for consideration by
the board. The city officials asked
that the ordinance specifically
exempt nuisance birds from pro. 1
tection. I
Similar laws in other cities in
North Carolina protect both game
of the 1948 baseball season at Pres
byterian Junior college will be
held on Saturday, April 3. at 2:30
p. m. here with Oak Ridge col
lege. Coach R. R. Doak has al-
.eady commenced his baseball
practices and last week hi s fath
er, Charles G. Doak, baseball
coach at NC State in Raleigh, lec
tured to the t — n. Plans are at
present underway for the opening
of the baseball season on April
3 to be also “High School” day at
the college with high school se
niors within a radius of fifty
will undergo spring training for
twenty days. He will then go to
Fort Smith of the Western Asso
ciation League to play for the
1948 baseball season, with one of
the fourteen Giant farm clubs
who completed spring training in
Sanford.
Greene, R. E Hellekson, C. M.
Castevens, Jr', Louis Essey, Ned
Croom. J. D. Medlin, C. A.. Has
ty, John Deaver, T. L. English,
8 months, will join him in estab ¬
All Tournament: Sarah Oxen
dine, Union Chapel; Armenda Ox-
Announcement was made at rhe
lishing his residence as soon
and J. G. Gainey.
The American
! suitable living quarters can
National Red I arranged.
as
be
miles being the guests of the
lege.
Riteb At Faison
For A. M. McNeill
coi-
and song birds; some cities
designated as protected areas
signs at the city limits.
Inter-Racial Church
Seminar Monday
MAXTON—On
March
are
•by
Monday night
15, Reverend Carl D
Soule, white minister of Chicago,
Illinois, and secretary for District
and Sub-District Conferences of
the General Commission on
RED SPRINGS—Funeral
serv-
ices were conducted for Archi
bald McDougald McNeill, 64, Sun
day at his home in Faison by the
Always an avid baseball
Floyd will be remembered
Maxton spectators as one of
hardest hitters and fastest
fan,
by
the
run-
ners ever seen on local diamonds
Cross obtains its funds through —
the voluntary contributions of the M ■ ■ *■ M
American people in order to car- UAnlllf \lflll 1
ry out the Disaster Service, Nat-: IVWWSilJ J
ional Blood program, services to)
veterans, health services, Junior'Ll—_,_ Tm^im M «
Red Cross, and many volunteer ' |«K®|f . j fy|31“w
services and international activi-! ■*»■ ■ WWBia ■ KUIVif
endine. P’-ospect; and Myrtle Ox
endine, Pembroke; forwards, Etta!
B. Locklear, Union Chapel, Caro
lyn Sampson, Pembroke, Vernon
j Morgan, Magnolia, guards. '
Pembroke College: Elizabeth
Beley, Retha Locklear, Lorrane
Burnett, forwards. Debra Jacobs.
Earlene Jacobs,
Locklear, guards.
and Adelaide
meeting that petition for east- west
scheduled service by Piedmont"
Aviation was to be filed with the
Civil Aeronautics Board on Wed
nesday. The petition was filed by
the city with the consent of Pied
mont and with the latter’s assur
ance that it desired to use Lumber-
ton Municipal Airport as a-regular
stop.
ties. In all it does, the Red Cross
depends on you!
The lineup for the boys is:
All-Tournament:
Cecil
, He plans to make a career of 1
baseball if possible and his pro-) [JAllflf AH |Zgin*
gress will be followed with inter
est
ton
son
the
and best wishes of his Max-
friends and family. He is the
of Mrs. W. K. Moser and
late W. K. Moser of Maxton.
Aulo Inspeclion
Continues Here
LUMBERTON—J. S. Edger
ton, supervisor of the auto inspec-
Rev.. Murphy Smith. The services' tion lane in Lumberton, says that
were continued at Antioch Pres- '
byterian church near here Sun-
day afternoon
the Antioch
o’clock.
Mr. McNeill
and burial was in
cemetery at three
was the son of the
late W. C. and Sallie McNeill cf
the Red Springs community. He
had made his home at Faison
for the past ten years, and for the
World Peace of the Methodist past eight years had been an el-
church will conduct a seminar on der
World Peace at the St. George
Methodist church in Maxton, it
was announced this week by the
Rev. T, W. Brown, pastor of
the church.
The program will begin at 7:00
p. m. and Rev. Soule’s topic will
be “The
Peace Consciousness
in the Faison Presbyterian
church.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Miss Barbara Ray of Hoke
county, a daughter, Margaret, and
four sons: Dougald and Roy of
Faison, Ray of Sanford and Wal
ker of Warsaw. Two brothers,
and Program of the Methodist
Church.” The second part of the!
seminar will be entitled “How
may the USA and the USSR,
Christianity and Communism,
Ltoe Together Peacefully in One
Mjrld?” iRepresentaW.les of all
Methodist churches in the coun
ty are urged to attend and mem
bers from other denominations
will be most welcome.
Clarence and Watson McNeill
Red Springs, also survive.
Junior College
Summer School
Plans Announced
of
Convene Friday
The Robeson County Republi
can convention has been called
by Executive Chairman Fred R.
Keith of St. Pauls to meet in the
court house in Lumberton on Fri
day, March 12, at 3 p.. m.
The purpose of the convention
the inspection here will continue
until March 23 when the unit will
be moved to Whiteville. Mr. Ed
gerton believes that the impres-
sion that the lane had already
left Lumberton is widespread.
After being in Columbus county
the unit will return here May 1
is to elect a
and secretary
the various
which convene
future.
county chairman
and delegates to
state conventions
in the very
near
Vernon Murphy
Gets Army Diploma
Pfc. Venson H. Murphy, Company
the unit will return here May 1. B, 758th Tank Battalion, has been
Mr. Edgerton said that although | awarded his high school diploma
no cars had been condemned, the I for successfully completing
present rate of rejection for re- Tests of General Educational De-
the
pairs is about 30 per cent, which velopment as a result of the ad-
is a reduction from the approxi
mately 50 per cent at the opening
of the inspection lane. “Car own-;
vantages offered him through
the
ers, says the inspector,
“will
The Red Springs Robins, gird
ing themselves for the 1948 To
bacco State League pennant'
chase, signed three outstanding
men today to aid them in their
drive for the flag. They are Oree
Beck of Red Springs, a catcher i
who caught for the Red Springs
American Legion club in 1945 and
1946 and last year represented
North Carolina in an all star
game in Baltimore; Wallace Am
mens
ed a
mons
monds. Green Grove, Dook
lea?.’, Prospect, forwards;
Scott, Green Grove, center,
ver Loyd, Pembroke, Leslie
lear. Magnolia, guards.
Pembroke State College:
Oxendine, Ned Sampson,
Ham-
Lock-
Earl
Hoo-
Lock-
Tom
for-
wards. Marvin Dowry, center, Ho
race. Homington, Jim Dial, guards.
Monday Services
of Laurel Hill, N. C., sign- j For Mrs. McMillan
Robin contract today. Am-!
played with the American
PARKTON—Mrs. Pearl Oliver
Legion team of Laurinburg in
1945 and 1946 and after entering
the service hung up an outstand
ing record as a pitcher.
The other man, Ned Cooper, is
a shortstop rom West
Beach, Florida ,and comes
recommended as a fielder
.300 hitter.
Palm
highly
and a
McMillan, 53, wife of Neill Angus
McMillan of Parkton, Route 1,
died in Thompson hospital Satur
day at 2 p. m...after an illness
of several months.
A native of Mississippi and
daughter of the late D. P. and
Jane Trussell Oliver, she came to
North Carolina
about 25 ver*
ago and taught school until she
j Milner Audio-Visual i
Consultant For Army i
'
RED SPRINGS—Charles F. Mil-!
became ill last fall.
She was
teaching at Gray’s Creek in Cum-
berland county at that time,
other schools she served in
Week's Sperl At
Red Springs Hi
By BILL COLEMAN
Gather around folks—let me
tell you, again: “OUR” girls won
the Robeson county basketball
championship. Under way lasLWedr
nesday
schedule
at Lumber ton, a---tough
faced the
lassies.
Charles G. Rose, Jr., Mayor of
Fayetteville has announced that
that city has been designated as
an official city in which will be
held a Soap Box Derby on July
Sth. This Derby is an annual af-!
fair sponsored by the Chevrolet
Motor Company, with the big final
event held in Akron, Ohio, some
time during the summer, with she
winner being given a four year '
scholarship to the college of his’
choice.
Mayor Seawell has been notified j
by Mr. Rose that Lumberton Is:
among 17 communities authorized
to send representatives to the race
to be held in Fayetteville. They
urge boys of this community to
begin plans now for making their
own racers, and getting ready for
the big event on July Sth.
James Thomas Ends
Basic Airborne Course
Pfc. James C. Thomas of Rfd
2, Maxton, son of Mr. H. D. Tho-
mas, Maxton,
has successfully
completed the rigid five week ba
sic airborne course at the Infan
try School, Fort Benning, Ga..,
and was awarded the official
United States Army Parachute
Wings on March 1, 1948.
During this
five parachute
cargo aircraft
1,000
score
uous
ness
feet and
training hs made
jumps from army
at an altitude of
achieved the high
necessary to pass the stren-
“Paratroop” physical fit
test.
MAXTON—Plans for Summer
School were announced today by
Presbyterian Junior college. There
will be two terms. The first term
for the Preparatory Department
will begin June 7 and the second
term July 19.. The Collegiate De
partment Summer School will be
gin the first term June 14 and
the second term July 19. The pre
paratory department will continue
for six weeks each term and 'X-
save a great deal of time if they
will correct obvious defects such
as faulty tail lights, stop lights
and parking lights before going
through the lane, but mechanical
defects can best be discovered by
using the lane to find them.”
The time required to have a
vehicle inspected ranges from five
to ten minutes although some
time may be consumed waiting in
line. Hours for the lane are from
8 o’clock to 5 o’clock except for
facilities of the Army Education
Program.
Private Murphy received his di
ploma from the Robeson County
Training School, Maxton, N.
His home is in Wakulla, N.
C
C.
Training School
Glee Club At PJC
MAXTON—The Robeson Coun
ty Training School Glee Club
and Band presented a most en-
joyable program
chapel exercises
one-half hour between noon
12:30.
Request State To
Maintain Street
and
Junior
college
March 10.
The Glee Club,
tion of Miss E..
at the morning
at Presbyterian
on
Wednesday,
under the direc-
B. McKay and
the Training School, under the
direction of R. C. Barnes, rend
ered several vocal and musical
selections and were most favor-
ner, of the University
Carolina, who set up
education program for
Springs schools this
of North
the visual'
the
year
Red
has
been named Audio-Visual consult
ant for the Army and will be
away from the University for six
months studying audio-visual
needs of the civil information and
education section of the Allied
government of Japan. Mark Orr,
chief of the education section is
also a graduate and former fac
ulty member of the University of
North Carolina.
Alex C. Sessoms
Funeral Today
LUMBERTON. —
were conducted this
Alex C. Sessoms, 60,
terday after being
Funeral
rite.
afternoon for
who died yes-
a patient at
section included St.
ker-Ten Mile and
was married about
to Mr. McMillan.
Funeral services
Pauls,
Parkton.
14 years
an A
this
Bar-
Though they coasted to an easy
victory over the B-T team, 33 to
13 in the opener on Wednesday,
Thursday wag a different story
When “our” girls went up against
a strong Orrum team which they
eased out by one of those scores
-22 to 20. , '
Friday night at the finals any
one entering the armory might
have wondered whether he was
in Lumberton or Red Springs,
The local court enthusiasts were
out in force and, win or lose, the
team would /t lack for support.
Off to a slow start, the game
was a see-saw affair between the
She Springers and Parkton.. Closely
were conduct-
ed Monday afternoon from Green
Springs Baptist church, of which
she was a member, by her pas
tor, Rev. J. M. Gibbs, assisted
by a former pastor, Rev. Clem-
a g o called by officials, it was largely
a defensive battlq throughout
with both teams playing excellent
games. Final score—Red Springs
girls 30; Parkton 27.
ents and by
Interment
cemetery.
Surviving
Dr.
was
are
H. C.
in the
Durham.
- church
het-
husband
three brothers, J. C. Oliver
of
C. Oliver
college
weeks
Daily
fered
school
summer school for five
each term.
chapel courses will be of-
in standard senior high
and standard freshman
and sophomore college
in the following fields:
English,
French,
Mathematics,
subjects
Bible,
Spanish,
Physics, American His-
tory, Economics, Accounting, Bi
ology, Typewriting Shorthand and
other courses for which there is
demand.
MAXTON—The Town Board of
Maxton met on Monday evening
at the Town Office at 7;30 o’clock
Main business of the meeting
passing a resolution to ask
State Highway Commission
take over maintenance of
street between S.. Patterson
was
the
to
the
and
Florence • Sts., where the Railway
Depot is located. E. P. Williams,
building inspector, was instructed
to see that all builders in the
township be required to obtain
building permits. Following fur
ther business discussion, the meet
ing adjourned.
ably received by the faculty
students of the college.
Rev. Stoffel Will
Conduct Services
MAXTON
Reverend E.
and
L.
Stoffel, Richmond, Va., and pas
tor-elect of the First Presbyterian
church, will conduct both services
in his church on Sunday, March
14. His sermon topic in the
morning will be “The Rod and
Thompson Hospital for twelve days.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor
emeritus of the First Baptist
church in Lumberton, assisted by
Rev. S. A. Rhyne, from Biggs
Funeral Home at three o’clock. In
terment was in the New Hollywood
cemetery.
Two daughters survive, Mrs*. K.
E. Sabine, Cleveland, Ohio, and
Mrs. Roger Stanley, Lumberton;
two brothers, C. B. Sessoms, Lum-
j of Leland, Miss., and Henry Oli-
| ver of Weir, Miss.; three sisters,
j Mrs. Nan Fair, Mrs. Mary Dean,
| and Mrs. Terrel Fox. all of Weir;
and two step-daughters, Mrs. El
bert Everett of Parkton and Mrs.
V.. D. Baker, Jr., of Lumberton.
D. B. Oliver of Turkey, who
was principal of the Barker-Ten
Mile school for many years, is a
cousin of Mrs. McMillan and her
only relative living in North Car
olina. Mrs. Gilbert Britt of Lum
berton is her sister-in-law.
! For the tournament play: Mc-
Phaul was high scorer on the
championship squad with a total
of 47 points, or 16, 19, and 12 as
the games were played. The squad
was composed of McPhaul, Mc
Arthur, Setvens, and Hickman,
; forwards; and Townsend, May-
I berry, Armstrong, Duncan, Har-
I dasty and Hutson. Over here, -at
RS Hi they are our heroines of
the year. Remember, girls, we
love ya’all . . . and we are won
dering today if Coach James Car
ruth has anything left which he
■ can call a fingernail. Nice job,
J Coach. Too bSu we boys couldn’t
. get going down there too.
the Cauldron”
theme will be
Judge.”
„ berton, and Robert Sessoms, But-
and his evening 1 ters; two sisters, Mrs. John D.
“A Time to Lewis, Lumberton and Mrs. Charlie
Davis, Bladenboro.
Music Students In
District Contest
' Western District BSA
■ Has Organization Meet
I LAURINBURG—There will be
'an organization meeting of the
RED
of the
Western district which
SPRINGS—Music students posed of Hoke
Red Springs schools en-
is com-
Scotland
county,
mixed
Miss
these
The
Negro
of its
county, Red Springs and Maxton
of Robeson county..
All parents, business and pro
fessional men are invited to at
tend. This meeting will be. at
the Morris Funeral Home, Laur
inburg, March 16, gt 7:30 pAiR
the Glee Club and the
chorus, and their director,
Lois Lambie, competed in
two events.
purpose is to organize the
division and the election
officers.
tered two events in the District
Music Contest being held at Fay
etteville this afternoon and to-
night.
Fifty-four students comprising