Robesonian (Newspaper) - October 10, 1961, Lumberton, North Carolina WealKer temperature at tree was 78 degrees High yes tow 48 THE ROBESONIAN Forecast 170 LUMBERTON N C TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 1961 Fund Raisers Given Important Task Scouting Develops Leaders For The World Of Tomorrow French said this morning at a KickOff Breakfast at the First Baptist church opening the Lumberton Boy Scout campaign A goal of has been set tc provide money for the em ployment of a fulltime executive to help Scouting leaders and to work for development and im provement of the Scouting prog ram in the Central district The leaders with Dr Douglas Clark as chairman of the Boy Scout campaign plan a whirl wind drive slated to end next Monday to raise the money just as quickly as possible The meeting this morning was followed by a meeting of women workers headed by Mrs D E Ward also at the First Baptist church Following the Boy Scout by a group of Scouts who assisted in serving breakfast Rev Robert J Snell gave the in vocation Berry French ting for Hector MacLean deliv ered the keynote talk of the mee ting calling Scouting one of the finest things that had ever hap to people He defined Scouting as an organization of adults working for the benefit of It was noted that five million Scouts are now participa ting and that in the 51 years of 33 its history there have been million in Scouting ranks Stressing that Scouting devel ops leaders Mr French noted that of the seven astronauts in training for space flights five are products of Scouting the only one of the four which does not have a fulltime execu tive Failure to have a fulltime executive is attributed to lack of funds Dr Clark stressed that is needed to put over a healthy and progressing prog ram of Scouting in the district Tom Burgess area worker from Atlanta Ga showed a film on Sell Scouting The film illustrated ways of sell ing Scouting as a desirable and worthwhile program planned to help the most important portion of any community Its young people Scouting is not reaching all who want it because of lack of funds In Lumberton there are waiting lists and only one in ten potential Scouts is reached Bob Dubose also from the of fice in Atlanta Ga spoke on the organization of Scouting He mentioned in particular the im portance of local Councils such as the Cape Fear Such councils band together several counties in order to have a better prog ram Money raised by such fund raising movements as the pres ent one stays in the Council and works for the good of the Coun cil and the district Leaders in the drive include Dr Clark chairman Preston Douglas preparatory services Horace Stacy soliciting Danny Dr Clark presiding at the Shaver publicity Wilson Black meeting announced that leadership Wil leadership gifts group headed j liams special gifts Walter John by Blackmon had report ed over already ed or pledged He explained that Lumberton is in the Central dis of the Cape Fear Council and that the Central district is son area leader Art Shain downtown business section E J Britt Jr suburban Mrs D E Ward residential Joe Person Negro C B Scoggins Jr aud its Perkins Calls Leaf Crop Best In Robeson History Although the official figures for yields in Robeson are not in w hink tins is the larg est and tyst crop ever grown both in pounds and in dollars D R Perkins assistant county agricultural agent said this mor The Lumberton Market sold approximately 1657000 pounds more than last year and the to tal crop sold for million dol lars more than last year The Fairmont Market sold over 300000 more pounds than last year and the total crop sold for approximately than laA year Both markets in Robeson sold about 2 million pounds than last year and the total revenue was approximately 5 million dol J Jars more than last We attribute the large in crease in sales on the Lumber ton market to the excellent crop in the northern part of the coun ty Perkins continued The ar eas around St Pauls Parkton Rex and Shannon produced the best and largest crop of all time When the official fi gures are in we expect a yield of approximately 2100 pounds per acre If our predictions run true to form then Robeson will have the highest yield in history and will probably be the highest of any county in North Carolina This will be a five year period with an increase each year over the previous one the ural specialist said WATER SPOUT similar to one which caused some damage in Oceanside Calif moves off coast at Solana Beach 25 miles south of Oceanside An amateur photographer took the picture VICKI BENET Paris born actress speaks five languages including Rus sian She thinks thered be less tension in the world if translators were more accurate ESTABLISHED COUNTRY GOD AND TRUTH M4 vMi twoler Fair ami warm tomorrow TEN Five State Fair Opens Monday RALEIGH AP Five more days remain before the gates swing open Monday for the 1960 edition of the North Carolina State Fair True to tradition it will be big ger and better than ever Thats the promise from State ture Commissioner L Y Ballen tine I believe this wiil be our great est fair he proclaimed Monday after he completed a tour of the fairgrounds Ballentine said he felt the senti ment would be shared by Dr J S Dorton who directed the fair for many years if he were alive Ballentine picked up the reins when Dorton died earlier this year For the first time the fair will run six instead of five days open ing one day earlier on Monday said this would make More than in premium money will go to winning tors On the midway the James E Strates shows and rides will offer entertainment The arena will feature a world championship rodeo and the grandstand at traction will be the George A Hamid revue Ballentine said the North Caro lina Trade Fair which will be running in Charlotte at the same time wont hurt the State Fair Mill Manager D Takes Charge o C E McAllister has replaced J B Powell as general mana ger of Lumber River Cotton Mills here The change of com mand came yesterday following mH h the Mr Frid he expects going beyond ment that he was leaving to take the Of Jast the record year Monday attend the fair The exhibits will be fresh It will be the choice day Ballentine said Gov Sanford will speak at noon opening ceremonies In addition the fair arena will be dedicated as the Dorton Arena in honor of the former manager NC Employment Commission Is Named NAACP Charges Collusion In Employment Practices WASHINGTON plant in Durham NAACP said Negroes are the em ployed only as sweepers and attendants The com plaint said Negroes are tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People charged today the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen conspired with two rail aic roads to discriminate against Ne ed in the local of the gro workers Tobacco Workers International The accusation was in a com plaint filed with the President Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity In other complaints NAACP nation was practices by the West ern Electric Co Nashville Tenn Avco Manufacturing Corp Nash ville Liggett Myers Tobacco Co Durham NC Douglas Air craft Corp Charlotte NC and the North Carolina State Security Commission Durham The corn stale employ another textile job Mr McAllister comes from the best day to Troy where for three years he has held a position with another of the Leon text tile plants Prior to moving to Troy he was superintendent of spinning at Bladenboro Cotton Milts a position he took after more than 20 years with Martel Mills Inc Batesburg S C where he was superintendent for 12 years A native of Westminister S C he is a graduate of a textile course at Clemson College Mrs McAllister will join her husband here as soon as he secures hous ing they have a married son Mr Powell had been plant manager here for six years coming to Lumberton when Mr Salkind acquired the East Lum berton properties mission operates ment offices Herbert Hill NAACP labor sec submitted some 80 affi davits by Negro workers who said they had been denied employment promotion or referral Negro workers in St Peters burg Memphis Tenn charged conspiracy between the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Atlantic Coast Line and the St LouisSan Francisco rail roads to deny promotion opportun to Negroes and depress their wages They said Negro brakemen were classified as porters The affidavits charged the union accepts only white employes as members At Liggett Tobacco Union Affidavits from 21 Negro work ers at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Charlotte said not a single Ne in production classifications that Negroes are used only for menial tasks and the company refuses to promote Negroes on the basis of seniority and skills In the complaint against the North Carolina State Security Commission the NAACP The operation of state employ ment agencies throughout the South is characterized by a rigid pattern of racial segregation and discrimination The U S govern ment is completely responsible for providing the financial basis of all state employment services Ac cordingly the federal government is directly subsidizing discrimina tion against Negro citizens The complaint said a Negro ap at the commissions Dur ham office was told jobs at the Glass Co where he wished to apply are open to white persons only The NAACP said the applicant was informed the commission would not accept his application Crossing Smash Minor property damage result ed from a traffic accident at 2 p m Monday Cpl E L Ward reported that James Merlen McCall of Lum berton was driving south on Elm street and Mattie Merritt Sim east on street when their cars collided in the intersection Damage to the McCall car was and to the Simmons car US nan gim WASHINGTON AP The United States today recognized the new state of Syria The State Department in an nouncing this said that the gov of Premier al was informed today about the US diplomatic move The US consulate general in Damascus will be raised to the status of an embassy Prior to the appointment of an ambassador Ridgway B Knight the present consul general will act as charge daffaires The State Department announce ment said The United States government having taken note of the declara tion of the government of the Syrian Arab Republic that it in tends to respect and observe its international obligations has to day extended recognition to that government The government of the Syrian Arab Republic has been appraised of the desire of the US govern ment to raise the status of an em bassy the American consulate general in Damascus and to ap point Mr Ridgway B Knight charge daffaires US officials made it clear ear ly this month that the United States would recognize Syria as soon as some of the more impor tant Arab countries recognize the new regime Borrowed Car Does Flip Jonnie Junior Jacobs 20 of Elrod was charged with temp orary larceny of a motor vehicle and reckless driving after ah ac at pm Sunday State Trooper J E Greene re mons of Lumberton was driving ported that Jacobs was driving the truck of Lacy Rether Jacobs of route l Rowland west on ru ral road No 1316 when it left the road to the left and overturned Damage was Betty Hill 21 Contestant New Miss Fire Prevention Will Lead Todays Parade Betty Hill daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugh Hill was select ed as Miss Fire Prevention last night at the Carolina Thea tre Janice Davis daughter of Mr and Mrs B R Davis was first and Rita Valen ti daughter of Mr and Mrs Tony Valenti was second run There were ants A war bond presented to 2t contest and flowers Miss Fire Employment Hits High Mark A f WASHINGTON AP Employ ment of wage and salary workers in the United States reached 53 900000 in September the highest figure for any month the Labor Department said today Total employment which in cludes the selfemployed and ers however dropped 15 million from August to about 67 million The Labor Department said the drop was due mainly to the return to school of young workers who left summer jobs Secretary of Labor Arthur J Goldberg said the total of em Mountain Wont Integrate KINGS MOUNTAIN NC AP Kings Mountain School Board has decided to keep Kings Mountain High School allwhite by reaffirming its rejection of appli cations by Leroy Hastin Davis 15 10th grader and Lela Inez Da Tis 7 a 12th grader Both ap plied for transfer from ployed was about 200000 above the previous record set in Sep tember and 26 million above the level in February when econ say the recession hit bottom Seymour Wolfbein Labor De manpower expert said the employment figure for Sep tember would have been higher except for the strikes in General Motors auto plants last week Discounting the affect of Hur riane Carla and the Jewish re ligious holidays which also took place during the week surveyed Goldberg said the factory work week seasonally adjusted was up a full hour since February and the weekly earnings of factory workers were up almost dur ing the period Wolfbein said that primarily due to the auto strike weather factors and the religious holidays there was a dip in the average work week in manufacturing in to 1067000 in September and those unemployed for 27 weeks or more declined from 1917000 to 1405000 part of the celebration of Fire Prevention week here On the program for tonight is a banquet at which Senator Sam Ervin will be the speaker and this afternoon at four oclock a parade honoring Miss Hill will be presented Fire prevention programs are being presented in the schools and at civic club meetings from 401 hours in Au gust to 396 hours in September The unemployment rate has High School j below force Father Of Two Kidnaps NC AP A Troy man faced a fi 10 year prison term today after pleading guilty of kidnaping a pretty cashier Wiiliam Harvey Coble the fath er of two young children was sen here Monday by Judge Al len H Gwyn for the July 3 kid of Miss Diane Kelly Miss Kelly said she was going to lunch when approached by Co ble who had a knife in his hand and demanded that she get into his car She said Coble drove away and parked but did not assault her PRESIDENT AND MRS KENNEDY listen to their daughter Caroline aboard the Honey Fitz Caroline greeted her father when he stepped off his plane and rode in his car to the presidential yacht docked a short distance from the airport CoOps Want Power Firm Duke Makes Strong Protest RALEIGH con cross examination of com pany witnesses today in the State Utilities Commission hearing on a rate increase requested by hala Power Light Co Meanwhile the commission set Oct 20 as the date of a hearing on protests of two rural electric membership coops to the propos ed sae of distribution system to Duke Power Co The coops want to buy the sys tem themselves and use it to dis tribute power from Tennessee Valley Authority The system covers six western counties Duke said in a petition filed Monday that it would be illegal for Holly Shelter Land Disputes Sent To Court RALEIGH AP The decision on ownership of disputed tracts of land in the Holly Shelter Wildlife O tie Haywood Electric Corp of and Blue Ridge Electric Association of Young Harris Ga to acquire Nantahala facilities Duke has of million for the facilities Duke said Nantahala entered in to a contract for the sale and is not free to accept any other of fers In any case the power com pany asserted in its petition the coops are prohibited by law from selling or distributing TV A power ir the Nantahala area Berserk Worker Murders Three GARY nd laborer at the US Steel Cos sheet and tin mill went berserk today and killed three men wounded four others before a plant protection policeman killed him Police said Davis pulled a 33 revolver at the mill shortly be Mimic 9 am began firing Aft Area is up to the j er llc the gun they said courts as far as the State Wilda guard shot him life Resources Commission is It was not immediately known The commission voted unani causet Davis to start shoot ing Police identified the dead as Ar voted unani Monday to let the courts determine the matter Civil courts x suits have bet filed by private I hic Davs a laborer Joe landowners in the area contesting Donald the commissions Massa general laborer tracts Robert M Carr of Wallace commission chairman snid the commission will continue to man to certain foreman age all lands within the boundaries j of the Holly Shelter area Therell Be Thrills Aplenty At 1961 Jaycee Annual Fair to Kinss Mountain In originally denying the trans fers the board cited overcrowd ing at the white school and said at or slightly 7 per cent of the labor During September Wolfbein n the c vas mi of school and ment The number of workers without jobs for 5 weeks or more I dropped Irom ja August JOHN W CAUSE public in officer at Fort Ren ning Ca is in charge of a crew of public relations cers at Fort Bragg tins week to handle the visit Thurs day of President John F Ken Cause is former sports editor of The Robesonian and The 1961 Jaycee Fair opens Monday and the midway of Amusements of Am erica will be one of its many many features There will be more than 60 at tractions set up in the fun zone assuring entertainment for young and old alike A special section of the will be devoted to the small fry with bargain prices prevailing New thrill rides among the more than 40 that will be includ ed in the Amusements of Ameri ca lineup are the Flying Coast er Tower Slide and Umbrella Ride while the Scrambler Dod now resides in Columbus Ga with his wife and two Frolic Twister and others rcn She is the former Jackie will all be back Of course the Roberts tf Mile J old favorites such u Merry GoRound Ferris Wheel TiltA Whirl and Octopus wilt also be found on the midway j Expansion of Amusements of i America is not restricted to ridi es as several new features will be found among the shows Tony i Masons Latin Casino boasts of j a new program while the Basin Street Frolics will present an program of rockand roll favorites The giant circus side show will have new thrills to offer while the brand new Witchs Castle and Silver City Hotel are add ed features for this years fair The fair will continue through all of next week at Jaycee in West DR RORERT 41 of Port Orchard Wash hai been charged with first degreS assault with attempt to kill his in her arm Bochme said I dont know what its all about and was released wife Dorothy with a poison mr Mrs Boehme i recoveries io hospital v i lJ
