The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina • Page 1

Weather The hidheat temperature here. yesterday was 77 degrees, (ruin which it fell lo a low of 58. At noon today It had risen to 76. Forecast Cloudy mild In the ilictibn (or tonight and row. The weatherman isn't taking a chance on a clear prediction for Sunday.

VOL. LXXXVII--NO. 307 MTABLMHID COUNTRY SOD AND TOOTH LUMBEfclON, N. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 PUILISHCO DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY AND SIXTEEN PACES--PRICE FIVE CENTS Denominations Join To Hail Rise Of Easter Morning Sun Several towns in Robeson county have planned Easter Sunrise Service: Lumberton, land, Pembroke, Fairmont, and Lumber Bridge. LUMBJERTON In Lumberton the service will be.held at the Armory Field, beginning at.5:30 Sunday morning.

The visiting minister, the first visiting minister since the services began, will be Rev. E. R. Lineberger, son of the pastor of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran church, Lumberton.

Mr. Lineberger is a Navy chaplain. Lumberton ministers participating in the service include: Rev. Eric 0. Murray, Christian- Missionary Alliance church, in- Rev.

J. D. Aycock, East Lumberton Methodist church, responsive reading; Rev. A. B.

Howard, Pentecostal i church, Scripture; Dr. D. Swan Haworth, First Bap'tist church, prayer and benediction. will be special music by the Lumberton Male chorus, and organ preludes and postludes by Ernie Tartler of the Christian-iMission- Alliance church. ROWLAND At Rowland the churches in the town will join in a union Sunrise Service to begin at 5:30 o'clock in the Rowland cemetery.

The sermon will be delivered by Dr. W. W. Arrowood, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Pastors of the other churches will participate: Rowland Methodist, Baptist and Ashpote Presbyterian churches.

Church choirs will unite for special music, to be under the direction of the Methodist church. PEMBROKE At Pembroke a union service of the congregations of the Memor- Lumberton Gets More Time For Air-Facility Argument fiffhvil Aeronautics in Washington, D. C. lias granted a 90-day postponement to Mrs. Brigman (in Tragic Visit, 1 Killed In Georgia Fred.

Brigman of LumbertwTwas killed instantly ehortly after noon yesterday in an auto accident Gainesville. Ga. Brigman, in Gainesville be- 'cause of the critical illness of hei? father, died in an auto driv- eniby her cousin, Miss Morrell Thomas, who was critically injured. Another cousin, Jack Thomas, is also in critical condition with' a broken back. According, highway patrol report Miss Thomas applied brakes too late to avoid collision with-the rear of a truck and lire cae ran under.tna truck body.

a will be held from the home, 40 Victory Heights, at 3 p.m. Saturday and burial will be" in New Hollywood cemetery. Odum will be in charge. Mrs. Brigman is survived by her faiher and by a brother.

Koscbe Thomas of Gainesville. Lumberton officials on a hearing concerning relocating an omni- range and communications station now at to Fayetteville. James T. Civil Aeronautics administrator, announced the postponement in a letter- to Mayor R. A.

Hedgpeth. In his letter, Py'le stated, "We had planned -to include the Lumberton case on the agenda for the April 24, 1957 meeting of this subcommittee at Atlanta, Ga. However, your request for several months' delay in order to have sufficient time to prepare for the hearing is reasonable and (Continued on Page 4 Col. 4) ial Baptist. Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, will be held Sunday morning at 5:45 o'clock at the Memorial Baptist church.

FAIRMONT The Young People of Trinity- Methodist church, Fairmont, will be in charge of a Sunrise Service to be held at the church, Sunday morning, at 5:30 o'clock. LUMBER BRIDGE The Sunrise Service a-t Lumber Bridge wiil begin Sunday mom- ing at 5:30 on the lawn of 1 Presbyterian church, under the direction of the People. SERVICES Churches "throughout the county will have special music at the regular morning worship services as congregations gather to hear again the of tiie Resurrection and the breaking of the bonds of death. Many churches mis year have held special services throughout the week, wim'prayer missions, special messages from lay leaders of the church, special services on Thursday evening, commemorating the -first observance of the Lord's the first Service "Many churches held some observance of Good Friday, all in preparation of the great '-holy day of Easter. SPECIAL MUSIC Some -churches, are plarvni.ng special music, services for Sunday At 'the Christ i a Missionary Alliance church.

at-i the young people iT-1 present "The Challenge of At the First Baptist church, Lumberton, Gounod's. Me.sse So- lennelle, St. Cecilia, will be pre(Continued on Page 4 East, West At Peace In Easter Pilgrimage World Reverent As Barter' Near By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Qirisffans throughout tftVwofld commemorated- today the 'agony of Christ's death upon the Cross. In Good. Friday Christian faithful 'of all nations' of the' suffering of Je'siis- Christ'---two' days before, the joj'ous 'occasion of His rection oh Pipe-tPius''XlI, his, Easter Su'ncy speech millions with radio systems'of rieayry fa'swref of-nations.

For the first time'ine address-will be put on European TV. He speaks at noon, Rome time, from the 'Balcony aboy.e'th'e centraMopr of Literacy Test For NG Argued Before 3-Judge Court RALEIGH UPi A three-judge federal court convened here today to hear a case challenging North Carolina's literacy test for voters, which requires those seeking to register as voters to be able to read and wri'c portions of the state constitution. Sitting to hear the case were Close Easter Monday, Start 5-Day Week Textile Mills Order Slowdown To Avoid Overloaded Markets NEW YORK textile mills, in an apparent effort to bring supply and demand into better balance, have announced they will close Easter Monday and will cut back on Saturday work. Sixteen southern mills of M. Lowenstein Sons producing unfinished cloih will cut back Saturday work and will be closed Easter a Yesterday's announcement said about 11,000 will be affected.

Seven Erwin Mills in North Carolina and Mississippi also will close Monday. a i Manufacturing Co. of Rockingham. X.C.. announctd it, has gone on a five-day, three-shift operation, with the elimination of Saturday work and will close Easter Monday.

Anoiher cutback from six days to Eive days was ordered bv the has gone on a five-day, three-shift operation, with the elimination of I Saturday work and will close Easter Monday. Another cutback from six days to five days was ordered by the Pelzer. S.C.. plant of Kendall ton Mills, and Pacoiet Manufacturing Co. is cutting back ils mills at Pacoiet, S.C..

and New Holland to a four-day, week. Others which previously announced cutbacks include Abney Mills of Greenwood, S.C.; the Liberty. S.C.. plant of Woodside Miils; the Ely Walker Division of Burlington Industries, Berkshire-Hataway, Bates Manufacturing; and Amero- tron textile subsidiary of Textron. which pledged not to operate its mills more than five days weekly for the rest of the year.

Judges John -J. Parker of Charllotte, Wilson- AV article: of 'Newton and Don Gilliam of Tarboro. The test, was Louise Lassiter, who that she was fight to register in Northampton County last year because she "mispronounced several words." The "names of two othisr plaintiffs who contend they were arbitrarily rejected in-their, attempts to register in Northampton last spring were added to the list of plaintiffs in the'caseithis week. When the case filed, lawyers for Mrs. Lassiter asked a permanent injunction the use cif literacy tests by elections officials.

They contended that the registrar of Seaboard Precinct in Northampton, Mrs. Helen H. Taylor, or more other qualified vofers" after giving the "the so-called'literacy test." The complaint also asserted-that the. 'treatment extended andj In. Konnersreutn.

Germany, 3,000 pilgrims gathered in the a i outside the cottage of Therese Neumann, the 59-year- old Bavarian woman who each Good. Friday-appers to suffer the agonies of Crucifixion. In 1926 she was 'reported to have displayed the Crucifixion stigmata -marks on her body corresponding to the wounds of. President Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, both Methodists, delivered. Good Friday s-srmoris at their church in-a suburb of Taipei, the capital of the Chinese island of Formosa.

wire-and bitterness today prevent anyone from retracing Christ's steps from Upper Room to the Mount of Olives. But the ancient observance of Easter still continue in Jerusalem. You can read about them in'the last of a Holy Week sites Pales-, on-, Page Three 'burglars were brief but violent gunfight police detectives. in 1 department of a State Street department store. into.a police -trap and were -mowed down by machine-gun and shotgun bullets.

Seven detectives had been hiding in the llth floor credit department for several hours, said J. Lynch. Lynch said police had been 1 tipped on the. planned In Trap As ppen Fire He said the three men, carrying burglary tools, were about to attempt to opren a safe when the detectives ordered them to surrender. Lynch said the burglars opened fire.

The police, armed with three machine guns and four shotguns, exchanged shots, killing all three. No policeman was hurt. It was not disclosed how the men gained entrance to tire Mandel Brothers store, in the heart of the Loop. Size Of Teacher Pay Raise Is In 'Tentative' Suspense RALEIGH Gov. recommended pay a i for teachers and other state employes have been given initial approval--on a "tentative" basis.

The Joint Appropriations sub- ccimmittee voted yesterday to accept the governor's recommenda- IKE AND MAMIE will spend Easter in Atmista, OU. They took happy to be boarding: plane for a planned 12-day vacation In the South. Sen. Moore Fights Strings On RALEIGH The Senate, stuck' by Cutlar Moore again yesterday in his fight to give the Highway Patrol all the freedom it needs in tire use of unmarked cars to combat highway racing. It voted with Moore.not to concur in amendments the House attached to the unmarked patrol car bill.

Lieutenant.Governor Barnhardt named Moore' and Pitt's'Senator Paul Jones to confer with a Htiusje group in an'effort-lo reach agreement on the amendments. House revisions of the Moore bill would (1) allow the Patrol to take the silver paint off only 21 per cent of its 581 cars, (2) require patrolmen -in unmarked cars to scund-their sirens before stopping any motirists, and (3) require that signs be erected on all highways leading into the unmarked car's were being used. Neither the .21 per cent limit on the number of cars nor "the requirement that sirpnx be sounded appealed to 'Robeson's hardbattlinc: Cutlar Mcore. Th-p vole was 23-19 not to concur in (he House amendments. tions a-fundamental starting i point" -in its work of.whipping the state budget into shape.

The 1 subcommittee specified it was accepting the proposals "tentatively-" without -determining "at this time'' the schedule' under which- the pay 'raises shall be determined; Gov. a pay increase 15 per cent for school 'teachers and 11 cent for other state workers. He favors a yard-stick formula worked out by the-Personnel Department for distributing the pay boosts, while state employe organizations have requested an pay plan. In an speed-, its-'work, and its report to the priations Committee, it may be necessary for rho subcommittee to hold some night sessions, the members were'-'told. cori- requested perm'anent'-inV provenients, arid-began rriaking'd'e- cisichs on the re cord'state budget proposed for-' the next two fiscal years.

Gov. Hodges has recommended a 10 million dollar bond to finance a -portion of the permanent -improvements cv gramT The' bond' issue'would an- able-10'million" to use in'making salary increases. The'subcommittee-was told that the governor intended, tor vocational, apiculture teachers to''re- ceive- a 15 per rent salary increase fltoriS with other teachers. would prPservp a pay differential (or the vocational The State Board of Education had suggested it be eliminated. Asst.

Budget Director D. S. Col- (rane told the subcommittee an additional. $380,664 would.be needed to provide the 15 per tenl increase for vocational teachers. With am member objecting, (lie subcommittee approved a 51,000 pay raise per year for superior court judges and also a $.1,000 increase-per year in allowances.

It followed recommendations of Gov. (Continued on Page i Col. 1) Farmers To Meet Monday With ASC All farmers in Robsson are in- vited to a meeting Monday with j-H. D. Godfrey, manager of the i Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee, and members of the Robeson county ASC committee.

The meeting has been arranged by Representative. W. D. Reynolds to give growers an opportunity' to air their opinions of the recent single contract Regulation of ASC. meeting be at 10 a.m.

in the Robeson County Superior courtroom. The new -ASC regulation requires; that a grower of crops un- dev quota.combine all his farms in one contract. Objection has been voiced because allotm would have to be assigned on a pro rata basis in any division of the property, and because the regulation requires that man and wife must combine their farms under contract. By WILTON WYNX JERUSALEM GB--Religious devotions of many different faiths overshadowed political crises in the Holy Land this Good Friday. It was Easter season for both Western and Eastern Christians.

But it also -was a holy time for Moslems and Samaritans. Across the frontier in Israel, Jews were completing their Passover holidays'. In Arab Jerusalem, where most of the holy places are located, holds were jammed with visiting prilgrims. The tourist bureau estimated 4,000 visitors poured in, reminiscent of the busy days the city knew before last year's succession of crises and war. Only about 400 pilgrims crossed the Palestine armistice frontier from Israel, and few Westerners were amon-g them.

Most of the visitors in the Jordan sector were Arab Christians who had corns by other routes from Egypt, Cyprus, and Syria. Because, of calendar differences, the Eastern and Western Easter usually fall on different dates. Once every four or five however, they fall and this year they coincide. Christian groups had to follow a strict schedule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to avoid- conflicts. Moslem visitors crowded into the city.

This is Ramadan a fasting month for Moslems- and the devout like to come to Jerusalem every Friday in. Ramadan to pray in the Dome of the Rock, third most holy plaes in world to Moslems. In an area where a Jewish temple once stood, a beautiful Moslem dome covers the rock from which the Prophet Mohammed is said to have risen into Heaven on his horse. A few miles to the north on Mount Gerizim, near Nablus, the last 300 survivors of-the Samaritan community gathered -for their Saturday Passover a unchanged in any detail since the exodus from Egypt. Sheep, rituall slain during prayers on the mountainside, were being baked in earth, to be eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened bread, according to the rutes of Mosse.

British Ship, Chinese Chartered, End Boycott With Nasser Still At Wheel Union Jack Flutters In Suez SUEZ W--The freighter West Breeze entered the Suez Canal today flying the Union Jack of Great Britain. She was the first British ship-to start through the waterway since the British- French invasion last October. Transit tolls for the West Breeze were paid in francs, and an Italian pilot of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority was put aboard for the 103-mile trip northward. freighter was the second ship of a four-vessel convoy. Chartered by a Chinese navigation company in Hong Kong, the West Breeze is carrying a cargo of peanuts from China to Rotterdam.

The ship's British captain," I. Cowie, locked.himself in his cabin and refused to talk to newsmen. He gave orders to his 42 crewmen--a few British, the rest Chi- nese not to fraternize or talk with Britain, the United States and France all have recommended that their shippers avoid using the canal pending the outcome of-ne-' gotistions between the U.S. government and Egyptian President Nasser. With those talks about to end without any concessions from Nasser, United States and Britain are expected to rescind their warning and advise instead 'that shippers.

pay the canal tolls to Egypt under protest. There was no indication, however, that the West Breeze's agents made-any such protest Most and American ship-' pers before the October invasion closed the canal paid their tolls to the old Suez Canal: Co. in London Opponent Protested Union Dues Increase McDonald Beats Ouster Move To Top Steelworker's Again PITTSBURGH Wl David J. McDonald has been re-'ekcted president of the United Steelworkers. the union announced today.

Tellers- reporting on the official ballot count said it showed ne received 404.172 votes to 223,516 for ponald Rarick, his opponent started his campaign' oil a protest against a union dues ncrease. Rarick, a 38-year-old steelwork- Natural Gas Has Bis? NG Increase NEW YORK Stockholders and directors of Piedmont Natural Gas Co. of Charlotte, N.C., were told here yesterday the firm's revenues for last year were up oire million dollars. A report showing gross revenues of seven million dollars last year was submitted by Buell G. Duncan, Piedmont president.

He reported the firm spent 52,700,000 in 1956 for new mains, extensions, services and improvements. Duncan reported 48,198 customers for 1956, an increase of net earnings of and $1.32 earnings per share of common stock. All officers and directors were re-elected. Piedmont, serves cities in North 'arolina and South Carolina. OX CRITICAL LIST The condition of Mrs.

Roland iamb, Robesonian employee for many years, is reported critical. Members of her family have oeen called, and her sisters, Mrs. i i a P. Holliday and Mrs. Augusta Moller, are expected to ar- ive tonight from their home in Detroit, Mich.

'Mrs. Lamb suffered a second stroke last Sunday morning, and has been a patient Robeson County Memorial hospital since. er McKeesport, was a complete unknown at the time the dues protest drive began after the USW's 1956 convention voted a $2 monthly increase in payments by the membership. 54, has "been associated with the union since it's founding, worked closely with the late President Philip Murray and Shackleford Speaks To Co. Farm Bureau The Robeson County a Bureau board of directors met at the Shannon community building at 7:30 p.m.

The Shannon's'Wo- men Home Demonstration club served the group with, a dinner. Paul Shackleford, N. C. Farm Bureau Federation field representative, lead a discussion which brought out pros and cons in the acreage-poundage proposed legislation of the tobacco program. He also presented some points on the minimum allotments and other legislative matters.

There was a discussion of combining a farmers land contracts in which there was. a general feeling of strong opposition. Sechreist Heads American Legion Carl V. Sechreist was elected commander of Lumberton post, American Legion, at a meeting in the Legion hut Thursday night. He succeeds Pearl Biggs Mcln- tyre in the office.

Sechreist, who had previously served as commander 1953, was installed at the same meeting with other new officers. Others elected were: Dan Mc- In-tyre. vice commander; W. A. McNeill, adjutant; R.

C. Ivey, finance officer; Knox Andrews, chaplain; W. H. Humphrey, Jr. historian; and Jakie Dunie, sergeant ar arms.

succeeded him as the union's top officer in 1953. His election is to his' second four-year term in the post which now pays 550,000 a year. Rarick conducted a -limited campaign, which he said was financed by small, voluntary contributions from rahk-and-Iil men- members supporting him. Lions Hear From N. C.

Commission Lumberton Lions club Thursday night workings of the State Commission for the Blind, and future plans of the commission. Speaker, introduced by President Gordon Dove, was H. A. Wood, commission executive sec- i-etary. Also on the program was Joe Strickland, director of the bureau of employment for the commission.

Both are members of Raleigh Lions club. Further plans and practice for the annual Lions Minstrel on May 2-3 were also carried out. Sgt. Edwin Allen, military recruiter here, was introduced as a new member. Squirrel Uncaught Bites Other Hands The friendly squirrel who bit the postman was at large late this morning, but another victim has been added to his list.

It was learned this morning that H. H. McLeod was bitten by the squirrel at Elm and 16th streets just before he, bit Dougald Todd, the postman delivering mail on that route. McLeod said the squirrel frisked about him and seemed quite playful so lie tried to pet it. That's when he got bit and flung the squirrel away from him; it returned to play again--but ttiis time it, wasn't petted.

TWO WERE KILLED in this wrecked automobile which collided with a school bus In Mobile. The body o( one victim covered with sheet beside the car. The driver of tht school bus and a dor-en passenfers escaped cuts and bruises, (AP Wirephoto)..