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100th Anniversary Edition, Presenting Robeson County History THE ROBESONIAN VOL. C2 NO. 81 PUBLISHED WEEKDAYS AND SUNDAY IN ROBESON COUNTY LUMBERTON, N. SUNDAY, MAY 23 ,1971 ESTAKLISHID COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH 120 Pages Price 5 Fairmont Jaycec Elected As Head Of State Chapter A VER NYE JR.

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) Thomas Avery Nye Jr. of Fairmont was installed as the 35th president of the North Carolina Jaycees at the state convention inaugural banquet Saturday night. The convention, which began Thursday, ends Sunday with a meeting of the new officers and the executive committee. Nye defeated Jim Cochran of Albemarle in elections Saturday. A graduate of North Carolina State University, he is a general contractor and vice president of T.

A. Nye and Son Inc. Frank Simmons of Hickory, Pee Cox of Garner and James Powers of Lumberton were eleded and installed as administrative national directors. C. C.

Hope, executive vice president of First Union Nation- a Bank, whihc awards given at the convention, announced the establishment of Centennial Edition This edition of The Robesonian, which celebrates the 100th year of publication, contains sections devoted to the history of the Lumberton area. It is the 5th historical edition published within the past year. In combination with previous sections dealing with other parts of the county, it makes a comprehensive report on Robeson as it was in the past, and as it is today. Total number of pages of the historical sections, if combined into a single volume, would be 234. Much of the material in these editions has been obtained from previous historical editions, the largest of which, in 1951, was compiled by Mrs.

Helen Seawell Sharpe. Reports in that edition have been updated and new material, both historical and current, has been added. Today's special sections incorporate the work of many stories by Mrs. Toni Goodyear, John Marshall Jones, W. F.

Cox, Penn Gray and other members of the newspaper staff, photography by staffers Bill Norment, Dewey Bruce and Thomas Patrick. Many old photographs have been searched out, some restored and recorded for another look into the past. Sharing in special preparation has been The Robesonian mechanical department. Previous historical specials during the last 12 months covered the areas of Pembroke-Rowland-Maxton, Red Springs, St. Pauls-Parkton, and Fairmont.

Cruise Ship Fire Claims Unknown Toll Among Crew VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) A I die of smoke inhalation or burns Canadian Coast Guard officer said Saturday an undetermined number of crew members died when an explosion and fire ripped through the forward section of the Norwegian cruise ship Meteor in the Strait of Georgia. All 70 passenger's aboard the ship were reported rescued without serious injury. Sixty-six of them were picked up by the Alaska state ferry Malaspina and brought here. The unidentified Canadian Coast Guard officer from the cutter Racer said "there are dead aboard the Meteor" but there was no official confirmation of the exact number.

An engine room helper, Steiner Bottolfsen, 19, told reporters here he saw some of his mates crew uar ters. He placed the toll at 13. Most of the passengers said they became aware of the explosion when crew members knocked on cabin doors, telling them to report to lifeboard stations. "Nobody 'panicked at all," said passenger Martha Auten of New York City when she arrived here aboard the Malaspina. The Canadian Coast Guard cutter Ready joined the Racer in pouring water aboard the Meteor which was reported listing 15 degrees to larboard by mid- afternoon Saturday.

Radio reports from aboard the ship said a fire crew, left by the ship's captain who was not identified, had the blaze under control for the second time. It was through controlled earlier in the day but erupted again. Crew members not fighting the fire rode in life boats tethered at the Meteor's stern. Halver Ryan, president of North Land Tours of Seattle, agents for the ship, said the vessel left Petersburg, Alaska, last Wednesday and was six hours northwest of Vancouver when the flames broke out at 3 a.m. Saturday.

An immediate distress signal was sent out and at least five ships, including the Malaspina, the Alaska, a Standard Oil tanker and two Coast Guard cutters responded within an hour. "We were about five miles away when we received her distress call and arrived there about half an hour later," said an officer on the Malaspina, which was northbound to Alaska The Meteor is owned by th'a Bergen Lines and operates out- of Rpropn ISTnrwav from Seattle. "We had the passengers and four crew aboard within two hours. They lowered the pas- semgers in their lifeboats, and we lowered ours, and they came aboard that way." Search and rescue officials said the fire appeared to be confined to the forecastle of the Meteor. Also responding were two helicopters and an airplane from Vancouver Island.

The helicopters were 'tsed to shuttle firefighting equipment to the vessel. A spokesman said passengers were loaded into lifeboats to wait for rescue ships. He said the operation was carried out in calm seas with only a slight breeze. of Bergen, Norway. Ryan said the ship 2.85S tons and is He said it has a passenger capacity of 150 and carries a crew of 97.

NO JURY NEEDED 1 Jurors summoned foe-, duty in Superior Court next week need report, according io an announcement from the sheriff's office. are no jury a scheduled for the ses- sion. Johnson Library Opened In Texas Ceremony lij OAlv i rl i i i By GARTH JOXES Associated Press Writer AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) For- I UL. 1 UAJiJ mer President Lyndon Baines brary and told an audience in- School Heads Out In Maxton Move MAXTOiV The school board replacement for David Singley, the Carolinian" First here, which Thursday night I superintendent, who has been Johnson gave the nation Satur-1 eluding President Nixon: "It's- day 31-million documents com- all here: the story of our time- prising the bulk of the LBJ Li- with the bark off." Johnson added, "There is no record of a mistake, nothing critical or ugly or unpleasant, that is not included in the files friend and foe to to approve or disap- Union National Bank environmental award at the banquet.

The award, which will be given for the time next year, will be presented to the Jaycee chapter in each of the six divisions that makes "the most important or effective contribution to its area's environment," Hope said. He added that a special JAYCEES Page 2-A) and ending with the most prosperous era we have ever inown," as the former presi- with the system for about 18 board also declined declined to renew the contracts of the school superintendent and the high school principal, did to renew the contract of Bever" renew the contract of the assis-! ly Mclntyre high school lant high school principal and principal. Mrs. Hagler said she appointed a committee to find a did not know of any reasons replacement superintendent. why the two men should be According to Mrs.

J. B. reliev ed. Hagler, chairman of the board Maxton school board elections who confirmed the board's ac- have already been held. Three lions to The Robesonian, a com- new members will take office mittee was appointed to find a (See SCHOOL Page 2-A) Flying to Austin for the dedi-i sador to the United Nations and here.

judge, prove. 1 He spoke before an audience that included, in addition to Nixon, -the vice president of the United States, two Cabinet members and a U.S. ambassador. They joined 5,000 other invited guests on the freshly sod- ded lawn in front of the block- like marble structure that architects call modern monolithic. The library opens to the public Sunday.

The documents housed in the library on the University of Texas campus here cover the 40! dent put it. Nixon said the library "contains more items by far than any other presidential library yet established." Some documents, however, are buried in a basement vault and may never be made available to researchers or the They are classified as state secrets. Nixon, paying tribute to his predecessor and accepting the library in the name of the American people, said Johnson put the nation above party. "He was'a-vigorous leader of his party. But I knew, and President Eisenhower knew, that wherever the great issues of national security were concerned, he wpuld always be a partisan cation were Vice President Spiro T.

Agnew, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally --a. former Texas governor-and George Bush, U.S. ambas- years of Johnson's public life-- of principle and not a partisan "beginning with the depression of party." a former U.S.

representative from Texas. The Rev. Billy Graham gave the invocation at the dedication. About 300 peace demonstrators were stopped several blocks away by officers, at- though they tried to outflank tha police at times. Johnson told the guests: "A president sees things from a unique perspective.

No ona (See JOHNSON Page 2-A) Army Chief, Leaving Post Admits To Vietnam Doubts WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor, leaving after six troubled years, said Saturday he has doubts in hindsight about U.S. involvement in Vietnam. But he feels "it may turn out on balance to have been the wise thing to do." strong doubt that the Nixon ad- the cost of Vietnam in terms of ministration can achieve its goal of an all-volunteer armed forces by mid-1973. He estimated the Army would fall at least 100,000 men short if the draft is not extended two years.

the divisive effects were not anticipated, or at least were underestimated." acknowledged that "ws underestimated the difficulty in a new kind of military opera Army since the early days of At the same time, the out- the U.S. buildup in Vietnam in A A Resor, who has managed the tion," but added "We have going Army secretary voiced Stripper Found Guilty Of Indecent Exposure CHARLOTTE (AP) A big-1 topless danging. Morganna had definition of indecent exposure. bosomed stripper who gained local fame by dancing naked and national fame by vaulting onto playing fields to kiss athletes has been convicted of indecent exposure. But District Court Judge Howard Arbuckle did not pass sentence on the strip-tease dancer, 23-year-old Morganna Roberts, because he said the law under which she was convicted was unenforceable.

a a a charged Thursday night 'with indecent exposure under a recently passed city ordinance making exposure of the buttocks, breasts or pubic area a misdemeanor. A second ordinance imposed her license. A policeman who watched her act at a local night spot and arrested her said in court Friday she performed simulated sexual acts with an object resembling a snake. But the judge dismissed that, saying the ordinance fails to mention sex acts. A second charge--that she showed simulated pubic hair- was disputed by her attorney as he exhibited a G-string made of ostrich feathers that he said Morganna was wearing.

The attorney, Michael Plu- mides, who helps run the club, maintained only Morganna's buttocks, of the prescribed areas, were showing during her Morganna herself told the 1965, spoke to newsmen a day after the Pentagon announced he will leave within a few weeks to return to his New York law practice. Asked whether he would say he has doubts now about U.S. entry into Vietnam, the 53-year- old Army secretary replied, "Yes, I think I would." He indicated he has learned as we've Resor said "I think the use ol military power in Vietnam has been much more effective in the last two years," and that "we came to a much more matura and deeper recognition that not just military power" but a strategy involving economic and political measures was necessary. The acid test of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, he indi- judge the one visible part of! si and that he is awaiting fu- her body mentioned in the law! ture developments before mak- was "the part where the doctor ing up his mind completely.

reached a personal final conclu- cate will be whether the South gives you the shot." Vietnamese can stand on their own feet finally and defend themselves while maintaining a I think the wisdom of our en- viable government. "I think J. Robert Rankin, a district try into Vietnam can't be as- there is a good chance they prosecutor, asked Morganna if she exposed pubic hair in the I C3 sessed conclusively until we see can," he said. hypograstic region, the term velops," he said, used in the ordinance to de- (Sce STRIPPER Page 2-A) how the situation eventually de- He said also another test will be "if domestically we recover But, he continued, "I think it i from our discouragement and is clear now in hindsight that' divisiveness." a. $500 license requirement act, and that fell short of the Action Line THIS LITTLE 3-day-old lamb, curious the intrusion of a photographer in the protective pasture of William Carol Foster's Carobil Farms in Brunswick, pranced up to within a foot of the lens.

Mother and friend, more cautious, held back and just looked straight ahead. Wirephoto) ACTION LINE answers questions from readers, with information from local sources. It is concerned with the problems of individuals relating to public agencies services, and with questions of general interest. Write Action line. The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.

or dial 739-4325 to record your question. Why did the Roheson County) proved the project? Farm Bureau i i H. B. Shore, attorney for meetings In a i com-! Urban Renewal in Lumberton, munitics in the county where says to his knowledge, "there is nothing that prohibits a person other than a member, or employee, of the Redevelopment Commission from acquiring an interest in the project area after it has been they formerly held suppers? A spokesman for the Robeson County Farm Bureau says for the past several years it has been the opinion of the bureau's board of directors that the Southern Coastal Area, small craft warnings in effect except for sounds. Clear tcnight with low in low 50s.

Mostly sunny Sunday with high in upper 70s. Clear Sunday night with low in mid 50s. Partly cloudy and somewhat a Monday with high in 80s. Northerly winds -5 to 15 miles per hour through Sunday becoming northeasterly around 10 miles per hour Sunday night and easterly 10 to 15 miles per hour a Precipitation probability near zero through Sunday night. Dr.

Gustafson is married to the former Helen Sherrill of Fayettevilte. They have two children, Glenn, 12, and Sheryl, 8. operation of a county office on designated by the city council a full-time basis is greater service to members than i meetings once a year. Ts it legal for a city councilman to purchase property in the Urban Renewal area after the federal government has tp- the project area," When dors Robeson Mltle Theatre plan to give its next production? Officials of the Robeson Little Theatre say that the next production will be in October or November. WEATHER Gustafson Named Head Of Pembroke Department PEMBROKE Dr.

Robert i Dr. Gustafson is a DanfortfT K. Gustafson, who is completing! Associate, which means he is a his second year as professor a representative of the Danforth Pembroke State University, has Educational Foundation created been named chairman of the in 1927 as a philanthropic cor- Department of Philosophy and poration by the late Mr. and Religion, effective June I. I Mrs.

William H. Danforth of St. Gustafson. 42, is a native Louis, Mo. San Diego, received his B.A.

at UCLA and his Bachelor of Divinity. Master of Theology and Doctor Theology degrees at i Theological Seminary in Richmond. Va. From 1S1-53 he was library officer and instructor at the Psychological Warfare School at Fort Bragg. From 1957-58 he served as minister of the Montpolier Presbyterian Church at Wagram.

In 195S, he became associate professor of Bible and religion at Flora Macdonald College at Red Springs. He was a member of original faculty at St. Andrews Presbyterian College from 1961- i serving as associate pro-: Book Page Hei-ior of i i a 7B philosophy. there, he chairman of Ihe P.ihle Department and program advisor. During the 1938-60 school year, he was dean Southeastern Community College at prior to ROBERT K.

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