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VOLUME XLU NO. 35
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948
RAEFORD, N^ C.
S2Jt FEB YEAR
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■ ■ Editor
THE OLD FOLKS used' a rule-
of-thumb or something last Silh-
day and Monday when the light
snow of Friday night kept hang
ing around. They said it would
snow again, and sure enough
snow it did' on Tuesday night,
although not quite so much as the
first time. Most of that, melted
yesterday, so we don’^ know just
what the prediction is now,
%tS. T. F. CULBRETH, who has
been quite sick for about 10 days
and who lost her husband on
Christmas Day, was taken to
Moore County hospital Monday in
a critical condition. Reports yes
terday were that her condition
was somewhat improved.
' THE GLEE CLUB of the Univer
sity of North Carolina may ap
pear at the Hoke County High
school on Saturday night,
ruary 28. The appearance is to be
under tiie auspices of the Hoke-
Raeford Parent-Teachers associ
ation and the Chaminade music
club of Raeford. Representatives
of these groups were planning to
complete ^angements with Un
iversity authorities yesterday. 'Hie
/i^taging of this concert here by
’^these local groups is quite so
aishieveme^ and is deserving o:
tlie wholdiearted support of the
community. By this we mean
buy a ticket and go. You’ll, fine
it pleasant as well as educational
As another columnist in this
paper says quite often, “Singing
is a lot of Fun.”
the.iilfeath by burning of Charlie
McDonald in Little i^iver town
ship failed to uncover any more
information as to the origin of
the fire or as to a motive if it
was th6 action of persons unknown
^arm Bureau Sends
Voting Delegates
To State Convention
Hoke County Farm Bureau will
have two voting delegates, in ad
dition to a sizable contingent of
regular delegates, at the annual
convention of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau in Asheville, Feb.
1, 2, 3 and 4, Richard Neeley,
county president,' has announced
Delegates from the county who ex
pect to attend the convention are
John Parker, E. C. Smith, Jr., and
H. B. Walters. Tommie Upchurch,
chairman of the State Bureau’s
committee on cotton commodities,
and Richard Neeley expect to go
:o Asheville Sunday and return
Monday. r>
“The number of voting dele
gates representing a county Farm
Bureau is determined By the total
memberdiip of the local unit,”
Neeley pointed out. “In all, there
will be 344 voting Jdegates at
the meeting, reprwenting the
statewide membership of 70,805.
“Voting delegates are elected
by the county units to act ^n re-
solutioiK presented to the annual
meeting by the 75 county Farm
Bureaus in the state.. The resolu
tions, submitted before the state
organizaion only after full con^-
sideration on the county level,
touch upon various problems and
policies affecting North Carolina
agriculture. Without doubt, the
work of the voting delegates is
as important as any action taken
at our annual meetingc, for their
i ^
decisions touch upon the organi
zation’s whole program for the
year to come.”
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THE FEDERAL LAND BANK’I
man in this section, J. C.. Cul-
breth of Lumberton, was quite
complimentary to J. A. McGoo-
gan the other day about Hoke
County’s tax rate. He said that
many counties were, raising their
rates. McGoogan says he replied
that this county was not doing
this and at present had no inten
tion of doing so, as the county’s
'' present income is sufficient.
MISS JEAN GRAHAM, supervisor
of the polio ward at the Ortho
pedic home in Asheville, and Rae
ford' native, has been selected to
attend a three weeks course in
polio nursing at Knickerbocker
hospital in New ' York starting
February 9. This hospital is op
erating under the auspice of tiie
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
HARLEY ADAMS is the mew po
liceman who was employed re
cently. He is from Dundarrach at
present and is a native of Ok
lahoma.
WETRE KNOCKING ON WOOD
' at the fact that there has not
been a serious vehicle accident
r4ported in the county in the past
week, with driving conditions a-
bout as bad as they could be.
We’re lucky at any rate, but let’s
hope we’re learning to be care
ful with cars, deadly weapons
that they are.
IT GOT SO COLD in Colorado
yesterday that a thermometer was
reported to have burst when the
mercury fell to 46 below zero.
Personnel at the weather station
where iit happened saw an alco-
' hoi thermometer nearby drop on
down to 50 below,
ttr- ' ■ ---r "'O,
# PRY' TOMORROW
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tomor
,; foW' afteriiobn’at .the, . home .pi'
' Shfpes in .the yiUajce
^ginidiig at nobtt -and lastinj|{
iiiiiifl ' • PF eight .o’clock. ThP
affair is for the benefit of the
Church of God Building fund
and the public is invited.
The 1948 convention, which
will be highlighted by addresses
b^^^^ders i» eg
riculture, industry, labor and' gov
ernment, is regarded as a mile
stone in the progress of Farm
Bureau in the state, Neeley said,
Leading the South once more in
membership, he added, the North
Carolina Farm Bureau is looked
upon as one of the strongest state
units in the entire organization
of 1,275,180 farm families and is
expected to continue to show the
way in Southern farm leadership.
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y^rs. Annie Glisson
Is Buried Tuesday
Charlotte Man
To Speak On
Baptist Hour
idl Gibson Shoots
>ougald McDougald
At Filling Station
DR. C. C. WARREN
“WHY THE CHURCH” TO
BE SUBJECT OF TALK
BY DR. WARREN
r ^ be a, fish fry
. f^^v^jterfiobn’ at .the , hoi
Ahanta, Jan. 26—“Why the
phurch” is the subject of “The
Baptist Hour” for February 1st,
to be heard over Station
at 8:30 A. M., with Dn,Ct-C. A^ar-
ren of Charlotte, N. as speaker.
“Church, Youth, and the Home'
will be considered in February,
under the general theme, “Divine
Light For Daily Living,” it. was
announced today by the Radio
Commission of the Southern Bap
tist Convention, Atlanta, S
Lowe, Director. Dr. Warren, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
Charlotte, will be heard the first
two Sundays, while Professor
Charles Wellborn, Waco, Texas,
will speak the middle Sunday,
anid' Dr. Ted F. Adams, Richmond,
Virginia, the last two.
A popular feature of each pro
gram of “The Baptist Hour” is a,
favorite hymn, determined by a
I Milton Campbell
Funeral Held
Last Friday
Ed Gibson, who works for Mrs.
Stutts at the filling station at
Puppy Creek, came to town Mon
day night and turned himself in
to peace officers, saying that he
had accidently shot his nephew,
Dougald McDougald, at the Stutts
filling station.
McDougald was hit in the hip
and while at first his injuries
were thought to be quite severe
the wound proved' to be only a
flesh wound and he is expected
to recover shortly.
Gibson was incarcerated in the
county jail and stayed there un
til yesteitday when he was re
leased unlder a bond of $200. He
told officers that there were lad
ies in the station where he work
ed on Monday night when Mc
Dougald came in. He said Mc
Dougald had apparently been
idrinking and was talking roiigh
and that he ^ed to get him to
leave. He &id .that he had the
.32 caliber pistol with the inten
tion of intimidsiting McDougald I ESTEEMED CITIZEN DIES
and getting him to leave. His in- IN FAYETTEVILLE
tention was to shoot into the floor | THURSDAY A. M.
the officer? say :he said.
No bill of iadictment had been I The community was
drawn against him yesterday, | to learn last Thursday
LOCAL BALL PARK TO HAVE
LIGHTS BY BASEBALL SEASON
Recorder Disposes
Of Ten Cases In
Court Tuesday
JESSE JAMES McCASKILL
HELD FOR SUPERIOR
COURT; $500 BOND
GROUPS EXERT UNITED
EFFORT TO PROMOTE
NECESSARY $8000
pending the final recovery of Me- | death of
Dougald.
Ten cases were cleared from
the docket in Hoke County re
corder’s court Tuesday morning
before Judge Henry McDiarmid
and sevearl others involving
drunkenness and driving drunk
were continued for trial at a lat
er date.
George Morrison, colored man
of Raeford, was found guilty of
driving drunk and sentence of 90
days was suspended on payment
of $100,and the costs.
Corporal Pleas O'. Teague of
Fort Bragg, paid $25 and the costs
for driving without a driver’s
license. The jiSdge’s severity may
shocked I be explained by the fact that the
of the!corporal had previously failed to
Milton Campljell, 66,1 appear for trij^i when cited and
MILTON CAMPBELL
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Reserve illiits Will
Train At l^t. Bragg
Mrs. Annie Belle Glisson, 63,
die! at her home here Sunday
afternoon. She had been confined
to her bed for nine years.
She was the daughter of the
late Alexander Black and Julia
Anne Maxwell Black of Robeson
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county. She was the widow of
the late Thad Glisson.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon at Ephesus
Baptist chiurch by the Rev. J. D.
Whisnant and the Rev. E. B.
Booker. Burial was in„ the ceme
tery at the church.
Surviving are four sons, John
Glisson of Dundarrach, Lawrence,
William and Claude, aU of Rae
ford; one daughter, Mrs. Ruby
Parnell of Raeford, and two sis
ters, Mrs. Mallie Porter of Tlkyr-
tle Beach, S. C. and' Miss Mamie
Black of Raeford.
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ATTEND SCOUT COUNCIL
IN FAYETTEVILLE WED.
one of its leading citizens and I officers had to go after him.
town officials, at a Fayetteville Sylvina Stater and Theodore
hospital early that morning. Mr. j Feinbur^, both white tourists,
Campbell had suffered a heart at-1 failed to apear for trial for speed-
tack about three years ago and ihg and their bonds of $5Q each
had retired' from active work a-Lwere forfeited.
It was learned today that about years ago on his doc- j W. J. Council, colored of Bla-
six units of the North Carolina j advice. His final illness be- j den county, paid $10 and the
'Organized Reserve will train atlg^j^ early Monday morning' of [costs for driving a truck on the
Fort Bragg dui^ng the period Lggt ^j^eek and he was taken to I highway with improper brakes.
Aygust 1 throu^, 15. In addition, hospital Wednesday where he! Molten Harris, colored; man
an ur^etennijw^ number of juassed away_ at about ttiree who threw a-* brick ti^ugh 1
ganized reserve units from other I Thursday. I window of an occupied'ear, got
states will also participate in this - Ljays to be suspended on payment
training. North Carolina units at Mr. Campbell was a native of Uf ^25 and the costs, the repair
Fort Bragg will consist of a para- moke County, having been born Iq^ ggj. ■y^7indow to be paid for
chute infantry regiment, a para- about four miles from where the fine,
chute field artillery battalion, and htaefond' now is in the part of the Jpssp JaTne; MoCaskill mlnrpd
supporting units. Including units county that was then Robeson. sanatortor' eSy^
from other states, it is believed | He was a son of the late James the larceny of two trunks
poll among six and a half million
Southern Baptists, and in which
all interested listeners are invit
ed to take part. The hymn rank
ing ninth in favor will be fea
tured on the Febn^ary, 1st pro
gram.
Clyde Upchurch,. Jr., comman
der of the Ellis Wtllianison Amer
ican Legion post, stated yesterday
that lighting equipment for the
ball park here had been ordered
and th-at wire, lights, poles, re
flectors, etc. was expected to ar
rive by the middle of next month.
The transformei? are expected
some time in April and Upchurch
said they expected to have the
lights ready for operation by this
year’s baseball season.
The financing of the project is
quite a sizable undertaking and is
being handle in a variety of ways.
The American Legion post has
on hand now from various sour
ces (gifts, dances, etc.) about
$1750, Upchurch said. The post
has arranged to borrow_$2000 and
the High School Key club is en
deavoring to raise an amount of
money to pay this note.
Other local sources have un
derwritten the project to the ex
tent of $4000, to l)e made avail
able when the Legion post gets
the other $4000, the whole deal
is expected to cost almosto$8000.
If the county gets the park in
good repair by baseball season
and the American Legion’s sche
ming turns out, as it seems it wfll,
there should be an exc^ent base
ball installation' h«re" by warm
weather.
The High School Key club is
asking various individuals in the
ject and to date the s^ of $305.50
has been contributedll Those con
tributing are as follows:
Etewitt Tapp
R. B. Lewis
K. A. MacDonald
Edna E. Rackley
organized reserve troops I and Christian MePhatter Camp-g raincoat,‘was ordered held McDiarmid
training at Fort Bragg wiU c^n-|bell of Robeson c6unty and was | foj. ^^al in Superior court when
it appeared that the value of the
stitute at least a division. The | born May 12, 1881.
North Carolina Military District
is now working on plans for this 1 He was married in 1911,
the
training, and will set up a head- year that Hoke county was form-
trunks was more than $50. Bond
was set at $500.
Willie B. Murchisoif, colored of
Aberdeen, paid $10 anji the costs
for speeding.
James R. Shue, white man of
quarters at Fort Bragg on or a- I ed, to Miss Maiy Estella Howell
bout June 1 to coordinate active I of Robeson county and that same
duty training. In additiion to yeax opened a grocery store here,
units training at Fort Bragg, ot- He ran this business'until his re-
her North Carolina Organized Re- irement ^ spended on payment of the costs
serve units will tram at Fort Ben- two years ago smee which time driving drunk
ning during the coming sunnmer. he was associat^ with sons McKinnon, colored,
in the running of the store.
«• ^ paid $50 and the costs for carry-
_ i k I Campbell was a member of ing a concealed weapon. Sentence
t TT ^ "I board of oommissioners 6f the |of 60 days was suspended.
* Town of Raeford at the time of
his death and or about a quarter
of a century before. He was an
, ^ X J . elder in the Raeford Presbyterian
early date. Dr. Wilcox ^so ^stat^ | ^
Woodmen of the World.
BY K. A. MACDONALD
Clothing Being
Collected Here
The annual dinner and meei^ng
of the Cape Fear Area council of
the Boy Scouts of America was
held Wetdnesday evening of last
week in the Fayetteville High
school cafeteria. There were over
100 persons present at the merit
ing which was held in special re
cognition of scoutmasters, cubr
masters and senior leaders of the
council area.
Dr. W. T. Rainey was elected
Council president, succeeding L.
E. Woodbury. Dr.'R. L. Murray
was elected he^th and' safety
chairman fo^ the coiinclil,
Aftendiiig' from RaefoM wero:
J^ W. ' Turlington, scoutmaster
Mr. and Mrs; A;"H. li^.'
and Mrs. Israd Mann, .with Nttl-
ton and Shirley, and Dr. and Mrs.
R. L, Murray andi Robert, Jr.
Mrs. Archie Howard is still
substiituting at Mildouson for
Miss McGregor, whose mother is
still ill.
Mr. J. M. Osteen, district su
pervisor of agricultural education,
was a visitor in town yesterday.
He came to see the possibility of
organizing a veterans’ farm train
ing class in agriculture for the
Indian veterans.
We have 72 white veterans en
rolled with four teachers and a-
bout 60 colored veterans with
three teachers. These teachers of
the veterans work under the su
pervision of the teachers of vo
cational agriculture at the Hoke
and Upchimch high schools.
Mrs. Treva T. Koonce, primary
teacher at Rockfiish, states that
her first grade had 100% in at
tendance on Tuesday. This is an
example in good attendance that
could well be followed by every
grade in the county.
The epidemic of mum^s that has
plagued' the Rockfish school simee
school opened seems to have wan
ed. We hope that no new cases de
velop.
Dr. J. M. Wilcox, district health
officer, atmehmees a white
'dentist will ‘he in ■the county-next
'week. schedule has beeh ar-
ranged', but aotiees .will be sent
to the various principals at an
that he expects a colored dentist
within a short time.
Clyde Upchurch, Jr., county
chairman of the “Fill a Ship with
Funeral services were conduct- I Friendship,” drive going on all
An eye clinic for Negro child- I gd by his pastor, the Rev. W. B. over North Carolina this week,
ren will be held at the Health De- Heyward, at the Raeford Presby- I said yesterday that the drive
partment on February 10 and 11. terian church at three o’clock might be continued for a few
A schedule of hours will be sent Friday afternoon. Pallbearers I days due to the unusually bad
to the principals next week. | -were Tom McBryde, Kerr Ste- weather experienced this week.
vens, Harry Greene, Neill Me- “Over 95 counties in North
There was a special meeting ofjFadyen, Dan Meinnis, J. H; Blue, Carolina have organized for
the Hoke-Raeford PTA held this n. B. Sinclair and Marcus Smith, house-to-house'collection of over-
week for the purpose of securing The elders of the church and the seas relief supplies,” he said,
a college glee club to give a con- remaining d^cons were honor- “and Hoke is expected to do its
cerf for the schools. Several glee ary pallbearers. Burial was in the part.” Upchurch is heading the
clubs have been approached. | Raeford cemetery. | drive for the collection of cloth
ing, bedding, shoes and' house-
At the Upchurch school today I Surviving are his widow; three I bold supplies and is being assist
a special check on pupil progress daughters, Mrs. N. A. Mercer of gd by many organizations, in
in arithmetic and spelling in Lumberton, Mrs. Jack Walters of eluding schools, churches, clubs
grades four to seven is being I Norfolk, Va., and' Mrs. Angus I and others,
made. This check is a part of an I Currie of Red Springs; two sons, I g-
all-year program to improve the Milton, Jr., and Jack Campbell j gj|QQrp|^Q SATURDAY PM
pupils in these subjects. of Raeford; two brothers, Joe
Campbell of Shannon and Dan J. I Last Saturday night Albert
A Bible teacher will be in the I Campbell of Raeford; three sis- McKinnon was shot in the leg
colored schools of the county dur-l'iers, Mrs. J. E. Conoly and Mrs. g pistol by a relative. Rob
ing the month of February. This Angus McKenzie of Raeford and gj.^ Lee McKinnon, in the colored
teacher will be at Upchurch dur- [Mrs. Charlie Joh^on of Shannon; jgafe downtown Raeford. He Was
ing the first week of the month. I five grandsons, one granddaugh- I taken to a Fayetteville hospital
The rest of her itinerary will be ter and several nieces and nep-1 where he is recovering. Both
announced later. She 'comes un- Ihews. ^ | men are colored) and both state
der the auspices of the Auxiliary
of Fayetteville Preriiytery.
A. P. Seaford
J. A. Baucom
Julian Wright
Clyde Upchurch, Jr.
Alfred Cole
E. C. Smith, Jr.
Priice Morris
K. McD. King
HaUie L. Gatlin
Robert H. Gatlin
L. J. Tapp
Progressive Store
Raeford Auto Co.
N. B. Sinclair
Hotel Raeford
Mrs. Agnes Johnson
W. T. Gibson
Mrs. H. L. Gatlin
Neill L. Senter
D. G. Gordon
R. L. Moss
Paul Dezerne
F. G. Leach
H. L. Autry
Dixie Guano Co.
Raeford Furniture Co.
J. F. Jordan
F. L. Eubanks
J. H. Plummer, Jr.
J. L. Beall
R L. Carter
A. S. Knowles
J. R. Hendrix
Dr. J. F. Jordan
Martin L. Webb
Jinujiy Plummer
E. A. Winecofl
G. V. Baker
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I that the'shootimg was an accident,
Mrs. Lewis Parker underwent U was indictment tor
, ... . .a minor operation at Highsmith the shooting. The one with tlte
Stanley McKmnon, janitor tor Tuesday. She is recover- Pistol was fined by Judge Mc-
the Upchurch school expects tosatisfactority and expect? topiannWi|tt recorder’s eourt Ttiet-
be back on the job to a few days ^he first of however* for cai^tog a con-
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WILLIAM A. WATSON
DIES AT RED SPRINGS
William Alexander Watson, a
lifelong resident of Red Spri-ngSv
died at his h-ome there at S.'S©
o’clock last Friday morning. Be
was the son of the late Neal
Brown. Watson and Flora Oatbe-
rine Watson.
Surviving are one sister, Mtoi
Mamie Watson end »e hrotoar,
J. A. Watsm, both Rad l^rtogs.
Funeral servket ware eoeliaci-
ed at the home Sateday altat-
nooB bar the Rev. J^.W, lltom and
the Rev. HMmag. A. fky. Botol
was to Mdfaitt'
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