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• «5'i ■'■Jt.;*-;;' '-'iW im ■ > VOICE or IRCEOOM WMM» \) •V' GIMROIAH OFUBEimr VOICE or tutoom hOMI The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal CUMM/'lt oruscftn VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 4 THURSDAY, JUNE 21,1951 RAEFOBD, K. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY S2.00 PER YEAR YOU and YOUR .CONGRESS What is a small business? The question has never been answered to the general satisfac tion of those who ask it most fre quently —Including businessmen themselves. It has been raised time and Boys Learn About Various Branches Of Government Various branches of city, coun ty, state and Federal government were discussed in detail in Chapel Hill at Tuesday’s sessions of the American ,Legion Tar Heel Boys’ State. George Ross, director of the State Department of Conservation and Development, describing the opdratioa of that department, told the 300 high schot*! students at tending the session^ik, the univer sity this week that/M is the duty buying of all sorts of things sky rocketed after Pearl Harbor In 1942 Congress decided that small business needed assistance in the war productioh i^ogram. So it created the Smaller War Plants Corp. as part of the War Production Board. At that time the question was asked repeatedly:, what constitutes a “.Small” business? It was a new c^uestion for Con gress and no satisfactory answer to it was obtained. Congress fin ally settled for the definition that ' any establishment employing 500 persons or-'less was a small busi ness. Then it-became^ evident, almost immediately,’'that a business em ploying 500 persons may be small . in one particular industry—steel making, for example—and large *dn 'another—such as tool and die making. But nothing was done about that. . ^ Then in im the Selective Ser vice Act 'ad^d 500-em ploye stiptiteilon the requirements in-A' ;dependently owned and operated and must n,ot be dominant in its trade or industry. Subsequently,, however, the military procurement agencies do ing business with small business protested that the-,“independent” and “ddminan’^’ tests simply would not work. So Congress agreed to permit the Defense Department and the General Services Administration, which is the federal'government’s big, non-military purchasing a- gent, to ignore those two tests. Now the Question has arisen again. Small businesses of various sizes have complained to Congress that they are not getting a fair break in the defense program— not getting an equitable portion, of government contracts. As a result of these protests, , there are bipartisan movements in both the House and Senate to set up -a Small Defense Plants Corp. These movements are steads ily gathering strength and it is likely that if legislation reaches the voting stage there will be a SDPC. Genera ily speaking, it would be patterned after the old Smaller War Plants Corp., which ended its days of an independent bu reau and never did give .Congress a final report on its accomplish ments. The latter since have been the subject of considerable argu ment, with many critics contend ing that the old SW'PC took credit for a lot of things it didn’t do. Meanwhile, the question again is being heard in Congress:, what it a small business? The old yardsticks, it has been . decided, are not suitable. Therefore, those in Congress who are working in behalf of a Small Defense Plants Corp. have decided that one of the new agency’s very first tasks should be to decide which businesses really are small. It is proposed that the new fagency survey all industries and ■ then determine on an industry- l^--industry basis which concerns are small business. This would be no small job. There are some 400,000 manufac- ' turing establisfflnents in the coun try. Before tackling that job, how ever, the ’ agency would have to (Continued on Page 4) Spuds Or Tomatoes, Plant Is Explained again in Congress, particularly since the days when government's; the governmetitf to conserve ^the resources of th^state for full ^effectiveness.” ■ He said the department of con servation nad development “ad vertises the natural resources of the state and has . provided for conservation of thp resourcesJ He also suggested h^the boys- that they start planting:' trees now so that there will be a perpetual crop of timber by the time the boya are grown. George Esser and Henry Lewis, assistant directors of the Institute of Government, -which is conduct ing the Boys’ State, discussed the legislative branches'of city, coun ty, State and Federal govern ments, and the democratic pro cess of elections in these branches, respectively. Present at the sessions this week from Hoke County are John McSLauchlin and Josh Scull, sent by the Ellis Williamson American Legion post. Cotton, Tobacco, Peanut ^rice Outlook ^Goodi, ^^lysiReview Lawrence Lee, Butler, who farms on the-W. M. Thomas place, brought in an Irish potato plant last Thursday with what appeared to be tomatoes about one inch in diameter growing on it and potatoes on the roofs—where they belong. This appeared to be very cur ious until about Friday when the Sandhill Citizen from Aberdeen came in with an article on the same thing ‘showing up there. They apparently thought it quite a thing, too, and something that had never been heard of. Tommie Upchurch saw the plant in The News-Journal office, though, and remarked “Well, I see that old potato-tomato cur iosity has turned up again.” He then said that he had heard of it several times before and said htat in his opinion it was nothing more or less than the potato plant trying to go to seed, and that the things on it were not tomatoes at all. For all we know, that may be right. 0 Draft Call No Bar To Joining Service ff Listen, fellows, even if you’ve received your draft call it’s not too late to enlist in the Army or Air Force. Fayetteville recruiting main station has been advised by the Secretary of Defense that, ef fective June 15 through July 15, “selective service registrants who have been given, pre-induction notification and!or pre-induction physical , and. have. induction noitce may enlist vol- Farraers of Fifth Federal Re serve District states will increase their cotton acreage 39 per* cent, tobacco 14 per cent, and peanut 4 per cent, and the pi;ice outlook for these crops is highly favorable the June issue of the Monthly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reports. A strong export and domestic demand is in prospect for flue- cured ■ tobacco, the Reviews, notes, and “prices should average as high as or higher than last sea son’s 55 cents a pound.” Cotton supplies, it added, are tight. Demand for peanuts is ex pected to be strong, with prices above the 1950 level. The farm labor supply seems “reasonably adeiquate”, the pub lication said, “although the num ber of farmers and hired workers is below last year and some diffi culty in obtaining seasonal work- .'ers is expected.” Farm wage rates, as of April 1, \vere 13 per cent higher than a year ago, it said. Attend Funeral In Aberdeen Saturday Mrs. Kate Blue Graham, oldest one of the children of the late John Blue, founder of the Aber deen and Rockfish Railroad, and Frances, Owen Blue of Aberdeen died at. Moore County hospital last Thursday and was buried at 'Old Bethesda Saturday afternoon. A number of relatives anc. friends from Raeford attended the funeral services. These were Mrs. Kate Blue Covington, Mrs. J. S. Poole, Miss Mayme McKeithan, Mr. and Mrs. Make McKeithan, Miss Marguerite Cameron, Mrs. Bonn|e Blue, John McKay Blue, all first cousins of the deceased, and Mrs. W. B. McLauchlin and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dezerne. —0 PRESBYTERIAN MEN HAVE MONTHLY MEET Committee Makes Recommendations On Marketing Weed untarily in the armed forces”. This extension of enlistment authority opens a large source of potential volunteers for the Army and Air Forcq, Hertofore, youths could not enlist after receiving draft call. Local Co-op Head Gets REA Post Raleigh, June 19—A special study committee of warehouse men today received recommenda tions on mariceting of the 1951 flue-cured tobacco crop. Another committee representing farmer organizations recommend ed to the warehouse group that sales on all fl,ue-cured belts “be opened as ssiv jtobacco is ready to be jferketed.” The farm oilanization commit tee also sHggited that markets of the 'Vir^nialind North Carolina Old belt be gi^An' an earlier open ing date than usual with market operated on ai. limited basis for a while. To prevent ^logging of redry ing plants the committee also sug gested that sails be limited to 4y2 hours per' day, that baskets be limited to 300 pounls and that not more than 40p baskets be sold per hour. .Last year markets bp erated ge&erally on a 51/2 hour basis, but Jt •yi^s necessary to cur tail sales se\^al times to let re drying plantsj.catch up. The bdard i^f governors of the Bright Belt .,t!^arehouse associa tion will- me(^ herp; on June 29 to fix the'opening dates and other sales regul^ons. Before acting it will rece&e the report of the special stud®-committee. Also appewing before the study committee fcay was a delega tion from ffltei Old belt, a dele gation froqlBSinton and Wallace who want^R^eir markets trans ferred fronii^e Easterri'" Carolina belt to the J^uth Carolina and North Caroiira Border and repres«Sintativ^©«f- firmaOt* tbbajdco for exports. The buyers recommended that the markets be operated 5V2 hours per day on the Georgia-Florida belt and 4'2 hours per day on all other belts. Light Session In Recorder’s Court Disposing of a half-dozen cases completed the activity of Hoke County recorder’s court before Judge Henry McDiarmid Tuesday m.orning. Archie Brooks, Indian, pleaded guilty of assault \vith a deadly weapon on his brother-in-law and got 60 days suspended on pay ment of the costs and the hospi tal bill. He entered a plea of no defense to a charge of carrying a concealed weapon and had to pay the costs for this. William H; Odom, white, was charged with driving drunk. The court accepted his plea of guilty of careless and reckless driving and he got 60 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs Gladis Saunders and Norley Franklin Britt, both white, each paid $25 and the costs for driving without driver’s license. ' Dannie McLauchlin, colored paid $10 and the costs for driving with improper brakes. Robert Madison Campbell, col ored, paid $10 and the costs for speeding. Jennings T. Maultsby, -white, came up again for violating the prohibition law, but trial was postponed for a week. — — j^ERSONALS Mrs. Etta McK. Gillis on route 2 has as her guest for a few weeks, her aunt, Mrs. Dora McC. Wright of Winston-Salem. Local Girl To Go j With Methodist Group I ^ On European Tour Here, CheCK uB Sunday. -J.n.e 2-1. . will >6 day 0:' - . ifture for 3''e -Up church. vill be It-avmg fo.' Europe a Youth Caravan sponsored ;y the ' Methodist church. 3; , y .ag the Silver ?/Iet- eor in Hanvet for the trip to Ne'w York, she .viil join several of the other eleven :nembers of her group, including two boys from Florida who -.vill be the only one from outside North Carolina. Soon after their arrival in New York on Monday the, group will assemble to board the “Nelly”, a student ship, for their crossing to Le Havre. France. "IMonday Shows Check Of 800 Plants In Eight Fields Inr'icates Increase In IiVeek a63"^c Mrs. Clarence Browm and chil dren have Returned to Raeford t buyk^fter spending two weeks in Red- Springs with Mrs. Brown’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. McConnaughy. -0- Governor Scott has recently honored Cutler Ballance of St. Pauls, one of the larger farmers and livestock breeders of Robe son County, by appointing him to fill the unexpired term of T. W. Allen of Creedmore on the N. C. Rural Electrification Authority Board. Mr. Ballance has served Hoke, Robeson, Scotland and Cumber land Counties as director of the Lumbee River Electric Member ship Corp., a $2',500,000.00 REA Cooperative, since November of '^£141. He is now president of the lineal cooperative. D. E. Purcell of Reidsville and S. H. Hobbs, Jr. of Chapel Hill were reappointed to the'REA board for a four year term expiring June 5, 1.955. 0 MISS GORE LEAVES ON TRIP TO CALIFORNIA The Men of the Church of the Raeford Presbyterian church held their regularly monthly pieeting and supper in the basement of the church on Tuesday night. Speaker of the evening was the Rev. M. C. McQueen, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Clin- on, whose subject was “Christ- anity and Communism.” Miss Gwen Gore is leaving to day for California, where she will represent The University of North Carolina at the national conven tion of the Kappa Delta sorority in Pasadena. Through the court esy of Kay Kyser, movie star and University alumnus whose wife is a sorority sister. Miss Gore will have an entree into Hollywood while she is in California. In connection with the convention several sightseeing to,urs have been arranged. — 0 BLUE REUNION SUNDAY Plan Revival Service At Community Chaoel Revival services will begin at Community Chapel Methodist church at 3:00 o’clock Sunday af ternoon, June 25, and will con tinue for one week with services being held each night at 8:00 o’ clock. The Rev. J. R. Regan, pastor, will be assisted in the services by the Rev. L. J. 'Whitehead of Aber deen. The public is cordially in vited to attend. 0- Mr. and Mrs. George Wood of Vanceboro spent the week end with Mrs. Wood’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gulledge. They were accompanied' home Sunday by Sarah Anne Gulledge and Joan King to spend the week. Mr. and Mrs. Gulledge also left yesterday for Vanceboro to spend the re mainder of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Wood. Mrs. J. R. Peace, who taught school near Chapel Hill and lived ■ in Chapel Hill during the school term, is visiting her mother. Mrs. Dixie Smith. Mrs. Peace’s husband Sgt. Peace, is with the army in Korea. Misses Eetty McFadyen and Sarah Frances Currie left Sunday for St. Augustine, Florida, to spend this week with some of Miss McFadyen’s relatives. Sgt. and Mrs. Bill Marlar spent Sunday at Wrightsville Beach. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Shaw and children, Robert Shaw of Ever green and Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Floyd and children of Lumberton, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edi son McGirt and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gulledge Sunday. The annual Blue Reunion will be held in Lakeview, N. C., be tween the highway and the lake on Sunday, July 1st according to an announcement by H.j Clifton Blue, clan president. The dinner will be spread, picnic style at 1 p. m. All the Blues and their kit and kin are urged to attend and bring well-filled .baskets. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Monroe had as their guests Sunday Mrs. Monroe’s mother, Mrs. Erado Scarborough, her brother, John A. Scarborough and her sister, Mrs. Housely and son, all of Mt. Gilead. On Monday Mr. and Mrs. Monroe had as their, guests Mr. and Mrs. Lamoore Hairr of Mar ion, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bethea of Dillon, S. C. were guests of Mrs. W. E .Blue, Miss Louise Blue and William Blue Sunday. The first several weeks in Europe will be spent sightseeing in France. Italy, Switzerland and points between, with the tour eventually reaching its goal in Austria, where the group will be gin its work. The purpose of the trip is to participate in church- sponsored youth work with Aus trian and German young people and to act a.> goodwill ambassa dors. Liiiz. Austria, is scheduled to be the .=ce;;e of some real work for the group, for in addition to their regular function of aiding in the organizing of religious pro grams they will accept the invita tion of the Rev. J. P. Bart.ak of the Methodist mission there to help level debris left by bombing so an old barrack can be moved in and made a place of study and prayer for young people. Work of various types will be carried on in other parts of Aus tria as the Caravan works its way into Germany to Berlin dur ing the" early part of August. Ad ditional work will be carried on here for several weeks. The group will then travel through the Neth erlands to England where they will spend about , 10 days before docking in Southampton :or New York where they are scheduled to arrive on September 4. In charge of this group of young' people, each paying his own erc- pe:ises. is the Rev. Forrest Red den of Lumberton. Making up the group are three others from. Lumberton, four Duke University students, two young men The ' weekly sunvey of cotton plants in the county was conduct ed by a representative of the Ex tension service this week, the-fiftli straight check for the boll wee'vil, and the figures for his work dis close a startling and pronounced increase over the number found on the check of June 11. In checking on Monday. June 18. the same eight fields were checked that were checked on the previous test June 11 and on 800 plants 107 'ooll weevil were found as compared to 19 a week before. The checker said it was inter esting to note also that on the treated fields he exa.mined there, were a'oout half as many boll weevil found as in those in which, there had been no effort made at control. Ke said he found eggs laid and grubs ^developing and expressed the opinion that fields which showed such an infesta tion should be treated with dust or' spray without delay. Farmers %vill remember that the farm agent last week recommend ed that each check his o.wn fields for weevil infestation and treat when need was indicated. Since this time it has rained consider ably in most sections of the coun ty and indications are that the weevil is on the increase in most sections. Weevil Score To Date. Per 800 Plants Checked May 21 2 May 28 . June t A June 11 19, June IS 107 Local Girls Attend Legion Girls’ State •Janet Hpdgin. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hodgin, and Joyce Conoly., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. from ' J- L- Conoly, spent last week at Mrs. Kate Covington left Tues day for Sylacauga, Alabama, for a visit with her brother, John Blue, who is quite sick, but has returned to his home from the hospital. While Mrs. Covington is away, Airs. Alax Heins of Sanford is staying in Raeford with her pnot'.'.cr, Airs. J. A. Blue. John ATcLauchlin and Josh Scull are attending Boys- State at Chaoel Hill this week. Miss Anne and Fannette Gore underwent tonsilectomies at Pitt man hospital on Saturday. They returned home Sunday. Mrs. Jim Jenkins ’left Friday for Frederick, Maryland, to spend this week with Mr. Jenkins, who is employed there. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Harris and children spent the week end in Roxboro with relatives. Florida, the director of religious education from the Sanford Meth odist church, and Miss Upchurch. All are in college or have recent ly finished with the exception of Miss Upchurch, who expects to enter next fall. 0 Cotton Blossoms Brought In Friday First cotton blossom of the season to be seen i:: The News- Journal office was brought in Friday fay J. E). AIcCTimnioii of theEdinburgh section of Allen dale township on Red' Springs, Route 3. He raised it on the farm of D. J. Campbell of Alaxton, Route 1. The next one was brought in Monday by Mrs. J. W. Hasty, also of Allendale township. On "Wed nesday Harl Tolar brought in another which he' said he found Monday on Mrs. B. Tolar’s place in Stonewall township in a cotton field sharecropped with Henry Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Maxwell and son, Barry, of Raleigh were week end visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maxwell. ■ ■■ — —— ■ - Mrs. J. M. Williamson of Lum berton and Mrs. George W. Dye and son of Hyattsville, Md., spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Williamson. Buddy McGirt, Tom Alexander and Bill Niven left Friday for Wichita Falls, Texas. They went especially to visit Pfc. Franklin Niven, who is stationed at Shep pard .A.ir Force Base. Mr. and Mrs. Jim. Tillmari and family are spending this week at Carolina Beach. Buddy Upchurch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Staley Upcjhurch of Thomasville, Ga., has accepted a position with Tommie Upchurch for the summer and is rooming with his aunt, Mrs. JuUan John son. Methodists Begin Recreation Program The summer recreation program began at the Raeford Methodist church Friday night with an at tendance of about 35 young people and children. The program will continue throughout the stunmer with three recreational assemblies each week on Alondays, Wednes days and Friday nights from 8:00 until 10:00 o’clock. On Wednes day nights the program will start at 8:30, immediately after the regular mid-week prayer service. All young people in the com munity are invited to attend these assemblies. the American Legion Girls’ State, conducted annually at the Wo man’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. They were sent by the local American LegiOn Auxiliary. They attended legislative and judicial sessions patterned after the real thing, a'nd conducted campaigns for state officers the same as is done in North Caro lina. They then inaugurated these, thus learning the way the State government, is conducted. . AA'iii’e there they w’ent on sev eral trips, including .^ips to the Governor’s mansion in Raleigh, visits to Carolina, Diike and State colleges and seeing an ice skat ing performance at the Coliseum in Raleigh. They left on Sunday and returned the following Sat urday. Homecominir Sunday At Philippi Church Next Sunday, June 24, will be homecoming at Philippi Presby-r. terian church, it was announced this week. Program for the day will in clude Sunday School at 11:15 a. m. and the worship service at 12:15 p. m. The message at this service w-ill be delivered by the ' summer student supply pastor, ^alph-TInderwood. Mr. Underwood is'Tr~Bat|yeo£ Concord tmd has finished his ttest year at the Yale University school of divinity. He arrivq^ last week and will be with the church until mid-September. Following the wroship service a picnic basket dihner will be served on the grounds at about 1:15 o’clock. All are invited to come and bring a basket.