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I -Journal MKfOf mt»om VOLUME XLVl, NUMBER 15 Th^ Hoke County Journal THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,lf5l The Hoke County News ^ RAEFORD, N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPT YOUR SCHOOL NEWS By K. A. MacDonald The white schools of the coun ty are opening today. It is ex pected that there will be an incresae in the total enrollment. The. total enrollment last year for these schools was 1302. All indications point to a ^large in crease in the Raeford Graded and small ones at all the other schools. On Monday night the County Board of Education met in an extended session. The purpose of this meeting was the devising of ways and means of getting the school bond issue building pro jects started. These projects have beenheld up all this time by re fusal of the Division of School- house Planning and Surveys of the State Department of Public In struction to approve the proposed site for the Raeford Graded School addition. It is hoped toy the Boafd that plans worked out at this meeting will work out and that the dead lock will be broken and that the' building will get started. , Hora Macdonald Expects Capacity Student Body We greatly regreat to aimounce the death of L P. Hendrix, prin cipal of the Mildouson school. Mr. Hendrix died rather suddenly, after making preparation to re-- turn to Mildouson to take up hl§^ work for this year. Mr. HendriJ^ was a splendid school man havr ing ha;^ long years of experience:; in school wor^. He was a graduate of Wake College and had versity or NoiW xSronna. He was a native and resident of Davie County.'"He was buried at Fork Baptist Church near Mocksville. Mr and Mrs. T. C- Jones and M-sgt. and Mrs. J. D. Mattock attended the funeral. We sincerely regret losing Mr. Hendrix from the school organi zation and our sympathy goes out to his family and many friends. Mrs. Irene D. Thrower, a mem ber of the Mildouson faculty, will be acting principal until the com mittee i.s able to secure a principal. School Board Chairman Tells What He' Thinks Beginning next Monday, Sep- temlber 111, the schools will go on regular schedule. The schools in the county will open each day at 8:20 and close at 3:30. Those in Raeford will open at 8:30 and close at 3:10. 0 McLEODS IN WRECK IMr. and Mrs. Julian McLeod were involved in a collision north of Raeford last Friday night which was quite destruct ive to both cars and which left Mrs. McLeod with broken wrist. 0 Landon Yarborough of the U. S. Navy, stationed ^at Norfolk, Vir ginia, is spending a leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yar borough Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yar borough and their three children of Charlotte spent last week in the Yarborough home and other vis itors duriny the week-end were Mrs. Willis Holding of Raleigh and Wilson Yarborough of Savannah. Mrs. Holding accompanied Wilson as far as Columbia, S. C. Sunday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Hart man. Yarborough. Mrs. W. B. Crumpton and Miss Maude Poole left Monday for Belmont, where they will teach this winter. Mary Sue Upchurch, who spent the paht two. months in Europe, has arrived in New York and is expected home the last of this week. Mrs. W. E. Blue and J. E. Gil- lis returned Sunday from a visit to their brother, J. T. Gillis in Quitman, Ga. Miss Mary Hazel Whitley re turned to Central Graded School in Fayetteville where she will teach again this year. Dr. and Mrs. Matheson and Alice Sutton are leaving today for Raleigh. Flora Macdonald College anti cipates a. great year with all of its dormitories filled to capacity. At a time when most colleges ex pect a sharp decrease in enroll ment, the Red Springs institution is preparing for a large increase. While the college is unable to care for additional boarding stu dents for the 1951-52 session,, it will be able to accommodate ad ditional day .students. The history of day students at Flora Macdonald College during its 55 years is a story of evolu tion and is of great interest to those living in the area immedi ately surrounding the college. To have a fully accredited college and conservatory in this section of fers amibitious stu^nts an appor- tunity of receiving superior col lege^ training while remaining at home. ' (Many changes have taken place through the years in pro viding increasing comforts and conveniences for day students. Today a delightful room on the dormitory hall, attractively fur nished with easy chairs, couch, tables, and lamips, provide idunge for day students. Also, a ^hower and dressing room are fur nished and the college has erect ed a spedal Ibulletin board for the use of day studwits. The special afternoon and eve ning courses offered for the first time two years ago, have been Exceptionally well attended and have ibeen composed almost entire- lyof students who come in cars, ^^ii^ etmr^Sl'flO^e included-every department of music, including courses in church and school mu sic, pre-med, and pre - nursing courses; classes in sewing and de signing; educational psychology; special courses in speech and drama, shorthand, typing, etc. iMrsI^. C. MdLauchlin of Rae ford, tm past president of the Women of the Church of Fayette ville Church, has begun her du ties as field representative of Flo ra Macdonald College and is avail- * able to guide prospective day stu dents in working but their col lege program. 0—— iMr. and Mrs. William' Alex ander, Jr. and son of Chapel Hill spent the week-end here with relatives. (Miss Shirley Mjann returned home yesterday' after spending the past week at Wrightsville Beach with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Mann, Milton and Joyce, also spent Sunday at Wrightsville. 'Mr and Mrs. James Gordon Currie of Lakeland, Florida, are visiting Miss Florence Gordon and Miss Ellen Currie. iMrs. Glenn Clark of Lumiberton was a guest of Mri Martin Weibb and .Mrs. Mamie Fultz for several days last week. iMrs. Garland Moon and daugh ter, Sandra, of Graham, N. C., who spent last week with Miss Louise Blue, returned to their •home Sunday. iMr. and Mrs. Allen MdGee spent several days last week -with Mrs. H. A. Cameron and other rel atives. On Saturday evening all of the Upchurch family connection gathered at the airport and had a picnic supper in honor of Mr. and Mrs. MoGee and a cousin, Wingate Blanchard of Raleigh, who was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Upchurch. James Alexaiider, accompanied by a friend, Glenn Burns, both of Cramerton spent the week-end with James’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. W'. L. Alexander. iMilton Mann returned home Friday after attending summer school at Columbia University, in New York for the past six weeks. jack McPhaul of Parkton was a guek of his aunt, Mrs. Mitchell Epstein, last Wednesday. Little Diane Grim of Liberty is spending this week with her ^andmother, Mrs. Mary McBryde, She accompanied Mts. McBryde home Sunday. Robert Gatlin,, chairman of the county board of education, haid yesterday that he' felt that the people of this county whose chil dren will be busting out of the seams of some of the schools (particularly Raeford Graded ) today were entitled to know why the buildings for which they vo ted $280,000 had "hot been built. This has been explained briefly by Supt. MacDonald a time or two, and it .boils down to the fact that the Schoolhouse plan ning division of the State dep artment of public instruction is going to have to tell the Hoke County board how to do it. The county board submitted plans to the division on the Up church addition, the Indian school and the Raeford Graded school adition. The first two were ap proved, and the third was dis approved as being “not suitable.” The board being of the opinion that it can get more for the money by getting bids on all three projects at once^ nothing has been done. The plan submitted by the board called for a modem, one- f story building with nine class rooms and a lunchroom to be built on the northeast corner of the block the Raeford Graded school occupies, enabling heat from the old building to be used, enabling one lunchroom to be used by all, and talking up the least amount of playground space. Division said why not build it along the north side of the lot on Donaldson avenue, a Iqog building only one classroom wide? The ^ard won’t do this. Mean time the five extssa ’dassrooHis expected to be needed when school opens today will be the music room, the stock rotonr, the shack in the yard, and possibly two rooms over at the high school if they are an absolute necessity. Under the bureaucratic setup of government today, a county, can’t build a building until the State says o. k., so the board is going to have to come np with something that suits the division before anything is done. ‘ ,0 Death Driver Flees Scene, Then After Thinking, Returns Judge Orders BoltonE Place Padlocked Ait about 8:30 o’clock la^ Sat urday night Charlie Tew, colored, about 40, was hit by a car and killed on the Fayetteville road several hundred yards toward Raeford from the Purol station about a mile outside town. The car kept going. James D. Bro-wn, colored, 39, came in Tuesday morning and gave himself up to the sheriff, saying that, he had 'been the driver of the car' and that he had been afraid to stop. He said that he had gone to a friend’s home on the MoNqill farm about six miles east of Raeford and locked up the car and left it there. He said that he had the friend take him to Aberdeen, from where he went to Baltimore. At any rate, he got ■back by Tuesday and will get a hearing next Tuesday. Brown had returned to Raeford only about a week before from Washington D. C. where he bad been for some time. 0 ■'Mr. and Mrs. Sam Morris and family are away on vacation this week. They are visiting Mrs. Mor ris’. parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Pernell in Louisburg, and friends in Covingtonj West Virginia. Miss Patsy Gentry returned to her home in Roxboro Sunday after spending the past two weeks here in the home of her sister, Mrs. Carlton Niven. Ed Brooks of Burgaw spent La bor day here in the home of his sister, Mrs. I. Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford T^homas had as their guests Sunday, L. A. Lent of Raleigh and Mrs. Sallie Broughton of Garner. Arnold McKay is spending the week in New York and Washing ton. On petition of Malcolm Seawell,; solicitor of the Superior Court, supported by affidavits from town officials. Judge R. Hunt Parker last week in Fayetteville signed an order temporarily pad locking Bolton’s Place, just inside the town limits on the Latirin burg road. He ordered the de fendants,' Robert. T. Bolton, Inez S. Bolton and William C. Lewis, to appear before him at 2:30 on September 11 in Lumtoerton to show cause'why the order should not be made permanent. Seawell’s petition was support ed by affidavits from Mayor W. L. Poole, Town Commissioner A. V. Sanders, Police Chief H. E. Dees and Policeman C. J. McNeill. All ^ated that Bolton’s place was run as \a place for drinking and the sale of liquor and that it constituted a public nuisance. 0 Hubbard Retui’ning To Manage Collins (J. Irving Hubbard, manager of Colins Department store here for several years, and lately man ager of Collins in Lake City, S. C., will again manage the local Store, Thad Lowder, temporary manager, shid this week. Hubbard is expected to take over on Sep tember 17. Lowdeit, also a former mana ger here, is from the Aberdeen store and is here in the interim between John Draughon’s sep aration last month and Hubbard’s arrival. eiXJ?ects to open the Bon Mart in the Benner Building very soon. 0 Sgt. John Blue, Jr., of Sylacaugia Alabama, was a week-end guest in the home of his unde and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Blue. On Labor Day Sgt. Blue, Neill James Blue and Miss Bonnie Kate Blue at tended the auto races at Darling ton, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hampton had as their guests several days las't week and the first of this week Mr. Hampton’s two sisterh’ Mrs. J. A. Fagean of Columbus, N. C. and Mrh. Iva Hodge of Ruther- fordton, and his brother, D. C. ■Hampton of Huntin^on, West, Virginia. Sgt. and Mrs. Howard Pope and two sons have rented the new house of Belton Wright’s across the highway from Mr. Wright’s home, and moved into it Saturday. Sgt. Pope returned last week from Arizona where he was stationed for seve/al weeks. He has been reassigned to Fort Lee Virginia, for the time being, but Mrs. Pope and children will re main here to make their home. Friends of Mrs. J. B. Hoyl, who is with her daughter, Mrs. Tommie Upchurch are interested to know that she has been able to be out ride and is slowly improving. She for a ride and is slowly improving. She fell in the late Spring and hah been unable to walk since. Mrs. J. B. Mclnyre and Major and Mrs. Milo Postel returned Tuesday after spending several days at the McIntyre cottage at Myrtle Beach. J. B. McIntyre joined them for the day Tuesday. 'Mr. and ■ Mrs. Sonny McIntyre, who went down to the cottage last Thursday, remained for a longer stay. Miss Gwen Gore returned to Raeford from California Monday^ after having spent the summer on the West Coast. In June M|^s Gore represented the University of North Carolina chapter of Kappa Delta at its National Convention in Pasadena. Miss Mary Ann Smoak, daught er of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. S'moak of Ashley Heights, has left for Mon- treat to enter her Junior year at Montreat College. Mrs. P. O. Lee and Mrs. Jesse Gibson of the Methodist Church are attending a School of Mission at Greensboro College this week. They left Sunday ond are expect ed to return tomorrow. Kiwanis Club Holds Election Thursday Night The Raeford Kiwanis clt* e- lected its 1952 officers at the Icliu&fis regular weekly meeting last Thursday night, and Marion H. Gatlin Was elected president. The new officers chosen will be installed at the club’s regular Ladies night next January. John W. McPhaul was elected vice-president and the following were picked for directors; R. H. Gatlin, J. W. Cabaday, Israel Mann, Harvey Gobeille, Toon Mc Bryde, Dr. R. L. Murray, and W. ih Fann. Program for tonight, will be presented by Israel Mann. His speaker will be Rabbi Jerome G. Tolochka, of Kinston, who also serves as part-time chaplain at the Marine base at Camp Lejeune. 0 John L. Maultsby Is In Jail Again; May Go To Raleigh John L. Mault^y, white, who got out of jail last week under $2000 bond after failing to ap pear for trial in Superior Court, got in again Friday and is still there. 'He was picked up Friday near the Negro Sanatorium for being drunk and disturbing the peace by Special Officer D. J. Jones of McCain. He has not requested bond and is in jail here. He has been examined by one 'physician here this week and papers are in process to have him committed to the State Hosp- itaY' fs?- the insane. This move began when Jailor Meeks and other officers began to notice that he acted rather differently from the way he usually acts when incarcerated. 0 WINS SCHOLARSHIP Milton Mann, son of Mr. and Mr. Israel Mann, has returned from a stay of “Ihree -weeks at Camp Brandeis, at Hancock, New York. Milton was awarded the trip by the North Carolina As sociation of Jewish Women for his excellent record at the Un iversity of North Carolina. —O- EPHESUS REVIVAL Errant Husbands In Court Before Recorder Tuesday Three husbands appeared be fore Judge Henry McDiarmid in recorder’s court Tuesday on char ges of non support of their wives or families. Two of these were disposed of along with the usual run of speeding, liquor and as sault cases. Johnson .Hall,l colored, was found guilty of non-support and given one year on the roads. Sent ence was suspended on payment of the costs and oh conditicAi that he pay $15 this month and next month for his children’s support. If they are not getting along by the end of that time the court will take other action. Si:r.on Headen, Jr., colored, got f.vo years for leaving his fam ily. Sentence ■was suspended on payment of the cost when he agreed to go back, on condition that he do so. Edgerton Rogers, colored, had to pay the cost for carrying a shotgun on Sunday. Preston Monroe, colored, paid the costs for assault. A. R. Munpower, white got 90 days suspended on payment of $50 and the costs for driving an overloaded truck. B. O. Robinson and Gilmer S. Forbis, white, and John Walter Bishop, colored, each paid the cost for careless and reckless driving. B. J. Dubois, white, left a $50 bond for the same offense; Three men were charged with driving without driver’s licenses, but all produced them by Tues day, so the cases were dropped. They were W. J. Cox and Carl Moore. White, and Lonnie Cov ington, colored. Donald R. Lavigne, white, fail ed to appear on a speeding charge and capias was issued. Other speeders paying $10 and the cost each were Thomas Dixon. Wil lie McPhaul, W. V. Melvin and J. H. Johnson, all colored. Nelly C. McGinnis, white, left a $25 bond and the state dropped the case against C. K. Brown, white. Lacy Parks, white, was found not guilty on an old charge of driving drunk. ■Will Graham, colored, got 30 days for disposing of morgaged property. Sentence was suspended on payment of the costs and $25 for the property. f2Jt FEB YEAS Guardsmen Get Back Daring Day This Time Battery and Battalka Are Rated High By Inspector Revival services will be con ducted at Ephesus Baptist church starting with the Sunday eve ning service at 7:30 and continu ing with services nightly through next week. The regular 11:00 o’ clock morning service will be held Sunday. The public is cor dially invited. 0 OFFICERS GET STILL County Board Hears Requests On Roads Sheriff Hodgin and Deputies ..■Wright and Meeks went into Quewhiffle township Saturday and found a 500-gallon whiskey still and destroyed it. They brought in Coble Lowry, Indian, charged with possessing and op erating it. The first group leaving for col lege were those who left Sunday for East Carolina College. They were Misses Ethel Sue and Nita Gulledge. Margie and Wade Mc- Dougald and Billie Lester. INGATHERINGS Sandy Grove Methodist, Thursday, September 27. Lumber Bridge Presbyterian church, Wednesday, October 3 Ephesus Baptist church, Fri- (}>\y, October 5, Philippi Presbyterian church Friday, October 5, dinner and supper. Raeford Methodist, Thursday, October 11. Galatia Presb3rterian, Thurs day, October 18. Parker’s Chapel Methodist crurch, Thursday, October 25. The county board of commis sioners at their regular meeting Monday heard four road matters in addition to attending to routine business. Apetition was made for the open ing of a public road from 15A at Hickory Grove station east to the -wire road near Edinburgh siding, all in Blue Springs town ship. Another was made for a road from Turnpike road at old Currie farm by Walters farm to Scotland county line. First was 2 miles and second!.8. Both are to be taken up with State High way Commission. Two requests for repairs to roads damaged by the Axmy man euvers were heard, one in Que- whiffle township and the other in McLauchlin. Coroner Janies C. Lentz was at the meeting and discussed the expenses of his office with menibers of the board. This dis cussion ended with some differ ence of opinion existing and with the coroner offering to quit. 0 Mrs. Lola Leach Bane and daughter, Gladys, have arrived in Raeford to make their home, they are at present with Mrs. Bane’s sis ter, Mrs. J. H. Currie, while Mrs Bane’s house on Mrs. Curries lot is being completed. Gladys Bane will -enter Flora MacDonald this faU. Battery A, 130th AAA Battalion North Carolina National Guard, Raeford and Hoke County’s unit, rolled into Raeford from Fort McClellan, Alabama, at about 6:15 last Sunday afternoon, the first of their enca-mpments they have managed to return from in the daytime in several years. Seventy-nine .men, one warrant officer and five officers, all under the command of 1st Lt. Edwin D. Newton, made the trip, which most of them describe as their best camp yet from all standpoints. The second week of the en campment was not. quite so com fortable as the first, but it was quite interesting to most. On Monday the battery went out with the battalion and the field artil lery battalions of the 30th Div ision artillery and set up an air defense of the field artillery air strip in the maneuver area about 12 miles from Fort McClellan. These positions were occupied un til Wednesday when the whole battalion moved under field art illery fire up to high ground near the artillery impact area. There the 40mm and .50 caliber anti aircraft guns were set up and fired at stationary targets in the same area into which the field artillery was firing. This was the first experience in firing at stat ionary targets, and, although they were much farther away than any previous target, the firing was interesting and quite suc cessful from a training standpoint: This firing was concluded Thurs day when the b>attalion made a tactical move with the other bat talions back to Fort McCleUan. Friday morning the battalion participated in a review with the entire 30th Division, a sight which was quiie impresive to mist of the local men. Friday was payday, and early Saturday the battery left in its trucks for Athens, Ga., where they spent the night, pro ceeding to Raeford on Sunday. While in Fort McClellan the batttalion was visited by a senior officer of the Regiilar Army who spent several days with the unit as an inspector. He gave each of the five batteries, including Battery A, a general rating of Superior, the highest rating i>he could give. He was also otherwise quite complimentary in his re- arks about the unit, which is commanded by Lt. Col. William Lament, Jr. 0 (Miss Lydia McKeithan, who graduated mrom WOUNC, Greens boro, the past year, left Monday for Winston-Salem where she will teach the 5th grade at the Nor thern Elementary School. Robert M. Hooper, Jr. Hoke Soldier, Dies Of Fever In Korea Private First Class Robert M. Hooper, Jr., son and only child of Mr. and 'Mrs. Robert M. Hooper of Aberdeen, RFD 1, died in Korea on August 22, his par ents learned last week. Cause of death was given in official notification as hemorr hagic fever. His family had jjot been aware of his illness, al though they had missed his let ters. He was 26 years of age and was a graduate of Hc^e County High school and had been to N. C. State college. He went into the Army through Selective Ser vice from here and was in cchh- munications. No arrangements as to the disposition of the remains have been an'nouhced. 0 TO UNVEIL MONUMENT Members of Camp No. 11^ Woodmen of the World, will un veil a monument for the late Sovereign Kelly Webster McAr thur, at 3:30 P. M., Sunday, Se|>- tember 9, at Green Bap tist church cemetery. AU Wood men otre urged to attend and tiM public is cordially invited.