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VOLUME XLVl; NUMBER 16
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951
RAEFORD, N. C.
TEN CENTS PER COPT
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YOUR
SCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald |
Schools K)pened last Thursday
as scheduled and the opening day
enrollment was 1141 as against
1038 the first day last year. The
enrollments for the yarious schools
individually, for 195il-52 and 1050-
51 are as follows; Ashemont 106
and 116; Hofce High (including
eighth grade) 3812' and 338; Mil-
douson 79 and 62; Raeford Grad
ed 503 and 421; RocMish 01 and
101.
Monday the sujperintendeet
went to Raleigh and was able to
s^ure the allotment of two add
itional teachers for the Raeford
Graded School. TtieW^^achers
will be employed at ^e\^^rliest
possible moment.
James M. Street of Buladean,
N. C. a graduate- of East Tenn
essee State College, has been
secured fill the vacancy
principal at Mildouson caused by
the death of L. P. Hendrix. Mr.
Street started on his duties
Monday.
Memorial jService |Held
On Tuesday mbminig at the
chapel exercices at Mildouson a
memorial exercise in honor of the
memory of Mr. Hendrix *was held.
Rev. P, O. Lee, pastor of the
Raeford Methodist Church read
^ the scripture and lead in prayer.
Mrs. Jesse Gibson of th PTA, Rev.
E. C. Taylor, pastor of Ephesus
Baptist Church, ahd K. A. Mac-
7-maId: made^ tallsjl'hpppri.”^. Mr’’
Hendrix as a man,' a Christian,
and a school man. Mary Elizabeth
Jones, representing the student
body, read an appropriate poem.
>A The county superintendent then
inl^i^uced the new principal who
made a few most appropriate
remarks.' We felt that the whole
exercise was a most fitting, trib
ute to a man who had justly earn
ed it.
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Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
there will'be a meeting of princi
pals and teachers held at Wagram.
This meeting has b'ePn called by
the State Department of Public
Instruction for the purpose of
discussing the reading program
in Hoke and Scotland counlies.
Representatives of both counties
will participate.
County Has Second
Traffic Fatality
During September
Gathier Watkins, colored, was
killed in a wreck near Arabia last
Thursday, bringing to two the
number of deaths due to automo
biles during this month, the other
occurring on Saturday, September
1, on Highway Ii5-A near Raeford.
Watkins was a passenger in a
1047 DeSoto ibeing driven by Guy
Lomibert, white man of Raeford,
RIPD 2, when Lambert apparently
lost control of the car, which left
the road on the left side and hit
a tree. Me was the only passenger
once ,but was dead on arrival from
and was brought to Raeford at
a fractured skull.
The accident took place at about
11:00 o’clock in the morning about
one mile east of Aralbia. ,
Lambert is out under a bond of
$1000 pending inquest into the
matter by the coroner. Inquest
will be held at the cphthouse to
night. The wreck was investigated
by State Highway Patrolman D.
G. Surratt.
: On next Tuesday, September 18,
C. W. Blanchard, Director of the
Division of Operation of Plant,
State Board of Education, is hold
ing a janitor’s school ait Hoke
High school beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Janitors, principals and superin
tendents from seventeen school
units will be present.
On Friday, September 21, at
3:00 p.m. there will foe held ait Up
church School a county-wide col-i
ored teacher’s meeting. At this
plans will be made for the opening
of the colored schools on Monlay,
September 24. '
On Saturday, September 22, at
9:00 a.m. in the superii^en^m’s
office there will be held a 'coumy
wide Indian teacher’s meeting for
the purpose of making plans for
the opening of the Indian school
on Monday, September 24.
'BuUding plans for the Raeford
Graded addition, the Upchurch
addition, and the Indian school are
still bogged down in Raleigh. The
Board of Education will meet
again shortly to try to get them
\ started.
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MAULTSBYS TO RALEIGH
Commitments were issued by the
clerk of the Superior Court this
week sending John and . Jennings
Maultslby to the State Hospital in
Raleigh and the sheriff’s depart
ment was looking for them yes
terday to take them,
Application fpr admission of
John Leonard Mabltgby has been
made but approval has not yet
been, received. ' . ^
Paul A. McDuffie
Dies In Washington
Paul A. McDuffie, 56-year-old
native of this community and
a resident of Washington, D. C.
for many years, died in Emergency
hospital there last Friday night.
Funeral services and burial were
at Arlington National cemetery as
he was a veteran of the first World
War.
He was a son of the late John
G. and Isalbelle McDuffie, a bror
ther of the late William F. and
John ^b^t and a
Mstiet ^ Ale# MoPuffie
Brooks, ail formerly of Raeford.
He is survived by a son,. John
Warren MaDuffie and several
daughters, also a brother, John D.
McDuffie, and sister, Mrs. E. R.
Thomasson of Washington.
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4-H Club Members
To Broadcast Sat.
. Five 4-H Club members, Mary
McLean, Jerome Pickier, Frankie
McDougald, Annie Blue Cameron
aftd Hugh Wright,.all members,of
the Hoke High School 4-H Club
will put on a 15-minute broad
cast over station, WPTF in Ral
eigh, Saturday, September 15.
The time of the broadcast is 12:45
p. m.
The club members will put on
a citizenship program entitled,
“Our Four Freedoms.” The club
members taking part on the pro
gram would like to invite their
fellow club members as well as
other people in the county to
listen to their broadcast.
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LIBRARY NEWS
The Circus Reading Club, spon
sored by Hoke County Public
Library during the summer, was
closed with a party for club mem
bers on Thursday afternoon, at the
library. A miniature "circus tenit,
colored paper streamers and bal
loons were used for decorations.
Circus games were played and
a book quiz conducted by Mrs.
Bethune. During the suinmer the
group was divided into “rings.”
with ring number two reading the
largest number of books.
IMoziel and Harriet Price, sisters,
each read 72 :books, and /were pre
sented a book. Mary Roberts, from
ring one, was next highest, read
ing 68 books, and Belinda Elliott,
for ring two, reading 56. Both
were given clusters of balloons.
Booklets in the shape of ele
phants, containing the author and
title of. each book read, were giv
en out to the memibers by Jane
McKeithan, student assistant.
Certificates were given each
boy and girl who read as many as
ten books.
Refreshments consisting of pink
lemonade and animal crackers
were served.
Jane Sinclair came into the
j library as stuamt assistant on
September first, .succeeding Jane
McKeithan, who leaves for WC-
UNC this week.
Hoke High Opens
Grid Schedule,
Friday Night
The Hoke County High school
Ducks will take to the football
field for the first time in the 1951
season against the usually strong
Hamlet High team in Hamlet to
morrow night. Coach Bob Rock-
holz has been working the boys
hard for about a month now, but
the squad is made up mostly of
young boys without much ex
perience, and there are only 25 on
the squad up to this time. Coach
Rockholz expects more to report
as soon as the farm work gets
a little nearer completion. They
are said to be looking quite well,
everything considered, however.
'Seven games have been sched
uled so far, with a couple of dates
yet to toe filled. Due to a number
of schools switching to six-man
football it is becoming increasingly
difificult to schedule games with
neanby teams in .the same clas^.
Hamlet is a' AA team.
Squad roster includes Sessoms,
Holland, Edge, Culbreth, Clark,
Lundy, Sappenfield, MdLauchlin,
Lovette, Glisson, Benner, Butler.
Davis, Dixon, Brown, Setzer, Mc
Leod, McCormick, McPhaul, Hall,
Adams, Baggett, Clark, Glenn,
Haywood Faircloth, George
Russ and Jackson.
Freeman and John Campbell are
assisting Coach Rockholz.
Schedule as it now stands is
September 14, Hamlet there; 21,
iMt. Olive there; 28, Fairmont here;
October 5, open; 12, Massey Hill
tb%re; 10, Hope Mills there; 26,
open; November 2, Erwin here;
November 9, open; November 16,
Spring Hope here.
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Coroner Sets $1500
Bond In Death Case
Coroner James C. Lentz held
an inquest into the death of Char
lie Tevv’’, colored, and found that
he died on the night of Saturday,
September 1, from being hit toy a
car driven by James Brown, col
ored.
•He ordered Brown held for
action by the grand jury, on char
ges of manslaughter and hit-and-
run driving. Bond was set at $1500,
in default of which Brown is in
the county jail.
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Must Class Cotton
To Get CCC Loan
There are two methods of ob
taining government classification
on 1951 crop cotton for use in
obtaining CCC loans, W. L. Smith,
chairman of the county 'PIMA
committee, said today.
The. naet'hods are:
1. If the farmers belong to a
Srnith-Doxey group (locally re
ferred to as “one-variety com
munities”) the sampling agent,
usually the ginner, will cut sam
ples and send them to a govern
ment classing office. Meantime
the farmer delivers the ginned
cotton to a CCC approved ware
house and receives a warehouse
receipt. Later the government
classing office will send the far
mer a report showing the. class
of his cotton. The farmer gets his
loan ,by taking the class report and
the warehouse receipt to any ap
proved lending agency and com
pleting the necessary documents.
He will not be charged a classi
fication fee. (Hoke County farm
ers belong to a Smith-Doxey
group).
2. 'Where the farmer does not
belong to a Bmith-Doxey group
he may deliver this cotton to an
approved warehouse. The ware
house will take a sample and
send it to a government classing
office for classification. When the
class card is received by the far
mer he may obtain a loan by tak
ing his card and warehouse re
ceipt to any approval lending
agency. The farmer will pay a
25-cent Classification fee. (Does
Not apply to Hoke County)
Loans in 1951 will be made
on an average price of 32'.55 cents
(Continued on bade pace)
Prisons Chief
To Address Men
Of Methodist Church
Walter F. Anderson, who as
sumed the directorship of the
prisons divisibn of the State High
way and Public Works Commis
sion last August 2, will be the
speaker at the regular meeting
of The Methodist Men of the
Church on Friday night Septem
ber- 14 at 7:15 p. m. ^
Mr. Anderson, a former head of
the State Bureau of Investigation
and one-time chief of police at
Charlotte and Winston-iSalem, re
cently attended the annual conven-
eion of Fishers of Men, Inc., at
Toccoa, Ga. He is president of this
nonsectarian religious organiza
tion.
The Men’s Club from Page
Memorial Methodist Church in
Aberdeen and from Gibson and
St. John’s Methodist Churches will
be present on this occasion.
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School System Has
Insurance Program
It was announced today by
Superintendent MacDonald of the
Hoke County Schefol System that
a school child accident insurance
program similar to that carried
last year will be offered to the
students of the Hoke County
schools this comiiig term.
■Last year’s program proved to
be an outstanding success which
exceeded all expectations. The
insurance company in. payment of
clai'ms arising from injuries sus
tained in connection with school
accidents issued 55 checks total
ing approximately ?^1700.00 to
pay for the cost) of medical (treat
ment rendered iBUbstantiaHy 'mons
than was paid to them in premi
ums.
A Master Policy will be issued
and held in the office of the
superintendent. The cost of the in
surance is 7’5c per year per child.
Each student will be given the
opportunity to bring his payment
to school. When the payment is
received, the students name will
be placed upon'a list of insureds
that is attached to the policy.
The program has the support of the
P. T. A., the school board, the
principals and the teachers but
the most enthusiastic praise comes
from those who were unfortunate
enough to sustain injuries during
the past school year.
'The new policy has a $500.00
medical expense allowance. Mr.
MacDonald explained that when
a student is injured under the
coverage of the policy, aU medical
expenses- up to $500.00 are paid.
This takes care of such things
as bills from the doctor, dentist,
hospital, registered nurse, etc.
Also such fees as those charged
for X-rays, operating room, an
esthetics, laboratory supplies, etc.
For accidental loss of life'covered
under the terms of the policj",
$1,000.00 will be paid; for the
loss of any two hands, feet or eye,
$5,000.00; for the loss of one hand
or foot, $2,500.00; for the loss of
sight in one eye, $1,000,000. Any
medical expenses incurred in con
nection with these losses are also
paid.
Local Boy Gets .
Eagle Scout
Badge Tuesday
Local Troop Leads District
In Honors At Court Here
Lawrence McNeill, Jr., received
his badge as an Eagle Scout, the
highest rank attainable in the
Boy Scouts of America, at a dis
trict ceremony and court of honor
held at the High school here Tues
day night. He is 15 years old, the
son of Mr, and Mrs. J. L. McNeill,
and is the first local boy to reach
Eagle rank since 1946.
The court of honor w^as pre
sided over by Clyde L. Stutts,
advancement chairman for the
western district of the Cape Fear
Area Council. The distirict includes
a'bout 15 scout troops in Scotland,
Robeson and Hoke counties. The
presentation of Eagle badge was
made by R. B. Lewis to Mrs. Mc
Neill, Lawrence’s mother, who
pinned the badge on her son. She
was then presented a miniature
for herself.
The ceremony was quite im
pressively staged, with the local
troop standing in line on, the stage
in the light of three candles and
reciting the 12 .parts of the Scout
law, lighting another candle for
each part as it was said.
Young McNeU^has been active
in his troop attending the Na
tional Jamboree at 'Valley Forge,
Ba., last year and the National
Scout ranch in New Mexico this
sumimer. Twenty-one merit badges
are required for a boy to become
Cg^agle, and^ Lawroij^e has 25.
Three star scout awards were re_
ceived by boys from the Raeford
troop. The star rank is just two
steps from Eagle and those receiv
ing it were Joe McLeod, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McLeod, Jim
my Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. P. Phillips, and Lewis Up
church, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.'
L. M. Upchurch. These awards
were made by Mayor W. L. Poole.
Other rank and merit badge
awards were made by Stutts,
Poole, Lewis, J. M. Andrews and
Tom Cameron.
In Hoke county both the An
tioch and Rocfcfish troops were
represented as well as the Rae
ford troop. Cliff Conoly is scout
master at Antioch, and his troop
took 'two first class scout awards
as well as several merit badges.
Scoutmaster at Rockfish is Clar
ence Koonce. Tom McLauchlin is
Raeford scoutmaster and Carson
Davis,' Jr., is his assistant. The
Raeford troop also received five
first class awards and a num'ber
of merit badges.. Over 200 merit
badges were awarded by Stutts
to scouts from the 12 troops rep
resented.
The Raeford troop received the
trophy for best attendance per
centage and for highest percent
age of advancement.
KINDERGARTEN MEETING
Watson, Balfour
At Commissioners
State Convention
F. Knox Watson and N. H. G.
Balfour of the Hoke County board
of commissiMiers attended the an
nual meeting of the State associa
tion of commissioners and acoun-
tants at Blowing Rock- the first
three days of last week. Watson,
retiring president, made the pres
idential address. He was succeeded
as president by John Long of
Statesville. C. A. (Gus) Hasty of
Maxton, a Robeson county com
missioners for the past 21 years,
moved into position . to become
president by getting elected first
vice-president.
The convention was held at May-
view Manor and approximotely
200 commissioners attended the
meeting, the 44th the group has
held. Ninety-four counties were
represented.
Parents interested in the Kin
dergarten to be operated at the
Presibyterian church are invited
to see the director, Mrs. John
Scull, at the church at 4:00 Fri
day afternoon, September 14, at
which time full information will
be available.
INGATHERINGS
Sandy Grove Methodist,
Thursday, September 27.
Lumber Bridge Preabj-terian
church, Wednesday, October 3
Ephesus Baptist church, Fri
day, October 5.
Philippi Presbyterian church
Friday, October 5, dinner and
supper.
Raeford Methodist, Thursday,
October 11.
Galatia Pre^yterian, Thxirs-
day, October 18.
Parker’s Chapel ’ Methodist
crurch, Thursday, October 25.
Many Offenders
Pay Fines In
Court Tuesday
• A somewhat larger number of
cases than usual was handled in
Hoke County recorder’s court
Tuesday before Judge Henry Mc-
Diarmid. Case in which Claude
Tyler, white, was charged with
committing a crime against nature
and with driving a tractor drunk
was continued for two weeks and
bond was set at $5000.
The State dropped its charges
of aiding and abetting in prosti
tution against Julie Collins, In
dian, for lack of evidence.
Ro’oert Tanner, white, Joseph
Lowry, Indian, Joe Blue and Fred
Bennett, colored, each paid the
costs for being drunk and disord-
' erly.
For driving drunk, with im
proper equipment Jerry Bennett
and Thomas Tate, both colored,
each got 4 months suspended on
payment of $110 and the costs in
separate cases.
W. C. Cox, white, paid the costs
for failing to stop at a stop sign.
Speeders paying $10 and the cost
were D. R. Lavigne, D. R. Currie,
H. D. Trout, H. E. Johns^ all
white., J. C. Grubb, white paid
$25 and the costs for having no
driver’s license and E. K. Aaron,
white, got six months to be sus
pended on payment of $200 and
the costs for driving after his li
cense had been revoked. Isac
Lester, colored, and Junie Jones,
Indian, each paid $10 and the
costs for having improperly equip,
ped cars. Paul Huckabee, colored,
paid $25 J and the costs for care
less and reckless driving.
Rosetta McDonald, colored, paid
the costs for forcible trespass,
and Rosa Blue colored, ^aid> the
costs for larceny, in a compromised
case. ,
J. M. McCall, colored, was found
guilty of inadequately supporting
his minor children. He got a one-
year sentence to be suspended on
payment of the court, costs and
$10 weekly toward his family's
support.
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Methodist Church
Revival Services
The Rev, P. O. Lee, pastor of
the Raeford Methodist church, said
■this week that a series of revival
services would be held at the
church next week. The services
will start at the morning service
at 11:00 September il 6 and continue
through the following Sunday,
Septemlber 22 with services each
night at 7:45 and with no morn
ing services.
Preacher for the series will be
the Rev. J. H. banning, pastor
of/ the Rockingham Methodist
church. Mr. banning is a well-
known and able preacher and.
comes from one of the largest
churches in the Fayetteville
disfarict.
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Gibson Tells Where
Teachers Boarding
The following list of where
the out-of-town teachers in the
schools in Raeford will live dur
ing the school year was prepared
by Principal 'W. T. Gibson, Jr.,
and is thought to be of interest
to the public.
John F. Campbell, who lives in
"Wagram, will drive over each
day; Misses Hilda Priest and Mar
garet Hefner at Mrs. Walker’s; i
Miss Doris Bradley at Mr. and
Mrs. Neil Senter’s; Mrs. George
Willcox at one of the Tom Cameron
apartments; Mrs. Phil Johnson
in Sunset Hills in the Ben Robin
son house; Miss Hannah Price and
Miss Martha Pittman at Mrs. A.
K. Currie’s; Misses Ethel B. Britt
and_ Miss Miriam Watson at Mrs.
W. T. Covington’s; J. G. Allen
at Dr. and Mrs. A. L. O’Sriant’s;
Miss Katherine Sheppard at Mrs.
C. H. Giles’; J. B. Renn and J. W.
Turlington, upstairs at Mr. emd
Mrs. W. T. Gibson’s.
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A Stanly County farmer, Gil
liam Tucker, is finding that one pf
the best enterprises for a small
farm is poultry.
Soldier l%ot
Fatally Here
Thursday A. M.
A shot from a moving Chev
rolet coach . into a convertible a
few minutes after midnight last
Thursday morning resulted in
death for a Negro Army corporaL
Dead after having been taken to
the Fort Bragg hospital by James
C. Lentz ambulance was Corpor
al Jo'nn Banks, of Fort Bragg,
allegedly killed by Private Joe
E. Brooks, also explored.
The affair is said to have taken
place after occupants of the two
cars had had words at .M-’s Place,
colored cafe less than a mile
east of Raeford on 15-A, and the
convertible left in the direction yC
Raeford. The sedan caught it on
the highway and the shot was
f^red. Investigation by the Crimin
al Investigation Department at
Fort Bragg and the Hoke County
sheriff’s department led to the ar
rest of Brooks and his incarcera
tion at Bragg.
Brooks is still in custody of
Fort Bragg authorities and Sher
iff D. H. Hodgin of Hoke County
says they w:ant to try him there.
Ruling on this must be made by
Solicitor Malcolm SeaweU of Lum-
berton. Whether the Army would
have jurisdiction over an offense
committed in this county, even
though all concerned were soldiers,
would appear to be debatable,
although if the Army is able to
handle the matter it will result in
a saving of the expenses of the
trial by this county.
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Radford Streets
Are Bein^r Marked
Bob Murray and Lauchlin Mac
Donald are busy this week put
ting the street names on the ’corn
ers in town. Posts for this purpose
have been up some time and
equiprrient arrived last week for
the lettering. The Raeford Cham
ber of Commerce is fktancing the
project.
As soon as the street-marking is
complete Robert Gatlin will re
lease a town map which shows
the street number, or address, of
each house or lot in town. 'When
these are numbered the Post of
fice -will add two more employees
and begin mail delivery service
in town.
„ To facilitate house numbering
the Boy Scouts have secured mail
boxes which will be sold complete
with name and house unmber
for $3.00. These may be.seen on
display at Raeford Hardware, Me-
Lauchlin Co.. Johnson Cotton Co.,
Wright and Currie Hardware,
Harrj’’s 5 and 10, The Bank of
Raeford and The News-Journal.
As soon as the map is out several
of these will take orders for ■the
Boy Scouts, who will make a
small profit on boxes sold.
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Raeford’s Telephone
Facilities Expanded
Additional telephone facilities
which increased the capacity of
the Raeford exchange by about
25 per cent were placed in service
on the night of "Wednesday, Aug
ust 29, W.' E. Marshall, Fayette
ville Manager of the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, has announced.
Redistribution of existing fa
cilities and placing the additional
facilities in service made it ab
solutely necessary to change Rae-
ford’s telephone niunbers, Mar
shall added. He expressed his
regret that Raeford subscribers
w’ere not given more notice that
a number change was necessary
in order to provide much needed
additional service to Raeford.
Prior to the date the new facil
ities were placed in service, rep
resentatives of the compainy vis
its Raeford subscrfcers and made
the number changes on die niun-
ber plates of their telephones and
a new directory was delivered.