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VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 19
The Hoke County Journal
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1951
The Hoke County News
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RAEFORD, N. C.
92J9 FEB YEAS
YOUR
SCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald
Chairman R. H. Gatlin of the
Board of Elducation and State
Representative H. A. Greene have
an engagement in Raleigh today
with Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, State
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion. They hope that they can
secure Dr. Erwin’s assistance in
breaking the deadlock over the
site for the Raeford Graded
School.
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G. E. Crawley of the Division
of Transportation of the State
Board of Education was here last
week and adjusted bus stops on
15-A.
Home Demonstration
Clubs Sponsor Trip
To State Fair
The Mildouson PTA held its
first meeting of the year on Tues
day night. Plans for improving
the lunchroom were completed.
The people of the community
are very much interested in im
proving the school, and they are
showing their interest in a most
tangible way. They are raising
money fbr linoleum for the floor
and living their time in painting
and making other improvements.
first Wednesday night in each
ihonth was set as time for the
regular meetings.
The Ashemont PTA met lasft
week for the first time this year.
Mrs. O. B. israel, president, was
in the chair, ifewas decided-.to
raise a pig witH4kitchen scraps
and.jhave a baijbeime at a later
datelfor the benefit of the lunch-
rooim.“ There was quite d good
attendance. ,
Supt. F. D. Byrd 'of'‘tlie''^m-
berland County Schools has been
assigned to help make the sur
vey of the county schools that
has been authorized by the legis
lature and financed by the Na
tional Board. We are looking for
ward to having Supt. Byrd with
us at an early date.
The Hoke bounty Federation
of Home Demonstration Clubs an
nounces this week that they have
ch^tered a Carolina Trailv^y
bus to the State Fair for Wednes
day, October 17. The trip is open
to Home Demonstration Club
memibers and their families and
4-H Club members in Hoke coun
ty.
The bus will leave from the
County Courthouse at 8 a. m. and
will .probably leave Raleigh re
turning at around 5:30 p. m. Those
people in the county who plan to
go to the Fair on the chartered
bus are asked to make reserva
tions in the Home Agent’s office
imimediately.
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REA Committee
Nominates Nine
For Directors
Nominees for the board of di
rectors of the .Lumbee River Elec
tric Memibership Corporation (R-
BA) were named at a meeting of
the nominating committee at the
office in Red Springs recently, ac
cording to D. J. Dalton, manager
of the cooperative.
B. B. Hodge of Rowland was
naimed chairman of the committee.
He recognized the manager, D.
J. Dalton, and assistant manager,
David Moss, who discussed brief
ly some reports and explanations
of the by-laws prior^ to naming
of the nominees. The ; following
were nominated: C. L. Ballande,
St. Pauls; J. R. Caddell, Maxton;
'lijfs. IiUcy. Smith, Raeford; Wade
H. Powell, Fairmont; C. A. Alford,
Howland;’ J. E.' Morrison, Red
Springs; John R. Lassiter, Laur
inburg; E. L. Cook, Fayetteville;
J. M. Andrews, Raeford.
WifeToMTo
Leave Husband
Alone By Judge
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Most Cases Heard Tuesday
Involve Traffic, Liquor
W. D. Harper and Sons of Flor
ence, S. C., Architects and Engi
neers for the Board of Education
were here yesterday checking the
library building at Hoke High
and the Burlington building.
Yesterday ended the first month
of scho-al for the white schools.
Tomorrov/ ends the first two
weeks of school for the colored
and Indian schools. Both go on
long day schedule Monday, ac
cording to board action.
Hoke High School .
Initiation for new Beta Club
members was held Wednesday of
this week. Special exercises were
staged during assembly during
which those being initiated par
ticipated. Mary McLean is presi
dent of the Beta Club this year.
The agriculture classes, under
the direction of Mr. Phillips, have
just seeded the entire school
campus at the high school with
winter grass.
The high school library has just
purchased a set of Adams’ “The
March of Democracy” books-and
a set of Douglas' Southall Free
man’s Biography of R. E. Lee.
All of the present board of di
rectors were renominated with
the exception of J. McN. Gillis
and Marshall Newton who were
charter members of the coopera
tive and members of the 'board
since organization. Both of these
had requested the nominating
committee not to reconsider them
due to their pressing personal
business interests and the fact
that they both serve on many
other committees. E. L. Cook of
the Fayetteville section, and J.
M. Andrews of the Rockfish sec
tion were named to represent
these two areas. Dalton, pointed
out.that according to the by-laws
additional nominees might be
named by petition of 15 members.
The nominating committee’s
report will be submitted to the
members at the annual meeting
held at St. Pauls, November 7.
At that time the meeting will be
open for additional nominations
from the floor and the wishes of
the members carried out as to the
election of directors for the com
ing year.
The REA Annual Meeting is
usually one of the largest group
meetings in this section and this
year promises to be no exception
as the program has :been well
planned. Governor Kerr Scott
has accepted an invitation as
guest speaker. The Parent-Teach
ers Association of St. Pauls ex-
■ _ _ j pects to serve barbecue dinners,
iMr. Mills, State Sanitation In- | raise additional funds
specbor, visited the high school association.
A little on the unusual side was
the case heard (before Judge
Henry McDiarmid in Hoke County
recorder’s court Tuesday in yvhic?l
Sadie Tyler, white, was charged
with assaulting her husband,
Cephus Tyler. She pleaded not
guilty but was found guilty. Sen
tence was 90 days in jail to be
suspended on payment of the costs
and two years good behavior, the
latter to include keeping her
hands off Cep'hus and his car.
Edmond Johnson, colored, got
30 days suspended on payanen't
of costs and two years good be
havior for assault.
J. D. Flowers, colored, pleaded
guilty of assaulting Leroy McNeill
with a deadly weapon. Sentence
was 90 days to be suspended on
payment of the costs and Mc
Neill’s hospital and doctor bills.
James Rogers, colored, got 30
days suspended on payment of
the costs and was ordered to stay
away from Brooks Frierson’s
house.
'Lewis Galbreath, colored, paid
the costs for assaulting his wife.
uAlex* McKiver, colored, paid
the costs for failing to stop at a
stop sign.
James Loma^j:, colored, paid the
costs for assaxilt.
(Henry Hobson, white, and Ar
thur Potter, colored, each paid
the costs for being drunk and dis
orderly.
William E. Blue, white, paid
$10 and the costs for driving on
the wrong side of the road.
(Raymond iMoore, white, charged
with failing to pay a $6 taxi fare,
had to pay it and the court costs
as well.
iMallie Thomas Jones, colored,
got 60 days suspended on payment
of the costs for careless and reck
less driving and was ordered to
fix up his car before he drove it
again.
Town Bi^rd Sets
Charge For Damage
To Street Markers
At their regular monthly meet
ing Monday night the board of
commissioners voted to charge
anyone-damaging one of the con
crete street niarkers $10 for its
replacement. This was no doubt
done because of the fact that they
have only been up a month or so
and several have already been
knocked down. Some were ap
parently placed too close to the
curb, however.
The boafd also voted to em
ploy Mrs. H. C, Roberts to work
in the town hall as assistant to
the town clerk. She has already
gone to work and works from
nine until one daily.
There was also some discussion
of the location of the new reser
voir, question being as to whether
or not it was being placed parti
ally on property of the Aberdeen
& Rockfish railroad. This was to
be checked and the reservoir
moved if necessary.
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Hoke High Beats
Qizabethtown
Town’s Looks Must
Be Getting Better;
Old Hardware Going
iMonroe Stephens, colored, and
Marvin Tuthill, white, each paid
$10 and the costs for speeding.
Henry McNeill, colored, paid
$10 and the costs for driving a
truck without clearance lights.
Persell Davis, Indian, paid the
same for driving an improperly
equipped, car. ,
County Board Has
Routine Meeting
The county commissioners hdd
their regular meeting Monday
with four members present. Ihey.
received several road petition. A
Little RivCT request was filed to
be taken, uto with the Highway
commission. A surfacing request
in MciLauchlilh township was re
ceived. This Vhad already been
approved bW the board but a-
waits , paviiig" allotment by the
commission. "IPhe driveway work
at Rockfish school was approved.
Jury for the next term of court
was drawn. T
Several property valuation
cases were'-i|^ ard and the valu
ations revised downward.
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Tuesday. He was very generous
in his C'Omments about the clean
liness of the high school buildings.
Both the high school and gram
mar school lunch rooms received
an A ratir g.
Colored Schools
First day enrollment for the
colored schools is as follows. The
first figures are for this year
1951-52. The second is for the
last school year 1950-5'1.
.Burlington 214 and 251; Bow-
more 85 and 86; Buffalo-39 and
28; Timlberland 28 and 28; White
Oak 69 and 64; Laurel Hill 94
and 85: Freedom 71' and 67; Mc-
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The program will also include
the election of board of directors,
and reports from officers and com
mittees as to the progress made
by the cooperative during the past
year and the. plans for the com
ing year.
The cooperative has invested
some two million dollars in furn
ishing electric service to some
7,000 homes all of which had
never had electric service before
1940 when the cooperative was
organized and chartered.
The cooperative now oi>erates
over 1600 miles of line with a
local payroll and operating ex
pose of more than $24,000 per
month.
Young Delinquents
Get Hearing Here
Four white boys from Maryland
were given a hearing here last
Friday before U. S. Commissioner
Helen S. Barrington on charges
of stealing a car in Baltimore and
bringing It to North Carolina. The
boys, two aged 14 and two aged
15, were apprehended in Laurin-
burg as they tried to break in a
house, and were brought here by
FBI agents from Fayetteville.
Mrs. Barrington ordered them
held under a bond of $1000 each
and they were carried to Albe
marle,, where thfem is a jail ap
proved for Federal^soners. They
will be carried back to Maryland
for trial in juvenile court. ’
INGATHERINGS
Ephesus Baptist church, Fri
day, October 5.
Rex Presbyterian church.
Wednesday, October 10, noon.
Raeford Methodist, Thursday,
October 11.
Galatia Presbyterian, Thurs
day, October 18.
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Thursday, October 18, • Noon
Antioch Presbyterian church,
Wednesday, October 24, 12:00
until 2:00.
Parker’s Chapel 'Methodic
crurch, Thursday, October 25.
Philippi Presbyterian church,
Friday, November . 2.
Shiloh Presbyterian Church,
Thursday, November 8, Supper
Tommie Upchurch
Again Heads Co-op
T. B. Upchurch, Jr., Raeford,
was re-elected president of the
N. C. Cotton Growers Cooperative
Association at the quarterly meet
ing of the board of directors in
Raleigh, September 26.
W. W. Andrews, Goldsboro, a
veteran member of the board, was
elected vice-premdent. At the same
time, the following officers were
re-elected; M. G. Mann, Raleigh,
secretary and general manager;
G. D. Arndt, Raleigh, treasurer
and assistant secretary; R. H.
Broome, Jr., Raleigh, assistant sec
retary; and W.F. Ramseur, Ral
eigh, assistant secretary.
L. Y. Sallentine, state commis
sioner of agriculture, was re-elec
ted to the Advisory Board, and
Dr. James H. Hilton, dean of the
State College School of Agricul
ture, was elected to this same
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body.
During informal discussion,
most members of the board attend
ing the meeting estimated that
North Carolina will produce about
575,000 bales of cotton this year.
This is considerably fewer bales
than the 610,000 first estimated by
the government on August 1.
The directors issued a public
statement urging North Carolina
growers to hold their cotton since
all indications point to prices of
40 cents a pound or more before
another crop is harvested.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS — Subscribers
are reminded that they have un
til October 15 to renew at the
rate of S2.00 per year. After that
date it will be $3.00. — When
The News-Journal went up to
$2.00 some years ago you could
get 100 lbs. of cotton picked for
about a dollar and a half.
Bucks Get Going In Final
Quarter To Get Second Win
Of Season By 20-0 Score
Reported by Bruce Phillips
Led (toy the hard running of
Fullback BYed Holland Coach Bob
Rockholz’s Hoke County High
School Bucks kept their season’s
football record clean last Friday
afternoon when they beat Eliz-
aibethtown High here 20-0. They
defeated Mount Olive 7 to 6 the
week before after their first sche
duled game had been rained out.
The teams were on even terms
the first half and the intermis
sion came with the game a score
less deadlock.
The local boys came out after
the halftime and before long they
had made a sustained drive of
about 90 yards for a touchdown,
mainly on Holland’s line smashes.
In striking distance, the resist
ance stiffmied, but on the third
try Holland crossed for the score.
C. J. Benner, whose point--after-
touchdown-boot won the game
the week before, made another
good kick and the Bucks were
out in front, 7-0.
In the final quarter Holland
got clear and went 40 yards to
score again. Benner missed this
one.
'Again in the final quarter Glenn
Clark blocked ar^d covered an
Elizabethtown punt for the Bucks
and they scored again with fouf
minutes to play on an 8-yard
pass from Benny McLeod to Dick
Baggett. Benner put one through
the middle and the home team
was ahead, 20-0.
The - whole Hoke team/looked
good, holding the visitors to four
first downs.
The Bucks have no game sche
duled for this . week and will
play Massey Hill there next week
They are unable to schedule night
games here because of expense.
Power for armory park costs $84
a month and bulbs for the field
lights cost $5 each and there are
64 burned out.
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Vardell To Play;
Faculty Receptic
Follow At FMC
The construction of the Rabbins
Mill helped the looks of one end
of Raeford, and housing develop
ments have helped other sections.
New streets and paved streets and
street markers have helped also.
New store building recently has
helped the Main street consid
erably and the Garden club pro
jects on North Main street will
definitely beautify the town.
The crowming achievement of all
got under way Monday, though,
when Preacher Brown began the
destruction of the old Raeford
Hardware building in the center
of the town’s main business block
on Main street. This w’ill improve
the town like a new haircut de^
a shaggy boy.
The building was built in 1903
for the Raeford Hardw'are com
pany by the late Marcus Dew. It
was begun in February of that
year and, according to F. B. Sex
ton who operated the Hardware
company
is not a
now that was here then. So, it’s
time was about up. It was z frame
building and the only non4jrick
building on Main street in the
business section.
Another activity calculated to
improve the town also got under
way Monday morning when John
Murdoch McDuffie started work
on the new post office building
next to the town hall. 'This builds
ing is to be owned by Younger
Snead, (Lawrence McNeill and
Crawford Thomas, and has been
leased for 10 years by the Post
Office Department, which expects
to occupy it about the first of
1952.
Farm Bureau
Makes Plans To
Up Membership
The Hoke County Farm Bureau
held its annual membership drive
kick-off meeting on September
27 in Raeford, at the High School
Cafeteria.
■Some 35 Farm Bureau members
were on hand for the meeting to
P ij. D «.• T* ' hear County Farm Bureau Pres-
r Acuity IxCCCptlOn 10 Jjjgnt Alfred Cole announce the
quota of 400-600 members, and
plan for the ’51 drive, Mr. Cole
said that the county quota will
go to make up the 80.000 State
Farm Bureau memibership, and
the million and a half national
membership goal.
Ira Newton of Antioch, Chairr
man of the County membership
drive, has appointed the following
township chairmen to assist, in
the drive:-David Lyles, G. C. Lytle.
E. C. Smith. Jr., L. D. Brooks,
Archie McGill, Horace Walters, J.
W. Canaday, John Parker and
Tommy Upchurch.
These township chairmen will
be assisted by 32 volunteer work
ers throughout the County, who
will go all-out to make the 1951
membership drive a success.
’The annual Hoke County mem
bership drive will be for 2 weeks
from October 1 until October 15.
'A mid-drive meeting of township
chairmen will be held Friday
night, October 5 in the office T.
B. Upchurch, Inc.
Two hundred dollars is to be
given to the Hoke County 4-H
Clubs, to be used as prizes for
outstanding project work, provid
ed the county quota is reached.
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Fond Drive Fw
Boy Sconbls
Started Monday
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Charles G. Vardell, Jr., Dean
of the Conservatory of Music at
Flora (Macdonald college, will be
presented in a piano recital, the
first faculty recital of the college
year, on Friday evening, October
12, at 8:15.
Dean Vardell’s program will
open with the Chorale and Pre
lude, • “Christ lay in bonds of
death”—'Bach. (Concert tran
scription by Charles G. Vardell,
Jr.) Five short pieces by Domen-*-
ico Scarlatti will be next on the
program, followed by Themes and
Variations in A Major, by Bee
thoven.
After a five minute intermission.
Dean Vardell will play six Cho
pin numbers, and the last group
of his beautiful and well chosen
program will consist of Toccata,
by Poulenc; “Egrets in the Marsh”,
one of Dean Vardell’s own com
positions, and Tarantella (from
“Venezia e Napoli”).
Following the concert the an
nual reception given by the Flora
Macdonald college faculty and
staff, in honor of the new faculty
members, will -be held in the col
lege parlors- *
All friends of the college in
this community are cordially in
vited to attend both the perform
ance and the faculty reception.
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ROAD TO BE CLOSED
Hoke Participates In
Campaign To Raise Money
For 3 Troops In County
Spearheaded by a committee of
the Raeford Kiwanis cluto, the an
nual Boy Scout drive for funds
started Monday and will be con
ducted in the county for the first
15 days in the month. The drive
is being conducted in all ei^t
counties of the Cape. Fear Area
Council, with the exception of
New Hanover where funds are
raised through the community
chest.
Sponsor of a troop here for a-
bout 25 years, the Kiwanis club
has conducted a successful drive
each year to raise the funds ne
cessary for the county to pay its
part in the activities of the coun
cil and for expert full-time in-
foY many years," there'struction. Camp maintenance and
building on the street items.
The club’s committee this year
is headed by Harvey GobeLUe^
superintendent of the Para Thread
Company plant. On the committee
are Dr. Julius Jordan, Charles
Hostetler and Bill Fann. "nie
committee met this week and
made plans to contact as many
people as i)Ossible through the
mail and ask for contributions.
Gobeille said that it was their
hope that the county’s quot^ for
the highly deserving cause could
be reached by getting many small
contributions rather than hitting
3 few people or firms hard for
the money. He said that by a ■
great many people giving a dollar
or two or more, that more people
would be able to feel that they
are directly responsible to some
extent for the good work the
Scouts are doing in the county.
The scouts are doing good work
in the county. There are three ac
tive troops, one at Raeford and
one at Antioch and Rockfish. AH
recently participated in the Court
or Honor held here for the West
ern District and the local boys
took most of the honors in all
departments,
Scoutmastws, the men who ac
tually do the work, are Tom Mc-
Lauchlin in Raeford, C. C. Conoly
at Antioch and Clarence Koonce
at Rockfish.
Those wishing to contrflbute
who are not contacted may ha(nd
or send their money to any of
the Kiwanis committee above or
to any one of the scoutmasters.
Checks may be made to the Hoke
County Boy Scout fund.
Bon Mart Opens
Here Tomorrow
iMrs. Clyde Upchurch, Jr. was
hostess to the Wednesday after
noon bridge club at its meeting
last week. Bridge was played
after a dessert course had been
served. Mrs. W. .T. Gibson was
holding high score at the end of
the end of the game. She was given
a prize and Mrs. Dick Neely,
only visitor present. Was also
given a gift.
Due to artillery firing, the Rae
ford-Vass road will be closed to
all traffic on the Fort Bragg res
ervation from Monday, October 8,
until Saturday, October 13, at
noon.
iMrs. Jo Parker of Liberty spent
the week-end with her sister, Mrs.
W. L. Poole.
MCDONALD’S ESSO WILL
OPEN RECAPPING PLANT
Neill A. McDonald, operator of
McDonald’s Esso Servicenter, said
this week that he had completed
plans for a tire recapping plant
to be operated on the premises
and in connection with his servi-
center. He said that he had ar
ranged to get the most modem
recapping machinery available
and that he expected to be in
operation in the next few weeks.
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Miss Eliza McKeithan has been
quite sick for the past week.
Bon Mart, featuring ladies and
children’s read-to-wear will open
in the Benner building between
the post office and the Western
Auto Associate Store at 18:00 a.
m. tomorrow.
The store will be operated by
John Draughon, who has for some
time been manager of the Collins
store here and who worked for
Collins in Hendersonville also. He
had worked In the store here be
fore going to Hendersonville ais
well. He is a native of Dunn.
The store has been completely
remodeled in the past few weeks,
and has complete new fixtures.
Draughon says that his lines of
clothing will be as fine as any on
the market and he invites the
ladies of the town and county to
visit the new store at their earli-.
esi opportunity.
G. W. PARKS ILL
G. W. Parks, 86-year-old resi
dent of Blue Sprmgs township^
has been a patient at a Fayette
ville hospital for abdut 10 days.
He is critically ill with a com
plication of ailments.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. 'Watson GiUis
of Washing^ton, D. C., ipent the
past week end in the home of
Mr. and Mrs, Clay LHly and visit
ed other relatives here also.