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VOLUME XLVl; NUMBER 20
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11,1951
RAEFORD, N. C.
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YOU and A
YOUR ^
CONGRESS
Congress is deeply concerned at
the moment about a kind of secu''
^rity that has little or nothing to
do with defense.
The concern centers around
President Truman’s recent order
which, among other things, per-:
mits federal civilian agencies to
'’withhold information from public
if they d4em such action necessary
for national security.
Furthermore, ’ it permits the
head of an agency to delegate
this authority to any of his imr
derlings, making a potential cen
sor of practically every federal
agency employe.
Congressional criticism was im'
mediate and frequently sharp.
Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) intro
duced a bill (S. 2190) to repeal
the executive order. He said it
is generally recognized that cen
sorship by the Defense Department
and Atomic Energy Commission
“must be tolerated in spite of the
inevitable abuses.” He strongly
otbjected to giving more than 60
federal dq;»rtmehts and agen
cies “the same power to suppress
information.”
(Rep. Bake well (R-Mo.) declared
that
honesty.”
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“the lid
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conwnitti
corrupts
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the cloak of dis-
(RAi) said
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is being clamp
Congressional
charges at
an Adminlstra-
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ation snpportip
a “people’s
at for the release
to the public.
I[ID-Mich.), also nor-
kinistration support
er, and a former Washington cor
respondent, suggested selecting a
group of Washington newspaper
men to help the Administration
draft a security code.
Almost immediately after the
White House order was issued, an
Office of Price Staibilization of
ficial issued a directive forbiding
release of any infromation that
might “embarrass” OPS.
When word of that reached
Congress, the bombs of criticism
of the Presidential order really
began to burst. The White House
quickly rescinded the OPS direc
tive. But Congress already had
gotten a taste of things to come
under the new Executive order.
Nor were the Cingressiorial
critics mollified by Mr. Truman’s
announcement at his news con
ference the other day that he
would change the order if ex
perience warranted.
He attempted to justify the
order by saying it was needed to
preclude publication* of military
secrets. But his critics were aware
that the State and Defense de
partments and Atomic, Energy
Commission already possess un
limited authority to protect the
nation’s military secrets through
censorship.
iBack of the Congressional dis
taste for the Presidential order
were several important factors:
1. The abhorrence in our De
mocracy of any sort of censorship
of information for the public ex
cept where absolutely necessary
for reasons of military security.
2. Awareness that there is no
real connection between the ac
tions of majority of federal agen
cies and national security in its
real sense. ,
3. The celerity with which most
federal agencies discovered, for
purposes of obtaining larger ap
propriations, that their routine op
erations were “vital” to national
defense. This breeds fear in Con
gress that those agencies, especi
ally when encouraged by the new
Presidential order, would be just'
as eager to use the pretext of their
importance to national defense to
withhold information which might
‘encounter adverse public reaction.
(Continued on page 6)
Hoke High Plays
At Massey Hill
Tomorrow P. M.
Coadies Bob Rockholz and Hay
wood Faircloth have 'been drilling
the Hoke High Bucks hard for
what promises to be their tough
est encounter of the football sea
son, their tilt with the strong
Massey Hill High school team at
Massey Hill Friday. They had
long, bard contact sessions Mon
day and Tuesday.
Massey Hill hais won four games
this season and has yet to be
scored on. The locals haven’t done
so badly, either, having won both
their contests, beating Mount Ol
ive 7 to 6 and Elizabethtown
20' to 0.
The boys are all working hard
and are pepped up with the idea
that they can beat their strong
opponents oh Friday, which will
be in the nature of an upset if
they manage it. Barring a few
minor injuries the local squad
should be in good shape for the
contest.
Probable starting lineups for
the Bucks are ends, Baggett and
Lovette; tackles, Clark and Cul-
breth; guards, Adams and Clark;
center, Benner; 'backs Sappenfield,
Sessqms, Holland and MoLauchlin.
Defensively McCormick, Butler,
Phillips and McLeod would be
probable starters.
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Mail Delivery To
Start On Tuesday
Postmaster Lacy Clark said
yestei^y that he still planned to
begin house-to-house mail deliv
ery in 'Raeiford on Tuesday of
next week, October 16, in spite of
the fact that the number of
houses that have numbers and
ittail boillis$( still very, small.
'He said that there were a great
many of the mail boxes ordered
through the Boy Scouts in the post
office to be delivered. He urged
recipients to call for them and
get them up before Tuesday. He
said that a survey of the town
would be made on Tuesday to
determine if there were enough
houses numbered for the serv
ice to begin, and he asked all who
could to get them numbered, if
just with a piece of colored crayon.
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John Walker Takes
Army Leaders Course
3rd armored Division, Fort
Knox, Oct. 3—^Pvt. John W. Wal
ker Jr., 2i, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Walker, Raeford, N. C.,
has graduated from the Army’s
Leaders’ Course conducted by the
3rd Armored Division here.
' iDuring the first five weeks of
the eight week course in advanced
methods,of leadership and instruc
tion, they were required to dem
onstrate their ability to lead men
in combat situations, give lectures
and conduct periods of physical
training.
PFC. Walker a graduate from
Hoke High School, entered the
Army in April 1951.
OkloredMaii '
Dies In Wredc
Early Sunday
Vestal Hayward, 30-year-old
colored man of Sanford, tore up his
1941 Plymouth and killed himself
near here at about 30 minutes
past midnight last Sunday morn
ing. The wreck took place on the
dirt road running west from
Stanton’s service station about
three miles south of Raeford.
Hayward was driving the car
himself, according to the three
local colored men who were his
passengers and who were for
tunate enough not to be seriously
hurt. They said that he was go
ing fairly fast and that he hit some
sand and lost control, went into
the ditch and turned over twice.
The passengers ran, but were lat
er interviewed by the State High
way patrol investigating officers.
Hayward was thrown clear of the
car and died at once of a broken
neck and other injuries.
A small quantity of white liquor
was found in the car.
O
Homecoming Day
At Flora Macdonald
Planned For Sat.
Southeastern District
Teachers Meeting
More than 1500 teachers and
school officials from 13 counties
are expected to attend the 29th
annual meeting of the South
eastern District of the N. C.
Education Association at White-
ville today, October 11. A num
ber of speakers will appear on the
program, and there will be 16
department meetings.
Counties included in the South
eastern district are Bladen, Bruns
wick, Columbus, Cumberland,
Duplin, Hoke, Jones, New Han
over, Onslow, Pender, Robeson,
Sampson and Scotland.
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TO HOLD MASS SUNDAY
Homecoming Day at Flora Mac
donald college, Saturday, Octo
ber 29 will feature Cora Harris, of
Charlotte, as guest speaker. Miss
Harris, daughter of the late Wade
Harris, a former editor of the
Charlotte Observer, is a landscape
architect and consultant on gard
ens and gardening, and also an
author and columist. Most of her
writings deal with gardening. Miss
Harris designed the gardens at
^•Tor Pity’s Sake,” the iamour
Cannon country place, and super
vised the restoration of the gardens
at “Shaw House,” that symbol of
the colonial period at Pinehurst,
so popular with the Sandhill
tourists.
The “Gifts for the Gardens”,
major project of the alumnae
association, initiated last spring
has already brought widespread
response. The gifts already re
ceived and those the alumnae will
bring on the 2()th, will be placed
on display in a special booth
at the Woman’s Exchange at Pine
hurst, and a'n original tag bear
ing a symbol of Flora MatdOnald
will be attached to each item.
The program and business meet
ing will be held in the college
auditorium, beginning at 11 o’clock
in the morning, and luncheon will
be served at one o’clock, when all
homecoming alumnae will be
guests of the college. Immediately
after luncheon, a coffee hour will
be held in the college parlors,
with members of the college facul
ty as guests. An interesting pro
gram has been arranged by the
alumnae president, Mrs. R. D. Mc
Millan, Sr.
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Home Furniture Co.
Running Store Here'
Home Furniture Company of
Red Springs is completing their
stocking of the Home Furniture
Co. of Raeford, located in the
building occupied for several years
by Amos Furniture company on
Main street. The business was
bought by the Red Springs firm
on September 20. . '
The store will be managed by
Elmore W. Stanton of Maxton, a
brother of Lawrence and Walker
Stanton and a man with consider
able experience in the furniture
business. For the present Stanton
will continue to live in Maxton,
housing being as it is here. His
assistant and the .bookkeeper will
be B. Z. Brown. The store will
carry a complete line of home
furnishings and appliances. .
After missing two weeks, hold
ing of Mass for the Catholic res
idents of the community will be
resumed next Stmday morning.
The service will be in the new
high school library at 8:39, and
will be followed by Sunday School.
Kiwanitos Hear
Travel^. Talk
—;
Speaker ..St the regular weekly
meeting of :the Raeford Kiwanis
club at the JHigh school cafeteria
last Thursday night was Talbert
Johnsdn, attorney of Aberdeen.
He was presented by Tom Mc-
Lauchlin.
The speaker has recently com
pleted a tour of Europe, and
spoke most interestingly of some
of the places he visited. His trip
was quite ektensive and time al
lotted was sufficient to cover only
the Mfii^erranean portions of it,
with Italy -getting most of his
attention. He came back through
the rest of Europe ^th Scot
land being the climax of the whole
trip, but he didn’t get to tell much
about it as he was apparently
very much impressed with Italy
and the Italians.
PTA TO MEET MONDAY
The Raeford P. T. A. will meet
Monday evening, October 15, at
7:45, in the Raeford Graded
School auditorium. All members
are urged to be present.
Chairman Says
Response Is Slow
To Scout Appeal
Chairman Harvey Gobeille of
the Boy Scoht Fund Drive com
mittee, said yesterday that re
sponse to the appeal sent out to
over 1009 resists of Raeford and
Hoke County lakt week was some
what disappointing up to now. He
said that less than 100 replies had
been received.
In his statement the chairman
urged the public to consider the
values involved before they de
cide not to contribute to the Boy
Scouts. He pointed out the fact that
many, forme^ Boy Sco.uts are lead
ers in the tidiness, religious and
political life of the country to
day, and that the moral lessons
'taught to Boy Scouts are vital to
||»e^coi^ntry’s fi||^re>
"Gobeille alsor again calliCd at
tention to the fact that the commit
tee was not asking for large con
tributions this time, but was in
stead trying to get more people to
contribute. He urged that no one
hold back from returning their
envejope because of feeling that
they could only make a small
contribution.
‘The, county’s quota is only
$809,” he said,“and the committee
felt that at least 800 of the fam
ilies we sent requests to would feel
that they could afford to give
just one dollar to this worthy
cause.”
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Hoke FHA Girls Go
To District Rally
The Hoke County High school
chapter of Future Homemakers
of America were among girls from
10 counties attending the District
HI rally held Saturday at Vass-
Lakeview High school in Moore
County.
The following members of the
local FHA chapter attended the
rally: Hazel McLean, Carole Ever-
leigh, Anne Leach, Harriet Hodgin,
Jenelle Snead, Barbara Strother,
Maye Cozart, Rae McMillan, Jean
McMillan and Miss Margaret Hef
ner, faculty advisor toz the chap
ter at Hoke High.
The girls report that the most
interesting part of the program
was a review of a European cara
van last summer given' Miss Dan
ny Lee Bryson of Sanford. The
state secretary was also elected at
the meeting. Hazel McLean of the
local chapter was entered for this
office and ran thmd in.the voting.
The FHA is a State and Na-
tiqnal organization of High school
girls sponsored by the homemak
ing classes at most high schols.
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FATHER OF LOCAL LADY
BURIED IN VIRGINIA
14 Traffic
Cases Heard
Tuesday A. M.
Three Others For Beating
Wives And Allowing Hogs
To Bun Out & Do Damage
Honor Local Girl
At East Carolina
No case tried in Hoke County
recorder’s court Tuesday before
Judge Henry McDiarmid involved
liquor in any way that met the
eye. Traffic cases involving care
less and reckless driving, ^)eeding,
and improper equipment on cars
were mainly what court was about,
with two cases of wife beating and
one ■of letting hogs run out mak
ing the remainder.
Bezzell Locklear, Indian, tore
up his own car without hurting
anyone else, so the judge sus
pended judgment on payment of
the costs on the charges of care
less and reckless driving.
Speeders, all of whom paid
$10 and the costs, Were Randolph
Watts, Luther Rhinehart, Richard
J. Foster and Lacy Ellis, all white,
and Will G. Davis, and Lera
Douglas Baldwin, colored.
For improper equipment (bra
kes, lights, etc.) Joe Goodman,
Lee McLauchlin, Glen Evans,
Chalmers Livingston, Charlie Ty
son and Grady Torrance, all col
ored, each paid $10 and the costs.
Willie D. Hunt, Indian, paid
$10 and the costs for having no
license tags on his car.
Wilbert Harris, colored man
charged with assaulting his wife,
pleaded guilty. Sentence was 90
days to 'be suspended on payment
of the costs and hospital and doc
tor bills and on two years good
behavior.
Thomas Everett, colored, paid
the costs for assaulting his wife.
This-vfeS'apparently a fhllder ease
of assault and she was on his side'
by the time of trial.
Nursey Ann Locklear, Indian,
had to pay the costs for allowing
her hogs to run out and damage
crops. She also had to nay SlIQ
d'Smaget.
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Crusade For Freedom
County Quota Raised
H. D. Harrison, Jr., county
chairman of the Crusade for
Freedom fund drive, reported this
week that the county had already
doubled its quota in this drive
through the excellent response
from the several civic service
clubs and fraternal orders of the
county.
Harrison, calling the contribu
tion “one of the best investments
in the world peace ever afforded
the American people,” expressed
his appreciation to all who par
ticipated in the local Crusade,
both through their organizations
and as individuals. The various
groups contributed as follows:
Lions clulb $48, Kiwanis club $40
Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club $26, Masonic lodge
$21, Woodmen of the World $25,
and the Hoke Ruritan club $15.
Mr. and. Mrs. K. A. MacDonald
and Katherine are expected to
return today from Cape Charles,
Va., where Mrs. MacDonald’s
father, O. M. Stephenson, died
Saturday. Funeral services were
held there on Monday. Mrs. Mac
Donald had been with her father
for about two weeks prior to his
death.
Bloodhound Finds
Lost Child Tuesday
Heston Rose was called to Scot
land County Tuesday night with
his bloodhounds to help search for
two lost boys, age five and seven
who got lost late in the afternoon
while hunting grapes.
When Rose and Doug McMillan
reached the scene there were 25
or 30 searchers .and*tl^ey had suc
ceeded in finding the younger boy,
but hadn’t much idea about which
way to look for the other. They
had one of this child’s sweaters
for the hound to smell and after
about an hour he picked up a
trail. After following it for some
thing over six miles he seemed
to lose it. .
They were about to give up un
til daylight, it then being around
one a.m., when they decided to
let the dog smell the sweater
again. This done, the dog led
McMillan about 150 yards down a
wooded path through wire grass
and bu^es to where the child lay
sleeping and unharmed.
Six Dormitory Queens repre-
jsented student residence halls at
East Carolina CoUege in a parade
staged Saturday on the campus
and in Greenville’s business sec
tion as part of Homecoming Day
for Alumni of the college. (Char
les Self of Greensboro, president
of the Student Government As
sociation, was chief marshall.
The Dormitory Queens were
chosen in recent elections on the
bases of beauty and popularity.
They were Sue Gulledge, Raeford;
Nona Ellen Faulkner, Kinston;
Pattie L. Lamm, Bunn; Mildred
Cole, Biscoe; Jan G. Hardy, La
Grange: and Vivian A. Thomas,
Leaksville.
Sue Gulledge represented Cot-
ten Hall, dormitory for freshman
women. She was escorted by Wade
McDougald, also of Raeford.
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Fanner Favors
Assessment For
Crop Research
By J. DeWitt Tapp
I see our friends, E. Y. Floyd
( and other Agricultural leaders
in North Carolina, including the
Grange and Farm Bureau, have
arranged for us farmers to have
a chance to vote on November 3
to assess ourselves 5c per ton on
feed and fertilizer purchased.
If I understand correctly this,
if passed, will bring in around
$150,000 which will be used en
tirely for Agricultural research
work in North Carolina.
I know of nothing the farmer
could doj^at would be more bene
ficial or more ^oflt^Ie. This
is an investment that would un
doubtedly pay off big dividends.
Recently, I heard a new tobacco
farmer say he was opposed to
this project. His statement was
made due to ignorance. If he
had been growing tobacco over the
past 40 years as I have, he would
realize the value of research
work.
For instance, the work done in
the control of Granville Wilt by
breeding new varieties which are
re^tant to the disease is of un
told value to the farmers of North
Carolina. Equally important is the
control of Black Shank. With
out this research work, many
sections of North Carolina would
already be out of the production
of tobacco, and consequently short
millions of dollars of income.
Much more work needs to be
done and the support of all farm
ers is needed to speed up this
fine work. Root Knot is a prob
lem in toibacco production which
research will find a better an
swer for, if given proper support.
Forty years ago I lived in Per
son County, where a man could
n’t grow good cigarette tobacco
on the red stiff land. That is why
1 moved to Hoke County. Now, I
can carry tobacco to Durham and
meet some of my old friends from
the red land of Person County.
Due to breeding work they now
sell as good quality cigarette to
bacco as any section of this State.
Forty years ago there were only
2 or three varieties. Now there are
available many varieties to fit
the different soils and conditions.
Tobacco research has also pro
vided a wealth of valuable in
formation on weed control, Blue
Mold Control, Fertilization, Cur
ing,' Insect Control, etc.
We farmers can’t individually-
run experiments and solve these
problems; therefore, we must help
provide the money necessary to
hire others to do it for us.
I have only mentioned here to
bacco research developments of
direct cash benefit to North Caro
lina farmers. Developments in
other fields have also been inpor-
tant to us. Some of these include:
the com program, better pastures,
better insect control, better fer
tilization of crops, better livestock
feeding and meinagement and
many others.
(Continued on Page 6)
Negro Killed
At Cafe Hm
Friday^.
Proprietor Held Under ^
SIOOO Bond For
Grand Jury Action
Charlie F13ti^ colored, propri'-
etor of the colored cafe about a
mile east of town on Highway
15-.A, shot and killed Bennie Mur
chison, also colored, with a rifle at
about nine o’clock last lYiday
night. The shooting took place in
the cafe.
Evidence at the inquest by Flyn
and verified substantially by John
Lewis McLean and Thompson
Shaw was' to the effect that Mur
chison had been in the yard tak
ing part in or starting a fight.
They said that Flynn had gone
out and tried to get him to ca-Im
down and that Murchison had
drawn his hooWbill knife and
started for him. Flynn went into
his place and behind the counter.
They said that Murchison start
ed in the same direction with his
knife and when he was entering
the place, or about to, Flyn pick
up the rifle which was standing
at the end of the counter and shot
him through the base of the neck.
He was carried to a doctor and
then to Lentz Mortuary. Flynn
stayed in jail until released tra
der $1000 bond after the coroner^s
inquest Saturday.
More Shooting Same Nig^t
John Matthew Singletary, col
ored, was at Al’s Place in a taxi
when the shooting took place, and
after Murchison was ^ot he took
a few stteps and fell and then was
put into the cab and taken to
town, ’eventually winding up at
Singfetary was recantiy releaclM
from the colored hospital for the
insane at Grfdsboro, and on ar
riving at Lent’s and hearing that
he had been riding with a corpse,
he apparently had what amounted
to a running fit, from eyewitness
accounts. After running around the
nei^borhood and. being chased
away from Cameron’s, he snatched
open the latched screen door at
the home of Police Qiief Harry
Dees and entered. Dees and his
family were abed, so the chief
got to his feet and shot the in
truder in the leg.
He was not seriousUy wounded
and was taken to jail. Disfposition
of the case is pending.
FARM ITEMS
By E. M. StaWngs
County Agent
To make the production of
small grain profitable ’ several
things should be done. These in
clude selecting a good soil and
preparing a good seed bed, using
treated seed of the best adapted
variety, planting at proper time
proper fertilizing, and top-dress
ing ith nitrogen os time.
Oats and Barley should be seed
ed between October 19 and Nov
ember 19, at the rate of 1-1%
bushels per acre.
A firm shallow seed bed, pul
verized 4 inches deep and pre
pared well in advance of seeding
is best and will give a better stand
and higher yield.
The 'best method of seeding is
with a grain drill foRowed by a
roller or cultipacker to firm the
seed bed. The seed should be
covered 1 to 1% inches de^.
This depth gives better germina
tion and permits deeper rooting to
prevent winter killing.
Under average conditions 300
lbs. of 5-10-10 fertilizer at seed
ing is best, but if the small grain
is following heavy fertilized crops,
such as tobacco, no fertilizer ia
necessary at seeding time.
The best adapted varieties fwr
Hoke County are Atlas 50 or Cfl>
Wheat, Arlington, Victorgrain or
Fulgrain Oats and Colonial 2
or Calhoun Barley.
It is important to remerabnr that
spring top dressong with nitraesn
at the proper time is necessary
(Cemtinued on Pafi tt)