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The Hoke County News
The Hoke County Journal
yOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 46
THURSDAY, AFRH. 10, 1952
RAEFORD, N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY
|XM PER YEAS
ci/f-dJUnda
py the Editor
(When the notion strlkes-^nce
a dreek sometimes, once a year
sometimes)
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This column might get to be a
habit ... if I can find any
thing to go into it. It seemed to
be pretty well read last week and
the readers that have mentioned
it have been favorable in their
comment. Of course the ones who
felt unfavorable just didn’t have
anything to say.
This is a pretty good town and
county. I don’t believe there are
onough things wrong or needing
doing to make a column of every
week. Guess some space will have
to be spent bragging on what we
have done right. There are a few
of these.
Town Board Holds
RouUne Meeting
The board of commissioners of
the town of Raeford held their
regular monthly meeting at the
town haU on Monday night. Bus
iness of a usual nature was trans
acted with nothing particularly
startling coming to pass.
The street committee was in
structed to investigate the value
of the timber standing in North
Magnolia street near where W. H.
Fann is building his house. It
was also decided that the street
force would grade the sidewalk
to the level of the curb for pav
ing around the Presbj^terian
church.
The board voted to sell its sur
plus concrete to the Presbyterian
church and to others desiring to
buy it. The mayor was authorized
to sell some surplus water pipe
and to have repairs made to the
fire-fighting equipment.
Hold 19th Annual Easter Seal' Drive
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The BOARD OF EDUCATION,
for example, is in process of com
pleting arrangements for building
a new building at the grammar
school in Raeford. They are going
to put it on Ste\(rart street in the
same block with the old^ building,
In the vicinity of whef^ the old
cannery building is now . . .
sort of behind the Methodist
chtiirch and behind the county
jaiL The property is part of the
Meldiuchlln land given to One
^'town a good many years agp by
thii^ late Major JCMDI Vf, Mc-
IjAYICIHLIN along With the pine
grove on the other side of Ste
wart sU^et f(W use as a park or.
planma^Vl. It seems to-have be^ ,
g^i^iy^dtod' u^ oir ^WneWe^:
YOU and
YOUR
CONGRESS
Man HeM Under
$5,000 Bond On
Assailt Charge
Washington—^The steel indus
try pay dispute has cast a new
li^t , on an important question
which Congress must answer in
toe ppar future—should W2ige and
price controls be continued and,
if'so, on what basis?
Those controls, authorized under
toe Defense Rroduction-. Act
(DPA), will expire June 30 pnl^s
the property for a stoool would
be what Mr. McLauchlin would
want, as it undoubtedly is. This,
for a wonder, is expected to be
acceptable to the school house
planning division of the state
board of education.
The Raeford CHAMBER DF
COMMERCE is maldng final ar-.
rangements to put some perman
ent paint on the street name mark
ers all over town. BILL FANN of
the Robbins Mill, a Chamber Di
rector, is heading a committee
which is going to get the work
done. This committee is investi
gating the use of a partly lumi
nous, or fluorescent paint for the
base, with the dull letters to be
painted on top of it. The job that
was done on these posts was done
in a hurry last fall by the chambei*
purely because it was a require
ment of the post office department
before they would start house t->
house mail delivery. It did serve
its purpose, although the paint
barely did last until the mail
carriers got started.
, In the more things we are need
ing department, the ball park can
be mentioned. The AMERICAN
LEGION has done more than its
share in this direction, as it got
the lighting system up and in
operation. The cotmty put a nice
fence around the field, too. It re
mains now for something to liiap-
pen to the old grandstand and a
new one to be in its place. How
ever, we don’t have a team now
after the high school lets out. May
be some interest in baseball will
be revived now that we have so
many /new people in town, and
maybe this interest will make a
complete ball park so necessary
we will all get together and do
it. the community hurts for more
public recreation facilities for
young and old.
About the most pleasant results
from' the old football picture we
ran several weeks ago was a letter
from NEILL A. COLE, of Sanford,
one of the players shown on the
Raeford High school team of 1915.
We Indicated that it was a 1914
picture and Mr. Cole says it was
1915. BUCK BLUE (also in the
picture) sa3re this is right. The
letter says that in 1914 and 1915
• the team won two games, lost
two and tied two, and that "most
of us had never seen a football
(Continued on P*ge 10)
The Senate Banking Committee
had completed hearings on the
subject and was about to start
drafting a bill to continue the con
trols in some form for another
year when Defense Mobilization
Director Wilson resigned in pro
test to the Administration’s pro
posed settlement of the steel dis
pute.
The Senate Banking Committee
immediately postponed its bill
drafting pending clarification of
the steel situation. Likewise, the
House Banking Committee, which
was to have begxm hearings on ex
tension of the DPA, decided to
delay the hearings because of Wil
son’s. resignation.
Two questions now are upper
most in the minds of many mem
bers of Congress as a result of the
actions of tile Wage Stabilization
Board (WSB) and Office of Price
Stabilization (OPS) in connection
with the steel dispute.
1. Has ther steel situation demon
strated that wage and price con
trols as now administered are con
trols in name only and not in fact?
2. Has the WSB in its recom
mendations gone contrary to policy
laid down by Congress?
The Board, with its industry
members dissenting, recommended
a 26-cent hourly pay increase and
a union shop agreement' for the
steel industry. Under a union shop
agreement, a new employe must
join the union within a specified
period of time after going to world
Though not mandatory, a WSB
recommendation carries great
weight. It represents toe majority,
opinion of an official agency
which, by Presidential request,
has entered into a labor-manage
ment dispute on grounds of pre
venting determent of the defense
program.
A WSB recommendation in steel
is especially important. Steel is a
basic industry and the terms of a
settlement there, apt to be affect
ed by the WSB recommedation,
are likel>' to form the pattern for
settlement of negotiations and dis
putes in other industries.
For those reasons Congress
sharply feels the impact of the
situation in steel.
The United Steelworkers of
America, CIO, which had never
been able to obtain the union shop
through negotiation, gladly ac
cepted toe WSB’s recommenda
tions, even though the wage boost
was less than the union originally
(Continued on Page 10)
^ The Easter Seal literally holds
the future of thousands of crip
pled children everywhere, Harry
Greene, chairman of the Hoke
county seal sale, said this week
as the 19th annual Easter seal
campaign got into full swing.
W. C. Phillips, treasurer, re
ports that donations are coming
in from the 1200 letters and^ seals
which were mailed out the first
of April by Mrs. C. H.'Gilesrsec-
Local Man Is Senior
At Davidson College
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(Davidson News Bureau)
Robert L. Murray of Raeford is
currently a senior among the 828
men now enrolled at Davidson
College.
He is a pre-medical student
and is a member of Pi Kappa
Phi social fraternity at Davidson.
*^ounded' in 1837 by Scotch
Presbyterians, Davidson has a
long history of service to the
church, state, and nation,
Nine Rhodes scholars have gone
to England from Davidson under
the famous Rhodes Scholarship
plan—a number unmatched by
small liberal arts colleges in the
South.
Great strides have been taken
during the past decade under the
direction of President John R.
Cunningham. Davidson has a ca
pacity student body representing
24 states, the District of Colum
bia, and two foreign countries.
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PERSONALS
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Mrs. Lizzie Tolar, Mrs. Jesse
Gibson, Mrs. Earl Tolar and Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Jones visited the
Middleton and Cypress Gardens
at Charleston last Sunday.
retary. Students from the Raeford
Graded school and from the Up
church High school are selling
seals.
Last year Hoke county raised
over $500 for the Easter seal sale.
Of the fimds raised, approximate
ly 55% will be retained in the
coirnty for providing direct as
sistance for care of crip
pled childraii ,. o-“ L
Baptist
Plans Youth Week
Stuart (Sug) Moore was held for
Superior Court trials at recorder’s
court before Judge Harry Greene
Tuesday. Moore, colored, was
charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon with intent to loll his
wife, Elle Mae Moore. Probable
cause was foimd and he was held
for superior court under a bond
of $5000.00.
Various other cases were tried,
the majority being speeding and
improper brakes.
Neil Ferguson, James McLeod,
John Mose Covington, all colored
and Walter Scott, Indian, were
fined $10 and the costs for hav
ing improper brakes.
Michael Scenna, Charles F.
Lynch, and Evelyn Schor, all
white tourists, left $25.00 bonds
for speeding.
Don W. Thomas, Jr., white, was
charged with non-support. His
wife decided not to prosecute and
the case was nol pressed. Thomas
paid the costs.
Travis Clayton Gilchrist, white
of the navy, was charged with
having no license plates. He plead
ed no defense and offered testi
mony that he was on an emergen
cy trip because of illness and that
he used old plates because his car
had been in storage. He paid the
costs and bought license plates.
Matthews Kearns, colored failed
to stop for a stop sign and paid
$10 and the costs, feethel Dial,
Indian, paid $10 and' toe costs
►ublic drunk«to®*»-..
Commissioners End
Blue Springs Dances
After they got through hiring
a new county farm agent Monday
morning at their regular monthly
meeting the county board of com
missioners voted to discontinue
the holding of square dances at
thg Blue Springs commimity
hoiKe (old school). These dances
had been going on for some time
and the commissioners apparently
didn’t like the way they were
being run.
C. J. Benner appeared before
the board with a petition for the
surface treating of the road from
15-A at Wayside to the Plank
road in the military reservation.
The board voted to ask the high
way commission to stablize the,
road, and decided not to ask for
its paving at this time.
; The board decided to ask for
state maintenance of'a road in
Little River township which is in
bad shape and which serves two
churches and about ten families.
The board was asked to repair
the Dundarrach community build
ing. It was decided that the coxm-
ty would furnish the materials if
the community would furnish or
pay for all labor. Cost to the coun
ty is not to exceed $500.
It was decided that all offices
at the courthouse would be clos
ed all day on Easter Monday.
Miss Bonnie Kate Blue is leav
ing Charlotte today to accompany
a classmate. Miss Reid Regan, to
her home in Selma, Alabama, to
spend toe Easter holidays. They
will visit Captain and Mrs. Joe
Hoffman at Fort Benning, Georgia,
on their return trip to Charlotte.
James Morris, formerly foreman
of The New^s-Journal printing
shop, is now editor and publisher
of his own newspaper, “Big
Sandy Journal’’ at Big Sandy,
Texas.
Sandra Blythe, daughter of Mr.
and- Mrs. Halley Blythe, under
went a tonsilectomy at Highsmito
hospital last Thur^ay.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gobeille,
Joan and Rickey Gobeille, spent
the day Sunday visiting the gar
dens at Wilmington.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gatlin, Jr.,
and .Leon Gatlin are leaving to
day for Pittsburgh, Pa., where
they will visit Dr. and Mrs. Clyde
Krug.
The Raeford Baptist Church will
observe Youth Week beginning
April 20 and continuing through
April 27. At this time the young
people of the church will assume
places of leadership for a week
and will be responsible for the
work of the church in a real way.
Some of the officers for Youth
Week are: Pastor: C. J. Benner,
Jr.; Assistant Pastor, Douglas
Dixon; D.R.E., Helen Rose; Chair
man of Deacons, James Edge;
Head Usher, Milton Glisson; Sun
day School Supt., James Edge;
Sunday School Secretary, Ken
neth Culbreth; W.M.U. President,
June Connell; T.U. Director, Phil
lip Edge; Brotherhood President,
Roger Dixon; Organist, Jeanette
Hamilton; and Pianist, Janice
Benner.
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GALATIA PLANS SUNRISE
SERVICE FOR EASTER
The annual Sunrise Easter Serv
ice Vvill be held at the Galatia
Church on Sunday morning at six
o’clock. Some members from the
Tabernacle Baptist Church will
participate in the service. Every
body is cordially invited to attend.
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TO SHOW EASTER FILM
There will be a movie “Jour
ney into Faith,” appropriate for
the Lenten season, shown at Mil-
douson on Friday night at 7:30,
at Tabernacle Church in Rock-
fish on Simday night at 7:30 and
at Rockfish School auditorium on
Monday night at, 7:30. A volim-
tary contribution will be taken to
help, defray the expense of the
picture.
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PLAN CHICKEN-SUPPER
The MUdouson PTA is sponsor
ing a chicken stew supper next
Thimsday night, April 17, at toe
Mildouson School for the benefit
of toe lunchroom. After the sup
per toe Stonewall Ruritan Club
will present a “mock trial.”
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A. L. “Red” *Smito, who has
been employed at the Hoke Auto
Company for the past four years,
is now with the Rollings Ford
Company in Newport News, Va.
Mrs. Sndth and diildren will re
main in Raeford until sdiool is
out before they join Mr. Smith.
charged witS^ careless and
reckless driving and speeding- He
received a 60 day suspended sen
tence with a fine of $25 and costs,
1 year of good behavior and had
his license suspended for 12
months.
Lois Jack Parrish, white male,
was fined $100 and the costs and
must also be on good behavior for
one year for driving drunk.
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Baptist Chyrch
To Have Special
Easter Services
The Raeford Baptist Church will
have two special services for Eas
ter Sunday. The morning worship
hour will feature a musical pro
gram telling the story of the cru
cifixion and resurrection o f
Jesus. The music will be inter
spersed with Scripture passages
and poems relating the Easter
message.
At the Sunday evening worship
hour there will be a Song-Sermon,
“The Glory t? the Cross.” The
congregation will take part in
sin sing many old familiar hymns.
The three choirs, the Carol
choir, the Youth choir and the
Adult choir, will present these
two musical programs. Robert'
Gatlin will be soloist and the male
Quartet will be composed of Rob
ert Gatlin, John Draughn, Marion
Gatlin and Bryan Miller.
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PEOPLE’S CHURCH PLANS
SUNRISE SERVICE SUN.
Sunrise Services at the People’s
Methodist Church will be held
from 5:30 to 6:00 Easter Sunday
morning. The ReV/ Luther Wesley,
pastor, invites everybody to come
and hear the Rev: Beaufort Crews
of Elizabethtown, who has been
holding revival services there all
this week.
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WATSON COMES HOME
F. Knox Watson, chairman of
toe county board of commission
ers who has been very ill in a
Richmond hospital for some time,
returned to his home toe last of
last week greatly improved. BQs
condition is still far from good,
however, and he is not, able to
have visitors.
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Ed Brooks of Burgaw was a visi
tor in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
I. Mann during toe week enr.
Rskeford Scoib
Show Up Wed
At Honor Court
The Raeford Bey .Scoiit Troop
attended a court of fibnoT-'-ii East
Laurinburg Tuesday night and
came home with the majority of
the awards and trophies that
were presented. W. L. Poole, Jr.,
new Raeford Scoutmaster, states
that they received three trophies
for work done in the past year.
One trophy, the “Crusade
Award” for 1951, was given to
the troop for achieving the stand
ard set up by the national head
quarters. An attendance trophy
for the highest percentage of at
tendance at courts of honor and
another trophy for attaining the
highest percentage of advance
ment in 1951 was awarded the
Raeford Troop. Both of these
trophies were for the district area.
Clyde Stutts, of Laurel Hill, ad
vancement chairman, was high in
his praise of Tom McLauchlin’s
work with the local troop in ac
hieving such a high standard of
advancement.
McLauchlin, who recently mov
ed to Charlotte, was scoutmaster
for approximately three years and
has been succeeded by Poole.
Four local boys received awards;
Leon Cameron, Jr. attained the
rank of Star scout. Younger Snead,
Jr. attained Life rank, and Joe
McLeod and Mark Smith got
merit badges.
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Mrs. Hardison Dies
Saturday Morning;
Funeral Held Monday
Mrs. Louvenia Hardison, 85,
widow of the late J. W. Hardison,
died at her home on Routes,
Raeford, last Saturday morning.
She had been ill for several
weeks.
The fimeral was held at Gala
tia Presb3rterian Church Monday
afternoon at 2 p. m. with the Rev.
B. O. Shannon officiating. Burial
followed in Beulah Cemetery in
Johnson Ck>unty.
Surviving are four sons, J. M.
Hardison of ThomasviUe, J. B.
Hardison of CSarkton, J. F. Hardi
son of Shannon and D. T. Hardi
son of toe home; five dau^ters,
Mrs. J. F. Wood of Atoeboro, Mrs.
J. B. McLean of Fayetteville, Mrs.
L. A. King of Burlington, and
Mrs. W. C. Pendergrass of tiie
home; three sisters and one broto.-
er.
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Farm Agent b
Empbyed By
Board Monday
Native of Wilson Cmoity,
Now Working In Anson,
To Report By May 1st
At their meeting Monday the
Board of commissioners of Hoke
County voted unanimously to em
ploy .John R. Potter, Jr., of Wades-
,boro as county farm agent, a post
which has been vacant since E.
M. StaUings left here in February
to go into business for himself
in Lumberton. All commissioners
were present at the meeting ex
cept Chairman F. K. Watson vtoo
has been ill for some time.
Mr. Potter is at present assist
ant farm agent for Anson County,
working in Wadesboro, and he
said yesterday he expects to get
here by May 1 at the latest, and
p)ossibly a few days before.
He is a graduate of N. C. State
college in the class of 1949 and
has been on the Anson County
job since July 1 of that year.
He was a member of the Anny
Air Corps for five years during
World War II and was disdiarged
in December, 1945, with the rank
of captain. He is married to toe
former Miss Elsie Taylor of Wil
son and they have two daughters
aged two and six.
Before the war he farmed in
Wilson County.
Rudolph Love apart the wedc
end in Norfolk, mrginla, wito
friends.
Hoke High Bees
Win One, Lose One
Hoke High’s “B” basebaR team
so far H fbUowIng tn liiqtfiral
pattern set by toe varsity as toey
split the first two games of the
young season the past week. Last
Thirrsday they entertained Wa-
gram’s varsity here and dropped
a 12-0 game in a rather loosely-
played affair. Tuesday they broke
into the winning column with a
9-8 verdict over Laurel Hill.
“B” baseball is a rather new
thing in Raeford, this being the
first time that it has been tried
here. The object is to give the
boys who practice with the team
a chance to participate in ball
games and also to give the younger
ones much-needed experience be
fore they play varsity ball.
Yesterday afternoon the varsity
pl^ed Tar Heel out at the ball
park and they have two gam^
scheduled for next week. Bed
Springs there on Friday and St
Pauls here next Wednesday. The
game next week is a conference
game and will start at 3:30. The
coaches have scheduled as many
home games on Wednesday after
noons as possible in order to giw
toe people with the afternoon off
opportunity to see the locals in
action.
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Little Lea^e Film
To Be Shown Friday
The movie “Little League Base
ball Basics,” is to be toown Fri
day at 7:80 p. m. at the Hoke
School and all parents, boys and
other intererted posons are in
vited to come.
This movie wiU show what
little league baseball is and bow
it is played throu^out tile cation.
This showing will be the only one
for Raeford this year.
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HAS OPERATION TUES.
John K MJfem who entered
Highsmito hospital last we^
derwent an operation Tuesday.
His condition at last reports wai
iminroving. He is able to ccceiee
visitors is expected to be fo
toe ho^tal for about two weeks.
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PROCLAIMS MUSIC WIK
Mayor W. L. Poole innfwweit
this week that he has officially de-
riared the week of Mky 4-11 to be
National Music Week, Ha ex
pressed ttw hope titel a pngtoto
could be arrangad for tola oe-
casion.