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VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 47
THURSDAY, APREL 17, 1952
RAEFORD, N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY
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By the Editor
F. KNOX WATSON, chairman
of the coimty board of oommis-
sioners, showed up in town Tues
day with the news that he would
not be seeking reelection to the
board this year, due to his health.
He has been very ill since an
operation some time ago, and his
trip to town was the farthest he
had been from home since getting
back from a Richmond hospital.
Although not well yet, prospects
for his'complete recovery seem
to be excellent. In addition to hav
ing been chairman pf the board
•several times he has been presi
dent of the N. C. Commissioners’
association.
ROY ROWE, Burgaw man run
ning for lieutenant govemoir, is
about the only politician to show
up in The News-Journal office
this week, except HARRY
CiREENE who was with him.
Greene carries a lot of these fel
lows around and we are watchigg
to see if he slips up and squires
opposing candidates for the same
office around. Haven’t caught hrim
yet. . . Back to Rowe. . . His
visit was a pleasure, as he knew
something about the small offset
pr^ t was running and we had
a few minutes of good shop talk.
H^^ls a farmer, and businessman
of B^gaw^mid has beien a mem
ber j^bpth
^the Boui
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Woman’s Club Show
Makes Good Profit
The Womans’ Club announced
this week that they cleared $370
from the “Shooting Stars” talent
show that was sponsored last
week by them in an effort to raise
money for a community house.
A committee, together with other
civic clubs, is making plans to
buy the lot and start work on the
recreation project.
The Woman’s Club wishes to
thank all those who helped to
make the show a success; those in
the performance, those back-
stage, those helping with’ the baby
contest, those helping with the
advertising and' especially the
merchants who coopearted so gen
erously. '
YOUR
SCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
T. C. Jones, principal of the
Rockfish School for the past sev
eral years, announced his resigna
tion last week. As yet, he has not
announced his plans for the fu
ture, but states that he has sev-
^ eral propositions before him. His
many friends in the district are
very much ups^t over his deci
sion to teaVe.
HOME DEMONSTRATION WOMEN
HAVE VKY SUCCESSFUL MEET
r. C. Seriate and
I ■ ^epresentativ€!s,
Greene,
Clerk of the Court JOHN
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CAMERON said there was np
doubt about him being as mad as
a wet setting hen over the water
in his office last week, but he said
we should have seen his assistant,
Miss ILA GRAHAM, when the
plaster fell in her lap some time
after we were there. It’s all re
placed and newly painted now.
Understand CHARLES CAMER
ON, home from Washington for
Easter, managed to get a Dick
Russell for' President button on
JOHN McGOOGAN Tuesday.
Haven’t run into John to see if
he’s still wearing it. If we’ve got
to vote for a party instead of a
principle, it seems to me we might
do a sight worse than Russell.
Spealdng of voting, the follow
ing letter to the editor of the
Charlotte Observer from ARNOLD
McKAY of this county seems to
make sense to me;
“Out hunting one fall day, I
got a little turned around and
stopped at an old colored man’s
home in a clearing and told him
what was on my mind. ‘Well,’ he
said, ‘if you’ll just back-track a
little'and p’int out to me what
direction you come from, I know
I can tell you where you headin’.’
Men’s prejudices, interests, sym
pathies, and enthusiasms do not
spring full grown over night. In
this political year the confused
voter can not do Tjetter than to
follow his own better judgment:
^back-track’ a Uttle, ffad out
where a candidate ‘comes from’
and you’ll know where hels ‘head
in’’ if he gets the job.
Dr. Koonce,. State Dentist, fih-
ished his two weete program in
the Indian and WMte schools last
week. Accordi|mj|^'his report he
inspected,. 724 »
Pre-schoof clinics have been
held in the Mildouson, Rockfish
and Ashemont schools. Through
an unfortunate circumstance the
doctor did not get to Rockfish.
The others, however, were com
pleted in good stylS.
The Raeforcf Graded clinic will
be held one week from today,
Thursday, April 24, beginning at
9:00 a. m. The local doctors will
do this work., We sincerely ap
preciate their help. Parents, par
ticularly mothers, are urged to
attend with the children and
bring reports on previous inno-
culations and vaccinations. Birth
certificates should also be brought.
Two hundred and thirty-eight
Home Demonstration Club wo
men and -visitors attended the An- j
nual 16th District Federation j
Meeting which was held at the
Raeford Methodist Church on
Wednesday, April 9th. This num
ber includes 27 women from An
son County, 101 from Hoke, 61
from Richmond, 32 from Scotland
and 17 visitors.
Mrs. John Baker of Hoke Coun
ty, District Chairman, presided.
Registration began at 10 a. m. and
from ten imtil 10:30, Miss Martha
Davenport played selections on the
organ. Rev. Judson Lennon gave
the devotion.
Mrs. A. A. Mclnnis of the Rock
fish Club in Hoke County and
Younger Snead, Chairman of the
Board of Stewards of the Raeford
Methodist Church, brought wel
come greetings. Mrs. W. C. Curlee
of Anson County responded. After
the introduction of guests, Mrs.
Gower Crosswell, Director of the
Hoke Coimty Home Demonstra
tion Chorus, sang “The Holy City.”
The minutes were read by the sec
retary, Mrs. J. M. Andrews of
Hoke County and members of
committees were appointed.
'The County Council Presidents
from the four coimties took part
in the discussion of their achieve
ments in memliershlp, health, citi
zenship, home improvement, fam
ily life, music, recreation, high
way beautification, and 4-H Club
work.
Mrs. Rosalind Redfern, retired
Home Agent from Anson County,
said the blessing after which the |
group went to the basement of i
the Church and were served a de- |
lightful luncheon by the Methodist
Women of the Church.
Mrs. Mary L. McAllister, Dis
trict Home Agent, introduced the
speaker, Mrs. J. A. Sharpe, Jr. of
Lumberton. Mrs. Sharpe gave a
vivid desription of her trip to
Europe last summer. She spoke in
an informal manner, telling at
first of some of her experiences
from a humerous point of view,
and later relating human interest
experiences and telling what the
trip meant to her perosnally. Mrs.
Sharpe answered a number of
questions at the conclusion of her
talk.
After the report of the commit- i
tees, Richmond Coimty was pre-:
sented the gavel fqj’ ha-ving the i
largest number in attendance bas- I
ed on miles traveled. Richmond i
County also extended an invitation
for the 1953 meeting. Miss Verna
Stanton, Assistant State Home
Demonstration A^ent, installed the
new officers. The meeting ad
journed with the club women re
peating their collect^'.
Williftm Dixon,
Local M»n’s Father,
Dies In Oxford
On Tuesday evening Mrs. Clif
ford Bostic entertained all teach
ers at Hoke High at dinner at her
home near Arabia. It was a most
enjoyable occasion and the court
esy was greatly appreciated by
the teachers.
The seventh month having end
ed, the county office is preparing
the “Organization Sheet” which
includes the request for the allot
ment of teachers for next year by
the state. It looks now as though
the allotment will be about the
same as the present teaching force.
We have heard several times
about flowers and shrubs being
stolen from the cemetery. This
week a man told me that his wife
had prepared some cut flowers
and a lovely potted plant and had
placed them at the graves ?of de
ceased members of .the fanaily on
Saturday. He went back to the
cemetery with her Easter Sunday
to look at them and the potted
plant was gone. This is a low-
down thing for someone to be do
ing, and 1 can’t see how anyone
who loves flowers could stoop
so low, much less enjoy thr flow
ers after stealing them. 1 expect
It would go hard with whoever
this is if they ever got in court
alraut it. Fve got some idteas of
my own, too, although 1' won’t
call any names, ■‘.yet.
Lak week most of the schools
celebrated Easter with programs
of various sorts. Then all schools
by permission of the Board^ of
Education celebrated Easter Mon
day by taking a holiday.
The members of the Hoke
County Unit of NCEA will hold
their annual dinner meeting in the
Hoke High cafeteria on Tuesday
evening, April 22.
Next Thursday the senior class
of Hoke High will leave via Trail
way buses on the annual trip to
Washington. They will lie chap
eroned by Principal and iSffrs. W.
T. Gibson and Miss Hilda Priest.
The annual county-wide field
day is set to be held at the Up
church school tomorrow. It is ex
pected that all of the county
schools will participate. 'These ex
ercises are sponsored by the
schoolmasters club. The day was
quite successful last year and it
Is expeked to Tie better this year.
The colored schools of the coun
ty start tiielr Saturday sdiedule
day after tomorrow, Api^ 19.
William Bell Dixon, 80, retired
farmer and warehouseman, died
at four o’clock Friday afternoon
at his home in Oxford.
Son of Young P. and Kate Co-
zart Dixon, Mr. Dixon was a na
tive of Granville County and had
been a resident of Oxford for 24
years. He was a member of the
Oxford Methodist Church and the
Junior Order.
Funeral services were conducted
from the home at three o’clock
Sunday afternoon by the Rev. W.
G. Farrar of Creedmore, assisted
by the Rev. O. K. Ingram of Ox
ford. Burial was in the family plot
of the Bank’s Church cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters,
Katie Dixon and Mrs. Ruth Tippett
of the home; four sons, A. J. of
Creedmore, R. A. of Franklinton,
Jasper B. of Norfolk, and Roger
W. Dixon of Raeford; 26 grand
children and 22 great grandchil
dren.
Guard
Sergeant Lniltnictor '
Sgt. Marvin J. Wood, the new
National Guard instructor for the
130th AAA Battalion, has arrived
in Raeford to begin his duties.
He replaces WO. W. E. Marlar
who is now stationed at Camp
Stewart, Ga.
Sgt. Wood, who has been on
“Exercise Longhorn” in Texas
with the 47th “Viking” division,
a former Minnesota National
Guard outfit, is a veteran of nine
years in the Army, of which two
years 'were spent in Europe in
World War II and 14 months in
Korea. He has received 8 battle
stars, 5 during the Korean con
flict and the other three during
World War II.
Sgt. Wood and his wife, the
former Miss Martha Gray of At
hens, Ga. have two daughters, age
11 and 4. They now reside at 216
Roberts St. in Sunset Hills.
f> ’
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Hubbard
spent the week ,end at Myrtle
Beach with relatives.
15 Cases Heard
Before Recorder
Tuesday Morning
Judge Harry Greene ruled on
15 cases in Hoke coimty record
er’s court Tuesday morning. Most
dealt ■with tr£iffic violations, al
though liquor and larceny also
came up. Several cases were con
tinued.
William Thomas Ray, colored,
was charged with breaking and
entering at night. Probable cause
was found and he was held for
Superior Court for action by the
grand jury.
Lawrence L. Dudley, Wesley
Williams and Hudson McLean, all
colored, paid ten dollar fines and
the costs for having improper
brakes.
Betty Lou Ivey and Aaron Leon
Capel, white, and Charlie Foster,
colored, each paid $25 and the
costs for driving without a license.
John Walter Bishop, colored,
charged with operating a car
without a driver’s license, got 60
days suspended on a fine of $25
and the costs and two years good
behavior. In another case he got
six months suspended on payment
of $100.00 and the costs and two
years good behavior for driving
drunk.
Warren Gilbert Breiner, white
tourist, left $25 for speeding.
Roscoe Cook, colored, was char
ged ■with being drunk an ddisor-
derly. He got 60 days on the roads
suspended on the costs and good
behavior for two years. Cary Ross,
colored, was found not guilty of
the same i^owe..
Earl H. Robinsbn, white paid,
$10 and the costs for public drunkr
eness.
Nan Tillman, colored male
charged with careless and reck
less driving, got 90 days suspend
ed on pa'vment of $50 and the costs
end good beha-vior for two years.
TTiq Uf'en3e was suspended for six
reenths. ’
■Rnddv.Rogers. Bobbv Bruns^in,
Albert Hart. Jr. and Herbert Mc-
T ean. all colored, were charged
vi+b larcenv of automobile tir'-s
c'd batteries from McDonald’s
T!'‘!so Servicenter. All except Mc-
T pan were found guiltv and got
60 davs suspended on fines of $25
and the costs for each and two
"■I'eprs good behavior.
TURKEY PLANT WILL FURNISH
EMPLOYMENT TO 30 PERSONS
Walter J. Bone
To Preside At
Superior Court
Judge Walter J. Bone, of Nash
ville, wiU convene the regular
April term of Hoke County Su
perior court here next Monday
morning for the trial of criminal
and civil cases. Court wiU start
on Monday with criminal cases
being tried on that day and Tues
day and with civil calendar set
for Wednesday. There will be a
turnover in the Grand Jury for
the term, ■with nine new members
being added and nine from the
previous term serving.
To Start In July
A new market for North Caro
lina turkeys has been assured
through the organization of Tur-
kalina Farms, incorporated, which
plans to operate a turkey process
ing freezing plant at RaefordL
The newly formed corporation
has bought the freezer locker plant
formerly o'wned by the now dor
mant Colonial Frozen Foods Inc.
and is in the process of remodel
ing the plant and preparing to in-,
stall the equipment needed for
handling turkeys. Tiirkalina, the
third turkey freezing plant of its
type in North Carolina, is expect
ing to begin operation during the
month of July and Intends to em
ploy 30 persons when processing
is under •way.
Criminal cases number about 14 j Formed by turkey growers of
and include two murder cases con- | surrounding areas. 'Tur-
tinued from preidous terms. Char- jjaima •will process the turkeys
lie Flynn is charged ■with killing after they have been dressed by
Bennie Lee Murchison (both col
ored) at Flynn’s cafe last Octo
the turkey raisers. The plant will
be equipped to handle 1,000 tur-
ber 6. Curtis Bandy is charged keys, or about 25,000 pounds of
■with the murder of James Ed- ■turkey a day and the operators al-
ward Breeden last December in ready are contemplating the pos-
Blue Springs to'wnship, both prin
cipals in this case being colored
also. W. H. Graham, white, is
charged with giving a bad check.
W. H. Fendley, white, charged
with drlidng on the wrong side
of the road.
New cases to be heard at the
term include Robert McLeod, col
ored man charged with breaking
into' several cars and stealing one;
Johnny Thompson, colored, ob
taining money under false pre
tense; Stuart Moore, colored, try
ing to kill his -wife; James and
sibUity of doubling this capacity.
A marketing di'vision of the plant
■will handle distribution and sale
of the finished product. The De
partment of Agriculture’s Markets
Division ■will furnish a trained
man for grading the output of the
new turkey packing plant, wfaidi
plans to sell both frozen zmd
dressed unfrozen turkgys.
Tbe completion of this plant
should encourage expansion of
turkey production in Hoke and
nearby counties and the farmers
are reminded that an estimated
Rufus Edwards, white, rap? and | 727^000 turkeys were produced by
accessory before the fact. All j Heel turkey growers last year
CORRECTION
It was inadverently stated last
week that the dances at Blue
Springs Community house would
be discontinued immediately. They
■will be discontinued after tomor
row night.
these were bound over from re
corder’s court.
Cases appealed from .ror ■rder’s
court include Betbime Maubt:bv.
■'vhite. charged wilb bein^ d^nmk i
and . dicorderlv and ac'ia'dt ■'rifh
a deadly weapon: Jethro Lee!
Young, white, driving drink: .Toe
Elmo Swan, white, escaping from
Sanatoriuh prison: Arthur L.
Park, white, careless and reckless
driving, drunk dri^ving and dam
ages; Carlton Taylor, white, as
sault with a deadly weapon
.Tiirv list for the term is as fol
lows:
and their output is expected to
increase about 35 per cent this
year.
A large proportion, of the turkey
imeat sold by North Carolina
plants goes to military installai-
i tions.
Incorporators of the concern,
chartered recently by Secretary of
State Thad Eure, are Kenneth. F.
Howard of Dunn, J. S. McFadyoi
and W. T. Rainey of Fayetteville,
Major L. C. Barnes of Route 7,
FayetteidUe, James A. Herring,
j James A. Ezzell, H. C. Peterson,
, i and C. F. Johnson all of Rose
Mrs.LenaJWromble. L.^J. Camp-iHiu^ N. C., and D: Wade Steveck
of Pinehurst.
The manager of the local plant
will be announced at a later date.
THESE MEN RAN THE TRAIN HERE ABOUT 46 YEARS AGO
bell. Harrv Thornburg. J. A. Wil
liams, J. F. McDowell. B. F.
Jones. Harrv Epstein. W. M. Mc
Neill, J. V. Miller, E. B. McCrini-
mon, John Gordon. Mitchell Ep
stein, David E. Liles. D. M. Mc-
Dougald. F. B. Harris. D. A Holt,
C. W. Childress, H. B. Nixon, Wal
ter Parks. Melvin McDowell. Mrs.
Jesse Gulledge, Henry C. Max-
v'niT. .Tr,, W. W. Cameron. J. B..
Rav. George Vanhoy. Mrs. J. B.
McTntvre. S. B. Hobson, C. J. Con
nell, N. B. Blue. Henry Miller,
Mrs. Jewel Klouse, John C. Mc-
Bryde. H. L. Sessoms, Ted Med-
lin, David New, Thomas F Mc-
Bryde, C. J. Holland. G. L. Ed
wards, Hilton Clark, E. R. Seaford.
NSrrl^f
Af f
The four gentlemen shown a-
bove will not be recognized as
readily as were the members of
the 1915 football team we ran some
weeks ago, for the reasons that
these pictures were taken several
years before and railroad men
don’t get before the public like
football players do.
The group of three on the right
is the crew of the Aberdeen and
Rockfish railroad train and was
taken betyreen 1905 wd 1907
when the train rem from Aberdeen
to Hope Mills. On the left in the
group is E. J. “Ed” Bethune, cen-
ductor of the train. Ed served the
Seaboard for many years as a con
ductor and is now retired and
living in Hamlet. In the center
is Daniel IdcKeithan, the fireman,
who .was for many years a fami
liar figure in Raeford as a ball
player and as cotton weigher. He
passed away last year. On the
right is Herbert Blue, of Aber
deen, the engineer. Herbert pass
ed away about 25 years ago.
The nice looking young map on
the left in the picture by hlmsdl
is W. L. “Turkey Lacy” MePad^
yen, then as now of Montrose^
Lacy cut wood for the train to
bum. He says he ciit it and haul
ed it two miles to the road for 90
c^ts a cord. Took about two days
to cut a cord, he says. He says the
train was limited to two cars in
those days because it couldn’t puU
any more them that over the hills
between Aberdeen and Hope Mills.
The group picture was taken by
Jim Williamson, who Mr. Mc-
Fadyen says was the first bar
ber this town ever had. Tbe pic
ture of Lacy was takoi by Paton
studio in Fayetteville about 1910,
he says.
The Lions Club’s annual ladies
night was held on Thursday even
ing of last week, at the Lions
Den.
A delicious supper, which was
prepared under the supervision of
T. B. Lester, was served at seven
o’clock, after whi^ the program
was turned over to Harry Harrison
who presented a very entertaining
and informal program. He direct
ed a contest in which Mrs. T. C.
Scarborough was the lucky con
testant, thereby ■winning a box of
candy and an orchid corsage. Ed
Smith, T. B. Phillips and Henry
Maxwell told jokes and Harold
GilUs took pictures of the group.
The occasion i proved to be a
most enjoyable one and tiie good
fellowship that prevailed made it
one that v ill be Itmg rNsembered.
Local Man Takes
Johnston County Job
Walter Glenn Maxwell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maxw^
Raeford, has accepted the position
of assistant county farm agent
for Johnston county.
He is a graduate of Hoke County
High SchooL N. C; State College
and was in the Navy for two years.
He and his family will make ttieir
home in Smithfidd. Mrs. Max-
■weU is the former Mbs midred
sinfYaIr of Ashfey Rights and
they have one sim.
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MacDonald Attends
Boston Meetinir
K. A. MacDonald attended the
Regional Meeting of the National
Association of Sriiool Admini
strators in Boston, Mass. April S-
9. Eastern Nortix Carolina was well
represoited, having between 90
and 35 delegates present.
Accompanying Mr. MacDonald
wm Supt. C. Reid Ross of tiie
Fayetteville City Sdiools, Doug-
las Byrd of the Cumberland Coun
ty Schools, E. C Worley of Gtdds-
boro and Leslie N. Boney of WR-
mington. On tiie return trip Ifir.
MacDonald stopped in Wadrington.
D. C. and visited Omgressman C.
R Deane.
Alfred Cole, Jk., of IRIC> Oiapel
HQl. qient Eastar wttti htupinnln