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4\ VOICI OF miPOM HOMt CUAilD!.^ or iiBERrv The ¥OtCE or miooM MOfe GUOfUUI Of usttn »rm. The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLVII; NUMBER 8 THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1952 RAEFORD, N. C. .TEN CENTS PER COPY S3.00 PER YEAR ciZ^cLUnda - - - By the Editor Roland Covington called by attention to “Red Buck” Bryant’s column “Reminiscences” in last Simday’s Charlotte Observer. In his column Mr. Bryant, a retired newspaper man who worked on some of the country’s largest papers, discusses the visit of Gen eral WiUiam T. Sherman to these parts with his army some 88 years ago. He mentions a visit of Sher man’s to old Bethel Presbyterian Church in South Carolina and goes on to quote what the general wrote in the pulpit Bible telling the preacher, a Mr. McNeill, what to preach on and signing it by order of himself, “Major Gen eral United States Forces.” It had always been my impression that Sherman did this at the Bethel Presbyterian church here in Hoke County instead of in South Caro lina. If this is the case maybe we ought to get the facts together and write Mr. Bryant a letter. The Lord certainly improved the ball park Tuesday afternoon when the wind took the roof off the old grandstand. I don’t know where the money will come from for another one, but with a nice fence and lights, the old run down grandstand sure did ruin the looks of the place. The wind did a mighty neat job . . . just picked the roof off and turned it bottom-upwards outside the park. ., ^ ^,.a ^sham|i t^iat none of the operatofi^f tlie bi^s!ilfSher- ' iff D. H. Hodgin got last week were on hand for the raid. An operation that size must have had ■ a fairly good-sized selling and dis tributing organization somewhere to get rid of the stuff after it was made, and catching one man might have led to the breaking up of this group as it did to the Durham outfit when the big still was found on Puppy Creek sever al years ago. Well, the source of a lot of hooch was cut off anyway. Rebels Tied For ■ League Lead With Red Springs The Raeford Rebels’ occupancy of first place in the Eastern Car olina Textile League lasted every bit of two days as they bowed to the cellar dwellers from St. Pauls Friday night 8-4. The Rebels came out on top in their game last Wednesday night in McColl as Helms held the Palmettos in check and the , team got enough hits for a 6-3 victory Friday night at the local park it was a different story as the Rebels were able to collect only five hits off of the visiting pitcher. Playing their most ragged game to date before their largest crowd of the season the locals made a total of four errors in the fourth combined with two hits to allow the visitors to score three times and take the lead 5-4. St. Pauls jumped into an early lead by getting three straight hits off Lee, the starting pitcher, in the second to score two runs. In the fourth the Rebels fought back and took the lead as they scored four runs on two walks, two sin gles, a fielder’s choice and a dropped flyball to the outfield. St. Pauls scored two more runs in the sixth and one in the eighth to make the final tally 8-4. Lee worked for seven innings on the mound and allowed nine hits; Taylor pitched the final two innings and although rather wild struck out four of the eight bat ters to face him. Dusty McLeod led the Rebel batters with two for two. Next home game for the Rebels will be- Friday night when- they play third place McColl. W. J. McNeill Funeral Is Held Here Yesterday Sheriff Takes Biggest Still In Saturday Raid STANDINGS Eastern Carolina Textile League July 21st, 1952 Teams w L Pet Raeford - 5 3 .625 Red Springs 5 3 .625 McColl 4 4 .500 St. Pauls 2 6 .250 -Q—- Those of us that like to talk about the weather, and that is most of us, have really been hav ing a field day in the last week or so, what, with it being warmer than usual, even for this time of the year, and with the various re-' suits of Tuesday’s storm around the community. I don’t know whether it’s the weather or what, but it seems :o me there has been an unusual amount of violence aiid serious misbehavior around this town and county in the last few weeks. If things keep on we are going to have a full week of Superior Court next month. I should think hot weather would get most peo ple out of the notion of generally raising hell but the opposite seems to be the case. It should be becoming obvious to most of us that history, al ready made, is being crystallized at the National Democratic con vention in Chicago this week. By this I mean the disappearance of the old Democratic and Republi can parties as such and the emer gence of Labor and Conservatives, call them what you will ..... And when it ceases to be the pemo- , cratic party that all or most of us in these parts were bom and bred on, and begins to foster and stand for ideas that we cannot in good conscience stand for, the time has come for us to quit being loyal to a name that is nothing but a name and start voting and speaking what we think is right, •vVhoever speaks it. I just don’t believe a man will go straight' to hell for voting against the Demo cratic party, and I’m getting more inclined to see for myself the mpre I hear of the goings on in Chicago. —0 —— A conference of burley tobacco workers will be held near Way- nesville, August 20-22. Negro Killed With Shotgun At Bowmore Sunday In a shooting at Bowmore late Sunday afternoon Zeth Graham, colored, shot Robert Niven, also colored. Graham seems to have shot Niven with a shotgun in the yard of his home after claiming to have been bothered by the de ceased all Sunday. Niven was brought to town and quickly car ried to Fayetteville where he died in the hospital Monday. Gra ham at present is being held in the town jail without privilege of bond pending the outcome of the coroner’s inquest to be held today. According to Sheriff D. H. Hodgin, who has talked to several persons concerning the incident, indications are that Graham will be charged with first degree murder. Regardless of all reports nothing official has been determined and will not be until the coroner and his jury have rendered their verdict. 0 - Hunting Licenses Placed On Sale William John McNeill, well known farmer of this community, died at his home near here on the Red Springs road Monday af ter a brief illness. He had been suffering with a serious heart condition for several months and was a patient at a hospital for several weeks. Funeral service was conducted at the Raeford Presbyterian church, of which Mr. McNeill was a member, at five o’clock yes terday afternoon by the Rev. W. B. Heyward, pastor, and burial followed in the Raeford cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were mem bers of the J. W. McLauchlin Bible class of the church and Woodmen of the World, of which the deceased was a member. Ac tive pallbearers were Dan Mc- Innis, Belton Wright, C. C. Con- oly, Stanley Koonce, E. E. Smith, Jesse Gulledge, Leon Thrower and Bernard Bray. Mr. McNeill was 70 years of age, having been born in Robe son County July 14, 1882, a son of the late Edward A. M. McNeill and Sarah Campbell McNeill. He is survived by his wife, the former Addie Mae Baker; four sons, Edward, Lewis, Floyd and Robert McNeill of Raeford; four daughters, Mrs. R. L. Burkhart of Seymour,’ Ind., Mrs. E. C. Bar bour of Fayetteville, and Mrs. C. M. Willis and Edith McNeill of Raeford; one brother, the Rev. D. A. McNeill of Houston, Texas; a sister, Mrs. Mary Kate McKenz'.e of Smithfield; and five grand-, children. , 0 . « Woman Run Over Fatally Sunday Maggie McNeill colored woman about 30 years of age and resident of the colored village north of Raeford died Sunday night as a result of being run over in a cot- Sheriff D. H. Hodgin got infor mation Saturday which led him to believe there was something ir regular going on in Quewhiffle township about a mile south of Timberland. He and Police Chief Dees of Raeford decided to ride up that way for a look. They turned off the turnpike road the other, side of the W. J. McDiarmid place at the old Blue pine thicket and went on up into the woods and fields to where they found signs of increased ac tivity on the little rqgds and look ed aroimd until found a whiskey still biggS^even than the record-breaking one found in McLauchlin town^ip a year or so ago. The still was not running at the time and thare were no per sons seen near it. The sheriff arranged for the whole outfit to be moved to Rae ford and estimated that some 10,- 000 gallons of “still-beer”, or ■ whiskey in process, was destroy ed at the still site. It was a double steam boiler still of the upright type with circular and rectangu lar vats of about 10,000 gallon capacity. 1000 pounds of sugar, 100 cases of half gallon jars and a large pile of coke for fuel were also taken. Sheriff Hodgin has made no ar rests in connection- -with the still. He estimates from the wear on the road and th^> marks on the bushes in the vie^ity that tl still had been at,£ha-i, location for about three weel^ J. P. Bell To Head Lions Club; Honor Harrison Electrical Storm Brings Some Rain Tuesday Afternoon A rainstorm accompanied by rather severe bursts of wind hit Raeford Tuesday afternoon about three o'clock and lasted for about an hour; thoroughly drenching the town itself but doing little to allieviate the parched crops and heat-stricken areas in the county. Reports indicate that the rain fell to the northwest of the town and also to the southwest in the di rection of Dundarrach but only sprinkled slightly, if any, the areas of Duffy, Antioch, Rockfish, Timberland, Blue Springs and Ashley Heights. The rain driven by the wind was at times so severe that build ings on the opposite side , of main street were obscured by the water. The storm sewers on some corn ers were unable to carry the load off and the water backed up in the streets and on the sidewalks. The television antenna at Raeford TV Co. was blown over on its side at the top of the tower; sev eral TV antennas in Sunset Hills and other residential areas were twisted out of shape; a large chinaberry tree situated behind the courthouse was uprooted; and limbs were scattered throughout the streets all over to'wn. A few pellets of hail were seen during the height of the storm but not very many. One of the major incidents ' to happen was the roof of the grandstand at Armory Park was lifted, supports and all, by the wind and flipped over on the ground behind the park. A flying timber from the roof knocked down a porch corn er post on the house directly be hind the grandstand. O FIRST LITTLE LEAGUE ALL-STAR PLAYOFF TO BE HERE AUGUST 5 Recorder Hears 17 Cases h Court Tuesday Local All-Stars Play Norwood On Local Field I District 5 Little League play offs will begin on August 5. Lea gues in District 5 include three Durham leagues, Norwood and .\berdeen-Raeford. and toss of a coin decided that the first game ’oetween Aberdeen-Raeford All- Stars and Norwood AU-Stara would be on an Aberdeen or Rae ford park. Another flip of the coin made Raeford the site of this game and it will be played here at four-thirty on Tuesday, Aug ust 3. Winner of the Aberdeen-Rae- ford-Norwood game here on Aug ust 5 will play the -winner of playoffs in the three Durham leagues and that ^winner will go on to the state playoffs In Wil mington. Final winners will par- ticipate in the “Little World Series” in Williamsport. Pa. Local Little League offidala and the Raeford Chamber of Commerce and its members are cooperating to make a big day of the first game here. Several hun dred boosters are expected to come from Norwood to the game. In an average half-day session of Hoke County recorder’s court 17 cases were cleared from the docket before Judge Harry Greene Tuesday. Lacy McRae, colored, charged with statutory rape waived prelim inary hearing and was ordered held for Superior Court without bond. • John Archie Copeland, colored, and Brady C. Boger, Jr., were each charged with failing to stop at a stop sign resulting in a -wreck at the corner of North Main street and Prospect avenue. Copeland was found guilty and got months to be suspended on pay ment of the costs and $100 to Bo ger, who was found not guilty. Elisha C. Neil Whitley, colored, pleaded no defense to a charge of careless and reckless driving resulting in a wreck. He get six months to be suspended on pay ment of $25 and the costs and g large crowd will undoubt- $126.48 to M. L. Jones for dam-1 attend from, .\berdeen, and ages. I a^ong with local Little league James F. Chavis, Indian, char- j it about the best- attended game here in many a day. Arrangements are being made for local business hotises to close for the game. Last Thursday night at their regular meeting the Raeford Lions Club held its annual in stallation of officers for the com ing year. E. H. Mills outstanding Lion member from Pinebliiff and ton patch on Roscoe Lowry s place- mayor of the town, was H. R. McLean, district game protector, announces that hunting licenses for the 1952-53 season are being placed on sale this week with agents over the county. He warns that the combination hunt ing and fishing licenses expire on July 31 and the new licenses will not be valid until August 1. Booklets covering all neqessary information pertaining to hunt ing will be available from agents. He suggests that himters ask for a copy when obtaining licenses and keep it for future references. Hunters and fishermen can save money by purchasing the combi nation license. (Old Luther Clark place) in Blue Springs township. She was run over by Samuel James Purcell driving his 1941 Ford coach, at about 10:00 o’ clock, and was dead by the time investigating officers of the State Highway patrol arrived shortly after 11:00. Coroner James C. Lentz investigated and ruled that it was an unavoidable accident as far as Purcell was concerned and he was not blamed. Circumstances the way the pa trolmen got t’nem were that the ^woman and one Jefferson Mc Neill, colored, were lying in the edge of the cotton patch, having apparently stopped the J. K. Mc Neill farm pickup truck on the farm road between the cotton patch and a com patch. Purcell came along with his wife and children on the way home and seeing the pickup in the road, turned into the edge of the cotton patch to go around it and ran over the McNeill woman. Jeffer son McNeill suffered a severe laceration of one leg and went off to the other side of the cotton patch,- where the patrolmen found him at about 11:30. The officers figure the truck was driven there either by Jeffer son McNeill or Fred Campbell who was also located in the vi cinity. 0 POWER OFF SUNDAY According to Ben Hurley there will be a short interruption .of power Sunday, July 27, in the town of Raeford and surrounding communities that are served by Carolina Power and Light Co. The first interruption -will be from 1 to 1:30 and again from 4:30 to 5:00. The interruption will be for the purpose of installing new equipment at Raeford sub station. Leaf Growers In County Turn Out In Quota Voting Tobacco farmers of Hoke Coun ty showed the state and national farm leaders that they heartily endorsed the tobacco-quota pro gram now in effect by voting 1078 to 24 in favor of controls for the next three years. Passage of the controls was not in doubt but what troubled the farm leaders was the fact that the farmers did not care whether they had the program or not. Leading the com munities of the county in total number of votes was Quewhiffle with 292 for and only 1 against. Tobacco Associates, Inc. was also shown an affirmative vote by the margin of 1053 for and 28 against. Throughout the five southern states the voting was generally heavy with the total vote for the controls exceeding 250,000 and the number against 3100. Voting in the county went as follows; affinnative votes first: Allendale 55, 2; Antioch 90, 6; Blue Springs 86, 2; Little River 110, 0; McLauchlin 153, 6; Que whiffle 292, 1; Raeford 185, 2; Stonewall 107, 5. 0 Miss Upchurch Off For Beauty Contest Miss Hoke County, Mary Sue Upchurch, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. L. M. Upchurch, and Charles Hostetler left this mom- Sixteen young folks of the Rae--ing around 8 o’clock for Winston- in charge of the installation serv ices. He charged them to faith fully pursue their duties and for members to give their utmost for the club. The new officers for 1952-53 are J. P. Bell, president; 1st Vice- President, Irvin Hubbard; 2nd Vice-President, E. W. (Jack) Human; 3rd Vice-President, A. W. Wood, Jr.; Sec. and Treas., War ren Childress; Tail ’Twister, Harry Harrison and Lion Tamer, James F. Carpenter. ’The new directors are, Sam Hiser and A.-V. Guyer while the old directors are D. B. McLeod and R. L. Carter. The Past President’s pin was presented to the out-going presi dent, Carlton Niven and Past Secretary and Treasurer’^ pin was 'presented to Reid Childress. Key awards were presented to Harry Harrison and Pete Sa’wyer for outstanding work on the mem bership committee. The Lion of the Year award for outstanding service to the local club, the com munity and to Lions International was presented to Harry Harrison. o Baptist Young Folks Go To Ridfifecrest ged with giving J. A. Jones a bad check for the amount of $76, -vvas called and failed to appear. His $150 bond was forfeited and a capias was issued, James R. Dye, white, was char ged with careless and reckless driving. The State took a nol pros with leave. William H: Warlick, -white, charged with violation of the pro hibition law's, w'as found not guilty. Jefferson McNeill, colored, wms found not guilty of being drunk and disorderly, Burnice Cooper, Indian, plead guilty of driving after his license was revoked. He received a six months suspended sentence upon payment of $200 and costs and two years of good beha-vior. Fred Wilson, colored, was found guilty of careless and reckless driving and received 60 days su spended on payment of $25 and costs and 12 months good behavior. Case against James T. Long, white, charged with non-support, was dropped when his wife did not wish to prosecute. The Norwood caravan will be met .jt Jhe.city limits br the Ma^'o1^S^^^*re5ider.t ^ ber of Conamerce and ceremonies at the ball park before the big game wdll be brief but impressive. W. T. Gibson will serve as master of ceremonies at the same and Neill A. McDonald, president of the -Chamber of Commerce, and J p -Bell. Little Leasue president, v.'iU narticipate in the welcome to the visitors. There will be music and snecial flas-raising ceremon ies followed by. opening game first-ball ceremonv ■vith Mayors Forrest Lockev and W. L. Poole and President W. P. Saimders of Rob’oins Mills. Following the same the Rae ford Chamber of Commerce wifl entertain the visiting and local Little League players at dinner, at which time the tronhies wiH be oresented to the Aberdeen- Raeford winning team arid indl- E. H. Robinson, white, was'vidiial nlayer awards made. ford Baptist Church will leave this morning for Ridgecrest to attend Training Union Week. They wiU be accompanied by the Rev. and Mrs. Judson Lennon, Miss Martha Pittman and Mrs. C. J. Benner. In. the absence of Mr. Lennon, Dr. Fred Sandusky, Dean of Men and professor of Bible at Wingate Junior College, will preach at the Raeford Baptist Church Sunday morning. 0 Liquid nitrogen side-dressing demqnstrations on com are at tracting considerable Interest In Cherokee County, reports County Agent G. H. Farley. Salem for the Miss North Caro lina beauty pageant. Hostetler, the local Jaycee respresentative, drove the Nash Rambler donated for the trip by West-Coates Motor Co. of Fayetteville. Several Jaycees and townsfolk have expressed the intention of attending part or all of the three- day event and lending moral sup port for their own candidate to carry through to the finals and victory. CD ’The peach crop In the 10 southern early states is expected to be a little larger than the 1951 crop. "IHIP charged with being dnmk and dis orderly and violation of the pro hibition laws. He received a 6- month^ sentence suspended upon payment of $25 and costs and 12 months good beha-vior. Kinley Thomas, colored man, charged with assault on his wife, paid the costs. Alexander Peterkin and James Glover, both colored, each paid $10 and costs for ha-ving impro per brakes. -o — Mrs. J. E. Flannery - Dies At McCain . Mrs. Frances Sproule Flannery, 59, who with her husband had operated the N. C. Sanatorium dairy for the last 20 years died Saturday morning at her home. Mrs. Flannery was born in 1 Ohio, daughter of John and Dic key Sproule. Surviving are her husband, J. E. Flannery of Mc Cain, and a half brother. Fxm- eral services were held at 4 p.m. Simday at Powell Fimeral Cha pel, Southern Pines. Burial fol lowed Tuesday in the Berea Cemetery, Berea, Kentucky. 0. JUDGE OF BEAUTY Further details and names of the all-star players selected wiU appear next week. -0 Churches Plan Union Evangelistic Service Here In Ocotber Charles Hostetler, local judge of beauty and law, appeared in the former capacity in Fayetter ville Monday and Tuesday when he served as judge in the beauty contest for “Miss Fayetteville Athletics.” V The pastors of the three down town churches in Raeford an nounced this week that a series of Union Evangelistic services would be held in the Raeford Methodist church during the -week of October 12 to 17 with the Bap tist and Presbyterian churches cooperating, and that a distin guished and prominent preartier had been obtained to conduct them.. .The announcement said that Dr. Julian Lake, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Winston- Salem had been secured as evan gelist for the series, and the min isters expressed themselves as being highly pleased that he was coming. Dr. Lake is a native of Atlanta. Georgia, and his wife is the foaS- mer Elizabeth Roberta GQmoiir of Wilmington, North Carolina, He holds a bachelor of arts de gree from Davidson CoIIega and doctor of divinity ftoat tha samia college. His bachelrar of dhrtnltr degree was awarded by dw Uhtoin Theological seminary in Idd^ mond in 1931. He has been pastor oi. dtamh in Warrenton, Va., Bode BUV, S. C., Bristol, Traoi., and Salem.
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