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THE HOKE COUNTY NEWS
THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL
l^OLUME XXVII-^Number 2
RAEFORD, N.'C., FRTDAY, APRIL 10th, 1931
S1.50 YEAR, IN ADVANCE
Ufge Standard Shipping Rules
Be Used By Watermelon Growers
Railroads Submit Shipi4i>K Specifi^tiflM For
Safe Delivery of 1931 Crop; Would Bene
fit Riilroads And Shipper; ^
SCOUT
*‘" lIGISlJflltE SEEMS
begiBning to turn toward the sum-
-mer . crop of Wateitnelbns In this
section, the, following dispatch front
the State D^artment of Agriculture
-will be. of Interest. Hoke County has
been a ■ section ? of ^he State which
has rapidly becqnie prominent in
the prodndtibn of Jiatermelona. Maqy
faraers found thbm ,profitable etren
in the clrcUint^tan'aii bf the past
year. '•
The rtles printed below are mg-
ed by the' railroads in an effort to
secure uniformity and safety in the
packing of watermelon cars. Those
who have packed watermelons in
former seasons will Immediately
IHEERi LDUL BOVS IS KIIJIII|I WRECK
Raeford Scouts Prepare For Vance Burch, Cliftmi Young
^District JanAoree}. Attend
f Honor Court Mcnnday Night
EMPLOYEE Cream Depot Plans Obtain
Endorsement of Farmers Here
No Agreement* No Adjoum-
Ment} LegislatcHTs Favor In-
.difect Approach.
~ By CARL GOERCH
Talk about your contrasts!
One day we have Blister, with its
beautiful anthems, gorgeous flow
ers, Inspiring thoughts, lofty ideals
and sublime significance; the next
day we have the legislature again,
. with all of its foils ani^ foibles.
Tote that these rules are That’s moving from one extreme to
followed by the majority of the ^ vengeance.
farmers in this section who have
endeavored to ship a well-packed
car. Elach detail of this packing is
familiar to most Hoke County grow
ers, but these .rules will accomplish
much if they are given thorough
publicity and adhered to by the
growers as a whole.
The suggested rules are as fol
lows:
Rule 1. The shippers shall at
their expense, line with 50 pound
kraft paper the side walls of cars
to the height of the load, and prop
erly bed the floors with dry excel
sior using not less than three bales
of 100 pounds per bale to the- car
and shall- cushion the ends of -the
car with excelsior pads not less than
4 inches in thickness to the height
of the load, such pads to be secure
ly attached to the ends of the cars.
Rule 2. Melons must be loaded
compactly with the least possible
slack. Melons varying more than 4
pounds in weight shall not be load
ed in the same car.
Rule 3. Shippers shall, *Tit their
expense, board car doors from floor
of car to top of load using boards
■of not less than 4 inches in width
and 1 inch in thickness, spaced not
more than 2 inches apart; such
hoards shall be free froAi knots and
tshall be flush with the inside wall
-of the car. This submittal was also
advised in Docket No. 533.
There’? a reason for Easter, but
it’s hard to find any justifiable rea
son for the legislature still beiuB
In session. When we sent the boys
up to Raleigh, it was with the un
derstanding that there was only one
thing In the'world that we were
interested in, and that was a re
duction in property taxes. Prior
to their election as members of
the General Assembly, every last
one of them was shouting from the
housetops that he would tear his
shirt, his sox and his red flannels
in the effort to lift the burden of
taxation from the shoulders of the
farmers. Arid now look at ’em!
Perhaps we were at fault in mak
ing the instrufctions too plain and
obvious. Politicians don’t like a
direct course about anything. You
take your real, genuine, dyed-in-the-
wool legislator and he’d a darn
sight rather drive over detours than
sticks to the paved highways.
Start him off with the idea in mind
of buying a new suit, and he’ll
commence operations by going first
to a hardware store and asking
the price of stoves. Ask the aver
age man what time it is, and he’ll
pull out his watch, glance at it,
and .announce; “Hair past five,’’ or
whatever the hour may he. Ask a
politician and he’ll smile at you
benignly, pull out his watch , with a
flourish, stare at it fixedly, clear
his throat impressively and then un
burden himself as follows:
“Time varies with the longitudinal
Have Sluid Roast] position which you may occupy on
I the earth’s ^surface, in accordance
Scout Ehcecutive C. ii^;^9rothePS, of
the Cape Fear Area - th®
guest of the Raefortf troop
at a meeting at the Slcoilt Etut last
Tuesday night.' The • ifleeting was
well attended by the Scouts to Iteten
to the story of what will ^ajipeii it
Wilmington on May the first and
second when the district Boy Scout
Jamboree takes place.
'Mr. Brothers explained the vari
ous plans for the Jamboree, which
will be a gathering of about one
thousand Scouts from Southeastern
North Carolina. The Scouts will
erect a city of tents, attend a camp
fire Friday night and get a good
nights sleep for the strenuous ex
ercises which will take up the time
Saturday.
Following the explanations by the
executive, the Raeford Scouts went
into the business of electing their
teams for competition on the big
day. Teams to compete with the
other Scouts were selected for the
following events: Rifle Marksman
ship, First Aid, Archery, Chariot
Race, Paul Revere Race, and Wall
Scaling. In addition there will be a
big parade in which all Scouts will
take part.
In an election of a different na
ture, Thomas Cameron was elected
Senior Patrol Leader. Thomas was
formerly patrol leader of the Boh
Whites.' His place with the Bob
Whites will be taken by Jake Aus
tin.
Monday night at Laurinhurg the
following Raeford Scouts went up
for degrees: Tenderfoot, James Gor
don Currie and Kerr Stevens; Civics,
Cooking and Handicraft (Merit
badges, Paul Dickson; First Aid
to (Animals, Public Health,, land
Leather Craft, Robert Ward Whit
ley; Civics, Cooking and Handi
craft, Jack Morris; Civics an.d
Handicraft, Jake Austin; Fireman-
ship, Clyde Upchurch.
Man, LosesLife When
Motor Car Is Defied; A.
S. Allen Receives Minor In
juries.
Robeson Demonstrator Presents Proposition
To Gathering; Great Opportunity For
Cattle Raising In County.
Local Legionnaires
ATTENTION FARMERS
Mr. J. B.' Dawson, Jr., fertilizer
expert of the State Department of
Agriculture, will be in Raeford
next week to analyze fertilizer sam
ples for such Hoke county farmers
as desire this service. All farmers
•vho wish to avail themselves of
this service should notify County
Agent Burton immediately so that
he can arrange for this service.
One man was kflldd and another
very, painfully injured on Aberdeen
and RockfiBh raRroad at Clifton,
fji^hteen' miles eaat of Raeford, on
■V^dnesday, April eighth ahopt sev-
hn-flfteen o’clock in the ^rnlng,
vrhen the motor car on which they
were riding to work - was derailed.
Four negro section hands, also rid
ing on the motor car were scratched
and bruised in the accident.
The section hands under the sup
ervision of A. S. Allen and Vance
Burch, foreman and sub-forman of
the Aberdeen and Rockflsh section
gang, set out from Raeford for their
work about seven o’clock in the
morning on Wednesday. While go
ing at a moderate apeed near Clif
ton the car was derailed, hurling
all the men to the ground. Burch
was seriously injured and Allen pain
fully hurt, while the negro workmen
were shocked and received minor
injuries'.
The Injured men 'were immediat
ely taken to the hospital in Fay
etteville. Here Burch died about an
hour later and Allen was reported
as painfully but not seriously injur
ed. The nature of his injuries was
not reported.
Both Burch and Allen were well
known residents of Clifton. Burch,
who met his death in the accident
was a-fine young man about thirty^
years old, and his death was a
great shock to many people in Rae
ford and Hoke County who had been
associated with him.
associated with him.
"The cause of the accident -was
shrouded in mystery. It was found
that a railroad spike had been
driven into the track where two
sections of steel rails joined. It was
by this that the motor car was de
railed. The car was a total wreck.
Railroad officials were unable to
explain the presence of the spike
between the rails. It was thought
probable that it was the thought
less act of some children that caus
ed the tragedy.
NEW RIViUJiy FI
SfliniRN COTTON
India And Russia Plan Colton
Productiim On Largo Scale,
Further Reducing American
Monoply.
Hogs on feed in Chatham County
recently, paid from $1.35 to $1.85
a bushel for all corn consumed in
addition to paying for the other
purchased feeds.
4
,The members of the American Le
gion enjoyed a shad roast last Fri
day at the Country Club. The so
cial was the first of a series of
activities that are designed to re
new the activity of the Ellis Wil
liamson post. , About fifty guests
were present from . all over the
county and ate their fill and were
satisfied with the rhast shad, cat
fish stew, slaw and cornbread. The
food was arranged and served un
der the supervision of Womble, the
Sanatorium chef and reached a cli
max pf gastranomic perfection. Sev
eral of the local ministers were
• honor guests and held up the eat
ing standards, of their tribe in the
most creditable fashion.
with the principles first announced
by Arestes, ancient Egyptian ,philo-j
sopher, who lived long before the
days of pyramids. These pyramids
were built as monuments by cer-
Continued on Back Page)
AUDITOR’S REPORT TO COMMISSIONERS
SHOWS FINANCIAL CONDITION OF HOKE
Superior Court
Convenes April 20th
The April term of superior court
for Hope County will convene ac
the Courthouse In Raeford on Mon
day, April 20. Summons for Jury
services ha've been issued and all
preparations are being made for the
session. His Honor Judgs Prank
A. Daniels, of Goldsboro, will pre
side.
Notice To Legion
Auxiliary Members
Please send 1981 Auxiliary dues
In at once; otherwlBe your name
will he automatically topped. Send
iduus to, Eaul.. I)o,wa», aec?®:
MACHINE AGE INDEED
The industrial revolution has
finally taken its most telling toll
on the inhabitants of Raeford.
Long known as a town where the
ball and bat were the first thing
that infant sons learned to use
and the last symbols of youth
ful play that maturity laid down,
Raeford has come to take her
baseball from a machine. The
palace of the mechanical pitcher
in the old McNeill Wholesale
House has drawn cr'ovvds of old
timers back to the wielding of
the taped handle club. The pitch
er Is an iron man and his arm
creaks a little as he ithrows but
he has control, stamina and serv
es up nice straight balls in
gravy train style for the eager
batsmen. All the Stalwarts of
Raeford Baseball history have
been taking their turn and past
ing mighty clouts against the
canvas horizon.. It Is. a far cry
from the time when Raeford' had
.a ball park fence and a grand
stand but It feels good io have a
bat In hand again and —chunk
—whack—ploek, there ,goea an
other one In" the home run aee»
The' Conty Commissioners mot in
their regular monthly session last
Monday, April sixth. The meeting
was mostly taken up with routine
matter. Several applications were
made for the pauper roll, some be
ing accepted and several rejected.
Dan Graham, colored was granted
admission to the Sanatorium on
county funds. The calls for assist
ance at this time are proving great
er than at any time in the history
of the county.
Mac Daniels, a negro prisoner who
was taken to the Sanatorium some
time ago when it was thought that
his physical condition forbade his
working, was adjudged by the San
atorium authorities as too healthy
to stay there. He was hired out to
his father-in-law for the remainder
of his sentence.
At this meeting. County Auditor
McGougan made his statement to
the commissioners as to the con
dition of the county finance. His
statement included the budget as
signments for the various items in
the general county fund, the amount
that had been spent so far this
year and the amount left to be
spent. This report covered the first
eight months of the county year
which ends July* the first, nineteen
thirty-one. The report showed that
the county finances were in Very
good shape.
‘ The total smoont assigned by the
budget to the general county expens
es for the year which is now eight
months gone, is $28,655.00. Of this
amount $17,991.95 has been spent
in the eight months from July
through February. Allowing that in
two thirds of the year, two thirds
of the budget would ordinarily be
spent, the county would have spent
$19,103.33, two thirds of the budget
figure. The actual figure spent how
ever, is about eleven hundred dol
lars less than this. The temperance
in the spending is made even more
impressive when it is known that
several items on the budget have
been paid in full instead of two-
thirds and that the county has al
ready financed three sessions of
superior court, a large item of ex-
According to information brought
to this country by American Consul
William Hall Beach of Bombay, In
dia, who has been conferring with
American tobacco officials with re
gard to the shipping of their pro
duct to India, the fabled monopoly
of the Southern States of the United
States has suffered another blow in
the activity for cotton growing
which is manifesting itself in India
and Soviet Russia. This activity is
a dual threat; it reduces the market
in these two great territories for
American cotton, and it makes the
two rivals with America for the pat
ronage of the rest of the world.
The entry of Russia into the field
of cotton growing parallels their re
cent distressing activity in the field
of wheat. ' J
The consul stated in part: “The
Indian governments Sukkah Barrage,
an irrigation and dam project of
considerable magnitude, will make
available 7,000,000 acres of fertile
land that is to be planted in cotton.
This area of Western India, near
Karruchi, is to be given over to
raising a plant bred from the Indian
and Punjab-American seeds. Land is
to he leased by the government, the
maximum acreage leased being 20,-
000.’’
Such has been the increase in
the production, of cotton in India
that while this country imported
400,000 bales of American cotton in
1926-27, she imported only 40,000
bales in 1930. Officials cause all
cotton going into India to -be fumi
gated against the boll weevil. They,
have no tarriff on imported cotton.
A qiass of cheap labor is available
for the work in the Indian cotton
fields, but present indications are
that the large scale use of mechani
cal devices similar to that used on
the large plantations in Texas will
be used in India. It is thought that
the production of this cotton in In
dia will reduce by a*large part the
market for American cotton in the
Orient. Hitherto Japan has been a
fine market for American cotton.
Much of the Indian cotton is sure
to be used in the English mills us
well.
The textile business is booming
in India, as well and it is thought
,hat fully half of her 6,000,000 hale
crop will be used within her O'wn
territory. The dominion now has
10,000,000 spiridles and in the ter-
(Oontinued on page 8)
pqnse.
Some of the items on the budget
have their allotments already ex
hausted. In many other items, how
ever, the surplus Is sufficient fo
make up the dlficlts by transference
of the money from one cause to
another. The county school budget
too, is in safe condition. The allot
ment of aeventy-flve thousand dol
lars In round numbers for the carry
Ing on of the six months school term
has only been reduced by fifty-one
thousand dollars up to this point in
the school year, leaving a balance
of about twenty-four thous'aud dol
lars to continue the work until the
close of school.
More than thirty farmers and cow-
owners of Raeford and vicinity were
present last FTiday afternocn at the
courthouse for the meeting with re
gard to the establishment of a
cream depot in Raeford to serve the
people of the county. The meeting—
was held at the instigation of
County Agent W. D. Burton for the
purpose of testing the sentiment of
the citizens toward the proposed
cream depot.
Mr. O. O. Dukes, farm demonstra
tion agent of Roberson County was
the principal speaker of the occa
sion. Mr. Dukes made an illuminat
ing and interesting talk on the
cattle industry in this section. He
explained in detail the function of
a cream depoL emphasizing that its
main purpose was to take charge
of the excess cream. He declared
that as long as there was a maAet
for the raw milk and cretun, the
operation of a cream depot was use
less due to the lower prices in that
field. If, however, there is not a
market sufficient to take charge of
all the milk and cream produce in
the county, then, he assured his
hearers, a cream depot would prove
its worth.
iMr. Dukes advised the testing of
cream for butterfat before it was
attempted to sell it to creameries.
To be available for such use, he
said, the cream should test four and
a half per cent butterfaL Cream
which tested only three or three
and a half per cent would not he
taken he said.
Mr. Dukes told his audience that
this section of the country need not
feel itself inferior to the sections
which are famed as pasturage and
cattle growing sections. He report
ed a recent conversation with a
Michigan man, a citizen of a sec
tion famous for its pasturage, who
said that the j?astures in Roberson
county were as fine as any in the
country. The 'same could be true
of Hoke Conty, said Mr. Dukes, if
the farmers took care in seeding
their pastures. He recommended es
pecially Lespedeza and Carpet grass.
Following the talk by Mr. Dukes
a poll was taken of those present
as to what they wished to do about
the matter of establishing a cream
depot in Raeford. Hearty commen-
dation of the move was found among
all present and a good number com
mitted themselves as being pros
pective patrons of the depot were
it established. It was expladned that
the establisliment of. the depot
would require a revolving fund and
ways of raising this fund were dis
cussed. Action was deferred until
it could be ascertained whether this
money could be obtained. However,
it was definitely settled that tho
need was present m the county and
that the depot would be establish
ed if means of raising the revolving
fund were found.
WILL INSPECT LOCAL
MILITARY UNITS TODAY
A great deal of activity may be
seen in the ranks of the local mili
tary units this week and all eyes
and minds are turned toward the
annual inspection which is on
schedule for Friday of this week.
The inspection is an annual event
and is a climatic one for the offic
ers and men of the Hoke county
military units.
Beginning Friday afternoon. Maj
or Franklin Kemble, senior instruc
tor of the two hundred and fifty-sec
ond regiment. North Carolina Nat
ional Guard, will be in Raeford to
direct the inspection. In the after
noon inspection will take up the
records and papers of the units.
Battery F and Battallion headqpart-
ers and supply train of the first
CONSTRUCTION WORK
AT FORT BRAGG
News has been received, in Rae
ford of a large construction pro
gram which will be instituted, at
Fort Bragg in the near future. The
plans call for the erection of six
teen * additional units at the fort
which will bo used as officers quart
ers. The sixteen units will be con
structed at a cost ot one hundred
and fifty thiousand do^ars. Tho
contract has been let to the C. V.
York Construction company of Ral
eigh.
The former inspections have rated
the Raeford organization welL Tho
officers have been at work for somo
_ time practicing their men in answer
Battallion. In tho evening the ia-ling the curt, swift quesUons in which
spection of the units will continue
with a drill and review.
Much interest is manifest in the
inspection and it is certain that the
local Boldiera wUl be at thetr bast.
scrubbing and tralni^dT
'be in tip top ccmdiUon for
lug ot Frttoar.
tho inspectors test the stdfliers ft*
alertness. 'With a wo^ ot iK^|jbslilng;
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