North Carolina Newspapers

; ^ - ■: .\ lyi: 1-.^^? '*'f •f'-, i-*i--'■'-.- ■ . '■• ,. ■ '., ■■'.■■ . ■ . ■ . >. I’W' jns-jg- V; f p*; Vr *4Y'.- -' ;■ J •* -i- ••-. 4>^‘... • - /■. a'rf^ 'v^-- f^OKEtJOiniTlhS ONLY • A. •'* ■ NEWSPAFEB J'- '1rheHol|e ©oimlir^News The Hol^e 0001117 Jeomal Mi. VOLUBIE NO. 38. f SA£FOBD,N. ev raUBSDAY, JAN. 25tlC 1940. ILSi State^ Biimketed ^ By Sleet smd Snow* Tuesday Nig^t 1 'A, heavy snow,'on top of a good layer of sl^t blanketed North Caro lina Tuesday ni^t, hampering traf fic, grounding airplanes, and clos^ many schools over tha state. Hoke ^county schools were closed. , Sunshine Here • While there was no sign of , relief in most plac^ yesterday, there vrss plenty of su^hine and quite a bit of thawing in Hoke county and late yesterday it was expected that the schools ^ the county would reopen today. The sunshineJwas, however, contrary to the prediction of the 'Weather m^ul oh Tuesdsqr night wh^ • more snow was" predicted for yester day. A snap of even colder weather was dieted for.-last night by the gov- ent weather bureau in North Carolina. , “ Sriiools in a dozen or more of ton interior counties of the state were closed yesterday, some of thepi (p- noimcing that they' would remsun closed all .this week as it was seen that conditions would not improve enough to warrant safe travel in school busses. It was reported yesterday that “zero-zero" weather conditions had brought aviation through the Caro- linas to a standstill Tuesday night and!" yesterday. Although no planes were snowbound in North, Carolina, flights of planes scheduled to stop in North Carolina were prevented- Eleven student^ and a teacher were sent to a Reidsvme hospital when a truck and two school busses were in volved in a collision attributed to the snowy roads.' None was believed to * seriously injured 'and no arrests re made. EDUCO CLUB HOLDS MONTHLY MEHUNG On Mondliy night the Hoke Educo club held its regular mpntbdy meeting t o '•« 1. ™ *1® lilgh school cafeteria. A atrolman J. E. Merrill, who mves- spjgjjjiid steak supper was served by tigated the crash of the orange-load ed truck ffom a bridge on 'highway 15-A, atoibuted that accident to weather conditions. The highway pa- jtrol over.,the_£lalg:jadv|ssd luotprists cases of absolute necessity. Fayetteville Road Blocked The Raeford-Fayetteville road was blocked for several hours earhr yes terday by loaded trucks traveling north being unable to climb hills on the road. Some of them got started up the hills bu^ for lack, of trachon on the slide road, .would slip hack^ ward when their forward momentuin gave out The trailers then turnCd and “jadenifed” cauishig roitd to: be blocked. ,TheEe wertlttom twen ty-five to fifty trudte Mid up at toe same tone because of Ahis,situation which was cleared by noon yester day. / Storm SonUiwide ' ; Snowfall appeared to be aoutowlda and in mahy; areas it was the worst of a generation. Atlanta’s nine and a half inches set a new" record for the cily^and 10 inches was an all- time mark at Jackson, Miss. rom southern Georgia west ^gh mid-Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisii^ to Texas 1 up. In some places it meas- u^ an official foot Air, motor car and bus, train and water transportation was hamper^) Subfreezing cold reached far south into the dtrus belts of the Florida peninsula mid Texas’ Rio Grande val- ey, endangering several millions of lollars worth of fruit. Earlier, it had dealt a heavy blow to tender truck crops in south Florida mucklands. The federal-state froSt warning ser vice said truck losses might reach sev eral hundred acclimated residents. Unfamiliar with icy-road driving, Dixie motorists had tough going. They skidded into drifts and stuck. Most had no tire chains. City streets and county highways were dotted with marooned cars. ' Shortage A coal^m4age threatened domes tic users hi Birmingham, Ala., in the heart of th^Alabama coal mining and (jjiBl manufacturing area. Mitimg operations in recent werics had been hampered by cold. Dealers reported they yvme unable to get suf ficient rail deliveries to keep up with toe demand. One iron manufactoUing pfel'announced it .would sell coke fljwits industrial stock to retailers. travel ceased: storing the day at ^ Atlanta airporaRrains ran two to three hours behind sinedule, busses wererfar behind and discontinued many northbound trips. Southboimd pus schedules were far .b^bid. 3now and sleet cauitod maneuvers B,506 troops in toe army’s first di lion gathered at ,Fbrt Senitoig, Ga., be held in abeyance. TM. men, housed in a tent city, huddled as best they could against toe Cold. Snow-shrouded ice floes'"dubmed in toe Mississippi riva sduto of. 'Oreenvill^ Miss., making ^gress 'hazardous for stoxnwbeel steamers.. Storm waxaing^ wera eeditted fog isniall craft .to toe Adande add gulf, from Adantic; caty/ K. Port Attad i^toiiiber (K Coiiimerce Meeting T' J. A. McGoogan and J. B. Thomas Attended the midwinter business ses sion of the Edstem North Carolina Chamber of Commerce in Fayette ville Monday night. ' 'The speaker,for the occasion was Clyde A. Erwin, Nbrto Carolina Su perintendent of public instruction. In his address toe educator told the gathering that North Carolinians should promote a “balmxced program for a balanci^ state to make .North Carolina the Empire State of the South.’’ “Industry is de-centralizing,” he said, “and North Carolina shoidd. at tract hundreds of ^l^iudustries from this break-up movement.’’ From the standpotot of agriculture Superintendwt fkwin said the state needed to stop being'g slave to . the one-(kop tystem if agriculture would beconao'prospero.us. ‘^orih Carolina needs balance and a '^'Live-at-Home’ program,’’ he added. A bakihced,J>rOg^am of agriculture, industry, creation, and culture would make tois state toe greatest in the south if the people and toe cities would ce^e their enmess Competition and pr^ent a imified front of action to Mvelop the possibiKtiCs of growth, he Concluded. By K. A. MacDONALD the N.'Y. A. workers under the effi cient torection of Mrs.. L. M. tester, The club had as jts guests the district mraitte^en,’ E. D.. Johnson made Rafeigh toe previous Friday and Sat urday. After this report a general discussion was had on the need for and' the. possibility of securing an insiructor for a.special class in man ual arts and handicrafts. Sickness and previous engagen^ts prevented several committeerpeh from being present. ,' j.’ iit Caret COUNTY’S SCHOOLg CLOSED 'YESTERDAY The schools of the county were closed Wednes^y on account of the dangerpiis. conditions of toe roads. Annoimcement of the closing was made torougb the courtesy of WPTF, Raleigh.. It semped that vmry few in the county (lid not get the word. ATTENDANCE FIQtJRES FOURTH We give herewith the percentage in attendance of the white schools for the fourth month: Antioch, 95.18; Hoke high, 94.1; Mildoiison, 89.56; Ashemont, 88.41; Rockfish, 87.9; Rae- ford graded, 87.5. The average ele mentary attendance for the county was 88.7. For the county as a whole 90.3. We thtok that'^this is rather good, taking into consideration the weatoo' and toe amount of sickness we have had./. Parents, however, are urged to make every effort to ^eep the children in school whec:» they are well enouglAto be there. ENTERS RACE •• s ^ U. DEANE FIGURES FOR THIRD MONTH IN NEGRO SCHOOLS e follpwing is the percentage in attekdance among the negro schools tor toe third month: Evergreen, , 98.9; EdinBurg, 93,\ Peachmont, 93;^ JVee- dom, ^92.7; Millside, 92.7; UpchurcH high,. 92.3; New Hope, 92.12; Calvin Martin, 91.6; Upchurch elementary, 91.3; Cedar Grove, 91; Rockfish, 90.41; Laurel Hill, 86.6; Buffalo, 88; Bur- UngtonK 86.8; Timberland, 'M.4; White Oak, 86.2;, Frye’s Mission, 86.0; Bridge’s Grove, M.6; Friendship, 84.97; St. John’s fljm; Shady Grove, 83.6; Piney Bay, 8J§Slf Bowmore, 74.9; Lilly’s Chapel, -74.3; McFarland’s, 72.5. With'o^eful cooperatibh be tween the toattoers arid psirents, dur ing the coming months the attendance in these schools should improve. Soil Conservation Radio Broadcast Arrangements have been made for a series of 18 broadcasts tp be given eadi Tuesday over toe National Farm and Home Hour by AAA committee men from various parts of the United States, b®Stoning January 16to and contimi|bS tlux>ugh April 23rd, 1840, shys' Ik S. Knowles, county ajgmt Crinuriitteemeri from TenneasM discubs “llme and itoontoat^’ January 38, and the ^for^-di^firia conunitteconai will dkeuas “CWer and Grden Ufamura Crcpi^-dn March Third Man Announces In Eighth District Rockingham, J^. 21.—C. B. Deane, of Rockingham, a principal in one of the most prolonged election disputes in the state’s history, .announced to day he agairijrauTd^un for the United States house ot representatives from the eighth Icongr^ional district. CongTf ssmariW. O. Biurgin, of Lex ington, toe/ other principal, has said he will seek re-election. Another Democratic candidate is Giles Y. Newton of Gibson. The eighth district election dis pute hinged on alleged irregulartieis in the Dempcratic primaries of 1938. Partly because of the controversy and its tiiscloSures, the 1939 legislature banned absentee voting in primaries arid adopted certain other election reforms.” Returns originally certified by county elections boards after the sec ond primary of 1938 showed that Burgin haid a majority over Deane. Deane prritested the returns to the state board of elections, which even- ared him toe winner. and when it appeared that no final decision would be reached before toe general election, both men submitted their cases to a board of arbitration. The board decided in favor of Burgin, who subsequently was elected. Deane said his “sole desire” was toi be of service to the 'people of his district. Hfe expressed apprecia tion for the support given him two years ago and skid he solicited the support of all Democrats in the dis trict. The voters of the district, I feel,” Deane said, “know my position on public matters. I have the confi dence that they appreciate the fight made by my friends and myself two years ago, resulting in election re forms which now assure to every Democrat that he has an equal chance to appeal for and obtain the votes of his fellow Democrats.” January Term Of Superiw Court • b Cancelled The January term of Hoke^ county Superior court, which was to have begun last Monday, Janua^ 22nd, and continued throu^ this week im- til the docket was cleared, was can celled last Saturday when Judge Henry L. Stevens, of Warsaw, who was to have presided, calli^ Clerk of the Superior^ Court Edgar Hall and advised him teat he would be unable to conduct the term of court. The judge said that he had had to adjourn his session of court in Cumberland county early last week owing to the fact that he was suf fering tyom a bad cold and that his doctor still advised him not to leave his home. For this reason he could not come to Raeford for what was to have been his first session on the bench in this coimty. Mr. Hall said ^yesterday that the January term would just be omitted and that the next session of superior court here would be in April. He stated that there were very few cases docketed for trial this week anyway. Battery “F” Npneoms Eatipg At Armory The noncommissioned officers of Battery “E]” started last Monday night with a series of noncommission ed officers’ sd^ls to be held ^'eadi Monday nigl^at the armory. The boys will have these schools conduct ed by a different officer of the 252d Coast Artillery each Monday. The schools are being staged in the fashion of a supper club with a meal being served at each meeting before the program is turned over to the of ficer who is to discuss some ph£(se of military science and tactics as appli cable to the Coast Artillery and the use of the 155mm gun, with which .B»tter3^ ‘‘F” is armed. ^^^t toe first meeting last Il£oriday, Captain Julian H. Blue, of the First Battalion staff, talked to the men. He explained clearly and in detail some of the surveying necessary to obtain data for the accurate firing of the gun. The school next week will be con ducted by Lieut-Col. R. B. Lewis, ex ecutive officer of the 252d Coast Ar tillery. The subject for the lesson will be “Organization of the Army.” rm Doughton May Not Retire After All AAA Committeemen Short Cou^ae; Hoke county and community soil conservation committeemen will at tend a two day short course at the court house in Raeford ’Thursday and Friday, January 25th and 26th, an nounced A. S. Knowles, county agent. All agricultural workers in the coun ty are urged to be present for the short course. Those expected to at tend are AAA committeemen, coimty and home agents, vocational and home economics teachers, farm se curity workers, and officials of the production credit association. The program on Thursday will deal with the relationship of the exten sion service with the soil conserva tion program as regards good farm ing practices. Mr. VJ. J. Barker, as sistant extension forester, will dis- puss good forestry practices as it relates to AAA program. Mr. A, C. Kimrey, extension daiiyman, wfll discuss iiastures and feed crops tor the livestodj: on the fai?n. Mr. L. T. Weeks, extension tobacco special ist, will discuss tobacco and other cash crops. Mr. L. P. Watson, ex tension horticulturist, will discuss the importance of growing abundant sup- ply-of food on the farm. Thd^ proigram for JWday will line, in \letail, the rules and iegula- tions under tiie 1940 soil conserva tion program, Mr. Knowles said: Recorder ^Senteiice$^ Three for Dniiikeiiinieflyi^^^ Only three cases were tried in last Tuesday’s session of Hoke county re corder’s court and toe deifendimt 'in eatdi c^e was a cotored'. man Charg ed with being dnirik and disewderty. thrto were John E«ans, of Blue {Springs tewzuililp, Dave BeOkea arid Reed McKennie, of Naeford. Each ehtered a4>Iee of guilty; iu led and WM wntenced ;on the roedl to House Bums At Cotton Mill Village A dwelling house belonging to the Morgan Cotton Mills and located in their mill village here burned to the ground last Monday night between nine and ten o’clock. The house was wcupied by a man named Blackman, a mill employee, and his family. ’Their furniture and belongings were removed from the burping dwelling in time to be saved. liie Raeford fire department had both trucks on the scene but was unable to extinguish the blaze as the building was out of the city limits and there was no hydrant near enough to be of any practical bene fit in fighting the fire. The fire men stood by, however, to prevent other houses nearby from being ig nited by sparks from the conflagra tion. Tliis was the first house to burn down in the mill village in a- bout twenty-five years it has been therp. Washington, Jan. 23.—^Indications were today that' Representative Rob ert L. Houston might yield to the demands that are being qtade by constituents for him to reconsider his petition and again become a cm- didate for Congress. Mr. Doughtopi was today in re ceipt of more^ than 100 telegrams from Democrats of the Ninth North Carolina district urging him to re consider the decision. He announc ed last week that he would retire from Congress at the end of his present term. Among these was a letter from Walter, Woodson of ^Salisburg, who had announced that be would be a candidate to Congress. His announce ment was based on that of Mr. Doughton. In his letter, Mr. Wes son said that imder no circumstances would he be a candidate for Con gress and advised Mr. Doughton to reconsider his decision and run in the next election to succeed himself. A large delegaton was due to ar rive in Washington tomorrow from various places of the Ninth^district to ask Mr. Doughton to re-ironsider and become a candidate, but the vet eran congressman has asked them to defer their visit to Washington until he can give the situation careful consideration. Mr. Doughton said a week ago ttiat he would retire because he was an xious to look after his personal busi ness properties in Laurel Springs. Leaf Hearings To Begin Soon Raleigh, Jan. 23.—G. T. Scott of Johnston county, chairman of the State AAA committee, said today that hearings on appeals from 1940 flue cured tobacco acreage allotments would start late next week in some border counties. Requests for reviews have been “numerous in some counties, but relatively few, in,, other counties.” sebtrsaid. ''' " “Where growers fully imderstand the serious tobacco situation,” Scott explained, “the appeals are being filed only on the basis of indispU' table errors in establishing allot ments.” A grower has 15 days after his al lotment is mailed put to him in which to file an appeaL APP^si boards for each county are taken from adjoining counties, so that no appeals are heard by residents of the county Hi which they are filed. Hoke County Red Cross Roll Call, 1939 During the 1939^Red. Cross Roll Call campaign in November in Hoke county a total of $332.38 was con tributed. 268 members were enroll ed. Five of these, the Bank of Rae ford, the City Hail, Upchurch Mill ing company, McLauchlin Company and Collins Store contributed $5.00 each and were enrolled as contribut ing members. 70 colored members enrolled at 1.00 each,and the Junior Red Cross in the colored schools con tributed $25.00. Donations less than $1.00 amounted to $19.38.) Truck Crashes From Highway Bridge Wednesday Morning or- A Florida truck loaded w anges and with Ralei^ as a destina tion crash^ into the old McNeiU’s mill bridge on the Raeford-Fayette ville highway at about three o’clock yesterday morning. 'The, truck, occupied only by' the driver and his assistant, was heading north and crashed into^the left side of tile temporary structure arixiss the creek there and'-was thrown over gainst till right side whidi gave way, letting the truck go , throui6^ and down the fill. ' ” One of the ocriipants of the truck suffered slight internal injuries and was, admitted to a Fayetteville hos pital where’ he was examined and given first aid treatment. He was released yesterday. The other was uninjured. INCREASE Receipts from the sale of principal fatnk produete in November, wmre larger than the si;me^^ month in -19S8iri four of tiie six mijor geb** gra^oal divistons of jBie tAaited Birthday Ball Takes Place Next Wednesday In the article in last week’s paper announcing that a birthday ball would be held in the National Guard Arm ory here nothing was said about when the ball would come off. To clarity the situation thus inadvertently creat ed by said typogrpahical error this Js to state that the affair will take place on the night of next Wednes day, January 31st, 1940. Ted Ross, young bandleader from the University of North Carolina whose star is rapi^Uy rising in the world of music, brings his fast-be coming-famous “Music Sweet—With a Dash of Heat” orchestra to the Rae ford armory for the occasion. The dance will he sponsored by Hoke and Scotland counties as has been done in the past and profits‘Will go entirely to charity, part to the Warm Springs Fbundation for the cure of infantile paralysis and part to charitable organizations in Holm and Scotland counties. H. L. Gatlin, Jr., is chaiirman of the Birthday committee In Hoke county and James Dahrymple^ of Laurel Hill, is diatyman for Seotiand county. BomeUe L Cor Dies Soddenljr Last Friday i' Bei^^te L. Cox, wril known and respected Raeford man, £ed and- denly of a heart attack at Iris home here a few minutes before seven oi’clodc last Friday morning. He was seventy-three years of age. A native of what is now Lee county, he came to Raeford from Cameron in 1919 and has lived here since that time. He was the Republican mem ber of the Hoke county board of elections and was United States Com^ missioner for Hoke county in tiie middle district of North Carolina. Previously he was a United States deputy marshall and was mnTM»c«»»d with the federal revenue departy m«it Fimeral services were conducted Satiqxlay morning at eleven o’dodc at the home of the deceased in Rae ford by Rev. E. C. Crawford, pastor of the Raeford Methodist riiundi. Burial rites followed in the Ra^ord cemetery. Surviving are his widow, formerly Miss Margaret Patterson of Ricfa- mond coimty; one- son, D. C. Code of Raeford; six daughters, Mrs. Ben Caulk of Gibson, S&s. Ruth Brhiges of Raeford, Mrs. J. • D. Gruzdis of Draiier, Mrs. L. S Presson of Mim- roe, Mrs. A. L. Barnes of Carthage, Miss 'Vera Cox of Camden, N. J.; two brothers, G. W. Cox of Raeford and Sion Cox of Jonesboro; two sis ters, Miss Sarah Cox and Mrs. Eas ter Womack of Sanford; and several grandchildren, nieces apd nephews. Farmers Urged To ^lant Allotment Hoke cotton farmers are urged by A. S. Knowles, county agent, to jdant their cotton allotment in 1940. Un der the soil conservatiem program, farmers losue their allotment R 41 >9 not planted for three succesn^ years. Mr. Knowles pointed out that with the reduction of tobacco acreage and the pr^ent outlook for marketmg to^ bacco, it would pay farmers to plant their cotton allotment, and grow as much food and feed crops as will be needed on the farm in 1940. A num ber of tobacco bams could be used to cure and store sweet potatoes dur ing the winto'. Farmers would do weti to grow an acreage dT sweet potatoes in 1940. Collision Sunday There was a last SuaSty afternoon when autos driven by lOm Lola Grace Bristow, dav^ter of erinteridmit Bristow of tike MdKpn Cotton Mill, and Jess Dunlap, 'col ored man of north Baeford, ran k>- getiier at tiie intersection of tike erdeen road and Htain street The car driven Ity Dmdap was coming South tm Main street and it hit the other car vdiich was tunmc from Main Street to tiie Aberdam highway. At first investigaton by Deputy W. R. Barrington of tiie Hoke county sheriffs office no arrests watfe made but later investigation by city policemen and Patrolman Mereai Dunlap was taken mto custody and charged with careless and recfclBB driving. The case was to have been tried last Tuesday but was postymied. Dun lap was reelased after pasting bond. IN Veterans hospitai. N. H. G. Balfour, diairman of tike Hoke County Board of. Commissian- ers, has been a patient at the Vel-. erans’ hospital at Columbia, Soutti Carolina, since Sunday, January 14. He is behig treated for a compheatton of atiments. ..J. Dewitt.Yapp entered'^ttie same H^ital for treatment on Wednesday, Janufuy 17tii. Neither of tiiiese zaen is thoutfib W be in very serious c(«kditi»i, but it is not knovok just vdten tiiey will be discharged from tiie boqiBaL DONATION ’ The Troy Kiwanis dub aent L, B. Harrill, 4-R clidi leader at State eol- legn, a dieck for $28 to be used ward the building of a Pol& QiUM cabin at tiie SanmnaMa 48 J,; A+- K a BItJiElU. AT BQHBi v, His trienda in tile .cnanty att to leem that Mk. X & MeMWn. has beat a patient at a. fayetiMOkh; hospifed fo# motto aem turned to bis botae bw tekd ia dedng ttkety. * p. ’. • * In .9