AND
COUNTY COMNISSIONEllS ARE
W,^ B, McQueen cmd
La urie McEachern
Win by Large Margin ;
Gravely, Burgin Also
Lead in County,
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I
The Democratic primary in Hoke
coimty Uist Saturday saw quite a
shake-Up in the board of educaition
and saw tluee new faces appear on
the board of county commissioners.
At'the same time Laurie McEachern
was defeating his opponent for Hoke’s
seat in the house of representatives
of the North Carolina General As
sembly, George ..Weaver, \ by more
than two to one and Judge Willie
Brown McQueen was successfully de
fending his position as judge, of the
Hoke county recorder’s court from
G.;, B. Bowlahd by about ttid same
margin,
McQueen’s vote in the county was
1114 to .489 for Rowland. McQueen
carried all precidcts of the county
but Rockfish and Mildouson.
McEacBem received 1106 votes in
the couhty’s ten precincts to 514 for
Weaver. ^Weaver earned only one
precinct. Little River.
In ^e race for the five seats on
the board.jof county commissioners N.
■H. G. BalfbUr and A. K. Stevens of
the old board were elected along with
E. R. Pickier, Hector McNeill, and
Walter Gibson. McNeill was high
man on the ticket with 1300 votes.
T. B. Lester of the old board and
W. S. Maxwell were not elected, be
ing about 100 votes below Balfour
and Stevens, tied at 1091 for low
ong the successful candidates.
For the county board of education
thevchairman of the present board,
ilL B. Blue, Dr. A. C. Bethune, a
n^^er of the board, and R. J. Hasty,
a fo^er member, were unsuccessful ...j-...,...,,..
tApjiints for; seats on the hew bbard;4s(nhe tbhe
W. M. Monroe was high man with
1162 votes and the others success
fully running are A. p, McPhaul, A.
W. Wood, and Carl RUeiy of the pres
ent board along with D. B. McFadyen.
For the nomination as governor ‘at
North Carolina, L. liee Gravely . led
in tliis county with 827 votys to 246
and '245 for Horton and Cooper, sec-
ondy and third respectively.
For Eighth district congressman^
W. O. Burgin, the incumbent, was
high in Hoke with 713 votes. C. B.
Deane, who has announced he will
oppose Mr. Burgin in a second pri-
tes
SCHOOL BRIEFS
By K. A MacDONALD
elementary library OPEN
It is a pleasure. to announce that
the library at the Raeford elementary
school will be open each day, except
Saturdays, through the summer. The
hours will be 9:30 to 3:30. The
parents as well as pupils are invited
to take advantage of this opportunity,
for summer reading. The same li
brarians will be in charge.
MISS FLETCHER ILL
Friends will regret to learn that
Miss Louise Fletcher of the Raeford
graded school faculty is a patient in
the Moore county hospital, at Pine-
hurst. '
mary, polled 558 votes here.
k
Western Auto Skunks
Hoke Concrete In
Softbalf Opener
The softball season got under way
with a bang at Pasture Park Monday
afternoon with the Western Auto As
sociate store meeting Hoke Concrete
works in the first game. ’Hie'Auto
team was clearly the better dE the
pNo that afternoon as. the shutout
> score of 11 to 0 indicates.,,
Fomco'Bests iSmtt'
In the next game oh ^Tuesday af^
tomoon fans saw a somewhat closer
‘attle as the Raeford Furniture com
pany defeated the Raeford Oil com-
paby 8-7, The Furniture company
team took a three run lead in the
first frame and were never headed
although the score was tied at seven-
all at the last of the sixth. —
Western Auto Bests Esso
The Western Auto team, appear
ing thus far to be the class of the
league, scored their second ^iumph
y^terday afternoon they de
feated the Raeford Oir^topany 7 to
s i, Esso started the scoring in the
■first of the first but were held score
less for the remainder of the game.
Margery Gibson Wins
District Health Contest
, Margery Gibson, daughter of Mr.
end Mrs, M. S. Gibson of Rodefish,
was recently selected by Dr. R. L.
Murray as health queen for Hoke
founty. On Monday Margery went to
lUmberton where she competed with
health queens from Robeson, Cum
berland, Sampson, Harnett, Bruns
wick, Johnston, Bladen and New
Handver counties^ Margery was
selected as the healthiest girl from
>; this group and on Friday she wiJl go
"'to Wilmington where she will com
pete with health queens from the
southeastern section of the state. If
she wins there she will go to Ral
eigh to compete in the state contest.
Margery is 14 years and ten months
of. age. Her height is 63 inches
she weisbs 117 pounds. Her; posture
is very good. • /
Hoke county is proud of Margery
8gul hopes she will be successful in.
RECONOmONING BUSES
The summer repairs on the school
buses have been started and are get
ting well under way. Each bus^is
getting a thorough re-conditioning
from bumper to tail-light.
gardens progressing
School gardens, are coming along
nicely. Those communities that have
not, as yet, gotten theirs started, are
urged to go ahead as only schools
with a supply of canned goods will
be eligible for certification according
to an annoimcement by Mrs. Giles^
superintendent of public welfare.
MRS. WRIGHT’S SON WTTER
Ul
icFtl
We are glad to announce that the
little son of Mrs. Belton Wright, com
mercial teacher in the high school,
is at home after having been in
Highsmith hospital in Fayetteville for
BOARD BfEETiNG
The Board of Education will meet
in regular monthly session on Mon
day, June 3rd, at 10 o’clock.
INDIAN SCHOOLS CLOSE
The Macedonia Indian School will
close today and the Antioch Indian
schpol will end its session tomorrow.
The Antioch school had its com
mencement sermon last Simday ^af-
ternoon at 3:30. Rev. J. L. Maynard
of Pembroke preached. A 7th grade*
play was presented last night at
8:30. The closing exercises will be
tomorrow at 10 A M.
JOHNSON IN GREENSBORO
E. D. Johnson spent the day in
Greensboro Monday at the Woman’s
College of the University inieiyiew-
ing prospective teachers. . ^
WIND DAMAGES BUILDINC^
A portion of the roof of the Mil
douson school was blowp .off during
the wihdstqrm last Friday afternobn.
Repairs have been made.
Senator fiiuley
About The War
It is earnestly hoped that the Pres
ident’s radio address will tend to
reassure our people and relieve them
of anything like, panic. We must
revise and greatly expand all our
plans, of National defense. We can
do this quietly much more effective^
ly than we can in a state of excite
ment. None of us knows what the
outcome in Europe will be, but grant
ing, for the sake of argument, the
wors^ the best authorities take the
view that this counby is in no im
mediate dangeg and that we will have
time to prepare adequately and that
we will be able to meet the demands
of any emergency. This assurance
does not justify us in going to sleep,
but it will justify us in getting rid
of undue alarm. We can move rapid
ly without moving excitedly. Prep
aration will require time and also
care and deliberation. Pessimism
will serve no good purpose.
Meantime, let me say that I ad
here to the View that there is no
reason why this country should take
any step that would amoimt to inter
vention in the w4r in.Europe. We
de^red pur policy of neutrality at
the outset. Regardless of our sym
pathies or antipathies, let us adhere
to this policy of neutrality. It should
be understood that intervention comes
by way of violating / the accepted
standards of neutrality as defined
by the customs of nations and some
times referred to as international law.
There are people who think we can
go into the war a little way, but you,
cannot have a war of limited liability.
If we go in at all, we will go in all
the way—^money, ships and men. I
am satisfied that many are asking us
to go in a little way without realizing
that such a step-would predicate go
ing in all the way.
It is my belief that we can ayoid
involvement in this war, certainly
for two years and perhaps altogether,
and I shall continue to pursue a
policy calculated to keep this country
out of the war. In order to dp this,
I must decline to agree to any policy
that would amount to intervention,
and must insist upon adhering to
^e policy of peutraUly formaUy de-
stance of the President in the special
session last Septentoer and October,
in which we lifted the embargo dn
arms, establifhed the cash and carry
plan, declared our neutrality and fix
ed our policy of non-involvement.
While there is very little we could
do to determine the outcome in Eur
ope in the next sixty or ninety days,
there is a very great deal we may
well do to prepare this country -to de
fend her people against any violation
of their rights and invasion of our
shores. Let us put the emphasis
on the preparation for defense rather
than upon intervention of .any char
acter and involvement of any char
acter.
JOSIAH W.. BAILEY,
United States Senator.
Nine Receive Diplomas
At N. C. Sanatorium
TO DELIVER COAL ^
The State School CommissioQ in
forms us-that thejr wish to have next
year’s coal- supply delivered before
the end of June. The coal is bought
by the commission -and shipped di
rect from the mines.
state contest
Hoke To Send
Twenty-Five Delegates
To Co-op Meeting
Hoke coimty, will send 25 delegates
to the combined annual meeting^ of
the North Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative association and the pa
trons of the Farmers Cooperative ex
change in Raleigh on Wednesday,
June 5th, according to word received
here today jb-om M. G. Mann, general
manager of the two ^operatives-
The meeting, which is held an
nually, will start in the Raleigh Me
morial auditorium promptly at 10
o’clock and arrangements have been
made to take care of an expected,
crowd of 5,000 farmers and fann
women representing every section of
the state. The state-wide gathering
climaxes a series of 38 local meetings
at .ytrhich deelgates were select*^.
Official Vote In
Last Satiu^y
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FOR GOVERNOR
Broughton
7
19
14
15
9
47
61
7
3
8
190
Horton
10
24
8
18
7
38
97
io
23
11
246
Gravely
32
77
76
55
38
92
212
154
47
44
827
Cooper
6
27
30
29
23
54
43
9
13
11
245
Maxwell
4
10
3
20
5
26
39
10
3
7
127
Simmons
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
5
Grady I
2
8
6
3
4
11
10
0
1
3
48
UEUTENANT-GOVERNQR
Smith
11
16
9
18
12
•58
83
27
13
8
255
Harris
21
83
108
73
47
138
232
132
32
53
919
Tompkins ....
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8
4
8
4
6
13
8
2
6
59
Martin
25
38
13
25
11
45
94
10
44
12
317
SECRETARY OF STATE
Eure 42 106 102 93
Murphy ....14 47 28 39
42 187 314 139 62 60 1147
35 62 161 36 *29 -21 * 412
AUDITOR
Pou 34 97 81 90 50 160 289 147 69 62
MUler 22 44 37 41 21 78 136 27 23 ‘ 16
RAEFORD MAI
PERMANENT
REA OFFICE
1079
445
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
Scott 33 88 103 92 63 176 294. 91 67 53 1060
Spruill . 23 65 27 32 17 77 119 80 23 26 489
INSURANCE
Boney
Oliver 31
COMMISSIONER '
25 90 83 82 38 169 291 140 55 47
58 41 45 35 76 125 31 35 28
1020
505
CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
81 53 63
Burgin ..[ 13
Deane 35 52
Steele 4 5
Newton 3 16 20
Phillips .’ 1 0 6
34
18 117 198 110
34 48 30. 75 166 56 36
16 10 2 42 52 7 5
31 18 25 5
17 9 1
26 713
26 558
11
4
15
2
4
20
3
147
164
34
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
McEachern 54 119 113 75
Weaver 7 32 17 60
55
24
164
101
304
144
133
48
41
49
48
32
1106
514
RECORDER
McgiiefiiL.;,.
Rowland
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,128
26
102
2R
,45.188 ^9^T84. .. 8R 24 ,4114
71 39 81 91 53 28 54 489
COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Balfour ;...37 107 83 107
Gibson 49 158 128 112
McNeill 57 147 140
Steyens 35- 108 77
Pickier 35 110 94
Lester 29 62 66
Maxwell 30 69| 76
82
75
85
74
91
36 186 265 140 74 56 1091
59 156 294 127 73 59 4215
62 204 350 142 54 62 1300
71 207 830 70 58 60 1091
55 178 310 161 66 48 1142
51 167 247 143 59 57 955
56 195 307 65 49 57 995
SCHOOL VISITED
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374 persons visited Morgan com
munity school center during WPA.
adult education activity week, May
20-25. An exhibit showing their
school work and hand work was on
display during th^ week. '
Two socials were given during the
w^, and a miscelNmeoua program
was given on Thursday evMd^i May
28rd, to. which tho'public wu in-
vited. , .
Sanatorium, May 28.—The Man of
Galilee as the essential source of all
iiuman culture and brotherhood was
the subject of the commencement ad
dress delivered by the Rev. S. A.
Maxwell, pastor of the Page Me
morial Methodist church in Aber
deen, to the nine graduates of the
North Carolina Sanatorium Training
School for Nurses. The exercises
were held on Friday evening in the
atyditorium of the Sanatorium.
The speaker advised the graduat
ing nurses to strive to follow Him,
who is the test today for all worthy
service in history, art, music, lit
erature, and politics.
Dr.‘ P, -p. McCain, superintendent
of the'Sanatorium, awarded the di-
plomas.and Dr. C. R. Monroe, surgeon
of the Moore county hospital and of
the Sanatorium, presented the hos
pital pins.
Dr. C. L. Gray, of the Sanatorium
staff, sang several well-known tongs.
He was accompanied by Miss Ruth
Jones of Fayetteville. Rev. W. M.
Fairley of Raeford pronounced the
invocation and the benediction.
The commencement exercises open
ed on the preceeding Sunday night
with a baccalaureate sermon at the
Community church in Pinehurst by
the paster. Rev. A. J. McKelway.
The church choir sang a special num
ber and Master William Viall of Pine
hurst played several organ selec
tions.
The graduates received the com-
niCncement visitors at a reception
given at the nurses’ home following
the exercises on Friday niglit. r
The following compose the gc^-..
uajyyng cl^s: .Mi^^ Ms^ ^^a J^-‘
neir, Ubyer; Miss 'Clara Janet il^off-
man, Troy; Miss Jessie Male
Durham; Miss Margaret Branson
Lamlmtt, Vass; Miss Mae Tilley,
Durham; Miss Nancy Maude Whit
aker, Canton; Miss Twila laverae
Quarles, Asheville; Miss Lucy Rva
Poytoreiss,^ Oxford; and Miss Ifiuy
Elizabeto Mewbora, Tarboro.
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCAHON*
McPhaul 50 128 78
Riley 17 82 85
Wood 27 117 45
McFadyen 36 101 102
Monroe 39 116 111
Hasty 50 85 88
Blue 20 68 88
Bethune 42 42
77
58
86
96
90
67
78
56
43
29
58
61
80
46
45
33
165
162
174-
197
178
151
131
104
259
295
263
314
304
229
202
251
128
164
115
76
120
46
148
69
44
41
31
71
59
38
84
60
49
36
60
49
65
44
47
35
102l
969
976
1103
1162
844
911
720
Young Men Taxed
Costs For Mischief
• In recorder’s court Tuesday morn
ing a dozen young white men of
Quewhiffle township were sentenced
to thirty days on the roads, sentences
suspended on payment of the court
costs for several cases of trespassing
and injury to property.
Harold Barber, Harold Layton, and
Alvin Sides pled guilty of trespass
and injury to personal property in
one case and paid the costs.
The defendants on another charge
of trespass and injury to school prop
erty were Alvin Robinson, Hubert
Cole, Wade Almond, Randall Moss,
Hugh Pickier, and Robert Strother.
Wade Almond and Ranciall Moss
were involved in another case of
trespass and injury to school prop
erty along with Marshall. Mays, Lane
Almond, and Charlie Russell. All
had to pay the costs^ this case also
or go to the roads for thirty days.
Johnson McGirt, Indian of An
tioch, ent^ed a plea of guilty of
drivmg without a license and sen
tence was 30 days to be suspended
on payment of the costs.
Murdock Shaw, local colored ihan,
got the same sentence for the same
offense.
Fred McRae, local colored man
got thirty days to be suspended on
pasrment of the costs for being drunk
and disorderly.
Moses Dillard, colored man of An
tioch, got 30 days'suspended on pay
ment of the costs for carrying a con
cealed weapon and beibg drunk and
disdr^erly.. • ' • ^ '
Dimcan’McRhatter.' cotored man of
Raeford, got 4hige inpiitti^ to be sus
pended 019 paymmit of'^5 and the
violating the prohibition
tetra. For b^ig drunk and disor-
derty, he got; thirty days. He went
to the road$.' '' v
lAwtence Campbell wu a.Laurin-
burg visitor Saturday evening.
Bandits Stick Up
Bulk at St. Pauls
St. Pauls, May 29.—The St. Pauls
branch of the Bank of Rowland waa
robbed western style of between
$2,200 and $2,300 early this after
noon by two men and a woman
ter the robbery the bandits speeded
away in an automobile in the direc
tion of Elizabethtown.
E. B. Ward, assistant cashier, was
alone in the bank at the time of the
robbery. He said a man and woman
entered the bank about 1:30 and the
woman asked for change for a five
dollar bill, one dollar in nickels, one
dollar in dimes, and the rest in
paper money.
As he completed making change
for them the man pointed a pistol at
him and commanded him to lie on
the floor. The woman then
around behind the counter and
scooped up all the money in sisdit.
While this was going on a third
was sitting in an automobile in front
of the bank. 'The bandits conunand-
ed Ward to remain on the floor for
three minutes, but he rose as quldcty
as they left and saw the car
off.
Sheriff Clyde Wade at Lumberton
was notified inunediately as was the
State Highway FUtrol. Sheriff Wade
said he would put every man he could
get on the case.
Ward described the man as wearing
a gray suit. He said his complexion
was pale smd that he was about
thirty 3rears old. The woman was
described as being about 30 and Ward
said she wore a white turban hat.
Automobile in which the bandjts
■were operating was described as a
1938 model Chevrolet.
SQUARE DANCE
Directors Vote To Placo
Headquarters Here Ai
Meeting Tuesday.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Lumbee River Electric Membership
corporation, newly formed organiza
tion to bring rural electrification te
this section, at the Hoke county
courthouse Tuesday morning it was
decided to establish the permanent
headquarters of the corporation in
Raeford.
It was the plan of the directors to
approve the completed maps of the
project and set up the definite
to be wired in the initial project buL
due to the lack of completion of a ,
small portion of the Robeson county
maps, the mUes for Robeson and
Cumberland counties were not estab
lished. However, 165 miles were set
up for Hoke and Scotland to be in
cluded in the first project and the
remaining territory is expected to be
completed this week. It is the opin
ion of officials that the project will
include from four to five hundred
miles of line when finally completed.
Before the board voted on the ques
tion of where the headquarters of the
project was to be located it received
sealed envelopes from Raeford, Red
Springs, and Maxton containing var
ious inducements each of these towns
was offering the corporation to have
the offices placed in it. There was
a delegation present from each town
to urge the location of the headquar
ters in that town and to mcplain wby
the town was the best place for it.
The inducements offered by Red
Springs did not offer much compe
tition to what the other two proposed
to do. Maxton offered the corpora
tion a building, rent free for an in
definite period, for use as an office.
Raeford’s envelope contained the ot-
fer of: toe lot adj^ming the
side of the town hall for a building,
a guarantee of $750 cash, the use of
the county’s garage on the Aberdeen
road during the construction of the
line, and various smaUer induce
ments, among them the sand for the
construction of cin office building
and the tile for the floors of it.
When the vote was taken it was
six to two- in favor of estabUshing
the office here. The president; Q. A.
Alford of Robeson, did not vote. The -
two directors not voting for Raeford
voted for Maxton.
The Alloidale home demonstration
club win sponsor a square dance at
the community buRding FHday night.
May 31st The proce^ are to
used in furnishing the building. ■^■*’—’
Broiigliton, Burgin
Lead m Primaiy -
J. M. Broughton of Ralei|dt led'
[Jeutenant Governor Wilkins P. '
ton by about 40,000 votes in the race
for the Democratic nmninatfan *■ frap'
governor of North Carolhia in flte
primary last Saturday.
With almost all toe states peednets
reported toe race for governor stood
about as foUows: Broughton 141,706;
Horton 101,878; Maxw^ 9t,739;
Gravely 59,588; Cooper 32,435; Gi^
15,050; Simmons 2,430.
Represoitative W. O. Burgia kd
in the eighth district race for Con-
gressmw wito a total vote of 18,496.
FoUowing him was his close second-
of ^ years ago, C. B. Deane, wito
15,799. Bob Steele, HI, came third
with over 3500 votes. G. Y. Newton
and D. C. Phillips followed in toat
order, the last three together polling
around 6,000 votes in the 12 counties
of the dtetrict.
The vote for Deane and Burgin In
the district is as follows: Anson—^Bur-
gip 1205, Deane 2050; Davie—Burgin
719, Deane 479; Hoke—Burgin 713,
Dj^e 558; Lee—Burgin 1165, Deane
2201; Montgomery — Burgia 905,
Ueane 715; Moore — Burgint ’ 1652,
lirane 1106; Wilkes—^Burgipt 2528,
Deane 1183; Yadkin — Burgin 849,
Deane 635; Davidson—Burgin 5167,
Deane 615; Richmond—^Deane 2725,
Burgin 1161.
- All incumbent state officers who
had opposition were renominated by
wide margins and all carried major
ities in Hoke county by about flm
same proportions they won in toft
state. These included CommissiQQer
of Agriculture W^ Kerr Scott, Audi
tor George Ross'*Pou, Seoretary of?
State 'Thad Eure and Insurance Oont^'
missioner Dan C. Boney.*
Hotel BeinR Improved
According to W. E. Stiftftt.
manager of toe Raeturd hoIcA
hotel is being extensivety
this week. He said yastadiiL/
the Inxilding was betog ^ *
throughput by toe Jcjbm
company and told toft
m
m
being'improvid
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