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Hoke Conity
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Iri every state and every county
of the United 3tates Federal'Depart
ment of Agriculture administrative
defense boards have been established
by order* of Secretary Claude R.
I'Wicacard.
The membership of the defense
boards comprises a representative
from each of the Department agencies
'Whose services will be called on by
"the Secretary to administer actions
necessary to carry out his depart
mental responsibilities in national de
fense. The. chairman of each state
board is the head officer in the
st§te for the Agricultural A^ustment
Administration. The ^airman of
each coimty board is the chairman
of the County AAA committee. Sec
ret^ Wickard pointed out that the
major part^ of the Department’s de
fense job involving field work cen-
’ ters on adjustment of farm produc
tion, and that help^ig farmers make
'adjustments in. prodmjtion is the
major job of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
The agencies of the Department
whose representatives serve on the
state defense boarc^ jmclude the
Agricultural Adjustment Administra
tion, the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, the Farm Security Ad-
ministratim, the Soil Conservation
Service, the Farm Credit Administra-
(tioBj, file Surplus Marketing Ad
ministration, ■ the Agricultural Mar
keting Service, the Forest Service,
the Rural Electrification Administra
tion, and the Federal-State coopera
tive Extension Service.
The USDA Defense Boards are
responsible through their chairmen
to the USDA State Defense Boards.
The USDA State Defense Boards are
responsible through their chairmen to
the Secretary or Agriculture.
The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture State Defense Boards shall aggign
to the U. S. Depaitnimit of Agri
county respondbility for such assign
ments as are. givto thb'State Boards
by the Secretary. -
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture State Defense Boards of which
Mr. G. T. Scott, of Raleigh, N. C., is
chairman, has appointed the following
to serve M the Hoke County USDA
Defense Eolard.
J. hi. McGoogani Chairman, Repre
senting Agricultural Adjustment Ad.
N. H. G. Balfour, Vice, Chairman,
Representing Farm Credit Adm.
James F. Jones, Secretary, repre
senting Farm Security Adm.
Marshall Newton, representing Ru
ral Electrification Adm.
A. S. Knowles, representing Ex
tension Service.
G. Walker-Blair, Clinton, N. C., re
presenting Crop and Feed Loan, FCA.
At a meeting of the Board held in
the County Agent’s office, Monday
night, August 25, all resident mem
bers were present.
At the request of the Secretary
of Agriculture, two important sub
jects were discussed.
!• The urgent need for increasing
the plantings of Winter Legumes and
Cover crops, in ordjer to build up
and maintain the fertility of the land
tWs winter, in view of a possible
shortage of nitrates next spring.
A survey of Farm machinery
iTTIRE ACCENTS ROIEt Hm eameni of Hand aHgthem Bette Davfa
n her etriking nde aa the anacrapnhNW Begin* Giddeiu of “The
Little Foxes,** whidi Samnd Goldwyn produceiL She is seen in tlii.
photo wearing one of the authentic 1900-niodel costumes created bj
Ony-KeBy* a black reivet evening gora with a black point d*esprit
scarf, snssestive of menace.
Appeals To Be
Rkde To Local
Board, Metts Says
InvestigatioD
Gas Shortage
2.
sales in the county during 1940-41
and estimated minimum needs for
new farm machines in -942. In this
TOnnection, several''farm machine
. dealers in the county and also some
from adjoining counties, were cont
acted, and they cooperated willingly
in furnishing desired information,
for which the Board wishes to express
ite appreciation for their splertdid
Cooperation.
This inormation is desired by the
Setretary of Agriculture in order to
secure priority on sufficient steel
to take care of the 1942 needs for
aj^ulture machinery, reports J. M.
McGrogan. Chairman USDA Defense
Hova.
It is the purpose of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture County Defense
^ara to confer with, advise, and
artange cooperation with other de-
f^e agencies, having State or local
officefe, and to arrange for maximum
cooperation of all Department field
personnel in defense tmdertakings.
New Homes
Going Up
Cyde Upchurch, Jr., Is building
an attractive home of Cape Cod
design on the lot adjoining his'father.
• 1® about completed and
is about ready for occupancy.
Lawrence McNeill is buUding on
same lot on which he and his
jj^ffier lived. The old home was tom
■way and tlje new one of brick
Mionstruction will stand in thd same
place. The McJfeill family is-living
in the house on the Aberdeen hiA-
• way on the lot next to ffieirs.
. McIntyre hgs bought a lot
Any matter pertaining to the
classification of a Selective Service
registrant must be taken up directly
with the local board with which he
is registered. General J. Van B. Metts,
State Director of Selective Service,
advised registrants, their dependents
and employers today.
Commtoications on this subject
addressed to State or National Selec
thte Headquarters'are always refenred
to the proper local board, he said,
because only locad boards can act
upon the cases of individual regist
rants until they have been classified,
and appeal from a classification must
be made through the local board of
the registrant. He said:
“Any person entitled to appeal
the classification of a registrant—the
registrant himself, any person who
claims to be a dependent of the
registrant, or any person who has
filed written evidence of the. oc
cupation necessity of the registrant
—may do so within ten days after
the registrant’s notice of classification
was mailed, unless the local board
has extended that time. The appeal
may be made in either of two way:
“1. By filling with the local board
a written notice of appeal. Such
notice need not be in any set form,
but it must state the name of the
registrant and the name and identity
of the appeallant to show he has the
right to appeal.
2. By signing the ‘Appeal to Board
of Appeal’ on the registrant’s ques-
tionaire (DSS Form 4O).’’
Director Metts emphasized the
provision of Selective Service Regu
lations that the person who makes
an appeal may attach to his notice
of appeal, or to the registrant’s
questionaire, a statement specifying
wherein he believes the local board
has been in error; that he may point
out any information in the registrant’s
file which he believes has been
passed over without proper considera
tion, and restate in full any data
which the local board has failed or
refused to include in the re^trant’s
file.
“While both State and National
Headquarters have S3nnpathetic re
gard for every registrant, these Head
quarters obviously cannot consider
the case of each individual registrant”
the Director pointed out. “This is the
responsibility of the local board. Its
members have that intimate know
ledge of the registrant, of his personal
situation, and of the National De
fense needs of his community, thpt
must be given primary consideration
in any democratic system. The local
board must have classified a regist-
r^t for selection or deferment before
either State or National Headquarter
can act upon his case.”
Washington, Aug. 26.—The senate
commerce committe voted unani
mously today to undertake an im-
media% investigation of “the whole
situatito” regarding gasoline and oil
shortages.
Chairman Bailey (D-NC) named
a subcommittee headed by Senator
Maloney (D-^Conn) to conduct the
inquii^. Bailey explained that the
committee was empowered td act
without senate authoirimtion.. ‘
Otheo*
tee are Sehaiors Harbour (R-NJ),
Burton (R-Ohio), and Radcdiffe (D-
Md). ' '
Maloney said he would start open
hearings 'Thursday to inquire into
oil and petroleum shortages which
have developed in the east.
Maloney said the mere offering of
the gasoline investigation proposal
had “done some good already.” He
cited as an example the assurance
from dealers that an adequate supply
would be available for motorists over
the Labor Day week-end.
Maloney sponsored another res
olution also approved unaminously by
the commerce committee, calling for
an inquiry into priorities. Maloney
said this would cover the entire pro
blem of obtaining prompt delivery of
defense materials. The priorities
resolution requires senate approval.
The committee acted a day after
Senator Walsh (D-Mass) had de
manded a thorough investigation of
gasoline shortages in the eastern
area.
Prices
New Bright Belt
Marts Very Good
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—The world’s
largest tobacco markets, located in
eastern North Carolina’s new bright
belt, became virtual boom towns
today as opening day price at several
points were the best in a decade.
All 14 markets in the belt re
ported opening prices well above
Iqst year’s belt average of 17.86
cents a pound and at some places
above the. 28.12 cents average last
week on the Carolinas border belt
PlUe-otured tobacoo from which
cigarettes are made, is auctioned
on all Carolinas eastern markets.
Sales, were heavy and first re
ports said farmers generally ap
pear^ pleased with prices. A number
of points reported not a single grower
dissatisfied with payments during the
early sale.
Sales Supervisor George Arring
ton at Ahoskie, where the first 75
piles sold averaged 32 cents, aid it
was the best opening break there in
ten years. Excellent cigarette type
leaf predominated in the 250,000
pounds offered there and prices rang
ed from eight- to 42 cents.
Despite a large amoimt of dam^
aged tobacco sold in the first 30 bas
kets at Goldsboro the average was
estimated imofficially at 25 cents.
All grades were higher than at the
opening last year and the prices
ranged from two to 39 cents.
Elated over returns, farmers in
terviewed at Greenville said the
prices on some grades were as high
as the all-time record year of 1919.
Most. of the tobacco was bring
ing 30 cents or more but some low
grades pulled the general average
down to between 26 and 29 1-2 cents
Sales Supervisor R. C. Rankin said.
'The lowest grades brought as little
as 3 cents but top quality was selling
as high as 60 cents.
Approximately 2,000,000 pounds
of weed were in the warehouse floors
FIVE CONVICTED Of HUIfllNG
DEER AT NIGHT IN HOKE COUNTY;
FINED $500.00 AND COSTS
Dr, C. L. Gray
Leaves Sanatorium
Sanatorium, Aug. 21.—Dr. Juila
Mary Jones, resident physician for the
past three years of the Tuberculosis
Service^of Bellevue Hospital, New
York City, will arrive at the North
Carolina Sanatorium September 1 to
become assistant physician in charge
of the Ladies Building. Dr. Jones
succeeds Dr. C. L. Gray, who re
signed the first of August.
Dr., Jones graduated Jrom the
Duke University School and was
^sistant instructor in anatomy there.
Prior to going to BeUevue she was
on the staff of the Maybury Santorium
m Northville, Michigan. She is a
native of Dayton, Ohio.
^ray is now resident physician
m tile radiological department of the
Duke University Medical School and
Will study radiology there for a year
He then expects to enter private
practice in High Point.
Hoke Drug Company
Robbed Thursday
Last Thursday night after closing
a robber stealthily entered the pre
mises of the Hoke Drug Company and
stole toward the cash register. After
looting the till of the tidy sum of
two dollars and ten cents ($2.10) the
marauder crept toward the safe and
began work on the door of the
safe and ravishing its contents as
he had done the cash register. At this
point in the game the brave clerk
in the said drug dispensary, one
Alexander Boswell Bethune, entered
the front door. Bethune said teat some
intuition told him teat skullduggery
was afoot and drew him to tee store.
As soon as Bethune entered the front
door of the apothecary shop.Raffles
fl^ the rear one, and with Bethune
giving chase for several miles (dist
ance according to Bethune) the hue
and cry was on. After attempting to
catch the thief in vain Bethune re
turned to the store, happy in the
knowledge that he had probably saved
the safe from the fate of tee cash
register.
the North Carolina laws is subject to
a fine of not less than ($50.00) or im-
pr^onment not less than 30 days or
bote such fine and imprisonment in
the discretiqn of. the. court.
Night hontiiig for deen
^rson who takes or attempts
to take deer between sunset and sun-
r^e with the aid of a spotlight or
other artifical light on any highway or
m any field, woodland, or forest in
Md.ean Warns
Hunters Of New
Hunting Laws
H. R. McLean, Hoke County game ^
and forest warden, in a statement
last Tuesday warned hunters this
year to note the new hunting laws,
especially in regard to quail and
deer hunting. The chief changes in
the deer and quail laws lie in tee
punishment for tee infraction, ac
cording to McLean. These new laws
are:
Minimum Fine for Seliing Quail:
Any person convicted of buying
or selling or offering to buy or sell
quad in violation of the North Caro
lina Game Laws shall be fined not
less than $50.00 or imprisoned for
not more than 60 days or both in the
discretion of the court
IMinimnm Fine Doe Deer:
Any., person taking or having in j 1—
possession doe deer in vioation of roads for tee
Recorder’s court Tuesday was
featured by tee trial and cmiviction
of five deer-hunters for operating
at night, using spotlights hunting
d^r out of season, and hunting
without hunting licenses. The five
were arrested by game wardens at
2:00 a. m., August 15 while driving
a car equipped for night deer
hunting in McLauchlin township
They were two white men, their
wives, and a negro driver. They had
two spotlights in the car and one
was in operation when the arrest
was made. They were equipped with
a rifle and a shotgun and bloodstains
in the car, as well as finding deer
hair in the car pointed out the fact
teat the crime had been committed
previously. The five were: Cleo Moore
and Mrs. Callie Moore, Roscoe JoEm-
son and Mrs. Margaret Johnson and
tee negro driver, Lacy Wilbur McCoy.
They were charged with violating the
game law and violating tee hunting
law. All pleaded not guilty and the
judgement of tee court was guilty.
Sentences in tee first instance were
laws is subject te a fine of liot 1^
1 imprisonment not
less than 60 days or bote such fin* and
imprisonment in the discretion of the
court.
Ground Broken For
New Sanatorium
Orthopedic Clinic
Next Friday
IThe Orthopedic Clipic >vill be held
in the Agricultural Buildhig in Lum-
berton on Friday, September 5,
beginning at nine o’clock, and is free
to all indigent children imder twenty-
one years of gae.
Dr. Lenox D. Baker of Duke
Hlospdtel will be the surgeqn in
charge.
out on the northern* extension of
Fulton Street and will build at once.
The house in which the McIntyre’s
now live will be occupied by Mr.
Wite the new school prindpaL
rt,. ■ y-. ...
Mclniiis Reunion
Held August 2l8t
The clan Mclnnis had their anmmi
reumon^at Page’s Lake last Thurs
day. Augurt 21. A large crowd attend
ed the gathering. Beginning at 11:30
® siiort program was given
Md dinner was served at 1:00 o’clock.
At the business meeting following thf
dinner Maggie Jane McBryde was
dected President for the coming year,
Mus Jim Graham of FayatteviUe
was dected vice-president; and Mrs.
Murphy McLauchlin was dected
sw’y-treasurer. It was decided that
the .ptaM of meeting for next year
would be Dundarrach church andfui
the time to be the SundsF ja O
August
Sanatorium, Aug. 21.—Former Sen
ator L. L. Gravely of Rocky Mount,
chairman of the Sanatorium Board of
Directors, turned tee first spade of
dirt when ground was broken Mon
day morning for tee state’s new
tuberculosis Sanatorium in Wilson.
Dr. P. p. McCain, superintendent of
the Norte Carolina Sanatorium, mem
bers of tee building committee, the
architect and the contractors met at
the site and decided on the exact
location and position of the buildi^s.
The contractors represented at tee
meeting were Fowler-Jones Company
of Winston-Salem, general contrac
tors, and W. M. Wiggins Company of
Wilson, plumbing contractors. Mem-
bere of the building committee, in ad
dition to Senator Gravely, are E. A.
Raspberry of Snow Hill, Dr. Thurman
D. Kitchin of Wake Forest, Laurie
McEachem of Raeford, and Dr. Erick
BeU of Wilson. W. W. Hook of Char
lotte is tee architect.
Aberdeen’ To Be
Rail Head For
Army Maneuvers
Aberdeen, Aug. 22.—United States
army officials from Govei?ior’s Island
naVe been in Aberdeen and tee sand-
nills during the past week making
^^angements for the fall maneuvers
They are headed by Col. Lewis Landis
include Lieut. Col. F. R. Brevard
commandng officer of the headquar
ters, first quartermaster salvage de-
pot;Maj. Don Haven, commcmding of
ficer railhead and reserve depot, and
^eut. Col. John Alcure and Capt.
W. A. Huntberry. They have de
cided upon Aberdeen as a rail head
from where supplies will be shipped
daily for tee maneuvers.
The site wiU be the old Obers
warehouse and the field to tee right
just outside the town limits, ninety
thousand square feet of the field
will be covered with a large tent
to store rations, and 30,000 5-gallon
cans will be carried to tee location
and filled wite gasoline from a rail
road tank. It is expected that later
in the fall approximately 5,000 men
wiU be stationed between Aberdeen
and Pinebluff, doubling the popula-
tion of the two towns.
men and thirty days in jail for tee
women, sentences to be suspended cm
payment of tee costs. In the second
instance, a new law which
a fine of $100 or 60 days imprisonment
mandatory for hunting deer with a
spotlight made it necessary for the
recorder to impose those setnences,
in jail for tee women or on the roads
for tee men exact those fines and
the costs. The sentences were to
Firat 1941 Bale
Ginned at Oakdale
The first bale of cotton to be
ginned in the I94I season was ginned
at Oakdale gin last Monday. It was
a five hundred pound bale belonging
1:0 J. L. McNeill, of Raeford. Ginners
report that* it ginned very well for
early cotton, and that it graded mid
dling one and one-thirty seconds of
vn inch. It was aold to the
Co. as soon as it wu tor the.
Vrice ot 17 omits pw pulBriL
violation of the North Carolina ^ consecutively with tee thirty
la™- -u::—X . - 6 . day oncs. The five appealed to
Superior court and bond was set
at $200 each. All made bond and the
case will probably be settled in the
November term of court. Tliis ma^
■^e first time that the new himtiBg
laws have been used in this county.
In other cases coming liefore tee
recorder Samuel T. Fields and E. W.
McCormick pleaded guilty to violat
ing the road law and each was sen
tenced to thirty days of hard labor
upon the roads of the state, sentence
to be suspended on payment of tee
costs. John Henry Brown was con
victed with being drunk and dis
orderly and raising a disturbance.
He also received the sentence of thirty
days on the roads, suspended on
payment of tee costs. George "Vernon
McCoy and Elmer McCoU also paid
the costs, after being convicted of
violating the road law, thus diicharg-
ing their duty to the state.
Alexander Ingram pleaded guilty
operating a “for hire” vehicle
without a chauffeur’s license and was
sentenced to thirty days, suspended
on payment of tee costs. James P.
Hunt pleaded guilty to the same
crime and received tee same sen
tence. Willie Jones pleaded guilty
to careless and reckless driving and
operating a motor vehicle with im
proper equipment and received the
usual sentence. The state took a nol
pros in the case of Noah F. Handon,
Jr., charged wite violating the road
law. Dave McDougald and Roosevelt
Evans paid the costs, having pleaded
guilty to violating tee road law.
Vonnie Locklear pleaded to being
drunk and disorderly and was sea-
tenced to thirty days on the roads,
to be suspended on the payement of
tee costs. Glmm Fulk, durged witii
being drunk and disordorty and
violating the prohibition law, pionAwj
guilty tq both diarges and paid tile
costs in hioth cases.
Lee Brown pleaded guilty to
violating the larohibititiD law and
violating the road law, paying the
costs in both cases. Tom McNeill
pleaded not guilty to being drunk
and disorderly ai^ not guUty to being
drunk and disord^ly, thme being
two separate cases against him for
the same misdemanor. He was found
guilty on botii counts and was sen-
tenced to thirty days in one, sus-
pended on payment of the costs, and
to sixty days in tee other, suspended .
on paymefrt of the costs and $15.
Clyde Ledbetter pleaded guilty to
being drunk and disorderly and
paid the costs.
Woodrow Jackson, Jessie Jayson.
Norman AticMillan a^ James Fiyrluy
were accused of taking a motor
vehicle without the pennitsiott of
the owneg and inflictiiig flumigm
ttiweto, as if^rtl as driving it ttirough
a cotton patch not belonging to
Pay Rolls In
State Show Gain
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—July employ
ment in 581 manufacturing establish
ments in Norte Carolina last month
totaled 174,890, or nine-tenths of
ptr cent above June, and pay rolls
were up 2.5 per cent to $3,139,189,
the state department of labor re
ported today.
Average weekly earnings in July
were $17.94, or 15 per cent be^
than in June, thou^ the
number of hours worked, 37.8, was
2 per cent less.
Hourly earnings were up 3 7 ner
cent, to 47.5 cents. P Per
Hi^t hundred and seven non-
man^acturing establishments emp
loyed 12,374 persons in July, three-
ten^ of 1 per cent fewer than
in J^, and pay rolls were $208,958.
^ht-tratiis of 1 per cent less e»ini in
June. Average we^ly eamiwa.;
of 1 to
downjtiiem. AU pleaded not guilty and
w^tenths of 1 per cent to 89.3, and «1f Woodrow and Jessie Jadkson
average hourly earnings
per cent to 39 cents.
John Calvin Currie
Clan MeelinH Today
Tlie annual the Joto
Culcin Corifi dMi Ii batog gt
“ late'
were convicted. Tbey teceivad four
mod three months^ r«qtectievty. sen
tences to be suspended on peyaaent
of the costs and $110 
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