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The Hoke County Journal
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volume xxxvn. no. m.
RAEFORD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPT. 18th, 1941.
fLSt PER TEAS
Army Calls On
Tawns For Mmre
Recreation .
Towns in the, maneuver area and
those in counties surrounding the
section where the big battle of Nov
ember will be fought were notified
last w^k that the need make
arrangements to entertain hundreds
of soldiers each weekend during the
coming two months.
USO, Army and Federal Security
official’s are asking that the Civilian
Defense boards, of the counties and
the separate towns prepare for the
coming of the half-mUlion troops and
many of their families and friends
' qvho may be expected from now until
about December 15th.
Amusement, recreational and lo
unging places are especially requested
in each town, where from 300 to
several thousand troops can be enter
tained while on leaves from Saturday
noons until Sunday nights. Surveys
are being made in each section. Non
profit ■ recreational facilities, com
mercial entertainment enterprises,
lounging facilities shower baths,
toliets, athletic fields and gymnasiums
are all being listed as things vitally
needed in each town to care for the
week end crowds.
At a meeting held at the court
house in Raeford Thursday repre
sentatives of Hoke and Robeson
counties, and the towns of Raeford,
Red Springs, St. Pauls and Lumber-
ton heard the needs discussed and
were asked to cooperate to the fullest
during this period.
Army and USO men requested
Civilian Defense committees to pre
pare for those emergencies which
might arise during the maneuvers,
and to particuairly prepare some
place which might be used as re
creational headquarters. It was asked
that this office be used as a clearing
house for the renting of rooms in
homes of the town, and that all
residents cooperate in providing
_ pjen pp .thejj
'hrief leaves, This office would be
a general information bureau.
Lounging centers which would be
adequately staffed, probably by local
workers under the direction of a USO
twined worker, are also requested.
TIoke County has provided the use
of the Armory as the recreation
center, and an information bureau
has been established in an office in
the county building. Here the work
of the county Civilian Defense Com
mittee under the chairman H. L.
Gatlin, Jr., will be centered. Miss
Marion Maxwell has already been
engaged to act as secretary. Parsons
who will have rooms available for
the use of soldiers over weekenib are
asked to contact Miss Maxwell or
Mr. Gatlin and register them for
assignment when the soldiers arrive.
It was pointed out that while the
major maneuver was scheduled for
November, many troops are already
being moved into the area and that
the need for all perparations being
completed immediately was urgent.
The entire First Army Corps of
76,000 men will be in the area by
the end of this week, and other units
are arriving. Many of these units
will remain until December 15th, or
later, it has been announced, and the
towns will have to make arrange
ments to care for this added popula
tion on weekends or be swamped.
PRIZED POSSESSION qf Jane Wyatt, BKO Radio actreas, la thia
exqniaite aet of pink luster china. The larunette atar, heat-remem*
hered for her ouUtanding portrayal in the picturization of "Loat
Horizon," will aoon be seen playing an important role In RKO’a
"Week End for Three.”
Court Docket
Light; Five
Cases Tried
Andrew Melvin, colored, drew a
six month sentence on the roa(te on
charges of larceny of machinery
from N. H. G. Balfour, in county
court Tuesday. Melvin's sentence was
suspended by Judge W B. McQueen
on payment pf costs^ and he was put
on good behavior for 2 years.
'Baxley? pleaded'i-'guilty .4o
drunkness and was given a suspended
30 day sentence upon payment of
costs; A. D. Clarke, charged with
assault with deadly weapon upon
Rosa McPhatter, was found guilty.
He was allowed to pay $15 and costs
and the woman’s doctor bill in lieu
of a 4 months sentence on the roads;
Acey Shaw drew 30 days, suspended,
for violation of the road laws.
Martin Harrison was found guilty
of moving a crop from the lands of
James Hendrix. He was sentenced to
60 days on the roads. He appealed
to Superior court.
Tax Bill
Approved
By House
Willuimsport
Second In
Eastern League
Williamsport, Pa,, Sept. 18.—^The
Williamsport Grays finished in final
seven-game series of the Eastern
League playoff, losing to Elmira
before 7,176 paid customers at Bow
man Field Monday night. It will be
remembered that they finished a
close second to Wilkes-Barre in the
regular season, which ended Sep
tember 1.
Then, in the semi-finals, Elmira
eliminated Wilkes-Barre in three
consecutive games and the Graps
eliminated Scranton in the same
way.
In the final series, Williamsoprt
first defeated Elmira, 4 to 0; then lost
the next three, 2 to 1; 4 to 3; and 3
to 2. Then the Grays surped back
into the competition with a rousing
13 to 2 triumph, and annexed the
next game, 2 to 1, to tie the count.
In the final game Monday night.
Ray Rouche, a former Gray, pitched
Elmira to victory with a neat four-
hit pitching stunt, and only an error
prevented him from registering a
shutout. The score was 3 to 1. Home
runs by Right Fielder Eldie Kobesky
and Left Fielder Willie Duke spelled
defeat for the Grays, Roger Wolff
being the losing pitcher.
Immediately after the game, Don
Richmond, rookie third baseman of
the Grays, left for Philadelphia to
join the Athletics, and Wolff joined
the A’s Tuesday.
Six Men Sent
To Bragg; 22
To Go October
Six men were inducted into the
Army Friday by the Hoke selective
service board, and the quota for
October was announced by Chairman
T. B. Lester.
The men inducted Friday complete
the September quota for Hoke, it was
stated. They were William D. Stanton,
James Edwin Mclnnis, John Howard
Sanders, Marshall Golden Mays, Wil
lie Maxwell Jones, and Robert Brown
Ellis.
The board has been notified that the
October quota for Hoke will be 11
white men, to be inducted October
10th, and 11 negroes to be inducted
October,29th. Names of the men to be
sent at this time will not be deter
mined until an additional group of
registrants have been examined by
the board’s medical officer.
Old Belt Tobacco
Brings About $29
At Openmg Sales
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Washington, Sept. 16.—The house
approved a $3,553,300,000 compro
mise version of the new, record-
breaking defense tax bill today and
sent it to the senate where final
passage tomorrow appeared certain.
By approving without a roll-call
vote the recomihendations of a
joiht" senate-Japusfti.epnfer^icd. cpip-*-
mittee whicfi ''worked out an agree
ment on changes made by the sen
ate the house members avoided going
on record regarding the senate’s
action in lowering personal income
tax exemptions from $2,000 to $1,500
for married persons and from $800
to $750 for single persons.
More WiU Pay.
The reductions will require 4,930,-
000 additional persons to file income
tax returns 'but only about 2,275,000
will be taxable. They will contri
bute about $47,000,000. the treasury
estimated, but the lowering of the
exemptions will boost the bills of
present taxpayers by about $256,-
000,000.
Civilian Defense
Committee Sets
Up Local Office
The local committee of Civilian
Defense has set up its office upstairs
in the County Office Building of
Raeford. Miss Marion Maxwell is
to serve as secretary for the com
mittee. In a few days the office will
be open from about ten to twelve
in the morning and three to five in
the afternoon.
t Observation Post have Iplready
been set up throughout the County
for the purpose of reporting on the
maneuver. During the next two weeks
the office will be busy gathering
and recording the information con
cerning what the public can do to help
make the maneuver a success. People
in and near Raeford who have rooms
available for rent to friends visiting
soldiers during maneuvers will please
icall Defense office giving price and
description of room.
Information just received from the
National Council office by the local
Headquarters of the Boy Scouts of
America indicate that the advance
ment program of the Cape Fear Area
Council is second to none in the
United States, with an index rating
of 100.
This means that we are as good or
better than 100% of the Nations
Boy Scouts Councils.
Thus for this year the Court of
Honor records show the following
awards have been made.
Second Class—195. First Class—79;
Star Rank—80; Life Rank—64; Eagle
Rank—18; Eagle Palms—Bronze 10,
Gold 7, Silver 7; Merit Badges—1748..
The ten most popular merit badge
subjects in order of popclafity are
Handicraft, Swimming, First Aid to
Animals; Cooking; Personal Health;
First Aid; Public Health; Pathfind
ing; Camping. Firemanship. There
are 106 different merit badge sub
ject of which number only thirteen
have not been touched on this year.
Governor To Be
Barbecue Guest
Governor J. M. Broughton will be
the honor guest of the hunters of
Hoke County Monday noon at a
barbecue to be held at Upchurch’s
^nd.
, _ John'^. MeGnogaiii,Jaqfce^-~fifticiial
teeter; and Clyde Upchurch are
planning a gala occasion for the
Huntsman, No. One of the state
when he and a large party of state
officials and prominent citizens of
Scotland county will be entertained.
The Governor and his party will
be the guests of a Scotland County
hunt club during the morning on
a deer drive. The party and their
hosts will then come to Roeford
for the barbecue dinner scheduled
for the noon hour.
The jabberwacky yodeling of the
tobacco auctioneers returned to the
markets of the old fiue-cured belt
yesterday and with it came the
highest bids for the golden weed in
nearly a decade. Growers with poc
kets moneyjammed were jubilant
over the sales in the state’s eight old
belt towns and those in Virginia were
equally happy.
Sales supervisors, bucy with near
capacity sales at every warehuose,
were unable to give official figures
in most cases last night, but the
did give their usual optimistic esti
mates, most of which ranged around
$32 per hundred pounds.
However, W. P. Hedrick, tobacco
marketing specialist of the state de
partment of agriculture, reported of
ficial government figures showed the
average would be approximately $29
per huhdn^, Hearty $12 "Sboye! las:
year’s level for the season.
Hedrick said the quality of leaf
sold on the old belt markets was
generally good with first primings
and lugs predominating. Better grades
were bringing as high as $42 per
100 pounds, but some tags were
turned on lower-grade leaf and tips,
he continued.
Mrs. Ruth Shaw Cameron returned
home Monday after a visit to relatives
in Augusta, Statesboro and Savannah
Beach, Ga.
Town-GHiiity Law
Officers To Meet
it Rockmi^iam
Members of the police, department
and the sheriff’s departments of the
counties within the Army maneu
vers and recreational areas WiU
hear Albert Coates, director of tte
Institute of Government, Chapel HiU,
give an address on the health laws to
apply during the war games
The meeting will be held at Rock
ingham Monday September 22 at
9:45 a. m., it has been announced,
and representatives of every law
enforcement unit in the areas are
expected to attend.
In calling the meeting, the an
nouncement states that there will be
a number of health law require
ments which wiU be rigidly enforced
during the time the maneuvers are
in progress and that every enforce-
fent official should be thoroughly
familiar with them. Especial attention
wiU be given those regulating the
serving of foods, soft drinks, and
ice cream. Taxi operation wiU be
only under the most explicit of
regulations, and persons engaged in
the seUing of foods and drinks or
those in the taxi business are urged to
study the new regulations and comply
with them.
SCHOOL NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BY K. A. MacDONALD
Law Officials Of
Maneuver Area
To Meet
Legion To
Have Program
The American Legion and Auxi-
wliary are to have joint program
,’sometime next week. They are
arranging an entertainment to l?e
given by a group of selectees from
Fort Bragg. Th^ say these boys..put
on a real show, and the Raeford
' -people wiU be glad to turn out for
their performance.
' Watdh next wedc’h paper for
Two Cars .Smashed
By Army Truck
The Model A of R. A. Graham, of
Bowmore,' was a total loss and the
new Plymouth of Neill Clark of
near Red Springs, was damaged
Tuesday by an army truck at Main
St. and Raeford Road.
Both the Passenger cars were park
ed at the time of the crash. The truck
was one a large convoy enroute from
Fort Jackson to Fort Bragg. The negro
truck driver was unable to turn the
truck safely at the speed at which
he rounded the comer and struck
the Ford knocking it into the Ply
mouth and forcing the latter into
a sign post.
To Coker’s Farm
A number of Hoke County Farmers
are planning to tour Coker’s Farm
at Hartsville, S. C. on Friday, ac
cording to County Agent A. S. Bow
les. The breeding work with cotton
hqs been outstandiitg on the Coker
Farm for years. The majbrity of
^tten frown in .county had its
' ■
Registration proceeded nicely in the
Hoke County High School today with
most of the town students signing
up for their year’s work. Friday
morning the buses will make their
rounds for those students who live
too far to walk.
Parents and friends of the school
are urged to attend the opening
program o the high school which will
take place in the school auditorium
at 9 o’clock Monday morning. The
devotion will be conducted by Mr.
Reamy, pastor of the local Baptist
Church. Several school officials and
friends of the school will take part
in the program which marks the open
ing of school. The high school band
has already started practice with
Mr. Melvin continuing his good work
as Director. The band will play
several numbers, the new teachers
will be introduced and !Rrincdpal
White will outline the aims of the year
as other features of the morning’s
program.
Mr. Walter Rogers, the boys coach
arrived Monday and has been going
over the equipment, arranging the
football schedule as well as rounding
up his 1941 squad. There are several
vacancies in both the line and back-
field. All boys who are interested
in football are urged to report to Mr.
Rogers, Friday at 9:30 o’clock. Coach
Rogers comes to Hoke High School
from East Carolina Teacher’s College
where he majored in Physical Edu
cation and took a leading part in al
of the major sports. He has several
new plays to teach the boys and he
is anxious to start drilling and getting
the boys in shape.
A well rounded physcial education
program has been planned for the
year with emphasis on exercises for
every student in high school instead
of only those who make the teams.
Safety, First Aid and healthy living
will be stressed in the physcal edu
cation classes conducted by Mr
Rogers and the girl’s coach. Miss
Rebecca Webb.
Principal White hopes to get girls
basket ball practice started niaxi
week. Miss Rebecca W^b who wil
a aoliolliiil record as a coium aq wet
are expecting great things from her
and' her girls this year. Miss Webb
will want lall girls interested in
basket ball to be prepared to start
practice as soon as possible as school
opens.
The last day of the bus drivers
school for the white drivers is being
held today. The last day for Colored
drivers will be held on October 9.
School officials are taking every
passible precaution to insure the
safety of the pupils as we face the
most unusual conditions in our school
history.
Last minute preparations or the
opening of all the schools are being
made. Principal and Mrs. Ray have
moved to Rockfish and are busy
getting the building in shape. Prin.
and Mrs. Morgan have moved back
to Mildbu^on after spending the
summer at Red Springs. They will
have the building ready for a good
opening Monday. Principal and Mrs.
Moore are back from a visit to Wil
mington and will have the Antioch
building and grounds in nice shape
for the opening. Principal Coates of
the Raeford Graded has been on the
job all this week and is ready or
the doors to open Monday.
Principal and Mrs. Smoak have
spent the summer at their home at.
Ashley Heights and will have Ashe-
mont ready as usual.
All of these prinicipals request
your presence at the opening exerciser
Monday morning at 9:00 o’clock
D. S. T.
Tomorrow night at 8:00 D. S. IT.,
the pre-school teachers meeting will
be held in the high school building.
Rev. Harry Holland will hold
the devotional and make a short
inspiration talk. The rest of the
meeting will be devoted business inci
dent to the opening of school.
Saturday all of the local facutly
meeting will be held at the various
schools.
The three new school buses, two
replacements furnished by the State
School Commission and one bought
oy the County have not been delivered
as yet This is on account of the
Rockingham, N. C., Sept 17.—Law
enforcement officials representing the
eight North Carolina counties in the
fall army maneuvers area will meet
in Rockingham Monday, September
22, to hear an address by Professor
Albert Coates, of Chapel HiU, Director
of the Institute of Government Of-
ficals from adjacent counties are also
invited to be present.
The meeting, to be held in the
Richmond County courthouse, begin-
nig at 9:45 a. m., will be imder the
sponsorship of the North Carolina
State Board of Health. Public health
laws in relation to the maneuvers area
wiU be the dominant theme.
Law enforcement officials from the
eight counties affected all have been
invited to attend, as weU as any
others who are interested in the
problems to be presented and who
wish to lend moral support to the
efforts that are being made to make
the area safe from a health stand
point when it wiU be occupied by a
heavy porportion of the 400,000 men
of the First Army who wUl participate
in the maneuvers in October and
November.
The counties to be represented are
Richmond, Anson, Union, Stanly,
Moore, Randolph, Montgomery, Hoke
and Scotland. Already these counties
have adopted uniform regulations
affecting public health during the
maneuvers period, these regulations
having been agreed upon by officials
conferring with pubUc health autho
rities.
Strict enforcement of these regula
tions and a tightening up, if neces
sary, wiU be discussed at die Rocking
ham conference, whidi is regarded as
being highly important by its spm-
Writers Say Morale
In Army Is Good
Baltimore, Md., Sept 17.— Two
newspapermen who spent weeks
with Uncle Sam’s troops to find out
how the soldiers feel about things
reported today that “America has
no reason to be fearful about the
morale of the new army it is building
for national defense.”
The Evening Sim said it assigned
men to ingestigate morale in the
Third Corps atea because it felt that
the “chorus of allegations that all is
not well with the United States
army” is a matter of “serious public
concern.”
The newspapermen, Rodney Crow-
ther. 45, business editor and form
er sergeant-major in the A. E. F.^
and Ben H. Miller. 34, Washington
correspondent and behind-the-news
editor, found out about army morale
by living with troops in camp and
on maneuvers.
They reported:
“The American army of 1941. as
developed in this area, is a better
army, at this stage of its training,
than the World War army of 1917-
1918 was at the comparable stage
of its training 24 years ago.
‘jThe morale of the soldiers in this
area is just as good as, and in some
respects better than, the morale of the
army their fathers built 24 years ago.
“The soldiers of today do suffer
some sense of grievance over ttie ap
parent confusion over this country’s
"ultimate objectives, but resentm«it
over the extmision of serrfos il Biff
deep enough to ’interfere with mor
ale.”
Ernest Lee Sistare
Dies At Clio
Ernest Lee Sistare, 56, died at his
home in Clio Monday, September 15th,
after an illness of several months.
...JFuneral services were conducted
Tuesday at the home and intennent
was in the McLucas Cmnetery.
Mr. Sistare had many friends ia
Raeford and Hoke County and a
number of them attmided the final
rites. He was the son of Hiram and
Rachael Thmnpson Sistare Lan
caster, S. C.
Survivmg are his wife, Idrs. Ethel
Chamness Sistare,a son, Lee Cham-
ness Sistare, of West Chester, Pa.,
and a dau^to*. Miss Rachael Sis
tare of Chesnee, S. C.
sors.
Car Stolen
The car of City Clerk Carl Freeman
was stolen Sunday ni^t while Mr.
Freeman and his family were at
tending church.
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PEIOMTY
As a .stimulus to better Inter-
American relations, some South Am
erican oountiies will have higher
* mm4-. thnndml gaifiiHj Mitli49
MM* Vi a eviUIan indugbcilH.
Army Highway
Guide Hurt
An army highway guide, directing a
convoy mroute to Fort Bragg, was
painfully hurt Tuesday, when he
was struck by a car driven by Elfaerl
Sanders.
It was stated that the guide, direct
ing traffic on Main Street, signaled
to the car to stop while a convoy wa*
paggiwg flie intersection- Sanders W*
parently became excited and drove
over the soldier. He was jailed pend
ing investigation. The soldier, adioae
name could not be leameff, ate
taken to the Bragg hoqdtil foUowing
first aid treatm«it
BETTEE
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