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Expfosion of Transformer
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it; ^50,000 Loss
^traction by Qualified Bed
Cross Workers Offered to
Class of Thirty in County
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destroyed the plant and most
^dachinery and equipment of
ae'^j^wer plant of Rafeford Power
and Manufacturing company last
Thursday night following an explo
sion of one of the bank of transfor
mers within the generating plant.
Carson Bundles, nif^t operator,
stated that he heard a slight explo
sion about 11 o’clock and that almost
immediately afterwards the build
ing waie ablaze. One of the two 500
horsepower generators, the switch
ing equipment were a complete loss
and the other generator was badly
damaged, it was stated by Tom
Cameron, secretary-treasurer of the
Vpchuirch Milling and Storage com
pany, an affiliate concern.
Bundles, who was trapped away
froid the doors of the building, es.
caped by diving from a window into
the creek, on which the hydro-plant
was built. It was located on Rock-
Rsh creek about fifteen miles from
Raeford and five miles from Hope
Mills. - ' j%]
Plan Rebuilding
Plans for rebuilding the generat
ing plant are now being considered
and engineers were in Raeford yes-
terdafflltodying the layout and mak-
immendations. It was found
generator could be rebuilt
rdnig to Mr. Cameron,. aU
uipment will have to be re-
He stated that estimates of
^ damage showed the loss to be
*h^tly over $50,000.
city generated was used by
the Hoke Oil and Fertilizer company
and the Upchurch Milling and Stor
age company, and a number df tesi.
dents on the rural lines leading into
Raeford. The company maintained
an ia^rchange meter with the Caro-
lina Power and Light company apd
sold and buoght power . from that
'll utility as load and demand required.
^ Due to this arrangement none of its
J customers have been without service
on account of the destruction of the
k plant.
An investigation of the possible
I causes of the explosion has produced
no plausible explanation, stated Mr.
Cameron. Apparently there was no
natural cause for the explosion from
gas accumulations, and the possi
bility of sabotage is discounted by
ai
y
investigation authorities.
figlit-Latch Hurts
N Hurt
morning this week neighbor
Hurt went out on his front
for his paper. While darting
the veranda a wintry blast
he front door and the night
;fced it. Hurt’s feeilngs were
at first, then the
to hurt, for Hurt
-was DUTyngiKiy clad in pajamas and
dressing gown.
Hurt was spending the week aolne,
■while his family was off on a visit
and the little matter of buzzing the
doorbell could bring no one to let
him in. He tried the windows of the.
house, he trM the back door, he
tried the sid^idoor," but all were
securely closed.
^ the meantime a kindly neigh
bor spied him running around the
[, half clothed and, by now, half
She invited him to come over
, tc4ise and warm by the fire
)?■ husband could be called
ig some extra keys so Neigh-
bof^'Hitrt Could get back into his
home.
Explodes in
Davis Home
^^Ogh the weather was quite cold
when Mrs., Christian McK. Davis
fired up her kitchen stove last Friday
morning, little did she think that it
sufficiently cold for water pipes
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et, but a 4hort time afterwards
stove exploded and alnfost
:ed the kitchen. No one was
, bpt flying metal tore through
wails and ripped out the glass
pairts of the sash of three win-
rs. Water floodli^ from the
pipes did. «4^t!6nal; dam-
A class for instructors of First
Aid, xmder the sup^ision fo quali
fied Red Cross workers, will be be
gun here next Tuesday, January 21,
according to Mrs. H. A. Cameron,
county chairman.
Applicants for the places
in the class are wanted from earn
section of Hoke county, it was said,
so that they in turn could organize
first aid groups in their communities.
Nurses and teachers are especially
urged to apply for attendance. The
class will meet three times each
week for a period of two hours for
a total of hirty classroom hours.
Those taking the course will be asked
to organize local first aid units in
their communities and supervise the
training of the members.
M^s. Cameron has secured the
cooperation of the medical and nurs
ing staffs of the state Sanatorium and
the instructors of the group here
will come from the Sanatorium. Shfe
urges all who wish to take this im
portant course to see or write her
immediately so the class cem be or-
ganzied before its first meeting
Tuesday. ~
Three Accidents Near
Here During Week
R. D. Hardester was painfuUy in
jured whenihe was struck by a car
last Monday while grossing highway
15-A at the edge of town after
alighting from a bus. The car was
driven by Harold J. Frazee of Prince^
ton, N. J. Frazee was arrested by
Highway Patrolman Barhes and
charged with reckless driving. Hard
ester suffered bruises, cuts and minor
internal injuries.
Foster McCoUough and three pas
sengers in his car were slightly in
jured when their car struck an Army
truck parked off highway 15-A last
Thursday. The truck, of the 71st In
fantry from Fort Dix, N. J., had run
out of gas and was hit before it
could clear the roadway. McCoUough
was charged with redcless driving.
Frazer Hilton, garage worker of
Laurinburg and Dan Clark of Rae
ford were both slightly injured
when their cars coUided on IS-A 3
miles east of Raeford Monday even
ing about 6:30. Hilton’s car cau^t
fire and was considered a total loss
by officers of the highway patrol
and of the Sheriff’s department who
investigated the accident. Clark was
badly shocked and bruised by the
crash but was released by Dri H. G.
O’Briant a few hours after the ac
cident. He was ordered |hdd on
charges of operating car under in
fluence of Uquor and on leckless
driving charges.
Hold Blackout
In N. C. Area
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The Hoke County Journal
HOKCCOUMm
ONLY
RAEFOBD, N. C, THUBSpAY JANU^Y 15 1942
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FOR VICTORY
Two Auto Killors
On Trial Hare
Next Wedc
Judge Walter Bone to Preside
Over Superior Court Term;
Matricide Case Scheduled
Scrap Metal Total
Reaches 700,OW
Pounds m HoAe
Campaign to “Scrap The Japs
With Scrap” Spreading Par
and Wide as County Shows
the Way
Lumberton District, Includlnc Fort
Hoke County Red
Cross Chapter
Short Of Quota.
$271.84 is neded yet to bring
cMitiibutions to the Hoke County.
Red Cron chapter to its goal of
the special War Fuad
Drive which is to be brought to a
dose next week, according to Mis.
Cameron, president of the diapter.
This fund, stated Mrs. Cameron,
is needed for relief work among our
soldieis and civilians in war strick
en areas on the United States’ on
battle lines. It is a separate drive
from the annual meml^r^p roU
caU which was conducted last No
vember, a fact which may seem
misunderstand. The Red Cron
has asked for an additional $50,-
000,000 for this work and, if you
haven’t contributed to this fund,
please see your community diair-
man now.
Kiwanb Install
NewOfficm
On Ladies Night
Dr. C. D. Thomas, of Sanatoxiom,
Succeeds N, A. BfeDouald, Jr
As Head of Civic Group
News Journal Will
Print Directory
Next Week
The Army Directory on which the
News - Journal has been working
for several wedcs is about complete
and will be published next wedc.
At the same time a Directory of the
stores, businen houses and official
personnel of town and county will
be published.
The News - Journal wants the
Army people and the town to rea
lize what a good thing they have-in
each other. The paper from this date
Bran, Is Satisfactory in First Test wishes to list all movements of
' the Army personnel and we will
The Lumberton district, including
Fort Bragg and Raeford, was block
ed out last night against an imagi
nary enemy bombing attack. The
test was considered generally satis
factory.
Fayetteville reported that the
plate glass window of a jewelry
store, where a light hdd been left
burning, was smashed but there was
no looting. Nor was there an arrest.
Two airplanes, presumably civilian
flew over Lumberton, where a
master switch was thrown to pro
vide darkness.
The Committee on Civilian Pro
tection said that the blackout in
Raeford and vicinity -was very near
ly 100 percent successfuL
consider it a favor if the News-
Journal is notified promptly of any
changes.
Waste Paper Will
Be Collected By
Raeford Scouts
The Boy Scouts of Raeford will
collect waste paper here it was an
nounced yesterday, and collection
schedules are being arranged this
week end for the business and rest
dential sections.
The paper will be collected and
bi^dledi and then taken to a central
ston^[e ,bviildii^ tpam which it wiU
Dr. C. D. Thomas, of Sanatorium,
was installed as president of the
Raeford Kiwanis Club, at the meet
nig held last Thursday evening
which was also the occasion of the
annual Ladies Night program.
Other officers installed were: J.
L. McNeill, vice president, H. C.
McLauchlin, secretary and treasurer,
and N. A. MeDoiudd, Jr., immediate
past president, llie directors induct
ed were J. B. Thomas, Thomas
Cameron, I^. John E. G. McLain, M.
C. Dew, D. H. Hddgin, T. B. Up
church, Jr., Harry K. Holland and
X A. MdDonald Senator Ryan Mc-
Bryde conducted the installation.
Following the .diimer Rev. Harry
K. Holland gave the address of the
evening. His subject was “The
American Heritage.’’
Miss Ina Bethune, the club’s only
woman member, was presented the
annual award for most loyal Kiwan-
ian by M. C. Dew. A program of
stunts was preaeiited under the di
rection of Tom Camerm. Hie com
mittee in charge of the arrangements
for this annual event was made up
of H. L. Gatlin Jr., Tom Cameron
and Dr. John McLain..
The cases of Benjamin Thomas,
colored, accused of the murder of
his mother, Susie Thomas, and of
Sim Liles and June Breeden, both
colored, drivers of cars involved in
fatal accidents, will be heard during
the session of Hoke County Super
ior court to convene here Monday
morning, with Judge Walter Bone,
of Nashville presiding.
Thomas has been in jail for five
weeks awaiting action of the grand
ijury following the fatal shooting
of Susie Thomas, his mother, during
an argument which Thomas had
with a brother and other members
of his family. The shooting to®!^
place at their home in Little River
Township.
Sim Liles, charged with careless
and reckless driving and manslaugh
ter was the driver of the truck which
collided with the car of Melvin D.
Gentry, superintendent of McNair
farms, in late November. Gentry was
almost instantly killed and his
daughter was hurt in the crash.
June Breeden was the driver of
the car that collided with that in
which Miss Grace Cooley, of Wag-
ram, was riding when she was
fatally hurt early in December. Miss
Cool^, a sophomore at Flora Mac
donald College, was en route to her
home with friends, aU of whom were
severely hurt, at the time she was
killed.
Other cases to be heard include:
Thomas A. Devane and Thomas H.
Sutton, prpndnent Fayetteville busi'
nessmen, charged with hunting quafi
after sunset; McKinley McCormick,
negro of Red .Springs, charged with
driving car under influence of
liquor; James Archie Harrington,
charged with assaidt with deadly
weapon on Son Murchison, with in
tent to kill; and A. A. Barefoot, care
less and reckless driving and oper.
ation of car while intoxciated.
La^yette Assn.
Hol(k Januaiy
Meeting Here
The Lafayette Highway Association
held its January meeting in Raeford
at the Raeford Hotel. Carol Jordan,
Hartsville, S. C., who is president of
the Association, presided. John J. Ri
ley, Sumter, S. C., secretary-treas
urer, gave the financial report.
At a previous meeting in Laurin
burg, December 3rd, it was affi-eed
that the Lafayette Highway Associa.
tion would employ a full time secre
tary and furnish traveling expenses
for him, it being his duty to travel
from Maine to Florida in an effort to
stimulate traffic on highway 15-A.
After a lengthy discussion at ttie meet
ing Tuesday the association decided
that it would be impractical to employ
.. .. ^ . J t a full time secretary at this time.
The tire ratuming board of Hoke „.-*** x/ u a
The Lafayette Highway Associa-
Tire Rationing
Board Meets
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The total scrap iron collected in
Hoke County and sold to “RED’
Scarborough will reach 70ft,000
pounds this week, if ! was stated
yesterday.
Mr. Scarborough said that his con
cern had already weighed in 625,000
pounds and had bought at least
75,000 pounds additional metal whcih
was on farms but was yet to be
hauled to the foundries. The metal
being sold by him to Blue’s
Foundries of Laurinburg and Ward’s
Foundries of Fayetteville.
Hoke county has started a defense
program of collecting scrap metal
that is fast spreading over the state
and nation. During the next few
weeks special “scrap iron” days are
being held in most of the coimties
of the state, and inquiries have been
received by Dean I. O. Schaub, of
State College, for information con
cerning the program held here.
In inaugurating die program here,
the county committee expressed hope
for slightly more metal than the
100,000 pound goal set, but no one
expected the total would reach with
in a quarter millino pounds of the
amount actually obtained. While
some was brought from outside die
county, Mr. Scarborough states ttat
this would amount to only a few
thousand pounds. And be says that
practically 99 percent of all die
metal brought in here was readfly
usable, and the greater part of it of
very good quality.
Bed Cross Ckto $1M
The scrap buyer paid a flat price
of 50c per hundred for the metal
or approximately $3,500. Many of
those bringing in small lots conpri*
buted their entire proceeds from die
sale of the metal to the Hoke County
chapter of the Red Cross to apply on
the war fund of the scoiety.
Mr. Scarborough stated ^
was aiding Scotland county widH a
similar program next week, and fol
lowing that would go to Bladen
County for a “Scrap Iron Wc^**
Moore County held the did metal
day this week and many tons tA
metal were being brought to central
points there for sale to buyos.
WAITING
Automobiles Must Not
Follow Fire Truck
State Lmw Will Be
Enforced
County' Court
Docket Light
Only six defendants have laced
Judge W. B. McQueen in county
court during the past two weeks.
Last Tuesday James Fou and Neill
McAllister paid costs for driving
cars without license plates, and
Other Clio Johnson paid a like
amount for speeding.
This week, Emlo Eugene Lentz
drew a 30 day suspended sentence
for careless and reckless driving;
Matthew Fairley, paid $50 and cost
and had his drivers license suspend
ed for 12 months for operating a
car while drunk. He alos paid costs
for careless and reckless driving.
James C. Morris, indicted on two
larceny counts, for stealing a car
operators license from Aelx Whitted,
and for the theft of several bushels
of corn from the Upchurch Milling
adn Storage company, received a
three months sentence on the coun
ty roads, and a 30 dnr sentence, to
county of which Ryan McBryde is
chairman announces that the follow
ing applications have been passed
on and approved.
T. C. Scartioro, Raeford Scrap
Iron Dealer, 2 tires and 2 tubes for
trudc; Dr. W. M. Peck, Sanatorium
physician, 1 tire and 1 tube for car;
Raeford Power Manufacturing Com
pany, Electric Repair Service, 2 tires
and 2 tubes for pickup.
On Furlough
For A Day
Carlton Niven, John Thomas Wal
ters, Tom Conoly and Taimadge
English, members of Battery F of
252nd coast artillery, recently trans
ferred from Fort Screvin, Ga., to
Camp Shelby, Miss., spent last
Thursday here with their families.
ERBOS . RED CROSS RELIEF
The names appearing last week
and this, under Red Cross Roll Call,
should have come imder this caption:
“Contributions of Red Cross War
Relief -of $1 or Ovef.” There were
some .very substantial contributions
on towards Hoke’s quota of $3000.
The War Relief Fund was called lor
V In a^dttUn to the R(A
tion was formed a number of years
ago and consists of all towns between
Walterboro, S. C., and Raleigh, N. C.
Highway 15 and 15-A carried more
than SO per cent of all north and
southbound traffic on the eastern
Seaboard. The Raeford Association
has never failed to pay its quota for
maintenance of the Lafayette Associ
ation. For the past two years Rae
ford has paid a total of $350.' This
has been made possible by the splen
did cooperation of the merchants and
other interested people in Raeford.
Those present were W. E. Street,
A. A. Graham, N. A. McDonald, Jr.
and Tom Cameron, of Raeford; John
J. Riley nd W. E. Pratt, Sumter, S.
C.; Frank. J. Deschamps, Bishopville,
S. C.. J. F. Patterson and A. L. Bree.
den, Bennettsville, S. C.; G. E. Betts,
A. E. Dixon, and J. R. Boyd, Fayette
ville, N. C.; E. D. Sexton, H. E. Fox-
worth, M. L. Townsend, Society Hill,
S. C.; and Carol Jordan, HartsvUle,
S. C.
Boswell Bethune Takes
Job at Wilmington
Boswdfi Bethune, for the put six
years tomieeMI with the Hoke Drag
All drivers of cars will be arrested
and prosecuted when caught follow
ing the fire trudr to fires.
In the past drivers going to fixes
have endangered the lives of the
firemen and blocked openitiaa of
the fire department vdien it arrives
at the scene of the fire.
Officers are being instructed to
arrest any person violating ttiis
law.
THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO
FIREMEN DRIVING THEIR OWN
CARS. FIREMEN’S CARS ARE
IDENTIFIED IN ORDER THAT
THE POLICE MAY RECOGNIZE
THEM.
(Signed) G. W. BROWN, Mayor
WOliam^rt Grays
Coming Again
W. E. Street, managw af tte
Hotel Raeford is in receipt o( a
letter from J. Boy Cbnk e( tte
WilUauivort Grajrs ftol^ eflset
that ttls haU deb ^ Wu to
Raderd again this
praetke. They wBI arrive
28. The WHIiawiwpert Grays had
very attractive ellHs Itou seyetel
other places bed ehue Eaeletd.
Company, left last wedi toc^ .llS^
mingbHi where he hu
position wittk ttia Waltaii!
company, a druat Jakhtpi
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