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The Hoke County News
The Hoke County Journal
iLUME XXXVin.. NO. 4.
RAEFORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25th, 1942.
ItSS PEE YEAR
f Kiwanis Club To
Purchase Radio
For Soldier Club
Following a talk by Mrs. J. W.
Cvjrrie on the work and needs of the
BoiJte County Soldiers Center, the
Baeford Kiwanis club voted to pur-
•chase a combination radio and record
player for the Center, and approp
riated $42.50 for the purpose. In
dividuals also contributed some $10
for purchase of other supplies need
ed by the Center.
Mrs. Currie and Miss Flora Boyce
are the hostesses who supervise the
activities of the club and arrange
for entertainment of the soldiers both
at the club, the armory dances and
in the house.
The speaker stated that it was a
patriotic duty and a genuine service
fo make these boys feel as though
:somebody really cared for them, and
•that Was the purpose of the Center.
She told the club that an electric
Tefrigerator, a water cooler, game
tables, kitchen and serving equipment
and other furnishings were needed
^ make the work of the Center an-
^ swer the need of the men.
The Center is housed in the pas
senger station qf the A. and R. rail
way, which has been donated with
out charge by Henry and William
Blue, directors of the railway. Two
irooms have been renovated and
equipped very well, with facilities
of preparing sandwiches, plate lunch
es and for lounging. Two other
'rooms are being arranged this week
for game rooms and -showers are to
be added immediately.
, The county commissioners have ap-
prbpri^ed some funds to help in the
work aid many merchants and in-
•dividuals have contributed toward
"the work. An electric refrigerator is
j l>eing loaned the Center by the Board
iJ of Commissioners, a water cooler
was installed Monday, thrpugh the
oourtesy of the railway and Law
rence McNeill. Ice is being contrib^
uted daily by . the Upchurch Milling
comply.
4^-Another serving table,' khiyes-,
tozks, spoons, dishes and other' kitch-
«n equipment is needed.
'Mrs. Currie states that from IT to
■35 men register each week day and
tbat as many as one hundred or more
vi^t the place on the weekends and
it over 70 attended the armory
ice last Saturday night.
Apartment Houses
Limiting Hot Water
_1^New York, June 23.—^The 50 per
J cent restriction on the consumption
^ of fuel oil is being met by many New
York apartment houses by limiting
the supply of hot water to certain’
hours in the morning and evening, it
was disclosed.
A War Production Board spokes
man here said the same trend prob
ably would be followed by other
.apartment house landlords in the 17
\tlantic Seaboard states affected by
le WPB order of May 15.
Concerning fuel oil for heating next
Vinter, the spokesman said many
homeowners were converting oil
lirnaces to coal.
iptist Vacation
(ible School
Registration for the Vacation Bible
School will begin at 5 p. m., Friday
afternoon. At seven, women of the
chur* will serve supper on the
Srouiids. The school will open Mon-
iday, June 29th, at 9 a. m. and will
last til 11 o’clock. These hours will
hold for the duration of the school
which is thif^igh Friday, the third.
Commencem^^^t exercises will be on
the evening of the 3rd. Children of
all denominations are invited to at
tend this school. Mrs. Guin and able
■assistants will be in charge of-the
school.
Food Preservation
Center To Be Used
By Communtiy
“Beginning July 1st, the School
Canning Center in Raelord may be
used by the people of the county
who may wish to preserve surplus
food in tin for their family’s food
supply,” says Josephine Hall, home
agent.
The canning center is supervised
by Mrs. Jim Smith and the school
canning is being done by the lunch
room supervisors from the various
schools in the county. Those people
who have .had little experienoei can
ning in tin will be assisted by the
women working at the center.
Those wishing to bring vegetables
and fruit to can may make arrange
ments for a date for canning at the
Home Agent’s office. Food, no. 3
(quart size) tin cans and a small
amount of fuel must be furnish^.
No charge will be made.
Canning this year is a vital fac
tor in our National Defense Program
and the people of the county are
fortunate in bbing able to use the
center in connection with the school
canning program.
I County USO Drive
Passes Half-Way
Mark; Ends July 4th
The drive for USO funk in Hoke
county passed the half-way mark this
week with Chairman Wilmer Mc
Donald reporting that $400 has been
received while the quota to be raised
is $700.
Mr. McDonald states that reports
have not b^en received from group
workers in some communities in the
cofinty and these community chair
men are urged to make their reports
as quickly as possible. Mr. McDonald
states that the drive will continue
through July 4, and that every work
er is urged to see those people in his
territory who have not been seen of
have not contributed ttf this agency
which is contributing so much to the
welfare of our soldiers wherever they
are.
Rubber Collection
Piles Up Scrap
In County
About every service station in the
county you can see the piles of scrap
rubber piling hi^er each day, ac
cording to Neill A. McDonald, county
chairman for the salvage drive.
The stations are paying Ic per lb.
for the scrap rubber which is turned
in, and they resell it to the oil com
panies for the same price. These
companies then send it to the rubber
companies where it is repossessed
and will be used to keep the motor
cars of the citizens of our nation go
ing during -the war.
Look about your house, wherever
scrap stuff may be stored and get
out the old rubber and turn it in.
How lHig your cars will run will de
pend largely on the collections of
scrap rubber. You can sell it for $1
per hundred pounds.
A Proclamation
BY 'TOE GOVERNOR
The Boy Scout Camp
Scouts from the Western District
will gather at the “McKay Cottage”
on Lumber River next Monday af
ternoon for a week’s camping under
the direction of the Cape Fear Coun
cil. 'The camp grounds are being
gotten in shape this week. Pointers
will be put up by the scouts so that
you will not have trouble reaching
the grounds. Those going in cars
will turn off of Highway T5-A just
south of Lumber River, about one
mile out of Wagram, and will follow
the road up the river to the scene
of the camp.
Scouts are asked to bring or pro
vide all equipment for cooking and
sleeping except the food, which will
be available on the camp'grounds.
Each troop is to do its own cooking,
so should have the necessary cook
ing tools. The scoutmaster has a list
of the things needed so scouts be
sure and check on his list before
leaving for camp. Insects are bad at
this time of the year so it would be
wise to take some means of control.
^rs. W. C. Brown
Is^ravely Ill
Lamont Brown returned to Alex
andria, Va., last night. He came
down especially to visit his mother
who is very sick following a major
operatiwi rin Long’s hospital, States
ville. Mrs. W. B. McLauchlin ac-
^mpanied Laniont to Statesville and
.iboth returned to Raeford. Dr. John
-'Amns, who has been in Alexandria
w» Mr. Brown left there for States
ville ^ednesday night of this week.
The^tire community is very much
con^ed over Mrs. Brown’s illness.
Revival Services
Mill Church
4 Bev. W. H. Ivey, assisted by Rev.
Hilburn of the Free Will Bap^
'tist church will conduct a revival at
the mill church beginning Sunday at
p’clock. Service,} every day at
€ieveh a. m. and 8 p. in.
.Scrap Rubber
Campaign
The scrap rubber campaign is off
to a good start in Hoke county. Al
ready more than 25,000 lbs. have
been turned in. This is as much as
we expected to get in Hoke county.
All filling stations are co-operating.
Take your scrap rubber to any filling
station and they will give ,you one
cent per pound.
This is a non-profit campaign. Fill
ing stations are turning it in and
getting one cent per pound. All maj
or oil companies are accepting the
rubber from their stations at cost,
and are re-selling it to the rubber
companies. The difference between
what they pay and what they receive
is turned over to army and navy
relief. 'The oil companies are mak
ing a donation of the freight and
handling charges.
N. A. McDonald, Jr., is represent^
ing the oil companies in Hoke county
and is domg a fine job. He is anxious
to ship a fhll car-load from Hfice
county. So bring in your old rubber.
J. A. McGOOGAN,
Chairman Hoke County Salvage
Committee
Clyde Upchurch, Jr.,
To Camp Sutton
Clyde Upchurch, Jr., reported to
Camp Sutton Wednesday. He is in
the ordanance deparmtent. Having
had three months strenuous basic
training at .army air corps base, Jack-
son, Miss., he received his^ commis-
'.sion at lieutenant, junior rank.
Fifth Registration Day, Tuesday, June
30th, 1942, 7:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m.
Whereas, the Selective Training
and Service Act of 1940, as amended,
authorizes the President of the United
States to designate the times and
places for the registration of the per
sons required to register by the pro
visions of said Act; and
Whereas, the-President of the Unit
ed States duly designated October
16, 1940, as the first registration day;
July 1, 1941, as the second registra
tion day; February 16, 1942 as the
third registration day; April 27, 1942,
as the fourth registration day; and
has now, by proclamation dated May
22,1942, designated Tuesday, June 30,
1942, between the hours of 7:00 a.
m. and 9:00 p. m. as the fifth regis
tration day; and
Whereas, ■the President in said
proclamation has called upon me, as
me Governor _of, tt».. St^-of Nprth
Carolina, to dq-and p^btih hll adb
and services necessary to accomplish
and affect the complete registration
in this state of all those required to
register according to said proclama
tion:
Now, therefore, I J. Melville
Broughton, Governor of the State of
North Carolina, in response to the
call made upon me as contained in
the proclamation of the President of
the United States referred to above,
and by virtue of the power vested in
me as Governor of this State, do pro
claim the following:
That every male citizen of the
United States residing in North Car
olina and every male alien residing
in toe State, except those persons ex
empt from registration by the terms
of said Act, who were bom on or
after January 1, 1922, and on or be
fore June 30, 1924, and who have not
heretofore registered, are hereby re
quired to register at the duly desig
nated registration place for the area
where said persons reside on. June
30, 1942.
J. MELVILLE BROUGHTON,
Governor.
Places of registration in Hoke coun
ty: the court house, the town hall,
one at Little River and Sanatorium.
Cfomartie Held
On $1,000 Bond
In Sessoms Death
Raymond Cromartie, following a
preliminary hearing conducted by
Judge W. B. McQueen, sitting as a
magistrate, was ordered held for the
grand jury in the hit-and-run death
of Tom Sessoms, who died as the
result of an accidmt on the 25th of
August, 1937.
Cromartie skipped the country im
mediately following the accident and
was caught in Cumberland county
about ten days ago, and arrested there
by request of Sheriff D. H. Hodgin.
Bond was set at $1,000 but this had
not been raised late Wednesday. The
trial of the case has been aet for the
August term of Superior court.
In the only other case heard by
Judge McQueen Robert Blue Ross
was convicted of the theft of a bicy
cle from R. M. Hooper and given 4
months on the roads, the sentence was
suspended upon payment of the costs
and for the repair of the bicycle.
Clarence White
Held h Death
Of Soldier
Clarence White, construction work
er and driver of the car which collid
ed with a Greyhound bus at Rockfish
Creek Saturday night, was ordered
held for the grand jury in the death
of Pvt. Wesley Hamilton by a cor
oner’s jury here Tuesday night.
Hamilton, age 22, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was one of five passengers riding
with White at the time of the col
lision which happened Saturday night
about 9 o’clock about 1 mile north
of Raeford on Route 15-A. He was
killed almost instantly, -sand John
Lindquin, of Cary, Miss., J. H. Moore,
Pvt. Herbert Faulk, and Sgt. J. J.
Goins, all of the 894th tank destroyer
battalion at Fort Bragg, were in
jured.
According to Sheriff D. H. Hodgin
who conducted the investigation of
the accident the collision happened
when the car driven by White turn
ed into the left lane of the highway
to pass another car but the approach
ing bus prevented the passing. White
failed to get the car back tO||the right
side of the road and the rear end
was struck by the bus. Harold W.
Stuart was said to be the driver of
the bus. None of its passengers were
hurt.
Lonnie Gain Dies
Of Typhus Fever
Mon^y Night
Daniel Lonnie Guin, 41, highly re
spected farmer and prominent citizen
of Hoke county died at a Fayetteville
hospital Monday evening after suf
fering from typhus'fever for about
ten days.
Funeral services were held Tu'es-
day afternoon at five o’clock from the
Methodist church. They were con
ducted by the pastor, Rtv. E. C.
Crawford.
Pallbearers were: A. D. Austin, H.
L. Gatlin, Jr., Walter Baker, Evan
Wright, R. J. Hasty, and Dave Yar
borough.
Surviving are his wife, formerly
Miss Susie Hendrix, a daughter, Sara
Frances Guin, and two sons, Grady
and Haywood Guin.
A native of Cumberland county,
Mr. Guin has been a resident of Hoke
county for a number of year, and
during most of this time he has been
connected with the farming interests
of Mrs. J. S. Johnson and the late
Mr. Johnson. At the time of his death
he was the superintendent of the Up
church farm of the Johnson estate.
Dr. James Dickson
Visits Raeford
Leon Henderson
Lacks Gas To Go
On Fishing Trips
Washington, June 22.—^Prioe Ad
ministrator Leon Henderson, who
bosses gasoline rationing in the east,
some times is just another harassed
motorist.
“Gas raitoning has been damned
inconvenient to me,” he exploded, in
the midst of a press conference. “I
toink the government ought to look
into some of these situations. I can”t
even go fishing any more.”
Motorist Henderson has an “A”
rationing card. ' '
Plenty Good!
Miss Evelyn Smith, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. David Smith, who is
taking radio training at Monmouth,
New Jersey, took a radio examina
tion soon after being sent to New
Jersey and made the almost impos
sible rating, 100!!‘
To Hold Civil Service
Examination Monday
The Civil Service examination for
stenographers and typists will be held
in the commercial department at
Hoke high school Monday, July 6th.
at 8:30 a. m.
Dr. James G. Dickson, Com
mander U. S. navy, and two sons,
James Jr., and Burt Pressy, were
the guests of Mrs. Paul Dickson Tues
day. Commander Dickson, who has
been stationed at Annapolis for about
a year has been ordered to sea, and
foreign service. He will be stationed
at Samoa in the South Sea Islands
of the Pacific almost half way across
the world from here. Mrs. Dickson
and sons will go to her old home in
Newport News, Va., while he is away.
Ben Currie Reported
Safe In Honolulu
N • X ' ■ 4. ■
Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Currie of Rae
ford, have received a cablegram from
their son, Ensign Ben F. Currie, that
he is safe in Honolulu. It was the
first word his parents had received
from Ensign Currie since the Battle
of Midway Island took place.
WOMEN WHO HELPED
MEN ESCAPE CAUGHT
LISTS VniTUES OF ADVERTISING
SWAMPED
Farmers in Forsyth county have
been swamped with work in taking
recent rains, says R.
W. Pou, Ex'tension Service farm ag
ent.
Adolph, Benito and Hirohito
—the three blind mice. Make
them run with ten percent of
your income in War Bonds
every pay day.
New York, June 23.—Former Dis-
trist Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to
day described advertising as “an in
strument of freedom” and urged 600
members of the Advertising Federa
tion of America to fight for it as a
"necessary part of a free press and
free radio.”
‘ Speaking at a luncheon meeting
of the Iteration’s 38th annual con
vention, tDewey said:
“You are enlisted today in the
cause of maintaining the instruments
of freedom for which we fight. You
must maintain advertising as an in
strument of freedom, because after
the war is won, you will have anoth
er great job to do. After we have
total victory those things we are do
ing without will be as essential as
they once were, and more so.
“There can be no freedom without
a free press, snd there can be no
free press unl^ it is able to print
its papers without subsidy from any
man, any single industry or any gov
ernment.”
He called advertising “The only
means yet devised for producing fixe
necessary revenue to support a free
press, and I may add, free radio.”
Dewey said the Gtorman radio im-
der Propaganda Minister Goebbels
was a dispenser of "hogwash.”
"One you stifle free speech and
free criticism,” he said, “you stifle
the face of the people.’’
Hail Damages Crop
Of D. H. Pearson
A hail storm about ten days ago
severely damaged D. H. Pearson’s
cotton. There was no insurance on
this cotton.
Raleight, June 23.—^Two women
who helped three honor grade pris
oners escape Sunday afternoon from
the Watauga prison camp have been
arrested in Elizabethtown, Tenn.,
Penal Director Pitts said today.
None of the men has been appre
hended, said Pitts, who identified
them as Garland Rice, 33, sentenced
in Buncombe for breaking and en
tering, larceny and receiving; Dear-
mon Williams, 27, sentenced in Wilkes
for housebreaking and receiving; and
Royce Thomas, 27, sentenced in New
Hanover for robbery with firearms.
The women drove to the prison in
a taxi, Pitts said, and the prisoners
joined them in a fast getaway. Since
the men were honor grade, Pitts said
he presumed they were allowed ex
tra holiday freedom.
THREE FACING SUGAR CHARGE
Death Of Mrs.
John C. McLean
Mrs. Mary Frances McLean Mc
Lean, widow of the late John Cal
vin McLean, of Raeford, died at her
home here on Saturday, June 19th, in
her 83rd year. Mrs. McLean had
been in good health all her life up
until about one year ago when a per
iod of illness from which she did not
fully recover had its inception.
Mrs. McLecUi was the daughter of
Elizabeth McCallum McLean and
John K. McLean, and was bom in
Moore county, near Carthage, on
January 5, 1860. She and the late
Mr. McLean w^re married in 1888
and came to this community which
was later to become the town of Rae
ford, promptly after their marriage,
and occupied the same dwelling, now
on Main street in. Raeford, until her
death. All eight diildren of Mr. and
Mrs. McLean were bom in this home,
and Mr. McLean died there in 1936
in his 80th year.
Mrs. McLean was much loved in
this community, ^e and Mr. Mc
Lean had a prominent part in the
formation of the town. They were
both charter members of the Rae
ford Presbyterian chiurch, and he waa
on the original town board, and the
first school board, serving on both
for a long time. She kept up with
progress of the community, was all
excellent neighbor, and won admira
tion and respect from all who knew
her, as she encouraged them in good
things and assisted them in their
times of stress.
Surviving Mrs. McLean are the
following children: W. T. McLean, of
Clinton, and J. C. McLean. Jr., of
Raeford; Mrs. N. J. Covington of
Charlotte, Mrs A. N. Moffitt, of Port
Gibson. Miss., Mrs. Stanley Sessoms
of Suffolk, Va., and Miss Beulah Mc
Lean of Raeford. One child died in
infancy, and a daughter. Miss Blan
che McLean, died in 1916. Eight
grandchildren, survive.
The funeral was conducted from
the home on Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock, and interment followed in
Raeford cemettt-y. Active pallbear
ers were: John McKay Blue, John
Duncan McNeill, Hubert Mdican.
Raymond McLean, Angus Keith and
Thaddeus Blue. A host of friends
and -relatives, including many people
from other towns and communities
were present for the final rites.
Attend Funeral
Not everybody with a dtdlar
to ^ore can shoot a gui
straight—but everybody can
shoot straight to the bank and
bnj. War Beads, Buy your
18% every pay day.
Jacksonville, N. C., June 23.—
Three Onslow county men were in
jail here today charged with posses
sion of 500 pounds of sugar and
transportation of nontax-paid whis
key.
They were Clifton Justice, 24,
James Gould, 23, and David Jenkins,
55, all of the Sandy Run section of
Onslow county.
The three men werearrested early
last night by state highway patrol
men, who said today that the men
may be turned over to Federal au
thorities for trial in Federal court.
Patrolmen said Justice and Gould
claimed that the sugar belonged to
them, and admitted that they did not
report it in their possession when
they registered recraitly for sugar
rationing, cards.
County Commissioners
To Meet First Tuesday
. The Board of Commissioners will
meet Tuesday, July 7th,'instead of
Monday, July 6th. This diange is
made due to the fact that Monday
will be observed as a holiday by the
stores and business houses in Rae
ford.
CONTROL
Treatments recommended by How-
aM Garriss, Extension plant patholo
gist^ State college, were 100 per
cent effective in controlling .gmaii
grain ihseases on the farm of Larry
Pate in Craven county, says R. M.
Williams, assistant coun]^ agent.
RENEW TOUR EUBICRiniOin
'ith
Among those from out of town at
tending the funeral of Mrs. J. C. Mc
Lean were:
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stafford, Gar
land; Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Adams,
Raleigh; Dr. W. P. Starling, Rose-
boro; Mrs. M. E. Pope, Durham; Mar
vin Pope, Durham; Mrs. Jones, Dur
ham; Stanley Sessoms, SuffoU^ Va.;
T. D. McLean, Aberdeen; Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. M(J.ean, Aberdeen; C. C.
Faircloth, Clinton; Croom Faircloth,
F. J. Faison, W. M. RusseU, P. S.
Carr, Joe R. Bert, Clinton; Mr. and
Mrs. Percy Weeks, Clinton; Mrs.
Lacy Armstrong, Parkton; Miss Lillie '
BeU McDuffie, St. Pauls; Burk Mc
Duffie, St. auls; Jim McDuffie, SL
Pauls; Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Hatcher,
Fayetteville: Lawrence McLeod, Tar-
boro; Fr. and Mrs. J. B. McLeod,
Carthage :Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mc
Leod, Carthage; Mrs. J. A. Blue, Car
thage; Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Blue, Car
thage; N. J. Covington, Charlotte;
Frances Covington, Charlotte; James
Covington, Charlotte i Mr. and Mrs.
D: J. Blue, Carthage.
Baptist Revival
Revival services have been going
on all this week at the Raeford Bap
tist church. The Rev. James P. Wes-
berry, pastor of the Bantoerg Bap
tist church of Bamberg, S. C., is do
ing the preaching. Services are con
ducted each morning at 11 o’ldock
and 8:30 p. m., and will caotmue
thru Sunday. The public is cordially
invited.
To New Jersey
Three more Hoke county girls havo
been sent to Monmouth, New Jersey,
to accept positions with the signal
cOTps. They are Christine Mdfeill,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrsi,
John A. McNeill; Elsie M^eil!, dau
ghter of Mrs. Made McN^; and
Rosa Lee English, granddau^ter of
Mrs. Dora I. English.
AIR RAID WARNINGS POR
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