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N HOKE COUNTY'S BEST ADVER1ISINO MEDIUM ewsJoiiraa HOKE COUNTrS ONLY NEWSPAPER The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XXXVIII NO. 15 RAEFORD, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1943 $2.00 PER YEAR Iff NEWS OF OUR MENwWOMEN IN UNIFORM Corporal FuHord McMillan return ed to Camp Bainbridge, Ky. after spending a week's furlough at home. O David Harvey has arrived in Eng land and is doing fine according to a leter received this week by his fam ily. O Lt. Hartman Yarborough, who has been in the Caribbean area is at home on leave. , O , Pvt. Lewis B. McBrayer of the Univeristy medical school at Chapel Hill , spent the past weekend with friends at Sanitoriuni. Phil Johnson of U. S. A. is at home for a visit. O Lt. Col. Poole was at home Sunday. -O- TWO RAEFORD BOYS IN V-12 AT DUKE Durham, N. C Sept. 15 Included among the 1,600 navy, marine, and coast guard trainees enrolled at Duke University in the Navy V-12 College training program are two students from Raeford, they are: Hugh' Charl-J es McLauchlin, Navy: Christopher Gerbert Giles, Jr., Marine. O Tech-Sgt. Buist Bethune spent sev eral days here last week. , Buist was enroute from Washington to Kelly Field, Texas, where his is gunnery in structor. O Sgt. McKenzie Award ed Conduct Medal Sgt. James C. McKenzie, son of "Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McKenzie of Raeford was awarded the Good Con duct Medal of the U. S. Army. This award was made at Fort Bragg, N. C. yesterday, September, 15. O Lt. Hartman Yarborough is spend ing some time here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yarborough. He is on furlough from his station in the West Indies. O "MacAdoo Bozeman and Herman Crowley, arrived this week on fur lough from the West Indies. They are with their families in the Rock .fish community. O Corp. Irwin Currie, who has been -with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. 'Currie in Blue Springs for the past two weeks, left this week for Camp Breckenridge, Ky. Scouters Plan Hold Leadership Training School The executive committee of the Boy Scout movement in the western dis trict of the Cape Fear Council met in Laurinburg on September 9th, and nfcde some far reaching plans for the future. Charles McNair Gaskins, the new field executive, was present and in troduced to the group and reports show he has made a line start in his work. Very encouraging reports were giv en by the scouters on the work in the various communities. Laurinburg is awakening to the challenge of the boys and plan to organize one or two new troops as soon as leadership can be secured. Gibson is going line with great interest and enthusiasm. Laurel Hill and Wagram are beginning their fall prgram with good hopes. Mr. Baker gave a report of the ac tivities of the year: At the beginning of the year the committee set certain goals, and Mr. Baker gave the attain ments at the end of eight months. Planned for 9 troops and have reach ed 10. Planned for 200 scouts ana have now 195, planned for 38 scout ers and now have 52, hoped to have iwo cub packs but now have none, Jng lost the one we Had at Raeford. JJuring the year the scouting program has reached 224 scouts, 53 scouters, 12 cubs and 4 cubbers which gives us A total of 293. W. R. Sutherland announced that some of the communities were still having lost the one we had at Raeford. to try to get this in so as to close the year on Oct. 1st wim all obligations inpt. E. H. Evans announced that plans were made to include the scout bud get in the general community drive in Scotland County for the next year. Mr. Baker spoke of the need for irariershiD training, and suggested that the training school be conducted in the district. The time and place of the training school will be decided at the October Council district meeting to be held in Laurinburg on October 7th. All scoutmaster! and troop Sgt. Lester McMinis Of Hoke County Ha What It Takes Ed. Note: In a recent news story by Vern Haugland, A. P. writer, a Hoke County lad, Lester McMinis, was praised highly for his daring as sistance to members of his B-24 crew. Sgt. McMinis is a native of Hoke County and the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McMinis of Blue Springs town ship. He is accredited in the story to Red Springs, as that section of Hoke county is served by a rural mail route from Red Springs. Somewhere in New Guinea, Aug. 27 Things happened fast after a Li berator bomber, lost in a storm, start ed running out of fuel. Nobody wanted to be first to bail out. Finally, Second Lt. Eugene Fil ip, the bombardier, of Chicago, led off. The ripcord failed to open his 'chute So he pulled the shroud out by hand until his parachute finally billowed out. 'Chute Too Small. The assistant engineer. Staff Sgt. Louis Linkiewiez, Johnson City, N. Y., jumped in a parachute that was too small for him so he had it buck led only around his chest; the leg straps wouldn't reach. But he made it on his 24th birthday The tail gunner, Staff Sgt. George Bailey of Rochester, N. Y with frost bitten feet. His parachute failed to open at first but he finally got it working at 200 feet and fell into a tree 100 feet high. Full of Holes. Others tried to coax the radio op erator, Tech. Sgt. Charles Zipay (ad dress not given) to jump. He refused Later it was discovered that his par achute was riddled with holes. The engineer. Tech. Sgt. Lester McMinis of Red Springs, N. C, crank ed open the bomb bay doors and held them open while the jumps were made. He waited so long the plane was. too low for him to try it. Air Strip Appears. Just as the plain was losing alti tude badly with four men still aboard, the Liberator came out of the clouds directly over an Allied forward air strip and landed safely. The four men, fearing they were at a Japan ese field, jumped out with guns load ed. Then they saw Americans run ning toward them. The four were Second Lt. Paul La mos, Chicago, the pilot; Second Lt. Kenneth Bennett, Long Beach, Calif, the co-pilot, McMinis and Zipay. Filip said he had to make two at tempts before getting up the courage to jump. He expressed great admi ration for McMinis for standing on the slippery catwalk, sticking one foot out the bomb bay door to hold It open. "McMinis moved around without a parachute since it was too crowded, for him to do this work with it on." Filip said. "He had more guts than I ever saw before." 0 .Organized troop movements by rail require the constant service of over half the Pullmans and one-fourth of all the day coaches in the Unit ed States. O When vanadium, the mineral that toughens steel, was first discovered in 1801, it was called erythronium. s E P T E M B E R 16 th fit-- """Wi Hoke Citizens Purchase $59,450 In War Bonds During First Six and Half Days 28 Per Cent Of Third War Loan Quota During the first six and a half days of the Third War Loan Drive which began last Thursday morning, Hoke County buyers purchased a total of $59,450 worth of bonds, according to J. Lawrence McNeill, county drive chairman. This amount is all series issued was slightly over 28 per cent of the county's quota of $209,000. The amount of pledges for purchas es was rising higher each day, accord ing to Mr. McNeill, as reports were reaching his office from township committee chairmen and their com mittees have really buckled down to the job of seeing and getting pledges from every person in the county. A number of committee reports from Raefrrd show that workers have al ready interviewed and pledged near ly every person in their district, it was stated. Persons not knowing who is can vassing their community may, find the complete list of War Drive work ers on page eight of this issue of the News-Journal. The list Is reprinted this week for your convenience. You are urged to make your pledge now, jumped"""or be ready when the worker comes to your home to save as much time and wear n his or her means of travel as possible. O North Carolina Is Third In War Drive Washington, Sept. 14 With $2, 369,000,000 already in the till, treas ury officials expressed confidence to day that the full $15,000,000,000 quo ta for the third War Loan will be met No breakdown was available for the latest total, but officials said an ana lysis of $1,802,000,000 in sales during the first three days indicated that $1, 474,000,000 of that amount represent ed subscriptions by corporations, as sociations and other large investors. Sales of individuals accounted for only $28,000,000. .' On the basis of these three-day to tals, Delaware led the nation on a percentage basis. Its $14,000,000 in sales represented 28 per cent of its quota. New York with $1,120,000,000 or 24 per cent was second and North Carolina, accounting for 16 per cent of its quota with $24,000,000 in sales, was third. The treasury did not provide totals for other states. O Draft Board To Be Closed In Afternoons The office of the Hoke Board of the Selective Service System will be closed to the public each afternoon, beginning today until October first, it was announced yesterday, by Miss Peggy McFadyen, clerk. Miss McFadyen explained that they were taking their annual inventory during the next two weeks and that all persons having business with the board should attend to it during the mornings. IF Speeding . ivers Furnish Bfe Of Court Case X Speeding cases in r- ty court Tuesday furnished theSiwst of the defendants to appear before Judge Henry McDiarmid. Those exceeding the 35 mile-an-hour limit, ,who were caught by Patrolman J. Barnes, in cluded: W. G. W. Clodfelter, white, of Troy; Bert Wade, negro, of Fayette ville; James Lynch, negro, of Red Springs route 2; Sink McFadyen and Roscoe Daniel McMillan, negroes, of Raeford; and Joseph Conly, white, of Wilson. A preliminary hearing was waived by George Maynor, negro of Puppy Creek, who is held on charges of car nal knowledge brought by a 12 year old negro girl, Mildred Stuart, also of the same community. Trial of the case will probably be held in the No vember term of Superior court. The indictment for assault with deadly weapon against Connie Rogers, negro, was nol pressed when the pros ecuting witness, Odell Watson, failed to appear. Alex Brigman, white, paid cost af ter pleading guilty to simple assault on Lillie Baxley. Alpha Mae Price, white woman of North Wilkesboro, was found guilty of driving drunk. Her license was suspended and she was fined $50 and costs. Sammie Chambers, Ashley Heights negro, al so paid $50 and costs for driving drunk. James McKinnon, negro, was order ed by the court to pay the costs and the doctor's bill of Buddie Wallace for injuries inflicted by McKinnon in a fight last week. McKinnon was put on good behavior by the court for a pe riod of a year. ' O Farm Boys In Class 2-CLose Deferment If Enter School A ruling of General J. Van B. Metts, state director of the Selective Service System, has clarified the sta tus of farm boys now in Class II C who wish to enter school this fall. General Meets has ruled that as long as deferments are granted for the boys to work on farms, the boys will have to work on the farms. If they enter school, trey will lose their Class II C ratings and be subject for call into service. , The ruling states: High school stu dents spending from 7 to eight hours Der dav in school could hardly be found '-to be necessarily and regular ly engaged in an agricultural occu pation." Where registrants do return to school their action should be prima facie evidence that they are not enti tled to II C classification. s E P T E M B E R 16 th Chaplin Pickard In Service At Shiloh And Bethel Sunday Chaplin George M. Pickard, of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., will preach at Bethel Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. On Sunday evening, Chaplin Pick ard will conduct services at Shiloh. Chaplin Pickard is here on a short leave from his station in order to bring Mrs. Pickard and George, Jr., to Charlotte. Before entering the ser vice about eight months ago he was the popular pastor of the Bethel and Shiloh churches and it is expected that large congregations will be pres ent for the two services. O Dr. R.D. McMillan To Be Speaker At Kiwanis Tonight The view of the Medical Society of North Carolina toward certain pend ing Federal Legislation to control practising physicians, hospitals and the people who require their services will be explained to Raeford Kiwan ians in an address by Dr. Roscoe j Drake McMillan to the Kiwanis club- tonight. Dr. McMillan, physician of Red Springs, will be the guest of Dr. R. A. Matheson, program chairman, and the club. Dr. McMillan is the secretary and treasurer of the state Medical Society and one of the South's out standing "country" physicians. On our editorial page today we reprint an editorial from yesterday's Char lotte Observer in which Editor Julian Miller deals with this subject as dis cussed in phamphlet form by Dr. Mc Millan. Committee For Economic Development On last Thursday's program D. B. Gillis, chairman, provided the club with a large dose of "thought mater ial" when he had Chairman Tom Cam eron of the Hoke Committee For Eco nomic Develpment explain the aims of this committee. Mr. Cameron explained that units of this nation-wide group were be ing organized in every county throu ghout the nation. It has as its pur pose a systematic planning of postwar operation of industry and commerce which will provide for the re-employ' ment, education and rehabilitation of men and women who will be jobless when the war is over, either through discharge from the armed services or from the closing of defense plants. Mr. Cameron pointed out that these folks were working and fighting for freedom, and that freedom was made up, in part, by a freedom from being fed and clothed by made government work, such as the WPA. It is the plan of industry and commerce, he said, to forestall any revival of such government works by providing an efficient service, available to all, which will place them in jobs for which they are fitted and in which they will be self-sustaining and rea sonably happy. . O G. W. Parks Celebrates 79th Birthday G. W. Parks of Red Springs. Rt. 3 celebrated ris 79th birthday Sunday, Sept. 12th with a big picnic dinner given by his children. He received many useful gifts. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Rex Currie and children, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McNeill and children all of Red Springs, Rt. 1., Mr. and Mrs. Ros coe Currie of Raeford, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Parks of Cherry Point; Arthur Parks of Norfolk, Va., Mr. and Mrs. George Parks and children, and Ro bert Currie of Baltimore, Md., and Alton Parks of the home. O Star McMillan, Jr. left Monday for Campbell College, Buies Creek, where will resume his studies. y. tj County Schools To Open Sept. 27th With Full Schedule Opening with a full day of class work already planned, the white schools of Hoke County will open with regular class schedules in effect on Monday September 27th, it was an nounced yesterday by K. A. McDon ad, superintendent of schoos. Mr. McDonald explained that all former high school pupils had regis tered for this term at the close of the 1942-43 session, and only those stu dents who have moved into the coun ty since last term will be required to register. These students may com plete their registration on Saturday, September 25th, by reporting to the office of Principal V. R. White at the high school building. The grammar schools will also have full-day schedules on opening day, it was pointed out, and the lunch rooms will be open for services the opening date. The county schools will open at 8 A. M. and the schools in Raeford will open at 8:30. Buses will leave Rae ford at 2 P. M. and the country schools will close at 2:30. Mr. Mc Donald explained that as the days grow shorter the opening hour will be moved back as was done last year. These hours were discussed at a meet ing of principals last Friday and this arrangement was approved as the most satisfactory in all communities. Teachers' Meeting. A county-wide teachers' meeting has been called for Friday evening, September 24th, at 8 o'clock. Patrons of the several schools are invited to attend. Negro Schools. Mr. McDonald explained that An nie w. i'ridgen, supervisor of Negro Schools of Hoke County, had been here for some days now making an effort to get the opening date for Ne gro schools moved forward. This date has been tentatively set for October 25th. However, Supervisor Pridgen is working throughout the county pro moting the earnier picking of the cot ton crop and is meeting with consid erable success. It is hoped that this date may be moved forward at least one week. No definite date will be set before the middle of October, it was added. List Teacrers White Schools. Teachers for the white schools of the county are: Antioch W. D. B. Coon, and Mrs. Bertha C. Hardisty. Ashmont R. A. Smoak, Mrs. Tom McLauch lin, Mrs. Marjory Townsend, and Mrs. R. A. Smoak. Hoke High School. Miss Margaret Adcock, English Art; Miss Buena Baldwin, Band-public school music; Miss Annie Lee Cress, typing; J. W. Dowd, agricul ture; Miss Blanche Fisher, math-science; Miss Lucy Glc-nn Gill, English; Mrs. A. D. Gore, English-Latin-Library; Mrs. Mary Helton, lunchroom; Mrs. N. A. McDonald, math-history; Mrs. M. L. McKeithan, history-science; Mrs. J. C. McLean, English French; Miss Mary F. Peele, home economics: Mrs. V. R. White, history math; and V. R. White, principal-science. Miss Esther Parker, teacrer. Mildousln T. C. Jones, Mrs. Nora McDavid, Mrs. W. M. Morgan. Raeford Grammar School, Mrs. Leone Currie Walters, Miss Aris Shankle, Miss Louise Fletcher, Miss Mary McPhaul, Miss Anne Buie, Miss Thclma Wilson, Miss Alma Fer ?uon, Miss Margaret McKenzie and Miss Lillian Johnson. Rockfish. Mrs. Z. G. Ray, Mrs. Malcolm Gil lis, Miss Esdale Currie. O ' W. W. Roberts Hurt In Head-On Wreck W. W. Roberts, register of deeds of Hoke county, was pretty badly shak en up when his car and that of Sam Myles met in a head-on collision near Dundarrach Saturday evening. Mr. Roberts received bruises about tre knees and chest and has been in bed since the accident. It is reported that neither car was going very fast and that neither Myles nor Jay McKenzie, who was said to be riding with him, were in jured. O Chandler Roberts Has Leg Injured Chandler Roberts, Norfolk and Sou thern railway executive, was painful ly injured last week, when a small bone was broken in his leg by a fall ing cable. Mr. Roberts is reported to be back on the job now, though he has to get about on crutches. (Continued on Page Eight)
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