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N IT HOKE COUNTY'S BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM e ews-jourma HOKE COUNTrS ONLY NEWSPAPER The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XXXVIH NO. 19 RAEFORD, N. C, THURSDAY, OCT. 14, 1943 $2.00 PER YEAR Tib news or OUR fjjSEP MCNwWOMCN IN UNIFORM Sgt. Alfred Cole of Camp Davis was at hone for the week end and and had a friend, Sgt. Brooks with him. O Lt. Col. Eli Wishart has been trans ferred from Camp Davis to Camp Stewart, Ga. Mrs. Wishart, formerly Hallie Freeman, and little son had just taken residence in Lumberton, when Col. Wishart was transferred. O Corp. John Thomas Walters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alf Walters is at home from Curacao on furlough. O ' Sgt. William Dickson of Camp "Wheeler, Ga., spent Tuesday and Wed nesday with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gat lin, Jr. O Chief Petty Officer and Mrs. H. C. Bethea and children of Dillon, S. C, visited Mrs. Bethea's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Blue, on Sunday. CPO Bethea exp-cts to leave so n for duty at the Naval base in Panama. M. L. Wood, Jr., Gets Army Promotion M. L. Wood, Jr., whose parents live at Rockfish, has notified them that he has recently been promoted to cor poral. Corp. Wood is now staticned at Los Angeles having been transferr ed then- from Atlanta this month. Hardy B. Willis Is Discharged Hardy B. Willis, who arrived home last week from Camp Cook, Cal., has received a medical discharge from the Army due to an injured foot. -O- Two Trinidad Boys Now Benedicts Grady Albert Burns, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Burns, and Hubert Thomas, son of Mrs. Maggie Thames, arrived home a few days ago to spend fur loughs from service in the West In dies. Last Monday Pvts. Burns and Thames, accompanied by Misses Lu cille Martin and Ola Carlyle, took a short trip to Bennettsville, South Carolina, where they participated in a double wedding ceremony. On Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Burns entertained for the two couples. About fifty guests enjoyed their hcs pitality. O Carolinas' Governors Pick Cotton For New Over-Axis Flags Columbia, S. C, Oct. 11 Governor Olin D. Johnson declared today that . he will make two American flag: "one to fly over Tokyo and the other to fly over Berlin" from the cotton he and Governor Broughton of North Carolina will pluck here in a cotton picking duel. The date for the duel has not been set, but it is expected to be held here when Governor Broughton visits his son, a Navy aviation student at the University of South Carolina, some time next week. South Carolina's Governor will take the cotton, put it through the gin, and then tike it to Spartanburg where Walter S. Montgomery, owner of the Beaumont Mills. has offered to let the Governor use his spining room and looms to turn out cloth for the two flags. One of the flag will be presented to General Douglas MacArthur to car ry to Tokyo, and the other will be given to General George Marshall to be raised over Berlin when Allied ar mies reach that capital. Fred P. Johnson Now Federal Cotton Inspector Fred P. Johnson, formerly of Rae ford, is now in Mississippi, the center of a Federal farm district for which he has been named inspector of cotton ginneries. Mr. Johnson was until taking this new position the executive secretary of the N. C. Cotton Ginners associa tion. In his new work he will super vise for the U. S. Department of Ag riculture the ginning work of a num ber of states in the Cotton Belt. Mrs. F. F. McPhaul Breaks Both Arms Mrs. F. F. McPhaul of the Antioch community was painfully injured here Monday when she fell to the sidewalk. In trying to break the fall she sustained fractures in the wrists of both arms. Report 230,000 Tar Heels Serving In Armed Forces Daleigh, Oct. 8. Gen. J. Van B. Metts, state selective service officer, said today that approximately 230,000 North Carolinians are now serving in some branch of the armed forces. Metts said the total included 4,200 members of the state units of the Na tional guard, but did not include mem bers of Auxiliary corps of the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Of the total Metts said that about 65 per cent were inducted under pro visions of the selective service. The figure also includes youths under draft age who have volunteered for navy service. Meanwhile, General Metts said that the state's man-power pool is at its lovest ebb and that some fathers are being called for induction in October, draft quotas. Sheriff's Men Get 2 100 Gal. Stills Two stills operating on a branch rurr.ing out of Lumbee River swamp in Blue Springs Township were raid ed this week by sheriff's deputies J C. Wright and W. R. Sanders and a man was caught at each of them. Albert Purcell, negro, and Paisley McGirt, indian, both former Robeson county residents, were the men caught In county court Tuesday Purcell was given a 30 day sentence which was suspended upon payment of $25 and costs. McGirt was sentenced to roads for six months. His sentence was suspended on payment of $50 and costs. Both men were put on good behavior for two years. Each man also paid court costs in other cases for possession of non-tax paid liquor Other cases heard by Judge Mc- Diarmid were: Calvin Utley, negro, paid costs on assault charges growing out of a family argument. Elmer McVicker, white, paid costs in an assault case, and was fined $10 and costs and put on good behavior for two years in a case wherein his mot her-in-law, Mrs. Betty Jacobs, char ged assault with a deadly weapon. Gilbert McRae, negro, Jack Causey, white, and Wilma Causey were each charged with violations of the pro hibition laws. The case against Wil ma Causey was nol prossed, McRae and Jack Causey each paid the court costs. Wilson Locklear and Joe Locklear, Indians, paid costs for drunkeness. Willie Arnold, negro, paid costs and $10 fine for drunkeness. J. E. Lee and James Robert Holmes each paid costs for speeding. In two cases against Henry Chambers, Aber deen negro, he was taxed with the costs on an improper license charge, and fined $50 and costs for driving drunk. Clarence Stubbs of Red Springs also paid costs and $50 fine for driving while drunk. Willie and Sammie Chambers each paid $10 and costs for violations of the road laws. Group Whites Report To Ft. Bragg Today The following men will report at Ft. Bragg today for final examination and induction from the Hoke County draft board: Earl William Hollar, Douglas Bryan Nixon, Malcolm Neill Blue, Cole L. Williams, Mac Lloyd Crowley, David H. Conner Jesse Ford, Clyde W. Teal, Daniel Roscoe Currie, Hedrick Calle- han. John Willie Locklear, Otis Stone Moore, Paul Spencer Baxley, Jr., Sam uel W. Sawyer, Wilbert Oxendine, Thomas Franklin Davis, Jr., Cecil Lee Teal, James Robert West, Daniel Cur tis Cox, Jr., (Transfer), William The mas McQuage (Transfer). Methodist Members To Visit New-Comers To Raeford The Raeford Methodist Church is to observe Visitation Evang?Iism Week the week of Oct. 17-23. During the week the members of the Church are to visit all the new-comers and Army people of Raeford and invite them to the services of the church. Beginning Wednesday night, October 20, Rev. E. B. Fisher, of Lumberton, will preach each evening at 8:00 o'clock at the church. Following the Wednes day night service. Dr. H. C. Smith, district superintendent, will conduct the business of the last quarterly meeting. The public is cordially in vited to these services. O The first spectacular overhaul of the United States Navy was in 1883 when Congress authorized the famous "A, B, C, D, Fleet", the cruisers USS At lanta, Boston, Chicago and Dolphin. 1 4 -Am-.. ' . s. i - It W EDWARD WEEKS Flora Macdonald College, Red Springs, North Carolina, October 11. The 1943-44 concert and lecture se ries at Flora Macdonald College will be opened Friday evening, October 15th, at 8:15, with a lecture by Ed ward Weeks, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Weeks, who spent the past sum mer in England, will devote a part of his talk to conditions in Great Britain as seen from the viewpoint of a liter ary man. His scheduled subject will be "British Authors and American Aviators". Other numbers on the winter's se ries are as follows: December 6, Recital by Richard Bonelli, Baritone. January 17, Recital by Carl Wein- rich, Organist. February 14, Lecture by Louis Fjs cher, Foreign Correspondent. April 13, Recital by Abram Cha sins, American Pianist. Graeber Discusses Pulpwood-Lumber Crisis At Kiwanis R. W. Graeber, forestry specialist of State College, told members of the Raeford Kiwanis club that the short age of pulpwood and saw timber was one of the critical problems of the War Production Board at the present time, and urged that they bring this acute need to the attention of all for est owners in the country. Speaking here last Thursday even ing Mr. Graeber stated that produc tion of forest products was running about 30 per cent behind the demands of our war industries, and that at the present rate the stock on timber yards would soon be consumed, and that already paper mills were having to shut down for varying length periods because of the low supply of pulp wood sticks. There are more than 12,000 uses for wood and wood products in the Army and Navy. In 1942 38 billion board feet were used for war purpose. We only cut 32 billion and 6 billion feet were taken from storage yards, ex plained Mr. Graeber. Labor, he stated, was one of the great essentials in the wood produc tion problem. The War Production Board is asking that every farmer give three days, at least, to cutting pulp wood alone, to alleviate the cri tical shortage, and to give as many more as possible. The Selective Service system has been instructed to give essential in dustry classification to all pulpwood and timber workers, and a request has been filed with the draft officials to allow farmer-workers who are de ferred for farming to get into the woods and cut timber and pulpwood where the crops do not demand all of their time. Mr. Graeber was presented by A. S. Knowles, program chairman. O Fire Call Phones Called To Notice In case of fire, Harry Green, chief of the Raeford volunteer fire depart ment, asks that in phoning in the call citizens call either 2291 which is the one listed in the telephone directory and if that one doesn't answer, call 2361, which is the police phone. Mr. Green explained that from 7 to 8 A. M. there was no one on duty, and from 12 to 1 P. M. there was no one at the City Hall regularly. At other times thrre is someone there to an swer the fire department phone. Plans are under way for mainten ance of call service at the fire station at all times, but at present this is not the case. He stated that there were alarm boxes at both the Bank of Raeford and at Graham's service sta tion which could be easily reached from either of the downtown police telephones or from the bank or the service station and that police in an swering the calls would sound the siren immediately, and also report to City Hall to give the department members directions concerning the lo cation of the fire. 4x LA Plot-Owners Asked Care For Lots In Raeford Cemetery In an open letter addressed to all plot-owners having lots in the Rae ford Cemetery, Mayor N. L. McFady- ed asks through the News-Journal that the owners take care of cleaning their lots this fall. Due to scarcity of labor, Mayor Mc Fadyen explains why the weeds and grass have been allowed to grow up there. The letter reads as follows: A few years ago a committee was formed to make arrangements for the care of the cemetery. That committee succeeded in building a house for a care-taker but was not able to raise funds for his pay. Since that time the Police department has employed ex tra local labor to cut the weeds and grasses two or three times per year. At this time the department is una ble to find labor to do this work, and our cemetery is in need of attention. I am asking that the plot-owners clean off their lots. There are a few tools at the Town Hall which may be borrowed for this work. N. L. McFadyen, Mayor of Raeford. Dr. J. S. Miller State Chairman Raleigh, Oct. 12 Dr. Julian S. Mil ler, editor of the Charlotte Observer, was chosen as the state chairman of the 1943 Christmas Seal Sale Cam paign by the executive committee of this organization. This is the second year that North Carolina has had a state chairman. Mrs. J. Melville Broughton, serving last year, was the first state chairman. Monday, November 22 is the open ing date of this campaign and it will last through Christmas Day. The sale of Christmas Seals for the support of local and state tuberculosis programs will not be included in the United War Fund Campaign. Eleven million dollars has been set for the national goal. North Carolina has set $150,000 as its part of the na tion's goal. Last year $9,000,000 was raised in the nation and $123,411 in this state. Ninety-five cents out of every dollar raised in this campaign is kept in the state for tuberculosis con trol. Five cents is given to the Na tional Tuberculosis Association for its services to the state and local organi zations. The N. C. Tuberculosis Association stesses the compelling power of health education in the control of tu berculosis. From the very beginning tuberculosis associations have fought the disease with education. The death rate has been drastically cut in the United States, 75 per cent since 1904, the year the national association was organized. O Returns Home D. J. Blue, a spry young man of 90 yeaTs, has returned to Raeford to make his home after residing near Chipley, Georgia, for the past 19 years. He says he will live here the next forty years and then decide whether there's a better place. At present he can't think of one he'd like to try. His thousand and one relatives here and his host of friends are wel coming him on his return. 1 ? 1 . f - V S' '.it-it .. '! V w . r i f . i CIVILIAN DEFENSE HELPS WAC CAMPAIGN An intensive campaign to recruit North Carolinians for the Women's Army Corps, with the official sanctionand arsis tance of the State, was map ped at a conference of the group pictured here, held in Raleigh last week. From left: Governor J. M. Broughton: Lt. I.ucy Page, WAC liasion offi cer; Mrs. Writer G Craven, State director of the Service Corps for the Office of Civilian Defense; and R. L. McMillan, director if the North Caro lina OCD. At the request of General G wpe C. Marshall. U. S. Army chief of staff, Governor Broughton designated the State OCD to cooperate in the WAC drive through its local organizations in the 100 counties. The cam paign will end Dec. 7. H. C. McLauchlin Is President-Elect Raeford Kiwanis H. Currie McLauchlin, secretary of the Raeford Kiwanis Club for eight years, was named president-elect for 1944 by a unanimous vote at the meeting held last Thursday. Dr. Marcus R. Smith was named vice president. At a recent meeting Mr. McLauch lin and Dr. Smith were nominated as candidates for the presidency by the nominating cemvsittee. of Mr. Mc Lauchlin in i years of servj". imiun ui ma iiidiij 1 the office of secre e club for the new i Directors vear will beX i Cameron, W. J. Coats, Don H. L. Gatlin, Jr., Harry Holh ' K. A. McDonald, Tommie Up 'ch and Bob White. J tto NatiojfWar Fund Campaigns For $125,000,000 More than a million and a half Americans will voluntarily step to their posts next week to campaign for the first united appeal to be made by the National War Fund and local com munity and war chests. From Octo ber 18 through November, these vol unteers will participate in more than 6,000 campaigns. President Roosevelt officially open ed the fall campaigns for these united campaigns in cooperation with the I National War Fund with a short talk ; to the nation on Tuesday evening, Oc- tober 5, over the country's combined i networks. ! The workers will campaign for '. $125,000,000 for the work of the Na I tional War Fund agencies, extending 1 the sympathy and practical helpful ness of Americans around the world i to fighters, merchant seamen, prison i ers of war and the victims of aggres sion in 14 Allied countries through the USO, United Seamen's Service, War Prisoners Aid, Belgian War Relief So- : ciety, Britism War Relief Society, j French Relief Fund, Friends of Lux- emberg, Greek War Relief Associa tion. Norwegian Relief, Polish War Relief, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Rus sian War Relief, United China Relief, United Czechoslovak Relief, United Yugoslav Relief Fund, Refugee Relief Trustees, and the U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children. An equal amount of money is to be raised for social services on the home front including child and family wel fare, health, hospitals, and recreation. The national campaign will be di rected by Prescott S. Bush, national campaign chairman, and Winthrop W. Aldrich, president of the National War Fund. Bethel Compromises On Chicken Due to OPA regulations the Bethel church congregation will serve only hot fried chicken and chicken salad dinners at their annual ingathering to be held on October 21st. The affair will be held at the Beth el Community House, where arrange ments are being made to care for an even larger crowd than has attended this popular event in recent years, according to Ryan McBryde. i ,J, : il r - -nil ' ' ' l I FBI-Man Davis Will Speak Tonight To Kiwanians-Parents FBI-man Chester S. Davis will speak to Raeford Kiwanians tonight at 8 o'clock at Kiwanis hall on the timely topic of juvenile delinquency. Guests of the club at the speaking will include members of the teaching staff of the various schools of the county, officials boards of the Raeford churches and members of the Kiwan ians' families. This meeting will be held in the old Kiwanis hall. The regular club supper will begin at 7 o'clock at the Raeford hotel din ing room and then the club will ad journ to the hall for the address of Mr. Davis. V. R. White has charge of the program. -O- Demonstration Club County Council Meeting Held The Hoke County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs held its regular fall meeting at the Courthouse on Fri day afternoon, Oct. 8. Mrs. Marshall Newton of the Way side Club and president of the County Council presided. Twenty eight of ficers of the various clubs in the coun ty and four visitors were present. Mrs. Newton, Miss Verna Stanton, district home agent, and Josephine Hall, Home demonstration agent, pre sented the plan of work for 1944 and explained the Mobilization campaign. Council members agreed to work with the State council's plan of trying to reach 90 per cent of the farm families in Hoke County. Miss Hall announc ed that one new club had been or ganized in the county and plans are being made for another to be organ ized in the near future. A map of the county, showing the territories reached by the 12 clubs, was shown. It was brought out that an increased enrollment would change the shape of the club territories as well as increase their size. The membership drive runs from October through December. The mot to for the drive is "Every Club Mem ber Bring a New Member". Council members are urging their local clubs to participate in the campaign in or der to reach not only the family who lives in the house by the side of the road but the family who lives down at the end of the road. High School News Biographies of more than 1850 wri ters who have, in a literary sense, flourished since 1900, are now avail able to high school pupils in the 1577 page biographical dictionary of mod ern world literature which has just been received at the Hoke County High School library. In addition to this set 80 new books have been added to the library since school began. National newspaper week was ob served last week at the high school. Under the direction of Mrs. McLean and Miss Adcock, an attractive exhib it was arranged in the front main hall. Since last week was Fire Prevention week, the high school pupils partici pated in several fire drills. These drills will be held periodically throughout the year. The Sauline Players were enthusi astically received by school pupils Friday when they appeared in Huck elberry Finn in the high school audi torium. After the program Mrs. Sau line visited the first year Latin class and made a few remarks concerning the advantages of studying Latin. She told the Latin class that they could select the play for presentation next year. Delinquent slips are being sent out at the end of this week to parents whose children are not doing satis factory work. These lips dn not moan that pupils are going to fail, but that they need to study more if they pass their work. O Dies At Moore County Hospital Albert Barnard. 55. of Southern Pines, died at Moore County hospital Sunday. October 3rd. after an illness of about two years. Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday, and burial was in the Raeford cemetery. Mr. Barnard was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ben Barnard who resid ed in Raeford for a number of years. He was married to the former Miss Magpie Monroe, of near Rorkfish, who survives him. Other survivors in clude three brothers: Douglas B. and Roy Barnard of Augusta. Ga., and Ben Barnard of Alexander, Ala. and a sister, Mrs. Alice Hall of Augusta, Ga. Mrs. W. J. McJuage of Raeford is a sister-in-law of the deceased.