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VOLUME XXXVIII NO. 32
RAEFORD, N. C, THURSDAY, JAN. 13th, 1944
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NEWS OF OUR
UV;; 7- IN UNIFORM
Marion J. Blake
Wounded In Action
Marion J. Blake, son of Adam
Bluko of the Upchurch Farms, has
been reported wounded in action ac
cording to a message received Jan
uary 8th from the War Department.
Marion volunteered about two years
ago and entered the Marine Corps,
and has been in service in the Pac
ific area for some months. The ex
tent of his wounds was not reported.
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PROMOTED
Belle Mead, New Jersey, Jan. 12
Promotion of Sandy L. McNeill, Jr., of
Raeiord, to the rank of Pfc. was an
nounced by Colonel R. Potter Camp
bell. Commanding Officer of the Belle
Me; .1 Army Service Forces Depot,
Bella Mead, N. J.
T.:e depot, located near the Port of
New York, receives war materials
from manufacturers throughout the
United States and rcconsigns the
goo. j to combat areas wherever the
Arrry is fighting
Major James G. Currie has notified
his m-ther that he has arrived safely
at a pent in Northern Ireland.
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C:ipt. T. B. Lester is expected to be
dismissed from an army hospital soon.
He fractured a leg bone about two
weeks ago while on a manuever at
Fort Bliss. His address now is 4113
Oxford St. El Paso, Texas.
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Miami Beach, Fla., Jan. 12 T-5
Harry W. Veasey, Raeford, N. C, age
29, recently returned from service
outside the continental United States,
now is being processed through the
Army Air Forces Redistribution Sta
tion No. 2 in Miami Beach, where his
next assignment will be recommend
ed. AAF personnel, including enlisted
men and officers alike, are assigned to
a Redistribution Station upon their
return to the United States, but do
lot report to the Station until com
pleting a furlough or leave of approx
imately three weeks.
T-5 Veasey served in Trinidad, To
bago, British West Indies. He is the
son of Mrs. J. A. Veasey of Raeford.
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Lt. William R. Folk of Warner Ro
bins Field, Ga., is spending a leave
at Wagram with his family. His mo
ther, Mrs. Dora C. Watson, is a con
valescent patient at Highsmiths hos
pital, Fayetteville. Lt. Folk was a
member of Battery B, 252nd C. A.
here and was transferred to the air
forces after that unit trained at Fort
Screven.
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Court Season Opens
With Victory Over
Red Springs High
Hoke County High Scores Vic
tory In First Basketball Game
Of Season
Hoke County High School trounced
Red Springs in a basketball double
header in Raeford Tuesday night.
Boys' score was 28-12. McNeill led
the scoring for Hoke with 8points, and
Mize pointed 6 for Red Springs.
Luke McNeill, Buoyer, Currie Camp
bell, and Upchurch were the starters
for Hoke. Warner replaced Buoyer.
Red Sprinff3 starting line up included
Currie, Weaver, H. Coleman, Mize,
and Townsend. Graham substituted
for Mize, and B. Coleman for Currie.
The girls score was 20-6. Dawson
starred for Hoke with 14 points and
Morgan tossed high with 3 for Fed
Springs. The starters for Hoke girls
were Klouse, Miller, Dawson, Mc
Millan, and Cox. Substitutes were
Wright, Moss, McNeill, and Davis.
Morgan, Graham, McManus, J. Mc
Gougan, and Faircloth started for
Red Springs. Red Springs subs were
Bell, Smith, Phillips, and Odom.
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Will Clean Tobacco
Seed In Little
River Friday
County Agent A. S. Knowles will be
in Little River township tomorrow for
the pi'rpose of cleaning tobacco seed
for fnrmrrs. The service is done with
out costs. Seed may be taken to the
agent's office for cleaning any day.
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TENNTES WITH A PAST
DENVER If you are unable to shoot
.he works with the new pennies made
at the Denver mint, consider that
they've been shot before. New one
cent copper pieces are being coined
from melted 50-caliber machine gun
cartridges from the ordnance proving
ground at Salt Lake City.
Ask Hoke County
Raise $229 In
Polio Campaign
State To Raise $89,348 According
To Dr. Ralph McDonald, State
Chairman.
Chapel Hill, Jan. 12. The state or
ganization for the celebration of the
President's birthday January 30 was
completed here with the announce
ment of county quotas and chairmen.
Dr. Ralph McDonald, chairman of
the state committee, said North Car
olina's goal for the 1944 infantile par
alysis campaign was $88,348. This Is
slightly less than the $89,336 raised
last year when the state almost dou
bled its assigned quota.
County quotas and chairmen in
clude: Bladen, $320, J. W. Cross; Colum
bus, $526, C. Ross Davis, Jr.; Cumber
land, $1,580, Wilbur Clark; Hoke,
S229, D. H. Hodgin; New Hanover,
$2,860', Rev. James B. McQuere; Robe
son, $1,480, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hu-
I tnff; Sampson, $680, J. Manley Jones;
Scotland, $312, E. M. Matthews and
! M. M. Fairley.
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A. A. McFadyen, Jr.
Transferred To
Chungking Embassy
Archie A. McFadyen, Jr., for the
past year assigned to the embassy of
Montevideo, Uraguaya, has been
transferred to the United States con
sular office at Chungking, China, and
promoted to the post of vice-consul at
this important post which is now the
capital of that nation.
Mr. McFadyen spent a day recently
with his father and step-mother at
Morganton while enroute to his new
post. His wife and children, who were
with him in South America, will make
their home in Harrisburg, Virginia.
Mr. McFadyen was raised in China,
his parents having been missionaries
there, and except for nine years here
and in South America he has spent his
entire life there. He is a graduate of
Darlington and Davidson College.
After graduation he entered the con
sular service in China and served
there five years before being trans
ferred to Uraguay.
Kiwanians Honor
Ladies At Annual
Installation
H. C. McLaurhlin Installed as
President; War Dnnd Given
Little Jennie Bcthune.
H. Currie McLauchlin, charter
member of the Raefcrd Kiwanis club
and for 12 years its secretary, was in
stalled as president of the civic group
at their annual ladies night program
held Thursday evening.
Dr. M. R. Smith vice president and
Jim Hutcheson, secretary, were also
installed during the evening.
Guests were introduced by A. K.
Currie and were welcomed by the
Rev. Harry K. Holland. The gracious
response was made by Mrs. C. D.
Thomas cf Sanatorium.
Retiring president Cecil Dew call
ed the meeting to order and the Rev.
W. L. Maness pronounced the invoca
tion. During the dinner Mrs. Marion
Lansford sang. Thomas Cameron pre
sented George Bethune, warrant of
ficer of the Naval engineers who was
recently presented the Lcfion of Me
rit award by Secretary Frank Knox,
He spoke briefly about experiences
during the landing In Sicily. Mr.
Bethune also gave an interesting de
scription of some of the manners of
living on the island and told of the
beauty of the countryside.
Following his talk. Mr. Dew, on
behalf of the club presented to Mr.
Bethune and his wife a war bond
for their six-month old daughter.
Jennie Blue Bethune.
The award of the past president's
pin was made to Mr. Dew by Dr.
Smith and Mr. Dew president's pin
was made to Mr. McLauhhlin fol
lowing a brief review of the clubs
activities during the year. He stated
that ten per cent of the present mem
bership of the club had been admitt
ed within the past year, and that
local activities growing out of the
year had been participated in by the
Kiwanians without exception.
Throughout the evening fun was
interspered in the program by Tom
mie Upchurch, Tom Cameron and A.
K. Currie, program committee for the
evening.
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A thoughtless remark can set the
spark let's keep the enemy In the
dark!
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Enemy ears are ever near
If we don't talk they can't heart
Hoke Quota Fourth War
Loan $175,000: Workers:
Meet Friday 7:30 P. M)
Community And Township Bond Salesmen To
Hear Plans For
Leaders from every community in the county are expected to
gather at the courthouse in Raeford Friday evening for a pre-cam-paign
mass meeting when plans for the Fourth War Loan drive will
be outlined by County Chairman, John A. McGoogan.
The meeting will be held promptly at 7:30, according to Mr. Mc
Googan, and will last about one hour. Materials for the drive and
assignments of territory will be made at the meeting. Mr. McGoo
gan states that details will have been completed before the meeting
and township and community quotas, based on previous sales, will
be given out.
has been set at $175,000, which
amount is $34,000 less than the quo
ta of the Third War Loan.
In a letter to prospective buyers
Chairman McGoogan has asked that
all Hoke county citizens purchase their
bonds at one of the sales points with
in the county. During previous cam
paigns a number of citizens of the
county have made their purchases in
adjoining counties and these purcha
ses have gone to help those counties
reach their quotas.
Issuing agencies within the county
are: The Bank of Raeford, Raeford
Building and Loan Association, the
Sanatorium Post Office, and the Rae
ford Post Office. Applications for the
bonds may be secured from any of the
campaign workers and for people not
with in easy reach of Raeford, your
community workers will be glad to
assist you in getting the bonds issued.
Schools To Have Drive
A special drive will be put on with
in the schools to get schcol children
to fill out their War Savings stamp
books. According to County Superin
tendent K. A. MacDonald, the Treas
ury Department estimates there are
more than one hundred million stamp
books which have not been completed.
"There must be several hundred un
completed books in Hoke county. And
as February 15th has been designated
as ocnooi umiaren Bona week, we
hope to have a contest between the
several schools in the county to see
which school can bring in the most
books completely filled out and ready
for the purchase of bonds. This con
test will probably run the last two
weeks of the campaign and end on
February 15th. Details will be pre
sented in each school."
Clubs To Help
An integral part of the campaign
will be that part played by the vari
ous women's clubs of the county. This
work is under the direction of Mrs.
W. L. Poole and Miss Josephine Hall.
There will be women's committees for
each-community and for each zone of
Raeford membership of which will be
announced at the meeting Friday
evening.
Everyone interested in the drive, es
pecially workers who have aided In
canvassing communities in previous
drives, is urged to be present at the
meeting Friday evening.
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$8,700 Given P. J. C.
Since January 1
$8,700 was given to Presbyterian
Junior College during the first five
days of the new year. The mail on
January 1 brought in several checks
totaling $1200. On January 3 a gift
of $2500 was received from Mr. W. H.
Belk, of C'hailotte. On January 5 a
gift of $50C0 was received to estab
lish a scholarship fund. This donation
was from two brothers. The an
nouncement of the two donors is with
held, pending arrangements for the
scholarship fund. Presbyterian Junior
College is making efforts to build up
its endowment to meet the standards
of the highest accrediting agency.
Classes were resumed on January 4
after the holidays. Mid-year exami
nations will begin on January 15.
The second semester commenced Jan
uary 25. New students are now cn
royying for second semester.
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Texas Senator O'Daniel
Asks Administration
Defeat
Washinrton, Jan. 10 Senator
O'Daniel, Democrat of Texas, called
today for the defeat of President
Roosevelt and his followers in Con
gress "as the only hope of restoring
constitutional government in this
country." Asserting he is not a can
didate for the presidency himself, the
Texan told rcporteri the next election
should see "a thorough housecleaning
in Congress, in the departments, and
at the White House."
County - Wide Campaign
Holland Elected
Moderator April
Presbytery Meet
K. A. Mardonald and the Rev.
II. K. Holland Named Com
missioners To General Assem
bly. The Rev. Harry K. Holland, pastor
of the Raeford Presbyterian Church,
was named moderator of the April
meeting ot Fayetteville Presbytery
at a meeting held at West End on
Tuesday.
Mr. Holland and K. A. McDonald,
Hoke county superintendent of schools
and an elder of the Raeford church,
were named as commissioners from
the Presbytery to the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian church
to be held at Montreat in May. Other
commissioner elected were: the Rev
erends W. L. Foley, of Lillington, F.
L. Goodman of Laurel Hill, and T. A.
Guyton of Parkton; and the following
elders: H. C. Cousar of Maxton, H. C.
Cameron of Olivia and Dan Stewart
of Smyrna church.
Alternates for the elders are: C. C.
Underwood, Eagle Springs; Alexander
McNeill, Bluff Church, C. A. Pre
vost, Carthage and Carl Alford, Ash
pole church.
Alternates for the pastors are: Dr.
C. H. Storey of Aberdeen and the
Reverends L. L. Barr of Fairmont,
G. F. Kirkpatrick of Maxton, and
Chaplain Eugene Alexander, now
stationed in Alabama.
The meeting Tuesday had been
scheduled to be held at the Raeford
church but due to a recent fire which
damaged the auditorium of the plant
it was transferred to West End. The
April meeting will be held at the
Smjirna hurch near Maxton.
A principal report made Tuesday
was an impressive talk made by Dr.
C. G. Vardell, president-emeritus of
Flora Macdcnald College speaking
in behalf of Edwin Morgan, chair
man of the board of trustees of the
institution. Dr. Vardell reported much
progress being made on the retir -ment
of the college debt, stating that
this had now been reduced to less
than $40,000 and great strides were
being made toward the upbuilding of
the endownment funds of the school.
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Hoke High News
Assembly Procram Honors
Rationing Board
On Wednesday morning, January
5, a special assembly program was
held at the Hoke County Hif?h School
in celebration of the War Price and
Rationing Eoards. The devotional
service was conducted by Margaret
McMillan. This was followed by the
rendition of "Dusolina" and "Go
Down Moses" by the high school glee
club under the direction of Miss
Buena Baldwin. Mary Grey Helton
and Elsie Upchurch played popular
selections On the piano.
V.R. White, principal of the school
gave a brief address recognizing and
honoring the unselfish and patriotic
work of all the men and women
throughout our nation who have giv
en so willingly of their time and ef
fort to administer locally the wartime
price control and rationing programs.
Special honor and appreciation was
paid to the local rationing board com
posed of the folliwing members:
Ryan MeB-yde, chairman; F. B.
Sexton; J. B. Thomas; A. K. Stevens;
End K. A. McDonald, publicity chair
man. The Fuel Oil Panel of the loc
al group is composed of W. D. Brown,
chairman; Tom McLauchlin; and M.
D. Yates; and the members of the
Price Panel are I. Mann, chairman;
W. L. Alexander, D. H. Yarborough,
and Marion Gatlin.
(Continued on page eight)
Hold Funeral For
Neill P.Conoly
At Antioch Church
Funeral services for Neill Patrick
loly, 71, were conducted from the
ioch Presbyterian Church yester
;ifternoon by the Rev. H. K. Hol
O pastor of the Raeford church.
was in the church cemetery.
s VUliu,jr uicu n, "win.
hV j.hter, Mrs. C. M. McMillan of
tht ?''4inon community, early Tues
day V ;i ling. He was a member of
one ke county's oldest families
and L.V,n of the late John Conoly
and Kathei ine Livingston Conoly of
Antioch. A farmer, he was also con
nected with the Hoke Oil and Ferti
lizer company for many years.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs.
McMillan, Mrs. C. M. Baker, Mrs. W.
T. McGuage of Raeford, and Mrs.
J. A. Jones of Lumber Bridge; and
four sons, R. D. of Raeford, N. A.,
J. E. and C. C. Conoly of the Shannon
community,
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County School News
By K. A. McDonald.
Munay Whittaker, of Raleigh, Dis
trict, Supervisor of School Buses, was
here on last Thursday and Friday.
B. E. Beasley, of Smithfleld, School
Bus Examiner, for the Highway Safe
ty Division, was he'e Monday and
certified the following prospective
drivers: Clifford Johnson McNeill,
Warren G. Childress, David Brown
Harris, James Robert Baxter, Ralph
Leonard Ellis, Mrs. L. A. Rivenbark,
and the following colored drivers: I
Edward McRae, Charles Junior Clark,
and Luther Ray.
Just as plans were being made fcr
the second year of "The Schools at
War Campaign" certificates from the
Treasury Department signed by Hen
ry Morgenthau, Jr. came, showing
that the following schools had sold to
and through, their pupils bonds and
stamps enough to buy the items of
war equipment following the name of
the school Antioch, 1-8 inch Armor
piercing shell; Ashemont, 1 Junior
Triple-threat, 1 Famous Jeep, 2 8
Armor-piercing shells; Hoke High, 1
Famous Jeep, 1 Life Float-Balsa
wood, 60 persons; Mildouson, 1 30 Cal.
Semi-Automatic Rifle; Raeford Grad
ed, 1 Junior Triple-Threat, 1 45 Au
tomatic Pistol; Rockfish, 1 Motorcycle,
1 45 Automatic Pistol; Bowmore, 1
Aircraft Cannon, 1 100 lb bomb;
Burlington, 1 Rifle; eFreedom, 2-8
armor-piercing shells;White Oak - 1 8
inch armor-piercing shell; Calvin
Martin - 1 bayonet; Friendship - 1
junior triple threat and 1 8-inch armor-piercing
shell; Cedar Grove - 3
bayonets; New Hope - 1 bayonet;
Peachmont - 3 bayonets; Millside -1
100 lb. bomb; Upchurch - 1 navy
surgical bed; Laurel Hill - 3 bayonets;
Edinburgh - 1 winter flying jacket;
Timberland - 1 45 cal. pistol; Shady
Grove - 1 oxygen face mask.
We think this is a good record, but
we hope to do a great deal better in
the new campaign, and that every
school will be able to win one of
these certificates.
The eye clinic for school children
sponsored will be held at Hoke High
and Upchurch High on January 17-19.
All parents wishing their children to
take advantage of this clinic please
see the principal of their school at
once.
Mrs. Tom McLauchlin has returned
to her school, her father's condition
having improved some.
Schools
the snow.
operated Monday despite
Attendance was fair.
There will be a county-wide meet
ing of the Negro principals at th Up
church School Friday afternoon at
5 o'clock.
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Republicans To
Meet In Chicago
CHICAGO, Jan. 11 The Re
publicans decided today to nomin
ate their Presidential and Vice Presi
candidates at a convention in Chic
ago beginning June 26.
Selection of the convention time
and date was made by the party's
national committee after it had adop
ter! a resolution urging the enactment
of federal and state laws to facilitate
absentee voting by members of the
armed forces.
Chicago won the convention with
$75,0(10 bid after William Stern,
North Dakota man, made his quadren
nial humorous bid to take the con
vention to Fargo, N. Dak.
Referring to an incident at the 1940
Democratic convention here, Henry
Wise of Virginia asked if a base
ment microphone connected with the
convention hall speaker system was
to be made available.
The date and site were decided by
choice votes.
Congress Asked
For National
Service Law
Roosevelt Presents Five-Point
Program For Victory, Strike
Prevention, And Post-War
Security.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 National
service legislation, designed to make
available for the war effort to abili
ties of every able-bodied adult in the
nation, topped a five-point quick
victory program laid before Congress
today by President Roosevelt.
He reported that his recent con
ferrences at Teheran and Cairo in
volved no "secret" political or fi
nancial commitments, but were aimed
solely at winning the war and lay
ing the groundwork for future world
security.
Then the President said that na
tional service legislation would guar
antee an earlier victory "and reduce
the toll of suffering and sorrow and
blood."
The national service act was pro
pored for the duration to "prevent
strikes" and with some exceptions
"to make available for war production
and for any other essential services
every able-bodied adult in this nat
ion." "Each and every one of us," he
declared, "has a solemn obligation
under God to serve this nation in
its most critical hour to keep this
nation greater in a better world."
His second bill of rights, under
which he said a new brsis of se
curity and prosperity couH be es-
tabli.hed for all, included these
points:
1. The right to a useful and re
munerative job.
2. The right to earn enough to
provide adequate food, clothing and
recreation.
3. The right of every farmer to a
return for his products which will
provide a decent living for him and
his family.
4. The right of every business man
to be free from unfair competition
and domination by monopolies.
5. The right of every family to a
decent home.
6. The right to adequate medical
care and an opportunity to achieve
and enjoy good health.
7. The right to adequate protection'
from economic fears in old age, ill
ness, accident and unemployment.
8. The right to a good education.
"An of these rights spell 'security".
the President said. "And after this
war is won we must be prepared to
move forward in the implementa
tion of these rights, to new goals of
human happiness and well being.
it is definitely the responsibility
of Congress, the President empha
sized, to explore methods to effect
uate the economic bill of rights.
Some of its features already are
covered by pending legislation, he
said, and added that he would com
municate with Congress from time to
time on these and furthed proposals.
He gave Congress this warning:
"In the event that no adequate
program of progress is evolved I am
certain that the nation will be con
scious of the fact."
"Our fighting men abroad and
their families at home expect such
a program and have the right to
insist upon it. It is to their de
mands that this government should
pay heed rather than to the whining
demands of selfish pressure groups
who seek to feather their nests while
young Americans are dying."
Although he did not make the re
commendation at this point, the Presi
dent appealed for federal legislation
to give soldiers, sailors and marines
the right to vote.
Men in uniform know that an
overwhelming majority of them will
be deprived of a chance to vote, he
said, if the matter is lert entirely to
ine states under existing state laws,
:nd that there is no likehood of these
laws being changed in time to let
them vote at the next election.
" It is the duty of Congress," Mr.
Roosevelt said "to remove this un
justifiable discrimination against the
men and women in our armed forces
and to do it as quickly as possible."
no arrrunt of legalistic argument,
he said, can becloud the issue in the
eyes of 10,000,000 Americans in uni
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H. L. Gatlin, Jr. Buys
Dickson Homestead
H. L. Gatlin, Jr. has recently pur
chased from the A. P. Dickson heirs,
the A. P. Dickson farm and home
place, one mile south of town. Mrs.
Gatlin was one of the heirs, being a
grandaughter of the late Dr. Dickson
who died in 1921. Mrs. A. P. Dick
son, who died in November had a life
time ownership of this property.
The Gatlins will make necessary re
pairs and Improvements and expect
to move into the home by early spring.