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VOLUME XXXVIII NO. 43
RAEFORD. N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 30th, 1944
$2.00 PER YEAR
Four Hoke Men Commissioned On Same Day
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"Doctors' Day" Will
Be Observed Today
Members of the Medical Auxiliary
will entertain the Hoke County Med
ical Society at a spaghetti supper this
evening in observance of "Doctors'
Day."
March 30th, anniversary of the first
use of either as an anesthetic in sur
gery by Dr. Crawford W. Long of
Georgia, has been selected for annual
observance of a day for honoring
the members of the medical proffes-sion.
LT. WILLIAM E. PLUMMER LT. REID W. CHILDRESS
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LT. ELDRED H. HELTON
Four Hoke Countians gained second
lieutenants' commissions and were a
warded their pilots' wings on the same
day as the Army Air Forces, on March
13, graduated the largest class of
pilots in the history of the training
command.
They are Reid W. Childress, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.. Childress of
Raeford; Lawrence Lilburn Helton
and Eldred Howell Helton, sons of
Mrs. Mary Helton of Timberland and
LT. LAWRENCE HELTON
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William E. Plummer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J H. Plummer of Raeford, Route
2.
All four of the men have been at
their homes in the county for ten
days. Lts. Helton left Tuesday for
Walnut Ridge AAF Kansas, where
they will be flight instructors- Lts.
Plummer and Childress are still on
ieaves but are expected to report this
week at air fielas for duty.
JOINS WAC
Mrs. Mary Pope Matthews will
leave today for Durham, enroute to
Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., where she will
take the basic training of the Womans
Army Corps. For the past 18 months
she has been employed by a ship
building concern at Newport News,
Va.
Two brothers, TjSgt. Jack Pope
stationed in Trinidad, and SSgt.
Howard. L. Pope, a prisoner since
the fall of Corregidor, are also in
the service.
Hoke High News
Grays In Eastern
League Again;
Season Opens May 3
Williamsport To Train At Home
Due To Travel Conditions.
Sgt. William E. Parks, son of Mr
and Mrs. Milton Parks of Shannon,
Koute, has recently completed a
course in jungle warfare given men
of the coast artillery unit stationed
in Trinidad.
Two other sons of theirs are also
overseas. S(Sgt Ralph D. Parks
is in Trinidad and Leroy Parks is
with the merchant marines in- Aus
tralia. O
Col. R. B- Lewis, commanding of
ficer of the U. S. Army post of Port-of-
Spain, arrived home last week to
.spend some time here with his family.
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St. Johns School
For Negroes Burns
The St. Johns Negro school of
the Antioch townsh'p was destroyed
by fi e. last Tuedny afternoon
Building am:! its contents wove a
total Iojs, according to K. A.. Mac
Don.nld, county superintendent of ed
ucation. Insurance amounting to
$inS3.5f) wns carried o the property.
The school, a two teacher school,
serving about 70 pupils, is being con
tinued in a house offered to the board
of education by W. C. Hoggin. Classes
were resumed Monday morning.
It is expected that plans for con
tinued operation of the school will
be made at the April meeting of the
County Board of Education when it
convenes Monday
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Present Stainer's
"Crucifixion" On
Next Friday Eve
Stainer's cantata, "The Crucifixion"
will bo given at the Raeford Metho
dist church on Friday night, April 7,
at 8:00 o'clock. This is being sponsor
ed by the Baptist. Metho.'ist. and
Prefbyterian Church choirs and the
Chnminade Music Club. The chous
will be under the direction of Miss
Audrey Brunkhurst, director of music
. at the Presbyterian church.
Chapel Program
The music department of the Hoke
County High School entertained the
student body, guests, and faculty with
a very enjoyable program Wednesday,
March 24th, in the high school audi
torium. After the devotional, the
Glee club sang a group of songs.
The band played several numbers.
Two of these were led by student
directors. Little Miss Sarah Jane
Cole was guest soloist on the program.
Beta Club Activities
The Beta Club of the high school
will meet Thursday evening, March
30, with Ina Mae Benner. The stu
dent"! of this club, under the direction
of Miss Gill, are now very busily en
gaged in preparing the annual for
publication. The annual will go to
press in about two weeks.
Senior Class Play
The senior class is very happy over
the fact that they will present a play
in the school auditorium this spring.
They have selected their play and
will start practicing in the near
future. The Piny chosen is "A Mind
of Her Own."
The rhotoerjphers' Club
There are soveral young photo-g-aphcrj
over nt the h't'h school and
they find their work ro fncinating
th.t th.'y inspire o'.her students to do
a little of the f,T.e hind' of work.
The beginner? st art their work with
the printing of pietn-es from nega
tives r.lre.iriy prepared- About six
teen or pirhtcrn students have ac
tively participated in this activity.
The Eighth Graders and 'Their Class
Work
Not long ago, everywhere you
turned, you saw students with card
board and adhesive tape, or some
kind of tape. The purpose of this
was to construct geometric figures
for stuUy in their mathematics classes
These students now have the reali
zation of having accomplished some
thing worthwhile and practical in
a thorouph study of these figures
They know how to use formulas (rules
written in symbols instead of wors)
for perimeters, area, and volumes in
solving practical problems in mathe
matics. O
G. W. Cox is confined to his home
with a severe sore throat and. bron
chial cold.
By Elmer L. Schuyler
Williamsport, Pa. (special) The
Raeford friends of the Williamsport
Grays will, we are sure, be glad to
know that the Grays are back in the
Eastern League. It would- be fine
if we could report that they would
get their spring training in Raeford
this year, but travel conditions and
the gasoline situation will make a
trip out of the question. Let's hope
for better things a year hence.
Williamsport will take the place
of Springfield, Mass., in the league.
The franchise will be Williamsport
owned, but the 1944 team will be dir
ected by John Cambria, a retired
business man of Cincinnati, Ohio, who
is a dyed-in-the-wool baseball en
thusiast.
League ball is being brought back
by a group of wide-awake men re
presenting a cross-section of the citi
zenship and local activities. It is
the purpose of the group to raise
$15,000 as a backlog safeguard against
possible contingencies during the sea
son. The franchise has already been
bought and paid for.
The Eastern league will be made
up of Albany, Binghampton, Utica,
and Elmica, N. Y.; Hartford, Conn.
and Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Wil
liamsport, Pa. The season will open
May 3 and the schedule calls for 140
games.- In Bowman Field, William
sport has one of the finest baseball
parks in the country. Night ball
will be played.
The league was organized in 1923,
and Williamsport was a member up
to 1943, when its franchise was sold
to Utica. The players were sold to
Elmira and J. Roy Clunk was signed
as Elmira's business manager. He
had a very successful season, and was
signed for this season. So for the
first time in more than a decade the
Grays will not have him for their
manager.
Thomas H. Richardson, who is
known to numerous Raeford men, is
president of the Eastern League.
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Negro Held For
Attempted Rape
On White Woman
D. J. deBerry Waives Hearing
Tuesday; Bound Over To April
Term Superior Court.
Antioch School '
Matter Up For
Settlement
Question Of Determining Contin
uation To Be Decided Monday
By Board of Education.
The final decision concerning con
tinued operation of the Antioch grad
ed school is expected to be reached
Monday at the April meeting of the
Hoke County Board of Education, it
was stated yesterday by K. A. Mac-
donald, county superntendent.
Up for discussion last summer,
final decision of the matter was left
open until next Monday, when, the
board announced, a settlement would
be agreed upon.
A petition containing many names
of patrons of the school sought the
closing of the school last fall and
permission for the children to attend
the Raford school. At the hear
ing on the petition a large delegation
urged continuation of the school and
a decision was not reached by the
board.
The school, once one of the most
populous of the county with a large
high school, has been operated in the
last few years as a grammar school
only, and each year attendance re
cords have shown a decrease in
average attendance for the past sev
eral years. Last year the average
attendance dropped so that only two
teachers were allowed for the 1943-44
session, and this year there has been
a greater decrease and the average
attendance so far indicates that only
one teacher will be allowed by the
State for the school next year.
Uue to the fact that only one
teacher will be alloted the school
next year, but two arrangements are
possible, according to the school of
ficials One, that the school be con
tinued with that teacher dividing
instruction among about three grades,
or two, that all children be brought
to Raeford by bus and enrolled in
the Raeford schools.
USE OF BUILDING
In case the latter decision is
reached, it has been proposed that
the Antioch building be converted
into a school for vocational instruc
tion for the boys of the county, and
that the last high school year of
such students be spent in practical
training and classroom work as
boarding students as such a school.
The growth of vocational education
in Hoke County High has been ex
ceptional and it is said that within
a few years pres'ent facilities will be
inadequate for a well-rounded voca
tional program. The Antioch school,
with its beautiful site and well-constructed
brick building would be
ideal for such a school. Land coud be
acquired ami practical training in
farm mechanics, carpentry, electricity
could be expanded far beyond that
possible with present facilities, it is
said. Little additional construction
would be necessary to provMe build
ings for a vocational school that
would surpass anything in this sec
tion of the state.
History Of Raeford
To Be Reviewed By
J. M. McDuf fie
Alexander Collis received word
yester.iay of the death of his brother,
Frank Collis, of Trenton, New Jersey.
D. J. deBerry, 17 year-old negro,
was oraered held lor trial ai ine
April term of Superior Court Tues
day when he waived a hearing on
charges of atterpted rape upon a
white woman before Judge Henry
McDiarmid. Bonl was set at $1,000
but the negro was still in jail late
yesterday.
The charges were brought by Mrs.
William Black, young wife of the
overseer of a farm where deBerry
used to work, after he had attempted
to embrace her at home near town.
According to Sheriff D. H. Hodgin,
who investigated the case and arrest-
ei the negro, the boy went to the
Black home Saturday morning, and
after inquiring about members of the
family and finding out that Mrs
Black and her infant child were alone
at the home, helped her about the
house for a while. When the baby
started crying, Mrs. Back entered
her bedroom and the negro follow
ed her. While she was holding the
baby, she told the sheriff, that de
Berry caught her by the arm and at
tempted to embrace her. She order
ed him to free her and to leave the
place.- He left immediately. Mrs,
Black notified the sheriff, who a short
while later overtook the boy while on
his way from the Black home to tow
on the road near Jess Dunlap'j fill
ing station.
The deBerry boy had lived on the
farm and worked for the Black fam
ily for some time up until a few
months ago.
John Murdoch McDuffie will give
the Kiwanians a review of the history
of Raeforti. at the meeting tonight,
according to Crawford Thomas, .pro
gram chairman for the evening.
Mr. McDuffies parents were among
the first families to move to Rae
ford after it became a town, and he
has made a study of the doings of
Raefordians since he can first re
member hearing tales and truths re
lated by his efders.
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Business Men 7 n
Formation Cha er
Of Commerce Hi
County-Wide Group To H y, .
M. Richardson Friday Ev $
At Raeford Hotel. 6
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Plans for the organization of a
Chamber of Commerce and Mer
chants Association for Hoke County
were discussed last week by a group
of men representing many of the
county's business concerns and an
invitation was extended to I. M. Rich
ardson, of Fayetteville, to address a
larger representation here on Friday
night, March 31, at 8 o'clock at the
Raeford Hotel.
Mr. Richardson is a rormer secre
tary of the Chambers of Commerce of
Fayetteville and Sumter, S. C, and
has a wide experience in civic or
ganization affairs.
J. Benton Thomas was namec
temporary president of the group
last week and Harry Green was ap
pointed acting secretary until a formal
organizational meeting can be held.
They state that considerable interest
in the organization has been mani
fested and a large attendance of bus
iness leaders from all parts of the
county is expected. No special in
vitations have been sent out and all
persons interested are cordially in
vited. In addition, a merchants associa
tion is expected to be formed and
will be operated in connection with
the chamber.
Plans call for the two bodies to
cooperate closely with the County
Committee of Economic Development
in provision for post-war enter
prises which will employ returning
service men.
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Plant Lespedezia
For Hay Crop
Due to the shortage of cowpea
seed, farmers are urged- to plant
more lespedezia this year as hay crop
for feeding of livestock. According
to County Agent, A. S. Knowles, of
Hoke County, this crop can be planted
as late as April 15 and good crops
may be expected.
Seeding of this crop now with small
grain is still possible and some seed
are still available, Mr. Knowles says
Final Report Of
War Fund Drive
MadeByMcBryde
County Goes Over $5,900 Quota
By $2,046.29 As Last Report Is
Made.
The final report of funds received
to Wednesday morning during the Red
Cross War Fund campaign which was
concluded in Hoke county Satuday
showed that Hoke County con
tributed $7,946.28 and exceeded its
$5900 quota by $2,046.29, according
to Chairman Ryan McBryde.
Only one township, Allendale, fail
ed to oversubscribe its quota, accord
ing to the chairman, with all other
groups contributing more than re
quested. The campaign workers were divid
ed into three groups for the three
races, with each assigned quotas and
each oversubscribing them. Contribu
tions for white people were solicited
by townships and the following lists
money contributed.
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$55.00
361.30
305.00
108.70
$123 10
250.15
$37 3 25
$243.71
151.80
503.00
$898.31
$202.76
136.00
120.50
65.00
71.00
-Raeford Theatre Collections 104.46
Allendale
Antioch
Blue Springs t
Little River
McLauchlin
-Rockfish
-Wayside
Total
Quewhiffle
-Ashley Heights
-Montrose
-Sanatorium
Total
Raeford
-Pine Forest
-Raedeen
-Edinburgh Mill
-Officers Wives Club
-Hoke High School
1090.80
2434.75
$4331.76
$55.40
52 86
$105.26
The drive for the negroes was hand
ed through their schools and the re
port is given by school districts:
-Raeford Residential
-Raeford Business
Total
Antioch Indian
Macedonia Indian
Total
Timberland $28.20
Bowmore 80.05
New Hope 19.00
Freedom 48.00
Calvin Martin 16.00
McFarland 11.76
Edinburgh 16.00
Lilly's Chapel 34.23
Millside 42.00
Burlington 64.05
St Johns 32.00
Bridges Grove 34.41
Piney Bay 20.00
Cedar Grove 16.00
Shady Grove 24.13
Laurel Hill 48.00
Rockfish 34.42
White Oak 48.00
Friendship ' 32.00
Peachmont 4.25
Buffalo 33.00
Upchurch 300.00
Frye's Mission 50.00
Unidentified 1.22
Total $1037.61
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TKE COTTON IMPROVEMENT TROPHY which was presented
the Hoke County One-Variety Cotton Improvement Association
at a bancuet held at the Armory in Raeford on Friday evening.
March 17. Holding the loving cup is R. L. Cooper of Clayton,
who present it in the nameof the Atlantic Cotton Association, which
awards annually a trophy to the county making the greatest im
provement in ginning and frade of staple grown and having the
greatest percentage of its cotton lands planted to one variety.
Mr. McBryde and Mrs. H. A. Cam
eron, chairman of the rural drive,
state that they have received won
derful cooperation from the workers
who solicited these funds as well as
from the donors, and they very rich
ly appreciate the splendid spirit which
was exemplified by the fine results
shown in the drive-
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Ration Stamps No
Longer Expire
Raleigh, March 29 (Special) Theo
dore S. Johnson, Raleigh OPA district
director declared today that ex
piration dates for food ration stamps
are out for the duration.
Beginning in April, Johnson said,
red and blue starrps in War Ration
Book No. Four will be good inde
finitely. There wil be no change in the v.'Sy
in which stamps become valid. House
wives will continue to get three red
stamps worth thirty points every
second Sunday and five blue stamps
worth fifty points the first of every
month.
Johnson said the change is In line
with similar changes in other ration
ing programs. The expiration date
of shoe stamps was removed last
September and sugar expiration dates
were done away with three weeks
ago.