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N TT HOKE COUNTY'8 ADVERTISING BEST MEDIUM lie ews-joiuiiraaj HOKE COUTY S ONLY NEWSPAPER The Hoke County Newt The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XXXVIII NO. 45 RAEFORD, N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 13th, 1944 12.00 PER YEAR rni T MENwWOMCN IN UNIFORM SISGT. WILLIAM HAWFIELD TAKEN PRISONER S Sgt. William Hawfield of Wesley Chapel, Union County, is now a prig oner of war, according to a message received by his parents, Mr, and Mrs. W. P. Hawfield, who formerly lived in Raeford. They had been notified about a month ago that their son was missing from an aerial action over Germany He was chief engineer of a B-24 Liberator bomber. Clyde Upchurch, who is recuperating Lt. Howard Fall, brother of Mrs at Camp Lejune after a tour of duty in the South Pacific, spent Easter here with his sister. Sgt. George Caddell of Reno, Nev. is on leave and visiting his mother, Mrs. K. G. Wickline, at Arabia. Capt. Neill Jaur.es Blue and Lt. Hartman Yarborough, of Fort Jack' son, spent last week with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Blue and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Yarborough. Sgt. and Mrs. Dempsey Herring and son of Charleston, S. C, and Sgt. and Mrs. Thomas Saccha of Wilming ton and Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Black. man of Dunn were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Bouyer. W. T. THE THIRD Lt. and Mrs. W. T. Covington, Jr., announce the birth of a son, William Thomas, III, on April 7th at Hender sonvUie. Lt. Covington of the Navy is now stationed in Porto Rico. Seaman Arthur Parks of the NATS at Norfolk, Va., spent last weekend here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Parks. SlSgt. and yrs. Jack Bethune of Fort Jackson spent the weekend witli Mr. and Mrs. Lacy McFadyen. Pvt. Kenneth McNeill is spending a ten-day furlough at home with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John K. Mc Neill. SSSgt. Elmer Gordan is spend a leave wtih his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gordan. Sgt. Gordan is sta tioned at Northway, Alaska. Pvt. Julian McKeithan, who has been stationed in Australia or some time is now in New Guinea, according to a letter received recently by his mother, Mrs. John McKeithan. n Pvt. Fred M. Cox, who is stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, is spending a 8-day furlough with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Cox. Coleman Fans 21; McGee Hits Homer Raeford And Red Springs Open ed High School Ball Season Monday. The first baseball game of the sea son for Red Springs and Raeford opened at the Red Robin's park Mon day .afternoon at 4:00, April 10, with a final score of 8-3 in Red Springs' favor. The batteries for Red Springs were Hamp Coleman, and L. D. Boahn. Coleman with a fast ball that curved plenty, fanned 21 out of a possible 27. The batteries for Raeford were Jimmie Warner, Elbert Dees, Joe Upchurch, Herbert McKeithan, Jr. In the first of the 9th the Raeford boys scored when Allan McGee hit for four bases to deep center bringing In one man with another score tallied before the game ended. LIBRARY NEWS "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," by Betty Smith, continues to head the list of best selling books, with "The Robe," by Lloyd C. Douglas, in second place. The following new books have been received in Hoke county library: O River, Remember, by Ostenso; Grand Parade, Lancaster; Three Times I Bow, Click: The Curtain Rises, Reynolds; War's End and Af ter, Chevalier; Far on the Ringing Plains, Roger Lend-Lease, Stettin Ious; Made in China, Spencer; Mat thew Fontaine Maury, Hawthorne; The Story of George Gershwin, Ewen; O'Henry: The Story of William Syd ney Porter, Nolan; America's Fight ing Planes, Kenert; Free China's New Deal, Freyn; American Heroes and Hero-Worship. Gerald W. John son; D Day, Gunther; Tarawa, Sher rod; Marriage is a Serious Business, Dr. Randolph Ray, rector of the Little Church Around the Comer. The library is open from 10:30 to 6 no, Monday through Saturday. Clos ed from 12 to 1:00 for lunch. North Carolina Man Last To Leave Ship Dewitt Mclver Lauded For Hero ism When Torpedo Strikes U. S. Heavy Cruiser la Battle Off Solomons. A front page article in the New York Times Magazine of March 12 entitled "One Thousand Men and i Ship", gives a full and graphic ac count of the heroic part of the U. S. heavy cruiser, Minneapolis, played in the battle off the Solomon Islands Nov. 30, 1942. The Minneapolis led the column of eleven ships taking part In the en, counter, and was the first to be struck by enemy torpedoes. The author says, "The shock of torpedo explosions against a vessel of more than 10,000 tons doing 20 knots an hour is like an earth-quake, like a ship running at full speed against an iceberg, as did the Titanic, and she stopped as if she had been slapped in the bow by the Empire State Building." The author calls the story of why she did not sink, of how she got back to the fleet, "the story of 1,000 un- sinkable guys who refused to accept the inevitable, who fought, and strain ed and almost by sheer will power saved their ship. It is already a aga of the Pacific Fleet." One sf the heros of this battle who received special mention was Lieut. Commander (now Commander), D, C. Mclver, son of Mrs. D. C. Mclver, Sr. of Chadbourn, and the late Dr. D. C. Mclver of Maxton. He is the nephew of Mrs. J. A. Brown of Chad bourn. ''In no less dangerous place than the 'black gang' as the engineering division was called in the old coal ing days, were the damage-control people in Central Station under Lieut. Comdr. D. C. Mclver (Scotty) and those in the plotting room ad joining under the command of Lieut. E. W. (Gil) Dobie. Entry to their stations, deep in the bowels of the ship, was through a three-deck-high tube, which was barely large enough to admit a full-size man. Everyone had thought of Scotty as a sort of Nervous Nellie. He'd dress up for routine general quarters in more gear than Mrs. Astor ever hung on her horse canteen, bowie knife, pistol chlorine bag for sharks, extra clips of ammunition. Whera you headed. Commando?" we used to call after him when he'd pass through the wardoom on the way to Central Station. Scotty had no nerves when tor- pedos struck. "It was just like damage-control drill," one of the men with him re ported to his division officer. "Mr. Mclver climbed up off the deck and went ahead checking damage just like it was a drill." Every man that went down there in that constricted sweat box with Scotty voluntarily lauded his cool ness and courage. The water creeping aft as the ship lost bouyancy forward finally threat ened to cover their escape hatch and they ware ordered topside. Last man up the narrow tube was Scotty." O A Victory Garden For Better Health The health-giving benefits of the Victory Garden should be given full consideration in counting the values of producing fresh vegetables and small fruits for the table this sum mer, says F. H. Smith, nutritionist of the animal industry department of the Agricultural Experiment Sta tion at State College. 'The Victory Garden furnishes the people who work indoors with the out-doors exercise they need. The pleasure of growing things and the feel of the soil takes them from the daily grind of the ofice to a period o relaxation, that is so important to general health, Smith points out. Foods that are gathered fresh from the garden and prepared Immediately for the table not only taste better but also contain more vitamins. 'With more food going to the Arm ed Forces than ever before and with a probable decrease of locally-grown vegetables because of the labor short age, the number of Victory Gardens must be increased this year," Smith says. In making this appeal for more gardens, he points to the recent state ment of President Roosevelt, who said: "Because of the greatly Increas ed demands in 1944, we will need all the food we can grow. Food still re mains a first essential in winning the war. Victory Gardens are of direct benefit in helping relieve manpow er, transportation and living costs as well as the food problem. Increased food requirements for our Armed Forces and our Allies give every citi zen an opportunity to do something toward backing up the boys at the front." Raeford Stores Will Start Wednesday Closing Next Week The stores of Raeford will begin their summer holiday closing on next Wednesday afternoon, April 19, clos ing at 12:30 each Wednesday through August 16. This has been an annual practice for a number of years, and during the past winter, due to scarcity of labor and of merchandise, many of the stores here continued the holiday throughout the year. O Democratic Party Meetings Set For April 22-92 Precinct Officers and Delegations To County Conventions To Be Named On April 22 Notice of the meetings of the mem bers of the Democratic party of the county has been made by Walter P. Baker, chairman of the county exec utive committee. The precinct meetings will be held on Saturday afternoon, April 22, at 2:30 o'clock, with all meetings being held at the regular voting places of the precincts. Precinqt officers will be elected at this meeting and then delegates to the county convention are to be elected. The county convention will be held on Saturday, April 29th at 2:30 o' clock at the courthouse in Raeford. General party business will be at tended to and delegates to the state convention will be named at this meeting. O Services Demanded By Tax Payers Swell Expenditures Manteo, AprH 8. The rise of North Carolina state governments expenditures from $3,500,000 in 1944, to a current spending of $60,000,000 per year does not indicate that there has been any wasteful use of money in that span of 30 years Gregg Cherry, candidate for Governor, said here. addressing the Mantoe Rotary club and invited guests. What is indicated in that expansion of the budget is the extent to which the state has developed its services to its citizens and taken over new services and functions, the speaker declared. "Citizens and taxpayers have de manded over increasing and over expanding services from the state," he continued. "The state now rend ers services to its people that in 1944 are regarded as essential. But 20 years ago they would have Been classed as luxuries, or were never dreamed of at that time." The biggest expansions in state spending came with the state taking over the financing and operation of the North Carolina system of high ways and the schools of North Caro lina, it was pointed out. "In ten years the state's educational system has in itself grown from a spending of $18,000,000 to $38,000, 000 per year. The school term was extended, teachers are paid Defter, text books are supplied students, and other improvements have been made. Still more improvement a long these lines, and other, needs to be made. We have laid the founda tion, but the foundation only, for the finest school system in the United States." Mr. Cherry said he strongly recom mends that the schools be kept local, ized as far as possible in their op- eration because, as in the instances of churches, there is no community institution quite so surrounded by sentiment, or quite tne center of community life, and patriotism for home and country as the school "Around the schools of our com munities are clustered the fine things that make good citizens of excellent character out of our boys and girls, the candidate declared. "The citizens of a school community, large or small, must continue to be interested in the operation of that school. That is true democracy." Mr. Cherry also re-stated his pro gram for a sympathetic handling of the service men an dwomen who will return to their homes at the close of the war; warned against any "pipe dreams" about easy and tax free living off a state surplus In tax money; and said that North Carolina must continue to operate on a sound basis. With regard to the surplus, "a $70,000,000 general fund at the end of the second year, by the highest estimate," the speaker said it should not be dissipated but should be used to pay the state's debts and hep to arrive at a goal where North Caro lina will be "A debt-free state." Much of the surpus about which there Is so much talk can be touch ed because lt is ear-marked for specific uses he said. I Saturday Final Day For Filing For Offices Only Six Candidate Have Paid fees To Board Of Elections With the final date for filing for candidacies for county offices only six would-be office holders had paid the prescribed filing fees to Chairman Crawford Thomas and the Board of Elections yesterday afternoon. Saturday is the last day for filing. Those who have paid their fees are McNair Smith, for Solicitor: Dr. Geo W. Brown for the House; Ryan Mc. Brydc for the Senate; Henry McDiar mid for Recorder and W. W. Roberts for Register of Deeds, and F. A. Mon roe for commissioner. It is expected that Knox Watson will announce for a membership on the board of commissioners, and local backers are asking T. D. Potter to seek another of the seats on the board, with indications that one or more of the present board will not seek re-election. ODT Reveals Much Waste Of Gasoline Wilmington, April 12. Immediate action to end all wasteful and un necessary use of gasoline by all op erators of commercial motor vehicles is being taken by the Wilmington district office of defense transporta tion, it was announced here today by George T. Musselman, district manager. Many commercial vehicles, which embrace trucks, buses, taxicabs. hearses and ambulances are being used for pleasure driving in the Wil mington area, he said, pointing out that quite a large number of these vehicles have been noticed while in use for pleasure driving both on week-days and holidays. 'The gasoline allotted these ve hicles is to be used for the specific purpose as specified on the Certifi cate of War Necessity, the ODT district manager at Wilmington de clared. The use of the gasoline for any other purpose, particularly for plea sure driving, is in defiance of the conditions of the Certificate of War Necessity under which all commercial vehicles are permitted to operate. "Because of the many abuses," Mr. Musselman announced, "ODT will inaugurate regular road checks of all operators to determine compliance with outstanding ODT general or ders." ' Violators will face reduction of their gasoline allotments or com plete revocation of their Certificates of War Necessity, without which the vehicles cannot be operated. "With the entire southeast faced with a critical gasoline shortage, conserva tion of available gasoline is absolute ly essential," Mr. Musselman point ed out. O Call Group For Examination The following negroes were given their pre-induction examination at Fort Bragg last week, having been called to report on April 8 by the Hoke county board. Roosevelt Gilchrist, Noah Lee Hob son, Daniel Milton Roper, Benjamin Frank McLeod, Alvester Malloy, Isaiah Rainey, Garvester Walton, Sammie James, Henry McNeill, John Edmond Shaw, Lanzo Otes McCnm mon, Levie Coins, Zack Frank Flowers. James Dockery, Johnson James Hall, Lester Leach (transfer), Lacy Tominie Hollingsworth (transfer). State's 4-H Cooks To Help In War Effort By Preparing Food Right Equally important in the 1944 war time program of increased food pro duction is the proper preparation for a well-balanced diet Thousands of rural girls will learn how to pan, prepare and serve nutri tious meas and thereby contribute to the "Food Fights for Freedom" pro gram through enrolling in the Na tional 4-H Food Preparation Activity. Recognition of meritorious recordsn provided by Scrvel home economics departemnt, comprise silver medals for county winners, a trip to the Na tional 4-H Club Congress in Chicago next December for the state's cham pion, and a $200 college scholar- Kin p for each of six national winners. This is th tenth year of the acti vity, which is conducted by the ex tension service. Annie B. Johnson of Kinston was North Carolina's 1943 state and na tional winner. The V. S. Army spends more than $l,B0t.0O0 a month for recreational equipment, with baseball and foot kail equipment heading the purchases. Harry Greene Named 'Manager For Cherry Harry Greene, fertilizer salesman extraordinary, Raeford fire chief, sportsman, master-of-the-skillet of the fish-fry club and semi-pro poli tician, was named this week to man age the campaign in Hoke County for the Hon. R. Gregg Cherry, candi date lor Governor. Harry states that despite the fact that Major Cherry appears to be he will conduct an active campaign the 10 to 1 choice of Hoke Countians, in behalf of his candidate. When queried n'bout office-holding am bitions of his own, Mr. Greene stated that he is not a candidate for any office, nor would he be at least "until I can get folks of Raeford, who call in to report a fire, to also report where the fire Is before they hang up their telephones." He declared "when I have taught folks that, I will feel that I have accomplished something which will qualify me to hold a public office." $150 Raised For Building Roll Of Honor Here Plans To Raise Approximately $500 To Erect Memorial On Courthouse Lawn One hundred and fifty dollars has been received or pledged for the erection of a memorial placque to the men and women in the armed forces from Hoke county, it was announced yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Paul De zerne, treasurer of the joint commit tee sponsoring the memorial. Donations from Wayside and Pine Forest Home Demonstration Clubs of $5 each and pledges of $50 from the Town Board, 25 each from the UDC the Eastern Star and Upchurch Mil ling and Storage company and $15 from the Boy Scouts were acknow ledged by the treasurer. Without making any direct appeal or canvass for funds it is hoped by the committee that approximately $500 can be raised through voluntary donations by individuals, and business firms for the construction of the mem orial. It is estimated that there are between 700 and 800 men and women from the county now in the armed services, and it js planned to list each of the persons upon the board and to give a special place of honor to the two National Guard companies which went from the county long before the country entered the war. Donations may be sent to Mrs. Paul Dezerne, Raeford, or to Mrs. W. D. McLauchlin, chairman of the joint committee. In Again-Out Again It's Dew Again On First Monday Milton Campbell was appointed to a vacancy on the Raeford board of school trustees. He accepted only to find out that he was holding two elective otuces in that he was also a member of the Town Board. So, Mr. Campbell resigned and now Cecil Dew Is a member of the school board, having been appointed to succeed Mr. Campbell, resigned, who was appointed to succeed H. C. McLauchlin, resigned. O Rock fish School News Perfect attendance for the 7th month are as follows: Grade 2, Lucretia King, Treva Barefoot, and Grady Hardin. Grade 3, Sidney Lovette and Lexie Koonce. Grade 4, Bobby Bostic, W. R. King and Margaret Fields. Grade 4, Hermon Gillis, Betty Jean Wood and Raye King. Grade 6, Marion Wood, Wilton Wilkes, Martha Koonce, and Mar garet Neal Ritter. Grade 7, Davis Parker, Wade Mc. Dougald and Marcellus Boahn. O Dowd Reports On Vocational Work At a meeting of vocational teach ers of this district, held at Laurel Hill this week, J. W. Dowd, teacher at Hoke High, reported that the stu dents had completed work on the county cannery, and were now as sisting In the operation of the plant each Friday afteroon. Meat canning is the principal work of the cannery at the present time, he said. Other activities of the Ag students included the trimming and care of the shrubbery which the students planted on the campus of the High school. and the thinning and trimming of trees in the school's reforestation pro ject. Army Issues Call For More Wacs To Fill Vacancies Women Enlisting Now May Vir tually Choose Jobs And Loca tions In South. e Army sent out a hurry call ' for women to fill vacancies at and camps in various southern i, including posts, fields and hos i J ; in North Carolina and said that 3 . m enlist in the Wac's now can j Z illy pick their own job and , ji their location. 5 cjj Major James A. Whelms, Com. 55 indint Officer. U. S. Army 0 J cruiting Station. Charlotte 2. 5 C, said the call was extreme ' iy urgent The Army has de pended on all women of the na tion to supply the forces to re lieve general service men now at camps, fields, and posts, and has already started moving those general service men out. "Frankly the women have not re sponded to the extent needed, princi pally because, Ithink, they have not realized the real need of the Army," said Major Wheless. "It is very real." 131 VACANCIES As an indication of how real this need is, Major Wheless said that in four posts in the South, including one in North Carolina there are 131 specific jobs vacantawaiting as signment of Wacs to take the place of general service men who have gone, or soon will go overseas. "If women in general know this, I feel sure, WAC enlistments would pick up at a high rate. Jobs open include various clerical jobs, including those requiring know ledge of typing and stenography, cook and baker, statistacal and fi nancial clerks, drivers of light auto motive equipment, photographers, drafting, radio operations and repair, letephone operators, business machine operators, instrument repairers, me dical and hospital technicians, tele typewriter operators, gasoline lTtor and light machinery operators--in fact there are 239 different jobs that women can do as WACs, and re lieve a man to go overseas or to more important areas. CAN SELECT WORK: To make it easy for women to find their place in the Array, as Wacs, a recruit can select the type of work she will do, and select the place of service for her first assignment. Just now the Army needs WACs at Camp Davis, Seymour Johnson Field, near Goldboro, Fort Bragg, Sedge Field at Greensboro, Wilming ton, at the Moore General Hospital, near Asheville, Camp Butner, Camp Sutton and Morris Field. Dozens of other camps, posts and fields in other Southern States are calling for women to fill vacancies. "I can't make the call too strong, because the vacancies exist now and the WACs want volunteers for these jobs," said Major Wheless. For more information, interested applicants should contact WAC re cruiters stationed nearest you, or write to the V. S. Army Recruiting Station, 406 Liberty Life Building, Charlotte 2, N. C. o Keep Beef Cattle " ' Perform Records Performance records of breeding animals in beef cattle herds is of great importance in developing a pro fitable enterprise, says Dr. R. E. Comstock of the Animal Industry Department of the Agricultural Ex periment Station at State College. The selection of breeding animals on the basis of performance as well as type will bring abouta decided Im provement in the herd. Dr. Comstock advises the taking of three separate weights on each animal; one at birth, one at weaning, and another when the animal weighs betwee 900 and 1,00 ponds. These should be recorded along with the dates at which they were taken. From this Information, daily gains from birth to weaning, and from weaning to market weight, can be calculated. The conformation of each animal should also be scored when the weights are taken, and the number, the sex, and the sire and dam of each animal should also be record ed. If such records are kept, calves can be retained in the herd that are selected on the basis of their growth rate and the past record of their dams, as well as on their conforma tion. The performance of full and half brothers and sisters should al so beconsidered. Cows can be culled from the herd on the basis of both the type of their calves and the weight of the calves whm wenned. The worth of bulls can be determined on the basis of th rate, gain, and conformation of all their calvet.