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VOLUME XXXVIII NO. 49
THURSDAY, MAY 11th, 1944 RAEFORD. N. C,
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IN UNIFORM
Lt. Parnell Wounded
Gets Purple Heart
Lt. S. M. Parnell who was recently
wounded in action while on a bombing
mission over occupied Europe has
been awarded the Purple Heart, ac
cording to word received here last
week by his wife. Mrs. Parnell is
the former Miss BiUie B. Mclntyre.
Lt. Parnell was only slightly wounded,
according to his wife, who states
that he has already returned to
active duty.
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Staff Sgt. Harmon Lindsay; son
of N. A. Lindsay, is among those boys
who have been stationed in Trinidad
who are now spending furloughs in
the county with their families.
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Pfc. Tom Clark Sinclair of the Ma
rines, who was severely wounded
in an action in the South seas sev
eral months ago, has arrived home
to spend some time with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sinclair of Ashley
Heights. Tom was wounded when
a grenade exploded in his foxhole.
His buddy was killed.
Pvt. Will Frank Wright, son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Wright, is at home
on furlough. He recently completed
basic training at Camp Croft, and will
now report to Ft. Meade, Md.
Pvt. Hansel ' Buck" Pate left Tues
dty for Camp Claiborne, La., after
spending 15 days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Pate.
David Dickson Odorn has enrolled
in the U. S. Mar netime Service at
Baltimore. He will undergo a train
ing period from three to seven months.
Odom's hone is Raeford, route one.
Bruce Conoly Wounded
In Air Action
Tech Sgt. Bruce Conoly, a turret
gunner on a B-24 which has been
participating in many of the recent
raids over Germany and occupied
Europe, was wounded in a recent
action, according to word received
here by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Conoly. ' Bruce was recently
awarded the Air Medal and the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
Plattsburg. N. Y., May 9 Hugh
McLauchlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
C. McLauchin of Raeford, has reported
to the Naval Training school at Camp
Macdonough for indoctrination in the
U. S. Naval Reserve. Midshipman
McLauchlin will be jn training here
for approximately four months, pre
paring for an ultimate commiss on as
an ensign for duty with the U. S.
Fleet.
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Pvt. Hubert Cameron, paratrooper,
is a patient in the Post Hospital at
Camp Maekall. He recently suffered
a knee injury.
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Pfc. Tom McBryde of Camp Shel
by, Miss, is spending a furlough with
hii parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Mc
Bryde. O
Pvt. Roscoe Currie of Fort Bragg
is spending a ten day furlough at
hii home here.
Conservation News
By J. C. Hutchison
C. L. Thomas, of Raeford, Super
visor of the Pee Dee-Cape Fear Soil
Conservation District has recently
oompleted the terracing of about 40
acres of his fields. He also con
structed a meadow strip and seeded
it to Sericea to take care of the
terrace water. The work was done
with a tractor and disc tiller.
J. B. Wade, route 1, Raeford, has
planted kudzu along the road bank
on his farm to control the water that
has been damaging his fields by cut
ting under the banks. The seedlings
were planted by a group of Boy
Scouts who were working on their
Merit Badges in Conservation.
E. R. Pickler, of near Ashley
Heights, has cleared a site for a fish
pond. The wood obtained win oe
used for flue wood and he Is plan
ning to do the construction this fall
and winter. As soon as the pond Is
completed the district will furnish
fish to stock it.
Whitley To Manage
McDonald Campaign
H. W. B. Whitley, Raeford attor
ney, has been appointed the Hoke
County manager of the Ralph Mc
Donald campaign for governor it was
announced here yesterday.
I Dale And Shaw To
Be Speakers At
Farm Bureau Meet
May 31 Date For Annual Dinner
Meeting of Bureau Members
R. Flake Shay, executive sec
retary of the North Carolina Farm
Bureau, and Haywood Dale, widely
known humorist of Greenville, will
be the guest speakers at the annual
dinner meeting of the Hoke County
tarm Bureau, it was announced yes
terday by N. H. G. Balfour.
Mr. Balfour, who is president of the
county organization, staled that be
tween two-fifty and three hundred
members and their guests were ex
pected to be present for the meeting,
which would be held at the Armory
here in Raeford.
Mr. Shaw is expected lo devote
his talk to a discussion of State and
National aspects of the Bureau's
year-round program, while the lighter
part of the program will be the
(humorous address of Mr. Dale. Mr.
iaie is considered one ui Norm
Carolina's outstanding after-dinner
speakers and is in great demand as
an entertainer for such programs
as will be presented here.
Funeral Services
For Peter Moore
Funeral services were held for
Peter Moore, 78, at Phillipi church
at 5:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. Harry K. Holland conducted
the seavices. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Pall bearers were G. A. Bullock.
H. C. Butler, P. C. English, Marshall
Newton, Warren Phillips, and Alton
Potter. ,
Mr. Moore died at his home Friday
night after an illness of some dur
ation. Surviv ng are his widow and
three daughters.
All Churches Here
Will Be Open On
Invasion Day
The ministers of the churches of
Raeford announce that their churches
will be open on Invasion Day for
purposes of prayer and meditation
by the public. The people of Raeford
are urged to use the facilities of the
churches on this day and on the days
following. The men on the fighting
fronts who are giving so much to
bring this war to a speedy close
should have the spiritual as well as
physical support of the people on
the home front. All over our country
on Invasion Day there w ll be people
who will crowd into the churches of
our land to pray for God's blessings
upon this supreme effort to bring
to an end this reign of terror and
death.
While the churches will be open at
all hours during the day and the days
following the Invasion, the several
pastors announce that there will be
brief periods of worship in each
church at 10:30 A. M., 4:00 P. M., and
at 8:30 P. M. This schedule will pre
vail on the day on which the In
vasion is announced and on the days
immediately following. The church
bells will ring at 10 minutes before
these periods of worship to remind
the people to go to church, that all
the people of the town will have an
opportunity to pray together in this
time of crisis.
Raeford Methodist
Church
i Sunday school will begin promptly
at 10:00 o clock A. M., Mr. Tom Cam'
eron, general superintendent.
11:00 A. M , Morning Worship by
pastor.
8:00 P. M., Evening Worship, ser
mon by Dr. Smith.
You are cordially invited to attend
our Mother's Day Service Sunday
morning at 11:00 o'clock. Mrs. W. R.
Barrington will sing "Mother O' Mine"
and the pastor will speak on "A
Great Mother."
Our quarterly conference will be
held Sunday evening immediately
following the 8:00 o'clock service.
Dr. Smith will preai-h.
The circles of UieWoman's Society
of Christian Service will meet point
ly at the church Monday afternoon
at 4:00 o'clock.
Neill A. McDonald
Manages Hoey Here
NeiU A. McDonald, local oil dealer,
has been named county manager for
Former Governor .Clyde R. Hoey,
in his race for the U. S. Senate, it
was announced here Tuesday by Odus
M. Hull who was visiting here in the
interest of Mr. Hoey's candidacy.
Abner Knowles' Mother
Dies At Willard
Mrs. Mary Alice Knowles, mother
of Abner S. Knowes who is Hoke
County's farm agent, died at her
home in Willard Saturday following
an illness of many months.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at the home and
a second service was later held at
the Wells C hapel Baptist Church of
wh'ch she was a member. The Rev.
J. G. Allard, pastor, officiated.
Surviving are her husband, J. S.
Knowles, four daughters, live sons,
39 grandchildren, four great grand
children, and one brother and a
sister.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Knowes and
children left Raeford Friday for his
home upon hearing that his mother's
condition had become critical. They
are expected to return to Raeford
later this week.
More Gifts Made
To Honor Roll
Fund For County
John A. McGougan Named Chair
man Roll Construction Com
mittee Additional gifts of $37 received
this week by Mrs. Paul Dezerne,
treasurer, have brought the total cash
on hand to $274 for the construc
tion of the Servicemen's Honor Roll
which it is planned to erect on the
court house lawn.
John A. McGougan was named chair
man of the construct on committee
and Mrs. Paul Dezerne and Mrs. R
A. Matheson, Jr., were elected to the
other memberships of that committee
Friday evening when the Honor Roll
Cumittce l.eld its second meeting.
Pledges amounting to $115 are al
so reported by Mrs. Dezerne in an
nouncing the progress being made
She explained that the $20 pledged
by the American Legion has been
paid, and that the lollowmg new con
tr butions have been received: Ban
corn's Cash Store, $10; A Friend, $2
and Mildouson Home Demonstration
club $5.
In a campaign for funds being
carried on in the negro schools
County Superintendent K. A. Mc
Donald states that approximately
$50 had been received last Friday
and only a few of the schools had
reported at that time. A similar
campaign will be conducted in the
white schools, it was said.
At the general committee meeting
Friday night it was brought out that
an Honor Roll large enough to con
tain all of the names of persons in
the service from the county, and have
space for additional names would
cost more than the first estimated
figure of $550, and the committee
voted not to restrict contributions
until a more nearer correct estimate
of the cost and maintenance could
be obtained.
Large Negro Group
Report For Physical
Examination
The Hoke county board of the Se
lective Service System released to
day names of a large group of negroes
who reported to Fort Bragg Wednes
day morning, May 10, for their pre
induction examination. This is the
first large group of men under 26
years of age to be called since recent
changes m the draft system.
L. C. McCullum, Pete Brunson, Wil
lie Rae, Edward Lee Faulk, Russell
Harris, Charlie Jasper Robinson,
David Jasper Graham, Goldield Kir
by, Walter McMillan, John Murray,
Jr.
Matthey James Graham, Clco Brat
cher, Ange McLauchlin, Robert Buie,
Guss McCoy, William Henry Camer
on, David Isaac McNeill, Vernie Mel
vin, Willie Allen Brunson, Lacy Mc
Dowell, Andre McCrimmon, George
Lester Conely.
Neill Richard Blue, Robert William
Stewart, John Dupree, James Willie
Purcell, Robert Lee Adams, Roose
velt McNair, Eddie Datus Covington,
James Archie Smith, Charlie Artis,
Joseph Gordon.
Moses McNeill, John Junior Mur
chison, Harry Graham, Thomas Par
ker, Willie Rainey, Ozel Beatty, Dan
Armstrong, Moses Columbia McNeill,
Willie Baldwin.
Johnnie McKinnon, Ervin Rosier,
James McNeill, Adam Davis, William
Pratt, Neill Archie Ferguson, David
Cook, William Henry Blue, Triversia
Monroe, Dannie B. Shaw, James
Marsh.
George Thomas Ray, Lewis Cun
ningham, Thomas Eugene Holmes,
Henry Welcome Whltted, Levi David
Murphy, John Wesley McDonald, Ru
bin Craven, Robert Smith, Frank Acey
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Central District Cotton Ginners
In Annual Meeting Wednesday
Grain Test Plot
Fertilization
Check May 15
Hoke county farmers are urged to
attend a field meeting on the T. B.
Upchurch, Inc. farm three miles
southeast of Raeford on Monday, May
15, at 2:00 P. M. for the purpose of
studying the effects of fertilizing
small grains at planting t-me and side
dressing with nitrate of soda in the
spring. The official variety test
sponsored by the N. C. Crop Im
provement Association will also be
studied by those in attendance, re
ports A. S. Knowles, county agent.
Funeral Monday For
Mrs. Boger Maxwell
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at 2:30 for Mrs. Boger
E. Maxwell, 29. at the home. The
Rev. J. D. Whisnant, pastor of the
Raeford Baptist church, officiated.
Burial was in the Raeford Cemetery.
Mrs. Maxwell died Friday evening
after a brief illness. She was a
native of Saltsville, Miss., and was
a member of the Bethel Baptist
church of Dorsie, Miss.
Surviving are her husband and two
young sons of Raeford, and her par
ents, two brothers and four sisters,
of Ke'ser, Arkansas.
Terracing Show
At Stevens' Farm
There will be a terracing dem
onstration held Monday, May 15, at
10:00 A. M. on the A. K. Stevens'
farm, three miles east of Raeford,
reports county agent A. S. Knowles.
This demonstration will show the type
of construction of the various farm
equipment companies.
A recent announcement by the AAA
gives farmers an unlimited practice
for terracing farm land where need
ed. The AAA will enter in contract
with farm implement companies to
do the terracing. In order to get
some idea of the job that the various
implement companies can render
several have been invited to show
farmers how their particular .equip
ment can build terraces in this county.
Representatives of the AAA and far
mers from adjoining counties are
expected to attend this demonstration.
Major Gregg Cherry
Calls On Folk Here
Major Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia,
visited Raeford Tuesday afternoon
and the gubernatorial candidate called
on friends and business leaders for
several hours. Mr. Cherry was ac
companied about town by Ryan Mc
Bryde, senate nominee, who has an
nounced his support of the Gaston
county man for governor; Harry
Green,' Cherry manager for Hoke,
being out of town this week attending
a sales conference of his fertilizer
concern.
One Court Case
Only one case was heard In county
court Tuesday, others docketed being
continued. James McDougald, negro,
paid costs for having a supply of home
brew on hand when officers called
at his home.
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MISS BENNETT WEDS
SERGEANT GUY
The marriage of Miss Marjorie
Bennett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bennett of Zlon, 111., to Sgt. Alfred
Guy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Guy, Sr. of Zion, took place last
Friday evening, May 5, in the Raeford
Presbyterian Church, with the Pas
tor, Rev. H. K. Holland, officiating.
Nuptial music was rendered by Miss
Audrey Brunkhurst, pianist.
Ushers were Cpl. William Harter
and Cpl. David Engler of Camp Mac
kali. Sgt. Vernon Meizler of Free
port, 111., the best man lighted the
candles. Mrs. Vernon .Metzler was
matron of honor.
The bride wore a magnolia white
crepe dress with purple accessories
and an orchid corsage. The matron
of honor wore a gray print with
black accesories and a corsage of pink
roses.
The young couple will make their
hnira mi Mr. Chandler Roberts while
sgt Guy is stationed at Camp Maekall.
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Frank Melvin, Negro
Loses Home B' Fire
The home of Frank n, a ten
ant of the Miss Laura v y farms,
was destroyed by fire . 'iy and
the family lost all of thei. C (j slungs
and clothing.
The citizens of the comn ",and
the Red Cross are helping M u" md
his family, his wile and fiv "Js.l
ren, get reestablished in a J '
house. Clothing particularly is v.
ed. There are: a girl, age 15, t v ,
14, a girl 9, a boy 7 and a baby 14
months old. Persons wishing to con
tribute furniture and clothing to aid
this reliable and respected family may
do so through the Red Cross or Mrs.
C. H. Giles, head of the county wel
fare department.
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Town Board Must
Issue Licenses
To Beer Dealers
Following the recent action of the
Board of Commissioners of the Town
of Raeford, in refusing to issue beer
dealers 1 censes to three dealers here,
attention has been called to a ruling
by the Attorney General explaining
the State Beverage laws in which
regulations, require that a municipal
ity issue a license to each applicant,
and these can be revoked only by the
State Commissioner of Revenue in
case of violations of the Beverage
control act.
Licenses have been issued to the
Raeford Hotel, The Elk Restaurant,
William Wright and Jennings Maults
by, since the board was advised of the
attorney general's ruling.
District Meet Of
Home Club Women
Thursday, May 18
On Thursday, May 18, several
hundred Home Demonstration club
members will assemble at the Ray
Avenue USO club in Fayetteville
for their annual District meeting.
They will represent the 10th district,
which includes Bladen, Columbus,
Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Robe
son, Sampson, and Scotland counties.
The meeting will begin at 10:30 with
Mrs. E. H. Lasater, route one, Erwin,
the chairman, presiding. The prog
ram will consist of reports of club
work done in the counties during the
past year; an address by Mr. F. H.
Jeter, Extension Editor, State Col
lege, Raleigh.
Introduction of the guests by Miss
Vera Stanton, District Home Agent,
greetings from the state office and
from the District Federation of Wo
men's Clubs by Mrs. R. L. Murray
of Raeford, a talk on bonds by Mrs.
P. P. McCain of Sanatorium, and
special music are among the high
lights of the program. After adjourn
ment lunch will be served picnic
style.
Mrs. Marshall Newton, County
Council President, will give the Hoke
county report. Mrs. Jesse Gibson
of the Mildouson Club will serve as
chairman of the Resolutions com
mittee. Other club members from
the county who will serve on commit
tees are Mrs. R. B. Shockley, Courtesy-
Mrs. James Gillis, Registration, and
Mrs. N. F. Sinclair, Nominating. Mrs.
Lucy Smith of the Blue Springs club
is first Vice-Chairman of the District.
It is hoped that a large group of
club women from Hoke county ill
attend the meeting as the program
promises to be both inspirational and
recreational.
C.O.S.
Community Vacation
Bible School
There will be a Community Vaca
tion Bible School at the Presbyterian
Church June 5-9. with the Baptist,
Methodist, and Presbyterian churches
co-operatjng. Registration will be
held on Friday morning, June 2,
from 9:30 to 11:00 o'clock. AU child
ren and young people between the
ages of 4 and 18 are Invited to attend.
The School will be in session from
9:00 to 12:00 o'clock each day.
Union services will be held on
Sunday evening, June 4, at the Metho
dist church, and on June 11 at the
Baptist church.
The Bible school wjll be uder the
direction of Miss Audrey Brunk
hurst, director of religious education
at the Presbyterian Church.
Outstanding Speakers To Be
Heard On Day's Program;
Barheuun Dinner At 12:30
Some 200 cotton ginners, cotton
mill men and other leaders of the
cotton industry gathered here this
morning for the annual meeting and
business cl nic of the North Caro
lina Cotton Ginners association of
the central district.
President J. Henry V'aughan, of
Elm City, presiding, called the meeting
into session at 10 o'clock and the
Rev. W. L. Maness, pastor of the
Methodist church pronounced the in
vocation. Following a brief session of routine
business general committees were ap
pointed. This was followed by an ad
dress by George T. Ashford, vice
president and acting executive sec
retary of the association, who pre
sented a twelve point program for
the ginner and the cotton grower
and called for a more wide-spread
adoption of the one-variety, program
and of the Smith-Doxcy cotton class
ification and grading.
His 12 points, and his conclusion
upon their adopt on, are as fol'ows:
'Cotton ginners should establish
a definite program now in order that
their future might be insured against
further losses. For such a program
the ginner should resolve now to: (1)
Become more conscious of the im
portance of the cotton ginning in
dustry in the economic setup of the
world; (2) Properly supervise and
manage his gin; (3) Keep accurate,
detailed records; (4) Improve his
plant and reduce gin damage to cot
ton: (5) Encourage growers to
adopt one variety of cotton in each
community; (6) Participate in the
Smith-Doxey Program and help grow
ers obtain a higher price for their
cotton; (7) Eliminate unnecessary
and extravagant services unless paid
for by the customer; (8) Pay more
attention to quality; (9) pay no at
tention to his competer and apply all
his attention to his own business;
10) Sell confidence in himself to the
grower; (11) Join and support his
local and National Ginners Associa
tions; (12) Be more cooperative
within the industry and less beligerant
toward his competitor.
"If ginners will adopt the above
resolutions and make an effort to
apply them In 1944, there is no doubt
that the ginning industry will bring
itself up in the industrial world. The
future of the cotton ginner depends
upon himself. In the future, no
doubt, he will not only gin cotton for
mechanical pickers, haul it to the
gin, gin the cotton and aid consider
ably in the marketing of this product."
To follow Mr. Ashford on the morn
ing section of the full-day's program
will be Dean Malcolm Campbell,
director of the-Textile school of State
College who will speak on the im
portance of Cotton Ginning to the
Textile Industry. Ginners' Mistakes
as a Cotton Mill Operator Sees Them,
will be discussed by Ralph Sanders
and Julian Butler, of the Morgan
Mills of Laurinburg.
Charles A. Bennett, engineer of the
U. S. Gin Laboratory at Stoneville,
Miss., will give some pointers on
"Correcting the Ginners' Mistakes";
and Fred Johnson, Raeford native
now extension ginning specialist at
Stoneville, Miss., will discuss the Gin
ners' Part in the Cotton Improvement
Program.
There will be a recess at 12:30,
when the group will be the guests of
the Hoke Oil and Fertilizer company
at a barbeque dinner, prepared and
served under the direction of Lewis
Upchurch of that concern.
The afternoon session will begin at
2 o'clock with the Ginners' Forum
on Technical Problems which will
be led by C. S. MoCaslan, ginning
engineer of State College.
This will be followed by the closing
business session at which directors
for the district will be chosen. This
year the Central District will also
name the incoming president of the
association and h. will be nornin
ated and elected this afternoon.
The meeting here today is one of
three being held in the state this
week. One at Gastonia yesterday at
which A. D. Cashion, of Cornelius,
R. E. Evans of Charlotte and P. D.
Herndon of Kings Mountain were re
elected directors. The final meeting
will be held tomorrow at Scotland
Neck. ,
MARKETS
The enw markets for fruits and
vegetables will be established this
year in the Mitchell County ares,
reports H. L. Meacham, Extension
marketing specialist of State College.