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VOLUME XXXIX NO. 9
RAEFORD, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3. 1941
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NEWS or OUR
MEMwWOMEN
IN UNIFORM
Wounded In France
Now Recovered
Cpl. Paul Livingston was wounded
in action in France July 8th accord
ing to a message received by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hector Liv
ingston and his wife, the former Miss
Elizabeth Davis. He has been a
warded the Purple Heart. He is
now out of the hospital and expects
to return to duty soon.
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B. B. Cole.Jr., AMM 3-c is now
stationed at the U. S. Naval Air
Gunners school at Jacksonville, Fla.
Sgt. Alfred Cole spent the week
end with his family here. When
Camp Davis is closed Sgt. Cole will
be at ton ansa, lexas.
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Timberland Soldier
Receives Silver Star
For Gallantry In Action
With The Fifth AWmy, Italy.
Private First Class Robert W.. Bur
gess of Route 5, Timberland, North
Carolina, has been awarded the Sil
ver Star for gallantry in action while
fighting with the 3rd "Marne" Divi
sion on the Fifth Army front in Italy.
During the initial stage of the
Anzio operation. Burgess, although
rjainfullv wounded m the leg, con
tinued to his unit's objective through
artillery fire, some shells landing
as close as 35 yards from him. Alter
walking 1800 yards to a battalion aid
station, he refused to be evacuated
and, in spite of dense mortar con
centrations which injured an aid
man only 10 feet from him, he vol
untarily led aid men 1500 yards to
some wounded soldiers.
WithThe"
ArmyPeople
The Raeford Officers' Wives Club
met last Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Paul Dickson. A delicious
luncheon wai served following which
bridze and rummy were played. A-
hout 30 members attended. The
next meeting will be held August 10
at 1 p. m. at the Kiwanis hall. Mrs.
Mam Jordan and Mrs. Blanche Haf-
ner will be the hostesses. Please call
623-6 for reservations.
Friends of Mrs. D. D. Beckman
are sorry to see her leave Raeford.
Mrs. Beckman and her two sons left
Monday to join Major Beckman at
Fort McPherson, Ga.
Mrs. Georgia Brinker has left for
Durham where she will join Lt
Brinker.
Capt. ind Mrs. Hans Holtart are
now occupying Major Lamont's home.
Mrs. F. T. Brietenback has return
ed to Raeford after spending a few
days i nNew York.
Major and Mrs. S. C. Rich and
their two daughters, Ann and Mary,
are residing in the T. B. Lester, Jr.
home. Before the war Major and
Mrs. Rich made their home in Char
lotte. Major Rich is a medical in
spector with the 100th Infantry Divi
sion at Forth Bragg.
Capt and Mrs. Joe Rothe and Lt.
and Mrs. Linden Webb have rooms
at the Roland Covington home ,
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Honor Roll Fund
Mrs. Paul Deierne, Treasurer
Raeford, N. C.
Previously reported $685.79
Raeford Boy Scouts 5.00
TOTAL $690.79
Raeford Presbyterian
Church
H. K. Holland, Minister
SUNDAY
9:45 A. M. Sunday School, Mr.
F. B .Sexton, Supt.
11,:00 A. M. Morning Worship,
Rev. C. M. Gibbs.
8:00 P. M Evening Worship,
conducted by the Young People of
the church.
MONDAY
4:00 P. M. Executive Board of the
"Woman's Auxiliary.
TUESDAY
1:00 P. M. Junior CJlr Rehear
sal. THURSDAY
8:30 P. U. Adult Choir Rehearsal
Club Activities
Are Renewed By
Home Agents
(By Josephine Hall)
Twelve Home Demonstration Clubs
met in Hoke county with 132 club
women present The major project
was "It's Good Business to Keep
Well."
The Mt. Pleasant Club met for the
first time in their club room in a
house belonging to Mr. Seagrove
of that community.
Mrs. T. D. Potter, a member of
the Raedeen Club, won the club
quilt which was given away at the
meeting of their local club in July.
The Rockfish Club gave Mrs. Z.
G. Ray a handkerchief shower at
their regular meeting during the
month. Mrs Ray is leaving the fist
of August to make her home in
gtea(j
Food Conservation was the minor
project for the month of July. Eleven
cannnig demonstrations were given
and the four pressure cookers in the
home agent'3 office have been in
constant use. Many of Raeford peop
le have been assisted with can
ning problems. The fact that the
community cannery has not been
running probably accounts for the
many requests from the town people.
A dehyd rater, owned by the REA,
is in the home agent's office at the
present time and is available to the
public for drying fruits and vege
tables. Plans have been made for the
foods leaders to give the demonstra
tions at the August meetings. Picnics
have been palnned in several com
munities.
Mrs. P. P. McCain, district chair
man, Women's Division of the War
Finance Coromttiee, has asked that
each Home Demonstration club start
a War Stamp Album to be filled by
the Sixth War Loan Drive which will
run from November 11 to December
7. Plans have ben made for each
club to do this.
76 library books were checked to
club women at meetings.
John D. Cobb, 70,
Of Parkton, Dies
John D. Cobb, 70, a life-long resi
dent of Lumber Bridge, died Friday
at a hospital in Fayetteville after an
illness of six weeks duration.
, Mr. Cobb was the oldest son of
the late Col. Stephen J. Cobb and
Ninetta Thaggard Cobb and was one
of the most prominent farmers in
Robeson county. He served as a
member of the Second North Caro
lina olunteers, Co., in the Spanish'
American war and was retired from
his company in 1903 with the per
manent rank of major. He was a
member of the Stephen J. Cobb camp
of the Spanish-American War vet
erans of Cumberland county. He
was a member of the Baptist church
of Parkton and served for many
years as its Sunday school superin
tendent
Surviving are his wife, the former
Miss Sally Thornton, and three sons
S. T. Cobb, of Wilmington; R. Glenn
Cobb, of Fayetteville; and James D.
Cobb, of the United States army air
corps, Santa Anna, Cal,: two daugh
ters, Mrs. Raymond Russell, of Iquit
sos, Peru, and Mrs. Norma nMiller,
of Baltimore, Md.; a brother, J. J.
Cobb, of Parkton; and a sister, Mrs.
Charles R. Murphy, of Lynchburg,
Va.
Funeral services were held Sun
day, at 5. p. m., at the Baptist church,
Parkton, and burial was in the ceme
tery at Parkton, Active pall bearers
were F. B. Dunn, F. L. Tolar, J. Q.
Parnell, George W. Leeper, E. L.
Byrd, W. G. Britt, O. P. Breece a.i
Malcolm McQueen.
Honorary pall bearer were mem
bers of the Stephen J. Cobb post,
United States Spanish-American War
Veterans, members of the Men s
Bible class, Parkton Baptist church;
also Dr. D. S. Currie, L. E. Hughes,
J. E. Clifton, D. G. Malloy, Edgar
Ballance, J. E. WUliford, W. G. Mar
ley and Will McGougan.
It is often necessary to wet the
floor of the tobacco barn to hasten
the softening of the cured leaf.
U. S. wheat production Is estima
ted at 1,128.000,000 bushels, the lar
crop in history.
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The WFA will not "dump" on the
market the 10.500 carloads of eggs
acquired in the price support pro
gram, say reports.
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Machinery is the chief source of
farm accidents and farm animals run
a close second. "Slips" and "falls"
are in third place.
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The later cotton is picked the low
er the price. Pick It dry and clean
for better prices.
Stephens J. Long, 44,
Dies At Antioch
Funeral services for Stephens J.
Long, 44, resident of the Antioch
community, were held from the Rice
Chapel near Wagram, Tuesday morn
ing. Burial was in the church ceme
tery. Mr. Long died quite suddenly Sun
day afternoon of a heart illness of
only a few minutes duration. A
native of Bladen county, he was
the son of the late Janie Buie and
Andrew Jackson Long. For the past
several years he had been farm
ing in the Antioch section, having
moved there from Scotland county.
Surviving are his wife, three
daughters; Nancy Lee, Clara Lou and
Kathleen; and two sons: William and
Randolph. Also surviving are five
sisters: Mrs. Jim Stephens, and
Misses Dollie, Bertha, Lula and Er
ma Long; and two brothers, Frazier
and Prince Long, all of Scotland
county.
Many Report To
Bragg For Exams
A large group of Hoke County
negroes reported to Fort Bragg Tues
day for pre-induction examinations.
They were:
Gaston Johnson, Willie McPhaul
Willie Thomas McLauchlin, Thomas
Cleo Burke, Elden Clayton McNeill,
Elroy Chandler, McCall Stringfield,
Nataniel Smith, Levont Mack, Eddie
Martin Piatt, John David Purcell,
William Dempson, William Calvin
Dobbin, Walter Curthie Covington,
Lacy Thomas Murphy, Cleo Arties
Thomas, Grantham McNeill, Chester
Everett, William Thomas Green,
Johnnie ' Johnson, Robert Junior
Mack, Kinston Purcell, Richard Al
ton McLean.
Honest James Daniels, Willie James
Leak, John Thomas Scriven, Willie
Rufus Shields, Jessie McAllister, Al
bert McLean, Leroy Leak, William
James McGregor, Herbert Elaine Ed
wards, Walter Hayswood Shaw, Trl
versia Monroe, James Lockhart, Ed
die Nathaniel Hardy, Henry .Jack'
son Graham, Thomas Blue, Robert
Floyd Goodman, James Nathaniel
Blue.
Harvey Lee McGregger, Bennie G.
Ross, Paul C. McNeill, Rubert Warren
McLauchlin, Willie Lester, Walter
Raleigh Clark, Alton Winseylow De
bery, Murd McKoy, Julius Bradshaw
Rouse, Clarence Wade, Norman Flet
cher Almond, Rheuben McFadyen,
Willie Chambers, Ervin Davis, James
Oscar Lee.
Henry Charlee McLauchlin, James
Walter Allsbrooke, Lenzie McRae, Le-
vander Ray, Charlie Washington Lo
max, Willie Davis, Ezra Thornton
Priest, E. J. Hollingsworth, William
James Armstrong, Thomas Tate, Jo
seph Washington, James McLean,
James Calvin McDonald, James Er
nest Quick.
Syrus Peterkin, Johnnie Dimps,
Theron Wade, Sandy Junius More,
(Transfer); James Sykes, (Transfer);
Winford Pride, (Transfer); David
Lee Day, (Transfer); and John
Thomas McPhatter.
LIBRARY NEWS
A book received by Hoke County
Library is a copy of "Addreses, Let
ters and Papers of Clyde Roark
Hoey, Governor of North Carolina
1939-1941." This book was edited
by David LeRoy Corbitt, Chief Li
brary Assistant, State Department
of Arehieves ' and History.
Two books have been presented to
the library in memory of Lt. Law
rence Helton, Green Light, by Lloyd
C. Douglas, and God Is My Co-Pilot,
by Col. Robert L. Scott.
Among the new books received
for boys and girls are the following:
There Was A Child Went Forth,
Whitman; The Sword is Drawn, Nor
ton; Plain Clothes Patricia, Urm
ston; A Bee in Her Bonnet, Kristof
fersen; Trudy and the Tree House,
Coatsworth; Wenderley, Mallette;
Sally, Army Dietitian; Worthington;
Cocky, the Little Helicopter, Alden;
Tower House, Baker; Pigeon Heroes,
Cothern; and Uncle Sam's Navy: How
It Works; Avisen.
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Raeford Methodist
Church
W, L. Maness, Minister
SUNDAY, AUGUST ,
10:00 A. M. Church School. Tom
Cameron, general superintendent.
11:00 A. M. Regular preaching
service
7:00 P. M. Meeting of Youth Fel
lowship, Mrs. Clyde Upchurch, Jr.,
Adult Counsellor,
:00 P. M. Regular evening ser
vice.
4.00 P. M. Monday Spiritual life
meeting of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service.
A hearty welcome awaits you at
each of these service.
Big Rockfish In
Centenary Holds
All Day Service
Hundreds Return For Obser
vance Of Anniversary Of No
table Congregation.
Big Rockfish church celebrated its
100th birthday on Sunday, with
morning and afternoon services, and
with a huge country picnic that
laughed, for aday, at ration books,
sandwiched in between, and several
hundred members, former members,
and descendants of former members,
friends, attending. The day was per
fect, from weather to doxology and
more than one visitor turned away
with regret at the slimness of the
prospect of his attending the second
centennial celebration in A. t. 2044.
Morning services were conducted
by the Rev. A. R. McQueen, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church at
Dunn and the afternoon was featured
by the reading of the church his
tory, largely the work of the late
Mrs. Emma Cotton McDonald, who
compiled the work from church re
cords of which her late husband was
long keeper. Musical selections, no
tably by a Negro quartette, whose
forefathers were once members of
the church, added interest to the af
ternoon. The picnic dinner astonished and
completely filled everybody. Ad
ditional tables were hastily erected
to take care of the dinner, and after
everybody had eaten there was
enough left over for a small army.
Much of the day was given over to
the re-newing and extending of old
acquaintances. Among the visitors
was E. F. McNeill, a descendant of
Jennie Bahn McNeill and her hus
band, who came from his home in
Kansas to look up old family records
Members of the congregation were
warmly commended by visitors and
returned relatives for their work of
restoring the church and rehabilita
ting its grounds. More than $1,500
had been spent on painting, wiring
for electricity, cleaning and re-furnishing.
The church yard was cleaned
ud and century-old graves restored,
their tumbled grave-stones cleaned
and re-set. The afternoon services
were conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. J. F. Menius. Among the visit
ors from a distance were Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Qraham, of Clinton,
but unable to attend was Dr. Frank
P. Graham whose forefathers were
members of the church.'
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First Cotton Opens
Heralding Early
Picking Season
An early cotton picking season
is heralded this year by the fact that
many farmers had cotton open be
fore the first of August.
The first bolls reported to the
News-Journal this year were brought
in by J. W. Hasty of Allendale town
ship, and by young Gamet Brooks of
Red Springs. Both are growers of
the Coker 100-Wilt variety, in which
Hoke County specializes.
An editorial on Hoke's unique cot
ton marketing plans is quoted this
week from the Fayetteville Observer.
Elections Held
Student elections for the second
term of summer school at Presby
terian Junior College were held at
the regular chapel service on Mon
day. The following officers of the
Student Government were elected:
President, John B. King of Charlotte;
vice president, Henry Trewhitt,
Cleveland, Tenn.; secretary, Charles
Smith, Lumberton; representative
from the college department, Joe
Chesser, Quincy, Fla.; representative
from the preparatory department,
Billy Aiken, Dallas, Ga..
Officers of the Student Christian
association were elected as follows:
President, George Wilkinson, Rocky
Mount; vice president, Kennetn
Strayhorn, Chapel Hill; secretary
treasurer, Edward Barton, Dillon, S.
Peoples Tabernacle
H. Gwynn Clayton, Minister
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,
o-4S A M Sunday School. Les
ter Baker, supterintendent. Lesson
11:00 A. M. Morning Worship,
sermon by the pastor.
3:00 P. M. Singing Kaiiy. au are
invited.
7:00 P. M Young People's meet
ing.
8:00 P. M. Evneing Worshp .ser
mon by the pastor.
6:00 P. M. Monday cottage r rayer
Meeting at the home of Mrs. Mary
Jenkines.
8:00 P.M. Tuesday Mid-week
Prayer Meeting.
8 0 OP. M. Wednesday Missionary
Meeting. .
8:00 P. M. Friday "Front Porch"
Revival Service at the home of Mrs.
Curtis Baker.
Electric Irons
To Be Available
Of the 2,037,838 electric irons al
ready authorized for civilian produc-
ton. about 90 percent will be house
hold models, mostly automatic, and
the remainder, commercial models.
WBP says. The Irons will not be ra
tioned and some of them are ex
pected to be available in the fall.
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The State Council of the N. C. Fed
eration of Home Demonstration clubs,
scheduled for August 9 and 10 in
Raleigh, has been postponed on ac
count of polio.
Tobacco Markets
To Open Tuesday
After Week Delay
OPA Turns Thumbs Down On
Appeal For Lifted Ceiling
Prices.
Tobacco markets in the Georgia
Belt opened Monday and will open
after delays while growers, ware'
housemen and public officials of three
states tried, without success, to in
duce the Office of Price Administra
tion to allow an increase above the
fixed ceilings for flue-cured tobacco.
Final refusal was announced by the
OPA Saturday afternoon and the
petitioners admitted defeat and the
markets were ordered opened.
Prices fixed by the OPA for the
season will be 39 cents per pound for
loose tobacco and 42 1-2 cents for
uraded and tied tobacco. Georgia
markets handle tobacco in bulk and
the Border and other belts have it
graded and tied. The differential
between graded and 'loose tobacco
in the only concession that has been
won for the growers in this territory.
Governor J. Melville Broughton
attended the conferences with OPA
officials in Washington after he had
directed a week's delay in the open
ing of warehouses in the State. Their
usual opening time i3 the first of
August
Growers and warehousemen main
tained that this year the cost of
production has advanced. There is
no ceiling on farm wages, and con
fronted with a serious shortage of
help, farmers have paid what they
were asked when they could get
anybody to accept the wages. But
OPA officials maintained that they
had not been shown that at the
ceiling prices fixed there would not
be a profit for the grower.
Markets in Lumberton and other
sales centers in southeastern North
Carolina are in readiness for the
opening, but farmers in the territory
are less advanced in preparation that
is usually the case. In many sec
tions the crop was delayed, and work
of grading tobacco for the. market
has lagged.But most markets expect
the week's holiday in advance of the
opening will compensate for it, and
large breaks are expected.
Lumberton, nearest market to none
is expecting its most successful sea
son, according to Jasper C. Hutto,
sales director of the market All ware
houses are in 'readiness for the open
ing, and prospects for the season
are excellent, says Mr. Hutto.
OPA Moves Up
Price Cheap Beer
WAI.F.IGH. Aug. 2. The Raleigh
district office of Price Administra
tion haa authorized the sale of 24
more brands of beer in 3-B beer re
tail snnt to be sold at 17 cents per
bottle rather than for twelve cents.
np eriH that beer retailers clas
sified as 1-B and 2-B establishments
may also sell the 24 brands at the
hicrhor nrice under the new order.
The order permits the increase in
the price of the beer m all Deer re
tail snots in accordance with the
regulations.
OPA listed the 24 brands oi Deer
as follows:
Rnrirer Rrau: Dover: Edelbrew;
Ehret; Esslinger; English Lad; Gold
Label; Gold Medal Tivoli; Genesee;
Hornug's; Holland Horlacher's; Koe
nitf Rrau: Krueirer: Little Man; Lion;
Loewers; Namar Premium: P. A. S.;
Reading; Red Top; Trim; Trommers
Light; and Victory.
Farm Butter Points
Unchanged By OPA
UAT.F.iriW An 2 Thedore S.
Johnson, Raleigh District OPA di
mMm sfiM tnHav Hint farm and pro
cessed' butter point values are NOT
rhinvorf In any way although crea
mery butter point values have gone
from 12 to 18 points per pouna.
nwnrlrMt ni mwessed batter is
still four points per pound and farm
butter is eignt points per pouna.
Creamery butter is now II points
per pouna.
D v Ends Long
Ana . ul Life s
0fMrsnaId
Came On Visit b j Ago,
Remained To Bec. Church
And Civic Leader.
Mrs Emma Cotton McDonald, wha
came to North Carolina nearly 60
years ago to visit her brother, the
late Simeon Cotton, and remained to
become one tf the outstanding wo
men of the Cape Fear section, died
at the home of her son. Kenneth A.
McDonald in Raeford Wednesday af
ternoon, after a long period of de
clining health. Funeral services were
held in the Raeford Presbyterian
church Friday morning with burial
following in the family plot of Big
Rockfish cemetery.
Mrs. McDonald, who had passed
her 88th birthday, is survived by
two sons, Kenneth A. McDonald of
Raeford, Graham McDonald, of Nor
folk, Va., and by one daughter, Mrs.
Eliabeth McDonald Cashwell, who
lives at the family home near Big
Rockfish Presbyterian church. Six
teen grandchildren also survive, as
well as neices and nephews.
Few women have left so lasting'
an imprint of themselves on their
communities as did Mrs. McDonald.
She came as a stranger to Big Rock
fish community nearly 68 years agi
when her brother was superintendent
of the re-organized and re-built cot
ton factory at Hope Mills. The Cot
tons came from Chester, Pa. She
taught in the village school, and wa3
married to the late Lauchlin Mc
Donald, son af a pioneer Scott, then
and until her death an outstanding
citizen of the community.
Though her first thought was for
her home and her family, Mrs. Mc
Donald found time for anything that
was directed to the benefit of her
community. She was a leader in the
organization of woman's work in the
church. Her energy and devotion
expanded her field, and it was largely
due to her enthusiastic leadership
that the work was expanded to In
clude the Presbytery. She contin
ued, later, for many years a teacher
in the Hope Mills school.
Funeral services in Raeford were
conducted by the pastor. Rev. H. K.
Holland, assisted by the Rev. J. F.
Menius, pastor of Big Rockfish, and
the Rev. D. L. Jones, former pastor.
At the grave at Big Rockfish, where
hundreds of friends and relatives
were assembled, the grave was hid
den with an unusually large num
ber of flowers. Pall bearers were
F. B. Sexton, Dr. R. L. Murray, A.
K. Stevens, Milton Campbell, E. B.
Campbell, N L. McFadyen and Clar
ence Lytch. Officers of the Pres
byterian church were honorary pall
bearers.
WMC Places Many
Veterans In Jobs
RALEIGH, Aug. 2. Earlier esti
mates that an average of 1500 North
Carolina war veterans were being
released monthly apparently is an
understatement, since an average of
more than 1100 discharged veterans
have applied for jobs in offices of
the U. S. Employment Service of
the War Manpower Commission each
month during the past five months.
February-June.
The 6,875 veteran applicants for
for Jobs in the state. Dr. J. S. Dorton,
State manpower director, explains,
do not include veterans who have
returned to their old jobs, without
registering at the employment of
fices, nor those who have returned to
farm jobs when released from the
service.
Of the 6,875 World War II veterans
who ayplied for jobs, 5,265 com
pleted their applications, and of this
in jobs. In addition, the USES of
fices assisted in placing 1,263 other
veterans In jobs during the five
months.
All of the local USES offices in
the state have one or more workers
designated as veterans' placement
representatives, most of tiiem vet
erans of World War I or LL, who
specialize in handling veterans, all
under general supervision of R. C.
Godwin, State veterans' placement
representative. Also, one of these
representatives is stationed, part
time, if that is Justified, in all Army
and Navy hospitals in the State from
which disabled veterans are dis
charged. Some strains of hybrid seed corn
have stood the dry weather this sum
mer much better 'than the regular
varieties.
The Congress has appropriated1
$50,080,000 for a continuation of the
national school lunch program.
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Wake County growers are plan
ning to seed about 900 acres of alfalfa
the first of September.