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VOLUME XXXIX NO. 14
RAEFORD. N. C. THURSDAY, SEPT. 7th, 1944
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S3 IN UNIFORM
T-Sgt. Robert W. Gammon
Wounded In Action
The Purple Heart has been awarded
to Tech Sergeant Robert W. Gam
ir.on who was wounded in action in
France while serving on the front
in France on July 14. Sgt. Gammon
is fro.n Burlington, and is the hus
band of the former Miss Jean Mc
Fadyen of Montrose.
Those from Raeford attending the
James-Guest wedding at the Pres
byterian church in Laurinburg last
week included the bride's uncle,
Rowland Covington, and Mrs Coving,
ton, Miss Mary Stewart Covington,
Mrs. Tom Cameron, Mrs. W. T. Cov
ing and Miss Audrey Brunkhurst.
TiJr. ft'nJ Mf..o I?n,i,l.in1 r.,jlnBn
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Miss Mary Stewart Covington, Miss ?' Protection from fire, according to
Joan Johnson, Mr?. Fred Johnson Lewis Lpcliurch, designer and builder
and Paul Johnson spent several days j ot structure,
of 'a' week at Wrightsville Beach. A' eot'on housed in the building
is air-blown into the stalls direct
.p ,i j from thewagnns or trucks through
An 'Eighth Air Force Reeonnjiss-' udor gates and ducts congee-
S-a.ion. Enuland.-The p-omo-iV for the concern
t -vit:., , , n s.,.iH,n ; 17 nf hy tne Murray gin manufacturing
Raeford, from Corporal to Sergeant,
has been announced by the Com
manding General of the Eighth Air
" s , c, .;,.,., : ,'
Force. Sergeant Strickland is now.
serving as a crew cnier or a twin
engine, reconnaissance aircraft. His
job entails not only the responsi
bility of the maintainence but also
the lives of the crew that fly them.
Sgt: Strickland has been overseas
sixteen months, part of which he
served at a remote airfield in Iceland.
He is a graduate of Garner, N. C.
High School.
Pvt. Ernest M. Black, who has
been-serving overseas for the past 25
months has returned to the States.
He is spending a leave of three weeks
at his home at Rock Hill, S. C, and
with his wife, the former Miss Helen
Parks of Shannon, before reporting
to Miami, Fla., for re-assignment.
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HONOR ROLL FUND
Previously reported $703.79
Mrs. W. A. Crowley 1.U0
TOTAL $704.79
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Funeral Services
For W.E. Blue, 72,
Held Tuesday
Was Former County Road
Supervsor And A & R Con
strution Superintendent
William Elery Blue, 72, jailer for
Hoke County, died at his home here
Monday night after being seriously ill
for several weeks.
Funeral services were conducted
from the home on Tuesday afternoon
at five o'clock by his pastor, the
Rev. Harry K. Holland, minister of
the Rueford Presbyterian church.
Masonic funeral rites were performed
by members of tiie local lodge, and
members of the Racforcl camp of the
Woodmen of the World acted a pall
bearers. Burial was in Rueford
Cemetery.
The son of Mary Cameron and
Mur;.ock Blue of Moore County, Mr.
Blue came to Raeford about 1911
as a constructuin superintendent for
tne Aberdeen and Kockfish railway.
At the completion of the railway he
was named highway supervisor for
the county in which position ihe re
mained until the State assumed main
tenance of the roads. He then was
placed in charge of the State prison
cafmp here until that camp was aban
doned when the Wagram camp was
completed. In 1940 he was named
Jailer for Hoke county and was serv
ing this capacity at the time of his
death.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Miss Annie Belle Gillis and
four children: Mrs. H. C. Bethea of
Dillon, Mrs. G. M. Moon, and Miss
Louise Blue, and Pvt. W. E. Blue,
Jr., of Fort Sill, Okla.
Alos surviving are three sisters:
Mrs. A. C. Cox of Lakeview, and Mrs.
G. A. Sharpe and Mrs. W. H. Richard
son of Greensboro; and four brothers:
D. C. Blue of Charleston. W. Va., and
W. L. Blue of Fayettevil'e. These all
attended the funeral services.
Others from a distance attending
the services were: Mrs. To.n Cot
tinghnm. Miss Bert Bethea and Mrs.
Jennings Kerr of Dillon, S. C; J. T.
Gill:?, of Quitman, C:i.; J. E. Gil'is
of Washington. D. C; Mrs. C. D. Isley
and Mrs. T. C. Moon of Graham, Mrs.
R. E. Blue, of Augusta. Ga.; Mrs. H.
C. Trexler and Miss Miria.n Trexler
of Salisbury.
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Food, furnish the body with about
forty different nutrients, say Exten- j
sion home economists.
Air-Blown Unloader
Feature New Cotton
House Of Hoke Gin
Cinder Block Construction Gives
Local Concern Fire-Safe Stor
age Facilities.
A new type of construction and
new machinery for unloading and
aiding in the drying of cotton fea
tures the new seed cotton storage
house completed by the Hoke Oil and
Fertilizer company for this season's
usage.
The building, which has capacity
for 71 bales of cotton, is constructed
of cinder blocks used throughout for
walls and partitions separating the
71 stalls. The roof is of tin and the
only wood used were for the roof
suport and for the stall-gates.which
give the building a very large measure
company. A Rembert-type bloiver is
used for this purpose.
Mr. L'pchurch puints out that green
or .amp cotton is fluffed considerably
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in the original unloading, and that if
it tends to heat they lift it from the
original stall and blow it into another
through an unusual type arrange
ment of the cotton ducts and dis
charge pipes. The cotton is never
packed into a stall, and this tends
to stimulate drying and conditioning
for ginning to the highest grade pos
sible from the cotton. He states fur
ther that where there are mixed quali
ties of cotton in any one load, the
blowing tends to mix this cotton
tho'oughly and give the farmer a
more evenly ginned bale of staple.
"After three week's usage of the
building, our ginner reports that
the green cotton gins much better,
and much easier when unloaded and
otherwise handled in -this manner.
than when unloaded by hand and
packed into stalls or ginned direct
from the wagons. We are mighty
well satisfied with the results, and
think that the farmers are going to
get higher and more evenly graded
bales as the result," it was stated
by Mr. Upchurch.
The building of the cinder block
construction is the first one of its
type constructed for this purpose
in the United States, according to
State Agricultural officials, and cot
ton men from the State College are
vitally interested in the results of
its first season's work, it has been
stated. Also it is the first suction
unloader to be installed East of the
Missippi. according to Murray gin
officials. They installed experi
mental suction machinery at test gins
in Texas last season and the machin
ery here was designed after the
reports of the experiments conducted
there last season.
Cotton authorities state that the
ginnery of the Hoke Oil and Fertilizer
plant is now one of the really out
standing modern gins of the nation
and should set the pace for future
improvements in sinning throughout
the cotton belt. Other modern
machinery includes four ftO-raw Mur
ray gins, and Mitchell cleaners, hul
lers and dryers.
The firm has also recently con
structed a concrete storage platform
which will store about 125 bales
of cotton. It adjoins the gin and is
available to customers of the gin
nery. O ,
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. Adline Vaughn
Mrs. Adline Vaughn, 78, died at
a Raleigh hospital on Monday August
28th, following an illness of several
years.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday, August 29th at five p. m.
at Sandy Grove Methodist Church by
the Rev. A. E. Brown of Farkton.
Burial was in the church cemetery.
She was the daughter of E. D.
and Liza Ford Matthews of Wayne
county but had been a resident of
Hoke county for about 50 years. In
recent years she had made her home
with her sister, Mrs. Fred McDonald
of near Raeford. Mrs. McDonald and
several neices and nephews survive.
Postpone Opening
Middle Belt
The opening of the middle belt to-
baco markets has been postponed
from September 18 to September 25,
it was announced yesterday by Bill
Carter of the McConnell Warehouse at
Carthage, which advertised in the
News-Journal that they would receive
tobacco for sale on the 18th. Mr.
Carter states that they will receive
tobacco on the 22nd, and
that the
first sale will be on Monday, the 25th.
LEGION INSTALLS OFFICERS MONDAY EVENING Shown
above are, from left to right, N. H. G. Balfour, M. T. Poovey and
J. S. Poole, recently elected principal officers of the Ellis William
son Post of the American, Legion, who will be installed Monday
evening Mr. Poovey is the new commander, Mr. Balfour, vice
commander and Mr. Poole was re-elected adjutant.
"CATCHING A COKE" at Reaves is Tech-Sergeant Bruce Cono
ly, son of Mr. and Mrs. J, E. Conoly of Raeford, who is in the
midst of his first "loafing" period of the past 27 months. Veteran
of 31 missions over Germany, Sgt. Conoly is officially credited
with two of the five German planes his ship shot down. He is
wearing ribbons which show he has been awarded the Distinguish
ed Flying Cross, the Air Medal and five clusters, the Purple
Heart and a Presidential group citation. He will leave next week
for an airfield at Lincoln, Neb., for further service.
Funeral Plans Of
Neill A. Lindsay
Are Incomplete
Stonewall Township Citizen Des
Within Hour Of Arriving At
Hospital.
Neill Alexander Lindsay, 69, well
known and highly respected citizen
and farmer of the Stonewall town
ship, died late Wednesday afternoon
ibn.it an hou- s.f-!r Mnc admitted at
a Fayottevilic hospital.
Fi:ne';.l arraturMVen's were in
omn!co pen in v.1. nd fmni me l.bers
of hW I'.. n: : iy.
Mr. Lindsay was a member of the
board of dearjons of Clala'ia Pres
byterian church and a member of the
Woodmen of the World. The son
of Maty Jane Carmiehae and NeMl
Black Lindsay, he was in his 69th
year. His wife, the former Miss
Mary McCormick Harmon, died in
October, 1928.
Surviving are four sons: Lt. (jg)
Neill Alexander Lindsay, Jr., U. S.
Navy, S-Sgt. John Harmon Lind
say, Fort Sill, Okla., and David Fair-
ley Lindsay, both of Fayetteville;
two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd Auman,
of Greenwood, Miss., and Miss Jane
Black Lindsay, Presbyterian hospital,
Charlotte; three brothers, D. G. Lind
say, Jacksonville, Fla., A. G. Lindsay.
Kreole, Miss., and J. C. Lindsay, Lum-
berton; and two sisters, Mrs. Kate
Townsend. Rockfish, and Mrs. Frank
Bethea. Fayetteville; and also two
grandchildren.
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Raeford Baptist
Church
J. D. Whisnant, Minister
c i e v. i c j .
Sunday School Sunday moaning at
o i t a o v- , 7
9:45. Mr. A. S. Knowles .supermten-
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in IK. l l l-.u UIIIU 1 I l"" A. .VI. JMTT'OTl
by the pastor. B. T. U. Sunday eve-
ning 8:0(1 o'clock, sermon bv the
'pastor. Prayer meeting each Wed-!
nesrlay evening 8:00 P. M.
Sunday morning will be the time
for our quarterly Building Fund
Drive. Shall we say with Solomon:
"And. behold, I purpose to build
a house for the name of Jehovah my
God?"
12 Edinburgh Mills
Employees Earn
Safety Awards
Safety classes for key supervisors
and workers in the Edinburgh Cotton
Mills were concluded this week with
the awarding of 12 certificates.
These safety classes sponsored by
the N. C. Industrial Commission in
cooperation with the Edinburgh Mills,
were conducted by I. W. Farmer,
supervisor of safety. Raleigh. L. B.
Singleton, personnel dire, tnr, nv;i'" -ed
the safety ceitificaies a t!.e con
clusion of the coirse and M. T. Poo
vey, superintendent of K(" 'n'uO'gh
Mills, made a brief talk.
Tiie following were r.war !-! r""t:
f icates.
W. H. Wallace, K. II. H.e'ar, I.aude
Stead.rian, Luke Taylor. Paul Long.
Pauline Wright, Earl Hollar, Annie
Hinson, Edwin Smith, I. aura Long.
W. L. Loy and M. T. Poovey.
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Ban On Children
To Be Lifted By
Board Of Health
The ban on the assembling of chil
dren has been ordered lifted in Hoke
County, effective at 12:01 A. M the
morning of Saturday September 16,
it was announced yesterday.
This will permit children to pre
pare on Saturday for the opening
of the county white schools on Mon
day, and will also permit them to at
tend Sunday services on the 17th.
The action was taken on recommen
dation of local physicians.
The announcement stated that un
less the polio epidemic showed signs
of a new break out in this section,
this would be done. (If course, it
was explained, that should the op;do-
i . , ,, ,j .,,
-ie become worse, neither would the
, , . ,. , ,, v, , ,
, u.ui Lit- I lieu nun -im.....-, . .v
permitted to open.
The opening date of the negro and
indian schools has been set for Octo
ber 2nd.
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Mrs. John Culbreth, who under
went a serious operation at Pittmans
hospital in Fayetteville three weeks
ago, has returned to her home at
Shannon and is greately improved.
!iaD.uf(ieNan
Jack McDuffie left Monday 1., v'fr ctCHS ASKCO
Elizabeth City where he has accepted I .
the position of principal of the city. JfQ!H LiCfflOIl
high school. He had been at home ' O
for a few days following completion
of his work for his .master of arts Installation Of Officers Ellis
degree in education at the University Williamson Post At Court
of North Carolina. house September 11.
While at Chapel Hill he was elee- I
ted to membership of the Phi Dtlta j M. T. Poovey. superintendent of the
Kappa honorary educational frater- Edinburgh Mills, will be installed as
nity. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. !cormander of the Ellis Williamson
John Murdock McDuffie.
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Kiwanians Express
Opinions On Days
Vital Questions
Questionaires On War, Rationing, been extended an nivitation to join
Hitler's Mode' Of Death, etc, I the local post. Adjutant Poole re
Bring Varied Answers. 'l)(rts tnat a number of veterans of
The local arm-chair generals and
experts on domestic affairs gathered
about the supper table at last Thurs -
d;.y's Kiwanis club meeting and a re -
view r their answers to present day
nue. nn- of outstanding Interest
bri.ugnt a varied group of answers
.nd resulted in one of the most in-
tere.-tina programs given recently,
I Of tne 26 answering questions, 13
thought that the war with Germany
woul i end by November of this year.
One thought the end would come by
September 26 and the latest date
given was May 1, 1945.
Tne war with Japan may end any
where between February 6th, 1945
and November 25th, 1946, but the
najoniy believed it would end about
1 year after the fall of Germany or
by November 25, 1945.
1G thought Russia would enter Ber
lin first, while the fore imaginative
believed that Germany would cuT-j .t;ites that there is absolutely no
lapse before their capital would belchai-ge this registration service,
reached and that Stalin, Churchill j and that those who have recently been
and ,Roosevelt would make a grand j charged a fee of 6()c for photostatic
and comrade entrance togetner.
While 9 thought he would be as
sassinated by one of his own people,
and 5 felt he would escape to Spain
or Argentina.
Gasoline Rationing would end any
where from November 1, 1944, to
November, 1947, while the majority
believed next January would see the
end of it.
Four thought Dewey would win
the election this fall, while a fifth
felt sure that the New York govern
or should shave off the mustashe his
chances would improve to the point
jof a victory. 9 gave Roosevelt a big
majority and 12 thought he would
(get a small majority and be re-elec
ted. Another remarked that if
Roosevelt didn't win this fall "he
would be deprived of the pleasure
of ever voting against him again."
The end of the general rationing
program would come anywhere from
November 311. 1944. to the same Jate
in 1949. but the general opinion was
;h..t somewhere aoout January 1,
1946 would be the date.
Unemolovment problems will be
serious, it was
1946. with i
Aiicust. 19'".
' hut it would :
ghl. a'-'.iriie.-t
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For Honor Roll
lit low nu t A-i i.:y s- 1 names
which have been listed w.u. Names
Committee of the Hoke County Hon
or Roll for inclusion on the roll when
it is erected next month. This brings
the county total of men and wo
men known to be in some branch of
the armed forces of the nation to 997
Please send all names not yet in
cluded in one of the four published
lists to Mrs Ina Bethune, chair
man Names Committee, Raeford, N. C.
WHITE
Allred, William Carlyle-correction
Bristow, John L.
Cameron, William Lauchlin
Culbreth, John William
Currie, Angus Wilton
Hair, John David
Hampton, Kenneth
Hampton. Robert Dunlap
Holland, Dexter
Jackson, Howard L.
Maxwell, Jr., M. Luther
Johnson, Chorles Douglas
MeArthur, Henry L.
Mel'.ryde, Duncan B.
M.llryde. Wilson M.
McF.iriyen. John Donaldson
M. 1 i- -. Homy
M.-Inivs. John A.
Mclnnis. Lawrence
McKenzie, Graham R.
McLean, George Woojrlw
McNeill. Hector Brown
Norton, Bradley M.
Ray. Marshall Gillis
Ray, Arnold
Wright. James Arthur
McEachin, John A. Jr., (colored)
M War
Two
I Post of the American Lesion on
Monday evening at meeting of the
post to be held at the courthouse
in Raeford beginning at 8:15 o'clock.
Other officers to be installed at
the meeting include: N. H. G. Bal
four as vice-president and J. S. Poole
adjutant.
All servicemen, veterans of both
the Worlds Wars, are cordially in
vited to attend the meeting and have
me pieseiu wr xmve a.ieiay jo.nea
tiie post and a numbc
rave
u so.
..son,
t'-.e
Red
dis
th is
signified their intention of .i
, District Commander W. S.. 1
'of Dunn, will h;. e chstyv ,
installation ceremony and
' sisted by George W. Caive. . ,
Springs, past comm.-.r.dcr ar.i :
trict's membership office" i..;
'vear.
Register Discharges Free
j Veterans of the present v. r who
; have been discharged are urgently
, requested to have their discharges
, registered in the Registrar's oliee of
(the county. In future years, it is
stated, references of great inirortance
'may require the presentation of a
Service discharge and having it of-
; ficiallv recorded is the surest wnv of
being able to refer to it h:in i'.y. ac
cording to Mr. Balfour.
Mr. Balfour, as chair'i'::n of the
board of coumy tonimi-ioners.
services, should see tne Registrar,
W. W. Roberts and secure a refund of
the charges.
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Robbins Park Ends
Baseball Season
Sunday, Sept. 10
Double-Header Includes Finals
Of Tourney; Whitey Bchrman
Defeats 4th Rgiment.
Finals of the Robbins Park In
vitational tournament will be played
I at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon be-
; tween the 326ih Gilder Iiua. try and
the winner of r. g:-:n" rrhed.ded for
2 p. in. between tiie i8th Infantry
!of the loiilh Division of Fort Bragg
and Re"1 r,v.v!;- 7,; ager Tom
C.e ar.iu a.-.s;., .:: M 'A. rr Coleman
will ptcft the prime v 'he Robins,
v. . .. 1 '- jr ivom c '. tev Behr-
ji ----- '" nitrh for ,h" Gliders.
1 " w; dc- , '' " v. on ice
S-'-day
"SS SIX
1 in the
'ies to
nd for
hud al
Tvvn and
ilnwi
but 1
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u.l
-riii
..la -hall
..oy 15.'
tiuee hits,
r the Hi'it'.lh In
" 15th P.ira-
In the curtain raisi
Hefeatc
i-i u,e :.ry .. -.a list
. e, 17 to t ... v. .1 ' eir way
to the semi-finals. The Red Robins
won their rr.u.::'. two weeks ago and
will meet' the 398th in a semifinal
game Sunday and the winner of this
game will then meet the Gliders
for the championship of the eight
service teams entered in the tourney.
Cotton Storage
Space Improved
Since the news item appearing
in last week's paper was written,
the local cotton storage condition has
improved, it was reported today by
A. S. Knowles, county agent.. Large
movements of cotton to the mills
during the past week will enable
local warehouses to accommodate
considerable more cotton than was
first thought possible.
Because of the improved storage
con., itioii. it is now believed thai
nor.: al storage space w ill he avail
able. Kve:y cotton farmer should see that
his cotton is sampled a! the gin and
graded by a Government Cla.-ser.
The Smith-Doxey classification ran
be used as a basis for marketing.
Farmers desiring to store their cot
ton, whether in warehouse or at
home, now use thin class card for
obtaining Government loans, accord
ing to an announcement this week.
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