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VOLUME XXXIX NO. 25
KAEFOKD, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1944
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MENwWOMEN
IN UNIFORM
Pvt. Henry McArthur of Fort Mon
mouth, N. J., is spending a ten-day
furlough at home.
Lt. A. B. Dickson, MCUSN, writes
that he and Jake Austin have hid a
nice visit together in San Francisco.
While in San Francisco Alvis was
with his unrip Pant .T Cw Dirksnn
UNS, who has recently been medical
officer in charge of Treasurer Island
hospital. However. Capt. Dickson
has been transferred to Camp Lejune
Marine Base, New River, N. C.
Lt. (jg) R. W. Whitley. USNR
spent the week-end at home visiting
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. B.
Whitley. He left Monday for York
town, Va., where he was to report
for duty, having been previously Eta
tioned at Seattle Washington.
Percy C. Howell, storekeeper third
class, has been sent irom Charle
ston, S. C, to Port Hueneme, Calif.
Lis. Sam and Spec Morris have
both received promotions to first lieu
tenants.
James Wood of the Merchant Ma
rines spent a few days at hone with
his wife, the former Miss Margaret
Baker.
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Mrs. Aaa nan, wno uves on me
Dundarrach road near Raeford, re -
ceived word this week that her son,
Pfc. Jack Hall, serving with our
forces in France, was slightly wound
ed two weeks, ago. Pfc. Hall was
struck in the hip by a German bul
let, but hospitalization was not neces
sary and he returned to duty within
a few days of his injury,
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Attend National Meet
Of Grange At Winston
Tommie Upchurch and Fred P.
Johnson attended' the meeting of the
National Grange which was held m
Winston-Salem this week.. Mr. John
son is an officer of the national staff.
Mr. Upchurch, . a state officer, ap
peared on the program Wednesday
evening, and assisted in the presen
tation of the sixth ami seventh de
crees of the order.
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Orthopaedic Clinic
An orthopaedic clinic will be held
Friday, December 1 in the basement
of the Agricultural building. This
clinic is free to all indigent children
unc .'21 years of age. Dr. O. L. Mil
le' of Charlotte, will be the surgeon
ii. charge. Please register at the desk
between nine and eleven o'clock in
order to see the doctor early.
Have Oyster Roast
The Hoke county chapter of the
Alumi association of State College
held an oyster roast Monday eve
ning at the plant of the Hoke Con
crete company.
Marion Gatlin was re-elected presi
dent and A. S. Knowles was re-elected
treasurer. D. H. Hddgin, Doug
McLeod and Tommie Upchurch, vice
president of the general alumni as
sociation, won the awards for the -most
oysters eaten. Marion Gatlin was
given honorable mention in the con
test. O
Cutt ng Tops Costs
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43 DUSnelS Ut torn
A. J. Wilkerson of Marion, Route
2, found that cutting tops cost him
19 bushels of corn per acre this year
in a test which he conducted in co
operation with Farm Agent S. L.
Homewood of McDowell count, re
ports Enos Blair, Ektension agrono
mist at State College.
A field of good, bottom-land corn
was selected for the demonstration.
Corn tops were cut on a portion of
the field and the remained of the
crop was left to grow normally. The
topi were cu tat just the right time
to make good roughage, or just as
the shucks were turning brown,
When the corn was measured, the
yield was 63 bushels per acre where
the tops were cut and 82 bushels
where the corn was not topped. The
average weight of tars was 15 ounces
In the second plot as compared with
only 11 ounces where the tops were
cut, according to Homewood.
'The grain simply could not ma
ture properly when the 'plants were
deprived of so many leaves, Blair
said, in discussing the demonstration.
"This test is proof of the old teach
ing that the grower who cuts tops
or pulls, fodder, pays a big price
for his roughage by a reduction in
the yield of his corn and, in addi-
tion, throws away the ebtra labor
s;ient in doing the work." I
Farm Credit Group
Meets Here Dec 3
To Name Directors
N. H. G. Balfour, President. Says
Much Interest In Association
Throughout This Section
"The Laurinburg Production Credit
association which makes agricultural
loans to farmers in Hoke and Scot'
land counties, will hold its eleventh
annual meeting in Raeford in armory
building December 8th at 10:30 o -
clock," H. L. Morgan, secretary-trea
surer, announced this week.
"At this meeting," Mr. Morgan said,
"two directors will be elected by the
stockholders."
"We expect a large attendance.
N. H. G. Balfour, president of the
association, said. 'There is always
a great deal of interest in our an
nual meeting, particularly in the re'
port on the operations and acconv
plishments of our association during
the preceding years."
Mr. Balfour also pointed out that
the Laurinburg Production Credit as
sociation is a cooperative credit or
ganization which makes short-term
agricultural loans on all types of far
ming and is owned and controlled by
the farmer-members of the associa
tion.
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Miss Sarah McKeithan
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Mi Sarah MKsithan Hied WpH.
.nesday afternoon, November 15 at
the home of her niece. Mrs. W. M
Blue. She had been in declining
health for a long time and her death
was not unexpected.
The deceased was born January
22. 1858 in what is now the Fort
Bragg reservation, but then was
Cumberland county, afterward be
coming a part of Hoke. Her pa
rents were pioneers of the Sandhill
section, being the late John and
Christian Smith McKeithan. She
came to Raeford to live in 1920 and
made her home with her sister, Mrs.
Sam Cameron, After her sister's
death she lived with her niece, Mrs.
W. M. Blue. She was a life long
member of the Sandy Grove P.-es-byterian
church, which is in the Fort
Bragg reservation.
Funeral services for Miss McKe. th
an were conducted Thursday after
noon from the home, by the Rev.
H. K. Holland. By special permis
sion the body was laid to rest in b an
dy Grove church yard among all her
forbears Pallbearers were: Martin
and Make McKeithan, John Cameron,
John Mctvay Blue, James Morns, atl
nephews, and J. S. Poole.
Miss McKeithan was the last mem
ber of her immediate family. She
is survived by a number of nieces ai.d
nephews.
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Honor Roll Fund
The following names have been
added to the list of men and women
from Hoke county who are in the
service of a branch of our armed
forces, and reported toy Mrs. Ina Be-
thune, names chairman of the county
honor roll.
WHITE
Davis, Thomas F. Jr.
Smith, John A.
Smith, Julian C.
Williamson. James A.
COLORED
Blue, David C.
Priest, Graham L.
Priest, William Edward'
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IChildrenTo Get
Special Treasury
Certificates
If Parents Buy War Bonds For
Them Dunne Sixth War Loan
Campaign, Says Mrs. II A.
Cameron.
The especially designed childrens
certificate, drawn by Walt Disney
and bordered by colored reproduce
tions of the favorite cartoon charac
ters, will be awarded' children of
Hoke county, under six years of age,
for whom war bonds are purchased
during the Sixth War Loan Drive.
Mrs. H. ' A. ' Cameron, childrens
chairman for the county, has received
a supply of the certificates, and they
may be secured from her or through
any of the campaign solicitors or
doorknockers in the county, when
bond is put in the name of any child
under six years of age.
The certificates are attractively de
signed and a colorful border In
cludes the favorite cartoon char
acters so well known to movie goers.
Among those pictured on the border
are: Donald Duck, the Seven Dwarfs
and Mickey Mouse and his girl friend
Minnie and others.
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MARSHALS ELECTED. Betty
Rogers, elected chief marshal by the
Epsilon Chi Literary society in the
recent campus elections at Flora
Macdonald college is from White-
State Urgently Needs More Doctors And
Hospitals, Says Head State Health Agency
Editor's Note: One of the most
important matters facing the next
General Assembly is the Governor's
proposed State-Wide Program of Hos
pital and Medical Care for ALL the
people of our state.
Professional men, labor, farm, and
medical leaders all agree that this
movement for good health will be
just as important to the public as
our previous "movements for good
roars and good schools.
Ttte major questions are how it will
be worked out and financed. Our
county and town have a vital stake in
these matters, and our readers needs
to be informed, so they may make
their wishes known to their Legisla
tors. With this purpose. The News-
Journal is inaugurating this series
of short articles on the major phases
of the plan by various State authori
ties. The next in the series will
appear on the same day next week.
By Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
State Health Officer and Secretary
of the Governor's Commission on
Hospital & Medical Care.
The citizen's first and most natural
questions are: What is the need
for this proposed State-Wide pro
gram of hospital and 'medical care?
And what will it mean to you and
me and to the general public?
All right, let's begin right at home
and look at your own case first.
Suppose your child is lying critical
ly ill. If you have the money and you
live close to a good doctor, hospital,
and drug store, that is fine. Millions
of our people are not so fortunate,
and you may be in the same boat
someday.
Now suppose you live in one of our
34 counties without a single hospital
bed. Or your doctor has gone off
to war. Or you are temporarily out
of a job and funds. How would you
feel then?
These are neither occasional nor
scattered examples. They are stark
realities every -day to thousands of
good Tar Heel citizens.
The plain truth of the matter is
that North Carolina is desperately
in need of MORE DOCTORS MORE
HOSPITALS, and MORE INSUR
ANCE.
We like to think of our State as
first in tobacco, first in cotton mills.
third in federal taxes, 11th in popu
lation or alaways up at the top.
But how many of our citizens rea
lize that we rank exactly 45th among
the state In number of doctors and
42nd in number of hospitals per
1,000 people. No wonder we are 41st
in maternal and 39th in infant deaths
The accepted formula is that there
should be 1 doctor for each 1.000
people. But North Carolina has 1
doctor for each 1.554. Rural North
Carolina has 1 doctor for each 3,613.
And the colored race has one doctor
for each 6 916!
The distribution of physicians is
also poor. Many rural people live
from five to 20 miles from a doctor.
Fifty-five percent of the state is
more than five miles from a physi
cian. '
Again, the minimum approved stan
dard is 4 hospital beds per 1.000
people. The figures for the white
race are 1.59 in the East and 2.43 in
the west. Those for the colored are
92 and 2.38. And 34 counties in the
state do not have a single hospital
bed!
Our hospital saving and insurance
plans, d"spite their recent growth,
still covrr only 12 or 14 per cent of
our people, and there is an urgent
need to extend some such prepayment
plan to the masses, and particularly
the farmers.
Other pressing needs which will j
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shals are Nancy Me,
bia, N. C.; Sara Britto, White
ville: Billie Estes of York. C. and
Frances McPhaul of Red Springs
Hoke Team Defeated
By Fayetteville's JV's
In a game played Friday night,
November 17, in Fayetteville, Hoke
High's gridiron team went down to
a defeat of 33-0 at the hands of the
Fayetteville High junior varsity. Not
withstanding the loss to Fayetteville,
the locals payed exceptionally well
under the circumstances. They suc
ceeded in holding the score to 7-0
during the first half and continued
to show their mettle throughout the
game. This was Hoke High's first
experience in playing under lights
and with a white ball; also the Fay
etteville team has had practice in
playing against Fayetteville varsity.
In view of these facts Coach White
and others who witnessed the game
testified that the locals played an un
usually good game.
Outstanding players were Plumrmer.
Thomas, McKeithan, and Freeman.
Of the three games played this sea
son, the team has won two and lost
one.
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Quail Bag Limit
Is 10 Per Day
The quail season opens on Novem
ber 23rd according to County Game
Protector A..T. Perry. He also warn3
that it is a violation of the 1 iw to
take more than 10 birds pa.- day.
Bags will be checked. It is also a
violation to sell, offer for sale, or
buy quail. Lay Days Quail can
be hunted in Hoke county only on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The law provides for quail hunting
on Christmas and Saturdays. The
law provides for quail hunting op
Christmas and New Year's day in
Ley Day counties. It is a violation
to hunt game birds and animals ex
cept Coon and O'Possum after sunset.
All automatic loading and hand-op
erate reDeatine shotguns must be
plugged so as not to hold rrore than that his plans were to hit and ham
three shells at one time while hunting , mer the Germans with increasing
all game birds and animals except
deer.
The turkey and rabbit season opens
on November 23. Bag limit on tur
key is one per day three per season.
Rabbit no limit.
LIBRARY NEWS
Anything a Horse Can Do, by Col.
H F. Gregory, is the story of the
helicopter. Col. Gregory is an out
standing army helicopter export who
has taken an active part in contem
porary experiments and has flown
all of the latest helicopter models.
Inglis Fletcher's third historical
novel about North Carolina Lusty
Wind for Carolina." is now in the
library. Other new books are: Neds
and Becks, Franklin P. Adams; The
Green Years, Cronin; My Home is
Far Away, Powell; Blackmail, Hoke;
Brave Men, Ernie Pyle; The Christ of
the American Road, E. Stanley Jones;
Pilots All, Felsen; and1 Tales From
the Vienna Woods, story of Johann
Strauss, by David Ewen. This .s the
only biography of Strauss in print in
America.
The library will be closed Thurs
day, Thanksgiving Day.
be taken up later include: a 4-year
State Medical School and Hospital;
new regional and added county hos
pitals; rural clinics and health cen
ters; extensions of school and public
health work.
Yes, the needs are clear and un
disputed. The next topic is what is
this State's proposed plan or solu
tion, and that will come in next
week's article.
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From the Zetesian society, Mae Mc
Daniel is from Bennettsville. S. C.
Vivian Mclnnis of Shannon; Julia
Lee Brown of Myrtle Beach S. C,
and Nell Lancaster of Shelfar. Va
Funeral For Mrs.
Ella Juat Held
At Aberdeen
Friends of Mrs. Ella Juat of Ab
erdeen and Ed Bethune will regret
to learn of the death of their sister.
Miss Bessie Bethune. She died at
the home in Aberdeen Tuesday night.
Funeral services were conducted at
Bethesda Presbyterian church in Ab
erdeen today at 2 o'clock. Interment
was in the cemetery at Old Bethesda.
For many years Miss Bethune was
the popular librarian in Aberdeen.
She had very broad family connec
tions and was related to a large num
ber of people from Hoke county.
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Eisenhower Calls
For More Backing
From Home Front
Maximum Effort Needed At
Home As Well As At Battle
front Says Allied Commander
Supreme Headquarters Allied Ex
pedition Forces. Paris, Nov, 21. Gen.
Eisenhower declared today his plan
for future operations is to increase
pressure steadily all along the western
front until the Germans are crushed.
To do this, greater supplies are
necessary, the supreme co.nmander
of the western front said.
"I want more supplies than we are
getting and I think the soldier wants
more than he is getting, both now and
in the future," he said.
"To get peace, we have got to
fight like hell for it," the commander
said, "now let's do it."
Eisenhower appeared fit as ever
after a tour of all parts of the fight
ing zone, and said he was especially
happy over the French breakthrough
to the Rhine.
"No single instance has pleased me
so much in a long while as the capture
of Belort by the gallant French army
and its reaching the Rhine," Eisen
hower said.
The general told correspondents
pressure, reaching its peak on the
day the Nazis finally surrender.
"Unless everyone all the way
through the nations those at the
front and those at hone keep on the
job everlastingly and with mounting
intensity we are only postponing
the day of victory," Eisenhower de
clared.
"The very maximum effort must
be made on the day of surrender."
Eisenhower declined to make any
prediction as to when the war would
end and said his call for an all-out
effort both at the front and at home
was his prescription for victory."
He said the weather had prevented
a full effort in the air in the current
offensive but added:
"One thing that continues to grow
to my intense satisfaction is the team
work between the ground forces,
navies and air forces."
He said that while he saw no
sign yet of a German crackup, the
Germans were human beings like
other people and if confronted by
failure after failure of their armed
forces, they would inevitably crack.
It is the Allied job, he said, to con
front the Germans with more and
more of these failures.
In asking for more supplies, the
general made it clear that he was,
not criticizing the efforts of the home
fronts in Allied countries up to now.
but simple stating that still more ma
terial would be needed as still greater
numbers of soldiers are committed to
battle.
A military secret
Ts an Army trust
To zip the lip
I an Army mustl
Bond Chairmen For
Hoke Units Named
By D. H. Hodgin
Sixth War Loan Drive Under
Way With County "E" Bond
Quota Set At $113,000.
Names of the members of the var
ious committees who will direct the
Sixth War.Loan drive in Hoke county
were released yesterday by Chair
man David H. Hodgin, who stated
that though a number of workers
had begun canvassing their areas,
the canvassing of the county would
not start here generally until next
Monday.
Mr. Hodgin stated that the "E"
Bond quota for this drive had been
set at $113,000 and the overall quota
was $168,000. Community and town
ship quotas have been assigned and
the general canvass of the county will
be conducted next week.
Chairmen of areas and townships
and their co-workers, as appointed
by Mr. Hodgin, are as follows:
Raeford Business Section: Tom Cam
eron, chairman.
J. B. Mclntyre, theatre chairman.
Town of Raeford: Residential and
Raeford township, Mrs. Wm. L. Poole,
chairman.
White Schools: K. A. McDonald,
chairman.
Colored Schools: A. S. Gaston,
chairman.
Indian Schools: E. L. Dial, chair
man. Allendale Township. Mrs. Arch
McEachern, chairman, L. A. Mc-
Gougan, Mr3. J. W. Hasty, Mrs. J. S.
Currie, F. K. Everleigh, and N.' P.
Watson. m
Antioch Township. W. L. Gibson,
chairman, Mrs. W. C. Hodgin, Mrs.
Doug McPhaul, G. C. Lyttle, I. L.
Newton and Mrs. J. M. Andrews.
Blue Springs Township: D. H.
Yarborough, chairman, Mrs. Lucy
Smith, Mrs. J. W. McBryde, Mrs.
Evan Wright, James Hendrix. H. G.
Autry and Mrs. Hector McNeill.
Little River Township: L. D.
Brooks, chairman. C, H. Marks, Mrs.
A. D McLauchlin, Alex McFadyenf
Sam Comer and Murdock Cameron.
McLauchlin Township: Mrs Mar
shall Newton, chairman, Ernest Capps,
Joe Farker, M. u. Kay, w. jr. Town-
send Mrs. Fearl Anarews Mrs. M, S.
Gibson and Mrs. Mary Mott.
Quewhiffle Township: N. F. Sin
clair, chairman, Mrs. D, H. John
son, Miss Addie McFadyen, Noah
Brown, E. R. Pickler, Frank Hardis
ter. L. R. Cothran. J. A. Almond
and W. H. Calloway.
Stonewall Township: SI. D. Yates,
chairman, N. H. G. Balfour, Mrs.
Jesse Gibson, Mrs. Archie Howard,
W. T. Holland, W. J. McBryde, and
Dave Hendrix.
State Sanatorium: E. B. Satter-
white, chairman, Mrs. C. D. Thomas
and O. B. Israel; Colored Division:
John McKoy, chairman.
General Wm. Harlee
"Kinfolks" Author i
Taken By Death
Relative Of Mrs. C. R. Freeman
Had Been In Retirment For
Some Years, Dead In Washing
ton. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. Briga
dier General William Curry Harlee,
U. S. Marines, retired, who was can
didate for the U. S. senate in South
Carolina in 1936, died here yesterday.
He was 67 years old.
Gen. Harlee was a scion of a dis
tinguished South Carolina family
whose ancestral home was at Dillon
but he was born in Manatee, Fla.
After attending the Citadel of
Charleston. S. C, and the University
of North Carolina, he entered West
Point, and embacked upon a brilliant
military career.
He was author of the "The Ma
rine Corps Score Book and Rifleman's
Instructor."
In 1935 he was retired from the
Marine corps. The next year he en
tered the South Carolina Democra
tic primary as an anti-New Deal can
didate against Senator James F.
Byrnes and Thomas P. Stoney, for
mer mayor of Charleston, Byrnes
won renomination by a large plurality.
After the primary he came to Wash
ington and lived here in retirement.
General Harlee is probably bt
known in this section as the author
and compiler of the stupenduous
family hiitory "Kinfolks" which was
published some years ago. It deals
with many of the families of the Pec
Dee and Cape Fear river valleys.
He was a cousin of Mrs. Carl R.
Freeman of Raeford and a distant
relative of a number of families of
this aection.
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Don't sell timber by guess. Select,
mark, a id scale each tree. Call on
your county agent and the Extension
farm forester for assistance.