THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1945
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THE NEWS-JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C.
The News -Journal
Hoke Cotintv News Hoke County Journal
Est. January, 1, 1929 Est. May IS, 1911
By Paul Dickson By D. Scott Poole
Consolidated November 1, 1929
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Published Thursdays At
Rat-ford, North Carolina
Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year In Advance
For Servicemen $1.50 Per Year
DOI GALD COXE. Editor-Manager
Entered as second-class mail matter at the post
office at Raeford, N. C, under Act of March 3, 1870
At Home And At The Front
Here at home we are having a hard job keep
ing men at the machines which make the
tools of war for our services. It's no wonder
that the English and the Russians feel free to
criticize the American attitude. We have done
a preponderous job, at least we did for the
first months of the war. Then all of a sudden
when things got to going our way and it ap
peared that we were to sweep Germany off
the map with one grand military rush, we
let our men down. They failed to get supplies
in sufficient quantity and we stalled at the
German west wall.
For weeks things appeared still to be going
our way, until the Germans again took up the
offensive. We lost many men and great
quantities of materials. But did this stop our
men from giving that ground back begrud
gingly? No, they fought every inch of the
way, to back up against Bastonge where the
commanding officer of the 101st Airborne
handed the "Nuts" to the German demand for
their surrender, and the break-through stopped.
Nor does this determined stand of our forces
seem to have inspired our workers in the war
plants to greater activity. Strikes and more
strikes even some in North Carolina are
being called, principally by the CIO, in war
plants.
And those boys on the firing lines know of
them. The following comments have come to
us. through his family, from one of those
fighters who very keenly feels that the folks
back home have let the armed forces down.
The letter, written in Belgium December 16,
states: "They plan to have a "Carol" sing
on Christmas" Eve. It will seem very strange
to hear, and to know that at home everyone is
celebrating while over here men are dying.
It isn't right, I suppose, but there seems to be
no way to tell people that the war isn't over
yet, and that there are many more months
of hard work ahead before even Germany will
be defeated. Lots of the boys over here would
n't mind dying if they knew that the people
were behind them, instead of striking for a
few more dollars a month. The war has even
helped you and me. but I would give every
penny we have to help the war to be finished.
This isn't a lecture, it's just my reason for
wanting to buy as many war bonds as we pos
sibly can."
And that's the attitude of those boys on the
fighting line, while the unions will not let '
able-bodied men make more than ten truck
tires for war machinery per day, though that
man is skilled and able to make 15 or more
tires per day. It's no wonder that it will take
a universal service act to get men on the jobs
and keep them there. The pity of it is that the
universal service act was not made a law at the
same time the Selective Service System was
established.
POOLE'S MEDLEY
(By D. Scott Poole)
CARD OF THANKS
In this way to everyone and espec
ially those whom I might fail to
thank personally, I would like to
express a part of my gratitude for
the many kindnesses and sympathe
tic understanding shown me during
my lingering illness and bedridden
experience.
Myrtle Miller.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends for
their many expressions of kindness
and sympathy during the illness and
death of our husband and father.
Mrs. D. D. Black and Family.
Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Parker and
family.
ATTENTIOfl
Farmers Of
-Hoke County
Your Allotment of
CURE-ALL
Tobacco Carers
for the 1945 Season Is
25-Systems
Home Clubs Were
Active In December
By Miss Josephine Hall,
Home Agent.
Meet Me January 17th or 24th
in Raeford At Office of
UPCHLRCH MILLING CO.
Between 1:00 & 4:00 P. M. if
You Want One.
"Cure-All" Agency
Roy A. Goodwin
Agent
Live-At-Home
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Lumberton, N. C.
Eleven Home Demonstration clubs
met in Hoke county in December
with an attendance of 267. The Rae
deen club had made plans to sponsor
a square .dance on Dec. 29, but had
to postpone it untli January when
musicians were available.
The tittle River club held a com
munity party on the evening of Dec.
1st. Around $50.00 was raised for
their club treasury.
The Rockfish 4-H club enjoyed a
Christmas parity at (the Rockfish
community building on the evening
of Dec. 15.
On Dec. 21 a conference Wrth REA
representatives was held in the home
agent's office. The purpose of the
conference was to discuss post war
plans for the expansion of electric
service in Hoke county. Mr. R. H.
Glazier, field representative of REA
was present and told of a plan to
get a complete area coverage of un
lighted homes in the county. Hoke is
the first county in the state to develop
such a plan.
The Agricultural workers' council
met in the home agent's office on the
afternoon of Dec. 29. Three new
pressure cookers were purchased
through the agent's office in Decem
ber. Several families were assisted with
meat canning. One of these families
canned 90 quarts of beef.
The home demonstration clot) mem
bers furnished 75 Christmas gift
packages for the Red Cross camp
and hospital council for sick soldiers
at Camp Mackall and Fort Bragg.
Several useful articles, as well as
Christmas goodies and games, etc.
for entertaining the boys, were in
cluded in each package. 85 tray fav
ors were also sent at the same time.
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Raeford Methodist
Church
W. L. Maness, Minister
1(1:00 A. M. Church School.
11:00 A. M. Regular service with
sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
3:00 P. M. Youth Fellowship
choir rehearsal.
7:00 P. M. Youth Fellowship
meeting.
7:30 P. M. Evening worship, mu
sic by Youth Fellowship choir.
4:00 P. M., Monday General
meeting of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service.
7:30 P. M. Friday Adult choir
rehearsal, at parsonage.
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A military secret
Is an Army trust
With The
Army People
Sgt. and Mrs. Lester Wilson have
as their guests Major and Mrs. Goldman.
Lt. and Mrs. P. A. King have an
apartment at the Sarah McE. Mc
Neill home.
Mrs. Sam Parnell and Mrs. Frank
Williams entertained the Officers'
Wives club at the Mclntyre home
last Thursday. A delicious luncheon
was served.
Capt. and Mrs. Baines are now
living at Sanford.
Capt. John B. Hart has been trans
ferred to Camp Shelby, Miss. Capt.
and Mrs. Hart left after having lived
in Raeford over a year. They recent
ly occupied Mrs. Sarah McE. Mc
Neill's apartment.
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Peoples Tabernacle
Church
H. Gwyn Clayton, Minister
9-45 A. M. Sunday School.
11:00 A. M. Morning worship,
sermon by the pastor.
8.30 P. M. Young People's meet
ing.
7:30 P. M. Evening worship, ser
mon by the pastor.
7:30 P. M. Tuesday Mid-week
prayer meeting.
7:30 P. M. Friday, Missionary Opening your house to young people
meeting. f0r table tennis, Chinese checkers.
'Come where a welcome awaits and popcorn parties provides a
you. The public is invited to at- wholesome atmosphere for those who
tend all services. 'might otherwise roam the streets.
In January 1911, John W. Moore
came to my printing office, then lo
cated in a frame building where
the Upchurch Milling company now
stands. Moore asked me to support
a movement for a new rounty to be
formed from parts of Robeson and
Cumberland counties.
He went on to say that Senator
. W. McLauchlin was in favor of the
movement and that the Senator had
discussed the proposition with Sena
tor Neil Arch McLean from Cumber
land, all of whom has assured him
that they would not oppose the for
mation of a new county with Raeford
as its seat. But the Senator had not
'reckoned with his hosts." The folks
back home had not been consulted.
I told Mr. Moore that 1 was not
favorable to such a battle as I knew
would bring on. I recalled the fights
over the creation of Lee and Scotland
counties. About half the people
of the state have fought the forma
tion of each new county and the
changing of boundaries, and there
always a terrific struggle.
The North Robeson movement had
started a few years ahead of the
Hoke county movement, and this
was a strong threat a jainlt the
mother county of Robeson. There
Upper-Enders were opposed to anti-
Upper-Enders, and in the southern
section of the county almost every
one was opposed to a division.
Being a county-seat does not par
ticularly help a town. Look at Went
worth 100 years old and about
like Arabia.
Then, there was Troy. It stood
for 80 years during which ti:ne porb
bably not over a house per year was
built. It takes payrolls to build a
town. Nothing else does.
I had had plenty done to me, be
fore I moved to Raeford. to put the
quietus on me for many years to come
and I told Mr. Moore that day that
it would be a long and costly battle.
As I had lost so much in the past
ten years, I felt I had better move
than engage in another such fight.
If I stayed . I would automatically
be drawn into the fight, as a man
could not stay in the publishing
business and remain neutral. How
ever, the movement developed and
we all went into it.
Did you ever give a beegum a
jarring lick at night? Just to hear
them roar. Here was a beegum of
activity, stirred first in 1907. and
renewed in 1909. Now, in 1911, it
had to be stirred furiously and suc
cessfully, or we were lost. Some
500 citizens of the county spent near
ly a month in Raleigh, busy as the
workers in that beehive. We won,
as you remember.
So, Hoke county was created, of
ficially on April 3rd. 1911. It has
been a source of satisfaction to many.
It is a small county of but 15,000
population, and at first had about
12 million dollars of taxibles. Then
the Fort Bragg reservation took
away about 3 million of the taxibles
and a few hundred of the people.
Yet, though the larger counties have
greater things, Hoke has everything
they have, in lesser quantities. It
really makes no difference how small
a county is if the government is
honestly administered. We may not
have the mileage of highways, nor
so many schools, but we have what
we require.
Will you think for a moment of
the cost of the war? The whole world
is involved, and almost all the ac
cumulated wealth of all people and
nations have been consumed. In
dishonesty wealth changes hands, but
in war it is consumed.
Hoke county has a just right to feel
grateful and proud of its contribu
tion to the cause of Justice and Right,
and we should be thankful for the
disposition to do right. Naturally,
it is not in us, but that disposi
tion to do right has been divinely
bestowed upon us.
FERTILIZERS
MR. FARMER:
You have probably not yet thought about
your Fertilizer Requirements for the Spring
1945 Season.
Now Is The Proper Time under present
conditions-to get your fertilizers, so you will
be certain to have them at planting time.
We wish to call your attention to the fact that due to the
acute labor shortage and inadequate transportation facilities,
that it will be very wise indeed for you to see us, or our
agents promptly, trade for your requirements and insist
on immediate delivery of all, or the larger portion of your
requirements. Unless this is done promptly it will be im
possible for us to furnish all of our customers by planting
time.
As you are aware we will furnish you QUALITY FERTI
LIZER formulated from materials that will be beneficial
both to your crops and land.
DIXIE GUANO COMPANY
TELEPHONE NUMBERS 636566 Laurinburg, N. C.
"MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY FERTILIZERS"
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The Bank of Raeford
Of Raeford in the State of North Carolina
at the close of business on December 30, 1944.
ASSETS
1. Loans and discounts $ 319,804 79
2. United States Government obligations, direct
and guaranteed 1,381,300.00
3. Obligations of States and poltiical subdivisions 63,062.54
6. Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve
balances, and cash items in process of collection 928,719.69
7. Bank premises owned $11,952.75, furniture and
fixtures $2,866.15 14.818.90
8. Real estate owned other than bank premises 1.00
11. Other assets
3,658.78
12.
TOTAL . ASSETS $2.71 1.J65.70
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RED SPRINGS THEATRE
PROGRAMME FOR WEEK BEGINNING JANUARY 11th
FRIDAY
"Hone Bui The Lonsly Heart"
Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore
SATURADY 1:30 'til 10:30 O'CLOCK
To Be Announced
LATE SHOW
"Faces In The Fog"
With Jane Withers
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
"LAURA"
Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews
WEDNESDAY
LIABILITIES
13. Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations $1,974,899.57
14. Time depostions of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations 34- j-g
15. Deposits of United States Government (including
postal savings) 210.027.90
16. Deposits of States and political subdivision 55.634.67
18. Other deposits (certified and officers' checks, etc.) 8 319 33
19. TOTAL DEPOSITS sou inn
23. Other liabilities
6.765.31
24.
TOTAL LIABILITIES $2,602,926.26
(not including subordinated obligations shown below)
"llevada"
Bob Mitchen and Anne Jeffreys
THURSDAY FRIDAY
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
A Disney Feature In Technicolor
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
25. Capital' $ 25.000.00
26. Surplus 80.000.00
27. Undivided profits 3 3 44
29. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 108.439.44
30.
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $2,711,365.70
This bank's capital consists of common stock with total
par value of $25,000.00.
MEMORANDA
Pledged assets (and securities loaned) (book value):
(a) U. S. Government obligations, direct and guaranteed,
pledged to secure deposits and other liabilities .... 309,800.00
(e) TOTAL , $ 309.300.00
32. Secured and preferred liabilities:
(a) Deposits secured by pledged assets pursuant to
requirements of law $ 309.800.00
(e) TOTAL $ 309,800.00
34. (a) On date of report the required legal reserve against
deposits of this bank was 354,396.00
(b) Assets reported above which were eligible as legal
reserve amount to $ 928,720.00
I, W. A. McDonald, assistant cashier, of the above-named bank, do
solemnly SWEAR that the above statement is true, and that it fully and
correctly represents the true state of tht several matters herein contained
and set forth, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
CORRECT. ATTEST: W. A. McDonald, Assistant Cashier; Directors:
J. L. McNeill. H. L. Gatlin, and F. B. Sexton.
State of North Carolina. County of Hoke, ss:
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of January, 1945.
and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of
this bank.
Jessie B. Ferguson, Notary Public.
My Commission expires March 29, 1946.