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News -J our. ma HOKE COUNTrS ONLY NEWSPAPER HOKE COUNTrS . BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM l he The Hoke County New The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XL NO. 5 RAEFOKD. i. C ; THURSDAY. JULY 5th. 1943 $2.00 PER YEAR News Behin TT4P 11 11-. DPaulMaLLOnJ H'lnwd by Western Newspaper Union. TRUMAN'S CHOICES MEET APPROVAL " WASHINGTON. The t.ve of men Mr. Truman is beinging into gov ernment is likened by some to Coo lidge or Harding, and the assembling ' personality ot his whole regime is being run Into that past character niche, especially by bewildered and confused radicals. It is a bad simile, inaccurate and of no value except for political oppo sition. You cannot find the person ality counterpart of this administra tion in the past. It is something new. I Look into the first one, John S. Snyder, head of the Jesse Jones , financial empire (not considering yet the fresh cabinet men). He is a bank er Drougm in 10 handle the biggest banking business in the history of the world, the people's $46,000,000,009 RFC and associated lend- . ing ventures, which I J. S. Snyder the radical clique ' wanted to place in Ithe hands of a man who knew noth ing of banking. Nothing like Mr. Snyder happened in the Harding or Coolidge era. Why he was not even president of the First National bank of St. Louis from which Mr. Truman extract ed him. He was a reasonably young vice president, with no gray hair, no wrinkles, a clear round open face genial, open-talking. In experience, appearance and every other way, he was about as far from New York banking leadership as you could get and still obtain experience and ! knowledge. (He did not rate Who's iWho.) First thing Mr. Snyder did also rates only as an obscure paragraph from the press associations. He. found six lending agencies under RFC functioning with six separate .staffs, costly individual parapherna lia of bureaucracies by order of law. STARTS CONSOLIDATION I Mr. Snyder had his staff write a new law consolidating this absurd "duplication. The congressional bank ing eommJttee Introduced It The bill ipassed the senate unanimously, without objection, Tuesday, and will shortly receive the same approval of the house. Now it required no superior abil ity for Mr. Snyder to start out this new way. Any man with a fresh outlook and ordinary common sense might have done it, but in view of the contrary spirit prevailing in Washington for so long, his simple step stood out like a new beacon of hope. Mr. Snyder would be a good man for secretary of the treasury, and I think he will get the job. Look into Edwin W. Pauley, Tru man's leader of the Allied Repara tions commission, whose head is being projected into the bear's mouth in Moscow now. Paul ey maie a million or so in California oil, but he looks like en oil worker. His ham-hand hand. shake could make V your teeth rattle. He Sy is towering in neigm, eui a ratner young man as in- E.W.Pauley ternational dealers go and a sharp oil fields trader. No one ever saw his likes under Harding or Coolidge, where the choices for such work ran to men like Dwight Morrow, the Morgan partner, and Charlie Dawes, the big gest Chicago Banker. Mr. Pauley will step higher in this government, probably to Mr. Sny der's job if Snyder goes to treas ury. Or look again into Bob Hannegan, the new postmaster general (begin ning July 1) who re quires another look in view of his sharp ly advanced emi nence in this new regime. He is sec ond man to Truman now. It was Hannegan who brought Pauley in here as treasurer ,, - r r i 0f the) Democratic ' I 1. Baaaefu National committee for Roosevelt. They all are of the tarn stripe, Snyder, Pauley, and Hannegan, aggressive, un tired, sharp men from the middle 'class, hard knocked, experienced, nowiea, ieXn- Hi A f l 1 i7 Tobacco Curing In Full Swing In Border Area Markets Open August 1 In This Area; Crop Turning Out Good. LUMBERTON, July 3. Tobacco farmers in the Border Belt are be ginning their rush to cure and grade the crop in preparation for the mar ket opening.on August 1st at markets in the Border Belt. All farmers in the close area are now busy curing, while those to the extreme parts of the north and west territory will begin to cure this week. "The crop is turning out all right and prospects for a good selling sea son are stimulating the farmers," ac cording to the semi-monthly crop' condition report ju9t issued by Jas per C. Hutto, supervisor of the Lum berton tobacco market. "Good rains have fallen in almost every section, and the plants continue to grow." The supervisor said the damage I done by hail and the recent tropical j storm has been well offset by the accompanying heavy rains. The su pervisor also stated in his report that some farmers are declaring they have the best crops they have ever had, though he says this it not the general situation. He reports the poundage per acre perhaps will be below that of last year's bumper crop. With The Army People Raeford people who knew Bettie and Wayne Jones, who were at Ft. Bragg several years ago, will be interested to know that they are re turning to Raeford. He is now a captain. They will have an apart ment at Mrs. Paul Dickson's . Sgt. Lester Wilson, who has been in Raeford and at Pope Field for quite a while, ha3 been transferred to Kellogg Field, Mich. He and Mrs. Wilson gave up their apartment at Mrs. Dickson's and left for their new post today. Sgt. and Mrs. Bob Cutter spent the week end at Ingrams Beach. They spent Friday night at the McDonald-Thomas cottage. Lt. and Mrs. S. K. McDuffie of Pope Field have taken an apartment at Mrs. J. R. Hamptons. Teachers Receive No Pay For Services A large group of teachers, who are actively engaged in training rural boys and girls in North Carolina, is composed of volunteer individuals, who do not receive any money for their services and very little public recognition of their efforts. These teachers are the Rural Neighborhood Leadors, who assist 4-H boys and girls in planning and developing their farm and home ac tivities, according to L. R. Harrill, State Club Leader of the Extension Service at State College. When new officers are elected early in the year and the 4-H club mem bers select the various activities which they will follow, such as gar dening, dairying, poultry, home ma king, and the like, they also select outstanding farm men and women to aid them in carrying through their projects. It is, of course, physically im possible for the county agents and home demonstration agents to visit all of the 4-H members as often as help is needed and hence rural neighborhood leaders in each sec tion of the county are selected by the boys and girls themselves, to who.n they can turn for assistance. Last year there were 5.023 of these rural "teachers" in North Caro lina and they rendered exceptional services to the rural young people with whom they cooperated and to the agricultural progress of the state, Harrill says. Hannegan certainly knows more of inside Washington than anyone who has been around here in a long time. The one characteristic these men have in common is that th y want to give good government. I do not know whether they can, but they want to. I em inclined to think they may succeed to unexpected propor tions because their minds are not disturbed by idealogies. They ere not reactionaiy or even conservative. They are liberals, but ihey do not want to fight, hate, and till everyone who does not agree nth them on every subject. Printing Training For Returning Veterans Newspapers may be able to solve part of the present labor shortage by taking advantage of provisions made by the Federal Government for Uie training of discharged veter als of Worli War II. Public Law 16, which provides certain benefits for disabled veter ans, allows liberal compensation to disabled soldiers, who wish to take training by actiul work in some in dustry instead of attending vocation al school or college. Under the provisions of this ,law, a disabled veteran desiring tc learn to be a printer or an operator, might be assigned to a newspaper shop for a period up to four years to learn the trade. During the training period, this discharged veteran would be allowed a compensation of $92 a month, if single. If married, he would receive $11.50 extra and $5.95 a month for each child. Hoke Narrative Report For June Twelve home demonstration clubs met in Hoke county in June with an attendance of 133. The demon stration at the meetings was on "The Control of Garden Insects." Gar den leaders gave the demonstrations at the Wayside, Pine Forest, Antioch, Blue Springs,. Arabia and Rockfish meetings, and the agent was present to give the demonstration at the Mt. Pleasant, Little River, Ashmont, Mil douson, Raedeen and Allendale clubs. food preservation was the subject discussed with neighborhood leaders during the month. Ten canning de monstrations were held with 57 people attending. The home agent spent June 5th in Lumberton attending a meeting of the home agents in the district. Miss Verna Stanton and C. M. Brickhouse, district home and farm agents spent the morning of June 12 with the farm and home agents. A canning demonstration was giv en to a group of colored women at tending the pre-natal clinic in the County Health department on the afternoon of June 14th. A group of neighborhood leaders met at the home of Mrs. Barney Brown in the Buchan community. Plans are being made to organize a club in that community in July. Club women furnished hams, chic kens, canned food, and eggs, butter and sugar for cakes for the Bond Rally which was held in the Raeford Armory on the evening of June 20. The new can sealer recently pur chased by the county for the home agent's use has been borrowed by a number of people during June. The dehydrater, owned by the REA has been in use also. Sixty bed-side bags arm. thirty pairs of bedroo.n shoes were dis tributed to be made by club mem bers for the Red Cross. E. 0. McMahan and Miss Grace Newell, farm and home agents of Scotland county, spent the morning of June 29th in the agents' offices and discussed 4-H camp which is to be held July 30-August 4. The home agent attended a meet ing of the County Library boar.i and assisted with several Kiwanis sup pers during June. Fifty five library books were chec ked to club women at club meetings. Josephine Hall, home agent. County Cannery To Open Tuesdays And Fridays Each Week The county cannery will be open for processing foodstuffs for the public each Tuesday and Friday, it was stated yesterday by W. P. Phil lips, vocational teacher of the high school who is operating the plant this summer. The hours of operation are from 9 until 5 each of these days, and Mr. Phillips especially requests that all foods to be processed be at the plant not later than 2 p. m. Arrangements for canning should be made the day prior to the time you expect to bring the foodstuffs and 'hese can be made by seeing, wr.u.ig or phoning Mr. Phillips or Mrs. J. P. Smith. Charges for processing are 3c per pint or 4c per quart. Foodstuffs should be ready for processing when brought to the plant, or the owners should bring sufficient help for preparing the food. Mr. Phillips states that if demand in creases for the use of the plant an additional day will be added, to the schedule. 0 A total of 137 farmers sold 14,121 pounds of wool with an advance of $5.39923 on the wool in the co operative pool at Williarr.ston. Vance County U finding that its scrub bull eradication campaign is McGregor Elected Principal Hoke County Hi School Scotland Countv Native Sue- i , v n n'i,:i. rnmi.c Ho From Candor. I C. H. McGregor, principal at Can dor schools for the past was elected principal of the Hoke County high school this week, it was stated today by K. A. MacDonald, superintendent of county schools. Mr. McGregor is a native of Scot- land county and a graduate of Duke university. For eleven years he was a teacher and principal of the Or- rum high school in ,ty;son county and for the past fiv . ;. tie has been principal of the -r dis- trict schools. For seve. mers he has taught courses iy 'tion in the summer school at A . han State teachers college at i . Recently he was elected t oa of the Winecoff consolidated in Cabarrus county, one oi uu o- crpt rural schools in thp state. V. n- t .... . . '... i V Que 10 living cunuiiiuns lie icsir. that place to accept the principai ship here. He is married and his wife is a grammar grade teacher and has been elected to a position in the Raeford school. They have one cliild, a son aged nine. They have moved their furniture to Raeford and expect to occupy the house now occupied by Mr. ana iwra. "'""I term of Superior court for the rob- they move to Fayettey.lle to take up.y of cothing and other personal their new work with the city schools there. NEWSOfOUft MENwWOMCM IN UNIFORM ' Lt. Plummer Wins IT ff UniQUe HOnOr " Lt. W. E. (Billy) Pluxmer, sonan axe upon his mother, Mary E. of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Plummer oi Rt. 2, Raeford; is among that group of the 362nd Fighter Group recently accorded the unique distinction of be ing awarded the Oak Leaf cluster to its Presidential Unit Citation. Within the 15 months of combat in Europe, Lt. Plummer's group has been awarded twice, the citation "for outstanding achievement that best exemplified the value of tactical air power on the field of battle." A hol der of the air medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters, the Hoke county boy has completed a total of 78 mis sions over Germany. He was with the group on March 16 when 175 Thunderbolts flew 44 missions to de stroy or damage 420 German mili tary transports, seven armored ve hicles and tanks, 11 locomotives and 192 railroad cars, several gun emplacements, and rendered 14 roads or railroads ineffective as well as re ceive its second Presidential Unit Citation for service that cay. Lt. Pluxmer is a graduate of Hoke high school. He received his silver wings at Victoria. Texas, in the sprint; of "44, and has been with the 3fi2nd group overseas for seven months. During h-s 29 months in the avrnj - and his seven months service over - seas, he has amrr.assed a total of 116 points toward discharge. At pres-'ago ent he is with his group in the ETO awaiting further orders, and with such an ' outstanding record of ac- hievement in Europe, chances are the 362nd will be making further history before the war is won. George White To Enter Navy Radar School George White leaves for the navy. July 27. He has passed the physical. aptitude snd radar tests and has been assignen the rank of seaman, first class. After one month of ' Boot" training, probably at Great Lakes, Mich., he will enter radio technician school. George bas co.rpleted one year at State college where he made the honor roll each quarter. Lt. D. B. McFadyen spent several days with homcfolks here while en route to Fort Bliss, Texas, from Newport News, Va. Pvt. and Mrs. Oscar Taylor of Winston-Salem are visiting Mrs. Tay lor's mother, Mrs. F. M. Clarke. Pvt. Taylor was recently liberated fnr, a Nazi prisoner of war camp where he had been held for eleven months. Discharged Neill Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cox, has received his dis charge from the army after a seven Will Make Photo Children Bond Buyers July 12 All children 12 years of age or under who are purchasers of War j Bonds or in whose names bonds have been bought during the 7th I la" Campaign which ends v ar Sat urday of this week are urged to be present at the Hoke High school ,at 10 o'clock next Thursday morn- five years.;"' -"'-' """" g. lUJ Will UC IlldUC Mrs. H. A. Cameron, chairman of children's sales for the county, asks that all mothers make a special ef fort to get their children there promptly. She states that from re- racial , active he sa)e? of bonds tQ j chudren js obabI one of the , outstanding counties of the country , respect..- A story of these sales News-Journal, and then will be sent to the Treasury Department for use in promotion of these sales in the 8th War Loan drive to be held this 1 fall iSaxi Driver Held jm j Under $750 Bond For Housebreaking Noah "Cannonball" Carlisle, Rae- ; of $750 ,Q await tral in ,he August articles from the home of Jennings T. Maultsby, on March 6. Carlisle and several women were taken into custody two weeks ago following an extended investigation of the robbery. Earlier statements of the taxi driver implicated the women in the theft, but later statements made to county officers cleared the women and they have been released. STqne of the articles, including 2 elec tric fans, a toaster, a bath robe, three hams and a number of articles of mens clothing has been recovered. Thomas Lewis Galbraith, negro, costs for driving drunk. He had drivers license. Kim McGill. neero. nloaHori nni imiltv of assault with McGill, during an argument over their respective parts of a joint crop. Judgement was continued until next Tuesday, and McGill was released under $200 bond, so that he could make some arrangements for the har vesting and curing of his part of the tobacco crop. 0 Hoke Honor Roll The following names are men from Hoke County to be added to the honor roll, listing names of men in the armed forces. WHITE Taylor, David Andrew McCrimmon, Neill Raymond Childress, Warren G. Blue, James Sumner Baucom, Howard Atlas McGregor, John A. COLORED Campbell, Archie Thomas Core, William Chester McMillan, Tommie Lewis Morrison, George Luther Sea ford, Henry Lee j year period of service. He is the ! second son of Mr. and Mrs. Cox ! to be discharged. Cpl. Ralph Cox having been released some weeks from the famous 101st Airborne ( Infantry. A third son, Freddie, is j in the South Pacific, ' Pfc. Robert Daniels received his j discharge from the Army at Camp Gordon on last Thursday after ser ving five years. He served for a time in the American defense and then was overseas for three years. James Gordon Currie has again been promoted. He is now Lt. Colonel a'nd executive officer of his regi ment. Lt. Col. Currie is one of the young men of his rank, being 26 years old. He is now on his W3y home front Europe. B. B. Cole, Jr.. AMM 3-c, USN. is spending a 15-day leave with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Cole. He has just returned from six months duty on Bermuda, where he w flight engineer on a PBM patrol bom ber. Lt. Sonny Blue is at home on a short leave in Timberland with his mother, Mrs. Anna Patch Blue. Pvt. John B. McBryde of Camp Plauche, New Orleans, is spending a 10-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McBryde. 0 That large Scuppernong grape vine that has no grapes is probably a male vine, and will never bear. J.WilmerMcBryde Dies Of Stroke Early Wednesday Funeral Services Today Fop Prominent Blue Surins Far- ' nier-Lumberman. James Wilmer McBryde, aged 57 one of the county's leading farmers, died at his home in Blue Springs township early the morning of July 4th. Mr. McBryde was taken ill at about eleven o'clock Tuesday night and suffered a stroke about an hour later. He died at 3:30 a. m. without regaining consciousness. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the home on the Laur inburg highway at 4 p. m. The Rev. W. B. Gaston will conduct the ser vices. Burial will be in Raeford ceme tery. Mr. McBryde, the son of the lata C. B. and Sallie McBryde of this: county, was one of the county's pro gressive farmers, and operated a lumber and hardware business als. He was a member of Bethel Pres byterin church and was on th church's board of deacons. He is survived by his wife, Mr. Mary Dalton McBryre- two daugh ters, Mrs. Kenneth Grimm and Mrs. Emmett Smith: two brothers, Clar ence and Foster McBryde: 3nd threa sisters, Mrs. Hattie Warner, Airs. Pearl Love and Miss Maggie Mc Bryde. -o- New Reeulations Mailing Papers Overseas July 1 Special postal regulations for mail ign of newspapers to service men stationed overseas went into effect July 1st. Briefly these new rule3 require: 1. A written request must be mad by each serviceman to whom the subscription is started or renewed after July 1st. Subscriptions on rec ord prior to that date, whose timf has not expired, may be completed. Those expired must be discontinued. 2. Record of requests and of sub scriptions paid-in-advance for all overseas mailing must be kept for in spection by the local postmaster. The above rulings are in effect for all branches of the service and in clude all overseas to men in Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, at Fleet Post Offices at New York and San Francisco. Failure Changes To Great Success H. C. Boger of Mocksvilie. Davie County, has proved the truthful ness of the old saying that the far mer may be down but he is never out. Last fall when pigs were selling at $1.50 a piece in his section, B) ger found himself with 15 shoats and no chances of sale ar.-.ong hi3 neighbors. Did he decioe to quit the hog business? The answer was an emphatic "NO" spelled with capital letters. Boger had been raising hogs and mule eo'.is fr a r.u r.ber of years and he was nj'. the man t quit when conditions were against him. County Agent George Hobson says that Boger designed some self-feeders out of scrap lumber and put hu shoats on feed about December 15, when they averaged about 80 pounds each. Roger's record shows that they consumed 100 bushels of corn at $1.50 a bushel and $79 worth of protein supplement, consisting of equal parts of soybean meal, cot tonseed meal, and fish meal. When the hogs were killed and dressed at home, and sold on the local irarket at 20 cents a pound, the run was slightly over $600. The total cost of feed, pigs, and extia Woot was about $3 )0. according to Boger. The failure oT last fall had been turned into a sjecessful farm enterprise. "If we had more men with Boger's foresight, the meat shortage would not be nearly so great as it is," HjO son says. New Hours Given For Ration Office The Hoke county rationing office nas announced tnat, oeginning on Monday, July 9th, the following hours will be in effect: Monday through Friday the office will be open daily from 9 a. m. until 2 p. m. Saturdays the office will be opea from 9 a. m. until 3 p. m.