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The Hoke County News
The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XL NO. 7
BAEFOKD, N. C.. irt^RSDAY, JULY 19th, 1945
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Cdr* A. M. Patterson Is
Execufive Officer On
Cruiser In Pacific
Veteran Naval Officer In Many
Pacific Fleet’s Major Opera
tions.
Aboard a Cruiser in the Pacific.—
Cdr Alex McLeod Patterson, 40,
USN, of Raeford, N. C., has served
in the Navy for 22 years and has
seen action in virtually every major
Pacific operation from Tarawa to
Okinawa. Cdr. Patterson graduated
from the U. S. Nival Academy in
1923 and has served aboard the USS
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Wasmuth,
Wright, and the Colorado. In 1940
he was transferred to the Navy De
partment to serve as officer-in-
charge of the registered publications
section. In 1943 he was ordered
aboard this ship on which he now
serves as executive officer.
Last August he received a letter
of cbmifiendation for “meritorious
• service” in operations against the
•-enemy between November, 1943, and
July, 1944,
Cdr. Patterson’s wife, the former
Mary McBride, and their two chil
dren, P^gy and Sandy, live at 408
Winona Ave., Lumberton.
«
Whitey” Behrman Is
Winning ’Em For 13th
Airborne In Europe
With the 13th Airborne Division
in France.—^Pfe 'Henry “Whitey”
Behrman, former hurler for the
3rft
Funeral Services
Held For Jean M.
Campbell Friday
Lumberton Houses
Readying For First
Funeral services for Jean McKin- i
non Campbell, infant daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lavh-ence J. Campbell,
Montreal cluib of the International' were held at the home in Fayetteville
baseball league, is now pitching for Ion last Friday aftemoon at 4 p. m.
the'lSth Airborne’s ball team, which
is com.piling an enviable record in
its first season of play in the ETO.
Cb.T'posed of former major and minor
league players, the team has played,
or will play the best service clubs in
France, Belgium and England.
Pvt. Behrman, who is a right-
handerj is one of the leading hur-
lers for his team. He attended Grov
er Cleveland high school in New
York city but played no scholastic
baseball. He played semi-pro ball
for a number of years, .mostly with
the Detroit Clowns, before entering
orgnaized ball in 1941 with the Val
dosta, Ga., team, winning 19 games
while losing 10. In 1942 he was
with Durham in the Piedmont league
where his record was 14 victories
and ir defeats. At the end of the
season he was shipped to Montreal'
of the ilnternational league.
Pfc. Behrman, who is a 'member
of the 326th Glider Infantry Regi
ment, was indcucted October 5, 1942
His home address is 64-41 Admiral
Ave., N€w York City, but his wife,
the former Miss Peggy McFadyen,
resides in Raeford. He is at present
stationed at Sens, France, awaiting
redeployment.
The Rev. R. E. Brown, pastor of
Hay Street Methodist church officia
ted. Burial was in Cross Creek
cemetery.
The child, bom'^May 17 of this
year, was taken ill Tuesday and died
Thursday. She is survived by her
parents, one sister, Martha Annette,
and grandparents, L J. Campbell
of Raefbrd, and Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
McKinnon of Laurinburg. Mr. and
Mrs. Campbell made their home in
Raeford for sometime until last fall
when Mr. Campbell gave up his po-
Bronze Star Medal
Given CpI. Taylor
Cpl. Howard J. Taylor of Rt. 2,
Raeiford, has been awarded the
Bronze Star Medal for meritorious
service in connection with military
operations against an enemy of the
United States. He is the husband
of Estelle H. Taylor of Raeford. In
cident for whigh award was made
was as follows; During the period 4
I July to 4 May, 1945, in France, Lux
embourg, Belgium, and (Oeiknany,
Opl. Taylor was placed in direct
charge of all unit sentinels. As a
result of Cpl. Taylor’s outstanding
leadership, an efficient and well-
organized guard was maintained. Cpl.
Taylor’s sterling performance of duty
merits the highest praise and re
flects great credit upon himself and
the finest traditions of the military
seiwice.
Cpl. Taylor has been with the 322d
Field Artillery Battalion, 83d In
fantry Division, since October, 1942.
He holds five bronze service stars for
the “Normandy,” “Northern France,”
“Ardennes,” “Rhineland,” and “Cen
tral Europe” campaigns.
T-Sgt. Milton Campbell
Helps Reclaim Armor
Lt. Hendrix Completes
Marine Infantry
Combat Courses
A IX Air Force Command Ord
nance Unit, Germany—‘Though the
war in Europe has ended, ordnance
companies in the European Theatre,
of Operations are working 24-hour
a day schedule in keeping up with
heavy maintenance demands.
Technical Sergeant James Milton
Campbell, Jr., of Raeford, is auto
motive inspector with the 1823rd
Ordnance Mobile Reclamation and
Repair company inside Germany. To
meet the current heavy demand, for
repair work required by large-scale
transportation movements in Europe,
crews from this company perform
engine changes daily in three to
Weed Sales Aug. 1
Lumberton, July 18.—^Lumberton’s
seven tobacco auction warehouses
and the two redrying plants are
being put in readineS'S ior sales on
the Lumberton tobacco maricet,
which will open for the first auc
tions August 1. Tobacco growers
have, reported that they will have
their sand-lugs cured and graded in
time to begin selling with the open
ing.
“The Border Belt tobacco is prov
ing out to be a good crop, better
than* average,” according to Jasper
C. Hutto, Supervisor of the Lumber-
ton market, who has just issued his
Robinson To Preach
To Presbyterians
Sunday Morning
The Rev. B. P. Robinson, retired
Methodist minister now living near
Raeford, will fill the pulpit of the
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Lee County Man
Pays 50 Bucks
For Killing Doe
Raeford Presbyterian church on Sun- Douglas Of Sanford b
day mornins, it was announced yes-,
i terday by K. A. MacDonald, mem-!
ber of the church session. |
Mr. McDonald stated that this was
to be the first time Mr. Robinson
had preached to the Presbyterians
since his return to Raeford to make
his home, and that a large con
gregation was expected to be present
to hear him.
O
sition with the News-Journal and semi-monthly crop condition
moved to Fayetteville to accept a
position with a printing concern
there.
Dr. Mace To Return
To Carthage, Mo. „
LUMBERTON, July 8 —Dr. E. E.
Mace, who has been supply pastor
of - the First Presbyterian church
here since February, has resigned,
and will return to his pastorate in
Carthage, Mo. Lieut. Comdr. R. L.
Alexander, pastor of the church,
now stationed in Miami, Fla., after
sea duty in the Pacific, is on leave
of absence. Dr. Mace had served
as an army chaplain for 18 months
before coming to Lumberton to suc
ceed the Rev. Ben F. Moore, who
left last September to become pas
tor of the Oxford Presbyterian
church.
Dr. Mace t was stationed at Fort
Bragg an'j made his home in Raeford
for several months before receiving
a medical discharge last January.
report. “The last two weeks have
witnessed an excellent season for
late growth and development, ad
ding poundage and quality. The crop
is ripening normally in most sec
tions, and not much of it is being
lost.”
Lumberton is the tenth ranking
tobacco market in size in the en
tire flue-cured area, and Supervisor
Hutto says prospects are good for
another record season. Last year
Lumberton sold 32,751,381 pounds of
' tobacco, for which the farmers re
ceived $14,246,850.73.
Carolina Ads Win
National Awards
RALEIGH, July 18.—The Caro
lina Power and Light company has
been notified that its two most re
cent annual reports have received
national aw^rds^for excellence. The
Public Utilities Advertising associa
tion awarded the company honor-
aible mention for its 1943 annual re
port, submitted in the 1944 contest
Miami, Fla., to report for reassign- j in competition with all power com
ment, after spending a thirty-day
furlough at home. Accompanying
him to Miami was his wife, the for
mer Miss Geraldine Parrish. .
four hours. Sgt. Campbell and his ■ reporting to Camp Leonard
Lt.-Col. James Gordon Currie ar
rived last week from overseas. He
will have a thirty-day leave be- report received honorable mention
panies in the nation serving 100,000
to 400,000 customers each.
The “higj;itest merit” award was
received from the Financial World
in its review of 1944 annual reports
fre.-n various types of industries
throughout the nation. The same
crews maintain and repair all types
of army vehicles. This company
boasts the army’s finest mechanics
aiid automotive engineers.
'Son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ca>mp-
bell, Sgt. Campbell entered the army
ill July, 1942. Prior to that time
hb attended Hoke high school in
Raeford, and later worked as a clerk
for Campbell and company there.
Overseas 22 months, he has seen
service in the British Isles, France
and Germany.
Wood, Mo.
Capt. Paul Dickson is expected
home any day now. A cablegram
from htm advises that the fatted
calf be killed. He evidently has pre-
OPA ideas.
Capt. Frank Williams, husband of
the former Miss Patsy Blue, arrived
in Raeford Monday night after ser
ving in the European theatre of op
erations.
in an annual contest conducted by
Ashton B. Collins of New York,
originatot of Reddy Kilowatt.
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Taken This Summer.
POOLE'S MEDLEY
(By D. S. Poole)
No butter for cake, nor for any
other purpose, and then you read
of butter going stale and unfit for
use in army warehouses. It’s fret
ting t
The Japs say they are going to
bomb American cities. They de
pend on balloons and a suicide bom
ber, who dies with his balloon. Poor
gurrp.
Beef is so scarce many do not get
any; still eighty million beef cattle
are awaiting slaughter, if the OPA
slackens up a little.
Not many people think of extor
tion, but the Bible places extortioners
with the lowest class of sinners. But
for the OPA, extortion would run
a race with inflation—prices would
go up like a Jap balloon.
I never saw more than five deer
in a drove, and they frightened me.
The late Dr. Colin Bethune told me
that he saw as many ,as 150 in a
drove in Alabama. Dr. Bethune went
to Alabama and practiced medicine
when he was young, staying out there
several years.
John Pat Jackson
Dies In Tennessee
Sgt. H. F. McMUlan
Promoted
Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif.—
Marine 2nd Lt, James R. Hendrix, 22,
UlSMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Hendrix, Rt 1, Raeford, has been
graduated from Infantry school bat
talion, a super combat school which
was activated at Camp Pendleton
only a few months ago. 2nd. Lt.
Hendrix , born May 6, 1923, at Rae
ford, was graduated in 1942 from
Hoke high school where he lettered
in football, baseball and basketball.
He attended the University of North
Carolina and enlisted in the Corps
December 4, 1943. He was trained
at Parris Island, S. C., and Quantico,
Va.
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Medic Specialist
’Mo.r phis, July 18.—Pvt. Leonard A.
Baker' of Raeford has g''.aduat3d from
a .'three month's Nenro-Psyehiatric
training course at Kennedy General
hospital here. He will sodn report
for duly as a member of a ship’s
complement where he will apply the
specialized, training he has received
assisting in the care of battle fatigue
cases on returning hospital ships.
He is now spending a furlough
in Raeford with his mother, Mrs_
Nonie Chapel.
HEADQUARTERS PANAMA CA
NAL DEPARTMENT.—The promo
tion of Sgt. JEIarvey F. McMillan, 23,
son of Mrs. Ruby McMillan, 112 East
2nd Ave.', Red Springs, N. C., to the
grade of staff sergeant, is announced
by Sixth Air Force Fighter Com
mand. Headquarters.
Staff Sergeant McMillan, whose
wife, Yvonne, lives at Raeford, en
tered the service in October, 1942,
and has been on duty with the Sixth
Air Force Fighter Command in Pan
ama since April, 1943.
Sgt. Robert B. Ellis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rase Ellis of Lumber Bridge,
is home on an eight day furlough.
He is stationed at Portland, Maine.
His wife is the former Miss Marie
Clark of Raeford
O
Horne Hurt When
Car Wrecks
John Pat Jackson, veteran of World
War I, died at his home in King
sport, Tennessee, Saturday afternoon
after a long illness. Funeral ser
vices were held in Kingsport Mon
day afternoon.
Mr. Jackson was formerly in the
autoimoibile business in Rockingham
and Maxton, and resided for a while
in Raleigh before moving to King
sport several years ago. He is sur
vived by his wife, the former Ava
Rackley, of Raeford, N. C.; a brother,
Frank, and a sister, Bessie, and other
relatives in Valdosta, Ga.
I saw droves, rather flocks of wild
pigeons one fall, and they were
here several months, eating acorns.
Old folks told me that in the years
aibout 1840 there wte're so many
wild pigeons, superstitious persons
were alarmed. They flew in droves
Grover Douglas, white of San
ford, was found guilty on three
charges of violation of the game
laws, in county court Tuesday. He
was convicted of trespass, carryixxg
a gun ofif his premises on Sunddy
and of killing a deer out of season.
Total costs in the three actions and
fines of $10 and $50 brought his ex
pense for the Sunday outing to som.a-
thing like $100. He was put on
good behavior for 2 years.
In an inteisive "drive on road
law violators. Patrolman Jason Barnes
brought a number of defendants into
court for operating cars with im
proper equip.T.ent. These included:
William James Armstrong who paid
$25 and costs and Jack Leach, Frank
Leach, Robert McGoogan, Jessie Mc
Cain, Luther McLean and Henry
Hollingsworth. Frank Leach, Mc
Cain and McLean were found guilty
of driving without state driver’s li
censes. All paid costs in each case.
William Livingston and Sarah
Livingston each paid $10 and cost
for possession of hom.e brew. Gar-
cie McIntyre paid costs after plead
ing guilty to a forcible tr^sp^ss
chargp. Lee Alice Cook paid costs
for drunkeness. Jack Leach paid
costs for drunkeness. Henry Hol
lingsworth and Gladys Bethea paid
costs after pleading guilty to forni
cation and adultery.
John B. Purcell paid costs and
the medical bill of Preston Thomas
whom he admitted shooting in the
legs with a shotgun.
James Stephens paid $25 ~and
costs for larceny of a shotgun and
clothing from Brantley Allen, his
former landlord The gun and much
of the clothing was recovered by De
puty J. C. Wright. Patroiman Barnes
and Sheriff D. H. Hodgin.
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LIBRARY NEWS
to certain roosting places. One of
SCHEDULE: Monday through Sat
urday except Wednesday—10:30 A.
M. until 6:00 P. M.; Closed from
12:00 until 1:00 for lunch. Wednesday
—10:30 A. M. until 12:30 P. M.
these places was “West’s Old Field,”
where the town of Troy now stands.
They lodged in pine trees until
the limibs broke, frequently. Men
gathered there to shoot them, on the
roost.
Harrison Horne received a pain
ful back injury Sunday evening
when his car was wrecked near the
'Mrs. Crenshaw Quits
Price Clerk Job
Back in States
Mrs. Mary Anne Crenshaw, price
Oakdale gin. County police officers: clerk for the OPA office here for
reporte.i that the rear axle of the the past three years has resigned,
car gave away, causing the car to if was stated this week. No succes-
skid and ov^'turn. ■ sor has as yet been e.r.ployed
The cities of North Carolina have
grown very much since the turn of
the century. In 1980 there were
only two towns in North Carolina
that had as many as 10.000 inhabi
tants. Wilmington had 20,000 popu
lation. It was the largest city in
the state. Fayetteville had only
9,000 in 1940 It has 40,000 now.
You read of the underprivileged,
and the forgotten man—we should
say men. I have always sympathized
with the boys, a majority of the boys
in school who do not get to i play
on the team, any tea^m, and * they
all want “to play so bad.” Let’s try
to give everybody a chance at every-
Honor Roll
A 1945 edition of the World Book
Encyclopedia has been placed on the
shelves at the library.
New books for boys and girls are
being received nearly every week.
Among the new adult books re
ceived at the library are the follow
ing: ■ “Up Front.” Mauldin; Time
for Each Other, Runbeck; Curse of
the Bronze Lamp, Dickson; Arrow
Pointer Nowhere, Daly and Tales of
Edgar Allen Poe.
FASTER THAN
THE SWIFTEST STEED
ElUMORS FLY
WITH LIGHTENING SPEED!
Rby Franklin Teddv
Raeford Man Promoted
Camp Butner, July 18.—Col .Her
bert M Poole, post commander, Can p
Eutner, announced 'the prom.otion of
two officers to the grade of captain
on Wednesday. Captain William L
Harper is the engineer property of
fice:; at post engineers. Capt. Harper
carfi'l on active duty at Butner in
October,'' 1942. A Tarheel, the cap
tain hails from Raeford and is a
graduate of the University of North
Carolina.
Dan C. Roach of Lumber Bridge,
has recently been graduated from
the army’s school of personnel ser
vice at Lexington, Va., where his
special 'training fitted-him for giv
ing advice and assistance to service
men in the solution of their person-
. al problems.
T-Sgt. Alfre' Guion Eubanks, son
"'f Mr. • a'.'.d Mrs. F. L. Eubanks of
.‘'aratori'.vm iias .lust returned to the
States after serving den months ini
ihe European theatre wit hthe 104'
(Timbenvolf) Division. Sgt Eu-
b'anks arrived on the U.S.A.T. John
Ericsson, docking in New York on
July 11. After spending a thirty-
day leave with his parents, he will
report to Fort Bragg, and from there
to Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif.,
for further training before embark
ing for the Pacific.
Pvt. Thomas G.i Harrell is spend
ing a .thirty day furlough with his
family on Route 1, Raeford. He has
recently been retuimed to the States,
having served overseas since Janu
ary. and has been at i^tey General
hospital, Rome, Ga.
Given Medal
Pvt, Frank W. M^wherter, who is
now servingwvith the; 36th Division
of the 7th Army in Germany, has
been awarded the Good Coivduct
medal. Mrs. Mewherter is the former
Miss Clara Potter.
Pfc. James L Currie, son. of Mr.
and Mrs. D. S. Currie of Raeford,
spent the week-end at horpe. Pfc.
Currie is now stationed at Fort Jack-
son, S. C.
S-Sgt. Raymond A. McBryde, son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. McBryde of
Red Springs, Rt. 1, has gone to
thing.
. Warrants are issued, men are ar
rested, bonds are given Till court
is convened, the grand juries find
true bills, other terms of court come,
and go, and nearly one-fourth of
the men are never tried for the
crimes against them. Their cases
got off the docketi by the nolpros
route.
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defensive
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Our government
great inclebtness in this
war, and we are gird r:
cess so far achieved, but
want.to say in this i;'.sta;:ce
seems to me (I a.:: r,' .i.t.
there are too ’dg'nup
officers retained .V; t'.e pay-rclls.
They are no: Iming discharge^ as
the other .iowe-. rank officers and
men. nor are they do;:'.g anything.
We are willing, sii shcu'.d b'e given
full credit, even our gratitude for
their able services, but now they are
not doing anyth;.",
stop.
let t.heir pay
MORE YOUNGSTERS BUY WAR
BONDS—Shown above is a second
group of Hoke county youngsters
who have purchased or were given
War Bonds during the 7j;h War Loan
Drive. Children’s bond sales were
in charge of Mrs. H. A. Cameron
who reports that a number of other
youngsters unable .to be present have
also purchased bonds. Those shown.
above, reading from left to right, are:
Front row: Betsy Ross Gatlin,
Chandler Roberts, Jr., Mary Roberts,
Patricia Ann Duncan, Linda Andrews,
Worth Graham, Jr., Harriett Cam
eron, Jimmy Gray, Tom Cameron,
Jr., Billy Black.
Middle row: Mary McLean, Leroy
Freeman, Joyce Mann, Billy Dick
son, George Dickson, Eklward Lang
ston, 'Virginia McFadyen, NeiJl Mc
Fadyen, Florence Cameron.
Back row: Rosemary Caimeron, held
by Mrs. Hubert Cameron; Anne Mur
phy Byrne, held by Mrs. Archie
Byrne; Donald Dickson, held by
Mrs. Graham Dickjson; Lin
da Scarborough: William McFadyen,
held by Mrs. Neill McFadyen; and
Brenda Sue Duncan, held by Miss
Sue Duncan.
Too m:ir.y employees are on the
government p.ayrolls. says Senator
Byrd of Virginia, in fact about twice
as ivany 'as are needed, and this
shou'd be stoppeu and this expense
divided by 2. So.m.e reformers
needed’
are
Back in the latter 1890's there were
two drug stores in a town we all
know \-ery well, and they sold liquor
on doctors’ prescriptions and were
m.aking money hand-owr-fist. A
judge, now dead, came to that town,
to hold a term of court, and iodict-
rnents against the drug stores were
the first cases to be tried. The
judge said he meant “to breark-up
this liquor sellnig here in this town.**
The trials went on nearly all the
week, and that was about all the
court did, and to hear the judge
talk, you would think that soante-
body was doomed. They were taxed
with the CQst.
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