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TT 1 HOKE COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER HOKE COl'NTVS BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM he ws-journa The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XL NO. 15 KAKKOKU. N C. THURSDAY. SEPT. 13th, 1943 KM PER YEAR Ne NEWS Of OUR MENw WOMEN IN UNIFORM Major Dickson Now At State Sanatorium Major Graham Dickson, who has been at a Denver, Col., hospital for some months, has been transferred ( and is new being treated at the Sana- Several veterans of World War two torium. Major Dickson, Raeford at- were added to the rolls of Ellis Wil---j fmir cnlicHnr nf t he 1 1 iamson Post of the American Legion countv court, was assigned, to the adjutant general's office in the Euro pean theatre,, and defended the group of US soldiers of the railway bat talion who were tried last year for robbery of arrry goods and mixed up in the French blackmarket op erations. Hoke Man In Unit Cited In China Private John D. Webster of route one, Raeford, is hospital unit staffing the Kunming Stltion Hospital in China, which unit has been awarded, the Meritorius Service Unit Plaque for "superior ""l . performance of duty in the comPle-anfd he Post, v to make every tion of exceptionally difficult tasks . e"ter 'h!s 8r0Wln -Prt under adverse conditions, from Oct- I for .ntheingyears. ober 15. 1944, through February 15,1 0 1945. ,Mrs. Bill Wright Cpl. Hnry C. Williams of Aber- p p i R . deen is also a member of this unit, EatS tat DISCUlt which operates the largest station i R M" i.l,. hospital in the China area. Two Raeford ians Fly To Miami From Europe Corporal James R. Williams of Rae ford, was among the 30,000 soldiers flown from Europe during Aug. who were brought into the Miami base by. the Air Transport Command. Cor-! poral Williams was later sent to Camp Blandirg for briefing, and then given a furlough. He is entitled to wear the ETO rib- on, tnree came stars, tr.e i-resiaen-tl Pit-tinn. and th Pumle Heart. 1th two clusters. He servedvith the -9th Division during his 33 months overseas.. Pfc. James Luther Jackson or Rt. two was also flown in. He served 15 months overseas with the 35th Divis ion and has a collection of five battle stars, the ETO and Pre-Pearl Har bor ribbons. OGLETHORPE, Ga. Pfc. Clinton F. Hall, son of Mrs. Ada Hall, Route One, Raeford, N. C, currently is sta tioned st the Redistribution Station, where he wil spend two weeks before reporting to his new assignment in the United States. He was returned recently to the United States after having served 26 months in the European Theater ot operations as a rifleman. His decorations include the Euro pean Theatre of operations ribbon with four campaign stars, and the Purple Heart and Good Conduct med als. 1st Sgt.. Ralph Plummer recelrrt his discharge from the army Sa'.ui day after a week less than five years in the service, and is now at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Plummer. Lt. William E. Plummer, who has been back from Europe about six weeks left yesterday for Victoria, Texas, where he has been assigned to Foster Field. Lt. Tru ran B. Austin arrived home Tuesday from Alliance, Neb., and ex pects to recefve his discharge from the arn-.y this week. John Dunk McNeill received his discharge from the Coast Gu.ird last week. Lt. Elrlred Helton and his mother, i Mrs. Mary Helton left yesterday for j Greensboro. From there, Lt. Helton will go to San Antonio, Texas, for I reassignment. I Sgt. Bill Davis of Seymour John- son Field, Goldsboro, spent the week I end at home. SK 3-C Dan C. Cox, Jr.. of Nor folk, Va., spent the week eni with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Alexander ive received a letter from their an, SM 3-C William Alexander, who is with Admiral Hulsey's 3rd Fieet, stating that his ship, the USS Sutherland, was the first ship to en ter Tokyo Bay and fhat it helped shell Tokyo and the coast before the Jap surrender came. This was the first letter that the Alexanders had received from him in quite some time. Mrs. Harold 'STcDiafmid has re ceived word' that her husband, Harold A. McDiarmid, has received the ra ting of A. M. 3-c. He has been ni Legion Post Plans Park Improvement And Junior Team Chicken Supper Brings Out Several Candidates For Mem bership Monday Evening. 'Monday evening at a meeting hell, at the armory following a fried chicken supper, as the post hpean its drive for membership among the ' new veterans I Plans for continued operation of ! the drive were discussed and then the meeting became a discussion cen- ter for baseball principally base ball for Raeford. It was decided to petition the county commissioners to carryout plans for the completion of the fence and erect the propose!! member of the'ncw grandstand at Armory park,' c insta. ugmmg equip "'S"' ;v-nt P'an sponsor ship o a Jun.or Le8 'due niMuu uguiing euuipiutrm 1U1 for the Legion base- Mrs. Bill Wright, who with her husbmd, operates Bills place on the j Fayetteville road, was rushed to a j Fayetteville huspital afternoon, after she when she a' a rat biscuit by mis take. Harvey, an employee of Bills, had been in Raeford during the after- noon and purchased the rat poison for the use at the night club, and some not put out were laying on a ; counter. Mrs. Wright, thinking that : it was one of the wartime confections market these days, ate one of the wafers and soon became violently in. vvnen tiarvey was tola aoout i'. he said that she had taken poison, and she was rushed to the hospital. Ci House Passes The Standard Time Bill WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-The house todav passed without nnoosi - tion a resolution to return the nation to stand time September 30. The measure would abolish day - light saving, or wartime. It would mean that clocks would be turned back one hour at 2 a. m. on Sep tember 30. The legislation now goes to the sen ate, where speedy adoption is expec ted. Action by the President is not required. Clocks were set ahead one hour In That cow that kicked the Chicago 1942, when congress created wartime j woman's lamp that caused the Chica as a means to conserve fuel and pro- g0 fjre had nothing on the bull calf vide longer daylight working hours, j 0f tj,e Widow Martin, of Hooziers Several members said today they Knob, near Connellys Springs-Ruth- did not think wartime provided the benefits expected. i service fifteen months and is how in the Pacific. T-5 Malcolm H. Campbell, who has been serving with the air force in the Pacific, arrived in the States September 1, and is spending a thirty Kay furlough with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Campbell of Wagram. Luke McNeill of the n. vy was home for the week end. Cpl. Neill Ca.rpbei:, who has been stationed at Fort Bragg, left Satur-; day for CanT-McHTerson, Ga., where W'ioow. nr. Vanderout s man ex he is to receive a discharge from the'Plni,-ed that she would, as he planr.ed army. He is a brother of Mrs. C. F. Davis and has lived here, but now makes his home at Joelton, Tenn. Sgt. Edward Mawbey, who has ser- vei eighteen months in the South Pacific, has arrived in the States, ac- cording to a message received here 'by his wife, the former Miss Carol Odom. Lt. Robert W. Elmer returned to New York City Tuesday after spen- day leave with his family, unii a itru ud, it live till His mini!. in tr.e nome or tne Kev. ana mis. w. L. Maness. Mrs. Roland Covington hs received a rressage that her nephew, Stuart Gordon Barbour, petty officer in the navy, who has been a prisoner since, the beginning of the war, has been liberated. Radio Man I-c Herman P. Cole, who has served overseas eighteen months, taking part in the invasion t of Anzio and Southern France, is I spending a 30-iay leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Cole. Hoke Warehouse Erecting 2,000 Bale Addition A warehouse which will have a capacity of 2,000 bales of cotton is j being erected on the property of the Hoke Warehouse and Storage com pany property, which will increase the storage capacity6.f the concern from six to eight thousand bales, it I was stated this week by C. L. Thorn las, general manager of the concern. The building is being built in two I sections with a firewall separating mem, ana eacn section will have a capacity of a thousand bales. 0 iMrs: Floyd Seals And Baby Hurt In Head-On Car Wreck Dnnnie Harrell Held On Rerk- less Driving Charges Following Sunday Accident. 1 Mrs. Floyd Seals and her young i baby are patients at the Moore county 1 hospital as result of injuries sus tained in a head-on crash of two I cars Sunday at 1:30 p. m., when the I Seals car was struck by one driven by Donnie Harrell. The accident happened at the in tersection of the Addor and Pee Dee roads about a mile from Camp Mac kail It was investigated by Sheriff D. H. Ho gin. Deputy J. C. Wright and Highway Patrolman Jason Barnes. Officers held Harrell to be -at fault for failing to observe late yester.'ay stop i3W requirements and are hol was poisoned dir.2 him on charges of reckless driv ing pending the outcome of examina tion and treatment of Mrs. Seals and her child. Neither Floyd Seals, driver of the car in which his wife and child were riding, nor Harrell sustained ap- I preciable injuries , New Business Gets State Charter j The Hoke Exchange company re ceived its incorporation papers this week, and is authorized to deal in maohinery and equipment. The authorized capital stock ot the con cern is $25,000 and subscribed stock was listed in the names oT Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Warlick and Mr. and " 'Li ' " --ni. ! "ew is now erecting '! "''a'"?. n Property next to '.he county " building. Lr . I Kilfmnro Atirl I JIU11UIC X"YIlu How It Was Built And Why ! erford College. The bull calf, Buck. (caused George Vanderbilt to change his plans of building his southern pal- !ace on Hoosier's-Knob, and thus sent ihim to the Asheville area, wher he later spent $32,uou,uuu develop- ing his great estate and thus develop ed Asheville. Rather than Connellys Springs-Rutherford College, into the ; iretropolis of the mountains. Vanderbilt selected Hoosier's Knob ! j parked his palatial private railroad car on the Connellys Springs siding, I and sent nis representative to the wi jdow Martin, Offering her $5,000 cash I for the mountain, ihougf) iTs theTi an- 'praised value was le?s than $3n0. "Will I have to move away," asker the to build on the site. "Then I wouldn't i have no place to keep 'Buck,' an' I j got to keep him to pull the sied to, the store fer things I need." sa id the widow, finally. And then Vander-' bilt moved farther west, to our local I loss. A. T. Abrnahy in Charlotte Ob- server, Government Cuts Working Hours In w-q fre' ii TOA UttlCe Mere I Beginning Saturday, September 15. j the Hoke county farm security ad- ministration office at Raefoid will be closed all day each Saturday, Zeb E. 'Daniel, FSA supervisor announced today The new schedule is in compliance with an administrative order which specifies that effective September 9 the wor week for all FSA employes will be five days of eight hours each, from Monday through Friday. The office hours Monday through Friday are 8:30 A. M., to 5:30 P. M., Mr. Daniel said. Defoliant Takes Off Cotton Leaf In Short Time Planes Cover 100 Acres Per Hour With Dust That Removes Leaves. A number of Hoke county fjrmers whose cotton has heavy foliage are having their fields dusted this week by airplane which spreads a pow dery chemical over the field that removes the leaves within 5 to 8 days. The dusting here is being done by Speedy Goza, pilot of the plane, at the rate of 100 acres per hour. Heavy foliage and rank growth caused by continued rains this sea son has given little opportunity for the cotton bolls to ripen and the fibre in many fields is not properly dried for picking. By removing the leaves tfie sun can strike through to the lowest bolls and open the bolls and dry 'he cotton thoroughly. Dusting costs about $1.75 per acre, it was said. Using a cub type plane Goza has dusted a number of fields for the Johnson coxpany, and others are expecting to use the service on their fields. Goza has been operating plane dusters for the past 16 years, and is now connected with the Robert Dusting company of Aberieen and Pompano, Fla. County Agent A. S. IChowks has inspected a number of lots of cotton brought to gins in the past few days, and he states that many of them have been picked too soon. He states that dut to the high weed "it is almost impossible for the sun to reach the bolls and open them properly. As much as 75 percent of the cotton de livered to gins so far should have been left in the fields for some days longer as cotton not fully open when picked will bring as much as $10 per bale less than that which has thoroughly ripened1. One Pastor Admitted One Dismissed At Meeting Monday Rev. Drury Lacy Jones was received into Fayetteville Presbytery and a i commission was appointed to install him as pastor at Fairmont Presby terian and the Midway Presbyterian churches. He comes from Wilmington Presbytery where he was pastor of Faison, Warsaw, and Bowden chur ches. Rev. Frank L. Goodman was dis missed to. Lexington Presbytery to become pastor of the Churchville church. Mr. Goodman was the pastor of Montpelier, Laurel Hill churches and was the Stated Supply of the Gibson church. The body met at the Raeford Pres byterian church Monday afternoon. fiauii: JOHN B. HLTSOX Hutson To Discuss Post-War Control Of U. S. Farmers Meetings At Lumherton And Greenville Sponsored By Farm Bureau. John B. Hutson. under secretary of i Agriculture nd recently appointe administrator of the National Produc tion and Marketing Agency, will ad- dress farmers of North Carolina at Lumbtrton and Greenville on Tiiurs-. day, September 13th. Speaking under the sponsorship of: t.he Robeson and Pitt County Farm Bureaus, he will speak at Lumber ton at 2 o'clock and at Greenville at 8:30 on the same day. In his addresses he will discuss post-war problems facing American agriculture and the reorganization af the United States Department of Ag riculture which consolidates more than a dozen offices of the dept. in Washington. USO And War Fund Committees Meet Monday Night Two cor groups will hold ening to dis . i, during the t. A' .."1 com- a meetin cuss plans . coming year. mittee has been i. " j A. Cameron to meet . (Va p. ir., in the commissioners a brief discussion. This will o 1 ; lowed by a meeting of the United War Fund committee of the county. Chair man John A. McGoogan states that details of the plans Tor the War Fund campaign will be discussed and ma terials distributed at this meeting. It will be heM in the commissioners room at 8:30. 902 Pupils Enter County Schools Opening Day W. N. Rhyne Secured To Teach Science And Commercial Sub jects At Hoke High. With only one vacancy in the teaching staff of the cqunty school system Hoke's white schools got un der way Monday morning with 902 pupils registered in the six schools, i it was stated today by K. A. Mac i Donald, countv simerintprHpnf Enrollment was un 31 miniu over opening day of last year w?ien 871 d:tcn- 'hich was so deep that the j registered. A number of additional bu5 had t0 be Pulled out with a students are expected to enter within wrecker. the next several days, it was said. 1 Tate was found, still driving the ! W. N. Rhyne, for a number of borrowed car, at 12:15 near the N. years connecter' with (he school vs- ' H' G- Balfour farm. He was arrested terns of Bladen and Columbus coiin- by Patrolman Barnes and sheriff's ties, was employed last week to teach ' deputy, H. E. Dees. He had been .subjects in commerce and social' sought for nearly four nours, with Isciences at Hoke High, to leave but a larSe number of citizens of the one vacancy in the system. A teach- Mildousin community joining in the er of public school irusic and band'searcn as the news spread about the music is still needed for Hoke High, , countryside. Mr. MacDonald stated Registration for the several schools were as follows: Antioch 13; Ashe- --. mont ioi; Hoke High 276 (20 less 1 wo Year Sentence than last year): Mildousin 52; Rae-j ford Graded 361; Rockflsfi 91. rtonnie Thomas, young negro, was Opening exercises at Hoke high sentenced to serve two years on the were conducted by the Revs. J. D. roads in county court Tuesday upon Whisnant and H. K. Holland, while conviction of resisting arrest and as the Rev. W. L. Maness conducted the saulting Chief of Police W. J. Mc devotionals at Raeford Graded.! The a,a H. .tn.riav Rev. Mr. Booker of Fayetteville con- sentence to run concurrently upon ducted the devotionals at Rockfish conviction on a charge of vagrancy, school. A large number of parents ,Gus King, negro of Pine Bluff, paid attended the opening programs at($5o and costs for drunken driving these schools, it was stated, and the an(j aiso pa;d costs f0r driving with- uueresi snown was consiaerea a pro- mising one lor parent-teacher-student activities throughout the year. 0 Labor Needed To Build Power Lines iwife decided not to prosecute the Rural line construction by borrow-'charges. She paid the court costs, ers of Rural Electrification Adminis- Roscoe McMillan also paid court tration funds in North Carolina and costs when he decided not to appear by power companies offers prospects 'against Willie McPhaul, both negroes, of immediate employment for a sub-1 after McMillan had sworn out a stantial number of returning service warrant against McPhaul for tre3 men and discharged war plant work- passing and assault. ers, says Professor David S. Weaver, o head of the Agricultural Engineering! . "vryT' A vsilaKI Department at State College. I w 1 "nlC Workers most urgently needed are .Quantity Limited truck drivers, men to dig pole holes 1 ana clear rienis-oi way, linemen tr string lines, ana electricians to wie the premises of co-jrrtners.' Loan funds totalling $10,700,020 are available to 38 REA-financtd co.)0r- ?tives to t. nance new cons l".ie::o IV. . in North Carolina as rapi ar.d notcrb'.s a"e ava:l; amount in-iucios S3.224.02 w: ch P- :' nvc :! y.l').. j tiie EA hid alUvfed yp to M:.y 1 : fro:1.', authorized !e:tr!.rc fur.Hs vious ye.ir. .r.-ri S5.J7IVM since t'T.'. d iro'r. a (unC of M0,M air.K-rizru by Ccr.?re?s current f.sr;,; year. RF.A A:.n-.ir.;strator Claude R. Wi: karf, ir. a statement on the n.vional electrification program has urged the agency's 96 borrowers in 46 s'ates to make spec.al efforts to recruit the needed workers so that they may go forward with their expanse t expanse) grams as rapidly as possible. Admin istrator Wickard said: making plans this' tu., nas t.;i pnst year for a great expansion o! its activities just .is qu:k!y as tne m;n and n-aterials; become available. Most o: our borrowers are now er.sauei. o will shortly engage, in an expanding REA loans, wh.ch will provide jobs construction program. f.r..tirc.d bv for many thousands of men reused from military service and war fact ories n almost every commur.i'y in the nation Revival At Cumberland Rev. W. L. Maness will assist the Rev. T. J. Whitehead in a revival i Farrrers taking part in the state meeting at Cumberland beginning five acre cotton contest are asked Sunday evening at 8:00 o'clock. Theto keep complete records, regarded Rev. B. P. Robinson will preach of whether yields are large or smill at the Raeford Methodist church All records are needed for a comple'e Sunday evening. report. 'Arrest Negro For Forcing School Bus Off Highway Patrolman Barnes Praises Edith Black, Girl Driver Of Bus. A school bus enroute to Raeford from the Mildousin section was forced to leive the highway by reckless driving of an auto by Ruby Lester Tate, negro, at 8:15 yesterday morn ing. Tate, sought by police and citi zens o fMildous:n for four hours, was taken into custody at 12:15 and is now in jail on charges of reckless driving and operating a borrowed car with .everal pieces of defective equip ment. Loaded with 35 children, the bus was forced from the roadway into the highway ditch when Tate ap proached at high speed, his car weav ing from side- to side of the road. Patrolman Jason Barnes, who was at the scene within a short time, st,tfd that ,Edith B1"k-Ji51 r!ver of the school bus, handled the heavy vehicle excellently, and did a fine job of dodging the speeding car, and avoiding a head-on accident that might have injured many of the chil dren. "A seasoned driver couldi not have done a better job," was Mr. Barnes appraisal. None of the school children was injured, and the bus was but slightly damaged ift running into the road I 0- , Donnie Thomas Gets 0U( license. Roscoe Odell Lay, negro, paid costs for speeding; Cliff Thomas and Alene Thomas, negroes, each paid $25 and costs for possession of illegal liquor, in lieu of 6 month sentences. Allen Henderson, indian of Antioch town ship, indicted for abandonment of his I wife, secured a nol pros when his ; vim' vriDt Sept. 12. The insect repellent, known to thousands of Gl's in the Pacific, Africa, Sicily, and Italy, as Formula 6-12 is now avail ab'.e in limited quantities for farmers. yac!r use u-c er.. sportsmen, and others to insect-, nfestedjivas asgfoG ir.scet-infestt d areas for the rn:rr.irder of the season. Insert Ropeiien; P-12 was orig'n nliy dYolnped te prot et soldier? fro.r. ;ho malaria misquito. Medical c.T.ee: s give this material muc?! FScfl it for :ts assist.tr.ee in the control of r,-a'..,ri.i and other insect' orne cis ?aso. that plagued our fighting men in advanced areas in the jungle-covered tropics. It will prove equally valuable to farmers and sportsmen houatt;o i nin.lc hlmL- fll Hn-,.. . " H ruiffrs a, w ' ' Pr-'anre mnsrmitnpt! ' This repellent is used by applying ? fall' r)r,, In U1 -: . U i all nVMrtcr-H r-ors- nf Hia u - w - .he ci,nh: whe'e in5ePts'are .,..,, ,. j, . ,., .. . a doe; no injre tbe skin. 'applicaf'on furnishes romntete pro tection lor several hours. 0 Peanuts are ready to d:g wher. the I inside of the hull turns dark and ivpirts nntiftar nn iha rttitrilia , ru" Cin -ier block must be treated with a weather proofing compound to make Ibuildmg waterproof.