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N S J HOKE COUNTY'S . BEST HOKE COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER ourna ADVERTISING j MEDIt'M i The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XL NO. 19 RAEFOKM. V THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1943 $2.00 PER YEAR i tie NEWS OF OUR M EN w WOMEN IN UNIFORM TERMINAL LEAVE The expression "terminal leave," as used in this column and by the .army and navy, applies to officers only and refers to the leave an officer has accrued when the time comes for him to be separated from the service. He is separated and is allowed to wear civilian clothing and accept civiliarTempioyment, but for the term of his leave he is tech nically a member of the armed forces on active duty, drawing full pay and allowances. This definition is printed after receipt of numerous inquiries following use of the phrase last week. A navy dispatch received this week states that Lt. Julius F. Jordan of Timberlan-d is serving at Guam now with Fleet hospital No. 108. This hospital, after nr.oving from from Samoa when its usefulness there was over, cared for casualties from Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Morrison are spending two weeks here with Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Brown, parents of Mrs. Morris--- Mr. Morrison, who is from Huntington, West Va., was a storekeeper first class in the navy until his discharge. Fulford McMillan, veteran of the campaigns of France and Germany, has been discharged and is at his home in B'.neSprings township. Lt. and Mr.C'v?. L. Seals, who are stationed a! Portsmouth, Va., have been in Port .-trlhur, Texas, where their infmt son is ill with infantile paralysis at the home of the parents of Mrs. Seal-'. Lt. Seals returned to Portsmouth lnt Saturday an-' Mrs. Seals remained with the b by who at last reports was improving. Sat. Tor McBryde received his discharge from the army last Sat urday at Camp Crowder, Mo., and is now visiting his sister, Mrs. Keith Tovey, in Chicago. Lt. A. R. Fitzimmons is spending me of his terminal leave here ith his wife's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan McBryde. Lt. Fitzimmons was recently separated from the navy and will work with the C. I. T. cor poration in Atlanta, Ga. Pfc. Winston McDonald, brother of Pauline McGill of Raeford, was sent to a separation center this week for his honorable c'dscharge. He spent over two and one-half years in the Pacific theater. Sgt. James C. Yates was dischar ged from the Am y yesterday af'er four and one-half years service and three and one-half years in the Pa cific theatre and is at present visit ing his brother, Donald Tafes, at Dundarrach. Staff Sgt. M. B. McBryde Jj visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. McBryde, since receiving his dis charge at Fort McArthur, Cal. Among the old National Guard boys of Battery "F" who have put in an appearance this week are Pfc. Ralph D. Parks, S-Sgt. William Len tz. T-5 Eugene R. Seaford, and Cpl. Harry Thornburg. These men were in the army over five years and had foreign duty in the West Indies and in Europe. They are now out of the army and at home. Cpl. W. B. Williams and his wife, Mrs. Ann Williams of Jacksonville1; Fla.. are visiting, relatives and friends in Raeford and Red Springs. Cpl. Williams na just eturrif. from thirty months service overseas in the C. B. 1. theater. Herman Cole, RM 2-c, spent sev eral days last week visiting his brother, B. B. Cole. Jr., AMM 3-c, who io stationed at the Naval Air (funner's school in Jacksonville, Fla. Herman, who has been spending a 30-day leave with his parents, re ported to the Naval Annex in Little Creek, Va., on October 8th for fur ther assignment. P(j. Rlilph Gibson of Antioch, another of the old 252nd CA boys, with the same record of service, is also at Fort Bragg awaiting dis charge. S. C. PATROLMEN FOR 'RESIDENT'S VISIT Raleigh, Oct. 10. Maj. H. W. Hatcher, state highway patrol com mander, said today that Governor Ransom Williams of South Carolina had agreed to send 30- South Carolina patrolmen to Statesville on Nov. 2 to handle tremendous crowds ex pected there in connection with, the scheduled visit ot President Truman. $5000 Bond Set For Stonewall Negro In Murder Case Recorder Has Light Docket Tues day Morning. - In the case in which James Lee Baldwin, colored man of Stonewall I Township, w as charged with the miir.'er of his father, Rudolph Bald win on the Balfour place on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 3, I the defendant waived preliminary hearing and the case was bound over to the next term of Superior court. Bond was set at $5000 and the de fendant, failing to post it, is. lodged i in the- county jail awaiting trial. I 3Tew-art Moore, colored, entered a plea of guilty of being drunk and disorderly and prayer for judgement was continued on payment of the , costs. Willie Allsbrook, Matthew McCoy, anfl William Arxstrong, all colored, each entered pleas of guilty of'hav- i ing improperly equipped autos on the public highways and prayer for judgement was continued in each icaip on payment of the costs. ' Vivian McRae, colored, entered a plea of guilty of assaulting her hus band and prayer for judgement was continued on payment of the costs. Tan? McGoogan, colored man of Raeford township, was charged with the larceny of leaf tobacco from J H." Wright and M. A. Maxwell. A, the ammirt of the tobacco charged stolen exceeded $50 in value the case was bey )'.'.,! jurisdiction of the Re i order's court. Defendant waive i preliminary hearing 'and bond was Si-t at $500 and the case was held fo- Superior court. James triggers, white man of Wil-rington, entered a plea of guilty of driving a car while urilrr the ir.fluen.'e of liquor. He was fined SO and the court costs and lost his driving license for one year. In another c-se a charge of careTess and reckless driving against the same iefendant was dismissed when he agreed to pay the damages he did to someone else's car. Mrs. James E. McfRae, colored, en tered a plea of guilty of careless and reckless driving and sentence of six ty days was suspended on payment of the court costs and adjustment of damages with the complaining witness. Hoke County High Plays Fayetteville There Tonight Local Eleven Plays "B" Team At 8:00 P. M. ! Coach Lawrence McNeill will take hTTTtoke- County High School foot ball team to Fayetteville where they , will play the "B'1 team from Fayette , ville High School there tonight at eight o'clock. Although the Hoke boys have one victory under their belts they will go into the ga-me I somewhat handicapped by injuries 'and absence. Thomas and McKeith ' an were both injured last week and . while both are expected to start, ; trotfble may develop from these in juries.. j Tentative starting lineup as of last i night is as fcKows: Backs, Thomas, Warner. Plummer. and MeKeithan: ends, McNeill and Ted Claifa tackles, Clark and Freeman (Capt.); guards WoodhoOse and Yarboroiigh; center, , Poole. Assistant coaches are Willie I Walters and J. B. McLeod. McGoogan Says United War Fund Drive Doing Badly Only $400 Given In Past Week. County Chairman John A. Mc Googan of the Hoke County United War Fund committee stated yester efay fTiat the drive had slowed up considerably in the' past week and that many of the business houses in the county of whom contributions ha.-, been requested by the commit tee had reduced their gifts substan tially. He did, however, state that the local Bclk-Hensdale store had made a contribution of twice the a mount requested. One week ago yesterday Mr. Mc Googan had received almost four hundred dollars in the drive for $4,020 in the whole county and he felt well satisfied with the way the drive was going. In the week since that time, only enough has come in to bring the total to approximately nine hundred dollars, at which rate the county will not have contributed 'half it quota by th end of the drive. Army Offers To Let . Reinlisting Noncoms Keep Stripes i , ATLANTA, GA , Oct. 8 Know any former non-commissioned of-, ficers who would like to return to , the army wTTTf Their old rank? They can if they were honor ably discharged since May 12, 1945, and if they re-enlist by October 20. I They've got to hurry, because the deadline is near, and the rule re quires that men taking advantage of this opportunity must be physical ly examined, processed and actually in the army by October 20. Because of the distance from processing cen ters, this means that men should ap ply by October 16 to 18. Headquarters Fourth Service Com mand today sought to bring the change in policy to the attention of all former non-commissioned of ficers. The obvious advantage is jthat any man re-enlisting after the .deadline must do so as a private. If he held a rating such as master sergeant or corporal and" is eligible for reinstatement, he should apply before October 20. Full information abouf this re enlistment inducement rtfy be ob tained at any army recruiting sta tion. North Carolina Gets Attention Of National Magazines RALEIGH, Oct. 8. A good por tion e the literate population of America is having its eyes pounded by North Carolina this fall. Among arti-il.s about North Caro lina and North Carolinians in leading m:M. cation- is a pie-re ir. Esquire by Opie She'.tor. of Winston-Salem, which tel's an anecdote about Kid Brewer's Appalachian footb ,11 team. Silas Campbell of Raleigh has a piece in the magazine Yachting, de scribing a dramatic boating incident in North Carolina. The coxing Sunday New York News has a two-page spread on Sal ter Path (Carteret County), writ ten 'ny staffer Bob Sullivan and il lustrated by Johnny Hommer of the State News Bureau. Another of Hommer's pictures is in the current Fortune a shot of a Wake county farm fish pond. The magazine, Woman, has a di gest of a North Carolina school bus story originally appearing in Col liers, and written by Bill Sharpe, of the State News Bureau. Articles from the bureau also appeared this month in Popular Science. Highway Magazine, Esso Oilways, The Buyer, Travelways Magazine, and are sche duled shortly for Country Gentle man, Coronet and Southern Agri culturist. Parade, a foto supplement, will have, a layout on Mattamuskeet in Noven ber and Holiday, a brand new Curtis Publishing company ma gazine, has scheduled an Outer Banks story for the first issue, due out this month. It was written by Frank Martinez, staTTer, and illustrater by State News Bureau photographs. Last week Allan Gould, New York photographer, did pictures on a North Carolina Symphony story which will I appear in Parents, with text by Mrs. 'Adeline McCall, Chapel Hill. He , will return in October to do a story I for the Saturday Evening Post, in .Johnston county, with tixt by Henry i Ravenel Sass, of Charleston, and in November will be token to Hatteras by the State News Bureau to do a jsixpage layout for Pageant maga 1 zine. 32 Divisions Inactivation WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The Ar my has ordered inactivation of 32 of the 89 divisions it had at peak strength during the war. I The 32, it was learned today, in clude 21 infantry, two airborne and 'nine armored -divisions. They are: Infantry 26th, 29th, 34th, 36th, 43rd, 63rd, 65th, 66th. 69th. 70th, 75th 76th, 79th, 85th, 87th, 89th, 92nd, 95th, 99th, 103rd, 106th. j Airborne 17th and 82nd. I Armored 5th, 6th. 7th. 9th, 10th. ,11th, 12th, 14th, 16th. At the war department it was , emphasized that the list is subject to last-minute change. ' However, three infantry units tr!r 63rd. 85lh and 97th already have been brought home and inactivated-. The 5th and 7th armored and the ,70th infantry left Le Havre, France, early this month and soma of their 'units are now arriving at eastern ports. The 43rd infantry is the only unit on the list from the Pa cific and detachments from it are due in this country soon. Legion Post Seeks Junior And Pro Baseball " D. H. Hodgin Is Special Service Officer For Hoke Veterans. At a regular meeting of the Ellis i furloughs it will be a second home , Williamson Post of the American j coming for the paratroopers and gli Legion held in the Kiwanis hall Mon-ldermen since the 13 Airborne-division day evening, the post unanimously i was originally activated in World favored legion baseball here nextlWar II at Fort Bragg in August 1943. ysur, and the Athletic committee j Many North Carolinians will recog was instructed to endorse a move-jnize their colorful shoulder patch ment to get some professional base-; fro n their training days in this vici ball team to train here next spring. I nity. It's a bright golden unicorn An effort also is being made to in- a field of infantry blue shaped stall lights at the ball park so that with the airborne arch, fngft't gares may be played. Overseas the division was a -, The Legion award to the outstan- signed to the famous First AlliecV -ring bov and girl from Hoke High Airborne army but it was not corn schools senior class has been inau-jmitted to action though many of its gurated, and this award will be ! men and units have seen combat made annually from now on. The service. Most of these is the 517th ennnial corvlra r.ffir.. Qlioriff Fl IT noagin, nas lnstauea a cicsk, ana in naiy, soutnern r ranee ana me Miss Marian Maxwell will handle j Ardennes campaign. In addition to any matters that concern veterans , the, 517th the 13th is made up of the at this desk from now on. This 515 Parachute Infantry regiment, post sponsors the local fire com-,458th and 460th Paraehuie .S Ar pany and a committee will go be-itillcry battalions, 676th and 677th 'fore the. city fathers in an effort to,Glider Field Artillery Battalions and I get additional members for the fire t the 326:h Glider Infantry regiment, .company. The Post is mighty proud 0 of the recent record ot the local fire corpany and will make every I effort to help them. In the near; future a pi'ETic memorial service 'will be held for noke World. War dead. Plans are being made and a committee is working on 0 School News r.ov tins Bv K. A. Mac-Donald White schools went on .full day schedule this week. The county schools now open at 8:30 A. M. and the Kaetord schools open at onu. The Negro and Indian schools o the cou y opened ,the year last Monday. They will operate on she." schedule for possibly three; weeks. Lunch rooms at Hoke High and Raefoivi Graded schools opened Mon- 1 day with Mrs. Lucy Smith managing j the one at Hoke High and Mrs. Age- ! nora Andrews the one at Raeford j Graded school. ' The young daughter of Mr. T. C. Jones, principal of the Rockfish 1 school, was buried last Sunday. Shei died suddenly after being in ill health Kr quite a while. While Mr. : Jones and his family were away at the funeral his home was robbed. j At this writing an estimate of the I loss had not been made. Raeford Graded school has just re ceived a large shipment of supple mentary readers purchased with their supplementary reader fees. J. M. Williams of the firm of Wil- jliams and Wall, certified public ac countants, is a pitseuu uiiis-iuug uh the 1944-45 audit of the books of the Board of Education and preparing I the yearly financial report to the ' state. T Htn X V ..nlPf "'1 at home recuperaTing after unoer- j going and operation in a Fayette I hospital two weeks ago. O Pocketbook Is Ginned Along With Cotton i j One day last week while having a bale of cotton ginned at Oakdale gin, Nick Easterling, who raises cot ton for A. K. Stevens, lost his Dill 'fold containing $104. A thorough i search of the premises faileo to lo jcate it until a member of the gin 'staff happened to look in the pile ! where sticks and trash which are "separated from the cotton is ejected. , The billfold and the money were' I' ntoct after having been sucked into the gin with the seed cotton, going '.hroirgT! machinery,""and coming bered. Gen. McAuliffe is now the j peri-Tent Station conducted corn out undamaged. Easterling was commanding general at Camp Mac-Spacing an-ii fertilization demonstra pleased. i kail. From him State Chairman . tion, using some approved hybrids 0 I Victor S. Bryant has recently re-I and a local variety. This will be the Baptist Church To Have Special Building Fund Campaign Sunday morning October 14. be- tween Sunday school and the morn- ir.a worship hour, we ask our people to bring the;r annual fall offering for the Building Fun.i. Those un able to pay Sunday morning may make their pledges and pay same sometime between now and the first of the year. Wa are expecting to biijld soon. Definite plans will be presetted to the church in the near future. Let us make this offering the largest yet made. J. D. Whisnant, pastor. Neill Clark of Blue Springs town shiD has been seriously ill in a Fay- 'etteville hospital for several days. j 13th Airborne Division Arrives At Fort Bragg Fort Bragg. Oct. S. The main body of the 13th Airborne division, which ??rved in the European theatre of Operations, has started to arrive at Fort Bragg. The division is com manded by M.jor General Elbridge- u. Lnapman, a nauve oi L-enver, uio. Refreshed after forty five day PiMphnlo Cnmtlit Tflam U'hintl fftllllht McNeill Releases War Loan Report For Hoke County i ' County Has Surpassed Overall Quotas In Six Of Seven Drives J. L. Mr-Neil!, chairman of the H. ke County War Finance Com m.'.tee. this we-tk released the war I. r.anie com' r. it tee report showing dollars colle-cted for bonds sold in j Hoke county in the seven drives of tne war. These figures show th i the county failed in only one of the j seven cTiTves to oversell its overall quota. In the first drive in 1942 with a quota of $21,000, $32,962.50 was re ceived from "E" bonis and overall sales amounted to $55,338.50. The second drive in 1943, with quota of $12r.uuo, Drought in Soil 331.25 in "E" bond sales and $157. 711.75 in overall sales. The third drive, also in 1943, with a quota of $209,000, brought in $126,- 750 in "K." hond nrf SlMQRQSn ,n overall sales Drive number four, in 1944, with an "E" quota of $138,600, sold $125, j 589.50 and with an overall quota of $175,000 sold $331,536.00. The fifth drive, also in 1944. w'-.h an "E" quota of $130,000, sold $75,167 and with an overall quota of $206.- 0C0 scld $299,135. Drive number six, in 1944 wjO)' i-.j-- quota of $113.00, sold $145,- ' bonds anfl with an overall $293,360.50. quota of $168,000 sold The seventh drivers "E" quota I $183,000 and $110,953 was re ceived for "E" bonds during this drive. Its overall quota was $206,000 and a total of $280,602 was turned in during this drive. 0 Commander Of Mackall Endorses War Fund Drive Few men have attained such de served fame for the use of well-' timei slang as Major General A. C. McAulil'.fe. His classic answer to ; tne i.erman commanaer wno dp- landed the surrender of the badly Deieiguerea American troops at Has- . toer.e -.Mits win long te remem- I ceived the following letter: i last chance to see the outstanding I Dear Mr. Bryant: .results. The corn will be harvested For many thousands of our. and placed at the end. of each plot I wounded in hospitals the war is not j for observation and study. Dr. B. A. lyct over and will not be over for Krantz who is in charge of this many months to crae. In addition Work will be present to explain and there are millions in wartorn lands who are in need of aid which 1s de- penarn: on runus raeu mrougn or- sanitations such as those represen- ted in the National War Fund. Dur- j At 4 00 p. m.. on Friday after la ing my service in Europe I had an.ving the Tapp farm, Mr. Howard opportunity to see the great work ,G.-rris, Extension plant pathologist, th..t L'St-Camp shows was doing, will .remonstrate the proper method to relieve the bore-.'om and home-. 'of fumigating a sweet potato stor sickness w hich the inevitable accom-i age house with Choloro Pickerin paniment of occupation -duties fol-l(tear gas) for the prevention and lowing the war. I feel that the control 0f the several storage di National War Fund is a most worthy seases. This demonstration will be cause and I hope that it will re- held at the Johnson potato curing ceive enthusiastic support. Very sincerely yours, A. C. McAULIFE Major General, tf. ! JC Commanding. County 4-H Boy Makes Large Cotton Yield On March 26, 1945, G. C. LytTe, Jr., 15vear o!d son of Mr d Mrs G. C. Lytle of the Antioch communi ty, planted one acre of Coker 10") Wilt, St. 2 cotton seed for his 4-H project. He followed approved prac tices for cultivation and used 725 pounds 6-8-6 fertilizer and 500 lbs. agricultural lime under the cotton; and 100 rbs caofitYo and 100 lbs. each o7"P"otash and nitrate of sovTiPal a side dresser. This cerrSn planted 3 foot rows with 3 and 4 stalks to the hill. . -.August 28 he carried the Tirsf ''V"' v.,ne gin and on October 2, Ci f- second bale from this acrt ' o d- It yielded 1002 lbs. of lin. v-.or 2580 pounds seed cotton. ;ass value of the as $248.59. After expenses wei ducted G. C. had a profit of $203. .il. I County Agent A. S. Knowles says, that there is a great opportunity for many more 4-H boys and girls in Hoke county to enter similar I projects. By doing so, they can j add to the family income as well as I invest part of their profit in bonds. G. C. has already bought $500 worth !of bonds from his projects and other learnings and intends to buy more j bonds with profits from this cotton project. ' j In previous years. G. C. has con ducted projects with sweet potatoes, i and always harvests and sells them ; on the early market. G. C.'s parents have cooperated with the Extension Kcrvi-ie in promoting better farming practices by encouraging 4-H clu'o boys and girls to follow approved practice; in both the home and on the farm. 0 Saturday Crash Kills Two And ! Injures Four Baldwin And Ingram Men Killed Instantly Car Hits Bridge. Negro When , . , ., 1 Two negros of Lumber Bridge were :ns'ant'y killed and three more were seriously mjure-a. adiuraay after- r.oon when their car hit the concrete sidewall of Raft Swamp bridge at p i the edge of Red Springs. The car, said to have been travel ing at high speed, struck the bridge vaTT ana crushed together, throwing a wa r an occupant ciear ana mSf!--ling five other passengers. Wire guard rails and three well-braced posts were sheared off cleanly at the ground Delore tr.e car came to a stop against the bridge. Herman Lee Baldwin, driver, and Robert Ingram were killed and J. T. Baldwin, Calvin Ingram and Geral dine Sinclair were taken to a Lum berton hospital tor Treatment. Esther Baldwin was only slightly injured. Baldwin was enroute to CiinTber ton, it was stated, to make arrange ments for the funeral of his brother, who had died of gunshot wounds following a family fight earlier last week. j State Farm Expert I Here Tomorrow On Frid.i.v. October 12, at 2:00 p. m thtve will be a com production meeting at C. F. Toon's farm located on the old Maxton road one and one-half miles south of Raeford, just west of the Raeford-Red Springs road. At this f.rm. the N. C. Ex- give results of the tests. For those , interested in m..king more corn per acre, this is 3 chance ro learn, first j hand, the best practices. I house near the Oakdale cotton gin. I Evander Gillis, who holds a posi tion in Washington, D. C, is spen ding this week in Raefoiu.