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The News-Journal HOKE COl'NTVS BEST ADVERTISING MEDII'M HOKE couNtrs ONLY NEWSPAPER The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME GL NO. 22 THURSDAY, NOV. 1st, 1943 tOKI. N. C. MMI PER VEAf NEWS Of OUR MENwWOMCN IN UMirORM S-Sgt. Howard Pope Reaches U. S. A. Mrs. Lola Pope received word this week that her son, S-Sgt How ard Pope, had reached the United States on October 25. He landed at San Francisco and is at present at the Letterman General hospital in California. Sgt. Pope had been a prisoner of the Japanese since his capture on Corregidor in 1942. He was liberated from the prison camp at Osaka, Japan, on the tenth of last September. Julius Niven, reurned veteran of the war in Europe, was discharged from the Army at Fort Bragg this week and is at home in Raeford. Warrent Officer Joe McBryde, who has recently returned from the European Theatre of Operations, is at home on a forty-five day leave. Ensign George Bethune spent the week end in Raeford with his family. Daniel C. "Tooney" Wilson has recently been discharged from the Navy and is at home. Sgt. Berder Niven, who has been in Burma and China for the past two years, is enroute home and is at Calcutta, India awaiting transpor tation, according to a message re ceived by his wife Tuesday. Cpl. John T. Haire, who has been In Luzon, has been sent to Japan for further duty, according to infor mation received by his wife. Sgt. Robert B. Ellis of Portland, Maine, is spending a fifteen-day furlough with his wife, the former Miss Marie Clark and twin daugh ters, Caroline Yvonne and Jerry Leon, NOTICE TO VETERANS W. W. Roberts, register of deeds of Hoke County, has asked the paper to state that he strongly advises all discharged servicemen to bring their discharge certificates to the courthouse and have them registered. It is important to these men that a permanent record be made of this document, as there are many times a discharged sol dier needs his discharge certifi cate. If it is recorded at the court house he can always get a certi fiied copy of it when needed. This registration costs veterans nothing In this county, as the county com missioners have voted for the coun ty to pay this fee for each veteran. Announces Plans For Christmas Seal Drive Raleigh, Oct. 21. Frank W. Web ster, executive secretary of the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association, has announced that the 1945 Christ mas Seals, designed by Park Phipps of the Chicago Institute of Art, have been shipped to some 32 organized tuberculosis associations and local chairn-.en throughout the state. Traditional Christmas colors of red and green add a festive theme to the 1945 seal which features a healthy young boy, symbol of Ameri can youth, carrying a holiday wreath toward a white house with a picket fence in the background. A red double-barred cross, emblem of the crusade for health, completes the design chosen for this year's tra ditional tuberculosis Christmas seal. The new seals should have reached local personnel by November 1, as part of the nation-wide campaign to be conducted between November 19 and December 25. to raise funds for the control of tuberculosis, Webster said. Funds raised throughout the coun try, he continued, will be used prin cipally to support local health pro grams, with all but five percent of the 1945 North Carolina quota of $285,000 to be spent within the state. This five percent will be forwarded to the National Tuberculosis associa tion, the parent body of the nation's 2,500 voluntary tuberculosis associa tions. Plans for the 1945 Christmas Seal sale are now well underway and Miss Agnes Mae Johnson has been announced as chairman of the cam paign for Hoke County. Revival At Bethel Rev. A. M. Fields of Lewisburg. West Virginia, will open series of revival services next Sunday eve ning at the Bethel P-esbyterlan church. The services will be held at 7:00 P. M. nightly, Sunday through Friday and will close with morning and evening services on Sunday, No vember 11. y Cameron Explains Present Standing i Of Freezing Plant , , . ., .. . In reply to the questions of many people of the town and county who have paid rental on a locker in the proposed freezing plant, Tom Cam- , was elected incoming vice president to . be presented to the County Com eron, President of the organization. , succeed Tom Cameron. .v.-,:. ,.; .t m has explained the status of the pro ject at present with reasons therefor, I Ca reron stated in the first place I that when the directors and stock holders began to investigate the pro position thoroughly they found that i the plant they wanted for this com munity would take approximately , $50,000 to build and install instead of I the $35,000 originally estimated. To I build mis piani wouia necessitate the sale of $15,000 more capital stock and some of the stockholders are dubious about the wisdom of investing in a plant costing that much for a community this size. I Also learned from these first m. zing plant of the type desired could not 'be delivered here within six months or a year of the ti.r.e ordered, Cameron said. He said that while fr7r. nf tho ..j k Army and the Navy had been avail- able, the companies manufacturing these were almost all closed at the present time and engaged in the conversion of their plants tn tViA f. f i j : j civilian use. These will not be forth- coming for some time, he said and vh:l3 there would probably be a possibility of getting a plant ori ginally built for the Army or the Navv, such a plant would not be suitable for this county. Finally, he 'rentioned the con dition of the building material mar ket at the present time and said that materials could not be obtained Due to this and the factors stated above he said that the directors of the company had decided to let the lation of President Truman's Southern project rest for the past several -,nd Western trips, Statesville tonight weeks. He also said that there held out hone that the Chief Exe- ; would be a meeting of the directors cutive would be able to appear heTe and stockholders in tho novt fouriFriday in accordance with plans! weeks tn iWirio what etin, ,1 ho Anna either build the plant or decide ....... ..wu.u , not to build it and return the money to those who had put it up. He stated inat tne money raised for locker rent day arternoon that he had heard ,are urged to attend this meeting .was intact in the Bank of Raeford nothing officially from the White and a-k questions as to securing elec , at present, none having been used , House and would continue to eo along trie service. The general public as u ior ine expense or invesiiga- uiis me piujeci, naving plans drawn, etc. ' " jl JL Villi Uller ' I nilWAhnvVATAMns .vt MAXTON, Oct. 28 -The Veter- ans Administration of North Carolina has forwarded contracts to Presby terian Junior college which will per- ! mit veterans under Public Law 16 !..",r;r k "r r'.:;u.' Zl" dents may enroll for some time there after. The Special Refresher course is a new application of well-tested educational methods. It prepares the mature student who has not finished jhigh school for college entrance ex- anmiduons. ii aoapis posi-graduate individual instructional techniques to the adult secendary student. Each i student may begin just where he I needs to begin in high school work. He may proceed as rapidly as he is able. At the end of any semester he may take college entrance examina tions, and if he passes, he may en ter college. The professors will be avaiVible at set hours each day for instructing. explaining, counseling, di-ectins and testing the work accom- ohshed. No student need be held bnck by others in the class. Erphasis will be upon mathematics, English, business courses, languages, history, (science, and Bible. Under plans be - ' ing worked out by the North Carolina 'cnlle?" conference students passing congressman said, "but the people he college entrance examinations have gone to a lot of expense to pre will be admitted to all colleges as full Pare for it." freshmen. ; state Senator Ryan McBryde said Young people who have had high, school work interrupted by partici pation in war industry, foreign stu dents, returned veterans under the "G. I. Bill of Rights," and students who have been injured and are eli gible for education under Public Law 16 are expected to enroll. Students taking regular college work or pre paratory courses mv start atten dance at any time, and may begin receiving regular college or high school credit within not more than two weeks. Attend Conference In Raleigh A. S. Knowles, Hoke County farm agent, and Miss Josephine Hall, Hoke County home demonstration agent, j are in Raleigh this week attending the exciting popularity contest as the I the conference of farm and home climax of the evening's entertain demonstration agntt of the state. ment Kiwanis Club Elects iNew Officers At a recent meeting the Raeford ford Kiwanis club elected its of ficers for the year 1946. Tom Cam eron, secretary-treasurer or tne up- i church Milling company, was elected Dresid(m. to succeEd Dr. Marcus Smith, and Donald Davis, proprietor of the Davis 5. 10, and 25c store here. The new officers will be installed at a meeting of the club in January. Truman Will Not Visit Statesville President Truman Monday can"i celled all of his scheduled out-of- town trips. I Eben Ayers, assistant White House Press secretary, said the cancella - tion applied not only to a projected ' week-end visit to North Carolina and Georgia, but also to a Noverrber 15 engagement at Liberty Mo., a Nov- ember 19 visit to Oklahoma City and ru" Jz , t's'"" , at Awac0- 1 ,um D" a-. . . Ayers attributed the decision to ,h.eavy pressure of business confron- I tinl tne .President in Washington. There has been speculation he may cancel travel pians to give great - mov ranpal tfatrnl nlana it a?a n.a.t c HCiauudi diLc-iibiuii lu a me id' bor-manaeement conference opening , n.ext.. Monday and b) the meeting sraning i uesaay on ine vuany impor- vifory council. The President hss indicated a de sire to talk with as many as possible delegates to the labor-mnnaaeTenf conference in advance of its opening. Statesville Chairman Says Plans Are I'nchanged 1 While' nothing further officially wns forthcoming from Washington following Monday's blanket cancel- made months aeo. - State Senator Hugh C. Mitchell, chairman of arrangements for Mr, .Truman's scheduled visit, said Tues- on tne assumption tnat the President j would ne nere ." uur plans are un 'changed." he said. Doughton Says Truman's j After repeated appeals to the i White House, Representative Robert Doughton admitted Tuesday that 1 1 President Truman had definitely de jcided to cancel his scheduled visit I1'1 Statesville. Charlotte, and Ral- eieh. N. r. this Fridav. The dean of the Tar Heel congres sional delegation, who had extended . u.b6uk.u, nav4 cAiciiuw il l;j . ,i m f , ..rtnriuis iiicty ue indue di Ll.t iiircLiiig. the bid to the Chief Executive last . .. . Isi-mmer, expressed doubt that the . labor situation was the only reason for the decision against the trip. "That's just an excuse," he said. "I don't think the situation is any more serious than it was before." He asked why the President's con ference with the President of the CIO Automobile Workers union could not have been set at some time be sides Friday, and why Mr. Truman had to intervene in the strike situa tion. "I thought he was going to leave the labor troubles to Schwellen hach," he said, referring to the secre tary of labor. Can't Understand It. Representative Doughton said he' She said that in view of the early could not understand how the Presi-llack of interest the drive would be dent could visit "New York. Ten- nessee and Kentucky." but not North Carolina, especially in view of the ! fact that elaborate preparations hndwill be at the Presbyterian church jbeen made long in advance for Mr. j from 12:30 until 5:00 P. M. for the ' Truman's speech at Statesville. "If, purpose of receiving any more old he had cancelled it two weeks' ago. I clothes members of the congrega - I it wouldn't have hurt so bad." the Tuesday that he understood that the Senate would visit Statesville and that the program there would be held in spite of the President's ab sence. Hallowe'en Carnival At Hoke High November 6 The annual Hallowe'en carnival, sponsored by the Hoke-Raeford P.T.- A., will be held at the high school on 1 uesday night, November 6. Plans and preparations are going forward to provide fun for young and old. There will be many interesting booths and side shows, as well as i games and contests of skill, with American Legion Urges Repairing Of Ball Park Alfred Cole, athletic chairman of ican Legioni said yesterday that a I notitmn manv irnturo, wnniH jday This petition wouid be to the effect that the commissioners take action to rebuild the grandstand and build a new fence around the ball park which the county owns in Rae ford and which is situated immedi ately in the rear of the Armory. j Cole said that the Legion post here ; plans to sponsor a Junior baseball i team here next summer and he also stated that the local Dost was about t0 iri Itiate action designed to bring I a Class A or better professional ciub here for spring training next' 1 year, j Tne Legion's idea on the proposi- , ti0n i$ for the county t0 furnish the materials for the Droiect and for the , vocational classes in the Hoke county , high and tne Upchurch high school! : to do the work as part or tneir train- ling. He has evidently already dis- CUSsed this rjlan with local school people and found them favorable to , the idea. , iif pi rV I f W. E. Debnam To , C-0- Af RCA Speak At REA Meeting Nov. 7th . kjy,an Tl iuri W. E. Debnam. one of the South's well known commentators, whom most of us hear every day at one o'clock over station WPTF. Raleigh, and Gwyn B. Pri.e, chairman, North farnlina Rural Klwtrif ira t inn Au thority. Raleigh, will discuss plans for energizing rural areas of North Caro iina be the speakers at the t'iftn' 3n"nllai meeting of the ' mem- i bers of the Lumbee River Electric' Mevbers-hip Corporation to be held , ' , . ..,. to t , n , . 4 ginning at neuav. iuvemuer : 3:00 P M. All unserved farmers who are in terested in securing eec-.rlc service : well as every member of the Co operative is also urged to attend. The program is designed to give each member an opportunity to participate fully in the transaction of business and the election of directors. The nominees for directors are C. A. Alford, Rowland: J. R. Caddell, J. E. Morrison, and R. F. Morris, Maxton; Mrs. Lucy Smith and Mar - shall Newton. Raeford: Lambert Lewis, Pemboke; C. L Ballance, St. Pauls; and J. McN. Gillis, Fayette - ville. Additional noxinations for di - , . . . J. J. idlluu, mandrel, aidLn mab bids are being received to be opened tnrtav at 1 n 5ft Vtork fnr th con - struction of 100 miles of 1940 ap proved "B" project lines. Reports Old Clothes Drive Moving Slowly Mrs. J. W. Currie, chairman of the campaign for old clothing for the people of the World s war beaten countries now being put on by the Raeford Presyterian church, said yes- day that response to the appeal for used clothing had been quite disap- pointing so far. continued a little longer. A special collection is asked for next Monday .afternoon when coxnwttee members tion or others of the community may wish to donate. She said there is a special need for men's clothing and that so far this had been the type least contributed. n Annual Achievement Day Program The annual Achievement Day pro gram of the Hoke County Home Dem- 1 gulation. said an OPA official, govern Methodist Ineathering Today onstration clubs will be held Wed- prices at all distribution levels on all nesday afternoon. November 7, at , refrigerators made after July 1, 1945. The Raeford Methodist church is 2:30. "reports Josephine Hall, home: Maintaining 1942 price levels on holding its annual ingathering today agent. This meeting will be held in these refrigerators continues OPA's at the Raeford Armory. A barbe connection with the annual REA policy of "holding the price Inie" cue dinner will be served from noon meeting which is also to be held on on long-absent products now coming until one-thirty and supper will be that day in the courthouse. .bark on the market. Other major! served from five-thirty until seven The club women are asked to as- appliances that will return at 1 941 P. M. Plates will be priced at one semble at the Raeford grammar, or 1942 retail prices include washers dollar each. school promptly at 2:30. After the and ironers, radios, vacuum cleaners. I Side attractions will be the aue reports are given they will go tojelectric irons, etc. tioneering of tobacco, cotton, a pony the court house to hear W. E. On display in Raeford at present and saddle and other items by Gene Debnam speak. are a new Frigedaire at Baucom Ap- MaynanJ, tobacco auctioneer. This A prize will be given to the club pliance company, a new General Elec- , will take place immediately ttler having the largest attendance. Every j trie refrigerator at Raeford Furniture supper and other produce and mijcel club member is cordially invited to company and a new Bendix washing laneous donations will alio be told attend these combined meetings. machine at McLauchlin company. at this time. The Stonewall lo&?. commit - tee in tne united wi (5, I urive jwill hold a square dam. - Tues day night at the Hendi , -e at Arabia. The dance is "c held In an effort by this cor. Ydee to meet their township quota in the drive, and riceipts from the dance will be given to the United War Fund. Dancing will be from nine to twelve and the public is cordially invited to attend. Drunks Feature Tuesday's Court Liquor, as usual, brought in most of the cases to last Tuesday's ses- sion of Hoke county Recorder's court before Judge Henry McDiarmid. In four separate cases the defen- dants were charged with being drunk and disorderly. The defendants were John. Evans, Willie B. MeEachern, Mary MeEachern, and Tracy Mc- Rae, and Mary MeEachern was also charged with having a quantity of non-iax-pam nquor in ner possesion. t-acn deienaant was sentenced to thirty days to be suspended on pay- ment of the costs and each paid Percy Chavis, indian, was charged ; with breaking and entering by Lillie Henderson. The state accepted a Plea of four of the town's civic clubs I of forcible trespass and Chavis was with the town divided into four. The j taxed with the court costs. northeast section will be worked by Claude Tyler, white man of Hoke the Music club with Mrs. W. B. Mc . County, was charged with using Lauchlin, chairman, and Mesdame profane and indecent language. On v. p. Baker, R. L. Murray, Alfred I a plea of guilty Judge McDiarmid Cole. H. R. McLean and Lewis Up sentenced him to thirty days on the church. The Northwest section w!'! roads, sentence to be suspended on be worked by the Order of the East payment of the costs and on con- em Star with Mrs. Israel Mann, dition of good behavior for a period chairman, and Mesda res H. C. Rob of two years. erts. Frank Tapp, Herbert McKeithan. James Arthur McBryde, colored, C. L. Thomas and M. T. Poovey. The P3' a fine of fifty dollars and the court costs and lost his driving li- rerlse fr nne Var fr drving a car while under the influence of liquor. Thomas A. Davis, white man of SamPson County, paid a fine of fifty dollars and the costs of the court an 'os s hunting license for one : year for killing a doe in Hoke county, and lost hs hunting license for one Robert Carraway, white rran of South Carolina, had a sentence of sixty days suspended on payment of a fine of fifty dollars and the court costs for carrying a concealed weapon. Malcolm White, colored, was let off with the costs for disturbing re , ligious worship when the ruling . elders interceded in his behalf. i Luvenie Cole, colored, was found .guilty of assault and of using pro- fane and indecent language. Three ; months was suspended on payment I of the costs and good behavior for two years for the assault and thirty days was suspended on payment of j 'he costs in the other case. ! Henry Morrion, colored, was found nf,t pinitv nn a pharir nt accaiiit- o j . ........... I n , 1 Rnv flunk V!i4 ! ' XOy -1U"K V ISllS Town Tuesday J. Roy Clunk, who will be remem bered by baseball fans of this section as the business manager of the Wil liamsport "Grays" when that class A team used to train here, was a visi tor in town several hours Tuesday. Mr. Clunk's home is in Williamsport j but for the past several years he has been business manager of the Elmira, New York team, also in the Eastern league. ' Clunk was noncommittal when ask- ed about possibilities of bringing his club to this town for their spring tranng next year, and it appears that possibilities of the Elmira club coming here are not good. This club i is a farm of the St. Louis Browns. 'and apparently have less to do with 'the location of thei- spring training camp than did the Williamsport team, I o Refrigerators Return RALEIGH. Oct. 28. New electric i refrigerators returning to the market will do so at about the same retail i prices as in 1942, according to the I Raleigh district office of OPA. A recent "reconversion price" re- 1 VlCtOry LOHn DriVe Is Announced Community Committee Chair men Named. Mrs. William L. Poole and Miss Josephine Hall, co-chairmen of the women's side of the EiPhth "Victory" Loan drive in Hoke County which began last Monday and will continue through December 8. yesterday an nounced the names of the women of the county who will conduct the drive. Neill A. McDonald, county chairman, has not announced an overall organization as yet. The women who are to be com munity chairmen are as follows: Al lendale, Miss Bennie McLauchlin; Antioch, Miss Jean Hodgin; Arabia, Mrs. Stanley Crawey; Ashley Heights Mrs. N. F. Sinclair; Blue Springs, Mrs. D. J. Dalton; Mildouson, Mrs. N. H. G. Balfour: Pine Forest, Mrs. Mary Helton: Raedeen, Mrs. Will 'McNe-M. Rockfish, Mrs. T. C. Jones; Wayside' Mrs D K Parker. Mrs Pooe sajd yesterdav that th? Raeford women nad d(Jcjded to ean. .... ,,.. , t,,mj, ber g and she urges Raeford people to stay at home that day so the canvassers can find them. This work will be done by the women Southeast section will be coverei bv the Educational club with Mrs H. L. Gatlin. Jr., chairman, ar-J Mesdames T. B. Upchurch, Jr., C. W. Seate. and Paul Dickson, Jr. Th Southwest section will be workel by the Literature club with Mrs. H. K, Holland, chairman, dames J. S. Johnson, J. K. Holland, chairman, and Mes- W. Coates, A. S. Knowles, K. A. MacDonald, H. W. ton. B. Whitley, and J. R. Hamp- n Scott (berates Cotton Picker ) 1 RALEIGH, October 27. In a broad field out from Red Springs last week Agriculture Commissioner Kerr Sc 't operated the first cotton picker ev r to be used in North Carolina, . After he had observed the machine P'ck as much cotton in one hour as a good field hand can harvest in a week from early Monday morning i unni aaiuroav nieni. iu nours a nnv , - i rninmiiinn Smtt avnrMH I . picker will mean a new day for cot ton in North Carolina and in the South. "This cotton picker is going to put i King Cotton back on the throne ir Dixie," declared Scott as he climbed down from a trial run on the machine. I "I've picked a lot of cotton here, but my back feels just as good as when I started," s: id S.ott to a farm- ier who had just cormented that the cotton picker would "save many a poor farmers back." i The cotton picker, purchased by the Liberty Manufacturing company of Red Springs fn- $5,000. will be used for custom picking throughout that area, according t G. T. Ah ford, general manager of the firm who was in charge of the exhibition. I Ashford said that he and Edwin Pate of L.a;irinhnr:r. president of the campany. d ridc-d tn "bring one into North C.rolina since it began to look as if nobody was going to do it." While farm laborers in Hoke and i Robeson counties, and throughout the 'State for that matter, are charging 'from $2.25 to $3 per hunded pounds to pick cotton. Ashford and Pate are J doing the work f, $ 125 per hundred i and "don't know and don't care much whether we are making any I money at this business right now or not"