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VOLUME XL NO. 44
RAEFORD, N. C. THURSDAY, API
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$2.00 PER YEAR
WS. MATHESON
.'ASSES AWAY
YESTERDAY
FUNERAL AT HOME
THREE-THIRTY
i .M. TODAY
Mrs. Daisy Gaddy Matheson
passed away early yesterday af
ternoon at her home here. She
had been in critical condition
and near death many times
since she suffered a stroke of
paralysis last December. At two
times during her final illness
she was taken to a Fayetteville
hosital for treatment, returning
for the last time about three
weeks ago, and at several times
during this illness her life was
feared for but each time she
managed to hold on, until yes
terday. Funeral services will be con
ducted at her home here this
afternoon at three-thirty o'clock
by Rev. W. L. Maness, pastor of
the Raeford Methodist church
of which the deceased was a
member, assisted by Rev. B. P.
Robinson former pastor.
Mrs. Matheson was the widow
'of the late R. A. Matheson, Sr.,
of this county, who passed on
about two decades ago. She was
sixty-nine years of age and was
a native of Anson County. Her
parents were J. T. and Sarah
Randle Gaddy.
Surviving are three daugh
ters: Mrs. Hector McNeill and
Mrs. J. L. Warner of this county
and Mrs. Dallis Daley of Ham
let; four sons: Dr. R. A. and J.
D. of Raeford, Dr. J. G. of Ahos
kie, and M. R. of Robbinsville;
n grandchildren and two great
nd children.
-IQUOR AND CARS
STILL CAUSE WOE
In Hoke County Recorder's
court last Tuesday morning be
fore Judge Henry McDiarmid
it was again proven that liquor
and automobiles still cause a
little sorrow, to some of those
who use them at anv rate.
In the first case Claude Tyler
(' white man being charged with
" being drunk and disorderly and
with using profane and indecent
language, was found not guilty.
D. W. Holland, white paid the
costs for speeding and having
improper license.
Ellison C. Wynn, colored paid
the costs for speeding, and John
L. Hardy, colored paid the costs
for having improper lights.
J. B. Womble,, Jr., white, of
Ashley Heights, and Paul T..
Goodman, white of Gold Hill
were charged with careless and
reckless driving in connection
with an accident they were in
volved in last week. Womble,
found pot guilty of careless and
reckless driving, paid the costs
for violating the road law by
turning without signaling. Good
man was also found not guilty
of careless and reckless driving,
but paid the costs for exceed
ing the speed limit for the type
of vehicle he was driving.
Van Patterson and Clarence
McCrimmon, both Moore county
colored men, each paid the costs
for being drunk and disorderly
and violating the prohibition
laws. There was a 60-day sus
pended sentence in each case.
June Coltrane, Pinehurst col
ored man, was found guilty of
driving drunk and violating the
prohibition laws. Sentence was
ninety days, suspended on pay
ment of $50 and the cost.
Dunston Gales, colored, got
a 60-day sentence suspended on
payment of $10 and the cost for
careless and reckless driving and
needing. In another case he got
days suspended on payment
I ) J50 and the cost for driving
ank. .
Ortbcpwlic Clinic
There will 4e an orthopedie
clinfc in Lumberton to morrow
at the agricultural building free
lor all indigent children. Dr.
O. L. Miller of Charlotte will
be the surgeon in charge.
DRAWING
Shown above is the frozen food locker plant to be constructed in Raeford this sum
mer as seen in the architect's mind. This picture is supposed to be an exact draw
ing of the plant.
School News
By K. A. MacDonald
Board Meeting Monday
The Hoke County Board of
Education met Monday in re
pular session with all members
present.
i The resignations of Messrs
' Claude Wood of the Rockfish
I school committee and M. C.
Dew and M. L. Lester of the
Raeford Committee were ac
cepted with regret. Mr. Wood
and Mr. Letter had been mem
bers of their committees for
years. Mr. Lester was chairman
of the Raeford committee for
the past six years The schools
of Hoke are giving up three
faithful servants.
To replace these three gentle
men the board appointed M. S.
Gibson to the Rockfish commit
tee and J. H. Blue and Joe Gul
ledge to the Raeford commit
tee. We feel very proud that
these gentlemen have all agreed
to serve their respective schools.
Farm School Requested i
A group of prominent citi
zens appeared before the board
and requested that the estab
lishment of a farm school in
Hoke County be considered. This
was discussed at length. After
the discussion a resolution was
passed by a unanimous vote in
structing the superintendent to
begin at once and make every
effort to secure the location of
one of the projected State farm
life schools in Hoke County.
Appreciates Bed
The pupils of the Mildouson
school had a nice letter of ap
preciation from the G. I. patient
occ lying the bed in Moore
General hospital that was spon
sored by the Mildouson school
in the Victory bond drive.
State Workers Here
The state physical education
workers for colored schools was
here for two days last week
helping to organize that work
in the colored schools of the
county.
Attends Regional Meeting
Jean's supervisor Annie W.
Pridgen attended a regional
meeting of Jean's supervisors
for three in Atlanta last week.
State Supervisors Inspects
The state supervisor of Negro
elementary schools was in the
county last week and inspected
the work in several schools. She
expressed herself as being pleas
ed with what she saw going on
in the school.
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MISS RAY FRACTURES
SHOULDER
- Miss Sally Ray had a serious
fall yesterday, suffering a frac
ture of the shoulder. She fell
down the steps at the grocery
store of J. E. Conoly and son at
about ten-thirty o'clock yester
day morning. She is a patient
at Highsmith hospital in Fayetteville.
OF FROZEN FOOD LOCKER P NT
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JOHN H. GUIN
PASSES AWAY
M0NDAYA. M.
FORMER RESIDENT OF
COUNTY DIES IN
FAYETTEVILLE
j John Henry Guin, sixty-nine
year old Fayetteville man, pass
! ed away at his home there at app
i roximately four o'clock last Mon
! day morning after an illness of
j about three days. He was the
i victim of a stroke of paralysis.
i.Mr. Guin had suffered a light
'stroke previous to the final one.
! The deceased was a farmer of
this county up to about four years
ago when he retired and went
to Fayetteville to make his home.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at four o'clock Tuesday after
noon at the Philippi Presbyterian
church by Rev. H; L. Hemphill,
the pastor, assisted by Rev. Harry
K. Holland, pastor of the Raeford
Presbyterian church. Burial was
in the cemetery at Philippi.
Surviving are the widow.form
erly Miss Margaret Kennedy
five sons, Henry of Swansboro,
John L. of Raeford. E. W., C. B.
and L. W. all of Fayetteville; one
brother, W. C. Guin of Raeford,
Route 2.
Paulbearers were J. E. King,
Jimmy Morgan, John Hyman,
Melvin Guin, Albert Guin and
Lloyd Gillis.
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LEAVES TO PLAY BALL
Walter Howell, who was re-
' cently signed by the New York
Giants baseball club, left Satur
1 day for Hickory to begin spring
! training. He will go from there
to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he
I will play this season. Oshkosh
' is a farm club of the Giants.
A traveling man remarked in
the presence of several gentle
men a few days ago that in nine
ty five homes out of every hund
red in the United States would
offer a caller something to drink
within five minutes after he had
arrived. That is saying every
thing bad about folks.
Iwould like to be honest. I
hope I am honest and sober, and
considered so by everyone. I have
always tried to be a good neigh
bor. In short, I try to do justly,
love mercy, and walk humbly
with my God.
A man in Hartsville, S. C. be
gan the improvement of cotton
and seed. He told a very food
seed, which proved to be better
than any other teed, and his esu
ate grew better than even his
cotton. The way I see things now
I would rather grow less than
risk making more by buying
POOLE'S MEDLEY
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BY D. SCOTT POOLE
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5 :
! FARM NOTES
by
j A. S. Knowles, County Agent j
Blue Mold in tobacco plant
beds is being reported generally
throughout the county. Fermate
a new material for controlling
blue mold, is a preventive rath
er than a cure. It should be
used on plants before the mold
appears. Use fermate at the rate
of 3 lbs. to 100 gallons of water,
using about 4 gallons of the
mixture per 100 yards of bed.
Spray twice a week and increase
by 1 gallon each week.
The only satisfactory cure is
P. D. B. flaker or Parabaca. To,
use this material, the bed must
have tight side walls and a
heavy cloth canvass to hold the
gas in. This latter treatment is
good, but its use limited because
of the cost of bed preparation.
Grazing Crops
Soybeans, Millet, and Sudan
grass should be seeded within
a few days for grazing. These
crops planted in 2 ft. rows with
fertilizer and cultivated once
or twice will furnish more gra
zing over a longer period. When
planted in rows, animals do not
walk on plants so much.
Control Diseases
When weeding tobacco plants
or working around the beds, no
tobacco in any form should be
used. To do so may spread mo
saic diseases.
Disease resistant garden plants
or seed should be used as far
as possible. Seed treatment with
Semesan will control many seed
borne diseases.
Sweet potato sprouts should
be dipped in a solution of Seme-
seed at its present prices.
The brave soldiers of the Unit
ed States recently went and of
fered to lay down their lives
for their country I am about
to conclude that it was a mistake.
If everyone means to drink to
excess and at last fill drunkards
graves, this country isn't worth
saving.
A large advertisement in an
afternoon paper a few days ago
tells the reason there are no
meats for sale. The OP Ah as the
price on beef cattle so low far
mers will not offer them for sale.
Seems strange a sensible man
could not get on such boards.
Thomas McBryde, W. T. Cov
ington, John Hodgin, Martin
Patterson, D.. S. Poole, Laurie
Mc-Eachern, E. B .McNeill, Dr.
G. W. Brown have been mem-
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DEAL FINALLY CLOSED FOR
FREEZER LOCKER PLANT HERE
Farmers Urged
To fosure
sir Ceiten
A -k L.
APRIL 1(1 SET AS
DEADLINE FOR
FILING
Farmers in Hoke County were
urged today not to let tne time
sup up on mem in iiung applied-
uuns iui
The closing date for accepting
applications is APRIL 10, or seed
ing time, which is earlier, accord
ing to T. D. Potter, chair
man of the AAA County Comm
ittee. There's a double reason for
farmers to get their applications
in early, Mr. Potter explained
nAlr nl Unttnx nvn Unai
One reason is for each farmer
individually to have protection
against all unavoidable natural
hazards, which only Federal Crop i that outside financial help was
Insurance can give him. Insur- ; nee(jed.
ance protection starts when the ! The cornmjUee consists of Tom
crop is planted. I Cameron, N. H. G. Balfour, D.
The other reason is much the ; j. Dalton, Tommie Upchurch,
same, only broader - to make, Marshall Newton, N. F. Sin
sure that the county has the re- cairi p p. McPhaul, and Jim
quired number of growers coop- Warner. They received valuable
erating in the insurance pro-: jocai assistance from A. S. Know-gram-
Before crop insurance is os and j. g Thomas.
available in any county, appli-
, cations must be filed which cover
at least SO farms (or one-third
: of the farms growing insurable
crops.) Any landlord, owner, ten-
ant. or sharecropper may insure
his interest in a cotton crop up
, to 75 percent of the average
yield.
Alogether, 110 farmers in Hoke
County took out Federal crop
insurance on their cotton crop
last year. Indemnities for losses
I were paid to date to 22 farmers
by the Federal crop insurance
corporation.
Applications may be filed at
the county AAA office or thr
ough any crop insurance agent.
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Property To Be
Sold At Maxton
Maxton, April 1-Laurinburg-Maxton
Army Air Base, Maxton,
recently declared temporarily
inactive by the Army Air For
ces, announced today a sale of
surplus small lots at the base.
The surplus property consists
of kitchen equipment, blankets,
comforters, office equipment,
drums, trailers and glider boxes.
All equipment will be open to
public inspection at the base
f.,,.M O.OO 1 1 .'A i rrA 1 .OH I
to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday through
Monday, April 2 to 8.
The sale will be made by in
formal bids which will be open
ed at 9:00 a. m.. April 9. Lots
will be awarded to the highest
bidder. Military personnel and
civilians hired by the war de
partment will not be eligible to
purchase this equipment.
INCUMBENTS FILE
Coleman and McPherson Areas
In this issue appear two new , Tcsts Section of the Army Gro
pohtical announcements. They ; unci noarH N,,mhnr Dno tu
are those of J.B.Cameron, clerk
of the Hoke County Superior ,
court who is offering for re-elect
ion;and D. J. Hodgin, sheriff,
who also announces that he will ; MANESS ADDRESSES
run again. KIWANIS
To date no opposition has ap-
peared for either Hodgin or Cam- At the weekly meeting of the
eron. Final date for filing is Raeford Kiwanis club last Thurs
April 51 and the Democratic I day night the program was in
primary will be May 25. I the hands of Rev. W. L. Maness.
o .'Mr. Maness spoke to the organ
Drinking More Beer ization on the new "Revised
The State collected $1,027,4-' Standard" edition of the New
46.23 in beer taxes for the first j Testament, which was recently
three montns oi 1940, aecoroing
to the North Carolina Commit
tee-United States Brewers Foun
dation.
Collections for the correspon
ding period in 1945 amounted
to 692.018.13. The totals by
monfhs: January $470,930.09;
February $334,675.64; and March
Jiil.BW.DO.
$43,000 PLANT WILL
CE CONSTRUCTED
THIS SUMMER
An ;!!!!! i i -is were compIi-Uv.
this week f-r the construction
here of a nu'dern freezer locker
plant and it is hoped by those in
charge that the structure will be
completed by the months of Aug
ust. This, however, depends upon
availability of materials for the
buiidingi priorities for which are
being taken up this week witn
, government authorities, xne
j lant wjH be bujlt near the ar
mory building in Raeford.
The arrangements for the pro
ject were made by members of
the working committee of the
project, who had previously
made an unsuccessful effort to
j prornote the scheme. The prior
i- ..... . .
attempt felt through because ot
the non-availability of a full-
ttmo man in manntjo tho nrnmn.
tinn anA hwausp nf tht fart
The deal was made with the
Southern Frozen Foods Corpor
ation of Raleigh, and J. R. Par
ker, of Goldsboro. Parker, a
long with his partner who is
still in the Armv. will invest ir
the plant and will come here
ultimately to operate it The Fro-
: zen Foods, Inc., will contract
the building of the plant and
j wiU operate it initially .Thev
win also agree to buy from local
' producers all surplus food nro-
, ducts at current market prices
Forty percent of the stock in
the coorporation to be formed
will be locally owned, Parker
and partner holding the con
trolling interest.
Parker is a Goldsboro man
who has recently been sepa
rated from the Army. He is
a graduate of the University of
North Carolina, taking a degree
in mechanical engineering in
1938. He is considered well qual
ified for the job.
The Southern Frozen Foods
people required that at least
two hundred lockers be rented
in advance and fortunately the
committee was able to state
that this was already done, as
the money for about 215 was re
ceived some time ago and is
still in escrow in the Bank of
Rifrd thu prJect
It is felt by the committee
that the slight dissatisfaction
which is said to have existed,
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C'oiner Of Raeford
And Vass Road
Fort Bragg, N. C. March 20
by the Field Artillery Service
Due to artillerv firing into the
Raeford and Vass Road will be
clospd to all traffic t0 and m.
! eluding April 14.
published.
The main part of Mr. Maness
talk was used in discussing the
difference between the revised
edition and the King James ver
sion, of which there are many
'"ffprerces in phraseology but
e H orinciole. The srjeaker
showed a thorough knowledge
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