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New HOKE COUNTY'S BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM s ournai The Hoke County Journal HOKE COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER VOLUME XL NO. 46 RAEFORD, N.C. THURSDAY, j2 IL 18, 1946 $2.00 PER YEAR ' 1 he The Hoke County News PERSONALS Mrs. Nelda T. Baucom spent the week end in Charlotte visit ing her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Tavlor. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pope and Miss Pauline Clark spent Saturday in Charlotte. CONTESTS FOR TWO OFFICES IN MAY PRIMARY RACES FOR COMMISSIONER; LEGISLATURE ONLY ONES Mr. and Mrs. Melver Feather-, ston, Mr. and Mrs. M. Hicks and Miss Gloria Stanfield of Roxboro were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Harris. The time for filing for nom- Precinct Meetings Saturday, 2:30 P. M. At two-lhirty Saturday af ternoon, April 20, the Democra tic precinct meeting will be held at the voting places in all the precincts of the County. These meetings are for the purpose of electing the five persons who will be the precinct executive committee for the next two THIRitN CASES DISPOSED OF TUESDAYA. M. TWELVE CONVICTIONS; ALL CONVICTED PAY OUT Mrs. Martin Bishop has return ed to her home in Maimi, Fla. after spending the past week with her mother, Mrs. Ina T. Lentz. Mrs. Lentz accompanied her to Florida for an extended visit. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mc Keithan and son of Raleigh visit ed her mother, Mrs. W. F. Tra wick, over the week end. Howard Clark and Miss Jean Lynch of Upper Darby, Pa. are spending several weeks at the home of his mother, Mrs. N. A Clark. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Lester, Jr. had as their guests over the week end Mrs. E. J. Prevatte of South Port, Misses Dorothy and Bonnie Clark of Red Springs. Mr. and Mrs.. W. C. Sellars and daughter attended the fun eral of his aunt, Mrs. Molly Price, in Selma Sunday. Mrs. Edward Mawbey of Troy, N. Y. is spending several weeks at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Odom. Mrs. Hilton Clark has accep ted a position with the Hutchin son Drug Store. , ination in the coming Demoera- years. The chairman of each tic primary drew to a close last j precinct committee is a mem- Saturday in tins county wiiniuei ui me raumy executive none of the major county oltices committee, ine cnairman or vice-chairman of each commit tee must be a woman, accord ing to W. P. Baker, present chairman of the county execu tive committee. On the following Saturday afternoon at two-thirty the coun ty Democratic convention will be held at the courthouse in Raeford. At this convention a delegate to represent the coun ty at the state convention will be selected and a chairman of the county Democratic execu tive committee for the next two years will be selected. NEGRO SHOT" AT DUNDARRACH DEATH RESULTS JOHN A. SHAW DIES EARLY TUESDAY OF WOUNDS being contested Contests did develope, how ever, for the board of county commissioners, with several fil ing the last day to bring the total seeking places on the five man board to seven. These runn ing for county commissioner now are Hector McNeill, F. Knox Watson, E. R. Pickler, and Floyd Monroe, all of whom are mem bers of the old board, and Wil liam Stanley Crawley, N. B. Sinclair, and M. D. Yates, new candidates. N. H. G. Balfour, present chairman of the board did not file for renomination. There are no contests for clerk of the superior court and sheriff, the incumbents, J. B. Cameron and D. H. Hodgin, being the only ones to file. W. C. Roper was the only one to file for the office of county coroner now held by Harry A. Greene. There were no further en tries into the race for member of the House of Representatives i of the General Assembly, leav ing that race to the three who ' At five o.clock last Sunday had previously filed their in- afternoon Robert Smith is al tentions to run, J. Benton Thorn- leged to have taken a single Dr. barrelled breech-loading shot j disorderly. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Niven and family of Pinebluff spent Sun day in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Niven. S 2'c Lewis McNeill has been separated from the Navy alter 15 months of service.' Steve Moore of Raleigh spent Monday with Johnny Maultsby. Mrs. Paul Moore and children of Fayetteville spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McNeill. Mrs. L. B. Sutton, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Matheson, left Friday for her home in Live Oaks, Fla. Dee Austin of Raleigh spent several days last week at home. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Upchurch spent several days last week in South Carolina on business. Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Matheson were week end guests of Dr. and I this week's recorder's court Mrs. kio. Gaddv Matheson at Ahos- as. Harrv A. Greene and G. W. Brown, incumbent. Judge Henry McDiarmid is the only candidate for judge of the recorder's court and will succeed himself in that office as will N. McNair Smith as pros ecuting attorney of that court. All members of the county board of education have filed for another term and, as there are no other candidates, will remain in office for another term, o Superior Court To Convene Tuesday The April term of Hoke Coun ty superior court will convene at ten o'clock next Tuesday morning, April 23, with His Honor Judge Q. K. Nimocks, Jr., of Fayetteville presiding. Only five criminal cases are docketed for trial. They are the case of Harry Reynolds, white man who was involved in an auto accident at Timberland; George Malloy, colored school bus driver who appealed a con-was lodged in the county jail, viction for careless driving; and j the warrant charging murder, the cases against Smith Brun-:ue waived preliminary hearing son, and Chason sent up from m recorder's court and will be tried in superior court next In recorder's court Tuesday defendants were found guilty or pleaded guilty in twelve of j the thirteen cases tried, but, all either paid fines and the U..1.J Lubi;, ui ttfje ntriu iui superior court next week. Joe Scott white man of Rae ford township who was caught last week and charged with stealing 18 chickens from Fos ter McBryde, entered a plea of guilty as charged. Sentence was six months to be suspended for as long as the behavior of Scott is good, payment of a fine of $10, and payment of the court costs. The defendant was inter ceded for by his landlord, who told the court that he had a crop in the ground and that excessive hardship would be im posed by sending Scott away at the present time. An old case against Robert Smith, colored man who was apprehended Sunday and who has since been charged with murder, was cleared from the books. Smith was found guilty of operating a still and was giv en a sentence of 90 days to be suspended on payment of the costs. Smith is still in the county jail. Luther Leviner, white, paid the costs for being drunk and ff'i w. o. W. 0. BURGIN IS STRICKEN EARLY LAST THURSDAY DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN BURIED IN LEXINGTON FRIDAY BURGIN George Ross Speaks To Kiwanis Club George Ross, prominent Moore County farmer now with the State department of agriculture, was the after dinner speaker at the weekly meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis club last Thurs day night. Ross brought a message to the farmers and other members of the club that all considered of high import and worthy con sideration. His attractively and lniormany delivered talk was Representative William Olin Burgin, 67. who has represented the Eighth North Carolina dis trict in Washington for the pas', eight years, died of a heart di sease in Doctor's hospital there at 12:10 A. M. last Thursday. He had been a patient at the hospital since suffering a heart attack the preceding Sunday morning. At the daily session of the House of Representatives Fri day one hour was devoted to tributes to his memory by mem bers following which the House adjourned for the day. Speaker Rayburn selected four mem bers of the body to represent Congress at the funeral rites in Lexington, N. C. They were Rep resentatives Clark, Doughton and Kerr of North Carolina and Le Compte of Iowa. Funeral services were con ducted at four P. M. at the Bur gin home in Lexington and bu rial followed in the Lexington Mr. Burgin was born in Mar- nn th smartnDcc anil rr rf if to be found in the marketing 1 ce,eXely farmers as opposed to those used ' 10,n' ' fVVM-t-t"" in other states. I educated at Rutherford Military i I institute and the University of - vn!lu i. ! North Carolina, graduating from the University law school in 1912. In addition to the prac tice of law he was connected with the banking and furniture for North Carolina farmers to take more interest and action in preparing their food crops for the consumer, as he said 1. 1 l l n r j wi"' uai .. U: J f; A H roH Mir n r-nlnrori nf Mnni-O i : utuuic i,u luuiuic luuuuuus f. . II- round of bird shot into the ab- County, and Samuel Graham, cr they lca e the farmer Ret elected to tne Hmjse of Re domen of John Arthur Shaw in! colored, each paid the costs for re of the consumer s dollar j n(aUvos jn lg38 and ha? V. 1 : C I. ..C 1U. o:iu: Hriv nit 117 rh mnnrnnr- rthlc man mir iciiniLi uues. M cvci.y . , t r rr:. LUC HldU 111 11U111 111 WJC Olllllll vwv..& mifjmfi "fe'ivj filling station at Dundarrach. and brakes. The range was approximately! Dan Cherry, colored, Charlie twelve feet, and, although Shaw ! Brewer, and J. Deane Ricker, was taken to a Fayetteville hos pital at once, the results were fatal. He died at one A.. M. Tuesday. Both principals in the affair were colored. The affair was investigated by Sheriff D. H. Hodgin and Cor oner Harry A. Greene. The lat ter concluded that no inquest was necessary inasmuch as the method and the facts of the killing were apparent. After John A. Shaw was shot his father, Bill Shaw, is reported to have got after Smith with revenge in his mind, or at least that is the impression Smith seems to have had. Smith did some moving around and stay ed out of Shaw's way until Mon day when he sent word to the sheriff to come and get him. The sheriff did this and he Walter Webb of Raleigh spent the week end at home. The eivi docket consists ol 11 divorce eases and two pro perty suits Mrs. Howard Taylor lias re turned from Rowland where she was visiting her mother, who has been quite sick for the past several weeks. i FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles week Sheriff Hodiiin vesterdav had not been able to definitely as-j certain the motive for the killing He said Smith had told him that at the time he was passing Dun darrach with his wife, whom he Jr. white, each paid the costs for violating the prohibition laws. Foster Warwick, Indian, was found guilty of violating the pro hibition laws and sentence of 90 days was suspended on pay ment of the costs. Leroy Brunson, colored man charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, waived preliminary hear ing and was released under a $300 bond to await trial at next week's session of superior court. David A. Chason, white man charged with assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the cutting scrape in the Bank of Raeford March 1, also waived preliminary hearing and did not request bail. He is lodg ed in the county jail awaiting trial. Six men were charged with i assaulting Peter McCoy in An I tioch township. The six were I Darid Jones, James Jones, Alex, j Wesley, Alvin and Willie Brig- J ! man. They were found not guil-1 i ty by the court. j I James McLeod. colored, was ' enarr.ed wnn attempted arson of what turned out dollar paid by the consumers i for North Carolina food crops, ! member of the foreign affairs served with distinction as a i? 11. -i l 1. Irdvtrtvf ur ' to the w&oW Mr. 52T SS'ZldT rented jf e by packaging plants, canneries, freezer plants, and other ways for the grower to more nearly complete the business of pre paring produce for its final buyer. Ross went into some detail on the many crops other than the generally accepted "money" crops usually grown in this sec tion which would make much more money for the farmers, and he left the gathering feel ing that this section is missing something in makng the most from its agriculture, which was the way he wanted to leave them. SHRINERS TO HOLD BENEFIT DANCE FRIDAY AT ARMORY P. A. Wilson attended the Fay etteville Presbytery in Olivia on Tuesday. Mrs. C. J. Benner spent sev eral days last week visiting her daughter, Miss Ina Mae Benner at Campbell College, and rela tives in Raleigh. Mrs. Grace Linney of Hid denite is spending some time with her sisters, Mrs. Jenny Smith and Mrs. D. S. Currie. o ADYEXTI8E IN THE NKW8-JOCTLVAL 1 Poultrymen are encouraged by prospects that poultry prices will continue strong because red meat supplies will continue to be short through most of 1946. Pork For Home Use One of the best ways to be assured of a supply of meat and lard is to produce it. Every fam ily should plan now to feed suf ficient hogs to supply the de mands on the farm. If soybeans and lespedeza are available for grazing, the summer feed re quirements can be greatly re duced. Biloxi soybeans should be planted as soon as possible in 2 ft. rows and cultivated once or twice. 200 to 400 pounds of a 2-12-12 fertilizer should be ap plied per acre. If planted with in the next few days, they can be grazed by June 1 to 15 when 12 to 15 inches high. Lespedeza can be grazed in July and Aug ust. Corn or corn and soybeans can be planted for hogging-off. This saves labor in harvesting and feeding. When hogs are grazed, (Continued on Page 6) The Raeford Shrine club is sponsoring a dance in the Rae ford Armory on Friday night, April 19, for the benefit of the Crippled children's league, in connection with the Easter Sea! drive also being conducted. Dancing will be from nine to midnight to the music of the, orchestra of the 82nd Airborne to be more of a dangerous prank Division. Admission charged ' than a crime, lie was lound , will be one dollar per person Ralph L. Burgin of Winston Sa lem, Joe S. Burgin of Buena Vista, Ga., F. A. Burgin of At lanta, and Mrs. M. M. Geiger of Charlotte. SCHOOL NEWS By K. A. MacDonald PTA Meeting Wednesday The Hoke-Raeford P, T. A. met at the Raeford graded school building on Wednesday after noon with the president, Mrs. B. B. Cole, presiding. A Pan-American program was put on by the children under the direction of Mrs. McKenzie. This program was enjoyed by all who were fortunate enough to be present. C. R. Simpson, school bus safety director for the safety di vision of the State Highway Di vision, was in town on Wednes- "o.ii'imr Program Grows The r.-a.!inc program lin a case at the uivn reiiool is bearing trtut. only among the pupils, hut t:rrviner over to the Barents , . . i,i l- J jiiitni a mini;, in iuuiui , in vim. nwntii i 'ii.'i'ii ' v......,, vn. ptuiiii. had married the preceding day, guihy and gf)t a sentence of go! and the public is cordially in-: The parents of the children who and stopped to buy a drink. He said Shaw advanced on him with a knife and that he got the gun out of the car and ordered him to come no closer. Shaw did not stop, so Smith fired. Ac cording to the sheriff no back ground has been revealed at all with the exception of the know ledge that the pair were riding around together earlier Sunday, and Smith's statement that Shaw had promised to kill him if he ever came back to Dundarrach. davs suspended on payment of vited by the shrine club to at- the costs and a $10 fine. I tend. NEW MEMBERS RECEIVED Last Sunday was member ship Sunday . in the Methodist Church at Raeford. Mr. Maness received thirty-two new mem bers, 13 by church letter and 19 by baptism and vows. Rev. W L. Clegg, of Fayette ville, preached at the Metho dist church Sunday night and held a very fine second quar terly conference. POOLE'S MEDLEY BY D. SCOTT POOLE The Raeford baseball grounds have moved six times since we came here in 1905. The places of the home bases were at Dr. Juet's, Colin Scarborough's Up church Pasture, Alfred Cole's garage, Cemetery and the pre sent ball field. At that time there were only three houses on South Main Str eet and they belonged to Daniel Mclntyre, J. C. McLean, and Neill McGill. On Stewart Street there were five, belonging to John Graham, Tom Culbreth, George Davis, Will Hobson and John McMillan. The population was 350, but when John W. Moore had the town incorporated by the Legislature of 1901 the population was 150. Red Springs, Lumber Bridge and Maxton were thriving little towns when Raeford Institute opened its doors in 1895. G. B. Patterson was member of Con gress when Rural Free Delivery routes were firsi established and they all started from towns on the railroad. President Truman is advocat ing a strong military force to enforce peace in the world. I have no idea but that Russia will give the world trouble be (Continued on Page six) are participating in the reading program are coming in now ask ing for books. Plans are being made to make books available for them. Visit Columbus Cannery Officials of the Upchurch school went to Columbus coun ty Tuesday to inspect a cannery at one of the Negro schools that was erected by the boys in the vocational department. The Ne gro county-wide P. T. A. is sponsoring a movement for the erection of a cannery at the Up church school. Mrs. Marcus Smith talked to the senior class at Hoke high Wednesday afternoon on Chris tian Education. N. N. McDonald, constriction superintendent at the new Up rhurch school, attended the fun eral of a cousin at Lillintn on 'r isday afternoon.
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