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J hoke coovrr BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM HOKE COUNTY'S ewsjoeraai ONLY NEWSPAPER J VOLUME XLI NO. 5 The Hoke County Newt The Hoke County Journal RAEFORD, N. C THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946 $2.00 PER YEAR lie M ADDENDA By The Editor' Lt. Col. Ellis Williamson, of Raleigh, was among those whom the war department announced recently were re ceiving commisions in the regular army. Colonel Will iamson is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Williamson, who formerly lived in Raeford. He is named for his uncle, who was Hoke county's fir st casualty in World War 1 and for whom the local Am erican Legion post is named. Lt. Col. -Bob Conk, who is stationed at Fort Bragg and whose family has lived here since early 1941, was also on the list of those re ceiving permanent commiss ions in the regular army.. Col. Conk expects to be de tailed to the command and General Staff school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in the early fall. Joe McAlister, who lives on Stanley Crawley's farm at Arabia, reported last Sat urday that he had ripe wat ermelons ready for market. They are the first w have heard of in the county. We operate on the pre .nise that two wrongs don't make a right. That is why we are publicizing the fact that S. Gilmer Sparger spoke here Tuesday night when we neglected to men tion that former Governor J. Melville Broughton spoke to the Kiwanis club several weeks ago. Governor Broughton is a fine man and made an ex cellent speech. We failed to mention it quite uninten tionally. A newspaper's mis take's are much more appar ent, of course, than those of other people. The town of Raeford does mighty little for the schools here. It does collect water bills from them monthly. We think it would be migh , ty fine gesture, and not cost ly to the town, if the schools' water bills would be return ed every month with the in struction that the money be used to supplement the pay of the athletic coach. It would be much more than a ges ture to the coach and would to some extent compensate him for the extra time he is expected to spend on his job. State Highway Patrolman Jason Barnes is sporting a siq uo qof ;med ipEjq Mau ca these days to the sorrow, we expect, of some who have become used to seeing him in the light grey car. Sheriff Dave Hodgin got a new Chevrolet from the Hoke Auto Co. this week. Others in the past few weeks were Doctors Murray and Matheson, K. A. MacDon ald, Grady Leach and Sam Morris. ' We remind you that the aeford Dry Cleaners will oe closed all next week, so don't fforget to call for your clothes tomorrow or the next day. Next Superior Court Here August 19 By the request of the Hoke county board of commis sioners Governor Cherry has cancelled the July term of civil court here. This has been done for several years previously, as well as this year, due to the fact that there are not a great many civil cases to be tried and a considerable saving to the county will be effected. The next term of Super ior court will be a mixed criminal and civil term and will convene on Monday, August 19. Judge R. Hunt Parker, of Roanoke Rapids, is scheduled to be the presid ing judge. -REPORT- HOME AGENT REPORTS MUCH ACTIVITY IN JUNE Thirteen (13) Home Dem onstration Clubs met in Hoke County in June. The demon stration was on "What To Eat and How To Serve It." Food Leaders gave the dem onstration at nine (9) clubs and the Home Agent at four (4). The leaders were train ed at a school held in the Raeford Kiwanis Hall on the afternoon of June 3rd. A motion picture on food con servation, "You Can, Too," was shown on the same af ternoon. The members of the U. S. D. A. County Council came in for the picture.. On Wednesday afternoon, Miss Murphy of the Kerr Glass Company, gave a very helpful canning demonstra tion in the Home Economics Department of the Hoke High School. Miss Murphy canned field peas in the pressure cooker and tomato es in the water bath. She also had on exhibit a beau tiful collection of jars of food that she had canned in many other states. Miss Mur phy was from Ohio, and it was interesting to hear her say that the women in the south had more pressure cookers than the homema kers in the northern states. The Older Youth of the County met at the Raeford Armory on, the evening of June 5th. Mrs. Edwin Mc Neill received a box of can dy for having submitted the best name for the club. The group will hereafter be known as "The Service Club" The group enjoyed a mov ing picture after which plans were made to have a picnic at Page's Lake on the even ing of July 10th. The Home Agent spent June 13th at Troy where she attended an agent's meeting. Forty-three (43) 4-H Club girls and boys and leaders from the County spent from June 25-29 at Millstone 4 H camp. The girls and boys as well as the leaders, a greed that this year's en campment was the most de lightful and helpful that they had ever attended. Mr. Ziegler, of Logan, Ohio, i taught handicrafts. Bird houses, "drool cups", rope spinners, belts, shoes, dolls, and homemade toys were a mong the items made. Classes in recreation included mu sic appreciation, learning folk songs, folk dancing, and outdoor games. Instruction was also given in swimming, (Turn to Page 8) -TOBACCO- So' REFERENDUM JULY VOTING PLACES AR ANNOUNCED . 5 Votes cast in the refert "l1?". an,d znX who ,wih marKeung quotas on juiy 12 will determine whether acreage allotmens are conr tinued in 1947 according to T. D. Potter, Chairman of the County Agricultural Conservation Committee, which is conducting the re ferendum in this county. Marketing quotas furnish growers with a method of adjusting supply to demand and can help to provide fair prices to growers for the to bacco they produce. At the present time, flue cured tobacco growers are producing above world con sumption levels to build up depleted stocks in foreign countries. Marketing quotas afford the opportunity to ad just this supply to meet de mand. The Act of Congress un der which the referendum is being held Friday, July 12, also provides for loans or other price supports on flue-cured tofiacco of the 1947, 1948 and 1949 crops, provided growers approve quotas for three years, Mr. Potter explained. The polls will open at 7;00 a. m. and close at 9:00 p. m. Voting places in Hoke county will be as follows: Allendale Community House, Antioch Community House, Blue Springs Com munity House, Little River Community House, Wayside Community House, Rockfish Community House, Ashe mont School House, Court Room - Hoke County Court House, Mildouson School House. POOLE'S BY D. SCOTT POOLE Socialists boast that Soc ialism was practiced by the early Christian church That liberal disposition is still practiced wherever there is a spiritual awakening be cause religion drives away selfishness. "The Robe" states that Peter tried to practice Soc ialism but it was a Chris tian spirits of the Jerusa lem community. Some are expecting bud worms to ruin the corn corp of Hoke but they hardly will. Salt sprinkled in the ' buds of growing corn will do a way with those worms, even a handfull of dirt will check that damage. Both the months of May and June have always had cool spells so there is no thing unusual in cool morn ings in June. The Presbyterian church at Jackson Springs was built in 1854 and is now be ing enlarged and remodeled. The height of the auditor ium was two thirds the wid th and the width was two thirds the length of the main auditorium, and when em pty or a few persons in the houst the noise in the room echoed more markedly than in any other building with in my knowledge. . A small choir in Jackson Springs church made more MONTHLY MEETING OF LEGION MONDAY J- eme- commander oi Ellis Williamson Ameri- W?an legion post, wishes to Remind all members of the r v t - 1 m i join mat me reguiariy onthly meeting of the post will be held at the armory here at 7:30 next Monday night, July 8. He said that supper would be served as usual and that a good speak er was expected. o County To Have Fire Warden The board of commission ers have made an appropri ation for forest fire control in the county for the coming year. The work will be done under the supervision of the state department of con servation and development A county forest fire war den will be engaged, and ap plications for the position may be made to the district forest fire warden in Fayet- teville or J. A. McGoogan at the courthouse here. A. K. STEVENS LOSES NEW TOBACCO BARN Archie Stevens lost a to bacco barn Tuesday night by fire. The barn was new and had the first tobacco to be cured in it when it burned. It was heated by an oil burning system. Stevens did not know how the fire started. Value of the barn was a bout $800 and the tobacco was worth around $500. There was no insurance. Stamp out the camp fires and snuff out cigarettes and matches, because burned timber builds no homes. MEDLEY music than in any other building, but when the house was full the sound deadened. When a choir takes the pitch from the organ or piano it gives the music a drawn out effect and is inaccurate. Every singer should be mas ter of his or her part and know when it is correctly executed. There is nothing more pleasing to the human ear than exact singing that thoroughly harmonizes in all its parts. I expect music to be Heaven's greatest charm. My first choir practice in Raeford w? at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Adams, now the residence of Mrs. B. R. Gatlin. Mrs. Adams was the pianist in the Rae ford Presbyterian church. We practiced an anthem, "Nearer My Hod To Thee." In the eariy 1890's John Myrick operated a govern ment liquor still a mile up the railroad above West End and Jason Auman ran one at Craigrownie, five' miles south of Jackson Sp rings. We left Jackson Sp rings in October 1891. I saw John Myrick cutting cross ties of oak timber between Biscoe and Troy in the lat ter 1890's. Making liquor did not make him rich. I published a. newspaper 23 years in Raeford and the (Turn to page 5) -ROADS- SAYS FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR ROAD BUILDING PROGRAM At a meeting of the Hoke County petroleum industri es committee at the Raeford Kiwanis hall Tuesday night S. Gilmer Sparger, execu tive secretary of the North Carolina Petroleum Indus tries Committee, said that available highway revenue are adequate to finance the State's most ambitious road building program over the next three-year period. Sparger spoke to the meet ing after being introduced by Neill A. McDonald, chair man of the Hoke county committee. Speaking before this group an affiliate of the state or ganization, Sparger declared, "with the highway fund surplus already available and current gasoline tax re venues exceeding all previ ous estimates North Caro lina's road system can be improved and expanded to meet the most exacting needs of the State's motor ists. The only thing neces sary is to make sure by nec essary legislation that these revenues are spent exclu sively for road construction and maintenance. To do ot herwise would not only be a travesty on good judge ment and sound fiscal pol icy but breach of trust with highway users who pay out annually millions of dollars in gasoline taxes for better roads and highways." Basing "his figures on re ports of the State Highway & Public Works Commission and the U. S. Public Roads Administration, he said that more than $100,000,000 would be available for road con struction and maintenance over the next three-year period. Sparger showed graphi cally the amounts of all weather roads compared to low type roads in several counties in this section. In Hoke his figures showed 50.8 miles of all weather roads of a total of 322.5 miles of roads in the county. In An son county there are 198.4 miles of all weather roads of 620.6 total. Moore coun ty has 120.5 miles paved of a total of 566.4 The meeting included an appetizing supper of fried chicken, etc. It was attend ed by about 20 persons, o Light Docket In Recorder's Court In recorder's court Tues day morning eight defen dants faced Judge Henry McDiarmid. Peter Patterson and Cur tis Gilmore, both colored Joe F. Phillips, and Tom Ed Cobb, both white, each paid the costs for violating the road laws. j Walter Mainor and Floyd Mainor, both colored, paid the costs for being drunk and disorderly. Walter Mai nor also had to pay Jess Dunlap $10 for a damaged article in Dunlap's store. Robert Ross, colored, paid the costs for trespassing. Jennings Maultsby, Rae ford white man, submitted a plea ot nolo contendere on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Sentence was 60 days, suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. To Hold Flood Control Hearing The United States district engineer in Wilmington has advised the board of com missioners of Hoke county that a public hearing will be held in Fayetteville at a date to be announced with in the next 90 days with a view to determining the need for flood control mea sures in the Cape Fear watershed. In regard to this advice the board will be glad to have suggestions to present at this hearing, as' approx imately one-half of Hoke county lies within the wat ershed of the Cape Fear river, and it is possible that some of the proposed work may be done in this county. -DEATH- CHILD ACCIDENTALLY KILLED FRIDAY BY CAR Carleton Gene Hobson, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hobson of Seven ty First township, was fat ally injured at 7:20 P. M. last Friday when he was struck on Highway 15-A by an au tomobile driven by Frank Williams of Raeford. The accident occurred near Seventy-First school. The child died Friday night in a Fayetteville hos pital shortly after midnight. Funeral services were con ducted at Parker's chapel at 5:30 Sunday afternoon by Rev. W. L. Maness, pastor. Surviving are his par ents, three brothers, and three sisters. Williams stated to inves tigating officers that the ac cident happened just as he came over the top of a hill driving in the direction of Fayetteville and that he struck the child before he saw him. The accident was considered unavoidable and no charges were preferred. In the car with Williams were his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Neill Senter of Raeford. TARM NOTES j By A. S. Knowks j Tobacco Referendum On Friday, July 12, tobacco growers will decide whether or not they desire to con tinue marketing quotas on flue-cured tobacco. Growers will decide on one of the following: adopt quotas for a three-year period; adopt quotas for a one-year period; or have not quotas at all. If quotas are approved, loans will be available at rates equal to 90 percent of the parity prices as of July 1 of each year. Parity for flue-cured as of May 15, 1946, is 35.3 cents per pound. If quotas are not approved, ther will be no loans avail able for the 1947 crops. Two-thirds of those vot ing must favor quotas for them to be in effect. Boys Attend Camp Seventeen Hoke Countv 4-H Club boys attended 4-H camp at Camp Millstone during the week. Hoke boys and girls joined club mem bers from Scotland and Lee counties for the week. The Continued on Page 7