CORRECTION: In the story "Base
ball" on page one the names of Jim
mie Conoly and J. D. Currie were in
advertently omitted from the list of
players on the team from Hoke County.
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VOLUME XLI NO. 8
THURSDAY, JULY 25th, 1946 RAEFORD, N. C.
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Personals
Mr. and Mrs. George Les
ter of Star were week end
guests in the home of Mr.
,and Mrs. Jason Barnes.
Mr. and Mrs. Colin Scar
borough have as their guest
this week Mrs. Scarbor
ough's niece, Sarah Williams
of Tabor City .
Mr. and Mrs. Neill James
Blue of Fayetteville spent
Sunday at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. N..B.
Blue. .
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Knowlea
and family spent the first
part of last week vacation
ing in the western part of
the state, and the latter part
of the week at White Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Worth Gra
ham spent week before last
at Carolina Beach.
Mrs. W. J. Coates and Miss
Alma Ferguson spent last
week in Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Graham
Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. Doug
las Monroe, and Miss Mar
garet Willis spent Sunday
in Pinehurst.
Mrs. J. C. Thomas left
Wednesday to visit in High
Point and Winston-Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jen
nings of Clarkton spent Sun
day at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. G. Clark.
Mr ' onH Mrs T F Cnl-
eth had as their guests for
a iircot rt4 TVTra Pnra T .ff
Jackson and daughter, Mrs.
Bruce Conner, of Raleigh.
Mrs. Jackson is leaving Ral
eigh this week for Kings
, port, Tenn.., where she will
make her home with her
daughter, Mrs. J. Pat Jack
son.' Miss Ellen Ross has re
turned to her home in Sa
vannah after spending the
week end at the home of her
uncle, Dr. Marcus Smith.
Miss Miriam Strain has
returned to Philadelphia af
ter spending a few days with
her aunt, Mrs. H. G. Clark.
Mrs. Claude Williams of
Charlotte is visiting her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. D. P.
Andrews.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bau
com spent several days in
Raleigh this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mc
Phaul spent Monday and
Tuesday at Myrtle Beach.
Israel M5nn is spending
several days in Richmond,
Va.
Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Ma
ness will leave Wednesday
of next week for a two weeks
vacation at Lake Junoluska
and Stuart, Va.
Miss Belle Smith is visi
ting her grandfather, E. S.
Gibson, at Johns this week.
Miss Elmira Whitley com
pleted her summer course
at WCUNC and arrived home
last Friday to spend the rest
of the summer.
Miss Patricia Aiken of
Tampa, Fla, who has just re
turned from New York City
where she was a summer
student at the Chalif Norman
School of Dancing, is visiting
her aunt, Mrs Zeb McDanieL
Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Mc
Daniel spent the week end
in Warsaw visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E.
"Uue of Santa Ana, Calif., an
. unce the birth of a daugh-
jr. Danee Sue, on June 30,
1946. Mr. Blue, son of Mrs.
Daniel Blue and the late Mr.
Blue, was formerly a resi
dent of Raeford.
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Short Session Of
Recorder's Court
In a brief session of Hoke
County recorder's court
Tuesday morning all defen
dants facing Judge Henry
McDiarmid were guilty as
charged and paid either the
costs or fines or both. None
went to the roads.
For speeding W. A. Black
burn, South Carolina white
man, paid the costs.
Theodore V. Yearley,
white, paid $50 and the costs
for driving drunk.
Luther Taylor, white, paid
the costs for being drunk and
disorderly.
Ed McRae, colored, paid
the costs for being drUnk
and disorderly.
Alonzo Johnson, colored,
paid the costs for parking
improperly on the highway.
In a case tried July 9, Van
der Brown and Nora Mc
Lean, colored, were charged
with F. & A. Brown was
found not guilty and the wo
man was found guilty as
charged,, when it appeared
that Brown thought he was
legally married to the wo
man but was not, inasmuch
as she was already married.
On July 9 Nora McLean was
sentenced to one year in
jail. On July 16 this sent
ence was suspended on pay
ment of the costs due to her
physical, condition, with the
directive from the court that
she be apprehended on a big
amy charge if found in Hoke
County after her release.
MacDONALD URGES
LUNCHROOM CANNING
Canning at the community
canneries is going well for
individuals, but canning for
the various school lunch
rooms is lagging behind, ac
cording to K. A. MacDonald.
Both the Agricultural teach
ers, white and colored, urge
various school communities
to get together right away
and arrange for canning
days for the schools.
"It is essential that this be
done as soon as possible
while there are plenty of
vegetables to can. Food costs
are rising every day, mak
ing it more necessary than
ever for each lunchroom to
have a good supply of can
ned goods on hand," Mac
Donald said.
ATTEND MEETING
Ryan McBryde, Harry
Greene and Mrs. Harry
Greene sDent Tuesday in
Raleigh. Mr. McBryde, who
is a member of the btate
hospitals board, went to at
tend a meeting of this board
with the budget commission
and carried Greene along as
his chauffeur.
The budget commission
was in process of inspecting
installations oi tne state Hos
pitals and the party were
euests of the State Hospital
for luncheon.
McINNIS REUNION
The Mclnnis family reun
ion will be held at Dundar-
rach Presbyterian church on
Sunday, August 11. This will
hp thp first in three vears
and a revival of the custom
this family has had of hol
ding reunion yearly.
Members and friends of
the family are invited to at
tend the morning services
and to bring lunch for the
picnic which will follow on
the church grounds.
-BASEBALL-
RED SPRINGS-DURHAM
GAME AT SANFORD
3 P. M. TODAY
The Red Springs entry in
the Amerioan Legion com
petition is still in the run
ning after having squeezed
out three victories in the
three out of five series with
Whiteville last week and
lucking out with several
pitchers over Durham in the
first of a best two out of
three game series with Dur
ham at Red Springs Tues
day, and losing 5-4 at Dur
ham yesterday in the last
of the ninth with two out.
The Red Springs team has
several Hoke County boys
on it. They are Malcolm
McKeithan, pitcher and third
baseman, and John Scott
Poole, outfielder.
The first game with Dur
ham was rained out there on
Monday afternoon. At Red
Springs on Tuesday the Dur
ham team started with two
runs in the first inning and
kept the lead until the last
of the eighth when Red
Springs made the score 8 to
7 in their favor, the final
score. The game had many
hits and a fair sprinkling of
errors. McKeithan relieved
Wright in the box for Red
Springs in the first inning.
Kinlaw took over in the sec
ond and McKeithan return
ed to third base. In the
eighth the going got too
tough for Kinlaw and Mc
Keithan took over again and
finished the game to be the
winning pitcher. Conoly stole
home in the fifth. Durham
used 2 pitchers and 2 cat
chers. The final game of the se
ries with Durham will be
played at Sanford this after
noon, starting at three o'
clock. If Red Springs wins
this series they will play
Wilmington tor the Eastern
championship of the state,
and the winner will play for
the state title.
POOLE'S
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
We will always have seed
time and harvest while the
world stands. The Lord has
promised that. That promise
was made soon after the
Flood. .
The corn and smallgrain
crops are good, so are the
cotton and tobacco crops.
Our part of the country has
a good outlook for happiness.
My peaches rotted on the
trees last year and this. Or
chardists tdld me to spray
my trees, and I sprayed them
three times, but they nearly
all rotted. The peaches in
Neill FT Sinclair's and Mrs.
Duncan Johnson's orchards
rotted also. . I have never
heard of such a thing until
a year ago. Others may have
suffered similar losses.
20 cents a pound on the
hoof is too high for hogs.
Mules and horses are un
reasonably high, according
to my view of values. It
all proves that the tractor
has not displayed the mule.
Hoke Couny has 5,000 acres
in tobacco that is expected
to bring something like a
quarter of a million dollars
Dr. Creed Starts
Wagram Practice
Dr. George O. Creed, 28-year-old
physician of Cam
den, S. C, has moved to Wa
gram and " begun the prac
tice of medicine. Wagram
has not had a doctor since
the death of Dr. D. H. Reed
last December.
Dr. Creed is a graduate of
the Medical college of Char
leston, S. C, and was recent
ly discharged from the army
with the rank of captain. He
has located his office where
Dr. Reed's old offices were.
He is married and has two
children.
FARM SECURITY WILL
MAKE LOANS TO VETS
A limited number of Farm
Ownership Loans will be
made in Hoke County for
the fiscal year 1946-1947 to
World War II Veterans and
other eligible farmers for the
purpose of family - type
farms, Curtis E. Callihan,
County FSA Supervisor,
says, provided these farms
can be purchased at a sea
sonable price. Callihan
hopes that a number of loans
to World War II veterans and
other farmers will be made.
In order that the Hoke
County Farm Security Farm
Administration Office will
have an up-to-date list of
for sale in the county, Calli
han has asked anyone having
a farm for sale to call by
the FSA office and list it.
JUNIORS TO MEET
At 8:00 A. M. Sunday mor
ning at the Baptist Pastori
um the Juniors of the Sun
day school will meet for
breakfast and the radio mes
sage by Dr. H. H. Hobbs;
subject: "The Lifting Power
of the Cross.'" Any one else
can listein to this message
over any of the 36 coopera
ting stations that carry Bap
tist Hour. Time: 8:30 A. M.
MEDLEY
into the pockets of Hoke far
mers. It costs more now
than it did even last year to
gather that crop.
I see mighty little sense
in swapping a crop for gath
ering it. I believe it would
pay better to plow it under,
if you can get anybody to
plow.
There are two pages in
Moore's History of North
Carolina, 100 pages apart,
just alike the same thing
restated.
WRECK AT ASHLEY
HEIGHTS SUNDAY
Sunday night at 11:15 a
1941 taxi being driven east
by Gilbert McCaskill of Bis
coe was hit in the rear by
a 1939 Nash sedan being
driven by Theodore Yearby
of West End. Both were
white.
The blow caused the Ford
to run up into the church
yard and the Nash turned
over on the railroad track.
There were no serious per
sonal injuries.
Yearby was convicted of
drunken driving in record
er's court Tuesday.
HIGHWAY EMPLOYEE KILLED
NEAR DUFFIE'S FRIDAY A. M.
HUNTER ADDRESSES
KIWANIS CLUB
n
Guest speaker at the regu
lar meeting of the Raeford
Kiwanis club here last Thur--day
night was T. M. Hun
ter of Fayetteville. Mr.
Hunter's talk was unusual,
thought-provoking and very
interesting to his audience.
He was presented by H. L.
Gatlin, Jr.
Subject of the address was
"Radar." He described the
development of radar in un
derstandable, non-technical
terms since its discovery a
bout a dozen years ago and
traced the appearance of two
factors all through the de
velopment of radar and ra
dio. They were "frequency"
and "harmony."
Leaving radar for his con
clusion, the speaker drew a
parallel between the har
mony and frequency affect
ing living rights and the use
of the two factors in living
the right kind of life with
ourselves and other nations.
COMMUNITY REVIVAL
Rev. W. L. Maness will be
in charge of a community
revival meeting to begin at
Bethel school the third Sun
day night in August. These
spiritlual life services will
be dedicated to the memory
of the Bowmore Methodist
church.
DEMONSTRATION TOUR
Forty-four women will
leave on Saturday A. M., Ju
ly 27, at 6 o'clock for the
tour to Manteo, Washing
ton, Va. The tour is spon
sored by the Hoke County
Home Demonstration Clubs.
Thirty-nine will travel on a
Queen City bus, and five will
ride with Mr. Bullock who
will drive his car in order
that more people may make
the trip. The group will re
turn on Wednesday.
State Fair Exhibit
A Hoke County 4-H club
girl, Myrna Almond, of Rt.
1, Aberdeen will have an ex
hibit at the State Fair in
Raleigh in October. The ex
hibit will be on curtains for
the girls' bedroom, said Jose
phine Hall, home agent.
Hoke is one of ten counties
in the state being asked to
put on such an exhibit. The
making of curtains is a unit
of the 4-H club girls "Room
Improvement project. My
rna's friends are wishing her
luck and are hoping to see
a blue ribbon award dis
played on her exhibit.
4-H Club Girls
To Broadcast
Five Hoke County 4-H
'club girls, Betty McFadyen,
Martha Harris, Beatrice
Haire, Elizabeth Parker and
Myrna Almond will partici
pate in a 15 minute broad
cast from Station WPTF,
Raleigh, on Saturday, Aug
ust 3, at 12:45 P. M. The girls
will discuss the projects a
4-H Club girl can carry and
tell the requirements that
are necessary to complete
these projects. After the
broadcast, the girls will visit
places of interest in Raleigh.
Josephine Hall, home agent,
will accompany the group.
STEERING GEAR FAILS
IN STATE-OWNED
VEHICLE
Lerew Cain, 17-year- old
white employee of the state
highway commission was
thrown from a truck and in
stantly killed at 6:20 A. M.
last Friday at the intersec
tion of the Duffie road and
the Molatto road about five
miles east of Wagram. His
home was in Butters, Bladen
County.
The truck, a 1941 Chevro
let, was being driven in the
direction of Wagram by
Preston Wiggins, white, 17,
also of Butters, N. C. As
the truck approached the
intersection a connection in
the steering g.- came loose
and the truck got out of con
trol. It left the road and hit
a power pole guy wire at
which time Cain was thrown
out and killed by having his
skull crashed.
The other passenger and
the driver received no ser
ious injuries.
The accident was investi
gated by the sheriff's office
and the highway patrol. W.
L. Roper, acting coroner, in
vestigated the accident and
declared that Cain's death
was an unavoidable accident
and decided that an inquest
was unnecessary.
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LICENSES EXPIRE
H. R. McLean, district
game protector, announced
this week that new hunting
licenses and new combina
tion hunting and fishing li
censes would be on sale next
week, as all these licenses ex
pire the last day of July.
McLean warned all hun
ters and fishermen of the ex
piration of all licenses ex
cept the regular fishing li
censes which are valid for
the remainder of the fishing
season.
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
File Certified Cotton
Farmers having cotton to
be certified by the N. C. Crop
Improvement Association
must file application by Au
gust l. To be eligible for
certification, the cotton seed
must be direct from the
breeder or from certified
seed stock. The cotton must
be at least 100 yards from
any other variety of cotton.
If the variety is Coker 100
Wilt, it may be in the same
field with an earlier strain
so long as the orgin is known
to have been kept free of
mxture. Application blanks
may be secured from the
County Agent's office.
A crouD of Agronomists
from the Experiment Station
and Extension -Service com
mercial firms interested in
Agriculture will inspect sev
eral corn fertilization dem
onstrations being conducted
in Hoke County on July 31.
Recent hails in the Duffie
and Rockfish areas did con
siderable damage. High
winds of the tornado type
preceeded the hail and ad
ded to the damage.