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VOLUME XLI NO. 9
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1946 RAEFORD, N. C.
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Personals
Miss Bell Graham and sis
ter, Mrs. Adams, of Hamlet
are visiting in Charlotte this
week and will later go to
the mountains.
Israel Mann returned from
Baltimore last Friday. He
went to buy men's mer
chandise for his store but
says things are harder to get
than ever. He thinks people
in small towns like Raeford
fare much better than those
in the cities.
Rev. H. K. Holland and
family left this week for
their vacation. They went
to Conyers, Ga.. which was
Mr. Holland's first pastorate.
Before returning to Raeford
they will visit other places
in Georgia.
The family of C. J. Ben
ner spent Sunday in Ral
eigh with relatives. Mrs.
Benner remained there for a
visit and went to Greens
boro Tuesday as a delegate
from the Raeford Baptist
church to the special session
of the Baptist State Con
vention. Other relatives of
the Benners visiting in Ral
eigh Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. B. M. Corbett of De
Land, Fla. The Corbetts are
now visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Benner in Raeford.
Dr. and Mrs .K. B. Brim
spent Monday in Asheboro,
going especially to see Mrs.
E. C. Smith, who is a sis
ter of Mrs. Grim.
Mrs. Guy Taylor of Kin
ston, Mrs. Walter Freeman
of Aberdeen, Mrs. Arah Gat
lin Stuart and Mrs. R. B.
Gatlin were luncheon guests
of Mrs. Eli Wishart in Lum
berton last Thursday. That
afternoon Mrs. Wishart en
tertained for them with a
very lovely tea.
Mrs. Angus Keith will give
a formal tea Thursday after
noon honoring Mrs. Harold
Keith, a recent bride, who
was before her marriage.
Miss Margaret Register of
Wadesboro.
Miss Ina Mae Benner spent
several days this week at
Buie's Creek. She was re
cently elected Y. W. A. presi
dent of Campbell college and
went there at this time to
make plans for the coming
year's work. She will
visit her aunt, Mrs. C. M.
Gattis, in Raleigh.
Mrs. Charles Gordon of
Philadelphia joined his wife,
the former Miss Ruth Looper
last night for a months visit
with' Mrs. Gordon's mother,
Mrs. J. P. Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mc
Keithan and little daughter,
Patricia and Mrs. Neill A.
McKeithan were the dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Frank Wright Friday. Mr.
McKeithan is a brother of
Mrs. Wright and has re
cently returned from over
seas where he spent 10
months in Manila.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dixon
and their house guest, Miss
Dorothy Dixon of Oxford,
are spending several days of
Mr. Dixon's vacation at
White Lake this wtek.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green
and daughter, are leaving
this week for a visit to Mr.
Green's brother in Atlanta.
Light Session Of
Recorder's Court
In recorder's court Tues
day a dozen defendants faced
Judge McDiarmid on charges
which were all minor ex
cept one which was carried
over to Superior court.
Garth Wade, colored boy
about 16 years of age, was
charged with breaking and
entering and larceny. Prob
able cause was found and the
defendant was released un
der a bond of $100 to await
trial in Superior court.
Walter Sinclair, colored,
paid the costs for driving
without a license.
Charles King, colored of
Shannon, paid the costs for
speeding.
Pittman Bullard, indian,
got a 30-day sentence sus
pended on payment of $10
and the costs for assault.
Murdoch Shaw, colored,
got the same sentence for
violating the prohibition
laws.
William Love, colored, paid
the costs for being drunk and
disorderly.
Henry McRae, colored,
paid the costs for violating
the prohibition laws.
Robert Bernard, white of
South Carolina, was found
guilty of driving under the
influence of liquor. Sentence
was 60 days to be suspended
on payment of the costs and
a $50 fine.
John Hardy, colored, paid
the costs for being drunk
and disorderly.
Irvin Campbell and James
E. Love, both colored, each
paid paid the costs for vio
lating the road laws.
Vernon Malone, white of
Alabama, paid the costs for
speeding.
POOLE'S
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
In June, 1890, Dunk and
Alex Campbell contracted
with John Currie, John Blue
and John Thompson to build
a hotel at Jackson Springs.
They began hauling material
for the building the 1st of
June, and a few days after
the 4th of July they began
the erection of the building.
I do not know how many
men they employed, possibly
ten or a dozen carpenters,
brick masons and others.
They built a thirty-six room
hotel, and four or five cot
tages for different ones who
had bought lots at the
Spring. They also built a
large barn, a six room cot
tage for D. F. McKenzie,
three miles west of the
Springs, and a like cottage
for A. W. Brown three miles
South of the Springs, and
September 1st Alex Camp
bell was staying nights in
the new hotel to keep their
insurance contract.
In the first months of 1891
I was teaching the three
months free school at Jack
son Springs, and the measles
stopped my school for two
weeks, and John Graham,
who was chairman of the
school committee said that
he would pay me the same
amount per week to go over
near West End and help
build barns and shantys for
his small sawmill people, and
I did that for two weeks.
When I arrived at the saw
mill location Monday mor
- BASEBALL -
RED SPRINGS TEAM
WINS EASTERN
TITLE
The Red Springs entry in
the American Legion junior
baseball competition won
the championship of eastern
North Carolina this week
when Wilmington bowed
out of the fight after losing
4-2 on Monday afternoon
and 9-0 on Tuesday after
noon. There was to have
been a game in Red Springs
yesterday afternoon, which
would have been the third
game in a three out of five
series but when it was can
celled because of rain Wil
mington withdrew.
By eliminating Wilming
ton the Red Springs team
won the right to meet Kan-
napohs in a series for the
state championship next
week.
The Red Springs club eli
minated the Durham juniors
in Sanford last Thursday to
get to play Wilmington. They
defeated Durham in Red
Springs Tuesday, 9-8, lost in
Durham Wednesday, and
wen in Sanford Thursday,
9-6.
In the game at Wilming
ton Tuesday the Red Springs
team was led in batting by
Currie, first baseman, who
got two safeties in three
trips to the plate, and by
Beck, catcher, who hit a
double with three abroad.
Coleman, the winning pitch
er, alowed only one hit.
Raeford boys on the Red
Springs team are Malcolm
McKeithan, third baseman,
and pitcher, and Jimmie
Conoly, second baseman, and
John Scott Poole, right fiel
der.
MEDLEY
ning Daniel Patterson, fore
man, and another man had
started to lay the foundation
! for a feed barn fifty by forty
feet. Sometimes that other
man worked with Patterson
and myself, and sometimes
he didn't.
But we built that barn, and
ten mule stalls around it.
land three shaniies cut to
.measure, that is, we cut the
'upright boards all the same
; length and built box chim
neys with sick and dirt fun
,nets, a door and two win
'dows in each shanty.
I Men were in and out on
that job, sometimes there
were four of us, sometimes
three and sometimes only
two. But all of us worked
only 19 days and I heard that
the man complained because
the men did so little.
Robeson Democrat: "I was
a grown man and married
before I saw a Republican."
His mother-in-law: "Well,
you didn't miss much.
Men and women used to
try to see how much work
they could do in a day, now
they try hard to see if they
can miss doing anything at
all.
I heard of a young man
in a nearby town, who wan
ted to go to work at 12. rest
an hour, then knock off till
the next day. He was an
average man.
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Wake Forest College
To Winston Salem
The Rev. J. D. Whisnant,
H. L. Gatlin, Jr., and Rev.
Troy Jones, of Red Springs,
attended the North Carolina
Baptist State Convention in
Greensboro Tuesday at the
auditorium of Woman's Col
lege. The convention voted over
whelmingly to accept the Z.
Smith Reynolds foundation
offer of a $10,750,000 endow
ment of Wake Forest college
and remove the institution
from its present location near
Raleigh to Winston Salem.
The convention's action
came in a rising vote that
was not close, following a'
bout two hours of floor dis
cussion of the proposition.
An estimated 2500 mes
sengers, representing the
State's 600,000 Baptists, de
cided the issue at the audr
torium where the afternoon
meeting was held following a
morning session that over
flowed Greensboro's First
Baptist church.
Left for action at a later
date by the convention were
such matters as disposal of
the present Wake Forest
properties, acceptance of an
offer to establish the cor
lege on an portion of the
showplace Reynolds estate,
and a date for the actual
start of the removal opera
tions.
The Reynolds foundation
offer, made last spring, as
signed in perpetuity the in
come from its fund, up to
$350,000 annually, provided
the college were removed to
Winston Salem where the
Wake Forest medical school
is already situated.
MRS. McPHAUL BUYS
BLUEMONT SHOP
Mrs. Katie McBryde Mc
Phaul has purchased the
Bluemont Beauty Shop from
Mrs. Harry Greene and will
take over Saturday, August
3. The shop will be closed
Monday and Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week for
repairs and redecorating.
Mrs. Fulford McMillan will
be in the shop next week
and Mrs. Greene will work
part of the time after she
returns from her vacation.
CLINIC IN LUMBERTON
An orthopaedic clinic will
be held Friday, August 2 in
the basement of the Agri
cultural building in Lum-
berton. This clinic is free to
all indigent children under
21 years of age. Dr. O. L.
Miller of Charlotte will be
the surgeon in charge. Re
gistration between nine and
eleven o'clock.
SATURDAY NIGHT
WRECK NEAR BILL'S
At approximately 11:30
last Saturday night A. B.
Parks of this county drove
up the hili this side of Bill's
Place on the Fayetteville
road and cut left, starting
into the parking area there.
As he cut he was hit by a
Chevrolet driven in the other
direction by John Hart.
Occupants of neither car
were hospitalized but Parks
suffered severe lacerations a
SJut the head and was trea
ted by a local physician.
Damage to vehicles was
slight, as both appeared to
be going very slowly. No
arrests have been made.
AGRONOMIST INSPECT CORN
DEMONSTRATIONS YESTERDAY
BASEBALL TODAY
An official report was
received at press time last
night to the effect that the
first two games for the N. C.
Junior legion baseball cham
pionship would be played
this afternoon and tomor
row afternoon in Red Spr
ings between Red Springs
and the Kannapolis Juniors,
Western N. C. champions.
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WRECK THURSDAY
At 11:30 P. M. last Thurs
day two cars sideswiped each
other on the Fayetteville
road just 50 feet west of the
county line with no person
al injuries but considerable
property damage resulting.
The eastbound car was a
1946 Ford driven by Claude
Jaquier of Harrisonburg, Va.
and the other car was a 1940
Plymouth being operated by
John A. McFadyen of Hoke
county.
Damages were settled by
the persons involved and no
arrests were made.
WRECK ON N. C. 211
Last Sunday morning J.
Luther Wood entered the
highway near Timberland
in his pickup and turned east
toward Raeford. As he
turned his truck was struck
by a 1939 Nash driven by
H. D. Hartley of Winston
Salem. There were no per
sonal injuries and damages
to vehicles were settled by
parties involved. No arrests
were made.
TOBACCO MARKETS OFF
GOOD START IN SOUTH
Raleigh, July 30. First
hour sales at the opening of
Georgia-Florida flue-cured
tobacco markets averaged
an estimated price of be
tween 42 to 46 cents for the
bulk of the sales with ex
treme range from seven to 50
cents, according to J. A. Win-
field, market newsman with
the N. C. Department of Ag
riculture who released US
DA figu.res in Raleigh.
Principal olferings were
low to fair leaf, good to fair
lugs and low cutter grades.
The demand was strong for
all good offerings with poor
est demand tor small pro
portion of non-descript,
Winfield stated.
General quality of tobac
co was much improved over
last year and condition was
good. Growers appeared
well pleased and there were
but few rejections.
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
Farmers have a vital stake
in promoting and observing
National Farm Safety Week.
This week, July 21-27, has
been set aside to observe all
safety .rules. Accidents on
the farm out number those
of all other type of workers.
Of all deaths from accidents,
25 per cent take place on the
farm. In 1944, 15,800 per
sons on the farm died from
major accidents that might
have been avoided. Let's
stop this tragic loss. Let's
make every week a farm
safety week and be alert to
day so we can live tomorrow. )
Group Spends Day
Visiting Farms
In County
50 agronomists from experi
ment stations and extension
services from eleven south
ern states and Pennsylvania,
along with representatives of
several interested fertilizer
companies, inspected corn
demonstrations in Hoke
county yesterday on the
farms of John Parker, W. T.
Covington, Ryan McBryde,
and Mrs. J. S. Johnson .
The tests are being con
ducted by Dr. B. A. Krantz,
soils and fertilizer research
specialist with the North Ca
rolina experiment station.
The main purpose of the tests
is to determine the amounts
of nitrogen, phosphorus, po
tash, needed on the various
soil types for maximum
corn production.
On the Covington farm
the available nitrogen var
ied in amount from none to
160 pounds per acre. All
plots received 50 pounds
each of available potash and
phosphate at planting time
and all except one plot re
ceived 20 pounds of available
nitrogen per acre. When the
corn was knee high some
plots received additional ni
trogen varying from none to
140 pounds per acre. When
the corn was about ready to
tassel the other plots receiv
ed additional nitrogen. The
inspection yesterday show
ed that early application ot
nitrogen was the best.
At Ryan McBryde's and
John Parker's farms the tests
were planned to show the
value of cover crops in corn
production. Winter legumes
showed that they can in
crease yields equivalent to
40 pounds of nitrogen.
On Mrs. Johnson's farm
the test showed results of
varied spacing as well as
varied amounts of nitrogen.
Several local farmers in
cluding D. H. Yarborough,
J. D. Tapp, Buddy Black
and E. A. Wright were pre
sent at the different stops
and told how they were ap
plying the latest scientific
information to their own
farms. They were all in high
praise for the work being
done to increase corn produc
tion in Hoke county.
During the morning the
group enjoyed a watermelon
slicing at the Covington
farm. In the afternoon they
witnessed a cotton dusting
by air operation at the T. B.
Upchurch farm.
The group commended the
experiment station, exten
sion service, and other agen
cies in putting on a fine
corn program in Hoke coun
ty. Those that were on a
similar tour last year ex
pressed delight in the im
provement since that time.
This group started on the
tour Monday from Raleigh,
going to Rocky Mount. Gold
sboro, and Fayetteville be
fore coming to this county,
where the tour ended.
Harry Greene, local ferti
lizer representative, made
the entire inspection tour
from Monday through Wednesday.
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