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VOLUME XLI NO. 13
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29th, 1946 RAEFORD, N. C.
$2.00 PER YEAR
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MONEY FOR VETS
Veterans who wish to apply
for the money they have com
ing under the recently passed
bill authorizing tenr.inal leave
pay for enlisted men may ob
tain blanks and assistance in
filling them out at the Hoke
county sheriffs office. Miss
Marion Maxwell is doing this
work free of charge for the
veterans and Miss Clara Mae
Gibson at the Hoke Auto com
pany will notarize the forms
free also.
BOY SCOUTS ATTEND
MEETING IN ILLINOIS
Five Boy Scouts of the Cape
Fear area left Sunday for Chan
ute Field, Illinois to attend a
meeting of the Order of the Ar
row, Boy Scout secret fraternity.
Among those were Bobby Mur
ray and Lauchlin MacDonald of
Raeford who are charter mem
bers of the area chapter of the
honorary select camping frater
nity of the Boy Scouts.
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MISS PRATT HERE
Miss Jane Pratt, Eighth dis
trict representative to the recently-adjourned
79th congress
and formerly of Raeford, visited
friends here last Friday.
SCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald j
Mrs. Lela McKeithan McDow
ell has been elected principal of
the Rockfish school and will take
up her duties this week.
Mrs. McDowell is a graduate
o Appalachian state teachers
college at "Boone and has done
all of her teatUng in Wayne
county. She coxes highly rec
ommended and is very popular in
the Rockfish community. -
Frincipals To Meet Monday
The principals of the county
will meet in the office of the
superintendent on Monday after
noon at 3:30 to make final plans
for the opening of school on
Thursday, September 5.
Ashemont, Mildouson, and
Rockfish schools will open at
8:00 A M. on September 5. Hoke
high and Raeford Graded schools
will open at 8:30 to allow time
for the buses to get from the rur
al schools into town.
The Antioch pupils will come
into Raeford this year due to the
failure of the state board of
education to allocate a teacher
to the Antioch school.
Teachers to Meet Tuesday
There will be a county-wide
teachers meeting at Hoke High
school on Tuesday evening at
8:00. Committeemen, nrembers
of the board of education and all
interested patrons are invited to
attend thil meeting.
Immunization of Beginners
All parents are urged to have
their beginning children checked
by their family doctor, as the
law requires that they be im
munized against diphtheria and
smallpox before entering school.
Miss Mary Thornburg has been
elected to fill the vacancy in the
Ashemont faculty caused by the
resignation of Mrs. Levette S.
Montague, who has gone to Ral
eigh to be with her husband and
will teach in the Wake county
schools.
Miss Thornburg for the past
number of years has been a
member of tfce faculty of the
F.llerbe school in Richmond county.
Mrs. McLauchlin's
Father Dies Monday
Rev. George W. Hanna, 68,
well-known Presbyterian mini
ster and pastor of Presbyterian
and Associated Reformed Pres
byterian churches in North Ca
rolina, Pennsylvania, Iowa and
Arkansas during the past 42
years, died Monday at the Davis
hospital at Statesville where he
had been a patient since last
Friday. He had been ill for
six weeks.
Mr. Hanna was a native of
Gastonia and received his edu
cation at Erskine college and
Erskine seminary, Due West, S.
C. He was pastor of the First
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church of Charlotte from 1909 to
1913. He formerly was pastor
at Red Springs and for several
y.ars had been pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Harris
burg, Calbarrus county.
Funeral services were conduc
ted Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
at the Harrisburg Presbyterian
church. Burial was in Oakwood
cemetery, Gastonia.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Janie Whitesides of Gas
tonia; three daughters, Mrs.
Thomas McLauchlin of Raeford,
Mrs. Earl McAuley of States
ville and Sara Louise Hanna of
the home; three sisters, Mrs. J.
Frank McArber, Miss Minnie
Hanna, and Mrs. Harriet H. Al
len, all of Gastonia.
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Colored Youth
Drowns Saturday
Joe Jackson, 18-year-old col
ored boy, was drowned in Rock
fish creek last Saturday at the
swimming place northwest of
Raeford known as "Hannah's
Hole," about two miles above
Blue's bridge.
Jackson and his brothers and
other boys, all of whom were
considerably younger, were
swimming there when he got be
yond his depth with no help be
ing available. The accident hap
pened between 11:00 a. m. and
12:00 noon Saturday.
The body was recovered Sat
urday afternoon through the ef
forts of Alex Baker and his son,
George, white men who live near
the scene of the drowning.
Library News
Beginning Wednesday, Sep
tember 4, the library will be
open on Wednesday afternoons.
Miss Eleanor Leach has been
made library assistant to take
the place of Miss Betty McLean
who will enter Flora Macdon
ald college September 9.
The library will be closed La
bor Day, Monday. September 2.
Among the magazines to be
found in the library are: Life,
National Geographic, Atlantic,
Saturday Review of Literature,
Reader's Digest, Better Homes
and Gardens and Time.
New titles recently placed on
the shelves are: Treasury of
Doctor Stories, Fabricant; Trea
sury of Great Poems, English
and American, Untermeyer; Wo
man On Her Way, Baldwin; The
Unforeseen, Macardle; Janey
Jeers, Harris; Christopher's
Wife, Shann and Personality
Plus, Daly.
WILL HOLD REVIVAL
AT ASHLEY HEIGHTS
Rev. Harry D. Wood of Angier
will conduct a revival meeting
at the Ashley Heights Baptist
church next week beginning with
the Sunday morning service on
September 1 and continuing with
services each evening through
Sunday, September 8. The pub
lic is invited.
-RALLY-
BROUGIITON, PRATT AND
DEANE SPEAK TO
DEMOCRATS
Members of the eighth district
young democrats left their meet
ing at the Chalfonte club near
Pinehurst Tuesday night with
admonitions by party chieftains
to carry out a strong, forward
movement to insure a full-slate
victory in the fall.
C. B. Deane of Rockingham,
demoncratic nominee for con
gress in the Eighth district, ur
ged the group to join with him in
a strong. fight against, what he
termed, "the newspapers' con
tention for a strong two-party
rivalry" in North Carolina.
J. Melvin Broughton, former
governor, said that it would be
impossible "to turn America
back to old-fashioned things,
ideas or living." He said that
the nation's youth would libera
lize reactionary thinking.
Also speaking were Rep. Jane
Pratt, present Eighth district
congresswoman, and Lt. Gover
nor L. Y. Ballentine of Raleigh.
The group passed a resolution
requesting the state YPC presi
dent to call a state-wide meeting
soon. A committee was named
to pick the convention site and
time. The meeting also passed
a resolution requesting the party
not to remove its president from
the state executive committee's
membership.
POOLE'S
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
The highest price I recall for
cotton was 44 cents a pound.
Not much was sold for that price
they wanted 50 cents, and took
71.,.
Cora sold as high as $3 a
bushel in the neighborhood in
which I lived, but there was
not much for sale.. Meat was
no higher than it is now.
For forty years cotton averaged
8' cents a pound, and corn
from 50 to $1 a bushel. Wheat
sold between 70 cents to $2.50
a bushel since the Civil War.
The earthquake on August
31st, 1886, frightened people
badly. They prayed and shouted
and sang until I went to sleep
about 'midnight that night. It
was said many did not sleep at
all.
It is a frightful experience
when -you do not know what
is going to come next. If you
feel the ground may open its
mouth and shallow you up, you
will doubtless feel a little un
easy. To see a forest fire racing
through the woods, climbing
pines and shooting rolls of flame
a hundred feet into the air
makes a person feel uneasy.
Numbers of people are drown
ed and burned to death yearly,
A forest fire started from a
burning logheap in Alex. Green's
field eight miles east of Troy,
at 3 o'clock P. M. and within
an hour, it was nearing Carth
age, and burned a number of
homes.
I remember the fire which
destroyed Chicago in 1871. The
smoke from that fire settled all
up and down Drowning creek
valley. Baltimore was almost
totally destroyed in February
1904. Fayetteville was burned
in 1831. The State Capitol was
burned in 1833, I believe.
Three years since the close
of the Civil War, tobacco sold
Recorder Has
Light Session
In Recorder's court Tuesday
morning Frizzelle Jenkins was
sentenced to 60 days on the roads
for driving drunk. Sentence was
suspended on payment of a $50
fine and the costs.
E. J. Hollingsworth entered a
plea of guilty of violating the
prohibition laws and sentence
was 30 days, suspended on pay
ment of the costs.
Maggie Bostic, Cora Lee Mc
Keithan and William Moore each
paid the costs for being drunk
and disorderly. 30-day sentences
were suspended in each case.
Bill Thompson got a 30 day
sentence suspended on payment
of the costs for parking on a
public highway.
Jackie Dempsey Gay, white,
was sentenced to serve 60 days
on the roads for speeding and
otherwise violating the road laws.
Sentence was suspended on pay
ment of a $10 fine and the costs.
Ruby L. Tate got a 30-day
jail sentence suspended on pay
ment of a $10 fine and the costs
for violating the road laws.
4-H PARTY SAT. EVENING
The Hoke county 4-H boys
and girls are invited to a party
at the Hoke county high school
gymnasium on Saturday evening,
August 31, at 7:30 p. m.
MEDLEY
at an average price of 7 cents
a pound, and for more than
forty years, the average price of
cotton was only 8 1 j cents a lb.
Women in our neighborhood
made pants of homemade cloth
into pants which they sold at
$1 a pair to turpentine hands
in the section. Anything that
would help get rations.
We are really having the best
times now I have ever known,
still I am told people do not
save, or safely invest much of
their money.
It is said living costs have in
creased 14 percent, and will like
ly go higher. It is more likely
living costs will not be lower
for the next year, possibly
longe r.
The countries from Mexico,
through Central America and
Soulh America allowed race
amalgamation, soon after dis
covery, and thost countries have
not produced a noted human
being since. All races, mixed,
retrograde.
I have always desired that the
little I know be sound doctrine,
correct, well based knowledged.
When I meet something I do not
understand I want to be taught
by one who is orthodox.
To know, and know that you
know is possible, and .may be
attained without conceit and
pride. Satisfaction in believing
we are right is not conceit. Con
ceit conceives superiority.
As tilling the soil is now
more profitable, more people
should move from the towns to
the country. The ideal life is
the well lived country life.
Clusters of country homes is
a delightful idea, and makes
for safety, and social enjoyment.
Electricity brings many advan
tages to the country people. How
in the world did we used to see
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LAFAYETTE
MEETING IN
MONDAY
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Well wishers of U. t ' ind
15-A, better known as . a-
fayette Highway, held
st
enthusiastic ' meeting in
A
eigh to Savannah were
sented. There were seven
in attendance from.
Rat.EVd,
Fayetteville and Laurinburg, N.
C; and Bennettsville, Hartsville,
Bishopville, Sumter and Wal
terboro, S. C.
C. T. Jordan, of Hartsville,
president, presided. W. J. Elli
son, president Hartsville Cham
ber of Commerce, made the ad
dress of welcome. Speakers
were Congressman John Riley,
Otis Hill and W. R. Pratt, Sum
Ur; Geo. Eidson and C. T. Jor
dan, Hartsville; W. J. McLeod,
B R. Guy and A. J. Novit, Wal
terboro; T. C. Crosland, Benn
ettsville; J. R. Hood, W. L. Bun-
har, Laurinburg; A. E. Dixon, F.
E. Crawford, Fayetteville.
Monday's highway conference
of the veteran Layfayette As
sociation showed evidence of con
siderable interest. In other
words eve.ryone pledged their
united support as well as their
respective communities. C. T.
Jordan and John Rley, retiring
president and secretary, were
voted thanks for their outstand
ing work.
New officers named to head
up the re-activated Layfayette
Highway Association, are: J. B.
Hood, Laurinburg. president; B.
P.. Guy, Waltcrboro, 1st Vice-
President; C. E. Florden, Su.r.
erton, 2nd Vice-President and
Wade L. Dunbar, Laurinburg,
temporary secretary. Directors
A. E. Dixon, Fayetteville; Wade
L. Dunbar, Laurinburg; Neil A.
McDonald, Raeford; A. L. Bree
din, Bennettssville; E. N. Law-
ton, Hartsville; Frank De
Schamps, Bishopville and Otis
Hill, Sumter.
After the business session, the
group from North and South
Carolina were banqueted at
Prestwood Country Club by the
Hartsville Tourist Bureau, of
which Frank Funderburk, is
president and B. L. Cobb, secre
tary. At the spirited road meeting
Monday, plans were set in mo
tion to publicize U. S. 15 and 15-
A to the tourist world. Within
the next week, all local towns
along U. S. 15 and U. S. 15-A
plan meetings to raise the nec
essary funds to employ a secre
tary and promote a worthwhile
advertising program.
ijSUPER-ROAD HEARING !
!; IX RALEIGH TODAY
The hearing on the routing j
of the North-South super- j
highway will be conducted In ;
the House chamber in Raleigh !l
at 2:30 o'clock today. The
hearing is being held by the
State Highway commission for jj
the purpose of hearing further
discussion of the routing of
the highway from Fayette-
j vine southwards.
Raeford and Hoke county ;
people are urged to attend, as j
a strong movement is expected !
! by communities interested in i
seeing the new road follow;!
! V. S. 301 south from Fayette-'.'!
! ville through Lumberton. al-"
i;1 though this is contrary to the !
j expressed wishes of the South
; Carolina state highway com-j!
!. mission.
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Trial Of Ewing
Gets Under Way
Wall C. Ewing, 54-year-old Fay
etteville businessman who for,
years has been a political power
in this section, late Tuesday
went on trial for his life in Cum
berland County Superior Court,
charged with the murder of his
wife last March 13.
Preliminaries to the actual
taking of testimony moved at a
rapid pace, and within a little
more than one hour three of the
13 jurors who will sit on the
case had been selected. Court
then recessed until 9:30 Wed
nesday morning.
On Wednesday a. m. one juror
was selected from 19 examined.
Ewing, dressed neatly in a
dark business suit, appeared con
fident and unperturbed as he
sat with his four lawyers, but
one court official who has seen
him a number of times since
he was jailed March 27 on the
murder charge, remarked that
"The defendant doesn't look so
well today."
Friends Offer Support
During a brief recess of court,
several of Ewings friends step
ped up to the cousel table for
a word with him. One pledged
him "All the backing I'm able
to give you." The former State
Senator thanked him( then ad
ded: "They ought to turn me loose
in short order." The friend
agreed.
Presiding over the trial is
Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roan
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I C A DHH MATCC
rarvivi nui tij i
By A. S. Knowles j
, j.
Pearlie McDowell, member of
the Hoke 4-H club, is spending
this week at Singletary Lake at
tending a forestry school. A total
of fifty 4-H club boys represen
ting counties throughout the state
are the guests of the Champion
Paper and Fiber company of
Canton and the N. C. Pulpwood
company of Plymouth. The
school will be held under the
supervision of the N. C. Depart
ment of Conservation and De
velopment. Outstanding fore
sters will be on hand to give
instruction in forestry.
Tobacco Farmers Warning
Tobacco farmers should make
sure that they get at least 90
percent parity for their tobacco
this year. Early sales indicate
that the prices paid are above
parity but it has been reported
that some farmers have sold at
less than the Government loan
value.
The Tobacco Cooperative Stab
ilization Corporation stand ready
to make loans available to fann
ers on tobacco at 90 percent pa
rity. The average parity at ti'.e
beginning of the season was 35.7
cents per pound average for all
grades. At 90 percent parity the
loan value for average all grades
will be 32.1 cents per pound.
Loans can be made on any bas
ket not selling at 90 percent pa
rity. Loans will be leased or.
Government grades.
Step Up Grain Yields
Small grain yields can be step
ped up considerably by follow
ing five important steps. These
steps were agreed upon af'.er
extensive experiment work was
carried on throughout the state
and 15 ytars of practical field
results at the Piedmont Branch
Experiment Station. The steps
are:
1. PREPARE A GOOD SEED
BED.
Disk sod crop or weeds with
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