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N ews Journal VOICI Of W' CUR3!A?I fREEDOM tliVi OF LIBERTY The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLI NO. 18 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 191fi RAEFORD, N. C. S2.00 PER YEAR ilfie W-Ti-iB- voice Of f; CUAHOIA.I fREEDOM IXi OftiDtRlT HOM jT VWW I - fc" 'I I'"1 SCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald On Regular Schedule Now The white schools of the coun ty go on regular schedule, today after having operated for the first month on a short day sche dule so that the farm pupils could be of assistance to their parents in gathering the crops. The schools in the country will open at 8:30 a. m. and the ones in Raeford at 8:55. jj J The Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting at 10:00 a. m. Monday, October 7. Culored Schools To Open Monday The colored schools of the county open for the 1946-47 tern on Monday, October 7, at 9 a. m. The schools will operate on a short day schedule as long as crop conditions require. Attend Math Institute All of the mathematics teachers and 7th grade teachers attended a mathematics institute held by the State Deparment of Educa tion at the Fayetteville high school on Wednesday afternoon of this week. y Searches for Buses W. T- Gibson, Jr., principal of Hoke High, and the county super intendent visited Raleigh and Greensboro on Tuesday in an at tempt to get additional school buses to relieve the bad trans portation bottle-neck that exists at the present. It is hoped that we will be able to get one or two buses shortly. Indian Schools To Open Monday The Indian schools of the coun ty will open for the 1946-47 term at 9 a. m. Monday, October 7. They will operate on a short day schedule as long as crop condi tions require it. There will be a musical enter tainment at Hoke High Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock. Everyone is cordially invited. Colored Teachers To Meet There will be a colored teach ers reeting at the new Upchurch school on Friday, October 4, at 3:30 p. m. Plans for the opening of the schools on Monday, Oc tober 7, will be made. FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles Locker Plant Nearing Completion The Frozen Food Locker plant now being built in Raeford is progressing nicely. It is expec ted that it will be ready for op eration within a few weeks pro vided that refrigeration material and other equipment is available as needed. The plumbing is now being installed. Floors and in sulation will be the next job and will be started next week. The operator, Albert M. Stevens, is now taking training at the Dunn plant. He will get thorough train ing in meat cutting and proces sing, and in efficient operation. Mr. Stevens states that farmers who have not already rented a locker can now deposit locker rental with D. J. Dalton at the REA office in Raeford. Those renting lockers before the plant opens will be given choice of lockers. About half of the lock ers are already rented and the Board of Directors will give pre ference of lockers in the order In which they are rented. One of the features of the plant in which local farmers will be particularly interested is that the plant will specialize in pro cessing fruits and vegetables. Mr. Stevens is particularly interested n having Hoke County farmers furnish the plant the needed fruiu and vegetables to be pro cessca. Strawberries and other small tvlls will be needed In sizeable Qiantities. Farmers can nlan now nut in such fruits and vegetable for their own use and sell the stpiui to the plant. This type of Poject can mean more income to iny farnrers. (Continued onag, 4) ' WHY LARGER PAPER I This Issue marks the second change In size of this news paper in the past six months. The change to the size of the present issue is, we hope, per manent. J This edition, seven columns, 20 inches deep, is the standard size most generally used by weekly newspapers and is, we think, more attractive looking as well as more mechanically practical. We hope you will like it. i To Organize Veterans Foreign Wars Here A group of local overseas vet erans of World War II have gath ered and made arranger ents with the Veterans of Foreign Wars to organize a Hoke county post of that organization. They announce in this issue that there will be an organization meeting of the post in the courtroom at the courthouse on next Thursday, October 10, a t8:(J0 p. m. Representatives stated this week that there were already enough members of the organization in this county to obtain a charter from the national organization, but that this would be delayed until after the meeting October 10 to enable all who joined at that time to be charter members of the Hoke, county post. A representative of the state organization, in town this week, said that Raeford was the largest town in North Carolina without a post of the VFW. He stated that there were 50 posts with 5000 members in this state one year ago and that there were now 140 posts in the state with a membership of over 20,000. He said that the national member ship of the organization was now over 2,000,000. State officers of the VFW are all overseas veterans of World War II, the representative stated. James' H. Hayes of Winston Sa lem, is the state commander. iLocal members of the VFW are inviting all veterans of the last war who seJed overseas to at tend the meeting at the court house on Thursday, October 10. Poole's Medley BY D. SCOTT POOLE The old men of for:rer days saved their money. They did not gain much fn a year, but Uncle Davy Poole told my father one morning before breakfast, the last night he spent at our house: "William, I have three cent pieces I got for cider before the Civil War." Uncle Davy was on his way home from redeeming the farm homes of his two son-in-laws, who had sold their farms in Montgomery and bought bet ter ones down on the Cape Fear river below Fayetteville. Uncle Davy told father that he had spent a lot of money but he had two fine farms. They want to go to war mighty bad, but they dread it. It is a tough, ruinous business and I would be thankful to know there would never be another. The on-' ly grounds for criticising Russia they are not standing up to for mer agreements. They claim the right to change their minds when they want to, and keep their word when they cannot do better. In ability to be truthful is a sad hu man weakness. A man or woman who who is not truthful is a poor specimen of the race. The fact that union member ships are not answerable to the courts of the land will cause the downfall of this nation. "You cannot build a nation in a na tion." Our government should remedy this at once. The prices of grains are too high for the prices of meats, and that causes those who have meat animals to sell to refuse to sell at the ceiled prices. Hogs should sell for not less than the cost to grow them. Russia has a helpful govern ment to Stalin and those he ap- Funeral Yesterday For Mrs. Hampton; Death Tuesday A. M. Funeral services were conducted at the Raeford Methodist church yesterday afternoon for Mrs. J. R. Hampton,, who passed away at 7:15 a. m. Tuesday at Moore County hospital after a long ill ness. She was 60 years of age and had been seriously ill over seven months. She had .been patient in the Moore hospital for about five weeks. She had pre viously been treated at Duke hos pital. The funeral services were con ducted by Rev. W. L. Maness, pas tor of the church, assisted by Rev. J. D. Whisnar.t. Rev. H. K. Hol land and Rev. C. A. Jones of St. Pauls. Burial followed in the Rae ford cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. R. L. Mur ray, L. S. McMillan, H. W. B. Whitley, L. M. Upchurch, R. B. Lewis and W. P. Baker. Mrs. Hampton was a native of Anson county and was Dora Dun lap before her marriage. She had been a resident of this county with her husband since about the time the county was formed. Surviving are her husband, six sisters, Mrs. L. C. Springer of Ansonville, Mrs. A. G. McLeod of Badin, Mrs. C. A. Jones of St. Pauls, Mrs. S. M. Burch of An sonville, Mrs. Ralph Covington of Rockingham, and Mrs. Parks Blair of Monroe; five brothers, A. M. and M. R. Dunlap of Crop well, Ala., Dr. L. V. Dunlap of Albemarle, N. C, J. K. Dunlap of Ansonville, and J. B. Dunlap of Seattle, Washington; four sons, James, Kenneth, Robert and Craighead Hampton, all of Wash ington, D. C, and several grand children. McGOOGAN TO BOSTON J. A. McGoogan, Hoke county auditor and president of the North Carolina association of tax as sessors, spent last week in Bos ton, Massachusetts, attending a meeting of the National associa tion of tax assessors. He retur ned by way of Washington, D. C. and got home Saturday night. points, but the rank and file only live hard. A government the people control is the only safe government. An old time singing school was taught at Jackson Springs a few weeks ago. I remember a time when they had a singing school nearly every summer. Chicken used to be a rarity, now it is moTe common than any other meat. The time was when we had company we had chic ken. At the corn shuckings we used to have counted "chicken and dumplings" as real feast. Well seasoned and well cooked, it was real good. There are types of Socialism but they all hate each other and every other human, and' even toward each other, they have no strong ties of friendship. Apart from Christianity people are incapable of loving. Love is of God, and apart from Deity, there is no one capable of lov ing. I see a general tendency of ag gression by Socialists the world over. They want to convert hu manity in general to their doc trine and nothing could be more ruinous. Why? Because it Is il logical, impractical, and creates wrong desires. It will lead into chaos, disorder and destruction as a final result. The privilege of earning the near, to meet the needs of each of us is all the Earthly assistance we should wish for. But the. whole world has gotten into the same habit little birds have that of living in expectation of outside help, and no matter who shakes the limb every little mouth Cies open. Recorder f Ids Alleged B l lar Without Bgl EST SHERIFF S M TAKE 3 WHISKEY '-JSiLLS IN WEEK Willie McMillan, colored, ap peared before Judge Henry Mc Diar.rid in Hoke county recor der's court Tuesday morning on a charge of breaking and enter ing the home of Clarence Stubbs at night while Stubbs and family were there and stealing the sum of S50 or more in currency and converting same to his own use The offense is alleged to have taken place on the night of Sep tember 28. He entered a plea of not guilty but the judge found probably cause and ordered him held for trial in superior court without privilege of bond. He was not allowed bond because the charge as worded constitutes first degree burglary, a capital of fense. Jesse Mclver, colored, was charged with breaking and en tering and larceny and found not guilty. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, but was found guilty of simple assault and sentence was 30 days to be suspended on payment of the court costs. Willie Lee Ray, colored man of Moore County, was sentenced to 30 days to be suspended on pay ment of the costs for driving a car with improper lights. Walter Lee McKinnon, colored, got 30 days suspended on pay ment of the costs for speeding and sixty days suspended on payment of $50 and the costs for driving under the influence of liquor. He entered a plea of guilty in each case. David Cook, colored, and James Edward Oxendine, indian, were charged with violating the pro hibition laws by operating a still and possessing non-tax-paid liq uor. Cook got a sentence of 7 months suspended on payment of $35 and the costs and Oxendine got 7 months suspended on pay ment of $25 and the costs. Mutt and Tom McRae, both colored, each paid $35 and the costs and got a 7-month sentence suspended for violating the pro hibition laws by operating a still. They also had to pay a $20 still fee. Robert Graham, colored, and Hubert Barton, Indian, got the same sentences as above in sep arate cases for operating stills. John Wrizard, colored transient. got six months in each of three cases for flimflaming, making a total of 18 months on the roads He was convicted of collecting sizable fees for curing the troub les of certain parties and then failing to cure them. 0 BIBLE CLASS MONDAY Miss Lucy Steele, teacher of Bible at Peace College, Raleigh, W1U teac" We ,menslve Dlu c r T :,.u V,a Wnm nn'e lluu 01 lsam" Auxiliary Monday in the ladies' parlor at the Raeford Presbyterian church beginning" at 11 o'clock. The plan for the study is as fol lows: 11 o'clock Study; 12.30 o' clockLunch; 1.30 o'clock Study. All members of the auxiliary are urged to attend. NEW STORE HOURS Belk-Hensdale company. Collins Department store, Israel Mann, and the Ladies Shop have an nounced new store hours, effec tive at once. The stores will be open from 9:00 a. tru to 5:00 p .m., Monday through Friday, and from 9:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. on Satur days in the future. Patrons will note that the stores will not close on Wednesday afternoons as in the past. GALATIA INGATHERING .JO BE HELD TOMORROW The annual ingathering will be held at Galatia Presbyterian church today, October 3, with sale of produce beginning at 3:30. A barbecue and chicken salad supper will be served from 6:00 to 7:00 p. m. Big Leaguers To Play In Red Springs Sunday P. M. The Red Springs Red Robins are hard at work rounding into shape for the game Sunday, Oct ober 6, in Robbins Park at Red Springs with Buddie Lewis and his team of Carolina rraior league stars. Manager Red Norris will not predict an upset win for his club over such established stars as Lewis, Taft Wright, Aaron Robinson, Jimmy Brown, Jake Early, Bill Johnson and Gil Coan. Norris says, "They will know they have been in a ball game." Norris will have in his lineup three men who were signed by big 'ague teams this year and rate as the prize recruits to or ganize baseball plus other boys who are being watched by several major league outfits. The.-e include Bob Warren, who was signed by Detroit, Ed Jones of the Phillies, and Al Pavnell of the St. Louis Cardinals. 0 W & W Motor Co. Open For Business The W & W Motor company had its grand opening Tuesday in its new quarters on Central ave nue here, and will be open for business from now on The company will be the local sales agency for (Tie new Kaiser and Frazer automobiles and they had a Kaiser Special and a Fra zer on display in the company's showroom all day Tuesday. Many people visited the exhibit and got a look at the first cars of this make to be displayed here. The company will also be the local agency for Graham-Paige farm machinery and they had a Roto tiller on display as well as the automobiles. The Rototiller is a five horsepower walking tractor with a power takeoff and is de signed to take the place of a mule in plowing and like jobs. The managers and owners of the company are Frank Williams, native of Manchester who has lived" here since his separation from the army about a year ago, and Marshall L. Warren, Fayetle vlile man who has had many years of experience there in operating garages and automobile repair shops. The company will handle Texa co gasoline and oil products and offers service in a modern plant to all makes of cars. COTTON COMING OUT FASTER THIS YEAR Official government figures, fur nished by the Agriculture division of the Bureau of the Census, De partment of Commerce, show that cotton is being ginned at a much greater rate than last year. The figure show that there were 1,418 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Hoke County prior to September 16, 1946, as compared with 486 bales ginned prior to September 16, 1945. SHOW HERE NEXT WEEK Coffey's shows will arrive in Raeford on Sunday, October 6, and erect their tent city on the lot in the rear of the Home Food market here and will remain throughout next week. They will be open nightly through Satur day with rides, shows and con cessions according to the man agement, "A clean show for the whole family." This show has toured and play ed all the principal towns in North Carolina and have been in vited to return next season. MEN'S SHOP TO OPEN Announcement is made in an advertisement in this issue that the Raeford Men's Shop will open for business on Saturday, October 5. at the corner of Main street and the Fayetteville road in the Rae ford hotel building. The management states that the store presently has a limited stock of fine men's wear and that they expect to have on hand a full line of nationally advertised clothing as it becomes available. The bu siness will be operated by Jim Williamson and James McDiarmid. AMERICAN LEGION TAKES OVER HIGH SCHOOL COACHING JOB Wright Under Bond; Soldier Gets Better Bill Wright was placed under a continuous appearance bond of $500 by Sheriff D. H. Hodgin last Thursday pending further action in the case of the shooting of the soldier in his place on the Fay etteville road early on the mor ing of Saturday, September 21. The nature of the action depend ed on whether or not the soldier, T-5 Jack Larson, recovered from his wound. The Fort Bragg hospital where Larson is a patient reported yes terday that he was greatly im proved in the past week and that he was out of danger. Hospital attendants stated yesterday that Larson was walking about the ward. 0 ; Funeral Services For Harris Parker Funeral services were conduc ted last Friday afternoon at four o'clock at Parkers Methodist chap el for Lieut. Harris Barker, 39, who died unexpectedly in the Pa nama Canal Zone on September 3. The services were conducted by Rev. W. L. Maness, pastor, as sisted by Rev. Mr. Parker, a first cousin of the deceased from Old Hundred in Scotland county. Burial followed in the cemetery at Parker's chapel. Lt. Parker is a native of the eastern section of this county and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lau ra Parker, a daughter, six broth ers, and three sisters. 0 Miss Myra Jordan Dies In Laurinburg Miss Myra Dell Jordan, 65, died in Laurinburg Thursday morning, September 19, following an ill ness of a few days. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist church Friday afternoon at four o'clock. Dr. James B. Turner, the pastor, con ducted the service, assisted by Rev. Cade Deaver, pastor of the East Laurinburg Baptist church. Burial service was at Hillside cemetery in Laurinburg. Pallbearers were Donald Jor dan, William Grandy, Mack Gran- dy, Riley Jordan and Dr. Julius Jordan of Raeford. and Dr. Mil ton Jordan of Fairmont, all nep hews of the deceased. 0 Pooles Celebrate 62nd Anniversary Last Saturday marked the sixty-second anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. D. Scott Poole, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Poole are both active and in good health, he being 88 years of age and Mrs. Poole being 78. They celebrated by having their family with them and by going to Southern Pines for a dinner party. Those here from out of town were Miss Maude Poole and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lowe of Bel mont. These accompanied them to Southern Pines along with Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Currie, Mrs. Luke Bethune and Miss Peggy Bethure. On Sunday they had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Poole. 0 Third Polio Case In Cumberland Another case of infantile pa ralysis was reported this week in Cumberland county, bringing to three the number of cases of the disease reported in that county this summer. The case was a three year old child living at Hope Mills, Rt. 1, about seven miles from Fay etteville on the Lumberton road. Two other children of his family are in second grade at Hope Mills school. They and two smaller children of the family have been quarantined at home for 14 days. The Cumberland county health office stated th;s week that it would be advisable for parent in that county to keep their chil dren away from all gatherings where they would mingle with others for several weeks. poole, McNeill, cole and walters form present staff The Ellis Williamson post of the American Legion, which, is sponsoring the athletics at Hoke High school this year, actively assumed the coaching of the high school's football team until such time as a regular coach can be secured. The legion post took this action alter having the seriously over worked condition of W. T. Gib son, who has been trying to coach '.he team in addition to all his other duties, called to their at tention. Mr. Gibson is principal of the county high school and the Raeford graded school and this is his first term in this com munity. The coaching staff of the le gion post as it stands this week is made up of W. L. Poole, Law rence McNeill, Alfred Cole and Willie Walters, with Poole being the head coach. Mr. Gibson and K. A. Macdon ald, county superintendent, have expressed their great appreciation for this action on the part of the legion post to relieve the situa tion until a regular coach can be secured for the high schooL Siler City Wins, 46-0. The Hoke High football team lost its second football game in two starts last Friday to a far stronger team from Siler City by a score of 46-0. i The visitors showed their great ly superior strength in the open ing plays of the game, taking the kickoff and scoring on three suc cessive ground plays. After this first touchdown they scored al most at will throughout the game. The Hoke boys showed a spurt of life in the second half when they maue several line gains ana in tercepted a pass or two. They seriously threatened to score one time but lost the ball on a fumble near the Siler City goal line. The teams goes to Hamlet to morrow to play the high school team there. 0 Cotton Crop Worth More Every Day With the ( price of cotton ad vancing beyond 38 cents on the nation's leading markets, the state Department of Agriculture reported that North Carolina's lint crop may be worth more than $100,000,000 to the farmers of the state. The 1945 crop was worth $56. 548,000 to the farmers and this year's crop of 490,000 bales is larger than the 1945 production by 78,000 bales. This increase in production plus the increase in prices "could conveivably boost" the value of the 1946 crop to the $100,000,000 mark if "present prices hold up as expected," said John Winfied, market newsmau for the Agriculture department. EPHESUS INGATHERING The ingathering at Ephesus Baptist church will be held to nu n ow, October 4, on the church grounds. Barbecue and chicken alad wiil be served from 12 noon until 2:00 p. m., followed by sale of produce, handiwork, etc. CUT TREE CUTS POWER j The power went off at ap proximately 6:20 last night due to the fact that a pine tree was felled across the high tension 110 kv. line about a quarter of a mile below the tub-station; a mile or more southeast of Raeford. j The line shorted out and a small fire was started In the woods there which enabled the linemen patrolling the line a few minutes later to spot the break. After determining the cause of the break they repor-i ted the facts to Carolina Pow er and Light company men at West End and this area was put on power from the station there at 8:20. The break was repaired at about 10:45 and the switchover, back to the Raeford sub-station was made. j