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LaMotte Speaks To
Presbyterian Men
Tuesday Night
CHURCH MEN’S CLUB
HONORS HOLLAND
AT MEETING
'•Harry Holland Night” was ob
served by the Men’s Fellowship
4^ lb
club of the Presbyterian church
Tuesday evening honoring Rev.
Harry K. Holland as the time of
his departure for his new pastor
ate at Marietta, Georgia, a;
proaches. President J. L. Mi
Neill presided.
(After a delicious and bountiful
supper provided by Business Wo
man’s circle number 10 of the
Woman’s Auxiliar yPresident
MciNeill called for the intro
duction of guests. He then cal
led on the program chairman,
K. A. MacDonald, to present a
T»r@Hiber, Ryan MdBryde, who is
/now moderator of Fayetteville
Presbytery.
In making the presentation Mr.
MacDonald called attention to
the fact that there were moder-
- ators of Fayetteville Ptesbytery
preset and one of Charleston
Presbytery. The moderators of
Fayetteville Presbytery were Ry
an McBryde, M. C. Dew, Harry
Holland and Dr. Louis C. La-
Motte. iRev. A. M. Gregg was
moderator of Charleston Presby
tery who was present.
The chairman then stated that
Dr. Watson Fairley was to have
made the address of the evening
but was prevented from doing so
by illness. He then presented
Dr. Louis C. LaMotte, president
of Presbyterian Junior College
at Maxton, who had" graciously
cpnse^fed to^ pia^-'-bii/io^',, .. Dr.
Fairley ht the 'la^ minute.
Dr. LaMotte made a most time
ly talk, interspersing with hum
or the serious thoughts running
through it. He was a college
mate of Mr. Holland and helped
initiate him into a college frat
ernity. He also laid his hand
upon him when he was ordain
ed as a nmnister of his Presby
tery.
jAftCr the talk by Dr. LaMotte
President McNeill caUed on Cecil
Dew to present a gift to Mr,
Holland. Mr. Dew did this
with a few well chosen remarks
that stressed the fact that every
member of the club had a part
in it and said that, quoting “The
Vision of Sir Launfal,” “The gift
without, the giver is bare.” He
said that this gift was wel
clohed, as the best wishes anc.
prayers of every member of
the club would go with him to
his new pastorate.
Rev. W. L. Maness of the Meth
odist church, for himself, the
other ministers and their con
gregations, expressed their plea'
6jre in the fellowship and joint
endeavors they had had with
Mr. Holland and wished for him
success in his new work.
'Edgar Hall closed the meet
ing with prayer.
Whitehead Says
White-Tex Mills
Will Be Operated
In reply to a query by W. A.
Blue of the Aberdeen and Rock-
fish rialroad company as to
whether' it was planned to con
tinue operation of the White-
Tex mills here after the present
moving out of machinery was
completed, Troy Whitehead, pres
ident and' treasurer of White-Tex
Mills, Inc., of Charlotte, wrote
the following letter:
“This is to advise that we in
tend to operate this plant. The
machinery we are how shipping
ut will be replaced with new
machinery just as soon as, we
can obtain delivery from the new^
manufacturer. In fact, we already
have the equipment on order and
expect delivery within the next
few m.onths.
“The rumors are all erroneous
and you might inform any of
the parties making such state
ments th"at we are going to op
erate the White-Tex Mills, Inc.
of Raeford, North Carolina.”
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File This Month For
Tobacco Allotments
SCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
The January issue of /Hoke
High Lights is just off ‘"the ^ press,
This issue is a credit to its edi
tors, the school, and the prin
ter. We hope the editors will
preserve and continue to turn
but for this year a paper of so
great merit. Possibly then, for
next year they could solicit and
get support that would enable
them to publish twice monthly
instead of once as they are do
ing this year.
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Miss Margaret McKenzie, sec-
retary'for the Board of Education,
has been sick this week. It is ho
ped she will soon be back in the
office feelingio. k. again.
Ashemopt has enrolled several
new pupils this week’ that will
materially help them in their fight
to retain their four, teachers.
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All eligible producers interest
ed in applying for a “new grow
er” tobacco allotment should file
an application at the Hoke Coun
ty AAA office prior to February
1, 1947, accordnig to T. D. Pot
ter, chairman, Hoke County AAA
Committee.
He pointed out that in order
to be eligible for a new tobacco
allotment, .the following condi
tions must be met: (1) The farm
operator shall have had experi
ence in growing the kind of to
bacco lor which an allotment is
requ(gsi«d either,,, sharecrop
per, tenant, or as a farm opera
tor during the past five years,
or if the farm operator has been
in the armed services of the Uni
ted States, with in five years prior
to his entry into the armed ser
vices; (2) the farm operator shall
be living on the farm and large
ly dependent on this farm for his
livelihood; (3) the farm covered
by the application shall be the
only farm owned or operated by
the farm operator on which any
tobacco is produced; and (4) no
kind of tobacco other than the
kind for which aipplication for
an allotment will be grown on
such farm in 1947.
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HOLLAND ADDRESSES
KIWANIANS
■Last Thursday evening at
Kiwanis Arch Cuibie-had/charge
of the program. He introduced
Harry K. Holland who made a
most interesting talk. Arch had
been m the “dog house” he said,
over / a program last year. The
club voted to let him out and
took off the chain bu't kept his
collar on “just in case.”
- Walter Baker is in charge of
the program-fog tonight.
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Mrs. E. L. Peele
Passes Sunday;
Burial Yesterday
Schoob Of State
Will Observe
Good Health Week
CITY AND COUNTY
SYSTEMS PLAN
PROGRAMS
Good Health Week will be ob
served in all North Carolina
public schools February 2-8, Dr.
Clyde A. Erwin, State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, has
notified State Headquarters of
the Good Health Association.
Funeral services were conduc
ted in the Raeford Presbyterian
church at eleven o’clock yester
day morning for Mrs. E. L.
Peele, senior, who passed away
early last Sunday. Burial follow
ed in the Raeford cemetery.
Mrs. Peele was almost 58 years
of age. She was born Flora C.
Currie in Robeson county on
January 24, 1889, the daughter
of Mrs. Ida Currie, who now
lives in Washington, N. C., and
the late Frank Currie of Robeson
county.
Her husband, E. L, Peele, of
Raeford, survives along with
her mother, Mrs. Currie of Wash
ington; three daughters, Misses
Nancy and Mary of Raeford and
Mrs. Charles J. Worth of Bill-
Letters have been sent from
Superintendent Erwin’s office in
Raleigh to all public school prin
cipals and superintendents of
city and county systems urging
their fullest cooperation.
B. & L. ASSOCIATION
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Raeford
Building and Loan association
was held in the office of the as
sociation here last week.
The report of the secretary was
heard and officers for the new
year were elected. These are the
same as for last yeay, i. e. F. B.
Sexton, president; H. L. Gatlin,
vice president; Mrs. W. L. Poole,
secretary. G. G. Dickson is the
attorney for 1497.
Greene Goes To
Raleigh; Gets On
Twelve Committees
During- Good Health Week
greater emphasis on health as a
regular part of the school curri
culum is called for by Dr. Erwin.
ings, Montana; two sons, E. L.,
Jr,, of San Rafael, California, and
Jeptha of Raeford; one sister,
Mrs. Jean C. Dillard of Wash
ington, N. C.; three brothers, Wy
att and Lacy Currie of Norfolk,
Va., and Will Currie of Fay
etteville.
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Cagers Split With
W agr am.. Tuesday;
Play Here Tomorrow
In his letter to principals and
superintendents, the State super
intendent of . public instruction
expresses the belief that much
good can be accomplished in sti
mulating interest and enthusiam
for the Good Health program on
the part of school personnel.
Legion Post Will
Sponsor Cage Team
At the monthly meeting of the
Ellis Williamson post of the
Axerican Legion at the armory
Monday night, the post decided
to sponsor and equip a basket
ball team here this winter. The
team will play other posts,
schools, and military outfits. It
wiU be coached by Harvey War
lick.
The member^of-the^pbst^ere
served a delicious turkey supper
by the ladies post auxiliary.
During the program Chaplain
Harry Holland, who is to leave
the post soon, made a talk..
Alfred Cole, dance committee
chairman for the free-car dance
in April, reported to the post on
the progress of the advance tic
ket sale and predicted a large
turnout for the affair.
The Hoke High girls and boys
teams split a double header with
Wagram Tuesday night. The Wa-
gram girls, with Currie leading
the way with 16 points, defeat
ed the Hoke High girls 29-22.
McNeill scored 14 points for
Raeford.
In the second game, which
was a rough and tumble affair,
the local boys trounced the visi
tors 61-26. Luke McNeill, center
for Raeford, was high scorer for
the night with 24 points. Poole
was runner-up with 15 points.
Friday night the Hoke High
teams meet the boys and girls
from Hope Mills_, The first game
will start at 7:30.
Dr. Erwin’s suggestions for the
staging of Good Health Week in
clude student assembly programs
on health, gymnasium demon-
strataions of intra-smural athletic
activity and other phases of phy
sical education, renditions of the
Good Health song, “It’s All Up
to You”, before student assembly
programs, student orations on the
subject of good health, showing
health films editorials on health
in school papers a contest for
the best hea'^i^ poster, a health
program for the P-T. A. and
talks on health by students be
fore civic clubs.
Half Dozen Cases
Heard By Recorder
Tuesday Morning
Hoke County’s representative
to the North Carolina General
Assembly, Harry A. Greene, at
tended the opening sessions of
that body in Raleigh last week
and was home for the week end.
When he was sworn in as a
member of the Legislature last
week, it was the first ijme^Greene
had been an occupant of that of
fice. For a freshman member
he has been given right much
committee work on problems that
will be very much in the pub
lic eye during the session.
He is on the appropriations
committee, the Education com
mittee and the comriiittee on
salaries and fees. He is also on
the roads committee and the
committee on conservation and
development, about which a fight
is expected at some time dur
ing the session.
In addition to these Greene
was named to the committees on
agriculture, constitutional amend
ments, mental institutions, in
surance, military affairs, penal
institutions, and justices of the
peace.
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In Recorder’s court Tuesday
Judge Henry McDiarmid heard
six cases and all defendants were
either found guilty or entered
pleas. In the first case Jim Bald
win, colored, pleaded guilty of
assaulting Verna Melvin with a
deadly weapon. Sentence was 6
months suspended on payment of
$50 and the costs.
Clarence Gillespie, colored,
got 3 months suspended on pay
ment of $25 and the cost for
careless and reckless driving.
WiUie T. Dobbin, colored, got
30 days suspended on payment of
the costs for assaulting his wife.
Charles D. Melton, Jr., white,
of St. Louis, Mo., got 60 days
suspended on payment of $50
and the costs for driving drunk.
Calvin Porter, white soldier of
Fort Bragg, paid the costs for
speeding.
Eddie Roper,, colored, w'as
found guilty of assaulting Ha-
vanna McPhatter with an auto
mobile. Sentence was one year
on the roads to be suspended on
payment of costs and damages
making a total of $300.
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Wife Dies; Man
Seriously Hart
In Mon^y Wre^
FUNERAL YESTERDAY FOB
MRS. MARYLYN WALL:
DRIVER ARRESTED
A.nnual Meeting Of
Bank Stockholders
The observance will also in
clude health service features. An
infensive effort will be made by
school officials to have all high
school students whd^ have not
been given examinations during
the past year receive complete
medical examinations by their
private physician or by county
health officers.®
In cases where it has not al
ready been done, completion of
teacher screening of elementary
children and initiative steps to
get follow-up examinations by
nurse and doctor will be under
taken.
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Poole’s Medley
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
Clyde Upchurch, Jr., M. C.
Poovey, "N. H. G. Balfour, Israel
Mann, Tom McBryde and Alfred
Cole were appointed to a com
mittee to raise the necessary
money to install lights at the
armory ball i>ark.
Following a report by Membej;-
ship Chairman Frank Williams
the meeting adjourned.
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ROADS CLOSED
Due to field artillery firing,
the Raeford-Vass Road, crossing
he F(irt Bra^g Reservation be
tween Plank and Manchester
Roads will be closed to all civi
lian traffic from 9:00 a. m. to
4H)0 p. m. Thursday, January
16th, and Friday, January 17th,
1947.
Will prices rise still? Or will
prices decline? I think prices
will fall. At least some should
fall to lower levels, because they
are too high. I thought last fall
prices should fail about one-
fourth of what they were. Whet
her prices go up or down de^
pends upon whether currency
will continue to circulate. " If
the soldiers are sent home money
will |lildely grow scarceir, and
prices go lower than they are now.
I think Governor Cherry ex
pects a decline in the earning
capacity, of the people, hence a
fifty million reserve fund because
we already have a sales tax to
prevent the schools from closing.
France was taxed with a two
their money, but Mr. Secretary
made the money easy to get and
the country prospered.
Our government decided jsi re
turn to normal in 1920 and the
country became financially de
funct in a jiffy and prices drop
ped to ruinously low levels.
There must be money availaMe
or . the country goes begging.
January Term Of
Superior Court
Convenes Monday
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of The Bank of
Riaeford was held Thursday
morning, January 9, 1947 in the
banking rooms of the bank. The
statement presented by the man
agement showed that the bank
was in a very healthy condition
and had enjoyed the best year
of it’s existence. The following,
directors were elected to serve
for this year: H. L. Gatlin. F. B.
Sexton, J. R Thomas, T. B. Up
church, Jr., J. L. McNeill, A. K.
Stevens and R. B. Lewis.
In the first fatal automobile
accident inside Raeford in a long
time Mrs. Archie Wall was fat
ally injured Monday liight at a-
bout 7:15 and her husband a«-
iously hurt on the Aberdeen high
way at the comer at C. A Lilly's
home.
A 1942 International truck of
the Orange Crush company in
Fayetteville v,*a3 proceeding tow
ard town in the rain when "Wall
apparently drove his 1935 Chev
rolet coach into the highway
from, the south. The truck, oper
ated by Rudolph Pfeele. white,
24, of Hope Mills, struck the car
fairly on the side and carried
it a distance of 84 feet, throwing
Mrs. Wall out.
First aid was rendered by lo
cal physicians at the nearby home
of Will Reed and Mrs. Wall was
carried to a Fayetteville hospital
by ambulance where she died a-
bout midnight. Wall is also in
the hospital where his condition
was still serious yesterday.
The accident was investigated
by the state highway patrol and
the Hoke County sheriff’s oiffice.
Coroner W. L.'TlOppr investigated
it on Tuesday and deemed an
inquest unnecessary. Peele ' was
charged with manslaughter and
placed under a S500 bond pen
ding action by the grand jury.
Funeral. services were conduc
ted yesterday afternoon at the
People’s Tabernacle for Mrs.
Wall and interment followed in
the Raeford ce.metery. In addi
tion to her hus’oand she is sur
vived by two children by a former
marriage. Flora Catherine and
Mrs.
I lived through forty-five years
of panic and did more work
during that time and so did every
one else, than seemed possible
for people to do, and we barely
lived.
The regular January term of
Hoke County Superior court will
convene here next Monday with
Judge Walter J. Bone, of Nash
ville, presiding. As usual the
term will be a mixed one with
both criminal and civil cases be
ing heard.
Although Judge Bone is on
.the calendar to be on the bench
at this term, it is thought likely
that there may be a switch be
tween him and Judge Q. K. Nim-
ocks between now and Monday
and that Judge Nimpcks may
come here.
Jurors for the term are as fol
lows: Belton Beasleyi H. C. Max
well. L. W. Ellis and J. E. Sum
ner of Stonewall; Jim Baxley, B.
F. McDuffie, C. M. Baker, R. D.
Conoly, H. G. McLean, C. J. Hol
land, R. M. Cox, W, J. McNeill
and J. L. Conoly of Raeford; J,
W. Morgan, R. H. Livingston, J,
C. Gibson, Sessoms Watson and
Clyde Campbell of Antioch; Alex
McMillan of Little River; John
A. Wilkes, Lee Maxwell, Malcolm
Walters and John Henry Currie
of Blue Springs; A. B. Tapp,
George Overton, W. L Maultsby,
and W. L Thornburg of Que-
whiffle; D. P. Andrews, N. E.
Townsend and Will Rose
McLaucUin.
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At a meeting of the Board
of Directors following the stock-[Earl Stubbs; her mother,
holders meeting the following Estelle Huggins of Raeford and
officers were elected to serve for one brother, Hamer A. Huggins,
this year: aisg of Raeford.
H. L. Gatlin, president; R. B. 6
Lewis, executive vice president; | There was a head-on collison
F. B. Sexton, vice president; W. Saturday night at Puppy Creek
A. McDonald, cashier; and Miss in which a 1940 DeSota and a
Jessie B. Ferguson, assistant cas- 1937 Plymouth were badly dam-
hier. aged but there were no serious
The bank is entering upon its personal injuries.
forty fourth year of service to
the pec^le of Hoke county and
the siuTOunding territory.
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Masons Install
Officers Tuesday PM Ip
FARM NOTES
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By A. S. Knowles
of
President Harding inflated the
currency in 1921 without con
sulting any authority and prices
Must File AAA
Performance Reports
February 15, 1947 is the last
date on which performance re
ports may be filed as a basis
improved. They had dropped in I making a net
billion dollar indemnity payment 1920 to where no hope could be producers on 1946
in 1870 when Prussia gave them seen,
a . licking, and it was said France
inflated their currency, and paid
Gambling, called pay the mar-
their war debt in less than half kets, broguht ruin to business in
payment to
Application
for Payment, the County AAA
Committee announced.
“Payment for 1946 applications
is to be' completed during the
Raeford Masonic Lodge instal-| horse and mule clinics
led its 1947 officers on Tuesday on Wedne^y,
night, as follows: Cecil Dew,29. One will be at Lu-
Master; B. B. Cole, Junior War-H^er Clark's farm at 2:00 p. m.,
den; D. H. Hodgin, Treasurer; pnd the other at Mrs. J. S.Jahn-
Lacy Clark, Secretary; Jesse Gul- son's Upchurch farm at 4.-00 p.
ledge, Senior Deacon; W. L. Farmers living in the area
Alexander, Junior Deacon; D. F. these clinics have an oppor-
Mclnnis, Tyler; Lacy McFadyen Sot their workstock
and W. J. Coates, Stewards; W. I ^niined free. If treatment is
D. McLeod, Marshall; and Rev. jMajor 'V. B. Wright, "Fet-
B. P. Robirfson, Chaplain. C. p. erinarian, will be on hand in to
Kinlaw, Senior Warden-elect, jut>. The main pur-
was absent, and will be instal- ot the clinics is to assist in
led later. /getting workstock in good phy-
The installation ceremony waspioal condition before the heavy
impressively conducted by Edgar season starts. Other djaks
Hall, assisted by Edward Smith, wiU. be aimounced during tiM
both past masters of the lodge. two weeks.
The new master, as his first of-1
ficial act, presented the outgoing Carolina’s bershire bree-
master, Joe Gulledge, with a pastp®rs association will stage their
master’s emblem, the gift of the show and sale at the
latter’s fellow workers in The rSfate Fair grounds in Raleigh
Johnson Company office in Rae-J^'^ursday, January 28. The show
ford. will start at 10:00 a. m., and the
Edgar HaU recounted to those | sale will be at 1:00 p. m. Twee-
the time they were given to payil929. At a time like that, you will early months of 1947, therefore,
it.
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^ what Governor Cherry’s fif- it is necessary that performance
ty million-dollar reserve means, reports be filed early in order to
Wall Street had planned a'I believe he, an. pothers, expect orovide* opportunity for timely
financial strengency the country something unusual to come. He preparaticin 2^d audit in the
over in 1917, and Secretary of is playing safe. Let us all not be County and State office,” it was
the Treasury McAdoo went to caught off guard. stated. I *"
New York and tried to persuade Believe it or not, if. you have .All
them to abandon the idea but no. money and no way of earn-
preseiil something of the history uy~one bred gilts and six boors
of the local lodge, from ist organi- wil be offered for sale,
zation as Galatia Lodge in 1670,
to the time it became Raeford Most farmers planting hybrid
Lodge when the town came in- corn in 1946 are well pleased
tb being, and on down to the I with the results. They have re
present. He and Lacy' Clark ['Ported yields from 60 to 100 bus-
spoke of some of the interestingpcis P®c acre. They say that the
things to be found in some of thePcw method of corn production
old minutes of the lodge, all is by far easier than they could
which have been preserved. [hope for.
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A meeting' to interest
Paul Dickson, Sam Morris and planting more
fatrm
home
I j Ralph Plummer were appointed! fruits will be held at the Rock-
eligible farmers who have | officers in the new National 1 fish school Monday night at 7:3*.
eady filed performance re- Giiard outfit to be formed here,This will lie an opportunity to
they just laughed at him. The ing some, your chances of suc-/ports ana"^gned Application for' this week by General J. 'Van
financial lords of New York cess are not good, and like hol^'"’ayment, ar^ urged to do so at-B. Metts, Adjutant Genjeral of
were determined to get more for
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once.
1 North Carolina.
group order fruit trees jjmI
plants. Every fanoily should
access to home grown Iriiitn " "