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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLI NO. 34
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1947
RAEFORD, N. C.
ISCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald
The Mildouson PTA met last
-week and at the meeting decided
>. "to put their lunchroom in oper
ation with Mrs. Florence McGou-
^an as manager. The lunchroom
opened on Wednesday of this
week.
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Toesday Meeting of PTA
The Hoke-Raeford PTA met
Tuesday everting at the high
school. The program was put
on by the teachers telling what
the needs of the school were. In
her talk Miss Watson said that
the greatest need was for fuller
cddpjeration between teachers, pu
pils and parents.
After the meeting adjourned
the members inspected the new
hi^ school ‘lunchroom that had
juust opened. The new facility is
in toe gymnasium building ori the
ground floor. It is a great im
provement over the old one in
the basement of the high school
building. Mrs. Lucy Smith is the
manager. The band has taken
over the old lunchroom quarters
and is fixing it up for use. When
k is completed the band will have
very attractive quarters.
D^mpnstilitiqii
Meeting Iflonday
PROGRAM FILLED WITH
PLANS, ;REP0BTS
AND nioyiEs
The County Council of the Hoke
County Federation of Home De
monstration clubs met in the
Raeford Kiwanis Hall on Monday
p. m., January 20.' Thirty-one of-
Biacuss Teacher Shorta^
W. T. Gibson, principal of Hoke
High, J. H. Blue, chairman of
the Raeford school board, Hobert
H. Gatlin member of the County
Board of Siucation, and K. A.
MacDonald, attended a sympo
sium in Raleigh Tuesday on the
ficers and leaders were present.
Mrs. Frank McGregor, County
Council President, presided. The
minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved. The roll of
clubs and of county project lea
ders was called.
Mrs. J. F. Jordan, county cloth
ing leader, reorted' that cotton
material for seventy-five girls’
skirts had been received from
Area Red Cross Headquarters. A
number of skirts that had been
cut out were distributed and
Mrs. Jordan said others would
be sent out to the various clubs
so that the club women might
make them. ,
Mrs. N. F. Sinclair, county
house furnishings and home ma
nagement leader, reported that
Miss Rose Ellwood Bryan, exten
sion specialist in Raleigh, woud
give a slip cover demonstration at
the Raeford Kiwanis hall on Tues
day, February 4. The meeting
will start at 10:{)0 a. m. and will
end around three o’clock. An hotu
for lunch will be taken from
12-1. The dub members who
are interested in making slip cov-
jcritical shortaage of whtie teach- | ers are urged to attend and every-
ers. The situation was discussed one else who is interested,
from the national, state, and lo-j Mrs. J. H. -Plummer, county
cal unit levels. Plans were sug-, garden leader,,spoke of the com-
ge«5teQ‘^'i’ui' ii-eip tiiikin the Way-
very critical situation. {side community last year and
We wish to say. here that' urged the group to plant more
thanks to the unselfish, sdf sac-'small fruits at this season and
rificing, patriotic attitude of, to make plans for gardens im-
those capable of teaching in Hoke
County, that this county has not
suffered from this situation near
ly so severely as have some of
our neighboring counties. We
are fortunate indeed in having
such well prepared aPd capable
teachers living in Hoke County.
■ You may be interested in know
ing that we have one white tea
cher from South Carolina, one
from Sampson county, one from
Wayne, three from Robeson, who
are near enough to drive to work.
All the others now live in Hoke
county. We have been, and are
now very fortunate.
Negro Attendance Figures
The following is the enroll
ment, membership, and percen
tage in attendance for the third
month for the Negro schools of
t{ie • county: Bowmore 131, 131,
87.6; Bridges Grove 70, 68, 51.9;
Buffalo 54, 53, 86; Burlington 191,
190, 85.9; Calvin Martin 29, 29,
85; Edinburgh 35, 31, 80; Free
dom 110, 106,89; Friendship 75,
74, 87; Fryes Mission 85, 84, 86;
Laurel Hill 113, 113, 81; Lilly’s
Chapel 56, 53, 69.4; McFarland
36, 36, 93; Millside 79, 70, 66.4;
New Hope 55, 35, 87; Peachmont
39, 39, 85; Piney Bay 40, 40, 79.4;
Rockfish 65, 65, 82.3; Shady Grove
62, 56, 88.2; Timberland 60, 60,
90; Upchurch High 234, 223, 85.3;
Upchurch Elementary 538, 532,
87.9; White Oak 107, 103, 79.2.
Graded
Scl^ol
Newt
By the Students
Mrs. Roberts’ fourth grade
glad" to have Mildred Gainey
from the Wagram school. ,
Franklin Inman, who was sick
and had to be taken home Fri
day, is back in school.
mediately.
Plans were made for the recre
ation leaders in each club to
come to a meeting at Miss Hall’s
office where they will compile
a booklet of suitable games and
types of recreation to be used at
club and community meetings.
The T. B. Clinic, which will
probably be held the last of Fel>
ruary, was announced and the
club members were asked to give
their cooperation in participating
in the clinic themselves as well
as urging those in their local
communities to take part.
Mrs. McGregor reminded the
group of the “March of Dimes”
drive and asked that the clubs
cooperate in the drive.
Mrs. Ina Bethune, county lib
rarian, asked the council mem
bers to give their support to tne
county library and a member
from each club was asked to
write to the senators and legis
lator from our county urging their
support.
The matter of buying a hos
pital bed was discussed and the
group voted to take this as their
project for 1947. Miss Hall re
ported that the wheel chair, which
the club' women purchased over
a year ago, has been In constant
use.
Mrs. Mary Lee McAllister,
Southeastern district agent, of
Raleigh, was presented and gave
an inspiring talk on goals to be
reached in 1947. She urged the
council members to increase their
club enrollments so as to reach
more farm families in the coun
is ' ty.
Means of increasing funds in
local club treasuries was sugges
ted and discussed.
Josephine Hall, home demon
stration agent, explained the plan
of work for the new year and
Hold Bowling
Tourney Here
In February
The Metro Bowling Alleys, lo
cated in the News-Journal build
ing here, are inviting some one
hundred bowlers of the town and
county to participate in the first
invitational tournament ever to
be held here in the sport. The
tournament will begin February
3 and will continue throughout
the month.
The affair will be somewhat
unique, as tournaments go, in
that there will be three top prizes
given instead of the usual one
to the winner. All bowlers in
vited have been placed in one
of three groups based on their
bowling ability and scores bowl
ed in the past. This is different
from an invitational golf tourna
ment in that this grouping has
been done as a substitute for a
qualifying round in order to
give bowlers in each of three
classes of ability opportunity to
win one of the prizes to be an
nounced later. /These prizes will
total in the neighborhood of one
hundred dollars in value. No
cash prizes will be offered.
In addition to the three grand
prize winners there will be a win
ner of a consolation prize in each
group.
Bowlers will be mailed in
vitations, tournament yjles, group
ings and first rouiiC pairings the
first of next week.
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Hope Mills, Raeford
Divide In Basketball
Your
Contrib 1
utions Restored Her Health
Archie Wall Die:
Early Friday
From Injuries
Archie Lee Wall, who suffer
ed injuries in a wreck on the Ab
erdeen road here on Monday
night, January 13, passed away
early last Friday at the Fayette
ville hospital where he had been
a patient since the accident.
His vrife Mrs. Maryland Wall,
was also fatally injured in the ac
cident in which Wall drove his
car into the path of an oncom
ing truck. She died several hours
Judge Bone Hears
5 Criminal Cases
h Superior
JU^Y REVERSES VEBMCrT
OF RECORDER AGAINST
GAME DEFENDANTS
Judge Walter J. Bone, of Nash
ville, presided at the regular Jan
uary term of Hoke County Su
perior court here this week and
finished all criminal and civil
after the wreck and was buried cases by noon yesterday. THie
on Wednesday. criminal docket consisted of
Little hope was held for Wall’s only five cases two of which in
recovery from the time he en
tered the hospital.
Funeral services were conduc
ted at the People’s Tabernacle
volved fopr defendants who had
been convicted of game violations
in Recorder’s court.
In the first of these, Guy Gad-
Hope Mills and Hoke High
schools divided basketball hon
ors last Friday night on Raeford’s
floor, the home .team boys de
feating the visitors 27 to 11 and
the Hope Mills girls taking their
contest 18 to 12.
McNeill of Raeford led his team
scoring with 12 points,, and Byrd_
and Graham were high men for
the losers with four points each.
Half-time count was 11 to 3 for
Raeford.
Hope Mills girls led 13 to 3 at
half-time. High scorers were
Pace, Hope Mills, 9, and Lewis,
Raeford, 8.
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Your contributions of dollars and dimes last year made
it possible for this young lady to recover from an attack
of the dread infantile paralysis. Sh'e and her doll (at left)
were admitted to the State Orthopedic Hospital at Gas
tonia several months ago. She is Mimi Eve Elliott, daughter
of Johnson W. Elliott, R. F. D. 2, Shelby. You can help many
other such youngsters regain their health by contributing
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to the annual March of Dimes campaign which got under
way Thursday of last week, January 16, and continues
through the month.
A DOMESTIC PHILOSOPHER
GOES TO LONDON
here on Sunday afternoon byidy, Wagram white man who had
Rev. W. L. Maness, pastor of the^ been convicted in Recorder’s court
Raeford Methodist church.
Surviving are Mr. Wall’s fath
er, Ernest R. Wall, and brothers
of killing a doe, appealed this
decision' to Superior court. After
hearing the evidence the jury
Turner S. and Mosell W'all, all I found him not guilty.
of Denton, and stepchildren. Flora
Catherine and Earl Stubbs.
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Grand Jury Finds
Wall Deaths Were
Unavoidable
In its report to the presiding
judge at the January term of
Hoke county Superior court the
county grand jury stated that it
had made an investigation of the
accident in Raeford on January
13 in which Archie Wall and his
wife, Mrs. Maryland Wall, were
fatally injured.
In the second case three white
men, F. J., N. M., and L. C.
Jackson, were charged with vio
lating the game, laws by hunting
at night without licenses and ■with
artificial lights and guns. They
also had been convicted in Re
corder’s court. All' were found
not guilty by the jury.
Paul Hunt, Davidson county
white man, was charged .with
robbery with firearms in the case
of the Fayetteville taxi driver
who was robbed of his money and
his taxi here about a year ago by
three men. The other two have
not been apprehended. Hunt was
The grand jury considered found guilty and sentenced to
evidence presented by Coroner serve not iess than five nor more
Roper who had investigated the' than seven years in the State
LIBRARY NEWS
At a meeting of the Hoke Coun
ty Public Library board last
Thursday night, Mrs. NeiU Me
Fadyen was elected a member of
the board to take the place of
Mrs. H. L. Gatlin, Jr., who re
signed.
A large number of new titles
are being received in the library.
Among them are toe following:
The Silent Speaker, Stout; Mis
ter Roberts, Heggen; Where Are
We Heading, Wells; B. F.’s Daugh
ter, Marquand; Bright Skies,
Loring; Frontier on toe Potomac,
Daniels; Hokdfast Gaines, Shep-
^d; In a Dark Garden, Slaugh
ter; Lady With Parasol, Corbett;
Happy the Land, Rich.
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DR. JORDAN RECOVERS
CAR IN CHARLOTTE
Joanna Chavis from Mrs.
Brown’s room moved back to her' distributed new year books,
home in Texas. Two motion pictures, “Home
Eioise Upchurch from Missi Demonstration Club Work” and
McLean’s first grade has return
ed from a visit in Florida.
Kitty Lou Norris from Miss Mc
Lean’s room is back in school af
ter being out, with scarlet fever.
The Ace club of Mrs. Davis’
sixth grade held their weekly
meeting on Monday of last week.
An entertaining program was
“The Farm Garden” were shown
.nn tile new film-sound motion
picture projector. The club wom
en are grateful to Robert Williams
for operating the projector.
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“Our paper carried the tjotice
Dr. Julius Jordan, local den
tist whose car was stolen from
the Main street here on toe eve
ning of December 22, recovered it
last week when Charlotte polite
reported finding it parked on a
street there. The car was a 1937
Ford coupe and was completely
out of gas when found.
The key had been left in it by
Dr. Jordan blit the thieves did
not return toe favor and it took
a mechanic to get it switched on
after it was foimd. It was un
damaged.
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George R. Ross
What will Gardner do in London? This is the question of
ten asked in North Carolina since President Truman appoint
ed him Ambassador to England.
Both political and p ersonal friends think of Governor and
Mrs. Gardner as just about the most wonderful pair that ever
kept open house in the Governor’s Mansion. The Governor
proved to be just as diversified as his many audiences. Whet
her he opened the Debutante Ball, welcomed the Athletic
Convention, or made the dinner speech for the Historical
and Art Society, he was always sympathetic and could dra
matize the problem uppermost in their minds. '
So far as I know, the ex
periences m the Gardner
family after the Civil War
and down through the present
generation have not been un
like other families in the
Cleveland County section of
the Carolinas. The struggle
up from the Seventies deve
loped a lot of homespun phil-
ospherS, many shrewd poli
ticians, and several states
men. O. Max Gardner was
the best of all these rolled
into one.
Too bad Gardner could not have
been governor in good times for
his own pleasure and toe deve
lopment of rural life in the State.
The ' Old Guard politicians sold
the Democratic Party on the idea
that Gardner' was a little too
young and that he might be a
wee-bit* too liberal, having led
the fight for woman’s suffrage
and having provided for, building
electric light lines out in the
county by amending toe laws
for cooperatives. To the Young
Democrats eight long years
passed before their leader was
inaugurated Governor O. Max
Gardner of North Carolina. These
several years had tempered the
ardent leader; but out of exper
ience, no doubt, came the as
surance and deepened convic
tions that rrade him sympathe
tic and understanding governor
of all people during toe hard
years that followed in the Early
Thirties.
Governor Gardner instituted
the “Live-at-Home” Program in
the midst of diminishing farm in
comes and ever increasing un-
eniplpyment (the factory pay'
roll of the State dropped $190,
000,000 in one year), and in toe
face of a national economic cri
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accident and reported that it was ; prison.
an unavoidable accident. ! Jehn Tuder. colored man of
This nullified the indictment of the county who was found guilty
the driver of the truck in the ac-Jcf poisoning the .mu'-e of Roy
cident, Rudolph Peele of Hope Chapman by the recorder, edler-
Mills. Peele had. been placed un- ■ gd a plea of guilty of malicious
der a $500 bond on- a charge of , injury to personal property, a
manslaughter pending the inves- less serious charge. The State
tigation.
Will Sell 1306
Mackall Buildings
Representative C. B. Dearie of
North Carolina has announced
that toe Army Corps of Engineers
have set 10 A. M. January 28th
as the deadline for receiving
bids on the sale of 1306 surplus
buildings at Camp Mackall, N. C.
Bids should be mailed to Mr.
Andrew J. Mauney, Real Estate
Project Manager, 1316 Wash
ington Street, Columbia, S. C.
Mr. Deane expressed a desire
'to see all his constituents of the
Eighth District, who are inter
ested in obtaining surplus build
ing materials at Camp Mackall
take advantage of this opportun
ity. Buildings awarded to bidders
must be removed from the Camp
Mackall site by June 30, 1947.
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BLUE SPRINGS DANCE
CHAPLAIN TO PREACH AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
last week that Mr. Jones is' a de
fective in the police force. This
presented by several boys of the | was an error. Mr. Jones is really a
(Continued on /Page 2) j detective in the police farce.’t
Chaplain W. I..Hoy, Army chap
lain on tei;minal leave who is now
a member of the faculty of Pres
byterian Junior college at Max-^*
ton, will preach at the morning
worship service at the Presbyter
ian church next Sunday morning.
The church is at present without
a pastor since the departure of
Rev. Harry K. Holland this week
for Marietta, Georgia. .
Poole’s Medley
BY D. SCOT^ POOLE
Several hundred thousand bus
hels of Irish potatoes Ifave been
left to freeze and rot this win
ter after being paid for by the
Federal Governmei^t. I oppose
such waste. The cost of this
manner of keeping prices up
creates an economic loss jugt like
a house burning down.
facilities are taking a heavy toll
of human life. There seems to
be hovering bver the whole world
a cloud, dark and lowering.
There are such principles as
honesty and truth. They apmit of
no ALLOY. There is no' mistak
ing their identity. In these fickle
and trying ti.r es only Divine gui
dance can be trusted. i
The present General Assembly
finds a “full treasury’’ and wis
dom must be exercised in the
handling of this treasury. This
writer contrasts present condi
tions and conditions of 1925, and
rejoices with those who are re
sponsible for the prbgress our
great state has ma(de in recent
years. ' '
There will be a square dance
in the Bethel community house
on Wednesday night, January 29.
The dance will start at 8 o’clock
and will close at 11:30. Bveryune •'at Marshall Newton’s fining sta-
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
The Hoke County hatchery
which is operated by D. R. Huff
will have toe first 19^4^, hatch
ready for delivery on Tuesday,
January 28.
Two horse and mule clinics
are scheduled for Wednesday,
February 5, One will be at Dun-
darrach at 2:00 p. m. The other
is invited.
The Beta club of-Wagram High
school will sponsor a square dance
in the gym on Thursday night,
January 23, at 8 o’clock. The pro
ceeds will be used to purchase
new curtains for the stage. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend.--
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RIVERS PASS CREST
Highway and air transportation
Labor has no better friends
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Overflowing rivers brought on
by continued rains over the past' enterprises,
two weeks continued to rise at keen competition, needs to utilise
North Carolina points yesterday, j all of his resources to the best
The U. S. Weather bureau at, advantage. One important thi»
Raleigh said the Cape Fear stood ’that can be-done at this time of
at 37.3 feet at Fayetteville yes-! toe year is to take time to plan
terday. The crest was reached the entire year’s operataion. See
there Tuesday night. | that the crops planted and the
The Cape Fear was moving on livestock kept have an ^ economic
to Elizabethtown where it was ex- j advantage. See that machinery
pected to reach 29.5 feet before and equipment is in good shape
the crest expected'last night hr for use. See that fertilizer and
today. other materials are on the farm
The Neu^e wa^ rising slowly or available when needed. See
above 16.1 feet at Smithfield, that sufficient labor is on the fun,
where the crest was expected last i or available during peak
night or this morning. [ (Continued on
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accepted this plea and prayer for
judgment was continued on pay
ment of $100 damages to Roy
Chapman and the court costs.
In the last case Delmo Jacobs,
Indian, was charged with assaul
ting Stanford Jacobs with a dead
ly weapon with intent to kill him.
The jury found him guilty of as
sault with a dea'dly weapon and
he was sent to, the roads for 12
months.
In the civU term three cases
were tried, two divorces, both of
which were granted, and one
property suit.
tion at 4:00 p. m.
Farmers in the vicinity of Lu
ther Clark’s farm and Mrs. John
son’s Upchurch farm can hare
their workstock examined tud
treated where needed on Wednes^
day, January 29. Luther Clarke
at 2K)0 p. m., and Johnson’s Up- .
church farm at 4:00. Dr. V. B.
Wright will assist at all clinnics.
Farming is now a complicated
business. It involves the forcea
of nature as well as economic
principles similar to commercial
The farmer, faciag
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