’if-.
Final Drive Of
USO Goes On
Here Next Wee!
$1000 COUNTY GOAL;\
NAME COMMUNITY
COMMITTEES
Mrs. R. L. Murray, county
chairman for the final fund
drive of the USO, announced at
■■ a! meeting at the courthouse Mon
day night that the drive -would
he cpnducted in this county next
■week from Monday through Sat
urday, February 3-8, and that the
quota for the county to raise had
■f ' been set at $1000.
- Asking the public to think for
a moment of the 1,100,00 GJ’s
still in service that will be ser
ved by USO in 1947 and adding
that there are still 59,000 from
North Carolina in the service,
Mrs. Murray said, ‘This is the
final USO appeal. Let’s give gen
erously.’
Community quotas and com-
-iuttees, the first named being
^ cttairman in each case| are as
' follows: Raedeen, $25, Mrs. Er
nest Haire, Mrs. James Jones; Al
lendale, $30, Miss Willa McLauch-
' Rn, Mrs. J. S. Currie, W. L. Roper;
jf^tiocH, $60 G. C. Lytle, Ira New-
in, Mrs. W. C. Hodgin, Mrs.
frothy Burroughs; Arabia, $30,
Mrs. Ruth Bristow, Mrs. Stanley
Giaiwley, Leonard McFadyen;
Dundarrach, $40, (M. D. Yates,
Mrs. Jesse Gibson, Mrs. W. J.
McBryde; Rockfish, $30, Clarence
Koonce, J. F. McDowell, Miss Li
ly Wood, Mrs. Clifford Bostic;
Wayside, $40, John Parker, Ri
chard Neely, Mrs. Marshall New
ton, Mrs. J. L. Conoley; Blue
Springs, $40, Emmett Smith, D.
■Hv”'Y‘arfe6»sh^h, ’- F. ;i£?hisho^/
I Mrs. Hector McNeill, Mrs. B. A.
L Wright; Ashley Heights, $40 Mrs.
I D. H. Johnson, Mrs. M. C. Almond,
Mrs. Tom Sinclair, Lee Moss;
Montrose, $30, Mrs. W. L. Mc
Fadyen, Mrs. D. R. Huff, W. H.
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13 Defendants,
All Guilty, Pay
Fines Tuesday
In an all-day session last Tues
day every defendant whose ease
was tried before Judge McDiar-
mid was either found guilty or
entered a plea of guilty.
WiUiam Rowland, Francis Be
atty, Annie Guryan, John F.. Bra
dy and E. F. Kozial, all white
people passing through in sepa
rate vehicles, each paid the costs
for passing through top fast.
Alex Smith, colored of Baden,
N. C. also paid the costs . for
speeding.
Joseph White, white of Scot
land County, paid the costs for
driving with ■ improper license
plates and no driver’s license.
Early Matthews, colored sold
ier, got 60 days suspended on pay
ment of the costs and $50 for
driving drunk and 30 days sus
pended on payment of the costs
for using profane and indecent
language.
Sgt. Boyd F. Johnson, white,
paid the costs for careless and
reckless driving.
Preston Thompson, colored,
paid the costs for violating the
prohibitions laws,
Herman Moultrie, colored, paid
the costs for petty larceny, the
billfold of MdLaurin Glark hav
ing been found on him according
to . the evidence.
Cleveland ilKSDougald, colored
mOtt charged'''4R4th abandonment
and non-support, was ordered to
pay the costs and $10 a week to
his wife for the next two weeks
with further judgment reserved
until the end Of that time.
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Deceased Veteiran’s
Siirvivors Bei
Still
World War II veterans survi
vors who may qualify for social
security benefits on the deceased
veteran’s service record should
apply for benefits at once to
Calloway, J. A. Webb; Sanatorium gyQjfj jggg money, Mrs. Ruth
$75, Mrs. Grady Covington, Mrs.
J. F. Hiatt, E. B. Satterwhite, J.
L. Beall; Little River, $40, J. W.
Smith, Daniel McGill, L. D. Brooks
Mrs. Alex MdFadyen, Mrs. A.
D. McLauchlin; Pine Forest, $40,
Miss Emma Brooks Tapp, Mrs.
tSeorge Johnson; White-Tex Mills,
$50, M. T. Poovey, T. B, Lester,
Jr., Paul Long, James Thames,
Mrs. WiU Wright; White schools,
$100, K. A. McDonald, W. T.
Gibson,. Colored schools, $100 A.
S. Gaston; Raeford business dis
trict, $400. Marion Gatlin, Tom
McLauchlin, Ernest Campbell,
Clyde Upchurch, Jr., Mrs. J. N.
Gulledge, Miss Ha Graham.
Wilmer McDonald was appoin
ted county treasurer for the drive.
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G. Duffy, manager of the Fay
etteville office of the Social Se
curity Administration, warned to
day.
REV. BOGGS TO PREACH
Rev. J. A. Boggs, Bible instru
ctor at Queens college in Char
lotte, will deliver the sermon
at the regular morning worship
service at the Raeford Presby.-
terian church next Sunday.
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Mrs. P. P. McCain has Vst re
cently presented the Ashemont
school with $25.00 to be used for
the purchase of reference books
for the school library. She made
this gift in honor of Paul McCain,
Jr. and Albert Smoak, both of
whom gave their lives for their
country in the recent war.
This gift is highly appreciated
by the school and community.
Hal K. Plonk, bus driver in
structor for the State Safety Di
vision, was here recently arran
ging for a bus drivers school to
be held next week.
At the last term of court the
^rand jury called in the county
superintendent, and inquired care
fully about the condition and op
eration of the school buses. The
, Superintendent was glad to be
'^able to report them all in good
'land safe mechanical condition
with the exception of one that was
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Eligible survivors of veterans
who died after their discharge
from the armed forces and be
fore August 10, 1946, have only
until February 10 to file their
claims to receive benefits payable
back to the time of the veteran,s
death, Mrs.. Duffy said,
The 1046 veterans amendment
to the Social Security Act pro
vided monthly cash benefits for
dependents of ex-servicemen who
died or will die, within three
years after discharge, leaving
their survivors without compen
sation or pensions from the VA
Survivors of ex-servicemen who
died before enactment of te a-
mendment on August 10, 1946,
were given six . months in which
to apply for benefits payable back
to the date of the veteran’s death.
That six-month period expires
February 10. Social security ben
efits generally are payable re
troactively for a maxium period
of three months prior to the time
claim is filed.
“Applications under the vete
rans’ amendment have been far
fewer in this area and nationally
than we exifected,’ Mrs. Duffy
said. It is possible that a num
ber of eligibfe persons have fail
ed to apply for their benefits.
They should seek information at
once on their possible benefits
at the nearest social security of
fice. The Fayetteville office is
located in the Huske Building.
Benefits may be payable to
childrs^n-under 18 and the widow
Hoke Men Visit
Pennsylvania
Farm Show
OVER 500,000 ATTEND
HARRISBURG
EXHIBIT
On Monday morning, January
13, the annual Pennsylvanie State
Farm Show opened -its’ doors in
Tomorrow Last
Day For New
Allotments
Harrisburg to the hundreds of
thousands of Pennsylvanians and
visitors from other states and
nations to display to all the ac
hievements of Pennsylvania far
mers for the past year and the
promise of what’s to come in the
months ahead.
Among the more than 500,000
persons attending this naammouth
display of farming achievement
were J. L. Beall and J. W. Flan
nery of the Sanatorium. Mr Beall
is the Sanatorium farm manager
and Mr. Flannery is in charge of
the dairy herds there. They were
accompanied by Charles Graham,
dairyman and farmer of David
son county.
According to Mir. Bleall, the
show was the largest and most
complete thing of the kind he
had ever seen or- thought to see.
The entire show, which contain
ed no commercial attraction or
midway of any kind, was run
indoors an(f the building used
contained 14 acres of floor space,
all crowded with exhibits of farm
stocks and products. The affair
was an annual event from 1931
until the war and the one this
year was the first of the post
war series.
Mr. Beall said that the show
is entirely a non-profit venture
and that there is no admission
charge to any of it. When ,asked
how expenses are met he said
that there was a space of about
four acres devoted to the display
of farm implements and mach
inery and that the companies
manufacturing these items bore
the expense of the whole affair.
All applicatic^s for ‘new grow
er’ flue-cured and Burl#y to
bacco allotments must filed at
the Hoke County Agricultural
Conservation (AAA) office prior
to February 1, according to the
Hoke County A. C. A. committee.
Chairman Potter also announ
ced that February 15 has been set
as the deadline for filing reports
of conservation pracHces carried
out by Hoke County farmers in
connection With the 1946 Agri
cultural Conservation Program.
Farmers who received conser
vation materials; either lime or
phosphate, in pl^ce of cash pay
ments were particularly urged to
report their use of these materials
immediately.
^ order to clear up promptly
all details concerning the 1946
program and to avoid any pos
sible extra charges because of
failure to account for materials
Mr. Potter said that ‘extra effort
should be made to file perfor
mance reports prior to this date.’
First Pairings
Bowling Tourney
Are Announced
CLARK AND DAVIS,
KINLAW, COLLINS
AWARD PRIZES
Guard Battery To
Start Enlisting
Monday Night
this
Farm Bur^u
State Convention
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HOKE FARM BUREAU
ASKS FOR NITROGEN
The Hoke County Farm Bureau
has advised Senator William B.
Umstead of the. urgent need for
nitrogen to use on small grain.
J. M. McGougan, secretary of
the btireau in a telegram to the
Senator said that farmers of the
county have prospects for good
crops, but without nitrogen they
will be a failure.
Umstead advised McGougan
that the Department of Agricul
ture expects substantial ship
ments by February 15, and that
a scarcity of ships, along with
maritime strikes, had ' delayed
shipments. He also said that Sen
ator Hoey and Congressman Deane
were taking an interest in the
situation.
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HUNTING SEASON COMES
TO END THIS WEEK
taking care of them, to widows
65 years of age or older, or, in
some cases, to aged dependent
parents.
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FUNERAL HELD FOR
MRS HARRIS
Mrs. Lula Monroe Harris, widow
of the late W. E, Harris of Lum
ber and sister of Arthur A. Har
ris,- was buried at Lumber Brid
ge Tuesday afternoon. Funeral
services were conducted at the
Presbyterian church there by Dr.
Graham.
District Game Protector H. R.
McLean advises that the hunting
season comes to an end on Friday
of this week. The quail season
closes on Thursday. O’possum and
Coon may be hunted until Feb.
15. The fox season will remain
open until March 3rd. However,
it will be a violation to use guns
after the close of the regular sea
son on Jan. 31.
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J. M. Mo(3ougan, secretary of
the county Farm Bureau, and
A.. S. Knowles, County Agent,
will attend the annual North Car
olina Farm Bureau Convention
which will be held in Asheville
February 2, 3, |4, and 5 as dele
gates from the poke Codnty Farm
Bureau. The directors in a meet
ing last week elected these men
to represent the County unit of
the Farm Bureau.
They will serve on important
committees during the session.
They were ii^tructed to sei've
on the major crops committee and
especially the cotton committee.
Outstanding speakers are schedu
led to appear on the program
which will represent the various
interests- of agriculture.
In, an ad on the back of this
paper the Metro Bowling Alleys
announce the prizes for the
three groups in the First Invit
ational Bowling ■ tournament to.
begin next Monday. Prizes of
$20 in trade will be awarded to
the three group winners by Col
lins Department Store, C. P. Kin-
law, Jeweler, and Clark and Da
vis Sinclair station. The three
firms will also award $5 in trade
to the winners of the consolation
playoffs in the three groups.
The three groupings make it
possible for bowler of all clas
ses of ability to win prizes in the
tourney, first round games of
which will be played at the alleys
on Monday through Friday nights
of next week. A schedule of the
players on each night is given be
low. This schedule is still sub
ject to change, however, as a few
of the players had not been con
tacted late yesterday as to the
time they could bowl. Players
are not being charged for next
week’s tournament games.
First Gronp—
Monday, James Morris &’ Ja
mes Currie, Shag EpsteinAfe Bill
Upchiu-ch, Sam Morris &\jack
Campbell, Tom McBryde & 'Cecil
Teal; Tuesday, William Lentz &
Bruce Conoly, Ernest Hunt &
J. D. McKeithan, Julius Jordan
& Hilton Clark; Wednesday, Scott
Poole & Bobby Carter, Rip Gibson
& Jimmie Conoly, T. B. Lester,Jr.
& John Duncan McNeill; Thurs
day, Tom Cameron & Mitchell Ep
stein. Clyde Upchurch, Jr. &
Buck Blue, Buck McPhaul & J.
A. Niven; Friday, Luke McNeill
Authority was received
week by Paul Dickson, comman
ding officer to be of Battery'A',
677th AA AW Battalion, to enlist
the unit to strength at once and
start drilling and drawing pay.
The battery, is to have a full
strength of 132 enlisted .ren and
six officers, It is necessary to
have' 40 men on the roster before
application may be made for
Federal recognition of the unit,
which is necessary for the u.nit
to draw pay..
Dickson has, therefore, announ-:
ced that the initial and. organi
zational meeting will be in the
armory next Monday night, Feb
ruary 3, beginning at 7.30 o’
clock. All men interested in join
ing the outfit or hearing about
it are invited to be present. There
will be a doctor and clerical staff
on hand to sign up those who-are
eligible and wish to enlist.
The unit wiU be paid on the
same scale as the regular army,
after it is Federally recognized,
at the rate of one day’s pay for
each drill. This scale starts at
$2.50 per drill for a private and
goes up with each grade. For
the next few months the'National
Guard Bureau has authorized pay
ment for eight drills per month.
Whether or not more than four
a month are made will be at the
discretion of each unit, however.
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W. R. Barrington
Funeral Serv'ces
Held Yesterday
PASSES LATE MONDAY
AFTER EXTENDED
ILLNESS
Oscar Leach Speaks
To Kiwanis Club
Thursday Night
The outstanding address to be
heard by the Raeford Kiwanis
club in many months was de
livered last Thursday night by
Oscar Leach, Raleigh lawyer and
native of Hoke County. Mr. Leach,
who was acco.npanied to Raeford
by L. A. Lentz, also formerly of
& George Freeman, W. L. Poole Hoke County, was the guest of
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Poole’s Medley
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
The session of the General As-1 ting there said: “I thing I would
sembly which passed a bill creat
ing Hoke Coun^ cost $40,000.
The estimated cost the present
session $150,000.
It was said Lincoln knew two
songs - one was Yankee Doodle
and the other wasn’t.
On every farm there used to
be a small patch of tobacco grown
and cured and twisted into twists
for home use.
There were many things people
could not get, for instance cop
pers to set the dye in their threads
cloth. So w^ saved every
piece of iron to take the place
of coppers.
tie her in the branch, and tote
the shucks to her.’’
Charlotte is taking its first
backward step. It will vote on
liquor within the next weeks.
Crawford Thomas, program chair
man for the evening.
The speaker, member of a high-
■ ly reputed corporation law firm
of Raleigh, spoke to the club
informally and most informative
ly on the subject: “Portal to Por
tal Pay.’
He began with the first time
portal to portal pay was made
an issue about a decade ago, at
which time the Supreme court of
the United States decided that
coal miners should be paid for
time spent on the company pro
perty enroute to and from their
A girl was discovered in a
northern city Friday who of actual labor. He quoted
CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
TOTAL IS ANNOUNCED
Mrs. R. A. Matheson, local
chairman for the 1946 Christ
mas seal sale, announced this week
that the total raised by the sale
here was $1027.50. Mrs.'Matheson
exipressed her gratitude to all
who helped with the drive and
stated that if there were any
persons who had intended to con
tribute and had not, they could
still do so,
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ClaytoHj Bouyer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Bouyer, suffered a
fracture of the upper leg while
plaj|ing touch football Monday
afternoon. He is in the "Veteran’s
hospital at Fayetteville.
A Moore County man lived
five miles above our house. He
owned a claybank horse. He rode
in a sweeping gallop everywhere
he went
This man had twelve children
and each of them had three
names. I do not remember all the
name^ but of the oldest of the
family. John Andrew Triplet,
Stokes Benjamin Franklin, Peter
George Wlashington, Fanny Jane
Elizabeth and Mary Tabitha Cat
herine. . I
A Raeford lady received a letter
from her brother’s widow a few
days ago. She is visiting her
daughter, who lives in Los An
geles, Cal. and she stated that
her daughter had a garden about
ten feet by twelve feet in size, $2.35 to $3.75 meals in restau-
not know her own name. It is
probable that she is a North
Carolinian and her identity will
reveal who she is, and she will
find home and loved ones.
It is known that numbers of
people get away from home and
acquaintances, and are placed in
madhouses, and are never heard
from again by their kinpeople.
I used to spell fairly well, but
I find I am forgetting how to
spell some words. Once I was in
a spelling match in Raeford and
went down on a very simple
word.
If conditions d^o not improve,
the liquor problem will settle
itself. The people will be dead
Have you sat down and con
sidered the value of home, loved
ones and friends just like nearly
everyone in Raeford has.
If you, your wife, and four
children sit down to three good
meals each day, and you value
those meals as you would have
to pay for them at any eating
establishment, you will find them
amounting to a lot of money
from one dissenting opinion on.
that case which said that accor
ding to the majority opinion
a miner could come to the mine,
spend an hour getting to his place
of work, decide he wouldn’t work
that day, spend an hour getting
away from the property and the
company would owe him for two
hours work.
He also went into detail a’oout
the case that started the present
wave of portal to portal suit in
which the court ruled that wor
kers in a pottery were entitled
to three times the regular rate
of pay for time spent changing
their clothes before going to work
and otherwise preparing for it,
even though it be only two or
three minutes daily.
Mr. Leach then pointed out and
explained in detail how,, if the
pending suits for portal to portal
pay were successful against auto
mobile companies and others, all
the big business in the country
■would be bankrupted.
His talk was highly informa
tive, of great interest, and clear-
SNEAD, JORDAN GET
GUARD APPOINTMENTS
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
“Plan your work and work
your plan.’’ The first prohlem
confronting almost every farm
family at the beginning of the
year is that of planning a farm
program that will provide for the
needs of the family, feed or the
livestock, pay the farm opera-^
ting expenses, and leave a bal
ance to be applied to debts or
put aside as savings. Good plaa-
ning will save in more ways thar^
one.
I have been reading about delivered.
and that garden produces more' rants for some years. If they are MILDOUSON SCHOOL
vegetables than that family can.' worth what folks pay for them, LUNCHROOM SHOWER
consume. The ground is so rich bur home mea’s are worth more,
Urey work the plants only twice.lor the fare.better. ! The Arabia Home Demonstra-
I was, spending a night at| On Saturday night, November tion Club is sponsoring a shower
Uncle Steven Bennett’s once and ,28th, 1880, I camped with three o'f dishes, silver, glassware, pots
Make, the youngest boy, had spent friends one mile west of Laurin- and pans, and dish towels for the
the day at Pleasant’s, the oldest
son’s, and Uncle Steven asked:
“iMakie, has Pleasant shut up
his old cow yet?” Make said,
“Yes." “And does he have to
ried seven buckets^* of water to
her today.’’ Frank Bennett sit-
feed and water her?” “Yes, he car
burg. Sunday evening we drove Mildouson school lunch room. Any
to within a short distance of one who can gu’e any of the a-
Bennettsville, S.' C. We had a bove items is asked to .carry
couple of horses we wanted to them to Mrs. Ruth Bristow's
sell. We carried down about/fen home at Arabia or Josephine
bushels of apjrfbs, which we Hall’s office in Baeford anytime
sold at ten cents a dozen, about this week. Mrs. Edgar McGougan
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is the lunchroom supervisor.
Many farmers are undecided as
to the variety of tobacco to plant
this year. In order to take ad
vantage of market demands, it
is advisable to plant a variety
that yields a high percentage oi
thin, bright leaves. Any local
grown seed can be cleaned at
the County Agent’s office.
The Hoke County Board of
AgricilUuxe n-.et in the Court
House last Friday night where
they discussed ways and means
of improving the rural areas! It
was brought out that certain areas
of the county would benefit great--
ly through a drainage project.
One hundred and’ twenty 4-H'
^boys and ^rls will plant 6I|
pounds of cork oak scorns duar-
ing February. The Crown Ootk
and Seal Co. will give the aconM
to the club members. These
are evergreen and make
Funeral services were conduc
ted a: the 'home here at three .o’
clock yesterday afternoon for W.
R. Barrington, United States ccan-
misiioner and former justice:of
the peace, who died at his home
Monday night after a long illness
He was 56 years old.
The service was conducted by
Rev, W. L, Maness, pastor of the
Raeford Methodist church. Inter
ment was in the Raeford ceme
tery. Pallbearers were D. H. Hod-
gin, J. C. Wright, Dr, R. A. Math
eson, J. McK. Blue, H. R. Mc
Lean, and W. P. Baker.
Mr. Barrington was bom in
Dillon county. South Carolina, and
had lived here about 25 years.
During this time he became known,
as one of the outstanding peace
officers of the section. He was
deputy sheriff of the county, chief
of police of Raeford, Red Cross
representative or the county, jus
tice of the peace and XAiited
States commissioner.
Surviving are his wife, former
ly Miss Helen Snow, of Raeford,
three sons, Walter R., Jr., of Ft.
Pierce, Fla., Ebb and Dave of
the home; three daughters. Misses
Helen and’ Betty and Mrs. Bill
it
Upchurch, all of Raeford; and two
grandchildren.
Also surviving are six brothers,
E. C.. Emmett, and W. L. of
Washington. D. C., Leon, of Brook
lyn, N. Y., Victor and Carlyle of
Clio, S. C.; a half-brother, Eugene,
of M'ulberry, Fla.; two sisters,
Mrs. Sue Bundy ,of BennettsvUle,
S. C., and Mrs. Jack McIntyre
of Clio, S. C.
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The office of the Adjutant
General of North Carolina announ
ced the appointments last wedc
of Younger F. Snead of Raefii^
as lieutentant colonel command-
ing the 667 antiaircraft' artiUerT
automatic weapons battalion soon
to be organized in the North Ckf^
olina National Guard. The apeo*
intment of D^. Julius Jordan^
Raeford dentist, as captain, med
ical detachment, same battalion,
w’as also announced. ,
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