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'’-'..■“.ysry £^\‘'>,i^'^-’* ■ 1 *--■• '•i-■■-■'•'■' '>•■'• .•j-4c ' ■-■•■-‘'■^“^'i’S??''’''- •'"■ ■‘b^' -■ g^ vV-v ^ • .'i* '-C -— '^-■'1' :l^^ V / ,j »_ -^ .v I| ■ i^,-. ^•‘ *. ” ■•■.7« ’.- , .VI. .J. •.^f'-'- 'c' '’-• ' > --■- : A -,r ■ T^V V .- I . ., ,. , ■ ' ^■■- . ■'- ■ , ' “ -•_, News - Joiirhal VOICE Of rucpoM OMUNAJI otimnt ySffjK The M«^e County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME 10.1 NO. 37 THURSDAY, FEBRUAky 13th, 1947 RAEFORD, N. C. S2.00 FEB YEAB % ^ ■ ! r: Ih 4 & 1^ l SCHOOL NEWS { By K. A. MacDonald Hal K. Plonk; bus driver train er for the State Highyvay Safety Division, was here on Tuesday. He certified 8 white drivers. He will return on or about the 25th to test and certify colored driv ers. While here Mr. Plonk showed a safety film, “Guilty,” to all the drivers and prospective drivers at Hoke High. Patrolman Barnes attended the showing and made a short safety talk to the drivers as d,id County Superintendent MacDonald. The heat at Raeford Graded school has been improved thanks to the help of Lewis Upchurch. New shipments of books have been received this week by the Ashemont and Rockfish schools. The following is a report of the schools participating in the Christmas Seal sale and the a- iir.ounts raised by eadh school: iliillys Chapel $2.47, Peachmont $2.00, Buffalo $4.00, Friendship $4.00, White Oak $6.00, McFar land $2.00, Laurel ’Hill $6.00, Edinburgh $2.00, Millside $4.00, Rockfish $4.00, Bridges Grove $5.00, Burlington $10.00, Free dom $9.00, Piney Bay $3.00, New Hope $4.00, Shady Grove $4.00, Timberland $4.00, Upchurch $25.- 00, Calvin Martin $2.00. Fryoar Mission $4-00, Bowmore $10.09, Aattoch Ittdian $4.00, MacedolUa Indian $2.00. The county's part of this mon ey is being used to pay for an additional nurse in the Health de partment that enables the healt^ department to do a great depi rpit»i«, woTkAiMip^,,the. Op' February 25th all wlhite high school students will be given a tree .Kray examination. On Feb ruary 26th all colored high school students will be xrayed. Road Offmders Top Docket Tuesday Morning SOME PAY FOR CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPON^, SPEEDING, ASSAULT Most of the cases on docket for Tuesday morning’s session of Hoke county recorder’s court were for violation of the road laws. All of these were fined by Judge McDiarmid in a short session. William G. Strickland, Gerald J. Ellman, George N. Leary, Wal ter E. Young, Abraham Birn- baun, Walter K. Colona, Jr., all out-of -town white men charged with speeding, plead guilty by either paying the costs or for feiting bond. Lena Belle McPhaul, colored, paid the costs for assault on Cora Belle Purcell, and Purcell Mc- 'Phaul also paid the costs for as sault on Lena Belle McPhaul. "Virgil Taylor, colored, paid, $50 and the costs for driving without a drivers license and carrying a concealed weapon. Alex Graham, colored, of South Carolina, fortfeited his bond of $75 on charges of carrying a con cealed weapon. John E. Burke, colored, paid the costs for beinp drunk and disorderly. .1 • •-= W. N. GiImm Dies In Rm Springs ' WilUam Nathan Gibson. 71, of Red Springs, died at his home Friday nii^t after an illness of two and a ihalf weeks. He had ip; declining^palth for sev- Everyone should read the last issue of Hoke High Lights. It is excellent. ‘rhe local post of the American Legion has presented Hoke High with a plaque on which the names pf the winners of the Le gion Citizenship award will be engraved from year to year. We appreciate the interest the Legion is showing in the school and all it is doing for it. Dr. R. L. Murray addressed the students in assembly at Hoke High last week on Good Health. Dr. Murray’s address was a part of the “Good Health Week” cele bration. All schools in the coun ty are working on the Good Health program. graded school news By the Students Mrs. Robinson’s third grade har an Eskimo sand table. They invited Mrs. Hardister’s second and third grades in to see it. Lillian Scarborough and Julia Morris told them about it. They also invited Mr. Gibson to see (t, and Gloria Bowen "explained it to him. H'^rs. McFadyen’s seventh grade ..de'.:ted officers several days ago. iTh y are as follows: I^esident, Eai 1 Conoly; vice president, Tom- Clark; secretary, Jerome ;Pi( i'der; treasurer, Charles Ses- sors. I'lrs. Roberts’ room is having a good time readiny and writing let ter . Jimmy Hampton’s classmates ill Beltsville, Maryland, ' have wr ' ten letters which were en- jov*'l very much. Mrs, Swan- so: the former Miss Axis Shank- le, 'xs asked us to write her pu pil. in Eatonville; Washington. 0 M CURRIE IMPROVING 1 s. J. W. Currie, who under- wr ' an operation at Memorial he tal in Charlotte last Friday, is proving. She was taken to 01 'otte two weeks ago for treat- mi f" and will remain there for 'so.' ! time yet. fei^r’^'clars. FuneAfTsCrv^ices were held at Trinity Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, conducted by his pastor, the Rev. Allen C. Lee. Interment was in Alloway cemetery. For sii^ years he has been judge of Red Springs recorder’s court and served in this capacity un til his last illness. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maude Marsh Gibson; two daugh ters, Mrs. Warren McNeill and Mrs. Sam Snead; two sons, Gor don and W. N. McNeill, Jr., and five grandchildren of Red Springs. CARD TOURNAMENT FRIDAY NIGHT The annual Valentine card tour nament, sponsored by the Parent- Teachers Association, will be held Friday night, February^ 14, at 8 o'clock in the high school gym nasium. The public is cordially invited to attend. There will be a prize for the winner of each table do nated by the business houses of Raeford. Players must bring their own cards. Teen-Age Group All children from fourth grade up are invited to attend if they come prepared to play, some card game. Especially is the teen-age group urged to attend as there will be no meeting of the teen age group JYiday night. National Guard To Meet Next Monday Battery “A” of the 677th A W Bn, which held its first meeting in the armory here two weeks ago, will have its, second meet ing there next Monday night, February 17, at 7:30 o’clock. The meeting will be for the purpose of completing the rec ords of some of the men and for making plans for the first Fed eral inspection of the unit, ex pected to be held the first or second week in March. After this Federal inspection IB. Speaks (ki Cotton To Kiwanians 3,500,00 QALES TO BE SHIPPED ABROAD IN 1947 Last Thursday evening the Raeford Kiwanis club heard Tom mie Upchurch speak on the sub ject “Cotton Is Still Not Down and Out.. ’ Mr. Upchurch " has just returned from a meeting of the organization will be an ac-'the Cotton Council held in Dal- tive unit in the National Guard. I las,Texas. > Drill pay begins on the night of; The club was told the first Federal inspection. State Wage-Hour Program Proposed In N. C. Senate that the AGRICULTURAL WORKERS NOT AFFECTED BY PROPOSAL A minimum-wage, maximum^ 'hour labor bill was introduced MEET EXAMINING BOARD Lt. Col. Y. F. Snead, Major T. B. Lester, Jr., Captains Paul Dickson and Julius Jordan, 1st Lt. Sam Morris, and 2nd Lt. Ralph Plummer, all officers of the new National,Guard, went to Raleigh Monday wherp they were examined for these positions. NORTH CAROLINA'S number 1 NEED good health 'Check-up on your Health! Visit the Hoke County Xray clinic. Place—The Johnson Company Building, Raeford. Hours—9:00 A. M. to 5 P. M. Time—Tuesday, Wednesday; Thursday, Friday and Satur day, February 25 through March 1. ^ No. waiting; No undressing; 30 seconds per picture. FREE! FREE TO EVERYONE. yesterday in the North Carolina Senate. . |i It would provide minimum wages of 40 cents an hour and a 40-hour •> work week within six days. Tiftie and a half wages would be paid for overtime work. Women could not be employed more than nine hours a day or more than 48 hours a week or more than six days a week. The State now has no minimum wages law, but it has maximum hours for men and women in various occupations They are 48 hours! for women , and minors and 561 for men. j Persons employed in establish ments sutjject to provisions of the Federal fair labor standards i act of IQSS as amended would not be affected, nor would ,-persons with a guaranteed weekly salary of $50 or more persons engaged in agriculture, domestic service or fishing, persons employed in an establishment e.rploying no more than four persons at any one time, or outside salesmen as may be defined by the commis sioner of labor^ A six-member advisory board would be appointed by the Gov ernor, with the advice of the labor commissibner, for stagger ed terms. Two would represent employers, two employees and two the general public. Hearings, announced in newspapers of state wide circulation would be held on applications to pay less mon ey to learners, apprentices and individuals whose earning capac ity' is impaired physically or men tally, and to seasonal workers. Overtime would not necessarily have to be paid employes of com mon carriers whose hours and or wages are regulated by other gov ernmental, agencies; or to persons employed in extraor.dinary emer gencies such as storms, floods and epidemics. ^ Detailed records would be kept by employers for at least three years. Fines of from $150 to $50 or imprisonment up to 30 days could be imposed for each viola tion. Each day of the violation would constitute a separate vio lation. If violations were inten tional, the employe would re ceive double the amount owed him, and if unintentional he could collect only the actual amount. The act’s minimum wages and maximum hours section would be effective October i, 1947, and the remaining sections on July 1, 1947. e Council has high hopes for cot ton for the next two or three years as arrangements have been made to ship 3,500,00 bales a- broad this year and that domes tic users were talking about 900,- 000 bales per n'onth at present with no immediate, sign of a let up. The club was also told of Fed eral legislation that is providing .roney for research that will aid cotton farmers. At the same time there is privately financed research and advertising that will help the cotton situation. 1 E club enjoyed and benefited froB this most enjoyable talk. 0 MR POOLE SICK Mr. D. Scott Poole was con fined to his home the first of the week suffering from a kidney in fection. He ■ is much improved now. Kiwanians .Sponsor Basketball Games The Raeford Kiwanis club sponsored the basketball games between Hoke High teams and Roseboro Tuesday night in the local gymnasium. The boys won 23-21 and the girls were defeat ed 23-18. The Kiwanis club will also sponsor the games between the Hoke High team and Fairmont to be played next Tuesday night at the high school gymnasium here beginning at 8:00 p. m. This is being done in the in terests of the Boy Scouts and all gate receipts over the season av erage will go to the Scout fund. Hoke High lost in Fairmont and they plan to get revenge in this last home game of the sea son. 0 UCC MAN TO SEE VETS A representative of the North Carolina Unemployment Compen sation Commission, handling the farm claims for Hoke County, will be at the county office buil ding, Friday afternoon from 4 to 5 o’clock. Only self-employed veterans seeking information on filing self-employed farm claims under the Readjustment Act of 1944 need apply. Veterans taking on- the-job training are not eligible to file claims and need not come, Veterans cannot file claims with out first seeing the representa tive so it is urgent that all vet' erans desiring to file claims be there. I Poole’s Medley BY D. SCOTT FOOLE DR. HIATT BECOMES MASTER MASON The South did not have so many railroads before the Civil War and for a number of years afterward. The first new railroad built in this section was the Ral eigh and Augusta Airline RR in the 1870’s. People rejoiced when the railroad came. A. F. Page built a train road to haul logs in his mill at Blu6!s Crossing on the Raleigh and Augusta Airline in the 1880’s. 1886 he put iron track and a bet ter locomotive. The manufactur ers of rosin and spirits of turpen- tne hauled ther products to the terminal point of that railroad a mile west of the present Pine- hurst in quantities. Mr. Page extended his railroad from Endon to West End in 1888. One year’s rest, and he began to build going west. By 1890 the road was completed to Candor. The Lemmond’s Old Field, and that was the end of theroad for six ! to trust one another. The one is of God, and other of men. In the 1807’s M. G. McKenzie let the people sign or refuse to sign a petition to change the Moore-Montgomery line from a point just about north of Candor and run nearly west to a point in the county pine road near Mc Gill’s church. But the movement failed action at all. years. In 1895 Biscoe had its begin- ing. Work next begun on a road to Troy, the county seat of Mont gomery, and the road’ reached Troy in 1896. ' The Montgomery County court house was burned at Lawrence- ville in 1895, or about that date. Anyhow, Judge C. C. Wade told me Troy was 80 years old in 1895 and there were only 155 popula tion. There were t^o small frame churches; a Methodist and a Baptist. In the greater part the houses looked 80 years old, ex cept two or three homes built more recently. Fire destroyed the court house in Troy in the early 1880’s and the county com missioners rebuilt another' just like the one burned, a two-story frame building, court room on the second floor, and four rooms with cross 'halls with rooms for the county officers. Clerk of the Court, sheri,flf and Register of Deeds, and a commissioners room I Troy, Carthage and Rocking ham all had frame court houses in the middle of a square two- acre plot of ground ip the center of the town. The;^ have every one been moved, built of brick, and part of the land sold off in lots for business houses. Last week I mentioned my trip through Laurinburg, and the fact that about half of the business section of the town burned the morning we came near the town, the Saturday before the 1st Mon day in December, 1880. At the last special communica tion of tV;e Raeford Masonic Lodge Dr. J. S. Hiatt, of the Sanator- In the Saturday Evening Post ium staff, was raised to a Mas- of February ls,t.l947, you will ter Mason. The degree work find an editorial setting forth the was presided over by T. D. Pot-, .-jme idea I have been,giving ex- ter and Edwin ,F. Smith. A num- pression to occasionaffly or several ber of Masons from the Sanator-j y^ars, that Communists cannot ium community and from the believe in or trust each otj;ier. Aberdeen Lodge were present for the occasion, and participated in the work. It also should be known and accepted as the truth, that only the Christian faith enables men It is said that syndicates are soulless. They have no mercy. The citizens 9f a certainVity„ put all the money they had earned and saved into railroads, and by pru dent imanagement and diligence they had eight million dollars accumulated, and were prosper- pering. Later the stockholders wanted to connect their roads with the seaboard city nearest, which was wise and should have given them decided advantages they had not had, so they mortgaged their 8 millions, unincomibered ^therto, and built eighty miles of road to the. seacoast. About the time they had fin ished building that road, the pa nic came. I saw but little dif ference between 1873 and 1894-5- and 1903. So two larger cor porations forced the sale .of that railroad property for the debt of not more than one-third of its value. The last war, mixed the peoples of Europe and being hard pushed to, feed and clothe their own people, the different governments ! are desirous of being rid of the I strangers in their midst. And, I those people, in a strange land, fear to return to their homeland , because ’■ of th'*-'- Communistic ' enemies, they fear for their lives. LUMBEE RIVER REA COOP. DECIDES TO BUILD AND STAY Funeral Services For J. D. Matheson Tomorrow P. M. DIES YESTERDAV from BURNS SUFFERED FEBRUARY 2 To Construct $40,000 Warehouse And Office Here -trea James Daniel Matheson of Rae ford. who was severely burned in Kinston on Sunday, February 2nd, passed away last night at Vet eran’s hospital in Fayetteville. His condition had been extreme ly critical since Sunday night. He was the youngest son of the late Robert Arthur Matheson and Daisy Deane Matheson of Hoke county and was 35 years of age. He was a graduate of Hoke County High School and the Uni versity of North Carolina school of phairmacy. Funeral services will be con ducted from the home of Mrs. Hector McNeill Friday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. by Rev. W. L. Man- ess, pastor of the Raeford Metho dist church and interment will be in the Raeford cemetery. Surviving are three brothers, Dr. Robert A. Matheson of Rae ford, Dr. J. Gaddie Matheson of Ahoskie and Randall Matheson of Stuart, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. Hector McNeill, Mrs. Jim Warn er, and Mrs. Dallas Daley, all of Hoke coLT-ty. D. J. Dalton, secretary- urer, project superintendent, general manager of . the Lu: River Electric Membership operative, announced yest that the Board of Directors of Cboperative .had authorized Office Building Committee to proceed with plans 'or locating a lot in the town of Raeford for an office building to cost from 40 to 50 thousand dollars. le Reduction In U. S. Army Rlanned Washington, Feb. 12.—War de partment plans for a reduction of almost 200,000 in the size of the regular armjy and establish ment of an “M-day” force of 1,750,000 trained troops were dis closed today by m’embers of the house armed services committee. The plan depends on a univer sal training program to build up the national guard and the or ganized reserves, committee mem bers said, so that within one year from “M-day’ the force could be expanded to 5,500,000 men. Just how quickly the reduction in the regular army will be ef fected, they said, depends large ly on international developments. But they pointed out that Presi dent Truman’s budget message to congress contemplates maintain ing a standing army of 1,070,000 during the year beginning July 1. The entire mobilization -day setup, committee members said, is based on a three-point legis lative program including univer sal training, merger of the armed forces, and coordinated scientific research and* development. Details were divulged follow ing a meeting at the Pentagon yesterday attended by most mem bers of the committee, Secretciry of War Patterson, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and other top army officials. The 1,750,000 “M-day” force would include 87l5,000i regulars, 689,000 natio^nal guardsmen and 105,000 organized' reserves, all ready to take the field on short notice. The rest of the 5,500,000 men expected to Ise on duty 12 months later would be draftees and former servicemen recalled to duty. Without universal military training, committeemen said, the army does not believe it can raise such a force. The army universal training plan pirovides six months of basic training for peacetime draftees, followed by further training in the national guard and reserve components. 9 Dalton also said that fne board at their meeting Tuesday execu ted a contract for 221 miles of new. lines. The board also ap proved and submitted to the Federal REA an additional loan for serving some 830 consumers, at a price of $457,000. The board also approved plans and specifications for 126 miles of new “B” project Lines in cen tral Robeson county which are expected to be under contract within the next 60 to 90 days. 9 RED CROSS SCHEDULE Mrs. W. R. Barrington, home. service secretary of the Red Cross here, wishes to announce that she will ’oe in the Red Gross office on Monday, Wed nesday and Friday afternoons, of each week, to dispense with bu siness. If. howev'er. anyone need* her at any other time she CM| be reached by dialing- 5371. FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles “Better Balance in 1944” should be our slogan. Better balance with crops and livestock is more • important now than ever. It is too risky to go all out in either crops or livestock. 1947 should find every farm making plans : and taking steps toward balan cing the farm program. POSTMASTER ILL A pasture and forage meeting will be held at the courthouse Thursday, February 13, at) 7:30 P. M. R. L. Lovvorn, proiessor of,agronomy at State college, will discuss the importance and pro-. cedure in establishing a perma nent and temporary pasture. A pasture tour will be held oa Friday afternoon, February 12th. The groL;p -^vill leave the county agertfs office at 1:15 p. m. They will visit T. B. Upchurch’s farm at 1:30; Z. V. Pate’s farm at Dun- darrach at 2:00; M. L. Maxwell’s farm at 2:40; David Lile’s farm at 3:15; J. R. Hendrix’s farm at 4:00; and the State Sanatorium farm at 4^46. Both permanent and tempor ary pastures will be inspecM and discussed. A ditch by use of dynamite will be seen at .the Maxwell farm. 4-H club meetings will Tae held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. Club mem bers will receive 60 pounds oi cork oak acrons to plant around the yard and farm. Farmers who have zK>t filed their 1946 conservation practicen with Triple-A should do so bf noon, Saturday,.February 15th. Lacy Clark, Raeford postmaster, was taken to Moore County hos- ’ pital Saturday suffe.ring from pneumonia. While he has shown some improve .rent in the last 24 hours his condition is still con sidered critical. Soil samples should be seat ti N. C. Department of Agricultum to find out the amount di limn, needed and best fertilizer recom mendation. Cartons are available at the county agent's office. Use one to two tons of lime per acre where permanent pa*- ture is to be planted. Use 400 te 600 pounds of an 0-12-12 fbikl* ! lizer per acre. Prepare land al ' once. Make a good, firm seed bed before planting pasture mte- ture.
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