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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME 10.1 NO. 37
THURSDAY, FEBRUAky 13th, 1947
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SCHOOL NEWS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.