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VOLUME XLI NO.'40
THURSDAY, MARCH 6th, 1947.
RAEFORD, fil C.
SCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald
The Hoke' County Educo club
’ held its regular monthly meet
ing at the high school lunchroom
Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock.
Dinner was served by Mrs,
Smith, manager of the lunch
room. The club had as its guests
imembers of the various School
committees and the board of ed
ucation. The club adjourned in
time for the club members and
some of the guests to see the
^baiketball game of the Amer
ican liegionX invitation tourna
ment that waVmlayed at 7:30.
W. C. Hodginf of Antioch has
been added to tfc^ staff of in
structors of the vocational agri
cultural department of Hoke High.
He will instruct and supervise
G. I.’s who are enrolled- in the
ifarm training and iinanaglemeht
program. Mr. Hodgin is well
qualified for this work as he has
been a teacher of quite a num
ber of years e.xperience and al
so is a farmer of experience. ,
Mrs. T. I^. McLauchlin, Bible
teacher at Hoke High and Rae-
ford Graded, was out last Mon
day on account of illness. Mrs.
Francis Davis and Mrs. Earl Ro
binson were'^lso out on ISccount
of bad colds. Mrs. A. L O’Briant
and Mrs. J. S. Poole substitu
ted for Mrs. Davis ad Mrs. Ro
binson.
There was a county wide col
ored teachers meeting held at the
Upchurch school on Wednesday
afterncion. ’j;;'
County lunchrooms ^are .*?oing
to have to go on a curtailed pro
gram or raise the cost of meals.
The federal funds allocated to
North Carolina for the aid of
lunchrooms is about exhausted.
This has come about by the far
greater nu.vber of children be-
served lunches this year. State
. figures show that about 80,000
more children in the state are
being served lunches than were
last school year.
RED CROSS
The yearly roH call and
fund drive of the Red Cross
is in full swing this week.
County chakman MacDon
ald is anxious that every
worker complete his can
vass before Saturday ahd
be able to make a final re-
ort on that day.
Chairman Israel Mann,
of the Raeford division of
the drive, urges that
all business men and firms
that have not done so mail
their checks today. This
will be a big help and will,
keep Mr. Mann from hav
ing to make a personal
canvass.
Hold Service For
Daniel J. ^le
Sunday Afternoon
DIES OF HEART ATTACK
SATURDAY P. M., LAST
OF GENERATION
The Red. Cross is still
,functioniing everywhere
pur boys in uniform are
stationed. It is ready on a
minutes notice at home if
disaster strikes. It is on
the job every day here- at
home helping those who
need help; helping ex-ser
vice men and their families
with all problems; it is a
friend in need and a friend
in deed.
Give so that the work at
home and abroad will not
be curtailed.
Both County Chairman
MacDonald and Raeford
Chairman Mann request
that their helpers report
their progress at the earli
est possible minute.
Bowling Tourney To
Continue Monday
Vets Now Pay
Premiums In
Fayetteville
Almost 1000 school children,
white colored and Indian were
x-rayed at the Good Health Cli
nic held here in. the Johnson Co.
building last week. We are very
glad to announce that • very few
■of these pupils were found to
'need further attention.
Martha Harris, Joan Johnson,
Grady Covington and Elizabeth
Parker, studenu of Hoke High
wiere volunteer for the clinic.
Mrs. Roberts’ commercial clashes
did the mailing. The work that
these folks did is highly appre
ciated.
Daniel J. Blue passed away at
his residence in the Raeford Ho
tel here last Saturday afternoon
at the age of 94. He was up and
about Saturday and was in the
bai'ber shop when he suffered a
heart attack. He was taken to
his room and attended by a phy
sician but died about two hours
later at 5:00 o’clock.
' He was a bachelor and the last
member of a fai.rily of ten to
pass away. He was a native of
the. section now occupied by the
'Fort Bragg reservation and
the son of Neill Mcfcay Slue and
Mrs. Eliza Smith Blue. He lived
his whole life in this section with
the excepton of a few years spent
in Georgia. He leaves a number
of nephews and nieces in this
state anjl in Georgia.
Funeral services were conduc
ted in the Raeford Presbyterian
church Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock by Dr. Watson M. Fairley,
the pastor, a native of the other
side of the reservation. Burial
followed in the cemetery at San
dy Grove Presbyterian church on
the reservation. Pallbearers were
John McKay Blue, N. B. Blue W.
T. Walters, Charles Cameron, N.
B. Sinclair and Martin McKeithan
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APPRECIATION ^
The invitational bowling tour
nament, which was being con
ducted at' Metro Bowling Alleys
and which was suspended for
two weeks because of the two
American Legion basketball tour
naments being played, will con
tinue starting next Monday, ac-r
cording to the management.
96 bowlers initially participat
ed in the affair prizes for which
total $75 in trade at Collins De
partment Store, C. P. Kinlaw,
Jeweler, and Clark & Davis
Sinclair Station. Two rounds of
Federal hspection
For Guard Unit
Next Monday
LOCAL UNIT TO BE
IN FIRST TWO IN
, STATE
The Hoke County Journal
The newly prganized National
Guard unit here applied to the
Adjutant General of,North Car
olina last week for a Federal
Inspection for Federal Recogni
tion. The unit was notified this
RELEASE SCHOOL BASEBALL
SCHEDULE; TO PLAY 17 GAHES
Good Health Clinic
Is Success; 3126
Persons. X-rayed
FIRST GAME VS CENTRAL
HIGH SCHOOL HERE
TWENTY-FIRST
Last week one of the ';r.ost suct
cessiul .x-ray clinics ever held
With the basketball season
coiT.i.ng to a close with the end of
the A.T.erican Legion tournament
, week that the inspection would
play had almost been completed ^ jjy officer on
when the basketball tournaments^Monday at the armory here,
began last week.
by the State Sanatorium was ^
on in Hoke county by Harold, FaircloWHoke
Satterwhite, technician trom
Sanatorium. 3126 persons were , . ..u u- «
• , ^ , almost at once to the subject of
x-rayed. .According to Mr. Sat
terwhite a record was broken |
on Wednesday when over TOO per-!
.'jiS
The outfit has been designated sons went through the machine.
Battery, “A” 677 Antiaircraft Ar-. The Johnson . Com.pany is due
ced that, all quarter-final games j 3Litomatic weapons batta- a large n easure of credit for this
in bpth the three groups for the it will have a total strength | success. They furnished the fac-
of 6 officers and
main prize -and the connsolation
gi’oups must be played during
next week, as it is planned to
complete the semi-final and final
126 enlisted iUty
ren. A strength of two officers bers uf ti'.e firm and ihe ■ office
and 40 enlisted men is required staff pitched in and heiped when-
tior 'he clinic and all mem
uf ti'.e firm and
rounds the following week.
Players are to be notified eit
her personally or by mail of the
games they are to play next
week and game times will be ar
ranged. Standings in all brac
kets in both the main groups and
the consolation playoffs may be
seen posted at the alleys.
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for Federal inspection. If the unit ever there was need. Their help
TO NOMINATE UPCHURCH
TO BOARD 6F TRUSTEES
The Veterans Administration
has established an insurance col-
lections upit in tl^ip Sub-Region
al Office located at 218 Winslow
Street, Fayetteville, N. C.
The purpose of this unit is to
accept premiums on both Nation
al Service Life Insurance and
United States Government Life
Insurance. A receipt will be is
sued at the time the premiums
are paid.
Only those premiums paid in
person will be accepted by this
office. Those veterans who wish
to pay premiums by mail will
continue to' send their premiums
to the Veterans Administration,
Branch Office No. 4, Richmond,
Va.
When making your first pre
mium payment to this unit you
are urged to bring certificate or
certificate number .and yo^ ser-
'.•ice serial number '^/j^iKnyou.
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J. E. Gulledge, chairman of the
Hoke County Salvation Army
committe which has just complet
ed a drive for, funds, has asked
The News-Journal to express
the appreciation of himself and
the committee to all who contri
buted during the campaign. The
response was generous, he said.
The State College Alumni as
sociation is planning to include
the name of Tomimie Upchurch
of Raeford on a list of men it
plans to get nominated for seats
on th^'^Board of Trustees of the
Greater University of North Car
olina.
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Alumni of the Raftigh branch
of the Greater University are at
present in the minority on the
board and it is the intention of
he State, college alumni to try to
get this equalized.
Poole’s Medley
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BY D. SCOTT POOLE
The House of Representatives
said by a big majority last week,
that strikers did not show by
their acts that they wex’e doing
lands witliout permission from
the owner for road building. The
other is allowing 35 feet of right-
of-way from the center of the
it in the interest of all classes highway.
DR. HOWARD A. BAUCOM
OPENS OFFICE IN
GOLDSBORO
Mrs. H. A. Cameron, president
of the local Garden Club, spoke
briefly to the student body Wed
nesday morning concerning a birdj
sanctuary that the Club was spon
soring. Mrs. Cameron also presen
ted a prize to Elizabeth Suddreth
who won first place in a bird es
say contest held recently in the
high school.
Miss Mayme McKeithan and!
her sociology class visited ■ Ral
eigh yesterday. They went es*-,
pecially to see the Legislature I
in session. Mrs.. W. T; Gibson j
and Mrs. J. L Conoly went as
chaperones.
The me.rbers of the band, un
der the dircctioif of Mr. Melvin,
have^ been playing for the pall
games recently. Band music al-!
Di-. Howard A. Baucom, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Baucom,
has opened offices in Goldsboro
for the practice of his profession.
He was honorably' discharged
from the Navy some months ago.
Dr. Baucom is a graduate of
Hoke Coukty High School and
took his pr^Optometric training
at Davidson Gollege, followed by
a 4-year course at Pennsylvania
State College of Opta;Tietry where
he graduated. He is a member
of Sigma Phi Epilson fraternity
and was elected a member of the
Omega Delta professional Opto-
rnetric society
Dr. Baucom had extensive'
training, in the field of Orthoptics
and visual training while ser
ving as an interne at the Penn
sylvania State. College of-Opto
metry Clinics in Philadelphia.
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and conditions of men.
The price of hogs soared to 30
cents in Chicago last Saturday.
Nor are they doing this for the
good of humahity.
When coal miners strike they
shut off fuel supplies for._ju-num-
ber of industries, and j men not
striking are forced into idleness.
Another big item, so great cost
forced on the country at large
because they cannot carry on
without business is carried on by
power created by coal. And
homes are not heated in very
cold weather, so people suffer,
besides,, losses in other business.
Life insurance companies show
us that two or three percent of
the population, those insured,
live beyond 109 years of age.
' The United States will fur
nish Germany nearly half mil
lion dollars under Lend-Lease
arrangement. Gertmany is in a
hard way.
One year toward the close of
the 17th century was so cold
that but few crops were produced.
I am not sure, but I think it was
in 1685.
This has been a cold winter,
Harry K. Thaw died last week.
We haven’t heard of the escapades
of that simpleton since he was
courting all pretty girls. He was
76.
When Harry was 17 his father,
a rich railroad man, allowed
him $72,000 a year.- After his
father died Harry innherited Jov-
ty million.
People have learned better sen
se about riches. The man who can
supply his fariiily jieeds, educate
his children is rich enough.
passes the inspection it will be
formally recognized and activated
as a part' of the National Guards
of the United States and of North
Carolina.
The Raeford unit, together with
an infantry company in Shelby,
was the first in the state to ap
ply for Federal inspection. If it
passes the inspection it will be
in a tie vvith the Shelby company
for being the first postwar Na
tional Guard outfit to be organ
ized in the State, upholding a long
tradition for outstanding National
Guard performance in this lo
cality.
While all the men necessary for
the Federal Inspection have been
enlisted, men who desire to be
original members of the new out
fit at its recognition are still be-
ihg enlisted by the battery com
mander. Veterans of World War.
II n-ray enlist in' the grade in
which they were discharged ffrom
the army at the cammanding of
ficer’s discretion and up to the
!] alloted strength of non commis-
sj sioned officers for the battery.
Pay or the units begins on the
date of Federal Recognition.
is greatly appreciated.
Hoke County T. B."committee ren-
Hoke County T. . committee ren
dered a splendid service by se
baseball.
Wit.o the ni:,e 'riigh cinder oiock
wa!i C'.’y Dieted around Armory
Park it is to be expected that out
door high sohool athletics will
prove somev.'hat more profitable
than they ha'se oeer. in the past
and With basebai! talk getting in
the air it m.ay be assu.med that
spring is just around the corner.
The first game of the High
school season -will be played on
the I'ocal field just two .weeks
-from homorrow. The opposing
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curing the aid ot Mrs. .A. L. O’-
^riant, Mrs. H. .A. Cair.eron,
h. J. L. McNeill, Mrs. R. B.
Lewis, Mrs. R. L. Murray, Mrs.
Herbert McKeithan, Mrs. Harry-ances here.
Greene, Mrs. Clyde Upchurch,
Jr., Mrs. .A. D. Gore Mrs. W. L.
Maness, Mrs. Younger Snead,
Mrs. Marcus Smith, Mrs. Clyde
lUpdhurch, Sr. and Miss Floift
Boyce. The above ladies took it
one half day at a time’and as
sisted the regular w'oikers' by
keeping the people in line, hav
ing thenr prepared,, etc. This was
a service that contributed ma
terially to the success of the cli
nic.
tea.m '.vill be Central High School
of Cum.berland County, whose
basketball team pro'ved to ^ be
quite formidable in their appear-
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Officers of the battery are
Paul Dickson, Sam Morris and
Ralph Plummer, captain, first
lieutenant and second lieutenant,
respectively. Enlisted men up to
and including yesterday are Gra
ham Clark, Jack Pope, Williatm'
Lentz, Clarence Willis, John T.
Walters, Ebb Barrington, Carlton
Niven. Berder Niven, Jesse Gul
ledge, Carlyle Brown, ' Carson
Davis, Eugene Currie, Walter . BorrOWCrS
Me.-r.bers of the squad are al
ready selling season tickets to
the home games. The complete
schedule is as follows:
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
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Mrs. W.
A County-wide rat control «sun-
GibdoL and Miss ^ conducted ^
Retha HoweL of the Health De
partment were fulf* time work
ers who were invaluable. Ot
her members of the Health De
partment staff helpe^ as timie
would permit.
The county health authorities
wish to sincerely thanjt’^lall those
who had a part in \his under
taking whether they were men
tioned by name or not. The final
day of the clinic will be Friday,
March 7, at the community
church building at White-Tex
Mills. Anyone who missed get
ting to the downtown clinic is
urged to go to the church and have
the x-ray made.
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Tax Exemption
Announced For
Income and other special taxes
taken as a whole. Maybe we will prevent great fortunes to accu-
gain by 'death of bugs and worms mulate. Ours is called a capita
ways adds a welramd atmos
phere to the games.
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GRADED SCHOOL NEWS
HOKE FHA BORROWERS
ATTEND MEETING
which
year.
ate up our gardens last
By ,the Students
Benny Robinson from Miss Mc-j
Lean’s first, grade spent Monday
in Raleigh.
Kermit Wood from Mrs. Rob
erts’ fourth grade is back in
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school after being out with mea-
sels.
Having perfect attendance in
gra'.nmar schopl the past month:
Mrs. Hartsell’s first grade, 8;
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The annual meetings of the
FHA Farm boirrowers for Hoke
County were held February 20
and 21, 1947. two 'meetings
got under way when Mrs. Mar
ion A. Dosher, Associate KHA
Supervisor, introduced all fam
ilies present, after which Curtis
E. Callihan, FHA Supervisor,
outlined the purpose of the meet
ing. The morning sessions were
devoted to group discussions of
the past year’s operations, lad by
Mr. Callihan.
I saw field peas advertised
Monday at $6,75 a bushel. There
were next to no peas grown in
this section last year.
kinds of crime
%orld is rotten.
We read of lots of crashes of'
airships, collisions of motor, ve
hicles, and wrecks of trains. And
listic country, and all manner
of evil is spoken against ttie coun
try, and it is evi, but it does more
in charity giving than the ba
lance of the world counted’’ to
gether.
They talk of r^ealing the
sales J tax. If -they do that fifteen
million dollars will not help the
school funds, -and it will be con-
of robberies and thefts and all fiscated.
comitted. The
j If something - is not done to
I stop this rise in the cost of liv-
the.ing, breadlines may be expected
Twenty five years ago
state of North Carolina was in]and the reopening of relief work,
the midst of a roadbuilding pro- j All opponents of the Closed Shop
gram. Two laws, or parts of laws
should^ be repealed. One the get
ting of material from adjoining
Bill, passed by the house last
week, spoke of the friendly re-
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Parks, Kenneth Fields, James
Wilkes, Hobb Thames, Alfred
Barefoot, Chester Wade, Richard
Mauldin, Everitt McNeill, William
Poole, Wilbert Stanton, June
Wright, Clarence M. Ray, James
West, Howard E. Bullard, Lewis
Lindsay, Walter Webb, Martin
Webb, t Hoover Stubbs, James
Mort-is, James Currie, Charlton
Campbell, Boyd Walters, Doug
las McMillan, John D. McMillan,
Wade Hendrix, A. J. Freeman,
James D. Stephens, Ollie Taylor.
John W, Culbreth, and Willis K.
Gillis.
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day, March 23 by the Extension
Service in cooperation with U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and
all other Agricultural ■ Agencies
in the county.. The bait used wiU
contain Red S'Duill which is not
poison to doniestic animals, but
is very effective for controlling
Winston-Salem, March 4.—The
four percent gratuity payments
made by Veterans Administration
to the credit of veteran-borrowerS
under terms of G. 1. Bill loan
provisions are ej^empt from Fed
eral income tax, the Veterans
Administration Regional Office
announced today.
In addition, all interest paid
on loans guaranteed or insured
under the amended law may be
listed as deduction by the vete
ran, regardless of whether or not
rats." Each three pound package
of bait will cost only $1.00 and is
enough to control rats on. the av
erage size farm. For larger than
average farms, it may be neces
sary to use two or more packages.
Orders for the bait must be made
at the County Agent’s Office by
Saturday, March 15. Only bait
ordered will be made up on the
day of the campaign. J. L. War
ner. Joe Lovette, and others re
ported good control last Fall dur
ing the campaign held in Raeford
and McLauchlin townships. Re-
■.rember that rats destroy approx
imately $200,00 in feed and pro
perty value each year. All far
mers should cooperate by put
ting out bait at the same time,
because rats travel from farm
to farm in search of food. Let’s
rid the farm of rats!
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The Freezer Locker plant should
be ready to open by March 15
for .business. The last job is un
der way. They will be prepared
to cure pork, store beef, aryi
meats, fruits, and vegetables in
part of the, interest actually was| loci!.ers. Only a few
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ALMOST HOLIDAY
unrented. Far-
Tuesday was almost a hoi
iday for the personnel of the
Hoke county recorder’s court
as far as cases to be tried
were concemed. Only four
defendants faced Judge Mc-
Diarmid and three of these
submitted. Two other bonds
were forfieted for non-ap
pearance.
paid with the gratuity. VA said.
The VA statement was issued who do not have one rent
following receipt of a formal
ruling on the subject requested, one . should rent a loo
by VA’s Central Office from the
Jack Weiss, transient, was
charged with passing on a hill
and Ernest Mayo, Frank O’
Connell and Nathan Fein, al
so transients, were charged
with speeding. Two ei them
paid the costs and the other
two forfieted $20 bonds.
James Long, white, paid
the costs for, using mrofane
and indece’nt language.
Morris 'Tyler, Indian, was
found guilty of non-support.
Judgment was withheld for
two weeks.
commissioner of internal revenue.
The original G. I. Bill (Ser
vicemen’s Readjustment Act)
provided for payment by VA the
first year’s interest on the guar-
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ker before they are rented.
Tobacco farmers should be on
guard against blue mold. A sup
ply of fermate should be obtain
ed at pce and ready to be spray
ed on ^en the plants are about
the size of a dime or when blue
mold makes its appearance a-
long the N. C. and S. C. border.
The spray must be applied ,|
If rain washes
AMERICAN LEGION PLAN
SUPPER TUESDAY NIGHT
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J. ,H. Blue, commander of the
Hoke County Elis Williamson!twice each week. .
Post number 20 of the American [off spray soon after applying; gt,
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Legion, announced this week that repeat application should be put
the post would hold its regular,on immediately. . ,
monthly meeting at the armory —
The Tobacco Associate, IoCm! an
this month. Blue said that the
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meeting would be at the armory,
next Tuesday night and thaH , . . . u
,, , J rr of tobacco, has been set up by tiM.
would oe served. He ex-'
'Organization to promote export
super
plained that the meeting was be-
i various tobacco interests. liok«
ing helcf on Tuesday night in-»
County will share in its
stead of Monday due to the fact
tion. At a meeting of the
that the armory was being u$ed
by Battery A of the National
Guard on Monday night.
of -Agriculture, which
both Farm Bureau and
(Contirtned