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P^>- v -^-^i^- ' t. VOICE or fOEIDOM HOMCJ (MJMMAN OnUCRTY isrtint rww i t&4«EC The Hoke County News VOLUME XLI NO. 44 SCHOOL NEWS k. A. MacDonald Mrs. Ruria Shelton and Mrs. Francis Davis of the Raeford Gra ded school faculty represented the Hoke County Unit of NCEA at the Delegate Assembly held in Asheville last Thii^rsday and Friday. They report snow and ice on the outside and a hot time on the inside. The Esso Travelogue “North Carolina’’ in technicolor, will be shown at the Raeford Graded .school on Friday, April 4, at 9:45 a. m. The public is invited to see this picture. The same picture will be shown at the Rockfish school at 10:45 a. m. the sa#ne day. The public is also invited to the Rockfish school to see the picture. Tonight at 8:15 the Hoke High Rand and glee club will give a concert of Easter music in the high school auditorium; The con cert is under the direction of Mr. W. O. Melvin director both of the band and glee club. The public is cordially invited. Be sure to go. It’s free. The Laurel Hill school is hav ing a popularity contest tonight at 7:30 o’clock. The proceeds will go to the lunchroom. The patrons of the school are especially in vited to attend. years of Mildouson Committee Changes So.retime. ago, ’’after many service, the jwildouson school committee resigned. The committee was comosed of N. A. Mclnnis, chairman, J. L. McFadyen and Frank McGregor. Messers. Mc lnnis and McFadyen were among the oldest school board members, in point' of service in the county. Both had served the Mildouson school'as committeemen since the early 20’s. Mr. McGregor was a more recent appointee. The Board of Education hestitated a long time before accepting the resig nations. They were finally ac cepted because it was felt that these were deserved to.be reliev ed after having served so long and so faithfully. It was with a great deal of regret that this de cision was reached. The writer wishes to express publicly his appreciation for the great help given him. in the op eration of the school. It has been a pleasure' working with these gentlemen for the benefit of the children of the Mildouson district. •’ After accepting these resigna tions, th^ Board of Education ap pointed Messers. O. B. Maxwell, H. T. Hines and M. D. Yates to I fill the vacancies. All three of these gentlemen have accepted the appointments and we are looking toward to a continuation of the good work at Mildouson. ‘Skin’ Game Ends h Death For Player Sunday ROBERT SMTH HELD FOR SHOOTING LEROY SHAW Sheriff D. H; Hodgin, accompan ied by Deputies J. C. Wright and Harry Dees arrested Robert Smith, colored man of Stonewall town ship, in the vicini^ of Arabia at about eleven o’clock near Arabia for allegedly killing LeRoy Shaw that afternoon following an al tercation arising from a card game. The story' as the sheriff said he heard it was that Shaw, Smith,- and Fester Bain and Jesse Mc Kinnon, also colored, were down in the woods al^ut 150 yards from the Furmage filling station aproximately a mile north of the Robeson county line on the Dun- darrach-Lumber Bridge road. They were .indulging in a gambling game called “skin”. It was in this game that the sheriff said he understood that Smith and Shaw bad a disagreement about four o^dlock Smith told the sherfifE that Shaw had choked him, af ter which he went to his home about l!2 mile away, got his sin gle-barrelled la-guage shotgun, returned to the scene of the game and shot Shaw. Shaw was hit in the abdomen in the region of his pelvis and lived only abput thirty minutes after being shot, the sheriff said. Smith was apparently taking elusive action when the officers located him fliat night near A- rabia.. He fs IpdSBi'in the county jail pending action by the grand jury at the next term of superior court which is to begin on Monday, April 21. A coroner’s jury after an in quest Monday ruled that Shaw had died at the hand of Smith, and the coroner directed that the latter be held. 0 A UNION SERVICE Mrs. Watson, Sister Of Poet McNeill Dies At Wagram Mrs. D. A. Watson, widow of Daniel McArn Watson, and sis ter and late immediate survivor of John Charles McNeill, noted North Carolina poet, died sud denly last Saturday morning at her home in Wagram. She was a member of a family long pro minent in this section of the state THURSDAY, APRIL 3rd, 1947 REA Co:op Opens Labor Bids For 125 Miles Lme ADDITIONAL LINE TO LUMBEE; TOTAL 1000 MILES OR OVER Kannapolis Pastor Accepts Call Of Presbyterians RELIEVES DR, FAIRLEY ON FIRST SUNDAY OF NEXT MONTH Bids for an additional 125 mi les of line to be constructed in Surviving are her sons, McNeilli^he near future were opened at Watson and Daniel Watson, both the office of the Lurribee River Electric Menabership Corporation here Tue^Hay. According to D J of l\{agram, and a daughter, Mrs. J. H. Jones of Boilirug Springs. Services were held Sunday at Dalton, general manager of the three p. m. at' Spring Hill Bap-! corporation, .nine bids were re- tist church. They were conducted i ^^tved, ranging- in price from by Rev. J. D. Whisnant, pastor,'^ $43,000 to $62,000. These bids assisted by Rev. J. L Jenkins of i were for labor "only, as the co-op Boiling Springs. Burial was .in Spring Hill cemetery. 0 Archie McNair Is Buried Here Late Saturday Dr. Watson M. Fairley, pastor of the Raeford Presbyterian church cohducted graveside services here last Saturday afternoon for Archie McNair, former resident,^of this community who died Friday night in a hospital at Roanoke, Virginia. He had been in the hospital about two weeks. Burial was in Rae ford cemetery. Mr. McNair was 53 years of age and was unmarried. He was born in the vicinity of Maxton but mo ved with his family to this coun ty about 1900. He lived here until ■about a dozen years ago when he moved to Galax, Virginia, where he spent the remaining years of his life. •V -H, _p-, BAPTIST MISSION SUNDAY SCHOOL Clinic’s Start Next Thursday Pre-school clinics^ are sche duled to start in the county on April 10. We urgently request all parents with children who will start to school 'next year for the first time to get their children to these clinics so that \they may get the checkup and have all the vacinations over that are requir ed for school entrance. We are indebted to the following for making the schedule possible. Doctors. :^own, Matheson, Mur ray, O’Briant, Hyat and Marks Dr. Wilcox, District Health offi cer, will hold all clinics not held by the above 'mentioned doctors. Mrs. Campbell and Miss Coleman will attend all clinics. It is suggested that you clip the schedule givqn below and keep for reference. • > Hoke County Pre.Schooi Clinic Schednle: Peachmont, Friendalhip and Rockfish, Cotored, at Whitp Oak (Continued on I^age 8) The Raeford Methodist, Bap tist and Presbyterian churches will have a union service at the Methodist church on Easter Sun day evening. Dr. Watson Fairley, who will be supply pastor of the Presbyterian church only for this month, will preach the sermon _0 The Board of Education will hold its biannual organization meeting' on Next Monday, April 7 WHAT ARMY DAY SHOULD MEAN TO YOU April 7, 1947 — America is at peace. The war years are behind us now, but we have not forgot, ten Ours was a hard won vic tory, bought at an awful price. We can never erase our debt to the men and women who made victory possible. But we can take steps to safeguard the future, by creating the struc. ture for a lasting peace. We can make tomornow a better today for everyone. Aiiny Day is the day you can turn your attention to those patriotic citizens who have sig nified their intention of taking an active part in preserving the peace and protecting Amer. ica by proudly donning one of Uncle Sam’s military uniforms. To make this possible, the Regular Army, the National Guard of the United States, the Organized Reserve Corps, and the ROTC have planned special exercises and "exhibits, not only on Army Day, but al so throngh the week. You can back up these pub. lic-spirited volunteers and show them that they have your in. terest and support by visiting their displays and witnessing the events they have planned for you. Sunday morning April 6th at 9:45 Mr. E. M. Smith will 'meet all those interested, at The Ed inburg Community .Church for the purpose of organizing a Bap tist Sunday School. This mission hopes to reach the Baptist and the Baptist inclined of The Ed inburg Community. We have no intention of interferring with people or churches of other faiths. We are grateful to Mr. M. T. Poovey, Superintendent of the Mill for giving us the priviledge of using The Community Church Building. When this Sunday School is organized it will belong to those interested in making .it a success. Those interested will set the hour for meeting each Sunday. Mr. Smith is giving his tiire each Sunday in leading the School. Preaching services will be arranged from time to time. We trust .that this ' Sunday School will meet a need in this community that has not there-to fore been met. To all those inter ester we extend a most cordial welcome. J. D. Whisnant, Pastor Raeford Baptist Church. LIBRARY NEWS acquires and furnishes its own construction materials .4r ■ Interesting fdct about the open ing of the bids for this contract is that for a ..similar contract six months ago there were only six bids submitted and these were re- tiuested. There were nine linso- was in the insurance licited bids for the presently dis- He was educated at Rev. William B. Heyward, pas tor of the. Second Presbyterian' church of Kannapolis, N. C., has accepted a call issued him by the Raeford Presbyterian church and will come to Raeford to be the' pastor of the church. Present plans call for him to occupy the pulpit as pastor on the morning of May 4. He will succeed Dr. Watson M. Fairley, who has been supply pastor since Bev. Harry K. Holland accepted the call of the First Presbyterian church of Marietta, Georgia. Mr, Heyward is a native of Memphis, Tenn. and gre\v up ia Raleigh, N. C. where his father business. Hampden cussed contract. The low bid was .submitted by the C and S Engineering and con tracting company of Shelby, N. C. It is expected that this company wlil be awarded the contract very soon and that construction will start in about 60 days. The work is expected to take about three months to complete. The line will be located in Robeson and Scotland counties, generally within a 15_mile radius of Pem broke. The cooperative expects to en ergize 140 miles of line this week. It already has 644 miles in op eration and wi|h the comtemplat- mtl@g*til^^fttal will run to 1009 miles of line Coroner W. L. Roper after per sonally investigating the death of Willie Siler, colored employee of SACRAMENT 'TOMORROW The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered con tinuously Good Friday (tdmor- row) at the Raeford Methodist 'church, from the hours of-’11:00 a. m. to three p. m. Sydney college in Virginia and ! Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. His first pas torate was the Kannopolis church fro.Ti which he comes here. For the past several years he has been director of young people’s work in the -Concord presbytery. He is married and has two children, a daughter aged three and a son aged seven months. Mrs. Heyward was formerly Miss Sarah Ramseur of Lincolnton, N. C. Mr. Heyward’s decision to come to Raeford will be taken up at the Concord pres^tery on April 15 where the pulpit committee of the church here will appear to prosecute the call. Concord pres bytery is expected to dismiss him to Fayetteville presbytery at that time. 0 Mrs. A. D. Gore, librarian of the Hoke High school announces that the library has just received] Services will be resumed at $282.00 worth Of new books. This Phillippi Presbyterian Church Officials of the local America Legion post predict a large atten dance at their pre-^Easter dance to be held in the armory tomorrow night. At 10 o’clock there will be a drawing from a box into which the stubs of all tickets to the dance have been placed. One stub will be drawn and the hold er of the ticket with the corre sponding number will be a new 1947 Chevrolet Stylemas- ter- town sedan. The winner is not reqi.;red to be present. Music for the dance wnll be furnisl'.ed »by Bob Jones and his Swingnaasters 12 piece music-mak ing aggregation who have playeci for previous dances and who ha\'e a large following in this section I The affair will not be a square dance. 0 i Coroner Decides Willie Siler Died Natural Death When the last time for ffling given- car.'bdates for Mayor and com- '.ers of the' town of Rae- fo.'-d came around last Thursday there were two candidates for mayor to be placed oh the ticket and si.x for the board of com missioners. G. B. Rowland and \V. L. Poole were at that time running for mayor and Clarence L'. .■\ V Sanders. Milton Ca.. pceli, Alfred ■McNeill and ' J. Since filing, a Cole, .John K. D. McKeithan.' Rowland, .now ever. ;'ormer mayor, has withdrawn h is r.a.Tie leaving Poole the nom-^ 'm.atior. for mayor without a con test. The primary wUl be held at the town hall next Monday, April i 7 and the formality of eiectioB', I required by law, will be held in . r, . . .1 the same place on Monday, May Grahams Service station, last . o, 1947 Sunday night, decided that he had died of natural causes and not directly because of the bootleg liquor and opossum he had been eating a 'Short time before his death. The coroner arrived at this conclusion after discussing the case with the attending phy sician. Siler died suddenly at about Registration books were open through last Saturday for the registration of voters and they will be open next Saturday, April 5, for challenge day. Of those running for the town offices' only two are present offi cials. These are Milton Campbell and A. V. Sanders, 'ooth com.mis- sionefs. Neill McFadyen, retiring eight p. m. Sunday at the home of Clara McKeithan in the color-! _ ed settlenient north,-of Raeford. His death was the result of a heart attack, according to the doctor. He was approximately 50 years of age. SERVICES AT PHILLIPPI PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH is a welcome addition Poole’s Medley BY D. SCOTT POOLE Mr and Mrs. Hallie L. Gatlin have presented three books to the Hoke County Library in meinu 9ry of Mr. T. B. Upchurch, Ir win’s Bible Commentary, Pelou- bet’s Bible Dictionary and Cru- den’s Complete Concordance. T/he Roosevelt’ I Knew, Fran ces Perkins, has been presented to the library by Mr. and Mrs. Marion Gatlin in memory of Mrs. Malcolm MdLean, mother of Mrs. N. L. McFadyen. A beautiful edition of The Birds Editorily The Charlotte Obser ver Monday morning stated' that American Communists voluntarily went before a Congressional co,m- mittee and exressed their extre mist and contempt and disrespect for everything American. In the face of everything un favorable and helpful the Amer. lean Government is going ahead and doing all it is able to do for all they discover in need. That is a commendable spirit. A man who has been governor of Pennsylvania, and Ambassador to two or more European coun tries gave expression to the most fearful statement as to the dan. gers that threaten our' country we have yet heard spoken or written. I will not repeat, but what I say to myself I say to all, “If you must die, die with our head up.” Fear is the greatest suffering that can come to any one, so a- void it if you can. Place’ your faith in The Eternal God, do right by the world and cast fear to the winds. ^ We exect the future to provide a great deal more for the present world, and we have opportunity to prepare for a great deal hap- of America, by Audubon, has pier existance in the future, so been received and is ready for circulation, Lydia Bailey, by Kenneth Ro berts, has topped the best seller list for several wee^s. This is another of his great histori'cal nov(^. Other new books received are:' Operations Crossroads;- The Show Piece, Tarkington; The why Fear. The writer oT^ this column, has had an exceptionally good life of this present existance, and he has no fearful forebodings- for ^ the future - and he means to exist happily and peacefully as he has for many years. Make a better yield of every crop you plant this year, and gat- C.lover Siste’'. Banning; The Light her and sell' it for 'more money Heart, Thane. ' (Continued on page 4) than usual; pay jrour debts. Live peaceahl.v with all men, and ask I none of them any odds in any matter We are each left in charge of one man. Let us see that that man lives orderly and is respected be cause he ■jis a good and orderly citizen—me and you. Mules have almost displaced horses, still I rather work horses, and feel safer while I am at it. Josh Billings said anybody-can work a mule, provided his life is not worth any more than the mule’s. We boys used to jam up. a crowd of yearlings in the jam of the fence, and two would hold while the third climbed on the year ling’s back and they turned that yearling loose and he took that third boy to ride, while he could stay on that yearling’s back.~\ When a man or hoy catches two or more good sized fish he feels proud of the accomplish ment. And, if he catches a num ber of small fish even he is proud. My chum and I went to Drowning creek one night and caught 23 each from four to six inches long, and we had almost half a wash- tub full. I was ten years old when I sa wFayetteville first, and a train cair.e into town just after dark, and he thing blew the loudest kind right near me. I was frigh tened. The goods in the stores then were much prettier than they are now. I could not see how a man who had a store full of such pret ty things should not be very ha''- py all the tinne. , Red striped candy was not orlv very pretty, but the best stuff anybody ever ate, and I was a (Continued on page 4) (Raeford . Route 2). Easter Sun. day afternoon at four o’clock with a special service and will be held thereafter every first and third Sundays at 4:00 o’cock. The Sunday School services will be gin at 3:00 o’clpek. The Rev. Donald McMahan of Fayetteville will conduct the ier- (Continued on page 4) RED CROSS NETS $2592.48 Hoke County has gone over the top in another Red Cross drive. County Drive Chairman Neill A. McDonald announced yesterday that a total of $25 92.48 had been turned in up to that time, topping the county’s quota of $2535 by $57.48. McDonald expressed himself as being grateful to all those whose contributions made the successful completion of the drive possible and said he was particularly thankful to all the workm in the drive for their splendid efforts and co. operatton. Israel Mann, chairman of the Raeford community in the dr ive wishes to thank especially his district chairmen, Mrs. J. L. McNeill, Mrs. Robert Gat. tin, Mrs. Herbert McKeithan, Mrs, Joe GuUedge and all their co-workers who helped raise the $1267.75 turned in by Rae. for. A. S. Gaston and Ed Buie, colored drive chairmen, also express^ their thanks to all their co.workers and teachers in the colored schools of the county for their excellent work, M''Donalf1l emphasised his app- cciatlu'n to every person in UiBut cti' .nty who had a. part in any way, working or oaBt!-ibnt.iit. toward the, rive a, .s'tccess and keeping the 'onuty’ record intact. Recorder Hears Few Cases Tuesday Only rive cases were disposed of at the Tuesday morning ses sion of Hoke County Recorder’s court 'oefore Judge Henry Mc- Diarmid, and one of these was si'.rply forfeiture of a bond by non-appearance of the defendant. Nathaniel Willia.T.s. colored, got a 30-day sentence suspended on payment of the costs for be ing drunk and disorderly. Steve CalLanan, white' tourist, was charged with violating the prohibition laws and being drunk and disorderly. He did not ap pear and his bond of $50 was for feited. George Graham, Scotland coun ty colored man, got 30 days sus pended on payment of the costs ‘ for giving a bad check when he paid the check. Walter Barefoot, ■white, g'Ot 60 days suspended on payment of $50 and costs for driying drunk. William C. Clark, white, was charged with abandonment and in sufficient support for his family. He was found guilty and sentail ced tb two years on the roads sentence to be suspended for so long as he pays his wife, Pauline Clark $40 a month for the sup port of their children. 'The de fendant gave notice of appeal and [bond was set at $200 HOLDUP MAN GETS SHOT At about four o’clock yester day morning a taxicab frwn Fa.vetteville drove up to Bill’s Club on the Fayetteville road, ac-. cording to local peace officers, with the driver under a pistol in the hand of a soldier. The sold ier was in the act of ordering • gas for the cab when he took too long a look at the service sta. -tion attendant. When he did this j the driver jumped him and took T3 the weapon. In the ensutof^y j struggle the driver received powder burn and the soldier wounded, not critically, two three times. The affair was investigated the military police from Bragg who departed with soldier, so names of tboae ved were not available;
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