North Carolina Newspapers

O' Nine (^Defendants FaceRSCt^er Tuesday Morning In a short session of Hoke Cour- superintendent of '•iV recorder’s_court Tuesday mom. At its regular biannual organi- zati(^nal meetiirg __on TvTonday, A. pril 7, The . Board of Education re-electe.d Carl G. Riley, chaii- man. Robert H. Gatlin, vice- chairman. a.'.d K. A. MacDonald, I ’'Secret.ary an schools. The following were re appointed as district school com mitteemen: District 1, (Raelord) .1. H.' Blue. T/alter Maxwell and J. E. Gulledge; District 2 (Ashe. inont) W. L. Thornburg, F. L. Eubanks and D. , X. Strotiier; District 3 (Rockfish) D. K. Par ker, D. P. Gillis and M. S. Gib son: District 4 (Mildouson) O. B. Maxwell, M. D. Yates and W. T, Hines; District 5 . (Antioch) Mrs. W. C. Hodgin, D. W. Gillis and Archie MeGougan. A joint com.mittee of The Board of Education and commissioners has been appoined^ to visit the ONE WITHOUT MONEY GOES TO ROADS FOR NINETY DAYS various schools arid inspect them in reference to the needed repair work. This CO r mittee .consists of Carl Riley. Knox Watson, Floyd Monroe. D. B,, McFadyen, W. T. Gibson, J. A. McGoogan and K. A. MacDonald. This inspection will be made Saturdaj', April 12. A!! the white schools in the conn IV moved up their opening hoiii' 30 ininutes .on Wednesday, .\.rril 9, This, was done to enable the pupil.? who live on the farms to ,ctt hcp’o earlier in the after- no(m so In'r.t they may be of more iVchi' ti.: their parents in ■ their farnr worlc. ' The Educo club held its regu lar monthly meeting in the high ■hii’.V' oi - i'j‘ i^y evening. State Representative Han y A. Greene was guest speak er. Last Friday The Standard Oil Cori'any Iravelouge “North Car olina” was showm at the Raeford Graded school to both the graded school and high school students bodies and at the Rockfish school. A previous engagement on their schedule kept the Standard re presentatives from showing in the other schools of the coiJnty. At a principal’s meeting held on Monday afternoon a tentative faced Young People Of Presbytery To Kally Here Next Sunday ing only nine defendants Judge Henry McDiarmid. Wesley Merritt, white, charged with driving drunk and' with, no driver’s license. His plea was guilty and he was sentenced to a total* of 90 days on the roads to be suspended on payment of $60 and the court costs. He went to the roads. Vincent DeVoe, white tran sient charged with speeding, fail ed to appear for trial and his bond of $20 was forfeited. Albert Collins, Indian, got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs for violating the prohi bition laws. Jiohn C. McCormick, colored, paid the costs for driving with no drivers license. Levy Allen, white was charged with assaulting David Gafrner with a deadly weapon.. For this he got 90 days to be suspended on paym.ent, of the costs and on con dition of good behavior for two years. He W'as also . charged with violating the prohibition laws. Sentence for this offense was 30 days, suspended on payment of the costs. Fester Bain and Jesse McKin non, both colored men of Stone wall township, were charged with gambling,, the occasion being the The Spring R: liy for the Young People of Fayet.eville Presbytery will be held in the Raeford Pres byterian Church on Sunday af. ternoon and evening, April 13. All young people and visitors are invited. Rogistra'ion will begin at, 2 o’clock S', nday afternoon, and the meetin,? -ill open at 3:00. Dr. Healy pas'or of the First Presbyterian Chu: ch, Fayetteville, was I ^vill bring the I; spirational add ress in the after loo.n All young people are asked to bring picnic lunches, and supper will be ser ved on the grounds at 5:30. The evening program will be conclud ed at 7:30 o’clock. 0 Authori^ Granted REA To Service 830 New Families To,Place Names Of Servicemen On Wall Soon 8451,000 LOAN APPROVED! FOR 2a0 ?I!LES NEW ' JNE Airs. R. .A. Math.o.son. Jr. Stated this week that the L'nited-Dauah- jers of the Co’nfeder: r.v^jWho str.rt- e .vnr”s aao ,o.K. '.v'.ill in were in pro- i { . • O' ■ • ■ • 1.*^ i-. LOCAL TEAH ENTERED IN NEW 11-PRQ BASEBALL LEAGUE :r n.-en'cnr :h-i' the cine*'- ■'O Lll' t’' Rbcki r Wins At Le'’- D, J. Dalton, 0\ 1 ^ ^ham :v. an *ee C.ar on Dance Hoke High Defeats 71st Tuesday, 13-7 Play Here TomDrrow sanje_ , .that pOD.,,,whij^h. Leroy j The Hoke County High School baseball team journeyed over in to Cumberland county Tuesday afternoon and beat 71st High School team 13-7. behind the se ven-hit pitching of MdKeithan The visitors ‘got the game go- in^4with two safeties in the first inning w’hich, added to three er rors and a walk in that frame, got them lour tallies. They never were headed by the Seventy- First .boys and went on to win 13-7. Conoly and Walker got three hits each’ in four trips to, lead the hitting for 'the victors. Freeman got three in five. „ The next home game on the local schedule will played in Ar- :vory park here tomorrow after noon against Hamlet high school. Shaw was allegedly killed T \/ «. i • L j. . Robert Smith Both were found * OWn V 016 Llgnt J guilty and sentence in each case was thirty days suspended on payment ,of the costs, and good behavior regarding gambling for two years. Marie Lyons and James Gambel, both colored, were found guilty of being drunk, and disorderly Sentence in each case was 30 days to be suspended oh payment of $10 and the costs. 0 McKeithan Loses Agronomist Offers commencement schedule was i ij i made. Dates for the' giving of the oeecl Lotton HelpS spring standard tests were set. Seventh grade tests will be given J. A. Shanklin, Agronomy spec- on Monday, May 5. Sixth grade iahst for the State College Exten tests'''will be given on Wednesday sion Service, released the I’ollow- May 7. May 7 will be 7th grade,jng pointers on cotton seed plan- visiting -day at Hoke High. All ting this week, as recommended 7th grades will visit the high , by C. A. McLendon, senior Ag- school on that da.y. Elizebeth Parker represented this district in the Divisional A- merican Legion Oratorical Con test in Kinston on March 27, There seed of a superior variety is all ronomist of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, working out of Atlanta on the Cotton Improve ment' Program, -- An ample supply of pure, sound w^re (our entrants in this contest in-portant. One variety is suffi- The winner of this contest was cient for a farm community, or Bruce Pate of Wheat Swamp l^i'Ser area, and Experiment Sta- High School in Lenoir County divi- tions of the various states deter- J’ • mine by compaj-ative tests the Bruce will represent this sion in the State finals. Miss'varieties best suited to the diffe- Watson and Mr. Faircloth accom- conditions. oanied Elizabeth to Kinston. In connection with Army week program” at the 'high school, the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg gave a Field Artillery Bat tery display in front of the high school building Tuesday morn ing at 11:00.. In the exhibit were two howitzers with all the re quired equipment, a fifty cali ber machine gun, and a F M 619 radio set. This equipment was explained by army personnel, and the pupils found the display intensely interesting. Mrs. McGoogan, of the high school faculty, returned to her work Monday after a week’s ab sence on account of illness. Mrs. J W. Walkei- took Mrs. McGoo- ganlp work while she was away. On Wednesday of this wqek the school began its usual spring short day schedule, , beginning at 8:25 ■ in, th'e fnoi-ning and dlosing at 2;30. , , The band and |glee club con- (Contilnued on page 4) To be pure, seed must be not niore than three years removed from the breeder and its purity safeguarded each year in the field, in handling, ginning, and storage. If seed is to be sound enoughl'Xor planting purposes, is shguld show]'^ at least eighty percent germina tion by competent testing. All planting seed should be re cleaned and graded, reginned, and treated for seedling diseases. Outfits for processing planting seed in this way are now available to most cotton farmers and the charge for ..this seed service is negligible, considering its value in obtaining a good, even stand- of healthy plants. Plant seed at a rate "suflicient to insure a good stand. Skimping on planting seed is pobr economy regardless'of the cost of the-seed. Usually the yield qf cottori in creases as the stand approaches thirty thousand plants per acre. The highest yields on record were made with thick standsj in closely spaced rows. ^ In the Town of Raeford primary for the nomination of town offi cials held Monday of this week only 87 persons bothered to cast a ballot. Of these W. L. Poole who was unopposed for mayor., received 61. For the town board of com missioners all candidates received a majority with the exception of J. D. McKeithan, who was thereby eliminated, there being six running for five offices. Figures for each candlidate follow: For Mayor W. L. Poole 61 For Commissioners Alfred Cole 79 J. K. McNeill 76 Milton Campbell 68 Clarence Lytch ! 65 A. V. Sanders 56 J. D. McKeithan . 36 The election will be held Mon day, May 5, and the mayor and co.r missioners elected will take office for two ’year terms on Mon day, June 2, 1947. 0 cal REA Cauper . c, ver Electric Mci tion. has anneu: : cl ha.*' been approve ' , the N. C.'Rural r: -.' thority. The pur'-o"e :cr or Lu:rhoe hip C-pr n ■ ' : n ■ 0 ' -erved in V.'.;r!d War. I! Cites ueuid be y ne;u- future. c r.e Zi f. a -j: •*. :a; i a t ■: e ■ siie Th- by ihv p-t'st last Fv iR:t!rh zs exuer-‘ ut in secur FiFT’^FN HO>U: G.AMES SCHFDT LED FOR .\R.MORY PARK ?r;'3r J.'H.noo by e;eh)n Ar.' th’i loaiij tt 5F ted th;; is tb build 220 itil.c of line end GO some difficull riles of improve.rer.ts to ser\e|‘’''g t'-'.e correct n.air.e? of se\''eral 830 new meir.bo- |nf ire i'l^en w'r.t we-e killed in w The local Coo; orative new hu.s't'-a- w ar. but that the work would ovc- GOO mUes oi lute in opo"ation! start whan this was accomplished, servutg over 2,0i mo:r:bcr-:. Tho''Fhe--a men will be shown in a sep- Cooperatlve has •. Uorations total-;'U'ato iisi on the structure. ing over $506,000 fur the construc tion of new line.?. .\t present, 140 miles of line and serving over 600 farmers will 'be energized within the next 60 days. Plans and Specifications ha\e been approved fur an- additional 130 miles of B jcruject line in the central part of Robeson county. Oti'.er lines wil, '.)e built just as sonias material.? ue made avail able Tlie new aj) crease the teftai operation andr : ; 1230 miles, serve 6 000- members li:.ticn ' will in- I'hh's of line in ■l!.'■.•oved to o\er r.pproxi:ti,ately Ml’S. Matheson asked that the f.amilies or friends of men losing their.,vlives by the name , of Guin, Haire, "Bristow or Frye please get the full na.->. cs of these m.en to her as early as possible in or der that they may be incuded in tlcc list.. Close to 13'.o names will apipear. ' Chevroiet T'- d xAme-.-ca" r dance in ‘..he ..-r.o-y night \#as w-.r. :\v Steagal!. radirf r.-e.iir ■.he 1, Rockingham. The :nain ;ioor of the armor,y was a- bout full of people at 11 n. m. ' er. the draw* was rrade. Steagall was not present at the dance and did not come after the car until this week. Stubs of all ticket.? ".ere clumped into a wire cage and -well mi.xed after v. someone was called fro.m the floor to make the draw. The post showed a profit of over $1000 on the affajr which they plan to use in the various activities they are planning. These include a hut and lights foi- the baseball park neai' the armory 0 itm.; .gue -0-- Local Telephone Service Continues IVIemorial hos- Mrs. J. W., Currie, who has been-a patieiit ;)ita' in Chariolte i-ir t'ne days, is still renoried to ,critic;d Londiiion ! Teleni'.me ser'ri.e. '.jotif .oca. ten I a::d ion ; distance, which ;s 'within i;'. 7 ,, nA BY D. SCOTT » , 'SI to :ill 'ooints \ irguu.i a:td to f’he first night F spent in Aber- I tiii.dt the amassing of large deen I was hunting with a sum-1 estates is a thing of the past in mons in a Magistrate’s court for this country. I belie\'e the capi- one Graham, who lived three mi- talists are the biggest hearted les out. One of otir neighbors was folks on the earth. I know the Airborne Soldiers Show Equipment In celebration of Army Week a detachment of soldiers of a field artillery outfit of the 82nd Airborne division at Fort Bragg is going to various towns in this sec (Jion this week with equipment and' demonstrating its use to the public. The detachment is spending each night at the armory in Rae ford and on Tuesday they dem- on.strated their weapon and equip ment here. They are armed with a 105 millimeter howitzer. On Monday night they gave the de monstration for Battery “A” at their regular drill period at the armory. 0—— chipping the turpentine boxes on Graham’s land, and another was dipping and .selling the turpen tine, and that brought on a law suit. There were no more houses a- round any large sawmill. But that mill made a finished product and a dry" kiln was being operated most wliolehearted entertainment I ever enjoyed was in the old antebeliuir days estates that still stood ai'tcr the fratricidal war-the North waged against the South in my boyhood days. 1 am not meaning to “wave the bloody shirt all over again,” but I think th;it ugly, unnecessary day and night. Every year a Mr. i slaugiitcr of the young manhood Campbell grew large watermelons in the United States could and t'r.e :erri:ory of ti-.e Ca’.’oiin.: Tel- ^lephone .and Telegw.ph Co;r.i'any. jwhic!'. o;)eiates in Dractically all 'o, ea.-'.e'T. North Ca’folir-ia. wilt i.'c intcrriipted by ti-.e Bell cysh:ir -trike, ti'c na-’Ux :.y ■; n- !u i.n.cd this ■.veek. I.cvnu ciistaiu;t' cai i'i li'ri stale of Was'e.'ir.eton, D. C. and Philadel phia. P.I., will be accepted and co:i:pIeted as promptly as pos sible. Lung distance calls to other Bell Syste.r.' points in North Carolina and other states if they are classilied as emergency calls. The following towns in North Carolina and* their vicinity may be reached: A’oerdjeen, .Ahoskie. .Aulander. ■Aurora, Ayden. Bailey^ Bayboro, Beaufort, Eelhaven, Benson, Be thel. Blacienboro, Clayton. Clin ton, Colerain, Columbia, Conway, Dunn, Edenton, Elizabethtown, Elizabeth City, Elm City, Enfield, i r.e REPAIRING GRANDSTAND Undeif the' watchful eye of County Auditor John McGoogan the grand stand at the local base ball park fs being irripfoved. Mc Googan is rebuilding the sup ports, building a new cinder block wall across the front and plans to replace the wire screen and paint structure ter Sunday morning than other morning, • no'r did I ,on his farm a mile east of,,town. I saw several which weighed 90 pounds or a little more, and I bought several a quarter a cent a pound. Folks used to eat more eggs at Easter than usual. We heard some thing about Easter but knew little about it. “11 a man dies, will he live a- gain,” asked Job. Job had infor mation from a source from, which all men gain spiritual knowledge. To question the immortality of the soul questions the Deity of Christ, and no truths have stron ger or more universally a.ccepted evidence of the Deity of Christ than the fact of His resurrection. I did not eat more eggs on Eas- any hear much' about Easter, but scholars now give more information- on this important Christianity’s greatest tniths. This column has given out more than once that people settled on the creeks, and a man was from Jackson’s Creek, Mountain Creek, or. Deep Creek, or from whatever creek he -lived pear. People on Drowning Creek may have visited people on AioLendon’s Creek, gone ^ parties there when in vited, but we .were seperate. and distinct peoples. I think .1 knew the “simple life” and I still know that life may be of the happiest type and as enjoyable on a small ihcon-re as the richest ever enjoyed any where any , time on no matter how large the quantities. Too m'uch I'overty is not en joyable, but moderate means of we should have been allowed to have sipenl two billion dollars' in lix’ing. Two lino.s of business have been yery much lo the ruin of faVming; farm loan Ixmks and manipula tion of prices-speculation. Sever. should have been prevented, ajid*"Engelhard, Farmville, Fountain, Franklinton, Fremont, Garland, Gatesv'ille, “ Greenville, Griffon, Halifax, Hamilton, Henderson, Hertford, Holly Ridge, Jackson, Jacksonville, Jonesboro, Kenans- ville, Kenly, Kinston, La Grange. .Lewiston, Lillington. Littleton, living is just as productive ‘ of happiness as the greatest earthly incomes al, not les.'^ than three times, I;Louisburg, Lucama. Macon, Max- know. crashes in business leftjton, Morehead City. Arurfrees- nio.st of the inhabitants of this!boro, Nashville, New Bern, Nor land with no. way to exist. jlina, Oriental. Oxford, Pinehurst. You cannot take a man’s note.jr’riietops, P7nkhill, Plymouth. wi.th ' a re:;l -astate mortage for Pollocksville Raeiord, Red Spring" '-•- .erai pre i-y ineet- Pea A Beit Bj.se’call Lea- organized last Thurs- a gro«p vf re.oresenta- .eet;n.g in La'arinburg. -..e will be classed as semi-n:-p and will have tearms from Raeford. Laurinburg, Aber deen, Scathern Pines. Bennetts-.^ i-ille and either Ha-miet or Rock ingham. The League -will be managed y' a Board of Directors,' one i'to:! each town as follows: .A. C. Dawson. Southern Pines; Haney Harris. .Aberdeen,; Lawrence Poole Raeford: L. B, Singleton, Laur inburg and H. H. Sanders, Ben- nettsvilie, S. C. Jo’nn S. Ruggles, Southern Pines, was elected Leag-je President. The schedule is now being pre pared by Lawrence Poole, Rae ford member . of the board of directors. Opening games will be May 21st. each team playing 30 games, ■with 15 ga.m.es at home. Games -.vill be played on Wednesdays and Saturdays with extra gamies ■"'.1 Alonday. The season -will end -August 20. followed by the Shaug- nessey method of play.off. Present at the..ngeeting in aX dition to the- abo.-e officers were J. B. Griffir., General Manager of the Waverly Mills. Laurinburg; F. G. Galligan. General Manager , Fii-estong Textiles. Bennettsville. S. C.; George Jacobs and “Vic-" Snipes. Laurinburg. The Raeford tear, which is being assembled by the -Amerif can Legion post here, will begin practice in a few -wee.ks' for the opening of the schedule Mav 21 FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles S.2.C0(>, let liiin have Si,000 at six percent interest, visit him at Richlands, Rich , Square, Roanoke Rapids. Robersunville. Rocky a cost of $100 a monthly trip andj Mount. Roseboro. Rosehill. Kox- lca\'e hi.r. ni-osperous. obel. St. Pauls. Sanford. Scotland Honestly, it would ha\:e.„.,.b.een Neck, Seaboard, Smithfield. S:io_w ■more honoroble and merciful to' Hill, Southern Pines, Spring Hope. have knocked a man in the head: Stantonsburg, Swansboro. '^S'wan j usually all that Tarboro. Vanceboro,' Sweet potatoes yield best' and produce a better product on well- drained, light, sandy soil or silt loam soil with a pH 5.0. It is important not to plant on soils where sweet potatoes have grown for the past several years or on soils where too much lime or bas ic slag has been applied. Good soil preparation is im portant. For the early market, apply !2f>0 to 1400 pounds of a 3-9-9 fe:'tilizer pe;- acre with 10 poui;ds boj-ax per acre. The fertilizer should be applied in 3 to ■’ \'2 fee* ro-ws and ridged at least 10 days before setting. For the ear’.v crop, plants •'iiculci be set !6 to 13 inches on high , ridges as soon as plants are ,-.-ailable. For the main crop, set or; 'high ridges 10 to 12 inches a- part- from May 20 to June 10. Two and taken all he had than some Quarter, of the businessX have knowm tran sacted. There is a scarcity of newsprint paper. There is also a scarcity of timber in the United States. But there is a surplus of cotton so why not bring prosperity to the farmers and joy to the publishers? The word, “strike” 'arouses a feeling of resentment in me^ and others. There must be a way found to prevent_ strikes! I pre dicted there would be-strikes, when price control was Suspended. Some things folks. . cannot do without] are too high priced. , I Wake Forest, "Wallace, Warrenton,! Warsaw Washington, . Weldon. ! necessary to control weeds Blue mold has been: reported Whitakers. William.stdn, Wilson, jj, Columbus and Brunswick coun- Windsor, Winton, and "W oodland. Every precaution should be OPPOSES PURCHASE OF COTTON OUTSIDE U- S. Senator Maybank (D-SC) has asked Secretary of War Patterson to “prevent any American fund being used to bu.v cotton outside this countrj- :or Use in Genn'an and Japanese hulls." “It would bb outrageous to buy cotton with .Airerican rnone.v” he I .do not rerember seeing peach'siiid 'yesterday afer announcing trees so late in coming be:’ore. I '.:e had receued complaints from the An-igrican farm bureau about have seen- niore blbom.s in January than there are now. If cold weather kills insects We ha\-e not had very much snow at any one time since March 2, 1927. Only two or three sprin kles are .all we have had since that lime war department plans to purchase cotton overseas. taken to control blue mold. VV’here fermate is available, it should be sprayed or dusted on twice a week. If a rdin should wash it off soon after applying, it should be repeated as soon as' possible.Don’t give up if rain should set in. Watch plant beds for insects. Keep them under control. Tl^e rat control campaign is being held Friday, April 11. The bait will be ;nixed that day and delivered at a central place in ' the community. A few extrat 1 the.v should be mostly dead now.i,^’Maybank said he was referred to Undersecretary of Wai- Kenneth Royali, who' told hiin the war department has made no definite purchase plans, is undecided on how inqch cotton is needed. packages will prepared for / last .minute callers. The delivery will be made between 2:00 and 5.*00 P. M. The.bait will be put on late Fsiday evening. The bait will be mixed at the cannery and. distributed from there for Raeford section,