VOLUME ;XLn NO. 8 THURSDAY, JULY 24,1947 RAEFORD, N. C. S2.N FEB YEAS ADDENDA By The Editor flO CANNING wUl be done at the cannery at the school here next iMpnday, according to W. P. Phil lips, High School vocational ag riculture teacher who. is manager. Mr. Phillips states that the can nery will be closed doe to the fact that he and L. M. Lester, assistant teacher, are taking a group of the veteran agriculture trainees on a tour of the Oxford Experihaent station that day. IP YOUR NAME begins with A or B you must go to the court house some time between' now and the end end of this year and take ap examination for a new driver’s license. This is required by the new motor vehicle law which went into effect July 1. A license examiner is now at the court house on Thursday and Friday of each week, and he asked that those who must get new licenses this year go ahead and do it so there will not be such a rush to ward the end of the period. High School Pupils Visit Manteo; See “The Lost Colony” by Mrs. A. D. Gore I WEWO. NEW RADIO STATION in Laurinburg, will not be on the air until jlround September 1, according to Jimmy Dalrymple, manager. The station closed its contest for a slogan this week wiith the following selection: “"Wonderful Environment,,Wonder- ful Opportunity,” submitted by Dr,. S. H. Fulton of Laurinburg. Dalrymple said that 'there were over ®50 entries in the contest, haany of which were from Hoke ANOTHER SQUARE DANCE will toe conducted at the High School gymnasium tonight by the county recreation ’ commission to which all teen-age boys and girls of the county are incited. The affair 'will last from 7:45 to 10:30 and music will be provided by the same good string band which played for the damce there sev eral weeks ago. BILL CARTER, Carthage tobacco man, was in the office yesTefday and brought us sale schedule for the Cumberland County Ware house in Fayetteville which he operates with his father and brother. This ad, together with one for fhe Fayetteville" market which appears in this issue, gets us off a jump ahead of the far mers in getting a little money out ■of the tobacco season coming up. However, the jump*the farmers . takes' will be a bigger ope, we expect., Irtcidentally, the cuiiing season seems to be '^really getting unc^r way ai;ound here this-week. On Wednesday of last v^eek thirty-lfiree Hoke High pupils, under the direction of Mrs. Ar thur p. Gore, with Mrs. Chand ler Roberts and James Lentz ser- ying as: chaperones, saw “The Lost Colony” at Old Fort Ral eigh on Roanoke Island. The trip was made pn a chartered bus, and the pupils spent the night in tlie Roanoke Camps. En route a stop was made in historic Edenton where the boys and girls visited the ' St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the second old est church standing in North Car olina; the Joseph ’ Hewes House, the Cupola House, the . Court ,House, and the site of the Eden- ton Tea Party.. A visit was also made to Wright Memorial where all the parity climbed 'Kill Devil Hill and went to the top of the moniiment. In the late afternoon a tour was made of Fort Raleigh, and the properties, scenery, and stage setting of the Waterside Theatre were inspected and studied. Of course, to make the trip com plete, all the group who had strength enough, toad to climb a sand dune. From the Indian dances cele brating the Corn Harvest when Sir Walter Raleigh’s first expe dition arrived on Roanoke Island to the march! in the wilderness, ,every moment of the drama was most interesting and entertaining to the Hoke County young people, ^ The pageant'of ‘#toe Lost jCoiony” is well equal to a year’s study of North Carolina “history in our schools, for across a stage is vi vidly portrayed the events and activities that led to the first English settlement in • America. Had it not been for the pioneer work of Sir Walter Raleigh and his associates, encouraged by Queen Elizabeth, the final per manent settlement at Jamestown would never have been attempt ed or effected. - 0 1 TOMMIE UPCHURCH \vill jour- -THey to Louisburg today where the trustees of Louisburg college will meet to select a new president to succeed Dr. Walter Patten, who ‘ died in March. Tommie is a meni- ber of a special committee^amed to secure a new president, and this committee is expected to make a unanimous recommenda tion to the trustees today. • 0 Fayetteville Gets Better Stockyards Opening of a new union stock- yards at Fayetteville jwa? an nounced by John A. Winfield, marketing spjecialist 'w^ith the State Department of Agriculture, who isaid the improved facilities for marketing the expected in creased production of livestock in the area would be a great help to farmers. The new yards were erected by the Atlantic "Coast Line Railroad at a cost of approximately $20,- 000, and they replace the old yards situated in a cortgested uptown «rea.' Located near the railroad un derpass oh the Lillington-Raleigh highway, the new yards offer greatly expanded facilities for handling hogs and other Uvestocks, Winfield said. ( - PERSONALS ’ Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chesnutt of New Jersey left last Friday to visit Mr. Chesnutt’s relatives in Charleston, S. C. after a visit here in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McFadyen. v Mrs. Mildred Brinkley and children, Gloria, Millie and'John ny, left Tuesday for a 10-day va cation at Ocean View, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Gulledge, Misses Martha Ben, Nita and Sara Jane Gulledge, and Eleanor Leach spent the past - week end at Myrtle, Beach. Mrs. and Mrs. Roy Conoly had as their guests last week Mrs. Conoly’s father. Charlie Reynolds and Miss Jean Medkill, both of Mt. Airy. Mrs. James Stephens spent the week end and several days this week in Charlotte with jier grand parents, Df. and Mrs. H. C. Tay lor. James Currie, James Morris, Cecil Teal, Bruce Oonoly, Dan Cox, and Milton Campbell spent the week end at Myrtle Beach. ' Mrs. Howard Pope and son of Camp Lee, Virginia spent last Thursday and Friday here. .They came to bring Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Sessoms and daughters ho(me from a visit with them. Mrs. Pope was'also accuampanied by a friend. Cotton Specialist Hails New Poison As Weevil ConhSoll^S: S JULE SHANKLIN, STATE COLLEGE MAN, TALKS TO KIWANIS CLUB Upchtirch Vice-Pres. Of Potato Council Jule Shanklin, cotton specialist at North C^olina State college in Raleigh, was gpestyspeaker at the weekly meeting of the Rae- ford Hiwanis club here last Thurs day nigM. In his talk he spoke of . benzerm hexachloride (BHC) dust as th^most promising pon against, the boll wdevil that the cotton farmer had yet run-hito. Prior to his address Mr. Shank^ lin had been in the o«^nty in specting fields, treated with BHC and discussing its use with Lewis and Tommie Upchurch, who hre doing a pioneer work in testing the dust arid developing its use Hoke county is the only county in this state that the dust was used in extensively this year,, he said, and great benefits are already obvious, although there is still time for further effective use,^ The speaker, a talented man in his field who has devoted his life to making cotton farming more successful, went into some detail about the effectiveness of BHC as compared to other poisons and gave some interesting and con vincing. statistics to prove his points. * Mr. Shanklin hds pioneered the annual 5 acre cotton contest stag ed for the promotion of greater yields of lint cotton and its pro motion is still one of his activities. His address was part pf the pro gram presented to the club toy Dr. Julius Jordan and he was in- trodu'ced by Tommie Uchurch. Prior to Mr Shanklin’s talk Coach Haywood Faircloth, direc tor of the recreation -program be ing conducted at the High school, gave the club on interesting sum mary of his activities there to date. The program is in its sixth week and has two weeks to run. T. B. Upchurch of Raeford is president of the Potato council. He was elected at the group’s second annual meeting at Flor ence last Friday. Edward Jones of Lake City was elects presi dent, J. Y. Lassiter of Gbldshoro, Secretary, and James Patterson, ■timmonsville, treasurer. Speakers at the meeting urged Carolina farmers to help chai^ the thinking of the South So th4 sweet potatoes may come to be regarded as a major crop. yQ Funeral Held Here "Last Saturday For Leon Ernest Brown Leon Ernest Brown, 36-year- old native of Raeford, died in a hospital in 'Washington, D. G. at 2:00 a. m. last Thursday and was buried in the cemetery here on Saturday. He had been ill abput six months. ' He was a son of the late Claude E. Brown of Raeford,, who died in 1920. His mother,, now Mrs. C. A. Lilly, survives Jiim. He had resided in "Washington for some years where'he was a building contractor, i Funeral sef^ices were conduct ed at his fljijother’s home here Saturday aft^noon at 4:00 o’clock toy the Rev. Iff. B. Heyward, pas tor of the Raeford Presbyterian church, as^^d by the Rev. W. L. Manbss,'^astor of'the Metho dist church and the Rev. J. D". Whisnant, pastor of the Baptist church. Burial followed in the cemetery here. SurAdving are his widow, the former Miss Emma Howell of Berryville, Va.; his mother; three brothers, J. T. Brown of Califor nia, M, C. Brown of Washington, D. C., and C. E Brown of Red Springs; one sister, Mrs. C. W. Harris of Raeford. Tobacco Growers To Pay At First Sale Warehousemen will collect an assessment of ten cents an acre from the flue-cured tobacco far mers of . the Carolines, the board of directors of Tobacco Associates, Inc., has decided. 'The b^rd, meeting in Raleigh last Friday, said the collection would be made at the first sale of each farmer, with the ’ware houseman stamping the farmer’s allotment card with the amount of the assessment collected. The levy is applicable to flue- cured growers of the Carolines and to any sales farmers of those states may make elsewhere. Ware housemen in other' states are^au thorized to make collections on sales of tobacco from the Caro- linas. ■'t The assessment wjUs voted on July 12 by farmers to promote exports. Mother-In-Law Charges A^nlt Unsuccessfully RECORDER SENTENCES 1 IN CROSS INDICTMENT OYER ARGUMENT r Poole’s Medley BY D. SCOTT POOLE ~ I I I I I t! j I ■ I The. Mississippi flood of the past two weeks, reaching a high a few days ago, was the highest in 103 years. The government hds done all possible it seems, but it occasionally gets beyonfl control; You have heard old folks say, “A dry June for a good crop year”, so that means a good crop year in 1947. But corn'crops and truck crops are not good. Congressman C. B. Deane is planning to have Jihe Yadkin-Pee Dee river “bottled up”, so the best of farming may be done in those rich river low grounds. Ebb Ingram, one of the Pee Dee’s best farmers, said he lost one crop' in each four years, so he quit the river rich lands and bought and farmed On '“small sandhill farms where he could get half-crop tenants. Mr. and Mrs .Allen McGee of Winston-Salem spent the week end here with relatives. .t Mr., and Mrs. 6. M. Moon and daughters of Graham spent the week end here in the home of Mrs. Moon’s moter, Mrs.' W. E. Blue. In the Bible we read of almost every musical instument we have today. I suppose many of the things we read of were crude,*' perhaps, but some of those old cheap musical instruments were attuned to produce the sweetest of music. I recall a homemade banjo, a sifter rim, a coonskin head and horse hair strings made the sweetest of music. I have outlived all my playmates and the companions of my youth all except a few. Those who used to sing and play fiddles and ban* jos with me have better musical instruments in their homes now I hope. I never expect to hear better harmony than I heard' ringing over the hills, and re-echoing up or down Drowning Creek low grounds^than a crowd of boys singing as they plowed, or, per haps halted long enough to sing a verse of a tune. It was almost perfect harmony. As good hunting dog as "l ever went into the woods hunting with was a 'medium sized fice. I can not spell the name of those dogs. That dog lay two days and nights by his master’s cot which he had forgotten and left in the woods. The poor dog was nearly starved. I have lived to see many chan ges. I remember seeing reaphooks. I used the grain cradle, and now we have “combines”. The first separators were run by tread power. A horse or mule kept walk ing in a box, a tread po'jver that turned the sand wheel that op^ erated a thresher.. ^ • • •• \ Our community was noted for its openhanded hospitality. James L. Currie, I believe, entertained more peoplp, kept open house more than anyone else perhaps, although everybody was friendly to strangers who might pass that way. And,, J^kson Springs drew a large ndrtitoer'jof people seeking 'restorati^^^qL^eall•h, and tlat mineral/w^r had a fine reputa tion a^a iiealth restorer. Uncle Jake Clark and 'Jake McFadyen were' slaves. Uncle Jake Clark married Foeba Arm strong after the war. She was typical of her race. She said when (Continued on page 4) Ginners To Meet At HarUville The Carolinas Ginners associa tion will hold its 1947 convention at Hartsville, - S. C., on July 28, Fred P. Johnson of the N. C. De partment of Agriculture and exe cutive secretary of the associa tion, announced in Raleigh last week Speakers will include: Frank Jeter, extension leader at N. C. State college; Charles A. Bennett, engineer in, jdiarge of the U. S. gin laboratory at Stoneville, Miss.; and Floyd A. Bondy, entomolo gist with the Pee Dee experiment station at Florence, S. C- ®— Rescue Service At Pope Field T^here is a branch of the Army Air Force that’s in existance today solely to save lives. It’s person nel are constantly ^ undergoing training and are constantly de vising new and better means of locating missing aircraft and sav ing the lives of the survivors. This branch of the AAF is The Air Rescue Service. .. Air Rescue Squadron “A”, st^ tinned at Pope Field, Is respon sible for locating missing aircraft and rescuing any survivors in North Carolina, South Carolina, "Virginia, Maryland, Delewa're, and "West Virginia, and in parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiania, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The squadron uses a variety of aircraft including the B-17 fly ing fortress with a droppable sea going lifeboat, the C-47 Skytrain, the L-5 Senti'nal, the OA-10 or' PBY as it is' called by the navy and the Sikorsky helicopter which recently played, such ^ a prominent role in the rescue pf seven men who parachuted from a burning B-17 over, the jungles of Nicara gua. There is also a wide' variety of survival equipment ranging from handie talkie radios and snow shoes to collapsable canoes and mercy bombs. On Air Force Day, August 1, 1947, the Air Force Association will sponsor a display of the na tions airpower; the airpower that is peace power: and although Air rescue Service is dedicateid to the saving of lives, it’s part in this air power is very marked. The constant training it carrTes on, iri search^ and rescue activities in both military and civilian emer gencies, is invaluable asset to any airforce. Some of the rescue techniques, as Jused by AiRS, will be demon strated for the public at the Air Force Day open house at Pope Field. There 'ft'ill toe a display of the various survival ^uipment and air to ground communication. In this demonstration the public will actually hear, over a public address system, conversation be tween the ARS. radio jeep on the ground and an. ARS aircraft in the air. Scouts Make Trip Down Cape Fear To Wilmington I In a brief session of Hoke Coun ty recorder’s court Tuesday morri- ing the case in which Grady Love, colored, was charged with as saulting ,his wife ca.ne up for trial. Tl^ indictment agjainst Love had been sworn out by his ■another-in-law and when the trial came up Love’s wife, whom toe was charged with beating, would not testi^ against 'him. Judge McDiarmid ordered the case held open for further investiga tion by county welfare depart ment. C. M. Jackson, white nian of the county, was indicted, .on affidavit of Warren Phillips, also white, on charge of having assaulted Phillips in a store which jackson operates. It appears that an ar gument developed there over a light cord and Jackson was char ged with getting out his' pistol for use in the argument, which he apparently won the first round of. He was found guilty of as sault with a deadly weapon. Sent ence of 90 days was to be sus pended on payment of $25 and the costs. He appealed and posted a bond of $200. • Phillips was charged by Jack- son with trespassing and found not guilty/ Claud Tyler, white man charged with driving drunk, was found not guilty. Will .McLean, colort^, was found guilty of carrying a shot gun away from his own premises on Sunday. Prayer for judgment was continued on payment of the costs. Elijah Dial, Indian, was char- ged.^with violating the prohibition laws by possessing a little home brew. Sentence of 30 days was suspended on payment of the costs. Joe Chason. white, Henry Han- don and Thurman Clark, both colored, were eaich charged with being drunk and disorderly and each paid the costs. Charles H. Brown, colored, was charged with violating the road laws by driving a truck without a proper driver’s license. Sent ence of 30days was. suspended on payment of the costs and he way directed to obtain the license. » jGeorge Jacobs, white tourist, forfeited a $25 bond when he fail ed to appear for trial bn a charge of speeding. . 0-^i — . ■ Drop In Sandhills . Peach Production Production of peaches in- the' Sandhills area of North Carolina' is-estimated at 1,522,000 bushels, it wbs reported by the Crop" Re-! porting Service iq the State De-; partment of Agriculture. ' This is a decline of six per cent from last year’s crop of 1,625,000 bushels but about 21 per cent lar-. ger than the 10-year (1936-45) ^ average production. j The estimate includes all peach-; es, commercial and non-commer cial, produced in Anson, Hoke. ^ Montgomery, Moore, Richmond and Scotland counties. The bulk of the peaches produced in these counties enter commercial chan- riels. ' The estimate marks the fmst time production of peaches has been estimated for the Sandhills area- and shown separately from the total crop grown in North Carolina. Total peach crop in the State is estimated at 3, 104,00 bushels, or two per cent less than in 1946 and 57 per cent greater th^n the 10-year average production.* - According to these estimates, abbut 49 per cent of the prospec tive- peach crop in North Carolina will be produced in the Sandhills area. '1 I . A carioe trip down the Cttfie Fear river from Fayetteville was., started Monday morning by eight Boy Scouts, including one from Raeford. Making the werd Lodde [MacDonald of Raeford; James ’Trawick, Randolph Lewis and Joe Barnes of 'Wilmington, Billy Mitchell of Fairmont, Williams Puryell of Wagram,. and Ed Bass and John Kennedy of Fayette ville. The voyagers are members of the junior staff at Camp Single tary, Cape Fear area recreation place for scouts. Each is a scout lifeguard and is capable of tak ing take of himself in the water. Sponsored by the Cape Fear area council, the voyage was ex pected to terminate at the cus toms. house dock in Wilmington late yesterday or early today, de-' pending on the weather. The scouts embarked in four canoes, each carrying two men, one extra paddle, food and duf fel, secxmelv.,lashed to the canoe so as not tp be lost if the canoe should turn over. . ' Hoke County tobacco farmers will have an opportunity to study and m on to bacco at the O.xford Tobacco Ex periment Station next Monday, July 28, at 1:00 P. M- All farmers planning to make this tour are asked to get lunch in Oxford or other places in time to be at the station promptly at 1:00 P. M. The station is located a short dis tance from Oxford. The informa tion that ■ can be obtained from this trip can well be worth hund reds of dollars. Farmers having cotton or corn to be certified by the N. C. Crop Improvement Association should make ap{dication by August- Application blanks may cured at County Agent’s of This is- Natibnal Farm Safety Week—July 20-26. Every farmer should stop for a moment and make a. survey of the dangers a- bout his farm. It may be a step ' that needs repair or it may be a fence o’r wire about the ' bam. Every year has its accidents; us ually careless accidents about the farm. Let’s prevent this kind of accidents on your farm.' Every week & every day should find farm ers and others taking precautions against accidents. Be S2ife every day and avoid accidents. Cotton boll weevil infestation continues to climb in Hoke County. The big migratioh is now on. Some cotton fields are showing 50 to 80% infestation. As squares get scarcer and boll’ weevil more nu merous, yOung bolls are being punctur^. It is these bolls that must be saved if we are to make a crop of cotton this year. Dusting cotton is the only way to save it from destruction by weevil this year. Farmers should use every effective control avail able. The entomologist recommend 8 to 10 pounds of Calcium of Ar senate per acre when infestation is as much as 10 per^eent. Ben zene Hexachloride is proving very effective and may be used after infestation has reached 15 to 20 per cent or more. Several checks have been made in Hoke to determine how fast and effective Benzene Hexachlo ride was. On the Upchurch Farm on July 1-T, a field was dusted and at the end of two hours several plots were staked off and dead weeviles counted. At that time over -800 weevils were dekd p«r acre. In the early afternoon aftar- aibout eight hours, over. 1500., ( weevils were found per aCH^ ( Continued on