North Carolina Newspapers

' ^ ” /.«• “rt *'• \ ■• c - ‘ k " '^ ■ A' \ W'": •i'a'.' yfey- ■ i£' Ss . ^ ■ vokE or jyiDOM ^ e ••I'k'- .Newt VOKf OF mtOQun itOMt The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLH NO. 9 '■■' ''*-?f:!'.‘" '{y i~ THURSDAY, JULY 31,1947 BAEFORD, N. C. S2J0 PERSONALS Misses Elaine and Allyne SmitK of Raleigh 9pent the week end with ^ their mother, Smith. Mrs. Lucy > Mrs. M. D. Gentry of Roxhoro was the week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Niven. Miss Al- me^de Gentry arrived Sunday to spend several days this week here. Anne Ray, daughter of OMr. and Mrs. Arnold Ray of Lexington, is visiting h^ grandmother, Mrs. M. A. Ray. Mrs. Rex Currie is ill at High' smith hospital where she under' went an operation one day last week. ' Mrs.' Billie Parnell left Monday for a trip to Florida. IMisses Maude Poole, Peggy Bethune and Leonora Currie spent the week end at 'Wrightsville Beach. . Miss Anne'Carter. of "Washing ton, D. C. spent the week end here with home folks. Mrs. Charles Kaylor o fiRaleigh visited John McKay Blue this week. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bradshaw and little daughter, Martha, of Erwin, Tenn. visited Mr. and Mrs. JaSon Barnes and family last week en route to their home af ter spending awhile at Myrtle Beach. .—jon ade I^ C. CROP IMPROVEMENT I ASSOCIATION BACKS TESTS IN HOKE , ^^he farmers of Hoke County ahff nearby counties have within t^ir easy reach one of the offi cial' variety tests of the.... North Carolina Crop Improvement As sociation conducted for the testing of corn hybrids and cotton. The official variety tests are conducted in different sections o^'the state, chosen to represent variations and climate,' soils,r'and prevalence of insec^ts., '^he purpose of the test is to as semble information ’asto. Cl) which of the commercially avail- aibje varieties' or hybrids^ are most satisfactory for use inf different sectons of North Carolina, (2) wm|b-h:ecent develop'pents of ag^icBtural e^^fierunent "^.stations Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bullard and family of Winston-Salem spent the week end here. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Eubanks of Wingate were week guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hall. Bob Sellers of Selma spent last week with his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bill ‘i^ellars. They tdok him home Sc^urday and spent the week end. James C. Lentz spent Saturday in Salisbury. A. J. and George Freeman are spending this week at Asheville and other points of interest in the Western part of the state. Mrs. Arch Graham and'family returned Friday after spi^nding last week with relatives at Bre vard. . —^ 0 Mrs.' H. Y: Stuart and family of Charlotte are spending this week in the home of Mrs. Stuart’s father, W. A. McLean. Other guests in the McLean home over the week end ■were Mr. ^d Mrs. Woodrow McLean of. Clinton. 'Mis. Nelda Baucom left last week for a visit with her par ents, Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Taylor, in Charlotte. Dr. Taylor has been sick for the past several months and his condition is growing worse. Mr. and Mrs. Cubibage .Snow and children of Macon, Georgia, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom mie Upchurch, over the week end. 1 ,.jCbtnn^rcial:.':|ddiit ? breeders '^^®iatisflbtoril^7^f'eplace varie ties or hybrids how in produc tion, and (3) th^ large number of -'commelKiially available corn hybrids -which arS'-'tequired by law, to be tested, the year preceed- ing the time the# are\,offered or Exposed for salelwithin various sections of the st«e. ■ The tests in Ht%e county are located on the larhi of the T. B. Upchurch Company, Inc. Infor mation as to how to* locate, the plots can be secured from the county agent’s office for Hoke County in'Raeford, North Carqlina. Visitors ,tp the hj^b^ridt corn that one replication of the test for corn’ hybrids and one replication of the test on cotton varieties has been labeled so that the var ieties can be observed as they are growing in the field undw grow ing conditions similar to those which \the farmers of this secton of the state will' have on their own farm Visitors to te hybrid corn test plot will find 35 different hybrids on tests. These include not only the hybrids ^which the farmers are now growing, but also some of the newer hybrids whiqh the Experiment Station is checking and which they have not released. Included are the commercial var ieties which the farmers of the state are now growing which are entered by the plant breeders of the commercial concern. UPPED Secretary o{ War „ and Mrs. Kenneth C. Royall are shown below soon after he was appointed the last Secretary of War tp have Cabinet rank. A former Goldsboro attorney, he was a colonel and brigadier general wiA the Dep^tment before being appointed Under Secretary to Robert Patterson, whom he succeeded. In the armed forcM merger he retains charge of the war department undei^ James Forrestal, Secretary of National Defense. rr-irr-—'-—r- r Poole s Medley BY D. SCOTT POOLE Where farmers have soda they have good corn crops. Soda enables corn to withstand the damage of .drought, supplying moisture. Good water, pure air, some- whaj: regular seasons with a soil easi^ cultivated makes our sec tion an ideal farming community. Th'ere are 120 test plots of cot ton varieties. These include the varieties which farmers are now growi.og generally over the state and the newer strains which the plant breeders have on tests to jdetermine their adaptability to .the growing in the south central part of .the State. In the management of the test fields, the *tultural practices are similar to the. practices normally uesd on the farm that furnished I' the cooperation for its program Planting and harvesting is under the direct supervision of a rep're sentative of the Agricultural Ex- perimept Station. Don Cameron, who was brought home from the hospital several wedcs ago, was taken to High- smith again Monday where he is a patient. Rufus Brock is spending this ■week at Philadelphia, Pa. visiting friends and relatives. . /■ Miss Betsy Anne Cole.and Miss Phyl Baker will spend fhis week end at Wake Forest with Miss Faye Baker. ^ Anne and Bobby Leach left Tuesday for a visit with relatives at Moncure. Miss'Gladys Wells 6f Sanford, Florida, is visiting in the' home of •Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Currie. Results of the official variety tests are, published etach year in the bulletin called Measured Crop Performance, copies of which can be secured from the office of F. H. Jeter, Agricultural Editor, State College Extension Service, Raleigh, North Carolina. 0-^ ANNOUNCES HOURS FOR DRIVING LICENSE TESTS W;, E. Yow, license examiner of motor vehicle department, has announced the following sche dule to be followed on Thursday and Fridays. He will be in the office at the courthouse on, those days between nine and eleven in the mornings, and between one and four in the afternoons. From eleyenr to twelve and from' four to five, he ■will' be out of the office To be a Communist one will want what he has not earned. To be an honest man one must be willing to earn all he needs for himself, and that he desires to donate to the needy and those not well supplied with a living. I have decided the division of Christian people into denomina tions is a wise, beneficial and Di vine arrangement. There are over 200 denominations. Both Montgomery and Moore counties are^part clay and part sandy lands. At Carthage and Troy there were -90 foot wells in the courthouse - yards.,, And, no human ever found better water- coming from this earth. ' War is already started between several, countries in Europe, and also in Palestine. Their conditions are desperate. have, been the man to succeed Truman, but this new law chan ged the succession. I do not be lieve it wasr% wise law. It takes more circulating med ium called money to get along on, but no one is really better off by the high prices. Accumulations show gains if we are having pros perity. Several men were hung fo murder after J was a man. buf I never saw or cared to see a man’s neck broken. The nearest- lynching was in Rockingham, but if I had been living in that town I would not ha-i^e* participated in that lawless ness. I believe I^aeford has the best marinered dogs in , the world. I never,hear a dog bark once a month. They are' all friendly when you meet jihem. I remem ber camping.on the nothern limits of the town of RockiughoS hundreds of dogs' barked, fougllt and howled all night. That was in 1873 and there was only Great- falls Cotton Mills in the town. Undressed lumber, hot the best grade of that building material either, is priced rough, 65 dollars a thousand, dressed $75 per thou sand. World Labor leaders are for General Mcj^rthur. I hardly be lieve he will encourage strikes and picketing. . Henry Wallace will -lead the Third Party. I hope he will lead it to Stalin. If Wallacfe is as good as his word, he would es-tablish asecond . Russia here—[Socialist set up. This column has said before that Wallace is a Communist. Communism is good for the Big Boss and those he appoints. That’s all, . • James L. Cuf’rie used .to win money running races ' against horses. He could start quicker than a horse, and turn quicker, so he won.; They ran fifty yards and to the starting point. John Bruce, oi whom this co lumn has often made mention, found a small apple tree in the woods he was clearing. He took care of the • tree and I saw it a tyee fifty feet high and full of apples. Bruce said he had made three barrels of cidar from the crop apples on that tree, Recorder Clears Docket Of 17 Cases Tuesday SENTENCES WALTERS TO TOTAL OF TWO YEARS ON ROADS In a full sesrion of Hoke County recorder’s court Tuesday, 17 cases ■were tried or otherwise disposed of before Judge Henry McDiar- mid. Boyd J. Walters, white man who entered the home of E. E. Smith, here .July 10 and whp got suspended sentences Q,f six and 12 months for it, to be suspended during good beha-vior, was tried for . indecently exposing "himself in the Raefprd. theatre on July 23. He was found guilty and sen tenced to serve six months on the roads, at Jhe conclusion of which sentence those of July 15 to be effective.' Cliff Thomas, colored, pleaded guilty of having a quantity of non-tax-paid liquor for sale. Sen tence was one year on Ihe roads Johnnie C. Pate, Williaih H. Wright, Melton Wright, Johnnie R. Lane, Grover Cheek and James Long, a'rl. white, each pleaded' guilty of violating the prohibi tion laws and paid the costs. Ed Purcell, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 apd the costs for violating the road laws. Ed'Purdie and John Ross, both colored, forfeited bonds for vio lating the prohibition laws Hu bert Mcjntyre, also colored, did the same for being drunk and disorderly. , Hub Thames, white, paid the costs for being drunk and dis orderly. In another case for non- support of his minor child he was sentenced to one. year on the roads to be suspended for so long as he paid $25 monthly toward the child’s support. William C. Powell, white man of Florida, paid $10 and the costs for being drunk and disorderly and violating of the prohibition laws. Horace Wilkerson, colored, paid $10 and the costs for not having a driver’s license^^and Maudie E. Yodoriis, forfeited''a $25 bond for speeding. . ' George T. Ray, county colored man, pleaded guil ty of non-support ^of his children. Sentence was two years to be su- pended on payment of the cosls and $10 a week, toward their sup- ■Qy-irirl ■frtT* ? c o »-iniaQ VQ n make the payments was set at $200. Being unable to raise the bond he is still in jail. CRAWFORD THOMAS IS EIECTBF PRESIDENT OF COMMERCE BODY Women Selected As Jurors For AugustCourt JUDGE MORRIS HOLDS MIXED TERM ON" AUGUST 18 -0- Say Tobacco Crop Has Improved In Last Three Weeks People are not much for sing ing these times. There used to be a singing in every family, almost every night. Praise is needed as vrell as prayer. A law was passed by Congress few days ago making the ‘^Speaker of the House President in case that office should become vacant”. The. Secretary of -S^^te, giving road tests to applicants, now General Marshall, ■would POOLES HAVE BIRTHDAY Mr. and Mrs, D. Scott Poole will celebrate their birthdays at a party with" their children and grandchildren bn Saturday night. Mrs. Poole Will be 79 years of age on that day and Mr. Pooie will be 89 on Sunday. Their 63rd wedding anniversity will be the 28th of next September. 0-T- MORE CONTRIBUTIONS Hitherto unreported, contfibu- tions to the Recreation project at the school th?s^ summer are $10 by the A. & R. railroad and. $10 by the A. & P. Food stores. Raleigh-^Improvement in North Carolina’s tobacco crop during' the past three weeks wts reported by the Federal-State Crop Re porting Service in the. State De partment of Agriculture, which said all general crops are making good' progress after receiving considerable rainfall recently. The crop was described as “fair”'.'.to ‘‘good”, with harvesting under way in the Border- and Eastern belts. Some farmers have primed their tobacco two or tlp:ee times in. these belts, the report stated. , ■ ■' - , CrO'P-'weathet . correspondents described the corn crop as “good” to “excellent”, with an excellent colbr and unusually large growth. If present prosptects continue throughout'the season, all pre vious ..production records will, be broken, the report said. Cotton Also OK -t y' 1 Cottoiv. was described as being “fais^'S^pN^good” in most sections, with,.|iSostIy''‘fair” being report ed in the southern Piedmont, which is the main cottop’produc ing district. Hea^‘ weevil infes tation was reported from coastal (Continued on pa#e 4) • As provided in a, constitution-al amendment passed by thg' people of Norlh Carolina last year giv ing women equal rights and du ties with men, they are begin ning to'‘get some of the' dutv? In the jury list of 40 drawn foi the term of Superior court to con vene here 'August 18 the names of JO women of the county ap pear. They are. Mrs. E. E. Smith Mrs. J. N. GulledgeT^Miss Jesi'e Bright Ferguson and Mrs. Her bert McKeithan all of Raefcr-d, Mrs. L. J. Tapp, Mrs. C. W. Cov ington and Mrs. Lena "Womble of Quewhiffle; Mrs. Jesse Gibson of Stonewall, Mrs. Mary D. Mc- Bryde .of Blue Spring arid Mrs. Arch McEachern of Allendale.' The judge for the term will be the Honorable Chester Morris, of Currituck, who succeeded ''Judge C. Everitt Thompson who was shot to' death at his home at Eliz abeth City several months ago. Other jurors drawn for the term are as follows by townships: Raeford, W. E. Holt, Truman Austin,. O. ,W- Holtaclaw, J. A. McKeithan, W. C, Odom, Mack Lester, M. D. Blue, Clarence Rose, Alex Bbker, Daniel W. Tyson, Ryan McBryde, Ebb Barrington, and John Dunk McNeill; Stone wall, Everitt McBryde, M. L. Jones, John Leach, C. E. Jackson, H. A. McKenzie, Jr., H. J. Chason, Archie McGougan; Quewhiffle, Henry Gordon, A. A. Calhoun; McLauchlin, 'Clyde M. Pittman, F. A. "Wright, J. A. Reynolds; Little River, T. S. Jennings; Blue Springs, W. A. Black, Antioch, Albert Currie, Allendale, Archie D. McGirt. ^ ^ 'Hoke Farmers See Cumberland r* - • ■ . n. . • Experiment Station Twenty-five farmers visited the Oxford Tobacco Experiment Station on Monday. Mr. R. R. Bennett, Extension Tobacco. Spec ialist, was in charge of the tour of the farm. Among the many things of interest were fertiliza tion demonstrations where rates of 890, 1200, and 1600 pounds were used. The higher rates showed, up best. In each case, 800 -pounds werei.,placed on each side of the ridge cither before setting or at first. cultivation. This prac- tic^e is recommended by the sta tion. The group saw new varieties and strains that were resistant to the most common diseases.. Several of these varieties "show definite promise, but are not ready, yet for release. Extensive research is’ being made -at the Station of a nunaber of different tobacco-x^urers, They are stiufying economy of fuel, insulation of barns, draft,-amount»of time re quired to cure and-' the money value of the tobacco.'^ Among ,the severai'-curers /■■■was .I%.s^toker in- 'gttn.gi|^i^ide. -a""'barn without .flues'or furnace. This stoker burn ed anthracite coal which does not smoke. Anpther type was a •v^’ood furnace that fed wood autoinati- cally. This is thtesjpnly one of.r4i& kind and according, tp..^,the Opera tor kept the heat cb^tant and turned out a good cure. , DIRECTORS MEETING AX JOHNSON COMPANY LAST THURSDAY ' The 12 persons elected at the meeting July 11 to be directors of the Raeford Chamber of Com merce held a meeting in the of fices of The Johnson company here ,last Thursday night for the purpose of disposing of .matters incidental to the incorporation of' the ^oup. The application for the charter of incorporation for the concern, was signed by those present, pre paratory to sending it to the Sec retary of State in Raleigh. Harry Greene wasTchosen to deliver the instrument to Raleigh. The group decided to proceed with the election of officers to be effective upon incorporation, such, officers to serve inforrnally until that time. Crawford Thomas was elected president, M, D. Yates, vice»^)resident, ahd *M. C. Dew, treasurer. • After consi'dera'ble .3iscussion the group decided to postpone the selection of a secretary until the next. meeting, d'jring which time careful consideration was to be given to the qualifications of those 'possibly available for the job, considered one of the most im- •portant to the success -and effec tiveness of the organization. - It was also decided to postpone the making of plans for accept ing rpcimbers intp the organizaticm until it is actually a corporation. The next meeting of the board of directots will be at the call of the president and after receipt of .the charter from Raleigh. Rev. A. D. Carswell, formerly pastor, pf , several Presbyterian churches in this county and now of Lee County, may be heard over station "WWOP, Sanlbrd, .. each morning' next. week flrom Monday through Friday at 8;30 o’clock. Tobacco prices opened good in Georgia. There was a noticable decline in prices of nondescript grades. This should be warning ^ to local tobacco farmers to har vest tobacco only when ripe and avoid bruises. ■ Good cigarette type tobacco should sell for a good price, but low grade tobacco is likely tq sCil e.xtremely low. Tobacco 'farmers, will have a ' definite breiilc this year when selling ■ tobaccoX as Jhey are guar anteed 90% oi paraty for the var ious grades. Farmers will have available a schedule of loan prices based on Government grade.’lQy ■ tobacco selling below th^e loan prices can be placed in loan through the Flue C6red Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization. Corpo ration. ■ Those farmers that join ed 'Ihis organization Vlast year' will not have to rejoin. Member ship can be obtained at all war^ houses. It will be to the* advant age of growers to be on hand at sale time, to check prices to see that fh,q high dollar is paid for the weed. , - , ■[Accordi^ to reports made by J, T. Conner, Jr., Extension En tomologist," Hoke County Cotton crops are becoming heavier in- tested with weevil. T’ne infesta tion jumped'-from- 37 percedt, a week'earlier to 56 percent for the week ending July 26. The second . generation migration is definitely. \ on in some. fields. A check on a number of farms during the past few days indicated infestation ranging from no weevil to 90 per cent.' Cotton farmers should check for- infestation every 3 to 4 days. As soon as the percentage readi-, es 15 to 20 percent control methods should be started. Benzene Hex- achloride is giving excellent t*- sults and is available for thoiss wanting to use it. Permanent pastures should clipped with mowing control weeds and tender for grazing. ■ -' ■ -