VOLUME XLH NO. U
lllURSDAY, AUGUST 14,1^7
RAEFORD, N. C.
S2.00 PER YEAR
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.The tour ta- Beltsville, Md.,
where the U. S. Department of
"Agriculture conducts ' research
work, will be of particular inter
est to farmers" as it gives them
-an opportunity to see first hand
the, progress being made in breed-
ihg end developing ' new breeds
of livestock and new varieties
, of plants. They are continually
finding new ways of increasing
efficiency on the
This vast. Experiment Station
is • opera.ted to make it possible for
Agriculture to stay abreast with
the times. It belongs to the tax
payers nf America. Farmers have
more stock in it than other groups.
By making this tour on Septem
ber 22, farmers will increase their
knowledge of farming and enjoy
fellowship with his neighbor. Re
gistration should be made art the
County Agenfs office by Sept
ember ,1 if possible. The nunrfier
will probably be limited to thirty
farmers. The five day trip will
cost about $25.00. It will require
two d^ys • to go to Beltsville and
return. Two days, will be ^ spent
at the station and one day to see
points of interest'in Washington.
D. C. The nights will be spent in
Washington.
Attend Convention
In Asheville
First Of Week
4-H Club boys attending the
4-H Short. Course at State College
in Raleigh next. week are Arnold
Monroe, Davis Parker, John Bal
four, and J. W, Caddell, 'Jr.
Farmers are,.,b§jng
take advantage of the opportunity
to atteftd the Farm al^ Home
Week at State College in Raleigh
on August 25-29. An outstanding
program has been arranged for
the three day conference. All rural
men and women should attend.
For those planning to stap through
the entire conference, a $2.00 fee
will be charged to cover cost of
rooms, etc. For those desiring to
spend one night or more, a charge
of 50 cents per night will be made!
For those attending the programs,
but not spending the night, no
charge will be made. Meals can
be obtained on the campus at the
College Cafeteria at a nominal
cost. Every day’s program is good,
but the one on Thursday, August
28, may be of unusual interest.
Mr. J. E. Thigpen, of Washing
ton, will talk on the tobacco sit
uation, including quotas, and. Mr.’
J. B, Hutson will take on the ex
port situation of tobacco. Both
talks will be in the morning start
ing at 8:00 A. M. The afternoon
will be devoted to outstanding
demonstrations on things of in
terest to farmers. The main even
ing address will be made by Gen
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army
Chief of Staff. Farmers shoul^
set aside at least one day to at
tend this cohference' which is
•planned by farmers for farmers.
The State Associrtion of Coun
ty Commissioners and County Ac
countants'met in Asheville Monday
and Tuesday of this week. T*.
Kno^ Watson and J. A. McGoo-
gan attended, and were accom
panied by Miss Geraldine Max
well^ who was an honor guest of
the Association at the banquet
on, Monday night. Miss Maxwell
was presented by State Treasurer
Charles M. Johnson, and her beau
ty arid charmihg personality, in
the words of John Swain, State
President ‘‘Stole the Show and
she deserved it.” ^ .
Jean .Graham of Raeford, who
is a, nurse at the Asheville Or-
throepedic Home, attended the
banquet, helped entertain Miss
Maxwell and took her on an in-
spectiO'n trip of the Asheville
Hospitals.
An uilusual occurance was that
Knox Watson was named chair-,
man of the nomination Commit
tee fdf the Commissioners and
J. A. McGoogan was named
chairman of the nomination Com
mittee for the Accountants, The
following officers were nominated
and elected: For the Commission
ers: Caldweli McDonald of Char
lotte, President; R. P. Holding of
pmithfield. Vice President* and
John L. Skinner of Littleton, was
re-elected,,for the 23rd tipie
Secretary-Treasurer. ’ f
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Costs In Each
Of Four Cases
NEGRO PAYS FINE AND
COSTS FOR PARKING
ON HIGHWAY
Not Accepting
Suppiprt Prices
Raleighp Aug. 12—*W. P. Hed
rick, ojUKsiair
ist with the estate Board of Agri^
culture, announced Tuesday that
farmers of the Border Belt are
losing thou^and^, of dollars be
cause they $re hot taking full
advantage of government support
prices offered on warehouse floors
by the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stab
ilization Corporation.
A survey just compfeted in the
iBorder markets indicates * that
farmers are accepting prices $1
to- $5 per hundred pounds below
the support, price and in some
instances leaf Was going fronrt^l^
to $15 per hundred below. /"
Hedrick further stated! that
most warehouses are co-operating
with the growers, having! ' the
personnel assist in mfikingX sup
port prices available He ■ added
however; that securing goveij|n-
ment support for his leaf Was the
individual farmer’s responsibility.
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John Leonard Maultsby, white
mah of fhe county, “entered pleas
of guilty to charges of assault,
violating the prohibition laws,
being drunk and' disorderly and
resisting arrest, before Judge
Henry McDiarmid in recorder’s
court Tuesday morning, .Sentence
of the. court in each 'jsftsS was 30
days on the roads to^ be suspend
ed obTl^ment of the court costs
and on condition of good behav-.
ior for two years.
Pete and John Carrol, and Alease
Parker, colored of Fayetteville,
each got .30 days suspended on
payment of the costs for being
drunk and disorderly.’^ohn Car
roll also got 30 days suspended
oq payment of a fine of $10 and
the costs for parking on a high-
■\vay.
Steve Adkins, white, pleaded
guilty 0 being drunk and disor
derly and got 30 days- suspended
on payment of the costs.
Glpnn Fulk, white pleaded
guilty of assaulting his wife and
sentence was 30 days suspended
on paj;mdnt of the costs.
'L. Thompson, white
UV/Lti. ioir, lorfeited. a bond of $25
posted -when, he failed to. appear
or tijial on a • charge.. of speeding.
. Jesse James McNeill; colored,
was ordered hdd for trial in Su
perior court fioxt week oh a chafr
ge of find-entering.
Cra^ord Thomas, presideint
at the reoeiitly organized Cham
ber of .Qommerce in Raeford,
«aniioiuieed this week tkat the
organiutioii had received, its
charter .'of* incorporation, from
->
the Secretary of State in Ral
eigh. . .
' He that the directors
of the organization werd now
considering the eelection of a
secret:^, and that an announ
cement would be forthco^ning
in a few days. He also said
that the group would meet this
week and formulate plans for
accepting members.
Full facts on .dhese items are
expected to appear in next
week’s paper.
LEGION MEETS FRIDAY
NIGHT A’TKIWANIS HALL
Clyde Upchurch, Jr., command
er of the BUis 'Williamson post
of the American legion here, .an
nounced this week that post
would have its regular monthly
supper and meeting at the Ki-
wanis hall here tomorrow "night,
August 15.' He issued an invita
tion to all iegionairres ’ and those
veterans interested in the' Amer-
(ican Legion to attend. Supper
will be turkey, etc.;' prepared by
Israel Mann and served at 7:30
p; m..
A film wiU be shown and a talk
on “Universal Military Training”
will be made by Captain Paul
Miller, of the Army, instructor
for tlie..Arriiy Reserves in North
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BY D. SCOTT POOLE
July Successful
Recruiting Month
The Commodity Credit Corpo
ration .announced last week that
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the average loan rate or 15-16
inch middling cotton gross weight,
will be 27.94 cents per, pound.
Most of the cotton crop has
corne through in very good shape
in- spite of the. late season. Cotton
has set a good crop fit fruit, 'but
this must be protected* from boll
weevil if it is ex|)ected to yield
cotton. A report by J. T. Conner,
Jr., Extension Entomologist, indi
cated that boll weevil infestaton
increased during the past ■week
from 69 percent to 79 percent in
Hoke County. The danger of los
ing most of the young bolls Comes
from high boll weevil infestation.
Control methods should be used
where it is warranted.
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Don Cameron returned from a
Fayettevuie hospital yesterday
much improved. He had been there
two weeks and underwent aq ab
dominal operation.
Enjoying one of its best-month’s
of the; year, the Army Recruiting
Service enlisted a total of 934
men in the states of North and
South Carolina during the month
of July, ETCCording to figures made
public today by Sgt. L. A. Morri
son of the local Sub-Station of the
Army Recruiting Service located
at Court House in Raeford, ever
Tuesday afternoon.
Of this number the two Re
cruiting A^eas of North,Carolina,
with main stations at Durham and
Charlotte, enlisted 261 and 354
nien respectively. South Carolina
sullied 241 men, with the re-
malfhing 76 men enlisting through
the various military posts, camps,
and ^tions in the two states..
Th^pcal i^ub-station, which is
under ^risdjetion of the Char
lotte Main Station, enlisted a to
tal of 39 meq in July.
. Sgt. MorriSjOn said that special
emphasis had' been placed during
July on reaching the recent high
school. gradu^t£S With information
on the many opportunities open
to them in the Army.
.During the month of August
the ^Recruiting Service plans to
put the emphasis on the opportun
ities open to former servicemen
of the Navy, Marine Corps
and Coart Guard, . and has der
signaled August as “VJ” or “'Vet
erans Joining” mbnth throughout
North and South Carolina.
puta,d?^vy del
iifuve^ate,
(During '’fleconstruction Days
County Commissioners were in
session four days, and often lon
ger, the first of each month. They
debt on every county
least, all the coup-
'tids within my knowledge.
Before they adjourned a sfls
sion of yieir court’s;. they issupc.
scripts to pay themselves,-and
“script” was not worth fate va
lue, they made it for a greater
amount, so they could get enough
to live on till their next meeting
. IBie Legislature ■was in sessibn
the greater portion of the time
between 1865 and 1870. Members
paffl themselves mileage for each
time they ■went to their homes.
Our Representative rarel*y weni:
about te legislative halls; he went
to the capitol ■when he got out
of money and'liquor.
I liave said repeatedly that
pe^le do not sing so much as
they did fifty, or even twenty-
five, years ago. 'VVe San^ while
we worked oten. We sang morn
ing, noon and night. Black and
■white sang all the time.
People could sing more cor
rectly than they do now. They
se^ to wait to get the tone from
the instrument leading, and that
gives it a “drawn out” effect, ap
parently.
Praise is an essential, and as
much a duty as prayer. "Tiong as
they live should Christians pray,
for only «while they pray they
■live,”
We have so much for'which we
should be .thankful.'We can find
no way of giving our thanks for
these things so well es i» SING
ING. And singing .correctly is an
accomplishment worthy of our
greatest efforts.
Obediah -kept 100 prophets of
the Lord alive, hid in a cave for
a long time. He fed them on bread
and water,* these were common
articles of food. ^
People of our day are living
too extravagantly, thet is, spend
ing togi much for food, and are
suffering from indigestion.
. The Sandhill Citizen last week
pictured Halbert Blue standing
in the edge of his tobacco field,
the tobacco being as high as his
shoulders.
Tobacco Markets
(^n Lower With
DIVISION OF MARKETS
RELEASES OFFICIAL
CROP FIGURES
MySIERIOUS DEATJI OFJEGSO
ON HIGHWAY STILL UNSOLVED
879 a man named
Hunsuckerytnade boots-^and shoes
to order>«x his shop, in Carthage.
One flSpnday Mi Gas McKenzie,
a menrber of the board of Moore
County Commissioners broUjght
Mr. Hunsucker an order, McKenzie
thought, for a pair o boots from
John C. Currie, a neighbor, ahd
that note read, “Please let the boy,
Gas, pass arid repass ijntil tonight.”
Uncle Jug John McKinnon re
ceived an order one April*' 1st for
one hundred thousand 4-foot
boards and 100 thousand’ 3- foot
boards to cover, the State Prison,
then new. His friends could not
convince' hi^ if was not a gen
uine order from -the Governor.
He made and penned boards un
til he and his family really suf
fered for food and clothing. It
was an April Fool.
I think ! knew a rfian and his
son who ate the kernels of peach
seeds because they did not have
enough food. The ground was cov
ered, around a singletree with
peach seed cracked and emptied
peach kernels.
An ex-slave ^ woman, who” did
not want to work, roasted alive a
terrapin and after it was cooked,
she ate it all.
We rarely see a poor horse mow,
but I remember when there were
nothing but skeletons of hofses
the country over. Folks wfere fed
before the horses—^they ate plen
ty of grass, but that will not do
to keep up work horses. ^
Joe Daniels, a boy-editor in
Raleigh, .with his -grand children
visited the Sandhill peach section
last Week, went back to Raleigh
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TOBACLCO
Flue-cured tobacco sales got
underway on North and - South
Carolina Border markets Thurs-
t
day with average prices ranging
from 75 cents to 10.00 per hund
red under last year’s opening day
prices. Better quality tobaccos
showed - the greatest declinesj
Choice orange lugs were off 9.0|O
and good orange primings, off
W.OO. Most of the lug gra'des sold
Thursday were, off from 2.00 tO
9.00; prihiings, from 2.00 to 10.00;
cutters, ftom 4,00 to 8.00; and leaf,
around 5.00.
The gerieral quality of this
year’s opening day offerings was
not as good as last year’s open
ing. Fair to fine lugs and low, to
fair cutters made, up the bulk'
of the tobacco sold. Warehouses
with first sales reported a fairly
heavy volume of tobacco; how
ever, the overall volume was much
lighter. Many groves , in the area
still ha-ve tobacco Iro farn^,.
Thursday’s opening day aver
age of 48.88 per hundred was 3.60
under last year’s first-dsy aver
age. Prices for lugs and primings
dropped an additional 1.00 to
6.00 per hundred .Friday, _while
most of the Leaf and cutter grades
were steady “to" 1.00 lower. Lower
qualities in-these groups. showed
the greatest declines. The vplume
of sales was very light
markets, with quality - si
below opening day.
COTTON
Cotton closed, y^^ker
with ^JJDtmarkei
during the previous week. Futures
broke around 6.00 per bale earl*y
Friday under heavy liquidation
due to larger than expected Gov
ernment Cotton Crop Forecast.
However, 'part of the losses were
recovered in late trading. The
1947 crop was estimated at 11,
884,000 bal'^s, an increase of 3,
200,000. over the 1946 crop and
more than. 300,000 bales above the
average trade estitnate.
' grain
'Sharp breaks in spring wheat
prices and cohtinued advances in
corn were the outstanding features
in the . grain siturtion during the
week. Oats and grain sorghums
advanced with corn, while rye
prices dropped sharply- due to
increased offerings from the new
crop. Flax seed soybeans held a-
bout unchanged..Corn prices were
the highest on record at some
markets. Hot,''dry weather in the
'DVEiasissippi "V/alley. and Great
Plains threatened damage to the
new crop, -Which is now in a cri-
^.
tical stage.
LIVESTOCK
Strictly good and choice, steers,
along with choice heayy weight
cattle,, advanced again around 50
cents, per hundred at leading
middle western markets during
the week, while other- grades were
unevenly 50 cents to 1.00 lower
On Rocky Mount, North Caro
lina’s, auction livestock markets,
cattle prices .were about steady
with receipts heavy. ^ /
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
The movement of peaches, from
the Sandhills of North Carolina
continued heavy until -late in the
week. Large size Elberta peaches
opened.tire week in gpod demand;
however, prices dropped some
duririg the middle of the week end
closed about steady at the de-
Rephew Shaw Found Dead On U* S. 15-A
Last Saturday Night;
Indication C)f Cauro
Sheriff D. 'H. Hodgm stated yesterday that his investiga
tion had not disclosed any facts to enable him to state defin
itely what caused .4he death of Rephew Sha'w, colored man
whose body was found on the 'Fayetteville road near the
home of Lagy McNeill about
Judge Morris To
Preside At August
Superior Court
ABOUT FORTY CRIMINAL
AND CIVIL CASES
ARE DOCKETED
Superior court will convene
here next week to try the sum
mer’s accumulation of criminal
ahd civil cases. Presiding over
the term will be Judge Chester
Morris of Currituck, N. C.; for
mer.-solicitor of the First’judicial
district who was appointed to suc
ceed the late Judge C. Everett
Thompson; who' was murdered
in. his home at Eliza.beth City
early in the year.
This will ’by- the first time wo
men have been called for. jury
■duty in this county. T.^^'were-
drawn for service at .this terfti
of court along with 30 men.
The criminardoclpet has .14 dej
frindants bn it wfce for several
offenses, making a tqtal* of. about
30 criminal cases' to be tried. ,Of-;
fenses charged run from misde
meanors, in WhiA the recorder’s
court decisions are being appeal
ed, to a charge of murder in one
case. , - ^ • '
The murder case is that of the
State against Robert Hamilton,
who is charged with killing his
wife, Nubertha Hamilton, with a-
shotgun .at their home about six
miles south of here on . the night
of Friday, June 13. '
"(^he civil session. whjich 'will
follow the .criminal term imme
diately, includes a total of 11
cases for trial. On the civil ca
lendar are 6 divorce cases.
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4 miles'-from Raeford at about
11 o'clock last Saturday night,
August 9. '. .
Archie Clark, white man
who lives 'over near the C-umber-
lar.d cc'anty .line,’ saw the body,
det-ermi.ned it was Lifeless .and-te-
ported the matter to. local peace
officers.
Shaw’s remains were lying.- on
the pavement near ■* the north
side of the rode. Off the road On
that side was found a bottle of
wine with the seal still unbroken.
"When found there were some
OTuises on the head arid a cut' on
the chin. There was -very little
blood to be seen. ’ Officers, rtate
that there was. no dirt on the road
that would pro'oa'D'.y -have fallen.,
from a 'fehaer - TI. a car had hit
Shaw and t’nat there were no skid
or Other m.arks on the surface
of the'road.
Candidate Johnson
To Address Sheriffs
Carolina Beach, Aug. 12—Char
les M. Johnson, State treasurer
and candidate for Governor in the
1948 primary, will* be the. high
light speaker at a three-day con
vention of the North Carolina
Sheriffs Association which opens
here August 20.
For the rriost'part, law enforce
ment instruction _ classes and en
tertainment will, head the pro
gram, Johnson wjll speak at a
banquet on the second night of the
convention to an expected crowd
of several hundred sheriffs’ offi
cers and their families. , ■' ''
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Harry Greene attended a two
On Sunday -the remain's were
viewed by' a corner’s jury and '
when examined by them .with the '
j^irtanye :ji£. j5'l.:,imi€ftaker it
was found that many of Shaw’s
ribs, were broken and that the
pressure of being run over or of
a tremendous blo-w had caused
his heart to . actually burst. It was
also fpund that all his loss of
blood had been internal. The cor
oner’s jury continued their hear
ing ^in the case for one week, on .
the’’possibility of more evidence
appearing.
Shaw’s wife said that he had
left' about three p. m. Saturday
for Fayetteville to get a suit. ■
Sheriff Hodgin checked and found
that he had Stopped at the home
of Maitlanc^ Bridges, about 1-2
mile beyonj where he "was found,
at about 10 o’clock Saturday
night. Bridges.-was not at home
and his wife says that Shaw
Wanted him to take him to Rae
ford. 'When he found. Bridges-was =
not at home he said he would
walk on and left. She said he
acted, “peculiarly” and carried a
package. Officers found that his
feet were wet, due., they assmne,
to walking : in the dew-covered
grass , on the shoulder.
Sh;w lived on the farm of C.
L. Thomas ■wert of Raeford, was
married, and had .no children.
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COLLISION SATURDAY
day meeting of the State Wildlife
commission in Raleigh- Monday
and Tuesday.
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Neill A. McDonald attended a
meeting of the LaFayette Htghwby
Association in Hartsville yester-*
day.
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M. G. MANN ADDRESSES
COTTON GROWERS TODAY
M. G. Mann, manager of the
North Carolina Cotton Growers
dine. Small size peaches were .
, ,, X, 1-4. t) association, will speak ,to Hoke
dull throughout. Reports Srom;^ _ * 4.u„
Marketing. Specialists with
the' urembers of the association
at their annual meeting at the
j morning.
North Carolina Department of Ag- x-* iu-* . xu,
rictlture malted that practic-i ten-thirty Ms
ally all- of the pedches in the area
would be moved out around the
middle of next -week.
The movement of new
There was a slow-speed head-
on collision at about 12:45' p. m.
last Saturday in Raeford*-at the
corner of th®, old Dundarrach road
and Oil Mill road between a 1946
Chevrolet owned and operated by
the Rev. B. P. ftobinson andaiu
1936 Chevrolet ov^med and ope^
rated by Clifton Black, colored
man of the community.^^o person
al injuries resulted, but property
damage wa» (xAsiderable. Neither
was charg^ 'with careless and
reckless driving, b^t investigating
officers discovered that Black was
drving without a driver’s license
iind arrested him for that.
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PLACES IN DERBY
Charles Thomas, son of Dr, and
Mrs. C. D. Thomas of Black Moun-
j tain, recently won second place
Mr. Mann Is expected to speak I in the Soap Box Derby recently
to the farmers and others inter-. held in -Ai^eville. Dr. Thomas,
stochlasted on the subjects of price and and family wdH be rememboied
sweet potatoes from ihe- Caro
lina’s and 'Virginia iqcreased
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production outlook for cotton, its as recent residents of Sanat(Hrtai%
loan value, the warehouse situa-1 where he was assistant
tlon and other problems relating! tendent. Ho is now supaipiiiU
to cotton produdipn. 1 of the Black Mountain i