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ADDENDA
By The Editor
NATIONAL GUARD PAY checks
arrived this wedc ^pr members ot
' Battery “A”. The ched&s will be
distributed by an officer of^the
battery between 5:3(0 and 6:00 o’
clock this afternoon (Thursday)
at the armory. Those of the men
who do snot appear for their
money at the armory this after
noon' will be paid at drill next
Monday.
DEEP-SEA fishing today are
seven citizens of this community
who departed yesterday for More-
head 'City where they expect to
take a boat today for the Gulf
stream. They . are Lacy Clark,
Marcus Smith, Doug MicLeod, W.
J. Coates, R. L. Carter, Harry
Greene and Benton Thomas. ,
REVIVAL SERVICES will start at
Ephesus Baptist ,church on Sun
day nighit at 8:00 o’clock and wiU
be held each niight next Week at
that time. The Rev. L. L. John
son of Magnolia will be the min
ister.
THE FAI^ BUREAU will hold a
five-county meeting in the Rae-
ford Graded school building here
at 10:00 o’clock on the morning
of Tuesday, Septemiber 2, accord
ing to an announcement mad5
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yesterday by A. S. Knowles, coun
ty farm agent. Hoke,' Harnett,
Cumiberland, Roib^n and Scot
land counties will ibe represented
by Farm Bureau leaders who will
discuss farm problems and plan
a memibership drive to be conduct-
■ ed next month.
V MISS ALICE COPELAND, of A-
Jioskie. is the new ' vocational
home economics teacher at Hoke
County High school. Miss Cope
land has arrived in Bae(ord and is
living in the home of Mrs. W. T.
Covington. On Tuesday afternoon
she went to Rockingham where
1 there was a meeting of vocational
home economics teachers from
Richmond, Scotland and Hoke
Counties.
PRINCIPALS of the white schools
of the county will meet at 3:00
p. m. next Wednesday in the office
of the board of education, K. A.
MacDonald, county superinten
dent, said yesterday. Among ot-
^ her things the principals are ex-
.pected to decide on the hours of
^school during the first two weeks
of the next term. There will be
3Sco£mty-,wide teachers meeting
at Hoke High school at 8:00 p. m.
September 9. ■
Dixon Indicted
For Break-In
POSTS $500 BOND FOR
APPEARANCE AT NEXT
TtaiM OF COURT
The 'Hoke County GHrand Jury
returned as a true bill an indict
ment agaipst Roger Dixon,Ideal
white man, this week. The indict
ment was signed by Solicitor F.
Ertel Carlyle and alleged that
Dixon did 'break and’ enter the
home of Dewey Howell here on
July 23, 1947 “with the felonious
intent to oommit other infamous
crimes in said dwelling house and
building.” ' “
Dixon posted a bond of $500
for his appearance for trial at the
Nov^nilber term of Superior court.
Deivvey Howell has Stated that
Dixon jerked a latched ' screen
door loose and entered hie home
at around four-(thirty on the morn
ing of Wednesday, July 23. Ho-
ell says be fac^ him in the
shaded light of early morning in
his hall with a pistol and almost
shot him before hie wife recog
nized him and told him not to
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Mrs* BaAtcom’s
Father Dies
In Charlotte
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Funeral /Tuesday
Dr. H. C. Taylor, a pronunent
Chai^otte physician whq has been
practicing there since 19Q1, died
Sunday afternoon at four o’clock
in a Charlotte hospital following
an exitended^iUness of five years.
Funeral - services were held
Tue^ay morning at 11:00 o’clock
in the chapel of Douglas and ^ing
with the Rev. W. A. Stephenson,
pastor of - the Durham Memorial
Baptist church of Charlotte, offi
ciating. Pallbearers were deacons
of the chprch of which Dr. Taylor
was a memiber.
Interment followed’ in Forest
Lawn, cemetery in Charlotte.
A native of "Cherokee county
and the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. H. N. Taylor of Murphy, Dr.
Taylor was married in 1896 to {he
former Miss Mintie Hall of near
Murphy. On August 30 of this
year the couple were to have cel
ebrated Their 51st wedding anni
versary. . • j
Dr. Taylor is survived by his
wife, two chijldren', M!rs. Nelda
,T. Baucom of Raeford and G. HaU,
Taylor of Atlanta, Ga.; two brot
hers aiid) three grandchildren.
CRlMpi TERM OF COURT ENDS;
HAMILTON GETS LONti STRETCH
PHILIPPI Presbyterian church
will n'bt have a Sunday afternoon
worship service on either of the
next two Sundays., In the church
J noticed on page seven of this is
sue it is erroneously stated that
the Rev. W. B. Heyward will
preach at 4:15 p. m.
REy. L.' A. MicLAURIN,' former
' pastor of the Raeford Presbyteefan
church, will preach there on
^Sunday morning, August 31. The
lev. Roscoe Prince, pastor of the
fihehurst Community church will
the preacher next Sunday.
NO erased the car of
A. B. HallJ^nwired Naval officer
of Jacksonville, Florida, to keep
moving when it got to the corner
of Main Street and the Fayette
ville road at about 2:09 o’clock
Mlonday afternoon. Hall was un-
Jo stop, so he turned up
strC.et and into the front of
store building until recently
occupied (by McDiarmid Funeral
Home. The point of iiripact was
about 2 feet *to the left of the
door and the sound of the crash
‘was great. The door and glass
f^p|i^!frame was carried in about a foot
, and the glass •was' broken on both
sMes of the door and also above
it. Damaged was estimated at be
tween ^even and eight hundred
dollars and was covered by lia
bility insurance. ' / '
The August teim of Hoke Coun
ty Superior court for the trial of
civil and criminal ^ cases conven-i
ed here Monday m'orning with
Judge Chester Motris, of CurriH
tuck, presiding. The criminal part
of the Session was'completed yes
terday afternoon -when Robert
Hamilton, colored, entered a plea'
of guilty of second-'degree.murder
for shooting his wife at theiir
home albout six miles south of
here on the night of.Friday, Jtme
13.
The -State accepted Hamilton’s
plea and Judge Morris sentenced
hint to serve 24 years in the State
penitentiary in Raleigh. -
Max Bethune Maultsby, ■white
man charged with attempted
breaking and entering, entered^
a 'plea of guilty of forcible tres
pass. The State accepted this plea
and sentence was 12 to 15 mon
ths on the roads ..suspended on
payment of $150 to Mrs. Taylor,
the prosecuting witness, and he
was placed on probation for three
years during which time he must
abstain from alcoholic beverage
and remain off of Mrs. Taylor’s
pregiises.
The cases against James and
Shelton Faulk for. violatihg the
prohibition laws were continued
until the next term due to the
absence of a State’s witness.
Lonnie T. Brady, colored, was
charged with assaulting E. K.
Fiirmage with a deadly weapon
•with intent to kill him. His plea
of assault with a deadly weapon
was accepted and'Sentence of 18
months was suspended on pay
ment -of $290 to Furmage. Defen
dant was placed oh probation for
three years.
Miattheiw Phair. colored, was
found guilty of assaulting his
father-in-law with a deadly wea
pon with aptent to kill him- Seh-
tence ■was 12 to 18 months on the
roads.
The juryJ'returned'a verdict of
guilty with a recommendation
to/ mercy in the case in which
Boyd J. "Walters, white, ■was char-
ged(|with indecent exposure. Judge
Morris sentenced him to \ months
in this case to serve concurrently
with the sentences from Record
er’s court hd •Will serve, making
a total of 12 months. The judge
also directed that Waiters be
givep a thorough niental and phy»-
sical examination by the Staijt'e and
that he be given such treatment
as found necessary,
Jesse James McNeiiU', colored
man charged in two cases ■with'
breaking and entering, pleaded
guilty and sentence was 18 months
on the roads.
WilljC^^fepmas, colored (boy who
stole BOffrfe/Thoney from the safe
at Fakugrs’ Furnishing company,
•leaded guilty of breaking and
e'jfiterimg and larceny and got 12
onths on the roads.
Allene Thomas, colored, was
convicted of assault with a deadly
weapon inflicting serious bodily
injury. She was found guilty of
throwing a pot of scalding water
on J. Herbert McArthur. She was
senteiiced to serve six months in
jail. ,
Robert McNair, colored man
charged with breaking into the
smokehouse of J. C. Thomas at
Antioch and removing a quant
ity of meat therefrom, w.^s f^rund
guilty and sentenced t(P serve two
and one-haM to three years on
the roads.
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REV. W. L. CLEGG TO
PREACH SUNDAY
Rev. W. L. Clegg will preach
and hold^he fourth quarterly con
ference at the Raeford Methodist
Church Sunday morning, Zane
Gray Norton will ask the con
ference for a recommendation for
license* to preach. Mr. Clegg will
be with Mr. Maness in services
at Community'Chapel Sunday af
ternoon at 3:90 o’clock ahd Sunday
evening at 7:30.
CARPENTER INFANT DIES
David Lee Carpenter, six-mon
ths old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mil-
Ton Carpenter of EUerbe, died in
a Fayetteville, hospital last Hriday
morping. Funeral services were
conducted Saturday afternoon at
the home of his grandmother, Mrs.
Joh^D. Graham, here by Rev.
C. ^Thrift of EUertbe and the
Rev. W. L. Maness and the Rev.
B. P. Robinson of Raeford. J^urdal
was "in the Raeford cemetery.
Surviving are his parents and
four brothers. MrSi(..Carpenter was
flormerly Miss Willa Graham of
Raeford.
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CORRECTION
An/advertisement on pag^6
of . This issue for the Fayette
ville Tobacco Market incorrect
ly states that the first sale
Monday will\be at the’Cape
Fear Warehouse and the sec
ond sale, at I th^Cumlberland
County Warehouse. This ^hould
read First Sale at, the Cumber
land County warehouse -and.
Second Sale at , the Cape Fear
Warehouse. '
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DISCUSS MEASURES TO
OFFSET EXPECTED
CORN SHORTAGE
A grain feed emergency that
may cause large numbers of Nor
th Carolina farmers to dragtin
cally reduce their herds and flocks
during the next twelve months
prompted Dr. I. O. Schadb, direc
tor of the State College Extension
Service to call an important meet
ing this morning to determine
what measures could be taken in
this state* to offset what may be
the nation’s shortest ebrn crop
since 1941, '
Department heads and special
ists from State College, the Ex
tension Service and the Experi
ment Station met with Ddreetpr
Schaub, L. D. Baver, director of
Grand Jury Reports
On Its Activity;
At AuRust^Term
All True Bills
Following IS the report of the
Grand Jury to the judge at the
August term of Hoke County Su
perior court: V ,
We^ the Grand Jury of Hoke-
county passed op 19 bills of in
dictment and returned 19 true
bills. We made an effort to have
the Superintendent of Welfare
to report, but she was not in town.
K. A. MacDonald, Superinten
dent of schoc^is, made a report on
the school busses and reported
them to be in good condition,
recommended that the State High
way Patrolman inspect these
busses^before school opens.
Plumbing oa^ both floors in the
jail needs attention. Water on the
second- floor is coming through
on the first floor. One screen win?
dow is needed on the first floor.
We also recommended that the
ceiling on" the first floor be re^
the N. C. Experiment Statiqn and
dean of the School of Agricul^u^^H^red. This 'i t^e third time we
D. S, Cbltrane, assistant commis
sioner of agriculture, E. Y. Floyd,
of the, Plant Food Institute, and
H. A. Patten, assistant PMA (E-
rector,
Explainiing the ^ort supply in
terms of grain feed. Jack*Kelley,
Extension Anipial Husbandry
specialist, . told/ the group there
■would (be plenty of meat this fall.
“The shortage will come next
year,” he forecast, “if producers
sell breeding stock to. save corn.’
His statements were supported
by mention, of an instance in Nor
th Carolina where hog raisers had
contracted for entire com crops
in advance for high as $3.00 a
bushel. ■ ;
J. A. ^Atfey, in charge of Dairy
Extension, told of the need for
more fall, winter and spring graz
ing to save graip feed- and to cut
the corts of milk production in
the face of record high prices for
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have reported that the plumbing
was in need of repair.
The courthouse was found in
good order, with the exception
of the vault or record,room com
nected to the Register of Deeds
office. The floor here'^is 'badly in
need of being swept. We also re
commended that the windows in
the epurt room be weather-strip
pej| and new shades be put**up on
the south side of the court room.
(Reports were' received from the
Mayor of Raeford and from Mrs.
Helen S. Barington, Justice of
the peace, and both wefe found
in order. . v
We wiish to express our appre-
eiatiom to His Honor, Judge Ches
ter Morris, and Solicitor F. Ertel
Carlyle for their help and court
esy to us-in the transaction of the
business before us.
-Clarence Lytch, Foreman
D. J. Campbell, Clerk.
Poole’s Medley
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
The first mail route 'I knew
anything about was from Mt.
Gilead to Fayetteville and return,
once a week. A man named An
drews was carrier and we received
“The Fayetteville Observer”, .a
weekly newspaiper.
(Mother sent some few dozen
eggs by Andrews to sell ,fDr her
and get some needed articles.
Ancirews travelled in a “sulkey”,
something like a road cart of
later invention. He broke all the
eggs,,mother got 0.
"When"" I saw Fayetteville in
November, 1858 there were Fed
eral soldiiers quartered-in a four-
story block of buildings on the
east side of Hay street, at the foot
of Haymount. President Hayes
ordered the, troops removed, or
withdrawn- from the South in 1876.
The city of FayettevjUe tried
to keep their streets ip good or
der, but no part of the state had
good roads until recent years.
Soil roads are an impossibility in
the flat country, or clay soils.
Eastern North Carolina wasted;
mijllions trying to have good roads
in flat or filay country.
*' have been told that 'modern
educators fdrbiid memorizing a’ny-
thing. I think memorizing is a
delightful, and useful 'accomp
lishment. We memorized Scripture,
Psalms especially and hymns. 1
memorized quite a number, and
when I am not asleep, I' repeat
many of these.
Uncle Willis was the . counter--
part of “Uncle Remus”. He^ was
a -cripple from birth and he told
•me many interesting tales.
Uncle Tom and Aunt Winner
were Grandfather Ray’s slaves,
parents of five daughters and
tj3-ree -granddaughters, ,and only
two' sons, Henry and Willis.
Two of those daughters were
hlfM^out for a few years during
the War ^utx they were not far
away. Grandfather never sold
any of them. He treated his slaves
as well as his children. Were they
living they would say so. Nearly
the whole fannily connection of sla
ves died of tuberculosis in a few
years. ■ •
/ We have gotten rid of' house
flies, pretty nearly, so now if w*
can kill' out gnats, we wjll bq, rid
of our chirf,^ource 6f apnoyance.
'Uncle Willis would come to the
home of any of the Ray connec
tion and stay as, long as he liked,
then go some place else. He told
me numbers of storiep of narrow
escapes from bears and Negroes
guarding ■ cornfields. ,
Uncle Willis could hardly keep
his feet unless he propped on his
stick, or hoehandle, and' when I
boxed with. hign. I sometinqes
knocked Mm down, and that was
great fun Tor both of us. He had
strong arms, and he knocked me
flat many times, but not for the
count. .
John Bruce owned no slaves.
He lived three hundred yards
from Father’s and he hired some
of grandfather’s slaves. Millie was
mother’s help, apd Lum was her
plowiboy and we boys’ boss. Both
stayed on for two years after
Freed(E)i;[i. '
Aunt Winnie ,,^bossed mother’s
children just'as she did her own.
Aunt Winnie never lacked for any
thing while she lived. Her young
Mistresses saw to that.
CHAMBER Of COHMtRCE WIU
CONDUCT MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Hunting Seasoni
Are Announced
ife Group
SECRETARY’S SELECTION
STILL PENDS AFTER
DIRECTORS MEET
DATES AND BAG LIMITS
PRACTICALLY SAME
AS LAST YEAR
Huntng seasons and bag limiits
for 1947-48 which are substanti
ally 'the same as those in effect
last year have been ,^announced,
by the North Caroltea^ W-jJdlife
Resources Commission. The sea
sons and linjits were set ■ after a
public hearir^ in Raleigh. .
A major change for this year
win open the deer season in parts
of six western counties after a
'one-year suspension because of
the State’s deer trapping ■-•and
transplanting program. The Com
mission voted to stop trapping on
the Pisgah Game Preserve and on
the Mt. Mitchell Wildlife "Mana
gement Area. A public hunt will
be held on Pisgah, rules and dates
for which wiU be announced.
The Commission approved no
hunt for Mt. Mitchell.
As usual, only male deer may
be killed legally in any section
of the State. The Commission" this
year added a regulation that “deer
must have antlers plainly visible
to the hunter.”
■ The eastern deer season will
run from Oct. 6 through Jan. 1.
The dail5%4H^'^ one and
the s^on .lirnit two. A split week
and staggered lay days will be
effect ■ in a number of eastern
counties. In the west, deer hunt
ing will be open in .parts of Bun-,
combe, Hendersom, and Haywood-
counties, and in all of Transyl
vania, from Nov. Iff through Nov.
29. Parts of McDowell and Yancey
counties will 'be open on Nov. 10,
11, 12, 20, 21, and 22. The season
limit will be one- deer in the west
ern counties.
«k
The quail season will open on
Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), as
is customary, afid wiU continue
through Jan. 31. The Commission
continued the daily bag limit of
eight and the seawn limit of 150.
Lay days for quail—^witi hrintaivg
aUoWed only on Tuesdays, Thurs
days, and Saturdays—^will be in
effect in 26 eastern counties.
-After a meeting of the directors
of the Raeford Chamber of Com-
mCTce on Tuesday Crawford
Thomas, president of the Chamber,
announced that plans had been
m'ade for an intensive campaign
to get all 'businesses and indivi
duals in the community and over
the county to become members
of the ,^rganiZation.
He stated that tjhe directors had
decided for t’ne drive to start
next Monday, August 25, and that
the committee which had be4n
appointed to handle the member
ship was made up of Lacy Clark,
chairman, Neill A. McDonald,
Israel Mann and Marion Gatiiin.
The directors at their
still made no announcement as^
the appointment and engagement
of a secretary for the body. This
is being delayed in an ■effort by
the board to obtain the services
of a person 'whose fitness and-*cap-
acity for the position are super
lative.!
The Chamber of Commerce re
ceived ite charter from the Sec
retary of State recently and is a
corporation. The by-la-ws of the -
organization allow four classes of
memibership and set a different
minimum con-tribution for mem--
bership in each class. Two of
these inoluae- cor^raticHis, firms
or pitjrcnei'Ships-OfV
tais, one includes professional
people and another ilidividuals
who ma^ wish to be-vnsembers."
Eleven farmers have registered
to go on the tour to the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture Experi
ment Station at Beltsville, Md.
Those farmers wishing to go on
this tour are asked to indicate
this at the County .Agent’s office
on or before September 1. The
tour will start September 22.
The daily bag limit for rabbits
was reduced from 10 to eight. The
season for rabbits will open in the
east on Thianksgiving Day and
contimue through Jan. 81, and in
the west extend from Nov. 27
through Jan. 1.
- Two counties— Anson.--and
"Wake—^were added to last year’s
list of 15 in which himting for
wild turkeys will be allowed. Bag
limits will be the same in all open
counties-i-one a day, two for the
season. The season ■wiR run from
Nov. 21 through Jan. 15 in five
counties—^Bertie, Halifax, Martin,
Washington, and Northampton—
and from Nov. 27 through Jan. 1
in the others— Anson, Chatham,
Durham, Granville, Hpke, Lee
Montgomery, Moore, Orange. Per
son, Richmond, and Wake.
As usual,, the squirrel season
in the west will c(pen Sept. 15,
and wil run through Dec. 15. In
the Piedmont and east, the sea
sons this year will be more sec-
tionahzed than ever before, ‘with
varying gening dates and with
lay days in effect in some counties.
The bear season will extend
from Oct. 13 through Jan^ 1, ■with
staggered lay ^ys set up for 10
southeastern ({ou)aties. The Russi
an wUd boalr^iSeason will cover
Oct. 15 .through Jan. 1. The ruffed
grouse season wiR be from Nov.
27 through Jan. 1. '
• Hunting for op^sums and rac
coons with gun and dogs will ex
tend from Oct. 15 througK Feb. 11.
bcl’t ?reevil are in almost every
cotton field in Drge numbers. If
too much damtage has iv>'t alrsadlT
been done to young bolls, control
methods should be employed.
Bolls must be 15 to 20 days old
before they-are safe from the at
tack of ■weevil. Control methods
are necessary until cotton quits
blooming and until bolls begin
to speck. ^
The cotton "boll worm has been
observed in several fields during
the last few days. "Where they
appear in large ^tfiumibers, control
with Benzene Hexachloride is
advisable.
There have appeared more
different diseases and - insects on
tobacco this year ttian for a num
ber of years. The more common
diseases appearing are root knot,
leaf spot, hollow stem, and leaf
mosde. Insects other than the us
ual 'horn worm and bud worm are
the tobacco split .worm and to
bacco suck Cy. The tobacco split
worm is' the same as the Irish
Potato talber worm. To control
this pest, it\will be necessary to
control the potato tuber moth
which usually appears in stored
Irish potatoes.
The Extension Service is mak
ing a record"" of burned tobacco
barns again this year so that a
study can be made to determine ’
the chief; cause of fires. Fanners
that have the unfortunate luck
to have, a barn to (bum are asked
to report this to the County A-
gent’s office! jBy cooperating
this effort, jt may . be that daot-
gerous curers can
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