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The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLII NO. 23 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 19^7 RAEFORD, N. C. S2.00 PER TEAR f / Halloween camivala were all the rage last week. They-were at tended iby large and enthusiastic crowds. There were lots of in teresting events, games, etc, at each one. Ashemont cleared $202.00 on the one held there. Hoke-Raeford Graded took in $428.00 and Rock- fish netted $191.00. The most popular baby contest at Rockfish was probably the rnost successful individual event. It netted the school over $100.00. Everyone who attended these events got their money’s worth of enjoyment and entertainment and helped the schools with their programs. The Board of Education held its regular meeting Monday even ing at 7:30 o’clock. Tonight all white teachers in the county are being entertained by the Raeford Ki/wanis club at their annual teachers night ban quet. The teachers of the county appreciate this courtesy extended to them yearly by the Kiwanis club. Zeb Moss and Lauchlin Mac Donald, secretary and president respectively, of the Hoke High Key club attended the organiza tion of the Carolinas District of Key Clbbs in High Point last week end. W. F. Credie,. director of the Division of Schoolhouse Planning, •State Board of Education, Ral eigh, and H. M. Rowland, super intendent of the New Hanover county and Wilmington ■ City schools w e visitors at the local office this 'eek. iMiss Lora iMae McKenzie, ty pist for the Board of Education, is back at work after being' ill the latter part of last week. The Hoke County High school made its facilities available to the REA yesterday for their, an nual meeting. The Hoke High band played for the gathering for 30 minutes under the direction of W. O. Melvin. The music was Very much appreciated by the large crowd present. The social studies classes of the junior and senior classes were allowed to go to the auditorium to hear Sena tor W. B. Umstead, who was the main speaker of the occasion. On last Friday a county-wide colored teachers meeting was held at the Upchurch school. It was decided at this meeting to con tinue the short day schedule dur ing this week on account of the lateness of the crops. All schools will go., on regular schedule on next (Monday, November 10. Below is given the enrollment, the average daily attendance and percentage in attendance for the first month of the colored and Indian schools. McFarland 22, 14.715; 88; Buffalo 64, 32.9, 52; New Hope 55, 37.8, 68.8; Bridges Grove 50, 37.6, 70; Burlington 164, 107.7, 68;5; White Oak 72, 42, 69; Rockfish colored 60, 46.9, 52; Ed inburg 30, 19.8, 66.5; Peachmont 28, 15.5, 60.7; Tiinberland 52, 36.6, 70.8; Friendship 45, .25.8, 60.7; .Freedom 97, 43, 48; Bowmpre 8fl, 56.9, 70; Millside 53, 30, 50; Piney Bay 39, 14.5, 36; Lilly’s Chapel 46, 35, 80.5; Fryes (Mission 76, 55.7, 7'8; Shady Grove 42, 32.5, -77.3; Laurel Hill 96, 67, 72; Ujp- church Elementary 475, 348.3, 73.6; Ui«hurch High 201, 144.4, 742f; Antioch Indalan 51, 49.7, 97.4; Macedonia Indian 44, 37, 84. HOKE HIGH The ceiling of all the rooms in the high s!hool building are be ing painted white. The dowh'^ stairs class rooms have been com- ( Continued on page 4 ) 23 Tried Befor^ Judge Tuesday In Recorder’s Court LIQUOR CAUSES MOST TROUBLE, FIGHTING AND CARSFQI^OW In the longest session of Hoke county recorder’s court in quite a few weeks cases against 23 de fendants were disposed of before Judge Henry McDiarmid Tues day morning. Dave Koonce, white, was found not guilty of driving drunk. He was, however, found guilty of vi olating the prohibition laws. Sen tence was 30 days, suspended on payment of the costs. Sandy Hunt, -Tlobeson Indian, was found guilty of careless and reckless driving and speeding. Sentence was 90 days suspend^ on payment of $25 and the court costs. George L. Hales and Marshall Lunsford, both white, were char ged with violating the prohibi tion laws and Lunsford was also charged with being drunk and disorderly. Each got 30 days to be suspended cgi payment of the costs. Claud and Aline Baldwin and Artelia McNeill, all colored, were involved in a family disagree ment. Claud Baldwin got 30 days to be suspended- on payment of the costs for assault and the other two got the same sentence for participating in an affray. Herbert McKoy, colored, plead ed guilty of taking a car illegally and driving it without a license. 9Q-day sentence was suspended on payment of the costs and the repair bill for the car. Max Seagroves, Little . River white man, was guilty in two cas es of violating the game laws. In the first, for hunting on a lay day, he got a 30-day sentence suspend ed on payment of the costs. In the second, for killing a doe, he got 60 days, suspended' on payment of $50 and the costs and had his hunting license revoked for the remainder of the season. Ben Davis, white, entered a plea of guilty of forcible trespass in each oT two cases in which he was charged with larceny. The State accepted the pleas and sen tence of 90 days in each case was suspended on payment of the costs and on condition of good behavior for two years. S. J. Padgett, Fort Bragg white man, got 60 days suspended on payment of $100 and the , costs for driving a motorcycle while drunk and 30 days Suspended on payment of the costs for hauling liquor with the sealTjroken. R. C. Speece, white transient, paid the costs for violating the prohibition larws. Mrs. W, A. Haire Dies Suddenly; Funeral Today Mrs. Will A. Haire, lifelong res ident pi this section, died sudden- ly''^t approximately 12:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon while return ing to her home from Raeford. She was in a car with her daugh ter-in-law, Mrs. Ernest Haire, and was returning from a trip to the dentist shortly after noon. Just outside town on the Red Springs^'road she collapsed and Mrs. Ernest Haire turned around at the crossroads there and by the time they got to Dr. O’Brlant in Raeford she was dead, from a heart attack. Funeral services will be con ducted at three o’clock this after noon at Antioch Presbyterian church, of which Mrs. Haire was a member. 'Mrs. Haire was formerly Miss Julia Mclnnis, and she was a native of this section. She w"as the last member of her imme diate family to pass a'way. Surviving are her husband, of the home; two sons, Ernest of this county and John David of Red Springs; two daughters, Mrs. Janres Graham of Fayetteville and Mrs. Carson Clippard of Rae ford; and several grandchildren. 0 Rev. Wi L. Maness Attends Conference In Elizabeth City Rev. W. L. Maness left Wednes day morning to attend the North Carolina Conference of the Meth odist Church, in Elizabeth City. The conference will run through Sunday, closing with the reading of the appointments of ministers late Sunday afternoon. Jonesl^ro, 25-13, Friday, Night Tb PLAT ROCKINGHAM ri HIGH! TOMORROW AB!TERN00N' Coach Haywood Faircloth’s newly named Hoke High school ‘Eucks” ran like bucks for four touchdowns and their second vic tory of the season at Jonesboro last Friday night when they de feated Jonesboro High, 25-13. To morrow afternoon they play the strong Rockingham High team in Rockingham.^ In the ganle last Friday Jones boro started fast and scored a touchdown early in the first quar ter by completing two long passes in succession. After the next kickoff the Hoke team drove to the Jonesboro ten-yard line and lost the ball on downs. Jonesboro ran two plays and kicked and the Hoke team made another drive that resulted in a touchdown this time. Most of the ball-carrying was done by, Keith and Norton, with Norton crossing the goal. Norton also kicked the extra point. It was mostly a Hoke County game from that point on with MdMillian scoring the second touchdown and Keith the third. For road law violations James Purdie paid $10 and the costs for driving with improper brak es. James Griffin paid $10 and the costs for driving without a driv er’s license. Ernest Harrell paid the, costs for having improper equipment on his car. All are colored. 'f ’ James Glover, colored, paid the costs for assaulting his wife. In many respects Mr. Maness carried with him the best report of any year during his work with the local Methodist Church. There has been an increase in Church school enrollment, forty nine ac cessions to church membership, $14,825 raised on Church Build ing Funds, reaching the goal of $40,000.00 for the Raeford chiych; $430.00 to the Orphanage;' $1700 paid by the Woman’s Society of Christian Service; $1723.85 paid to the Methodist College Advance, and many other items that add up to a grand total raised during the year of $22,557.00. iMr. Maness’ was delighted with such a fine year’s work and ex pressed his deep appreciation to all who helped to maike such a splendid report possible. ,N - Conrad Barnard Funeral Friday j Conrad Barnard, former resi dent of Raeford who died in Hon olulu, T. H., while serving in the Army about three years ago, was reburied in the National ceme tery at Wilimington last Friday. The. rtmaiBs arrived in the United Slates with th^first ship load of Pacific war dead several weeks ago. E. F. Gibson got 30 days sus pended on payment' of the costs for giving Neill A. McDonald a bad check. He paid^e check also. John Howard McNeill, colored, got 60 d^ys suspended on pay ment of $56 and the costs for car rying a concealed weapon. Dock Jones and> Emma McLean, colored, Marion McPherson, In dian, and J. L. Crowley, white, each got a 30-day sentence su spended on payment of the costs for being drunk and disorderly. McPherson also paid the costs for affray. Essie Mae Grace, colored; was involved in the Same affray as Emma McLean and got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs for that and using profane and indecent language. i^Barnard was a son of Ml^»4md Mrs. JiiAn W. Conrad the late Barnard. He spent his youth here and made his home with Mrs. W. J. McQuage. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Barnard of Burgaw; two brothers, Oscar ^Skeet) Barnard of Fayetteville and^ Robert Barnard of Florida; and one sister, Mrs. James Lewis of Wilmington. making the score 19-6. In the final quarter with about three minutes to play Jonesboro, scored again, and made their ex tra point, making the score 19-13. After the kickoff McMillian went through the line from the Jones boro thirty to score and make the score 25 to l^Keith’s attempted conversion was bad. Outstanding defensively on the Hoke team were Blue, Lee, Mac Donald, Alexander and Sinclair. Substitutes included Huff, Niven, Whitley, Norton and Murray. —: 0— Colored Infant’s Body Is Found Buried In Woods Purnell Locklear, Indian who lives about five miles from Rae ford, on the Turnpike road, re ported this week that he had found the body of'a colored in fant buried near ’his home and that he had found it the first of last week. Investigation by the sheriff’s office disclosed that it was probably the child of Lillian Morris, who lives on Malcolm Walter’s farm. Lillian Morris, when questioned by officers, stated that her child had been stillborn on October 23 at about eleven p. m. and that she had arranged with John Ar chie Baldwin, who is kin, to her to take the remains to Mountain Grove church and bury them. (Mountain Grove is a church near the turnipike road a little beyond where the bo4y was found.) Baldwin told officers he got a little afraid to go in the grave yard at night, so he went info the woods and buried the child. Locklear apparently heard him and though he was burying li quor and went digging the next day. An inquest was held but was continued pending the uncovering of more information. 0 Former Governor Broughton Becomes Senate Candidate TWO ACCIDENTS; NO SERIOUS INJURIES At 12;45 a. m. last Sunday a Chevrolet truck oiwned by Mit chell Epstein and operated by James Purdie, entered highway 15-A at the colored cafe about a mile east of Raeford at the same time that a Chevrolet being driv en by Lucian G. Honeycutt of Florence, S. C. was. approaching. Ther^was a collision, resulting in no personal injuries and in considerable property damage, mostly to the car. The truck was found by the investigating patrol man to have had no brakes, and Purdie was arrested for dri’ving With no brakes. The other wreck took place at 7:00 a. m. Monday near the Rae ford Tourist court about a half- "mile farther out 15-A. A 1947 'Chevrolet sedan operated by E- dith Brenner of Washington, D. C. skidded for no reason that the patrolmen could discover, left the road and turned over. Miss Bren ner was 'unhurt, but three pas sengers were hospitalized for su perficial injuries. Kerr Scott Tb Preside At Important Meeting OscarJ'Bar^ard and Mrs. 'W. j. McQuage attended the funeral. 9 TO HOLD CLINIC An orthopaedic clinic wMl'be held Friday, November 7, 1947, in the basement of the Agricul tural Building in Lumberton. Dr. Lenox D. Baker of Duke Hokpitdl will be surgeon in charge. Please register at the desk betweea nkie and eleven o’clock, t Agriculture Commissioner W. Kerr Scott 'will preside over the 29th annual meeting of the Na tional Association of Commis sioners, Secretaries and Directors of AgriouUure at Biloxi, Miss., Nov.. 10-113. Scott, who is pjesi^pt of the Association, said he expected ag ricultural leaders from every state and several neighboring countries to attend the meeting, which will have unusual import ance because of the seriousness of the international food situa tion and the ' key role which A- merican farmers are. asked to play. The meeting will be addressed by a number of Federal officials, including Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton P. Anderson. Former Governor J. Melville Broughton, of Raleigh, formally announced his candidacy for the seat in the United States Senate now occupied by the Hon. W. B. Umstead in a prepared statement to the press of the state last Mon day. He also filed with the State Board of Elections on Monday,* His statement follows, in part. “It is still .more than six months before the primary and I do not contemplate beginning at this time any intensive campaign.xxx In the course of the course of the campaign next spring, I shall en deavor to visit every section of the State and will discuss the pro blems of greatest concern tb the people of the State and Nation. During .my term of office as Governor of North Carolina 1 en deavored to serve the people of the State to the best of my abil- iity. That record is before the people XXX The progress made is a matter of record, On this record and upon a pledge of con tinued, active interest in x x x causes of vital concern, I shall con fidently submit my candidacy to the people. The people of the State will de termine whether or not my exper ience and service as governor, le gislator and in other public cap acities qualify me to serve as their representative in the Senate of the United States." My cam paign will be addressed to the people. Guibernatoriial appoint ment, under the statute, has fill ed the temporary vacancy caused by death; but only the people by their votes can decide who will represent them in the Senate for the full term. If I am nominated and elected, as I confidently expect to be, I will owe no allegiance except to the people. T o their service and to the national welfare I -will ded icate aU the energy and ability I possess.” REA CO-OP HOLDS SEVENTH ANNUAL MEET; HEARS UMSTEAD November Term Superior Court Convenes Monday JUDGE CHESTER MORRIS TO HOLD CRIMINAL AND CIVIL TERM Judge Chester Morris, of Curri tuck, will be the presiding judge at the Noventber term of Hoke County Superior court which con venes here ^it ten o’clock next Monday morning, November 10, for the trial of criminal and civil cases. ‘Ibis will be the second time Judge 'Morris has been here, hav ing been on Ihe bench at'the A- pril term. Clerk of the Court John Cam eron was unable tjKsay yesterday whether or not court would be held on Tuesday, which is Ar mistice day. Court was recessed on Novemebr 11 last year, but it was on Monday then and falling on Tuesday this year puts iit right in the middle of the term. About ten criminal cases are on the docket and about a dozen civil cases, six of them divorce cases. Criminal cases will be tri ed first as usual. One murder case is on the doc ket, that in which Johnny Morri son, local colored man, is charged with the fetal shooting of Matt hew Graham, also colored^ in a ruckus' at- a beer hall north of Raeford on the night of Friday, October 10. Nine members of the last grand jury will serve and tiiere will be nine new ones. 43 jurors have been drawn and three women are inclu(^ed. Of 10 women drawn last term none served on a jury. The jury list follows. Neill A. McFadyen, Jim 'Wil liamson, John McKay Blue, L. C. StewartWoodrow Wilson, B. F. Overto'^^JTVT. Maultsby, John W. McPhaul, L. Phillips, E. L. Peele, Archie Byrnes, Bob Parks, H. W. Ellis, J. B. Mays, John D. Black, J. Roy Stewart, Smith Mc lnnis, Duncan Blue, Lacy McNeill, Melvin McDowell, O. C. Sanders, D. L. Moss, Edward Jarrell, A. A. Graham, -J. T. Dean, Jay McKen zie, Alton Potter, O. B. Israel, Malbern Edge, J. E. Wood, Ever- ette F. McBryde, Mrs. W. L. Maul tsby, D. R. Huff, W. N. McFadyen, Miss Mary Lee MoMUian, Mrs. W. L. Poole, W. B. Beckwith, Car- son Clippard, Stanley Adcox, D. M. McDougald, James T. Blue, W. C. Sellers, and P. R. Cloer. DEBT LIMIT INCREASED; AUTHORIZE MOVING OF HEAD OFFICE Mrs. McLauchlin Is Buried Here The rat control ;^ampaign -will be conducted in Hoke'County pn Wednesday, November 19th. Or ders must be in the county agfet’s office by November 16. The bait is prepared the day of the cam paign, and put up in three pound packages for $1.00. Red Squill is the. killing agent, and therefore is not poison to domestic animals. f ( Continued on pa|e 4 ) Mrs. .Mary Gidlis McLauchlin, (wife of Daniel A. McLauchlin of Vass, died at Moore County hospital at 9:50 Wednesday morn ing, October 23, after an illness of about ten days. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home in Vass at three o’clock Thursday afternoon and she was buried in the family plot in the Raeford" cemetery. Surviving is her husband and one sister, Mrs. W. F. Waiters, of Raeford. SQUARE DANCE AT ARMORY WEDNESDAY It was announced this week that the fiirst of a series of square dances would be heki at the Ar mory here next Wednesi^y night, Novemiber 12, from eight until midnight. The musk will be fur nished by one of the county’s fin est string bands, according to Dan Mclnnis, and the proceeds of^the affair will go to the unit fund of Battery “A”, local National Guard outfit which is presently occupying the armory. The Lumbee'^ Ri-ver Elec'tric Membership Corpo.’-ation .at its seventh annual .meeting here yes terday, elected its new- Board of directors for the - coming year, voted to increase the debt limi tation from SI.500,000 to $5,- 000,000 and aathorized the board of directors to move the princi pal office building from Raeford to Red Springs when the proposed office building is available. Approximately four hundred members and their friends attend- ied the meeting. This compared with approximately 200 at the last meeting a year ago. The present board of directors were all reelected with the ex ception of Lambert Lewis, of Pembroke, who was repia-ced by Perry Leggett of Fairmont. Mr. Leggett was elected in order to achieve a better territorial repre sentation on the board. The principal speaker at the rrieeting was United Stat-es Sena tor William B. Umstead of Dur ham, who talked about rural e- lectrification and what the gov ernment has done and is doing for the rural people in both rural electrification and in the field of agriculture. The meeting was called to or der by C. A. .\i:ord. Presfflent, who also reported .an the work_„ accompIishecTSy the co-c-p durSig the past year. The cooperative is now operating 900 miles of Line . and serving 3000 rural consumers in the counties of Hoke, Robeson, Scotland and Cumberland; of the total of 51,082,349.03 borrowed fnom^the Rural Electrification Administration since July 3, 1940, it has repaid $32,72329 of princi pal and interest including $21,- 340.64 paid in advance of the date due. Many attendance prizes were drawn by lucky winners including the Maytag washing machine won by Effie J. McCall of Route 3, Red Springs, electric iron by W. M. Brock of Route 2, Raeford, heat ing pad by Mrs. L. M. Chason, Lumber Bridge. The prizes drawn by proxy mailed in were a fan by F. A. Humphrey, Route 2, Red Springs; electric fence unit, Mar tin T. BfcKinnon, Route 2, Laur- inburg; and trouble lamp by Sad dle Tree Grange. The steady growth of RBA- financed cooperatives during the past 12 years has developed a firm foundation for better and more complete rural electrifica tion in the future for Nwrth Car olina and the nation. Senator Umstead said. The Senator predicted that REA groups and private power com panies will’ continue to expand fheir services until they have ser ved most of the farm, non-farm rural homes and rural establish ments in their areas and "he point ed out that the growth of tiie ru ral electrification prq^ram has stimulated the expansion of rural service by private power com panies, whose lines now are ser ving many thousands of farmers. North Carolina reflets the pro gress resulting from the sound business methods and planning of the federal rural electrification pro gram, he said. "When the program began in 1935, there were appro ximately 1,884 miles of electric distribution lines serving 11,588 rural customers. Today there are over 45,000 miles ’of power lines serving more than 246,000 rural customers in North Carolina. The Liumbee River organization was praised by the Senator for “the fine job of rural electrifi cation you have done in this sec tion of the state. It is a genuUM tribute to your will and detvRnin- ation to jbring to your l||;oma8 aod I i*,. -IH .'A*'! O' fam^ the coaveaieaeo»%n(i btft' efiti of electricity.”