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St'Hr ^ " ■'- »■' ’ ■ ■*■' \ . ■: ■•.■’••■ -- • . • “f -, -* . ....•=; ■ ■ y^'r—iLv ' ■'■■'■• '.. ■ . •■ , ’ '''SJsifr• - .y J ;h-^r-f: #‘-. i -:, VOICE Of fRECDOM HOWE GUMtDIAN OF ilBERTY The Hpke County News VOICE OF FREEDOM OUMIM^ OfUtEITY The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLII NO. 29 THURSDAY, DECEMBER l|, 1947 RAEFORD, N. C. 92.00 PER YEAR RAEFORD REACH CROSSROADS TONIGHT )| All schools in Hoke county will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday, December 19. All Scliools wijll re-o^en for the new year on Monday,' December 29. The white schools of the county close on Friday at the fol lowing hours: Hoke High and Raeford Graded at .noon, Ashe- mont, Mildouson and Rockfish at 12:30 o’clock. Mildouson will have their Christmas program and tree which is put on by the school on Friday morning. All parents and friends are invited. The grade mothers of the Rae ford Graded school will have Christmas programs an dtrees for the students. Grades one to three will have their program and tree and grades four to seven wall have theirs sepe^ately. All of this will take place Friday morning. The Christmas program at Rockfish school will be given in the school auditorium Friday moniing, December 19, at ten o - clock. The program will consist of traditional^^ristmas carols and specials songs by different grades. Also there will be a ma rionette play, “'The Runawhy Doll,” presented* by th^e "fifth grade, using marionettes they 1,.... . A*- -.ry-^ .-’•■■7^. t'hfftT •ill ♦ . . . “l prCgrairi gifts that surrouird the large tree at the front of the-au- ^ ditorium will be-distributed. San ta Claus is expected to be pre- • sent in answer to quite a lew Ipt-^ ters requesting him to come. Each boy and girl. has written a letter and Santa' is expected to recognize those who have writ ten correct ones. The public is cordially invited to attend. The Raeford Graded school gift inboxes for the needy were fairly successful. They took in quite a ntimber. of gifts in money and toys. These were turned over to Mrs. Giles an dthe Boy Scouts helped her put them in shape. There was a meeting of the principals held in the office of the superintendent on Tuesday afternoon. Plans fo rthe Christ mas holidays were made and plans for a county-wide teachers '■ meetmg for December 30 were I (made. The eye clinic held last week on ■Wednesday and Thursday through the cooperation of the Health and Welfare depai’tments , and the (Continued on Page 4) 0- Carl H. Hendrix Die^ Suddenly; Is Buried Sunday Carl H. Hendrix, 40-year-old employee of the State Highway commission died suddenly at his home here qarly last Saturday mp!|ning of a heart attack. _ He and Mrs. Hendrix occupied an apartment in the home of Mrs. Jennie B. Weaver which they had moved into several weeks a- go. The deceased was a native of the 'Wagram section and a mem ber of the Spring Hill Baptist church. He had lived here sev eral years. Funeral services were conduct ed at three o’clock Sunday after noon at Spring Hill Baptist church by the Rev. J. D. Whisnant pastor, and burial followed in the Spring Hill cemetery. Surviving are his widow, ' the former Miss (Nelliie Blue of Hoke County, one brother, Charlie Hendrix of Hoke County, and one sister, Mrs. Luther Odom of Wagram. n Final Rites Held Here Sunday For Wilson McDiarmid glee club and band V«.GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT The Hoke County High school glee club and' band will present a joint concert in the High school auditorium tonight ■ at eight o - , dork" under the direction of Miss Blanche A. Owen'and W.,0. Mel- cne vin,, music and band teachers, re spectively. Much well known and inspira tional Christmas -music will be played and sung by the group, /Which will consist of approki- 'mately 90 instruments^apd yoices. No ''admission will he charged, but a free will offering will be accepted for the purchase of ad ditional'band uniforms. , -0 • TO HAVE CHICKEN SUPPER AT PARKER’S Parker’s Methodid church-will /•e a phicken and ^oyster sup- at the "Wayside .coihmuniity house tomorrow, t'riday, even ing beginning at five o’clock. The ]^ablic ia inyited to attend this af ^dr which is being held to raise funds to send a .delegate to the National Methodist Youth confer ence i,o be held in ’Cleveland,- cftiio. ■ Funeral services with military honors were held here at the Presbyterian church last Sunday afternoon at two-thirty for Wil son Hines McDiarmid, son of a Raeford native, who was killed on Normandy beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day ;in Europe. He was a son of the late Rev. Hector McDiarmid, a native of this county who went to the min from the *Raeford Presbyter ian church. The Hev. Mr. Me Diarmid died last year and was buried here. Mrs,. McDiarmid survives her son and lives in Greenville, N. C. Wilson was born in Rocky Mount, N. C., and was graduated from Davidson college in 1943, entering the Aripiy^the same year. ^ In additiop to his mother he is survived by one brother, Sam uel N. McDiarmid of N. C. State College, in Raleigh, ajid one sis ter, Mrs. Edwin Strasser of Cin cinnati, Ohio. Service was conducted by Dr. J. M. Boyd, of Laurinburg, a former, colleague of the Rev. Mc Diarmid, assisted by the Rev. W. B. Heyward, pastor of the Rae ford Presbyterian church, and the Rev. Clark, of Raleigh. Bur ial was in the Raeford cemetery. Military- honors were by. Battery A, local National Guard unit. 300 KIDS GREET SANTA TUESDAY As about everybody around here knows,-Santa Claus paid an advance visit to, this community on Tuesday afternoon. He stated that he plans to return again on the night of next Wednesday. On his arrival Claus flew up the Main street a time or two in his snappy Ercoupe and waved to the several hundred of his friends (and we are all his fri end's at this lime of, The year) standing in the street below wait ing for his arrival there. Shortly thereafter he arrived at the Col lins store in the fire truck being escorted by State Highway, Pa trolman Barnes. A loud speaker was playing “Jingle Bells” loud ly and the^ kids were yelling. The street between the theatre and Collins was about blocked by that time and Officers McQuage, Meeks and Barnes had their hands full, what with small two- legged traffic scurrying through large four to ten-wheeled traffic. Support Corporation Buys 16 Percent Of ’47 Weed Crop After a few; well chosen words of welcome by Mayor William L. Poole, Santa Claus addressed the crowd briefly over the public ad dress system foilowitog which he proceeded into the ijtore and be gan, pa5s4DS'rir«'^J_ij|^ gifts to the chifcheil', and uiscussing his next visit wL^h them. Irving Hubbard, Collins manager,, states that a few over 800 children received gifts •from Santa before he departed shortly before six o’clock. Mayor Poole thanked the Col lins store on behalf of the com- mi^nity for bringing Santa and expressed the hope that the whole community could get together and arrange for him to retuiya next year. asons Elect Tisal New Master A — B TIME SHORT Today, half of next 'Wednes day and December 31 will be the last opportunities Hoke county automobile drivers whose names begin with A or B will have to get their new drivers licensed before the old ones expire at midnight on December 31. The State depart ment of motor vehicles has annpunced that spot checks will be made^ by patrolmen after that time and those A or ^ drivers found without new li censes will hg-indicted- . I The last figure released by the department showed - that lonly a few over half of the li censed drivers in ^ the state |Whose names start with A or B had renewed their drivers licenses. All the others will ibe guilty of misdemeanors if they drive without new ones jafter midnight DgCQinber 31v. Walter Yow,' license exami ner who is at the (^ffhduse each Wednesday and 'Thurs day, is there today and will be there until noon next Wed nes- day, after which he will not return until Wednesday, De cember 31. J. L. Teal was elected master of Raeford Masonic Lodge at the regular meeting last week. He will succeed M. C. Dew whose term as master ends on December 31st. C. P. Kinlaw was. reelected Senior Warden, B. B. Cole re elected Junior Warden, and D. H. Hodgin reelected' Treasurer NeUl A. McDonald was elected Secre tary, and will! succeed Lacy F. Clark who has served _as secretary for about 15 years. J. W. McPhaul was elected assistant secretary. The Raeford Masonic / lodge originally ‘chartered as Galatia Lodge, begins its 78tlj year with the installation of the new officers at the first meeting in January. 0 Light Session In Recorder’s Court PRESBYTERIANS TO PRESENT CHRISTMAS MUSICAL. PROGRAM The combined junior and senior chqirs of he Raeford Presbsrter- ian' church will present the can tata, “The Shepherd’s Chriist- mas,” by Luvaas, in the church at five o’clock next Sunday af- ternon, December 21. The productoin will be ijnder the direction of Mis§ Alige Wal ker, director of music and yOung people’s activities in the church. At the service the annual “Joy Gift” isffering for aged ministers will be taken. 0 COURTHOUSE TO CLOSE The offices the Hoke coun ty courthouse -and the other coun ty offices win be closed next week from Tuesday afternoon^ until the following Monday, according to a statement yesterday by J. ,A. McGoog'an. ,The exception to this is the welfare office which will be open until noon on Wednes day. - As a result of the neardng Christmas season or the '-.absehce of Deputy Crawford Wright last week or for some dther unknown reason there was mighty little law breaking in the county last week, resultimg in an unusually brief session of recorder’s court before Judge Henry McDiarmid Tuesday. ‘ Mr. Stanley Sjrewczyk, white tourist of New Jersey was pulled for speeding, but did not stick a- round for trial or to help with the pronunciiaition of his name. His bond of $25 was forfeite^.^ Alexander Armstrong, c^red, was found guilty or reckless driv ing and sentenced to serve three months on the roads, sentence to be suspended on payment of $26 and the costs. , , , ' • Howard Linson Graham,'color ed of Fayetteville, paid $10 and the costs for speeding. Robert Atlas Wilson, white of (Continuned on Page 4) Over 215 million pounds,/or approximately 16 percent of the entire gross sales of the 1947 flue cured tobacco crop, have been purfchased by the Flue-cured Totfacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, L. T. Weeks, Secre tary of the Corporation, has an nounced. These purchases represent sales from all belts in the five flue- cured tobacco states through No vember 30. “After British withdrawal of buying, substantial purchases by the Stabilization were made”. Weeks said, “and during the week of December 1, total purchases a- mounted to over 26 pweerat of the gross sales.” s. The Corporation maintained its 90 percent of parity support price from the beginning to the, end 'of the marketing season and in the opinion of Weeks, “If it'had not been for the support programs operated through the Stabilization CorporatiK^, market averages would have declined drastically.” By November 30, the Stabili- ■zation had paid for over 204,000- 000 pounds of tobacco at a cost of $67,000,000, or an average of 33 cents per pound. Weeks explained that the 90 percent parity sup port price is prorated on a grade 'oasis “with each grade reflect- iing its own 90 percent of parity price.” “Practically all tobacc^ receiv ed by the Stabilization to date has been redried, placed in hogs heads and shipped to storage points,” he said. Membership since last year has increased from 80,000 to 297,214 farmers. The purchase of com mon stock at $5 per share en titles a flue-cured tobacco grow er to become a member of the Corporation and participate in its operations. “This money becomes capital stock funds,” Weeks add^d, “and is invested 'in Governrnent Se curities. It is not. used for the pur chase of tobacco ot to defray op erative or administrative costs of the Corporation.” 0 Group To Sing Christmas Music “The story of Christmas,” a Christmas cantata by Ellen Jane LorenS',will be "presented at the' Raeford Methodist church *feext Sunday evening, December 21, at seven-thirty -o’clock. ^ Th/. production iis under, the di rection of Mrs. C. E. Upchurch and is to be rendered by., the ^Senior and Junior choirs of-the OSaeford Methodist' ‘-church, assisted by Mrs.,, Thomas McLauchlin, Rob ert Gatlin and Martip McKeithan.' The chiirch-will be appropiate- ly decO:^ted for the season, anid all are invited to come and hear the Christmas story in ■ song. The offering will be applied to the organ fund of. ,the church. PUBLIC MEETING TO DECIDE: STATUS DUO OR PROGRESS? n'f Courthouse - 7:45^ Tonight American Wringer Co. Will Locate Plant Here If Community Backs Its Chamber Of Commerce The American Wringer Company ■ wr Woonsocket. Rhode Island, and the Raeford Chamber of Commerce have reach ed a tentative agreenaent for the company to locate a sub sidiary plant here. The Wringer company is ready to sign a contract, but the Chamber of Corrtmerce must have commun ity support and know that the businessrhen of the commun ity will be completely behind it before being able to sign for the community. First Home Games Of Basketball Season Tomorrow TRIPLE-HEADER STARTS AT SEVEN O’CLOCK IN LOCAL GYM Coach Haywood FaircLdh’s Hoke County High school basket ball teams play their first hc;rie ga.\;'es of the season in That, briefly, is the reason, for the meeting at the court house which has been called by Chamber President Crawford Thomas for seven-forty-five o’ clock tonight. That is also tiie reason that Thomas and other Chamber members urge every one who is interested in the com munity's future to attend the .-•leeting, as an}? evidence o‘ lack Cf. v.h’*erest rntii^ jpui^e poss bly be to the projtVt. The full details of the, propo sition to vvhic'n''the "'.Vringer Com- the High '■ P.suy and the Cham'cer of Gom- ■ci school gymnasium tomorrow | a'.erce liave agreed wni oe -re- night when they meet teams i vealed to the meeting tonight from Seventy-First High school:; s-.'' action will 'oe taken to close Three games will be,_played- to j^be deal if community sentiment morrow night with the junior j -S, favorable. varsity teams of boys starting-j The co.mpany already has pur- their game at seven o’clock, the | chased machinery for the plant varsity girls at eight and the var-and has it in storage. The Caro- sity boys at nine. FIRE DESTROYS HOMlf The home of’"Aaron and Ella Little,-^ coloreld' people who live on the farm of W. A. McLean a- bout three miles from Raeford with their five children, was de stroyed by fire of unknown ori gin in the early morning hours of last Saturday. Practically all the posVssio^ps of the -family were destroyedi The Littles have two girls, aged nine and 12, and three boys, aged ^six, four and two years. The ■family is in. desperate need of anything in the way of .wearing apparel or household goods of any kind and Mrs."C. H. Giles, coun ty superintendent of public • wel fare, has. stated that the county welfare office will be glad to re ceive and deliver any contribut ions which may be made for them. NEXT WEEK^S PAPER The News-Journal will ap-j pear on Wednesday morningj of next week instead of; Thursday as usual,^ewsj items' and advertisements ih>r the is-! ^sue must, therefoi^\j^^4'^ ^ Monday at the latest, except^ front page', items. Advertisers,! contributors and correspon-| dents are requested to coope rate and submit' all it^^ms on or before Saturday.^ where-this ice jPiossible. The. office will*be open all day Saturday of- tbis week. . The News-Journal office will |be closed the last four days of pext week. The local ^teams have been prac ticing since December- 1. Thirty aspirants for positions on the boys teams have been reporting and the coach is of the opinion that prospects are for a better sea son this year. He says that the re turn of Floyd Keith from the Marine Corps and the transfer of "Joe Smith from Red Springs will add materially—to—the'^'dut- look. Smith was a first string player for Red Springs "last year. Tina Power & Light Company has the necessary transformers, a Those returning who saw ac- tion last year are Bobby Murray, Joe &riledge. Bill Moses, Jack Legand Foster McBryde. An innovation this season is the beginning of a junior varsity- boys team and the scheduling of games for this team. This gives the 'younger boys game exper ience before reaching the varsity and will add to the strength and experience of the varsity teams in the future. The junior varsity players are from the eighth, ninr th and tenth grades. The prospects for the girls team are also much irpproved over last year! Among those re turning who saw action last sea son gre Marion Lewis,-Alice Sut ton Matheson, Kgtherifle'~lBlue, Dorothy ,,CaI].pway, Muriel Djivis, 'inaTrnafed*.’Glarkl~ ■ critical ite.m, on hand and is hold ing them for the proposed plant here. The plans for. the building are drawn and the materials are available. The Wringer company is anxious to get the plant built and in production and The Rae ford Chamber of Commerce is anxious for the sarrie thing—here. This will be possible in a mat ter of months if the meeting at the courthouse tonight is suc cessful. FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles I The 4-H Club pig show was a success last Saturday even though, the weather prohibited the pub lic from viewing them as they would Like. The 4-H Clhb^boys proved that they had idone a fair ly good job of feeding and mana ging their pigs. Five of the eight pigs were placed with the boys in July, and the other three plac ed only two weeks ago. J. C. Tew, Jr. won first place iin feeding and management oLriiis pig, auad re ceived twenty-five dollars as the prize. J. W. Caddell, Jr, and Wil liam Hales received twenty- dol lars each, as a prize. Harold Cur- Ne\v^''uHiforrhs for both girls [ Thomas McFadyen fe- and boys ^ have been purchased , ceived hifteen dollars ' each as and a new, electric clock and j prize. The three boys wh.o scoreboard have also been order- recently obtained their pioS re- ,;(|d and are expected after Christ- ; ceived ten dollars each, mas. These-will add conrider-! The 4-H pig show consisted of ably to spdtfra^rs enjoyinent of the eight pigs that were" placed the contests. Nineteen games have been scheduled, 12 here and seven away. 0 BAND CONCERT SUNDAY thb Hoke County , High e: sclSJm band will give a concert jof Christmas mu§ic at the Ep- Ihesus Baptist church. The public is cordially invited. by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation through its store in Eayettevdle. Foynda^ion purchased the pigs and through the cooperation of the Extension Service placed them with 4-H boys "cind will .V ., . , , , . c. J -c—-gwp-.them one year m which to At six 0 clock next Sunday af- " v- repay the purchase Pi'ice. After^^ the money has been repaid, other pigs wiU be purchased for oth^ 4-H COulk^ys. In this way, the (Contihued on Page 10) ■i
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