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FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
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Cotton farmers will want to
remember that a Cotton Produc
tion and boil weevil control meet
ing will be held at the Court
House in Raeford on Wednesday,
February 18, at 2:00 p. m. This
meeting will be for the benefit, of
all cotton farmers desiring to
make greater yields of their cot
ton crop. Mr. J. A.''Shanklin, Ex
tension Cotton - Speci^istj BJr.
Dan Holler, Extension Cotton Mar-
ketimg Specialist; Mr: J. T. Conner,
Jr., Extension Entomologist; and
others will lead th® discussion on
Production prOiblems and boll
weevil control methods, Cotton
farmers are especially urged to
attend to help work out a practi
cal program for Hoke County. The
interest in this meeting may de
termine the extent of cotton pro
duction progress in this County
The future production of cotton
is facing many problems and it
may take the bulk of our farmers
working in unison to solve them
'ouple Arrested
or Holdup Last
Saturday A. M.
MAN AND WIFE HELD
FOR ROBBERY OF
TAXICAB DRIVER
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It is regretable that the series
of meetings scheduled for this
week had to be postponed because
of the bad weather. Those sche
duled for next week will be held
if the weather is favorable. The
OUTLOOK meetings will be as
follows: McLauchlin Township at
Wayside Community House Mon
day, February 16; and Rockfish
Community House on Tuesday
February 17. Stonewall Township
at Mildouson School on ,. Wednes
day, February 18; and Raeforc
Township a,|- the
ings will be at 7:30 p. m. Motion
pictures will be shown at each
meeting.
Charged with slugging and rob
bing a taxi driver. Pvt. Johnny
Hookano', of Fort Bragg, and his
wiife are lodged in the Hoke Coun
1;y jail. Hookano was described as
being a Hawaiian.
Marvin D. West, driver for the
Safety Taxli company of Fayette
ville, told police the couple en
gaged him last Saturday morning
at 3:30 to drive them to Raeford.
About 10 miles from Raeford (in
Hoke county) he said the woman
said she was cold and he stopper
so that she could move to the
front seat. Shortly thereafter Wes1:
said the man struck him and put
his arm around his neck and told
the woman to get his money. ^
He said that after they had taken
$S8 from hiim he . managed to
break away, taking the car keys.
He stopped at a house and called
for officers and when they got
there the Hookanos were gone.
The cab was still there unhurt.
Fayetteville police traced them
to a cafe in Fayetteville where they
found Hookano using a telephone.
They said he fled into the kit
chen where he was arrested. His
wife was taken into custody at
tkeir rooming place and both were
identified by the driver.
They were brought to Raeford
by Rural Policemen Wright and
price and Deputy sheriff Dees, and
Ileal officers state that they have
^bnfessfer the crime.
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TAPP MAKES “STATE”
Farm Bureau In
Convention Backs
A.id For Europe
J. C. Smith, Jr., one of Hoke
County’s delegates to the cop-
vention of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau held in Asheville
the first of last week, returned
with a few notes on the voliim-
nous .and diverse resolutions and
recommendations passed by vthe
convention.
The resolution passed consisted
of 18 single-spaced, typewritten
pages and contained about, 11^000
words. They calldd for co-opera
tion in the Marshall plan » to the
extent of our' ability and based
upon the principle of helping the
stricken people help themselves.
The resolutions covered subjects
as international co-operation, in
ternational trade, the National
Farm program, and practically
every aspect of na/lohal life. On
crop insurance the bureau urged
that the Federal government a-
bpt enabling legislation to per
mit all-risk insurance coverage
from the time tobacco is planted
until it is sold on the warehouse
floor.
The convention advocated con
tinuation of the parity principle
and pledged itself to resist any
efforts to destroy it, saying “Un
til something clearly superior has
been developed we favor the re
tention of the present parity for
mula with adjustm^ts among
the various agricultural products
being made by the Secretary of
Agriculture as prescribed by the
present law.”
It urged that sufficient funds
for research in several fields be
made ayailabl'^, ‘to State CoH^e
andb„that this inclttde *1;hh 6st*-
lisbment of a school of veterinaVy
medicine there.
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The price losses on the cotton
and grain markets are causing
much confusion. There seems to
be no gopd reason for the market
to break as it has during the last
few days. The estimated carry
over of cotton July, 1948 is still
about the lowest'of recent years
and the e.xport -trade is strong.
Grain is short of demands both
for domestic aijd Export. While
there was some increase in the
number of pigs farrowed last fall,
the number will be reduced by a-
bout 10 per cent this Spring, While
no one knows what the trend
Willi be, it appears that prices will
become more steady as soon as
Congress acts ujoon the 'Marshall
Plan for aid to Europe.
MEETINGS
CANCELED
A great many gatherings and
activities of various kinds^ have
be^n canceled in this coanimun-
ityliin the past few days be
came of the snow and ice. Some
Of those not.to be held follow.
TONIGRT—There will be
iic^’floeetix^: of the-Raeftrd Ki-
ivanis clBL^,,:and the FTA will
^trlhold |iie Valentine party
they ted plannedlto^djiave
in Rui Ui^.schpoi gymitt^iuni.
TBe dti^kt
■ g U^^h was io have
:jhttgdayjto Ftoehurst
d by dittriet ehair
IF. psox VifatMlt. The
Guard unit did
hot fiiill on Monday night.
There w^s no sQuare danee at
(her armory last night. Judge
eonlte’t get to
thWti so there was no recorder’s
court Tuesday morning.
School, of course, has been
closed*; all week and will not
sthrt aiain nntil Monday at the
earliest.
Ciwanis Club To
^lay Basketball
James Next Week
CAROLINA NOW DIGGING OUT
FROM SECOND BIG SNOWFALL
An interesting article by J. De
witt Tapp, Hoke county farmer,
appeared in the lead position in
last week’s- “State Magazine.” The
article was about beavers in Que-
whiffle township, which he seems last Saturday. The operation was
MRS. CULBRETH BETTER
Mrs. T. F. Culbreth, who has
been a patient at Moore county
hospital since January 26, under
went a serious operation there
to have spent considerable time
observing. It is illustrated with
several photographs of their ac
tivities—loidges, cut trees, etc.
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GREENE TO RUN AGAIN
IS
Harry Greene, Hoke County’s
representative in the last North
Carolina. General Assembly,'ask
ed The News-Journal'this ■week
to announce that he intended to
be a candidate to succeed himself.
Greene ha§ served one term, suc
ceeding Dr. G. W. Brown.
quite successful and she is, re
covering satisfactorily. She ex
pects, to be in the hospital about
another, week.
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COUNTY OFFICE BUG.
To CLOSE SATURDAYS
J. A. McGoogan announced yes
terday that all offices in the coun
ty office building would be closed
on Saturdays until further notice,
beginning wiith Saturday of this
week. This is being done because
of the shortage of fuel.
Upcburch Postpones
Clptbing Collection
Clyde Upchurch, Jr., local chair
man for the drive for clothing be
ing staged iin North Carolina for
overseas relief by the Church
World Service Center of New
Windsor, 5 Maryland, announced
this week that the house to house
collection. would be made the
first Sund^that the weather was
nice.
This collection, which is to be
made by the Boy Scouts in Rae-
fprd, - w|i|^^gcheduled for^each of
the past two S'unaay,^-* and- J»«s
been postponed each time due to
bad weather. Upchurch said that
he deciided, not to schedule another
date for the collection, but 'to sim
ply announce that it would be
made on the first fair Sunday af
ternoon.
First county in the State to re
port its drive over
supplies shipped, is Washington,
where Mrs. W. R. Collins of Ply
mouth, is chairman. The 1,534
pounds of clothiing, shogg and bed
ding gathered in the drive there
were sent off to the Church World
Center at New Windsor, Maryland
on February 2. The contribution
included three pitch forks, most
valuable tools in countries abroad
where numerous farms, wiith all
buildings and equipment, were
completely destroyed.
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The Raeford Klwanis club and
the Aberdeen Lions club have
scheduled two basketball ■ games
wiith each other, the first in Aber
deen on the night of Monday,
Febrauary 16, and- the second
game in the Hoke High school
gymnasium on the night of Thurs
day, February 19. The game here
is expected to be’ a finale for the
sports careers of many of the well
known athletes aivolved, in other
words it is considered likdy that
they will retire from the game af
ter these two great,, appearances
To be certain- toat a spectacle is
in store for all attending these
games, the public has but to glange
at the list of stellar athletes on the
two squads. The Raeford first
string consists of K. A. MacDon
ald, Paul Dezerne, Arch Currie,
J. D. Whisnant and C. L. Thomas.
Reserves include Tommie Up
church, R. L. Murray, Julius Jor
dan. Buck Blue, Walter Baker,
Israel Mann, Bob Lewis, Dave
Hodgiin, P. O. Lee and several
others. These men are expected
to see action in both games, but
were just unable to make the
starting lineup over the first
team named.
Aberdeen players include Dr.
J. P. Bowen, John Sloan, Curtis
Lawhorn, Hardin Gunter, H.
Clifton Blue, R. C. Fields and Buz-
zy Blue.
The public is invited to attend
these games and a small admis
sion will be charged. Funds, raised
are to be used for club’s Boy Scout
program. ‘ .
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DRAMATIST
MANY COMMLIOTIES ABE
ISOLATED; DAMAGE IS,
NOT GREAT HEBE
JEANNE WELTY
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
PEDESTRIAN DIES
.WHEN HIT BY CAR
Those fortunate) enough to sec
and hear charming Jeanne Welty
when she was presented at Flora
'IVIacdH>nald college in “The Life ci
Theodosia Burr”, several years
ago, will look forward with keen
anticipation to another evening
of fine dramatic entertainment
on Monday evening, Feb. 1 ; at
8:15, when Miss Welty will appear
at the college again.
The talented^, young dramatist
wilV this time; persent the elassie
three-i|ct coimedy. “The World
and N([^ie Bly”, her most recent
one-%liill^||^j)i^uctlon.
She was starred in Max Rein
hardt’s California production of
“T|i(? MIrgcle”, and has played
leading roles ip a repertoire
wliiph included .“The Rivals”,
.“^|e^,4Raops 'to~€on«uor?’,
Merry Wives' of Windsor”, ^ and
“Lady Windemere’s Fan”.
North Carolina was djggtn^ it"
self out and totaling the damflpH
yesterday following the secOttd
heavy onslaught by winter_^.i*t/lB
days. Af'V
In this county most commanilie*
were fortunate m that there was
imsullicient ice formation on po
wer and telephone lines to break
them as happened in much of the
state. Worst trouble around here
seems to be the lack of fuel of
various kinds, although no cases
of actual hardship have been re
ported as resulting from that.
Roar's here have, of course,
been hazardous as they have -’oeen
elsewhere, but no serrous acci
dents have been reported. High
way 15-A. which had ’oeen open
after the snow to Fayetteville,
was closed yesterday morning by
one bus, four trucks and one semi
trailer which couldn’t make the
grade, stallai and skidded, block
ing the road. The road was closed
from about five o’clock until nine-
thirty.
15-A at the Scotland county
line had the same' trouble with a
semi-trailer and a bus causing"
the trouble. This rokd was closed
from about five to nine also.
As in the January 31 blizzard.
Eastern Carolina appeared to have
borne the brunt of the attack. The
coastal cities of Wilmington, More-
head City and Beaufort remained
all but isolated late yesterday,.and
Kentucky 31 fescue grass
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DANCE TICKETS GOING
Buck Blue, American Legion
dance committee chairman, stated
yesterdajr that tickets for the
dance the post is staging for the
ball park lighting fund are going
good in. the advance sale. The
dance is to be at the armory on
the niight of Friday, February 20,
and music will be furnished by
Stephen Lambert and his orches
tra of Fayetteville.
Tickets are ibeing offered at a
lower price in advance than they
will be sold for at the gate and
they are on sale at McLauchlin
Company, Howell Drug Store,
Hoke Drug Company and C. P.
Kinlaw’s Jewelry store.
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FIRE Al^ARM TUESDAY
' There was a fire alarm Tuesday
night at shortly after eight o’
clock. The blaze was a small one
in the stable of McLauchlin com
pany which was quickly extin
guished with little or no damage.
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McDUFFlE ON BOARD
SCHOOL. NEWS
BY K. A. MACDONALD
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All schools in the county will
be closed until Monday. Announ
cement about re-opening wiill be
made over Raleigh “WiPTF, and
Laurinburg WE.WO.
Miss McKeithan’s 8th grade put
on a health program at chapel at
Hoke IJigh last Friday. This was
in celebration of National Health
week. Special work was done
and programs presented in all
schools of the county. Health , has
been one of the major emphasis
of the work in all the schools this
year. ^
As they were expected to do,
the Board of commissioners of the
Town of Raeford at their regular
meeting last Friday night chose
• John Murdock McDuffie to the'
seat on the board made vacant by
the death of Milton Campbell.
The colored eyb clinic sche
duled yesterday and today has
been postponed until early in
March on, account of the enforced
closing of schools.
colored teachers meeting held at
the Upchurch school at 3 o’clock
p. m. Thursday, February 26. A
county-wide white teachers ineet-
ing will be held that ,mght at the
Hoke-High school at 8 o’clock.
Dr, Richard Weaver, executive
director of the Resource-Use Com
mission at Chapel Hill, will ad
dress both meetings. Dr. Weaver
will also' speak to the Kiiwanis
club at 6:30.
Key Club Fund
Keeps Growing
(From The Fayetteville Observer)
Cumberland county’s second
traffic fatality of the year occur
red SatLip-ay night on the Raeford
and its relief [“oad when John S. Davis, 44, tex
tile worker of Cumberland Mills,
was struck and instantly killed by
an automobile operated by J. D.
Kemp, ne.cro, of Raeford.
The accident was investigated
by . State Highway Patrolman
John L. Carpenter.
Coroner Joe W. Pinkston re-
portei that several witnesses to
the accident said that Davis walk
ed across the road directly into
the path of Kemp’s car and that
the accident was unavoidable on
the part of Kemp.
Kemp was not taken into cus
tody, an: Coroner Pinkston im-
dicated that an inquest was not
necessary.
To Hold Joint
Meeting Monday At
Presbyterian Church
On Monday evening, February
16; a joint meeting of the Men's
club and the Woman’s Auxiliary
•of the Presbyterian chii-ch w ’-l be
held, begimting with a basket sup
per at 6:45 In the Undercroft of
the church, .-^t 7:45 an address
will be given ;n the Sanctuary by
Dr. H. ’V. Carso'n, who is . vice-
president of Queens college in
Charlotte. Dr. Carson will speak
on the top.c, “One World, One
Gad.” The public is invited to
hear his address.
virtually wi&Bdt commarucalions. ^
Telephone and telegraph communi-
,cations had been restored into V
New Bern, which also had been
on the isolated list.
The storm laid a white blanket,
ranging from three to more than
20 inches, over virtually all of
North Carolina, and reoorts from
several Easte'^n comiP.'unities 'said
the snowfall was contir.'uing in
termittently yesterday.
The dam.age appeared greatest
along Coastal Ca^'-olma. where
sleet and ice combined to pull
utility lines and tiisrupt commu
nications facilities in half a dozen
cities.
Wilmington Hard Hit
Wilmington again was hardest
hit. Commander T. B.Smiley of
the Naval Reserve electronic war
fare unit was in contact with the
seaport ciity and reported that
be held in
Some of the county teachers
have triied to get home during the
week. We hope they wqre able to
make it.
Miss Louise Fletcher, who
taught in Raeford for a number
of years, passed through Tuesday
afternoon en route to her home
at McColl from Sanford where
she is now teaching,. The Sanford
schools are also closed until Mon
day.
County Chairman W. L. Poole,
of the March of Dimes drive, asks
that all schools report at their
earliest convenience. Mr. Poole is
anxioLi.s to reach the quota for
Hoke'at as early date as possible.
We are sorry that the schools will
be as late reporting as they now
will on account of the weather.
We are glad to announce that
Mrs. McGregor, mother of Miss
Hortense McGregor of the MM-
douson faculty,' is much better.
She is now at Dundarrach with
Miss McGregor. We hope her
health continues to improve.
There will be
county-wide
The Hoke County High School
Key Club’s fund to help the A-
meriican Legion and others jvith
the installation of lights at the.
local ball park continued to grow
this week, with a total of $83.,50
in contributions being received.
This brings the total raised by the
Key club to date to $557.
Those contributing during the
week are as follows:
Mrs. J. H. Plummer
W. C. PhiiUips
Mrs. R. L. Bethune
Addle McFadyen
Frank Chisholm
Raeford Dry Cleaners
E. B. S'atterwhite
R. S. Goodwin
D. H. Johnson Co.
Edwin, Smith
M. H. Markham
E. R. Pickier
If Wood’s Furniture Store
J. K. McNeill
H. W. McPhaul
T. D. Potter
A. V. Sanders
H. C.' Roberts
In last week’s papei; the con
tribution of G. C. Lytle was in
correctly listed as $10 when it
should have been $26.
NORTH CAROLINA
MARKET HEWS
Released By N. C. Dept, of Agriculture
Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Koonce have
a room at the home of W. W. Ro
berts while Dr. Koonce is doing
dental hygiene work in the schools
of the county.
$ 1.00
■ -5.00
1.00
1.00
5.00
10.00
2.00
2.00
5.00
5.00'
1.00
5,00
6.00
10.()0,
.50
10.00
^ 10.00
5.00
SHORTER LIBRARY HOURS
The Hoke county public library
will be open only on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday afternoons
from one o’clock until five-thirty.
This is effective immediately and
is because, of the fuel shortage.
livestock AND ME.ATS
Livestock prices, along with
many other food items, dropped
sharply during the week. Hog
prices -ropped from 1.00 to 1.50
per hundred at Carolina’s cash
hog buying stations and closed
with tops of from 23.50 to 24.00
as compared with the previous
week’s close of 25.00. On the Bal
timore market, hog prices closed
the week 1.25 per hundred lower
with top hogs at 26.50. Richmond
reporteii a drop of 1.50 and a
closing top of 24.00. This week's
run of hogs at the country’s four
teen -leading markets 'was lighter
with approximately 294 thousand
head as compared with the pre
vious week’s run of 340 thousand.
Receipts of cattle on Rocky
Mount’s auction livestock markets
were limited with'transportation
difficulties on account of the hea-
vy^now the primary cause. Offer
ings were too light to establish
quotations. On the Chicago mar
ket. most grades of slaughter
steers and heifers were under con
siderable price pressure. Steers
closed 50 cents to 1.00 lower and
heifers, from 50 cents tca^.OO.
Good beef cows lost 1.00 to 1.50 and
other cows from 25 to 75 cents.
Immediately following Dr. Car
son's address an important busi-
ness meeting of the Auxiliary will | there had been major power fml-
the church parlor. lures in some sections of the city.
Commander Smiley said em.ergen-
cy power was bein.g brought into
Wilmington from Lumberton. af
ter feeder lines' had snapped un
der the heavy pressure of ice..'The
|j' j coastal city reported freezing, rains
i throughout Monday and up until
11, a,.m. Tuesday. Telephone com-
muniefation inside the city was re
ported-as “O. K.”
Vealers also closed 1.00 to- 2.00
lower, while' stockers arid feeders
averaged 25 to 50. lower. ’Curta^-
ed receipts 00 the.'.Bal^ore mar
ket held slahghtef-' steefoi mosUy
steady: however, the undfiridn.e
was weaker near the close, par
ticularly on high-medium and
grade steers. Heifers and; bulls
were generally steady, while cows
were 50 cents to 1.00 higher with
most of the advance on lower
quality grades- Calves also show
ed sharp advances of from l.QO to'hoped to establish other circuits
2.00 ;in Baltimore. Slaughter lambs ■ shortly. Repairs were underway
averaged generally 50 cents low- ^ on circuits from Lum'oerton and
er oil the Chicago market but held ; Selma into Wilmington,
nominally steady in Baltimore. ; E. -A.. Clement. Southern Bell’s
'district manager, sa'id that tele-
Supplies of . fresh meat were damages in the Eastern area
macerate to light but generally ^ expected to equal those in the
ample for the slow demand on | 31.
Southern BfeU Telephone crews
i^ere work^pig- st*tadily in an at
tempt tb bring 'Wilmingtoff into
communication with the outsit
world. Late Tuesday afternoon,
company offcials said that one
circuiit into .Wilmington from here
had been restored, although its
use; was being restricted to emer
gencies. The company said it was
Chicago’s wholesale dressed meat
markets. Good and choice beef
closed steady, while commercial
and utility steer and heifer car
casses were barely steady to 1.00
lower. Cow beef closed steady to
Storm Coming?
Meanwhile , the U. S. Weather
Bureau was predicting increasing
cloudiness and warmer tempera
tures for last night and today»
50 cents higher and veal steady j but was eyeing a storm headed
to 1.00 higher. Lamb and mutton! this way from the Rocky Moun-
also closed steady, whiJe pork tain area. The disturbance mV
loins advanced, in some instances, bring either snow or rain atwiwi
around 1.00. Fresh hams, on the Thursday night, or may m«s Ww-
other hand lost 2.00 to 3.00, while th Carolina entirely, «
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