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VOLUME XLII NO. 38
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowlw
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1948
BAEFORD, N. C.
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S2.M rm TEABm
Th^ series of meetings on OUT-
LOOk FOE AGRICULTURE wiU
continue next week and will be
held in Quewhiffle township as
follows: Ashley Heights commun
ity house, Tuesday, February 24;
and Montrose community house,
meetings wiU be at 7:30 P. M.
All farmers are urged to attend
these meetings.
A two day forestry school is
being planned for Hoke County
for March 2 and 3. The first day
will be devoted to a study of
forestry problems for the various
agricultural workers end others
working with forestry in this sec
tion. The second day will .be de
voted to study and demonstration
of the various phases of forestry
by Hoke County farmers.
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Some of the special forestry
problems will recdive attention
such as: (1) Planning woodland^
management, (2) selecting trees
to cut and leave, (3) planting, and
(4) fire lane construction. Over
half the land in Hoke County is
occupied by forest of various
kinds.
This portion of land is not being
utililzed at present in the best
manner. One of the purposes in
having this school is to work out
a practical farm forestry pro
gram for Hoke County.
Grazing and early hay crops
should receive immmediate at
tention. Where .these crops gre
already growing, it may be profit
able -to "topdress * wath some"lorm
of nitrogen, equivalent to 100
pounds 0 Nitrate of Soda or more
in order to get good grazing as
quickly as possible. Oats planted
now can go a long way towards
relievimg the hay shortage to use
as grazing or early hay.
Hoke High Cagers
Top Laurel Hill
In Three Gaimes
The Hoke County High School
boys, girls, |md Junior varsity
teams defeat^ thle teams from
liaurel HiU h»e Tuesday night.
The girls defeated the visitors by
a score of 32--30 in |^^»se game.
Lewis was- high scbr^ for the
victors with 28 points and Gentry
for the visitors with 18 points.
The Hoke Jayvees won by a
score of 32-4. Lester wa^ high
with a total of 10 points.
In the boys game the locals
won 38-15. Hoke High led at the
half 17-8. GuUedge was high
scorer of the game with 18 points
and Harris and Currie each had
four points to lead the losers.
HOKE HIGH
SCHOOL NEWS
Mr. Melvin is Vfery busy training
the band members for the District
Cbntest—Music Festival which
will be held in Fayetteville on
March 10. The Hoke High School
band will play three selections
chosen from a hst qf arrangements
made by the State Music Com
mittee. The Fa.vetteville District
is composed of Scotlarid, Robeson,
Columbus, Brunswick, New Han
over, Pender, Onslow, Jones, Dupr
lin, Sampson, Cumberland, Hoke
and Bladen Counties. This is the
first time that the Hoke High
School band has entered the con
test. Each band participating will
receive a rating according to the
degree of excellence in perfor
mance as determined by the
adjudicator.
Indicted For
Stealing Car
Buck Odom, white man of the
county, was arrested and put in
Jail by Rural Policeman Wright
and Price last Saturday on a
charge of stealing the car of Jack
•Pope of Raeford. The warrant was
signed by Pope’ and read that
Odom did “take,^^eil, carry away
and convert to his own use a 1987
Buick automobile, the property of
tile undersigned.”
Odom remained in the county
Jail until Monday when Ke posted
a bond of $150 for his appearance
in Recorder’s court. The case c«ne
up Tuesday but was postponed
for one week.
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Colonel Rosser
To Address. B.P.W.
Club Tonight -
, The Business antd Pimfessional
Women’s club of Raeford will
have dinner meeting, at seven
o’clock tonight at the Farmer’s
Curb and Exchange cafe a mile
out 15-A from Raeford.
Speaker for the occasion will be
Col. Landon.C. Rosser of Raleigh,
commissioner of motor vehicles of
the State Highway Department
Traffic safety will be the principal
topic of the meeting.
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LOWER KEY FEE
AT FREEZER LOCKER
Th« members of the senior class
huve chosen their annual play
and the characters have b€etf se
lected. Rehearsals will begin next
week.
Every family should have some
fruit in their garden. Strawber
ries afford one of the best-and are
easy to get started. The next few
weeks will give time to get them
set. The Massey variety is one of
the best all around berries. The
plants are available at very little
cost.
Now that the weather appears
more favorable for outdoor work,
the garden should get its proper
attention. Cabbage, onions, garden
peaS, and salads should be put in
gardens at once where this has
not been done. Irish potato seed
should be obtained and the garden
plot prepared for planting.
Fire losses not only costs mil
lions of dollars but put people to
a lot of inconveniences when a
Ipss occurs. Fires are a threat to
life. Be careful and help prevent
fires. .
Farmers planning to put in
pastures this sprung and next fall
should take advantage of the
Triple-A grant in aid program
with respect to super-phosphate.
It is available now through a
local fertiliizer dealer. 18% super
phosphate can be obtained
through this program at $22.20
per ton. The farmer will pay
$8.60 per ton at the time of de
livery and the government will
pay $13.60. This phosphate will be
delivered in 100 pound bags. It
will be necessary to obtain a pur
chase order at the Triple A office.
This should be done at once.
$17 MO^E GIVEN TO
l^Y CLUB FOR LIGHTS
The Hoke Cburity . hij^ school
Key Oub’s ball park li^ts fund
gained $17 this week, which, added
to the $557 previously received,
brings the club’s total to $574.
Those contributing this week
were: Ira L. Newton, $10.00; Edgar
Hall, $5.00; H. B. Walters, $2.00
. The Journalism Club met
■Wednesday of this week to com
plete plans for the February issue
of the HOKE HIGH LIGHTS.
Mrs. Younger Snead visited the
school yesterday to make plans for
P-T. A game tournament.
A a recent meeting of the dii-
redtors of the Coldnial Frozen
Foods of Raeford, operators of the
freezer locker plant here, it was
decided .to lower the charge for
unlocking the lockers of those who
for^t .their keys. This charge,
which has been 25 cents, is now
10, the charge being only to save
the time of the emplosrees of the
plant.
At this meeting the resignations
of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Stevens
as presidient. and manager and
secretary-treasurer, respectively,
of the corporation were accepted
by the board. Elected to fill the
vacancies were N. H. G. Balfour,
president, J. Benton Thomas, sec
retary-treasurer, and James Hen
dricks, manager.
* SFEGTACLE
IGYM — TONIGHT
After the tremendous suc
cess of the boys and girls bas-
ketbiU games between the
Abercifeen Lions club and the
Raeford Kiwanis club at Aber
deen Monday night in which
the b^s .and gixls.of the Rae
‘ford E^anis dub took botii
games handily,- k i^oat crowd
is expeetedvi^r. -retu^
match at
Hig^i'gjW
tonights at
In fact, ^tifi^teuthorities have
had so °]mUim , ,comment on the
s^fair Mbnday tiiat '^ra
bleachers ^ being'placed in
the gjrm today to handle the
crowd'; We are NOT kid
ding. ^It you want to see some
qf thelhest diecker players in
this state play basketball in
skirts ~ and without than,
you have the opportunity to
niight, aside from the fact that
the Boy Scout movement will
benefit. AND Ed Smith will
do a little stunt in front of ev
erybody*
Carlyle Enters
Seventh District
Race For House
On Tuesday afternoon of this
week the eighth grade boys’ and
girls’ basketball teams played the
sixth and seventh grades from the
Rockfish School. The Raeford
teams, won both games. Bruce
Philliips and Sara Jane Cole
played stellar ball for the home
teams.
The members of the Key Club
are well pleased with the response
that they are getting in obtaining
money. for the installation of
lights the ball park.
Several of the seniors have al
ready been accepted at various
colleges for next year.
The math department, under
the direction of Mrs. Cameron,
is conducting a stationery shop.
From this shop the pupils may
buy paper, pencils, etc.
Issues Warning
Against Illegal
Corn Dealings
A warning against the use of il
legal measures in the purchase and
sale of corn has been issued by
C. D. Baucom, superintendent of
the Weights and Measures Di
vision of the State Department of
Agriculture.
lUnder North Carolina law,
Baucom said, corn may be legally
bought and sold only on, the basis
of the bushel measure when
shelled, or by weight when un
shelled. He also said the law stip
ulates that a bushel of shelled
corn shall weigh 56 pounds.
Some corn buyers have been
reported as making offers for un
shucked corn on the basis that 81
pounds is equivalent to a bushel
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F. Erel Carlyle of Lumberton,
solicitor of the Ninth Judicial dis
trict, yesterday announced his
candidacy to succeed J. Bayard
Clark as representative in congress
from the Seventh Congressional
district.
Mr. Clark recently announced
that he would not be a candidate
for an eleventh tenn.
Mr. Carlyle has served as solici
tor of this district since 1®39. Pre
viously he bad been solicitor of
the. Lumbteblpn recorder’s court,
secretary of the Robeson county
board of elections and chairman
of the Robeson county Democratic
executive committee.
Announcement of his candidacy
followed clos e on the heels of the
announcement of - his fellow-
townsman, Thomas A. McNeill,
that he would not be a candidate
for the office.
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Set Load Limits
For Roads In
This Section
State Commander To
Address Legion Here
Ray Galloway, commander of
the North Carolina departmment
of the American Legion, will be
the honor guest and speaker at
the meeting and supper of the
local Ellis Williamson post to be
held at the Upchurch airport
next Monday night. Cly-de Up
church, commander, states that
a chicken supper will be sei^®^
and urges all members i to - be
present.
Also here with Mr, Galloway
will be Joe Mann, of i^Thiteville,
membership chairmman' of the
State department Mr. Mann is
a brother of iScai^, . Mann of
Raeford. ■
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Clothing Drive
Is Success!^
Clyde UpcbtiriCh, Jr., Hoke
county chairpian ftt the “Fill A
Shib) with EVieiidship” clothing
drive which was recently conduct
ed by the North Carolina council
of churches in coof^ration with
the Church World Service Center
of New Wintdsor, Md., said yest
erday that the drive in Hoke cou
nty compared favorably with the
highly successful one of last year.
Boy Scouts made the houto-to
house collection in Raeford last
Sunday afternoon.
Upchurch said that slightly over
2000 pounds of clothing was col
ected. This figure is lower than the
2600 pounds shipped last year,
but he says that some reason
the quality of clbtiiing donated
during this drive is much higher
than last year.
PREDICTS CROWD FOR
DANCE TOMORROW P. M
Children’s Pictures Will Be Taken
Free, Printed In News-Journal
The News Journal today an
nounces the forthcoming publica
tion of a series of local children’s
pictures yet to be taken. Arrange
ments have been completed with
the Woltz Studios of Dez Moines,
Iowa, a nationally known firm
who specialize in children’s
photography for newspapers to
take the pictures and furnish the
engravings.
Expert children’s photographers
for the studios, with all the neces
sary equipment fw tills special
ized work, will be here Saturday,
March 6. The special studio, will
be set up in Kiwanis Hall and
will be open from 1 P. M. to
8 P. M.
There is no charge to the
parents! There is absolutely no
obligation to this invitation.. There
is no age limit. It is bonafide in
every sense of the word. Neither
are. they obligated to purchase
pictures after they are taken.
Those who want some additional
prints may obtain them by ar
rangement with the studio rep
resentative when they select the
pose they want printed in the
paper. It is entirely up to them!
You will be happy, afterwards,
if you let your child or children
participate, and very sorry if you
don’t. The kiddies will have fun
and Mother and Dad will be very
proud to see their pictures in print
later. Many will clip them out and
preserve tiiem until Junior grows
up. The News Journal wants as
many pictures as possible, so don’t
forget the day ai)d date. Saturday
March 8, 1 to 8T. M.
As a result of the extremely
adverse weather Oondiitions re
cently it has been found necessary
by the State Highway and Public
wiorks commission to limit the
loads on certain hard surfaced
roads in this section, as well as
in most other sections of the
State, according to a letter receiv
ed this week from L. E. Whit-
i^^ld division engineer for the
SH & PWC.
These restrictions were put into
effect on Monday of this week
and will be effective only as long
as it is considered necessary to
protect the roads and the State’s
investments in them. In no in
stance will the restrictions re
main in force more than 90 days.
The individual roads will be
considered separately and the
restrictions removed as soon as
subsurfaces have dried out suf-
fiiciently to carry normal loads.
The State Highway Patrol has
been furnished’ with maps show
ing all restricted roads, Mr.
Whitfield said, and the hauling
public is requested to watch for
signs restricting loads and to co
operate with the State with the
restrictions.
Loads have been limited as fol
lows for roads in this county: six-
ton limit on roads from NC 211
at Montrose southwest at Five
Points from the Vass road west
crossing NC 211 toward Sandhills
Game management area, from US
15A near Rockfish creek east to
Hoke-Cumberland line near Rock
fish station, and from NC 20 at
Dt^ndaorach northeast to Rock-
ifi^. Five-ton limit applies to the
road from Antioch southwest
acroM Littie Raft Swamp by
Duffy’s Station to Red Springs.
Buck Blue, chairman of the
dance committee of the American
Legion, which is sponsoring
round dance at' the armory to
morrow night, said yesterday thit
a large advance sale of tickets for
the affai” indicated that it would
be a successful as well as pleasant
affair.
' The dance is being staged by
the Legion post as part of its drive
to raise funds to pay for lighting
the ball park. The music of
Stephen Lambert and his orche
stra will be enjoyed by all who
attend, accoriihg to several
terpsichoreans around here who
have heard them play.
History Of
UNC Glee Club
Is Interesting
The University of North Caro
lina Glee Club will appear in the
Hoke County High school audir
torium oh the night of Saturday,
February under the joint
of tiiq Chaminade Music
cli* ’’ and vtoe HokerRaeford
Pardnt-Teacher association. For
this ce^n it is thought that the
following excerpts 'from a history
of the group are of interest
The Men’s Glee Club of the
University of North Carolina has
been a distmguished choral group
for many years. During the last
quarter century the club has
toured all the eastern section of
the United States, given several
New York concerts, and completed
a European tour. The European
tour, which took place in 1927,
was an epochal event in the
annals of the organization’s
history. The trip, under the pa
tronage of the U. S. ambassadors
to England and France, Alanson
Houghton and Nyron T. Herrick,
took the club from New York to
London, where three concerts
were given. A concert was sung
at Stratford-on-Avon in the in
terest of the Shakespeare Memo
rial Foundation, and two in Paris,
where they sang at the American
Cathedral and at St. Luke’s
Cathedral. London was so faviwr-
ably impressed with the work of
the club, that a firm of London
managers offered them a 11-week
European tour for the following
summer, with all expenses paid
The Glee Club 'went out of
existence durihjt recent war,
because of the scarcity of men on
campus. It was revived .when Paul
Young came to the University
Music Department in 1944, and,
since time fr^
a group of thirty-nve to the pres
ent group of 180.
The aim of the Glee Club has
always been to present truly
great music on its programs. In
the early part of the century, ;t
was customary for glee clubs to
present humorous songs'and popu
lar sentimental “trash.” Their
concerts invariably include con'.edy
skits, intoxicated quartets, an.i
banjo ensembles. The programs
of the present University Glee
Club is a far cry from this, with
the music of Bach, Mozart.
Brahms, and all the great names
in music represented on each
program.
Recorder’ Coor^
Has AU-D^y
S^ion Tuesday
HOOKANOS HELD FOB
SUPERIOR COURT;
BONDS SET
NORTH CAROLINA
MARKET NEWS
Released By N. C. Dept, of Agriculture
GRAIN
The sharp declines, which got
underway during la^ week in
grain and other commodity prices,
broke from 25 to 40 cents a bu
shel; corn, from 35 to 40; and
oats from 10 to 12 cents. The
current price declines in grain
are following the pattern estab
lished after "World War I accord
ing to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. Arrivals
of wheat at the*principal termin
als during the week dropped to
a little over 3 3|4 million bushels.
Despite the small offerings, de
mand was low wiith millers tak
ing only moderate quantities.
Soybeans dropped more than 60
LIVESTOCK AND MEAT
Short receipts of hogs at the
country’s fourteen leading mar
kets and at Carolina’s cash hog
buying stations faUed to check
the downward price trend. Hogs
opened the we^ at Carolina’s
cash hog buying stations around
3.00 per hundred under the pre
vious week’s close. The market
droppcSii again on Tuesday but
strengthened spq^ during the
latter part of tne.^eek and closed
with top hogs at 21.00 to 21.50
as compared with the previous
week’s close of 23.50 to 24.00 and
January’s early high of 26.50 on
top hogs. Baltimore reported
drops of around 2.00 in barrows
and gilts with heavier weights
and sows off from 2.50 to 3.50.
Top hogs closed in Baltimore at
24.50 against 26.50 a week ago
and a low on Tuesday, February
10. of 23.00. Chicago reported
drops of from 1.00 to.3.00 in hogs.
Slaughter steers and heifers
were off from 1.00 to 2.00 in
Baltimore. Cows were steady
to around 1.50 lower with canners
and cutters showing ^ the least
change. Bulls lost around 50
cents a bushel and closed at c/qyjijo-cents and common to medium
try points in Illinois at a round
2.30 to 2.35 a bushel, while corn
brought around 2.00 at the close
in Chicago as compared with the
record of 2.84 around the middle
of January.
calves, from 2.00 to 3.00 and top
quality calves 1.00. Stocker and
feeder cattle broke from 50 cents
to 1.00 on the Baltimore market.
Yearlings and light steers were
from 1.00 to 2.00 weaker on the
Chicago market, while vealers
showed drops of from 3.00 to
6.00 and lambs, drops ..of around
1.50.
Trading in dressed> meats was
slower than at any time since
ceiling prices were removed.
Steer and heifer beef closed on
the Chicago dressed meat market
from 2.00 to 5.50 undtf the pre
vious we4c; cow beef, 1:50 to
2.00 lower; veal, 1.00 to 4.00; pork
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In an all-day session ot JHAm
County recorder’s court the
tried Tuesday before Judge WUaaxy
MdXarmid contained a two-etedts
accumulation of cases as theie»was
np court last week due to' the
sndwT Some cases docketed !(»’
trial Tuesday were continaed chie
to the^ absence of the peftolmen
who attended a patrol itiogting,
Jdin Hooikano and wife Marg
aret Hookano, white soldier and
wife who were arrested on charges
of robbing a Fayetteville taxicab
c^iver in Hdce county early on
the morning of Saturday, Janu
ary 7 faced the judge on charges
of highway robb«y and assault.
This being a felony, preliminary
hearing was held. Probable cause
was found by Judge McDiarmid
and he ordered the two held for
trial in Supeiror court. Bond was
set at $40061 for Hookano and
$1000 for his wife. Neither has
yet posted hood and both are
lodged in the county jail
Isaiah Watkins, colored, was
found not guilty of carrying
a concealed weapon in a case tiiat
had been continued from two
weeks ago.
Lee Patterson, New Jersey,
white, forfeited a $25 bond for
passing on a blind curve.
Boggan Milton eoiteed, Fort
Bragg, and Benjamin’ Sater, also
colored of the Armjt, each for
feited a bond of $25 for violating
the road law.
Ek'erett Keyes, Kramer,
Normap--MacDonatidff*' anil Ray®’^
mond Haskell, all white of Mass
achusetts, Brooklyn, Canada and
Massachusetts, respectively, each
forfeite,-’ a bond of S25 for speed
ing.
Harold Layton, white, was
charged with illegally disposing
of mortgaged property. The case
was left open for four weeks by
Judge McDiarmid, on fhe pos
sibility that the persons involved
could settle their differences.
John W. Rozier, colored, got 3
months suspended on payment of
the cost and 2 years good be
havior for damaging property.
He paid for the damage.
■Willie Cook, colored woman,
got thirty days suspended on
payment of the costs and two
years good behavior for using pro
fane an*! indecent language.
Lucy Barber and Floyd Walton,
both colored, got 30 days each
suspended on payment of the
costs for assualting each other.
James Wheeler, colored, was
charged with rape. Probable cause
was found and he was ordered
held without priv’ilege of bond
for trial in Superior court,
the cost for using profane and in
decent language.
Bd Gibson, w^ite. entered a
plea of guilty of assault in the
case in which he shot Douglas
McDougald at the Stutts filling
station on Monday. January 26.
Inasmuch as McDougald got all
right and di>d not desire to prose
cute and Gibson said the shooting
was accidental, the court accepted
the plea and sentence of 30 days
for simple assault was suspended
on payment of the cost. ,
Sidney M. Williford, white, was
charged with driving a car while
drunk. He was found not guilty.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Our quota for the March of
EHmes this year is $1500. To date
only $175 has been received. Our
treasury has been hit sli^ftF
over $300 for the treatment of
one case of infantile paralysis to
Hoke County. The National In-
antile Paralysis Foundation doss
a great work and deserves our
support.
Please contribute.
W L. Poole
County Chairman