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'1 s -V - W' .A’* #- 1^ VOICE OF fREEOOM HOME vtm* /' GUARDi/UI OFIIBERTY ews-Journa voici or fREIDOM The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLH NO. 40 THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1948 RAEFORD, N. 'fi- SCHOOL NEWS By K. A. MacDonald Nine Cases Tried Before Recorder Last Tuesday Last Thursday Dr. Richard L. Weaver, program director for the Resource-Use' commission and vice-chairman of the Resource committee of the State Education commiission, addressed both coun ty-wide teacher groups on Re source-use in education. Dr. Weaver was most favorably re ceived by all who heard him.. Several teachers in’ the county are participating in the survey of school resource-use that iis being made by the resource committee of the State Education commis sion. We axe glad to report that Miss Mayme McKeithan is able to be back at work after being quite ill last week. Mrs. A. L. O’Briiant taught for her while she was out. We are glad to report that Coach Faircloth’s father contin ues to improve in a Fayetteville hospital where he has been criti; cally ill for some time. Quite a number of teachers and pupils were excused from Hoke High yesterday to attend' the funeral of Mrs. Smith McKeithan. The Hoke Hi^ and Raeford' Graded school teachers have com pleted their Red Cross drive and' conttibutions have been turned in, We hope all schools will act as promptly. Willie Willis, color0:,,' was charged with assault with a deadly weapon before Judge Henry Mc- Diarmid Tuesday morning. It was charged that he assaulted his father. George Willis, , Plea of uilty of simple assault was ac cept©! and sentence was 30 dajs to be suspended on payment of the costs and a $10 doctor bill and on condition that Willie be of good behavior and stay off the premises of his father for a period of two years. Ed Hollingsworth, colored, paid !;10 and the cost for being drunk and disorderly. James S. Edwards, colored, got three months suspended on pay ment of $100 and the cost for driving drunk. Henry Morrison, colored, got 30 days suspended' on payment of i;25 and the cost for driving with out a license. Marvin Jones, white, got 30 days suspenided on payment , of the costs for being drunk and dis orderly. Pleas of guilty were entered in each of four cases of speeding and each defendant was charged with $10 and the costs. They were Bertha Shuster and Theodore Carroll, both white of New York, N. Meloccearo, white of Rhode Island arwi James Davis, colored of Wilson. 0^ Wounded Man Dies; McPhatter Held Must Market Best Tobacco To ge The Shaw University choral club will give a musical program at the Upchurch school auditorium on Sunday, March 7, at 3:00 p,m All patrons and friends of the school are invited' to attend, Special facilities will be arrangec for all white friends pf the schoo who wish to attend. Additional surplus commodi ties have been received at the county storeroom at the Raeford Graded school. All schools oper ating lunch rooms should get their allotments at their earliest con venience. . -0 HOKE HIGH CONVENTION OF TOBACCO ASSOCIATES HELD IN RALEIGH ) i The high school is purchasing the new filmstrip series that show the documents that the Freedom Train carried on display. This brq,nd new series of six black-and- white filmstrips, is based on cur- riculm units correlated' with the great historical documents now on view on the Freedom Train. Th'e new series provides Social Studies and English teachers with dramatic visual aid ,that will drive home permanently basac lessons in democracy, undeirstanding the world today and history of our freedom. Leo Steele, colored man who was wounded in a shooting at Richard McPhatter’s place north of Raeford on Saturday night, February 21, died at a Fayette ville hospital last Saturday after noon. McPhatter is reported by officers to have shot him in the abdomen twice with a .45 caliber pistol. McPhatter was jailed after the shooting and was not allowed bond until Thursday of last week when he was released unider a $500 bond inviiew of Steele’s improved con dition. He was put back in jail Sunday morning pending the out come of a corner’s inquest. The inquest was started Sat urday when Corner W. L. Roper got a jury and viewed the remains. Plans were to complete the inquest at the courthouse last night. They could either hold McPhatter with out bond, allow him bond, or find that it was justifiable homi'cide and release him. Raleigh, N.C.—March 3—J. B. Hutson, Washington, D. C, in his nnual report as President of To bacco Association, Inc., March 1, pointed out that in the procuction of flue-cured tobacco, “if we are to capitalize on the advantage we have in taste and aroma we must equal or surpass foreign producers also in color and smoking qual ities.” A Hoke county member of To bacco Associates is John Parker, of Raeford Route two, who was one of 75 North Carolina Farm Bureau members recently elected by counties to membership in ac cordance with the constitution of the non-profit flue-cured tobacco export group. “'United States flue-cured to bacco has a decided advantage in taste and aroma, but bright color and good texture are also import ant in foreign markets,” Huston said. “Many foreign producing areas are doing fully as well as we are in producing, imiiformly bright colors and general smoking qualities.” Hutson presented his report at the group’s first annual member ship meeting, attended by more than 300 persons. The membership is composed of representatives of various groups—^flue-curred grow ers, dealers, warehousemen, ferti lizer manufacturers, State Farm Bureaus and' State Granges in the five flue-cured states. These allied interests banded together last year to form Tobacco Associates to protect and expand the export market for flue-cured tobacco. Outlining activities of the past year, Hutson said that since re turning from Europe last summer, after ihvestigating tobacco and' trade conditions overseas, and a later visit to Canada’s tobacco- growing area, Marshall Plan de velopments have occupied most of his time. He has been in con stant touch with Congressional and' governmental leaders regarding the European Recovery Program and is continuing to follow closely (Continuned on Page 4) Key Club Fund Grows; Now 895.50 The fund the'Hoke High school Key club is -raising to be applied on the ball park lighting proioct has increased consiceraoiv since the last report was published and has reached the sum of S895.50. The club plans an iinter.sice drive for contributions in the next week or two and hopes to reach its goal of $2,000 in that time. Contributions not published total $338.50 and are as follows: Ira L. Newton $10.00 Edgar Hall 5-00 H. B. Walters 2.00 Lillie McDougald 1.00 W. C. Hodgin 5.00 E. E. Fridell 6.00 Clarence Lytch 7.50 H. L. McMinis ’ 2.00 Hamer Huggins 1.00 Hoke Oil & Fert. Co. 100.00 Hoke Auto Co. 100.00 Raeford Oil Co. 100.00 W. T. Gibson, Jr., high school principal, said this week that the poles are on the fifeld for the lights and that the transformers and other equipment for lighting the park are ready for shipment and are expetcted soon. Main thing lacking is money and the help of everyone is needed with that item. Hoke High Closes For Sask ;ar tiy /inning EIGHTH STRAiGT WIN FOR HiGil SCHOOL GIRLS TEAM Glee Club From Flora Macdbnald To Appear Here -0- The high school lunch room is serving from one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred' lun ches daily. The type A lunch to gether with milk is served for twenty cents. In accordanoe^wMh President Truman’s plan mi Tuesdays are being observe ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC The monthly orthopedic clinic will be held on Friday, Mafch 5, in the basement of the Agricultu ral building in Lumberton. Dr. Lenox. D. Baker of Duke hospital will be the surgeon in charge and patients are asked' to register be tween nine arid eleven o’clock. ATTENDS CONVENTION Warrai,n McNeill, of McNeill’s cleaners in Raeford and Red Springs, is leaving this week to attend the convention of the Na tional Institute ot Cleaning and Dyeing in San Francisco, Cali fornia, March 7 through March 11. Mr. McNeill is one of 12 regional directors in the United States, representing the states of North anif South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. He expfects to see demon strations of new cleaning methods and equiipment at the convention. On Sunday evening, March 14, the Flora Macdonald' college glee club will be pr|i«nted in a pro gram of sacred tousLc at the Rae ford Presbyteria^ church. The glee club will be h^d here for the second time in i^ent years, hav ing sung here two years ago. The programjw^ll furnish -jop- portunity foi^a TOidy in contrasts with an out-standmg women’s choral group appearing soon after the appearance of the UNC men’s glee club. Beyond' this is the op portunity for wordiip affordec through hearing the finest in sacred' choral music, sung by a well- trained choir of eighty voices in the setting of a church atmosphere 0 Alexander V. Ray Is Buried Friday Alexander Vance Ray, well- known farmer of this county, died last Dednesday night at his home. He was 71 years of age and was never married. He has no im mediate relatives. He was son of the late David j. Ray and Mrs. Mary Campbell Ray of Cumber land county. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at there o’clock at old Sandy Grove church on the Fort Bragg reservation by the Rev. H. L. Hemphill. Burial was in the old family burying ground near the church. -0 NEW MANAGER AT BELK-HENSDALE CO. Coach Haywood Faircloth’s Hoke High school basketball teams closed their regular season here last Friday night with two victor ies over the boys and girls from Philadelphus High. The girls extended their win ning streak to seven straight, by turning back the girls from Phiia- delphus, 34-22. The boys marked' up their eighth victory of the season by winning a close one, 22-20. After a slow start this season they finiished with about half their games won. , , Scoring honors for the whole season went to Joe Gulledge for the boys and Marian Lewis for the girls. The good floor play of Keith, Mi^ay, MacjDo^abd' and S^lh made it possible for the boys to have a fair season. Not showing up so well in the scoring column but coming through with the excdlent ball handling all season that made it possible for Marian Lewis to get the points were Katherine Blue, Hilda Jordan and Mildred Clark. On the other eiid' of the court were such outstanding guards as Alice Sutton Matherson, Dorothy Cal loway and Bonnie Kate Blue. Re serves Cameron, Davis, Clark, Gore, Benner, Mary Sue and Betty Upchurch showed up well and are' piropiising replacements for Dorothy Calloway, Bonnie Kate Blue and Katherine Blue who MidU graduate. Mrs. D. S. McKeithan Dies Monday P. M.; Buried Yesterday Mc~. D. 5. , • , .;i High:':rilh ; ’ 1 _ 1 r- -f ^ - - t -■ vii.e itibi .Si .1 ■ . . , I eighkt-thir'.y j’-:; : L _ - illness. Sh:; v.'s.S' . ; w an.;' had beer, ca' ■; - pital Monday n;:. She was ' t'::o :.i.'ner Martha Eliza McXeiii, daughter 0: Dr. John N., McNeill and Mary Bl'ue McNeill of Moore county. She ha;i lived here for 40 years. Funeral services were cond'oct- ed yesterday morning at the ho.Tie here by the Rev. W. B. Heywar.!, paSttor of the Raeford Presby terian church of which she was a member. Assisting was the Rev. Harry K. Holland of Marietta, S2.00 FEB Crowd Enjoys UNC Glee Club Concert Here I EVENT I^FONSORED BY ' PARENt-TEACHERS; MfSIt CLUB Georgia, a former pastor. Burial was in the Raeford cemetery. Pallbearers were Neill A. Mc Donald, J. C. McLean, A. K. Stevens, 'William Covington, R. L. Murray, J. D. McNeiU, Neill James Blue, and John, McKay Blue. Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Annie McKeithan of the home and Mrs. Jonah Mc Cauley of Bisco; three sons, Neill McKeithan of Aberdeen, John McKeithan of Raleigh, and' A. S. McKeithan of Red Sjprings: one sister, Mrs. J. A. Blue of Raeford; and one brotiier, the Rev. M. D. Mc94eill of Sanford. T. 0. Moses Will Run For Judge Of Recorder’s Court The junior varsity although playing a very irregular and' un matched schedule, came through in line form and gave valuable experience to several good piosr pects for the varsity. The students of Hoke High wi^ to express their appreciation to Referees Charlie Daramus and Tommy Macko for their excellent officiating and their encourage ment of good sportsmanship in all contests. — 0- Still Operators Sentenced In Federal Court CAMERA AWAITS YOUNGSTERS AT KIWANIS HALL SATURDAY These warm days have brought the girls’ and' boys’ soft-ball teams out on the field. Plans are being made by the recreation committee of the P-T.A for another teenage dance to be held in a week or two. f I The juniors are .making plans for the annual Junior-Senior banquet which will take place in early, spring. -0 OMISSION In naming community chairman for the Red Cross drive in last week’s paper the name, of Mrs. Bernice Williamson, Pine Fqrest chairman, was unintentionally omitted. This Saturday is the big day for the picture-taking of your youngsters! 'The News-Journal is having pictures taken of all child ren who ,are brought by their par ents or other guardian to the Kiwanis Hall between one p. m. anidi eight p,m. absolutely free of charge. The Woltz Studios, of Des Moines, Iowa, will be in charge. The News-Journal wants a picture of your child to print in its forth coming feature, “Citizens of To morrow,” a series of photographic studies of local children. The more we get the better the feature will be, so the cooperation of mothers and fathers are brged. It often seems to parents that children are little one minute and grown up the next, so fast’^does a child’s growing stage pass. Here is a splendid oppo^naity to catch a likeness of your child or diild- ren at this present stage for the pleasure you will get out of it in future years and for the thrill of seeing it in print. You will want to clip and preserve it for the youngster when he or she grows up. There is no charge or obligation for taking the pictures. Parents don’t have to be subscribers or even readers of The News-Journal You do not have to purchase either, thqugh you may obtain additional prints by arranging direct with the studio if you want them'. That is entirely up to you. All youngsters, accompanied by a parent or other guardian, are wel come. There is no age limdit. Don’t forget the place, the day and' the time. Kiwanis Hall • Raeford Saturday, March 6,1948 1:00 to 8:00 P. M. W. C. Phillips, manager of the ■Belkt-Honsdale store here sohce its opening over two years ago, left this week to become manager of the Belk-Hensdale store in Red Springs. C. A. Gardner, Red Springs manager for the past year comes to Raeford to manage the store here. Prior to his Red Springs experience Mr. Gandner was with the Belk-Hensdale store in Fay- e^^ Mile for about eight years. He ib^f tarried and has two sons and plans to move to Raeford as soon as he can obtain living quarters here. 0 PREACHING At SHILOH Operators of the big still cap tured by Hoke county officers in Puppy Creek township last No vember were tried in . Federal court before Judge Johnson J. Hayes this week. The still opera tors and those connected with the liquor distribution system in volved totalled eight, two white and six colored. The still instal lation was captured by Sheriff D. H. Hodgin and Deputies J. C. Wright and Harry Dees. It in cluded two 500 gallon stills, one eight h. p. upright boiler, 28 bags of sugar, 42 cases ofhalf-gallon jars, 75 gallons of liquor, 12,000 gallons of still beer (liquor being processed), a 1946 Buick and a 1946 Ford truck. This property was confiscater by the govern ment. The men got sentences up to 21 months and fines up to $1500. The two Hoke county men In volved were James Monroe and Sam Jackson, both colored. Monroe got 60 days in jail and Jackson was put on temporary probation. All the others involv ed from Durham and Orange counties and w'ere apprehended through the joint efforts of Hoke, Orange and Durham county of ficers and Federal officers. , Morning worship services will be held at Shiloh Presbyterian church next Sunday morning at eleven o’clock and the Rev. C. M. Gibbs of FayetteviUe will preach the sermon. A pJicnlc lunch will be served in the community house afterward. Friends andi members are invited' to come and bring baskets. Talmadge O. Moses, farmer and lawyer., of., the.. Ashley.. Heights section, came to town yesterday to pay his filing fee and enter the campa^^ for judge of the re corder’s -cobrt. Ji^was unable to fide, due to the fact that there is not at present a chairman of the county board of elections. It is understood that G. B. Rowr land has been recommended for the post by County chairman Walter Baker, but that his of ficial appointment has not yet ar rived from Raleigh. Mr. Moses said that he was go ing to run for the office and that he would return for the fihng. The office is now held by Judge Henry McDiarmid, who has been in office since May3, 1946 Judge McDiarmid has not indi cated whether or not he will seek reelection. Moses is a native of Franklin county, was educated at the Bunn High school and received his law- degree from Wake Forrest College in 192'1. He practiced law in Tar- boro from 1921 to 1943, although he moved his residence to this, county in 1940 and began the op eration of his farm here. Since discontinuing the practice of law^ in Tarboro he has devoted most of his time farming here in Hoke county, although he has done some law practice. He is at pres ent the moderator of the Sandy Creek paptist association, includ ing 54 churches in Chatham, Moore and part of Hoke county. o One of t'.-.e .r.;;': musi- ■ cal programs oifered here in re cent years was tr.e concert given i.n, the Hoke-County . H gh School auditorium last Saturday night by the Men's Glee club of the Uni versity of North Carolina. The event, sponsored by the Hoke- Raeford Parent-Teachers associa tion and the Chaminade Music club of Raeford, drew an audience which largely filled the auditori um. A chorus of seventy or eighty men welded by their leader, Paul Young, into w’nat seemed at times single instrument, sang select ions from opera, oratorio, sacred liturgy and a patriotic cycle, “The Testament of Freedom.” “The Testament of Freedom.” composed by a contemporary 'Virginian, Randall Thompson, is a setting of four texts taken from the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Without being great music, it is splendidly effective and wor&y of the words. A sturdy and melodkNis chorus, “The God who gave, us life,” opens the cycle and closes it by repetition after tte other parts are sung. Second part in sowber mood is “We have counted flie cost of this conflict.” Rufus Norris, accompanied by William Waters, pianist, revealed a baritone voice of power, sonority and beautiful quality in the only solo of the program, *nri tu”, from the “Masked Ball” Verdi. Following tiie was »- folk song group, and the listed program ended with three choruses from Wagner’s operas. Encores were the comic folk songs, “Grandma Grunts”, “Sally”, and the alma mater song of the University. Among the group were-at least three boys w'ho were known to the local audience. ■ They were John McCain, son of IVIrs. P. P. McCain, and the late Dr. McCain; Albert Lee O’Briant, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. O’Briiant of Raeford; and John D. McPhaul, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. D. McPhaul of the county. The group was entertained at supper by the sponsoring groups and at a social hour with cake and. coffee after the concert. Local young people and girls from Flora MacDonald college attended t'nis affair. Hoke High Wins; Play Semi-Final Game Tonight FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles CORRECTION The Malcolm McNeill listed in the recorder’s court write-up in last week’s paper was a colored man of the county. This is not the son of Mrs. M. K. McNeill of Rae- fard, as might have been inferred from the article. In the opening games of the Third Annual Invitational basket ball tournament iin the Hoke High gym here Tues.iay night Hoke High and Stedman defeated Seventy-First and Hope Mills re spectively, 28-21 and 35-24. The victories advanced both Hoke High anil Sterman to the semi finals to be played toniight. The other two teams in the sem. {finals tonight will be the winners of last night’s games in which West End defeated Laurel Hill and Aberdeen defeated Central High of Cumberland county. Final game for the ■ championship wiU be played tomorrow night between the winners of tonight’s games. In the Hoke High-Seventy-First game Tuesday night the play of Joe GuUedge was outstanding as was that of Lockie MacDonald. The forestry school got off to a good start Tuesday with 15 agricultural workers and foresters in attendance. Farm forestry was discussed as it applies to ttis section. Planning the forest man agement received quite a lot of attention. It was brought out that the forest should be handled! much in the same manner as a crop of corn or cotton. Consid'fflration must be given to the type of soil, the present growth rate and kind of trees. The forest should be harvest ed as its products can be marketed through a system of selective cutting. It was felt that effective fire control is one of the greatest ■ ^jceeds in this section. It 'was /Tbrought out that a combinatipn of fire breaks, gracing, and -commun ity cooperation can bring about a reduction of fires. The fact that most forest fires start as a result of careless burning of brush and grass in adjacent fields was dis cussed. Grass and othef litter in fields should never be burned. This is often equal to 400 to iOO pounds of fertilizer in plant lood. Besides that, it causes ttie soil ^ (Continued on psd* 4> m
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