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rt' 1S1-- r'v'i .-'i'l'i?'" r’'i^ /#• i.it'ti-V ;■ Jis. Ne^fe - Journal ■■iw VOICE or IRKPOW HOMt fllHUgfAH OFUBfnr VOLUME XLII NO. 44 THURSDAY, APRIL 1,1948 The Hoke County Journal RAEFORD, N. C. S2.00 FEB YEAR jSCHOOL NEWS! i By K. A. MacDonald i The Educo club held a dinner meeting Tuesday evening at the Hoke High lunchroom with the Board of Education and school commiitteemen as guests. ■ The County Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday, April 5. There will be a chicken supper at Miildouson scrool on Friday night, sponsored by the P. T. A. Proceeds will go to the lunchroom and any other school projects the P. T. A. desires. They will begin serving at 7 p.m. Mrs. Robinson’s third grade of the Raefondi Graded school enjoyed a’ recreational period at the ball park last Friday afternoon. This was the prize for having the most parents present at the January meeting of the P. T. A. Rockfish school continued to have splendid attendance. On Mon day the 7th and 3(nd) grades had IW per cent present. The 4th an Tth «rade pupU? o£ the Rh^tord Graded school f^ve hew eeUtaf ttiftoSnes ftw tMte yci|^ -inm Mb; BoberPi rWm andi Wri^ fibb Mist Blue's wpn the two inrixes ior ttte tnost Bale*. Mrs. Beherts' and Miss Muesli ihOms also won the ttoom prises* The school pets a pircentsge id the ntoney taken in, which wiU Jje used to purdtase furious thinfs .^needed |be 3 Ball Clubs Begin Spring Training Here Monday Schedule Exhibition Games; First Here Next Wednesday Afternoon Three minor league clubs of the Philadelphia National League Baseball club’s chain arrived here Monifay and set up a spring train ing camp at Armory park. The camp is under ■ the lirection of Edidiie Collins, Jr., and about 75 players are at present on hand. They are quartered at the Raeford Hotel and have overflowed into several homes in town. The teams are all from class D Leaugues. They are Americus, Georgia, from the Geprgia-Florida league, Carbondiale, Pennsylvania, £rom the North Atlantic league, and Bradford, Pa., from the PONY league. The Americus team will be here until April 10 and the Dover, Delaware team of the Eastern Shore league will arrive on that date. Americus will play Schenectady, N. Y., of the Canadian-American league an exhibition game here next Wednesday afternoon, April 7, Schenectady is training at Dar lington, S. C. On Saturday o£ next we^ Oarbondale will play the I^d Springs Jtoa Robins here. Bubness onanaget. >£. camp is Teto Rpcket. of Asnericuf. Team imnai^lfll hue are LeGramt Scott pit ^y^icus, fontter Southern Leagp^ batting champion;, Danny Camivale o£ Caohondale; George Sovina o£ Brad£ondi; and Guy Glaser o£ Dover. ' ' ' ‘Wt i " Marcus Dew Is Buried Saturday Parents are required to not for get the pre-school clinics as they fall due at the various schools. Educational Questionaires have been given out in Hoke County for the past week. Final results have been tabulated and forwarded to the State Education Commis sion in Raleigh. We wish to thank all those who assisted in this poll of public opinion n Education. Officers Take 4 Stills Last Week 1 Defendant Gets 5 Sentences; All Are Suspended Recorder Hears Usual Variety of Gases On Tuesday Morning Parents are requested, to make every effort to keep their children in school every day at all possible. The seventh month is a crucial month so far as the allotment of teachers for next year is concer ned. The Hoke High band has 2 or 3 invitations to play at various schools in the surrounding coi\n- ties. We think this is a compliment to the band and iits director, W. O. Melvin. We hope tthey will be able to accept these invitations. V HOKE HIGH Caiiene Freeman, Gwen Gore, Marian. Lewis, Alice Suttdn Matheson, Bettie Benner, Hilda Jordan, anidi Betty Holtzclaw ac- oompanied Mrs. J. C. McLean, faculty advisor to the Beta Club, attended Beta Club convention in Raleigh during the week-end. Mrs. Benner |nid. Mrs. Holtzclaw took the delegates to Raleigh Friday afternoon. Ri^ali .plolicemen and officers of the sheriff’s office gave the liquor manufacturing business in Hoke county a severe setback last week by capturing and- tdestroying a total of four stills. On Wednesday they discovered and destroyeidl a small still near the Davis bridge in Stonewall township. No arrests were made. On Thursday they destroyed one 100-gallon still in Que whiffle township along with 300 gallons of mash in process. They also cap- turqdi James Leaoh with this still and he was convicted in recorder’s court Tuesday. On Friday they captured a 100- gallon still in Little River Town ship along with 700 gallons of mash. No arrests have^een made so far. They also destroyed a small still on the Lee Adcox place in ■Stonewall township on Friday but no arrests. 0 Seven Hoke Men At State College MARCUS W. DEW Marcus Wellington Dew, 76, a highly respected resident of this community for over 50 years, passed away at his home here last Thursday night at 8:40 o’ clock. He had been in failing health £ot about four yearSfchavimg first suffered! a stroke in December 1943. He suffeied another stroke on March 8, 1«8 and several afterward. 7*" Fimdral services were cmiducted at 11:00 o'clock Saturday morning at his home by tho Rev. W. B. Heyward, ‘pastor oi 4he Raefoidl Presbyterian church, and the Rev. L. A. McLaurIn, retired Presby terian (minister of MuHens, S. C. Mr. McLaurin was the first regular installed pastor of the Raeford Presbyterian ohurdi and was its •pastor when Mr. Dew built the church’s first building where the present one now stands. Pall bearers were Julian Johnson, Jr., Walter Baker, Neill A. McDonald, L. S. McDonald, H. R. McLean, and Danie F. Mclnnis. Mr. Dew was born in Dillon county, South Carolina, September 28, 1871, son of Franklin Dew and Missouri! Jackson Dew. He came to this community about 1897 where he was a prominent build ing contractor luntitL his health failed. He designed and built many buildings here and iin surrounding towns, including all of the first three churches here. He built many homes here as well as build- iings in Aberdeen, Laurinburg, Fayetteville, Pinehurst and; else where. He was a charter member of the Raeford Kiwanis club. 'On November 1,1899, he was married to Miss Catherine Mc- Diiarmid of this section, who sur vives him along with two sons, M. C. Dew of Raeford and James Marion Dew of Charlotte; two daughters, Mrs. J. J. Renn of Rutherfordton anjdi Miss Kathleen Dew of Charlotte; one grandson, James Dew of Charlotte. •Six seniors spoke in prelimina ry contest on soiil conservation in high school auditorium Monday afternoon. Miralyn Johnson, Gwen Gore, and Zeb Moss were chosen from the group to speak at Kiwanis Club Thursday evening April 15th. The! wiinning essay will be selected from these three. This contest is being sponsore;.'; by the Bank of Raeford. Rufus and Paul Sanders, local white men, each entered a plea of; nolo contendere on the charge of | being drunk and idisorderly and on ^ the charge that they had assaulted ■ W. O. Wright at Bill’s club on Sunday morning, March 22. Sent ence for each on the drunk and idisorderly charge was 30 days to be suspended on payment of the costs. On the assault charge sen tence was 90 days each to be sus pended on payment of the cost and on coniddtion that both stay away from Bill’s place. Paul Sanders entered a plea nono con tendere on a tfharge that he had assaulted! George Ivey and got 30 days suspended on -payment of the costs and the same plea on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon got ih^ 60 days to be suspended on psyment of $50 and the costs. 'Paul Sanders in another case got 30 suspended on payment of tha Wt for assaulting J. Ed Conoly. |lte whole group of charges wwe-fflie result of one mixup at in whidi the two had with the propri etor aaE 'MPimtSi ^others, and in which iPtul kW tO have let his pistol ^ threO times. All sentenO# ^^ to run concur rently of serwd; , Judgement afaJnst Jennings Matdtsby, whBSK on Charge of simple aSsault wa^thune Maults- by wds su^;i((M^ on payment of the costs. ^ ^ M. S. Milliken, vdiite of Rock ingham, was found not guilty of speeding. Gerald M. Ladarre, white stud ent of Duke University, forfeited a $25 bond for speeding. James Alford, colored, was found guilty of being drunk and disordely and sentence was 60 days to be suspended on payment of $10 and the costs. Tommie Lee Roper, colored, got 60 days suspended on payment of $35 and the costs for speeding and driving wiith no license. Walter McPbaul, colored, paid the costs on a charge of inade quately supporting his wife when she desired to withdraw the charges. Mai Baker, colored, was found, guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and got 60 days to be suspended on payment of the costs and a $15 doctor bill. , James Leach, colored, got 90 days suspended on. payment of $25 and the costs for violating the prohibition laws. Frank. Leach paid' the costs for being drunk and disorderly. Dan Cherry, colored, got a sentence of 30 days Suspended on payment of $10 and the costs for violating the prohibition laws. AMERICAN WRINGER SIGNS CONTRACT TO LOCATE PUNT HERE RHODE ISLAND COMPANY TO MAKE RUBBER THREAD WHEN MILL COMPLETED McGoogao Writes About Vass Road As anyone who has been over it recently knows the Raefordi-Vass road through the Fort Bragg res ervation is poorly maintained arua is in a very bad condition. To remedy this situation J. A. McGoogan, county auditor, wrote L. E. Whitfield', division engineer of the State Highway com.mission, asking in the name of the county commisioners that something l)e done. The maintenance of this road was taken over by the army during the war so that work could be done on it when there was no firing over it and it is still theor etically being maintained by the Fort Bragg aidiministration. Mc Googan told Whitfield diat if the Arn^ did not intend to maintain the road that the Hoke county commissioners would insist that its.inaiatenance be' retiimedi to ttw ^te. McGoogan has. received a copy of a letter from Whit£iield to the Fort Bragg comnvander request ing that immediate action l>e taken to put the 'toad in satisfactory condition. 0 Kiwanians Hear Telephoae Head . TO BUILD THIS SUMMER Local Corporation Is Now Making Arrangements To Begin Plant Construction A contract for the location of a subsidiary plant here has been signed by the American Wringer Company rf Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The contract is with the Hoke County Developmoit Corporatim, a local corporation form ed for the purpose of constructing a building to house such a plant as the Wringer company will locate here. The deal, which had been pending since a group of citizens met in the courthouse in mid-Dec«nber to consider the proposition, was terminated and the signed contract received early this week. The local corporatx>n. has agreed Double Cutting At Montrose Sat. PM tv Patsy Sipfle, Mildred Mays, Vera Mae Posey, and Katherine Potter, delegates from local F.H.A. Chapter, wall attend the F.H.A. Rally in Raleigh Saturday. They will be accompaniai' by Miss Alice Copeland, faculty advisor to the club. (Continimed on Page 4) Raleigh, N. C.—N. C. State College’s winter term enrollment includes 7 students front Hoke County, a survey of the institu tion’s registration figures indica ted today. The school now has a total enrollment of 5,151, including 5,093 men and 58 women. Veterans of World War II now enrolled in the college number 3,884. The College’s School of Engi neering attracted the largest num ber of stur'ents, with 2,922 report ing for classes, and the School of Agriculture drew 1,036. The School of Textiles was third, with 82'0, and the Division of Teacher Education registered. 307. There are G6 unclassified special students. The- following, students from ■Hoke County are enrolled at State College: Hei’bert C. Allen, • Raeford; Eldred- h! Helton, Raeford-; Denver R. Huff, Jr., Ashley Heights; Ken neth W. McNeill, Raeford'; Joseph R. McAnulty, Raeford; Thomas J. Upchurch, Raeford; and J^-ames A. Wright, Rockfish. Also surviving are two brothers, Luther Dew of Red Springs and W. F. Dew of Lumber Bridge, and one sister, Mrs. J. B. Redfearn of Rex. 0 HOKE AUTO HAS NEW PARTS MAN Alfred L. Smith, of Maxton, started work in the parts depart ment of Hoke Auto company this week, replacing Mrs. Clara Mae Jones. Mr. Smiith comes to Hoke Auto company from McLaurin- McArthur Chevrolet company in Laurinburg where he had con siderable parts experience. 0 ^ ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC The monthly orthopedic clinic will be held on Friday, April 2, 1948 in the basement of the agri cultural building in Lumberton. Dr. O. L. Miller of Charlotte will be the surgeon in charge. All patients are asked to register at the desk between nine and eleven o’clock. Mrs. Myrtle McMann Is Buried Sunday Funeral services were conducted at the People’s Tabernacle here at three o’clock last Sunday after noon for Mrs. Mrytle McMann, 39, who died at her home on Saturday morning after an illness of sever al months. Burial was in Raeford cemetery. The deceased is also survived, by a son of a former marriage, Billy Howell of Raeford; by- one ; daughter, Barbara Faye Me Mann -of Raeford; by her mother i and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. L. -J, i Campbell of Raeford; by o,ne ■ brother, Giles Williams of Rae- i •ford; by four half-brothers, Reese | and Gene Campbell, both of the I U. S. Navy, Robert Campbell of j Lincolnton, and Carey Campbell of Raeford; and' by five sisters, Mrs. Mary McNeiJ of Raeford, Mrs. Gertrude KatWY of St. Pauls, Mrs. Lotti Campbell of Raeford, Mrs. Grace Bill of Fayetteville and Mrs. Ethelene Kelly of Miami, Florida, Members of the Raeford Kiiwanis club were highly interested last Thursday night by a talk by L. W. Hill, of Tarboro, chief engineer of the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company. Mr. Hill was iinvited and presented to the club by T. O. Moses. In his talk Mr. Hill explained the critical supply situation the telephone ^company had encoun- tereid' in the past few years on many items, including manpower and transportation. He also went into some detail in explaining the reasons for many deficiencies in telephone service and told how the company hoped to eventually eliminate them. He announcerd that -a large replacement job was goinf on in the Raeford exchange last week which was expected to denprove local service consider ably. . At the end of his talk Mr. Hill answered many questions from his audience regarding telephone service. Following the' prograrn the Kiwanis club atteruded the'^ Bi^le lecture service at the Presbyterian church in a horfy. to purchase a tract 'ef land just west of the block in which John 4 McKay Blue’s residence is lo cated and just south of the A & R railroad. It was ci^eed to construct a building on this lot to house the plant. The Wringer company has agreed to locate the plant here, to rent the property our- The sheriff’s office reports that Fred Tyson and Herbert Parks, both white, were extensively hacked up by each other in a, disagreement at Jennings Maults-| e-ventuallj to _ by’s store last 'Saturday night. : chase it. Tyson is in a Fayetteville hospital The company plans to make and Parks is wearing quite a few rubber thread here, a process in stitches, according to Rural Police- which raw rubber and cotton yarn man Crawford Wright. ; combined to make the rubber Wright states that no charges threajo used in stocking tops, gir- ' dies and other items. It is their tentative intention to employ over 150 persons when full production have been preferred but that both will probably be charged with as sault with a deadly weapon when, Tyson leaves the hospital and itjis reached, and about 80 percent will bt up to the court to de-| of these wUl be v,x>men. They plan termine who cut who first and I to offer wages and workmg con- who cut who in self defense or ! ditions which wdl compare favor- for other reasons. -0- RED CROSS DRIVE STILL UNDER QUOTA . Israel Mann, county chaiinman for the 1948 Red Cross fund drive, reported yesterday that the drive was still $48 short of the_^ quota •for the county, but that he ex pected it to be reached in the next week. He also said he planned to publish a detaiila: report of the fund drive in Hoke county next week. A total of S1852 of a $1900 ciuota has been raised. 0 KEY CLUB FUND NOW OVER §11Q0 Election Board Is Sworn In G. B. Rowland, J. W. McPhaul and D. C. Cox were given their oaths of office as members of Hoke County's board of electons by Clerk of the Superior Court John Cameron in his office last Saturday afternoon. Following the oath the board elected G. B. Rowland chairman and D. C. Cox secretary. Mr. Rowland announced that candidates for county offices can now file with him and that the final date for filing for these of fices will be Saturday, April 17 at six p.m. ■ 0 BUILDING FUND DRIVE Every Member of Raeford Baptiist Church and Sunday School | is asked to bring a contribution large or small Sunday morning April llth. The'funds secure:, in ' this drive are to be, used to com.- plete the basement, walks, and litt’iC necessary things to finish the whole of tne church.—J. D. Whisnant. pastor. . _—^—'o . The Hoke High School Key Clu'p ball .park lighting fund re- ceivQ.-; three more contributions this week to bring the total raised by the club to $1102. Those contributing this week were: Toonrhy Macko $5.00 N. H. G. Balfour $5.00 BelkUHensdale Oo. $5.00 The members of the junior class are busy completing plans for the Junior-Senior banquet which will' take place April 8. .The committee chairmen are as follows: Music, Milton Mann; Decorating, Anne Gore; Invitation, Betty Holtzclaw; Menu, Janie McNeMl; Table, Mildred Clark. ably with. any In this section. A more detailed discussion of the company’s present activities historj' and plans Is being pre pared for publication in next week's paper. Long Hard Road The signing of the contract re presents the achievement of the first o’ojective which the commun ity set for itself when most of its business people met in the co urthouse early last summer and formed the Raeford' Chamber of Comjmerce. The credit for the ach ievement belongs to all the com munity, for practically all have a part in it, financially or other wise. Much outside help was re ceived Forrest Lockey, of f and.' Rockfish raH- s been in on and I roposition froi.^^s .tcaUy, if anyone .itstanding from many e given freely of their time and efforts as well as in- , vesting their money, it is Craw- ^ ford Thon'.as, President o: the Ch- I am’oer of Com.-nterce. He has taken I the conclusion of tins contract as a personal c’naller.ge and has. al ways talcen the vic.v teat nothing must start-: in the way of its suc cessful CO ncl'us 10 n. T'n.e com.rrtunity owes its gnat- itude to these and others, both of the Chamber of Commerce and! the newly - formed- development corporation. The. State Department of Con servation and Development has been of assistance, even having Governor Cherry extend a wel come to the company to come to North Carolina. ^^1