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YOUR
iSCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
The Board of Education met in
regular monthly session Monkiay
eveniing with all members present.
Walter Maxwell, member of the
Raeford school board, submitted
■his resignation to the Board, which
was accepted with genuine regret
as Mr. Maxwell had served long
an ii-'faithfully on the committee
and had worked untiringly for
the schools in the district.
A. H. McPhaul was appointed
to fill Mr. Maxwell’s imexpired
term.
Several members of the Board
of Education and the county super
intendent will go to Fayetteville
Friday evening to attend a dist
rict meeting of the State School
Board Association.
Mrs. Davis’ sixth grade of the
Raeford GraLied school put on the
playlet, “Grandmother’s Dream,”
on Tuesday afternoon for the ben
efit of the students and their
parents. It was exceptionally well
done. Quite a lot of talent was
diispla/ 3l;. This production is be
ing made a yearly event by this
section of the sixth grade.
The chicken supper at Mildouson
last Friday eveniing was quite a
success ifinandially anldi from a
social standpoint. Everyone en
joyed it.
Alice Copeland, VocatLonal Home
Economics teacher at Hoke High,
took her' futui-?‘ Homemakers of
America to a state meeting in
Raleigh last Saturday. Everyone
enjoyed the trip and profited by it.
W. P. Phillips and his vocational
agriculture boys went to Lumber-
ton on Welinesday for a district
meeting. The meeting was well
attended and very worth while. '
Associates Head
Says Higher Yield
To Be Profitable
Dobson, N. C. —Present inidica-
tions are that the demand for the
1948 fule-cured tobacco crop “will
be such as to make it profitable
for most growers to increase the
yield per acre, 10 per cent over the
average yield of 1946 hnd 1947,”
J. B. Hutson, Washington, D. C.,
president of Tobacco Associates,
Inc., sai)i here Tuesday, (March
30).
“Many farmers whose yields
have been low will find it profit
able to increase their yields even
more than 10 per cent,” Hutson
added. “Better fertilization, closer
spacing rows, good cultivation
high topping, anldi careful sucker-
ing are all important in improving
both yields and quaility.”
Hutson, head of the organiza
tion tobacco interests formed last
year to promote llUe-cured ex
ports, was a principal speaker on a
Surry County Farmers Day pro
gram sponsored by the Dobson
Lions Club.
In recommending better tobacco
crop practices, Hutson said:
“This iis the part that the grow
ers acting alone can play in hold
ing • export markets and in
increasing profits. Thiis part of the
problem is basic to any program of
expanding exports. Tobacco grow
ers will gain more than anyone
else from increased export markets,
but in order to gain, they must Ido
their part in producing a high
quality product.”
Just prior to and during World
War I, the tobacft'i leader pointeld
out, about one-half of the flue-
cured crop was used in cigarettes,
the other half going into other
products, largely chewing and pipe
miixtures. Last year, however, 95
per cent of all flue-cured tobacco
used in the Uniteld States was
manufactured into cigarettes and
only five per cent into other
products.
Cancer Campaign
Starts In State;
Local Drive Also
North Carolina’s first intensive
fight against cancer was launched
last week when the Cancer Control
Division of the State Board of
Health swung into Operation.
Financed with funds from the
Federal and. State governments and
the American Cancer Society’s
Carolina chapter, the big'
Hoke High Ball
Team Takas Two
Politicians Have
Begun To Emerge
According to G. B. Rowland,
chairman of the Hoke county board
of elections, 12 office-seekers of
the county have paid their filing
fee and will be on the ticket for
Saturday, afternoon, April 17.
Last Friday afternoon at Laurel
Hill the Hoke County High school
baseball team, opened its 1948
season with a 7-2 victory over
Laurel Hill High. J. D. McMillian
pitched the whole game for the; the primary May 29. Several
Hoke High Bucks, giving up two ! others have ihdicateli: their in-
hits and striking out 13. Freeman, tentions to do so before the time
North Carohna chapter, the and Keith each got two for filing closes at six o’clock, on
program will be carried out by a for the victors. '
staff headed by Dr. »Irvan M. Qj^/pogsday the Bucks again de-i
Procter of Raleigh and Mildred Laurel Hill, 10-6, again ^c ’s court Incumbent Hem-y Mc-
■tehind McMillian,; who pitched |Diarmid and Aspirant T. O. Moses
six innings and got credit for the :have paid the fee, Harry Greene
victory. A. J. Freeman had a hot has filed to succeed himself in the
day at the plate in this game, get
ting five for five. He got two
doubles and three singles. Floyd
Keith hit a . long triple for Hoke
High ih the first inning.
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Red Springs Team
Opens Schedule Of
Exhibition Games
The Red Springs^ Red Robins
open their, exhibition schedule
here Saturday afternoon when
t^ey play the Carbpniale, Pa.
team. On Sunday afternoijr. they
play the Welch. West Va., iMir.ers
of the Appalachian league-in R' b-
bins park in Red Sprir.g.s. This
game will star: at thi'-ie yh' h-:.
I
as will the one in Rael'jru
urday. A1 Burch and
Forjudge of the county record- exoected
Schram of Philac elphia. They have
been assigned offices in the State
Health Building here'.
While a number of other states
have sponsored cancer control pro
grams in the past, this is the first
year that North Carol’ma officially
has set up machinery for a State
wide fight against cancer. •
Funds Availablei
Authority for setting up a cancer
program in this State was granted
by the 1945 General Assembly. For |
carrying out the program,the Fed- j
eral government has mac'e $71,000
available yearly; the State $18,000
yearly; ani'' the North Carolina Di- |fu' the' 1948 American Red Cross
vision of the American Cancer So- |f.iud drive conducted for the past
c.’iety, $25,000 for a three-year pe- ;few weeks, announced thus week
x-i,od. jthat Hoke county hall exceeded
“The primary object will be to ihs quota of $1900, and that some
Red Cross Drive
Does Over Quota
Israel Mann, county chairman
render the greatest amount of can
cer control service to the greatest
nurnber of citizens of the State in
the shortest time practical,” Dr.
Procter, stated.
In Hoke County the Raeford
Woman’s club in coorperation with
the American Cancer Society will
conduct a drive to raise funds for
■the society’s woilk. Mrs. Jidiari'
H. Blue will head the drive in this
county and she stated yesterday
that a list of workers for the drive
will be announced next week.
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iili L. Rose
I Sunday
^ ca u Its
contributions were still remain
ing to be turned dn. He has re
ceived $1945 so far.
Co'mmunities exceeding their
quotas were Dundarrach, Sana-
itorium, Antioch, Upchurch school
end Raeford. The chairman ex-
presseldi his appreciation to each
chairman and each worker who
contributed to IJie success of the
drive and to the Jpeople for their
generosity. He Stalte that anyone
istill desiring to contribute may do
so.
Community contributions and
chairmen were as follows: Anti
och, Mrs. W. C. Hodgin, $110.25;
Arabia, Mrs. J. A. Jones, $31.45;
Allendale, Mrs. A. A. McEachern,
$50.54; Ashley Heights, Mrs. T. C.
Sinclair, $37.12; Blue Springs,
state house of representatives and
Ryan McBryde has filed for the
tate senate.
For solicitor of the county re
corder’s court, J. M. Andrews has
filai and N. McNair’ Smith, in
cumbent, has signified his inten
tion of doing so. W. W. Roberts
has paid his filing fee to run to
keep his position as county reg
ister of -deeds.
Most competition see.ms to be
developing for the five seats on
the county board of commissiioners,
six men alreal.’y having paid their
filing fees and at least one more
having expressed intentions ijf
doing so. Those filing froni, the
present board are F. Knox Watson
anid; E. R. Pickier. Hecter Mc
Neill of the present board has
announced that he wiil run a^ain.
N. B. Sinclair and F. A. Monroe-
have not indicated intentions of
running again. Others filling for
county commissioner are W.
Marshall Thomas, G. C. Lytle, J.
Fulford McMillan and Julian H.
Wright.
t; oe 'ir. ‘..I'j
mound for Red Springs in S.:r.;i.;y's
game.
Other ga.mes to be played in
Red Springs by the Red Ro'oins
on theiir exhibition schedule are:'
April 13—P.J.C.; April IT-—PJC
in the fiirst night game; Elizabeth-
ton, Tennessee on the afternoon of
Sunday, April 18; Dover, Delawere
cn the night of Monday, April 18; |
Springfield, Mass... on Tuesday .
right and Robbins, N. C. on Wed- |
nesday night. April 21.
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Recorder Has
Light Session
Limbee River
REA Corporatioi
Has Anniversary
The Lumbee River Electric
vlembership Corporation celebra-
ed its seventh anniversary, April
1943, energizing additional
niieage that had just 'oeen released
by the contract-, r. D. .J. Dalton,
rar.ager, th.s
The CoG^^'at'.ve energizeci ■ its
u'st line April 5,. 1941. and after
t.'.e original construction program
was over, the ■ Cooperative' had
47.5 miles serving sc-;r.e 1062 rr.em-
T;r.s At present the Co-op is com
pleting energizing more than 1000
n;les of line ser'.'ini
3300' con-
Wfldlife Group
To Hold Meeting:
In Charlotte
In recoiCer’s court Tuesday
morning there were four cases of
speeding befoe. Judge McDiarmid.
Theodore Farlow, white of New
York,, and Carter J. Deatherage,
white of South Carolina, each
failed to appear and forfeited a
'bond of $25. James E. Bolton and
James W. Waldon. both white of
Fjyetteviille, each paid $10 and
the costs.
Robert J. Wike anldi Alfred Hart,
Jr., both colored- e*ch paid $10
and the costs for driving with bad
brakes.
J. E. Gibson got 30 days sus
pended on payment of- the costs
or being drunk and disorderly. |
Lee Brown, white, paid the'i*’'*
sumers.’ Within the r.e:t 30 days,
the Co-op will energize 100 more
miles of. line in the eastern part
of Robeson county where the poles
are now set. The Cooperative also
as approximately 60 mhies of poles
set in Hoke. S-cotland. -and Robeson
counties which w;ii ':e energized
just as soon as uinductcr and
transformsrs are deiivered. ccth
of 'which have beer. pr;';T.;sed for
Flay shipment. -
This leaves apprcximately 160
miles that has been allocated by
REA remaining to be buit and
the construction of this line will
depenld entirely on the future
delivery of conductor and trans
formers. C. A. Alford of Rowland
is president of the Cooperative anU
has been since its origin.
The Cooperative has borrowed
$1,800,000 from the Federal REA
to date. It is striclty owned by the
members who are the users of the
electricity. Payments have been
met to the Federal REA and same
30,000 advance payments made
n addition which gives the Co-op
a sound financial standing. Dalton
The Upchurch school will en
tertain their district vocational Jngs are heavily made up of non-
agricultupe^meeting on Monday, cigarette grades of tobacco, Hutson
of the New Wildlife Resources
Commission, will be a principle
speaker at the-April 22 and 23
meeting of the North Carolina
Stabilization Corporation hold-| dent of this community for about; Dundarrach, Mrs. Jesse Gibson, -Wildlife Federation to be held in
30 years, died suddenly at his home ' $85.75; Montrose, Mrs. W. F. Me- Charlotte, North Carolina, accord-
here last Thursiday afternoon at iFadyen, $13.50; Pine Forest, Mrs.;ing to Federatiion Presild.ent Forrest
Will L. Rose, farmer- and reslh :Miss Margaret Gainey, $33.00;
Col. Clyde P. Patton, Director ;costs for violating'the prohibition
aws.
oci'y Barrett, Co'
rionths suspended o
25 and the costs
Apirl 12. They are making ex
tensive preparations for the large
crowd of visitors expected.
L. E. Luck attenlded a district
meeting of school bus mechanics
held in Fayetteville on Tuesday.
K. A. MacDonald spent last
Friday and Saturday in Raleigh
working with the Resource Com
mittee of. the State Education
Commission.
saild', and the demand for non
cigarette grades is only one-twen-
tiieth of the demand for cigarette
grades. Current undesirable grades
will be even less desirable in the
immediate years ahead if these
trends continue, he added, because
as world markets .again accumulate
itibacco supplies, it will be easier
to find substitutes for the non
cigarette grades than for the
cigarette grades. ,
T'no white schools of the county
vill. end their seventh month on
Friday, April 9. The colored
schools close the seventh month on
Saturday, April 10.
The Rockfish school' committee
held a meeting last \veek and re
elected T. C. Jones as principal.
We hope the other districts will
soon follow Rockfish’s lead.
one o’clock of a heart attack. He
was 67 years of age. *
Funeral services were conducted
at Raeford Methodist church - on
Sunday, afternoon at 2:30 by the
pastor, the Rev. P. O. Lee, as
sisted by the Rev. W. L. Maness
and the Rev. B. P. Robinson, both
former pastors of the church, of
which the deceased was a member,
Burial was in
cemetery, '
Bernice Williamson, $52.70; Rock- |Heath. This meeting, at the Char-
fish, Mrs. T. C. Jones, $20.00; ijotte Hotel; wiH be the-first under
Sanatorium, Mrs. J. L. Beall, I £ plan adopted in Winston-Salem
$126.;5; Wayside, Richard Neeley,-jn January whereby the Federa-
$67.(65; Turnpike, H. B. Nixon, U;,on will have two state-wide
$31.00; White-Tex Mills, Paul meetings each year—one in April
Long, $41.60; Hoke High\ W. T. and one in November. Plans are
Gibson, $30.50; Upchurch High,, -to make this meeting one of the
A. S, Gaston, $207.10; Rafiord ^ most outstanlilihg ever held by
business section, I. Mann, $708; ^t’le Federation.
FARM NOTES I
B\' A. S. Knowles
the Raeford iNE Raeford, Mrs. J. A. Baucom,.' Judge F. Donald Phillips of|their support. He posted a $200
By making available adequate
upplies of high quality cigarette !
Randolph County,
born.
$59.50; NW Raefoild, Mrs. N. A. Rockingham, a leading proponent
McDonald. $100.80; SE Raeford, of more adoq'uuto, .game anif. fish
Will Rose was the son of the^^j^.^^ Marion Gatlim, $82.10; S. W
leafs, Hutson said, grpwers can
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Miss .Claudia
A-
Cates, primary
teacher "of .the .Raeford Graded,
was palled home thiis week by ser
ious illness.in her family. Mrs. J.
W.-Walker is substituting for her.
Mrs. ’Andrews, manager of the
Raeteni Graded lunchroom, is Ml
at her home here. We hope she
will soon be improved. During her
ab.sence from work Mrs. Christian
Davis is operating the lunchroom.
HOKE HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
The speaking and peace contest
“How Can the United Nations Be
Strengthen.ed” sponsored by the
Bar Association took place Tues
Fay, April 6, in the high school
auditorium as part of the Army
Day program. Florence Cameron
won first' place in the contest. Mr.
Whitley, president of the local
Bar Association, waj present and
-gave each of the contestants a
box "of c;.ndy. Mrs. Arthur D. Gore
spon.sorcd the contest in connection
with the Journalism Club.
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SPRING
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Much interest is being shown
locally in the Spring Music
Festival being presented iin the
auditorium of Flora Macdon-
ali, college next*Monday and
in the Red Springs High school
auditoriium Tuesday. Several
local people are taking part.
The festal consists of a re
cital on Monday evening by
the celebrated French pianist,
Maurice Dumesnil, and a con
cert on Tuesday evening by the
Red Springs Civic Choral So
ciety and the North Carolina
Symphony orchestra witji Mr.
Dumesnil as piano soloist.
Dumesnil is recognized as a
foremost authority’ on the in
terpretation of France’s great
modern composer, Claude De-j
bussy, and is the author of two,
books ■ aniil m^merous articles
on the life and works of the
composer. The North Carolina
Symphony orchestra is the first
state-supported symphony orch
estra in the United States and
is one of the State’s greatest
cultural assets.
Both aff^u's begip at 8:l5
o’clock. Dates are Moladay and
TueSi'ay, ApiyJ 12 and 13.
David Rose of
where he was
'.ro'aghout the state,
iRaeford , Mr-S. R. A. Matheson,
$54.
-f '1,
He is survived by his widow, the
former Sinah Peele of Gibson; five
daughters, Mrs. John McVicker,
ani:, Mrs. Dan Clark of Raeford,
’Mrs. Bessie Clark and Mrs.
Joseph Chasey of Long Branch,
.*N. J., and Mrs. Frank Twiddy of
Edenton. N. C., four sons, Carl,
Clarence and Heston Rose of Rae
ford anjd- Causey Rose of Asheboro;
two sisters, Mrs Margaret Saun
ders of Rantdleman and his twin,
Mrs. L. C. Lathan of Hoffman;
one brother, John Rose of Star;
and 19 grand-children.
REVIVAL SERVICES
AT CHURCH OF GOD
10 -si^'eaking after a 'costs ' for u
■ :'-ar cn the evening of decent language
Ti'-,'- supper is being ■ ■, O-
by the Alecklenburg ■-
appearance bond.
Willie Cock, colored, got 30 day? This
supsended c:! . "ayment of
I'rofcne ava.
.The Rev. Russell A. Tedder-
pastor of the Church of God, lo- j
bi/’’'
c'nri.'ccu'
; April 22.
sponsored
■F'por‘is:v.nn's Wildlife Club, which FISHERMEN FINED
I has a reputation for putting on
i^ ery good feeds.
the Exienjicrr
m-
reci. got b
payment oi
r ’.vaving a _ ^
hotgun at IM. A. Fcrguso.n and ‘ ,
indicating that he '.r.i'ght shoot | Faimei? .%ho nee., to redu.ee .he
;r.it population oh their farms are
Her Chavis, Indian woman, got tirged to appiv tor rat bait at the
ix months to be suspended on con- County Agent * office by April 11.
cition of 2 years good behavior T'he cost will be $1.00 for a 3-
Ehd payment of a $20 doctor bill potind package. This is sufficient
Jar cutting Judy Collins. ' a\erage farm. Red-
Ernest Lee Singletary, colored. Squill is the killing agent in the.
paid the costs for cussing. He got (bait, but is not harmful to domestic
a two year-sentence for non-sup- animals. It is tne safest rat poison
.port of his, family to be su'speni’ed
cn payment of $15 weekly toward
Oscar Chadwick, game protector
the Wildlife commission, bro'ught
cvailable, because it kills only rats.
The spraying campaign for the
control of flies an.i' mosquitoes is
being accepted readily by farmers.
■ is’ a joint program, of the
ier-.'ice an;' the Board
F '-’- living -.vould be
i'app..‘r it tiu'se pests '-.vere con
trolled. Apply at the Home Agentls'
office for this service by April 17.
j Vv'iiiia.T'. Graham, Negro farmer
cf the Five-Point comm.unity, who
purchased a farm through the
Others on the plbgram will be w iiunie v.u.uii.ij;iuu. u.luu.,u, Home Administration has
ated at the west end of the Mill D. Staton Inscoe of Raleigh, Hay- to tiial this wee' O’^^ore outstanding job of.fenc-
t’en Olds of the Wil.'life Resources Barrington tor tis 'ing pastures. William plans to
without licenses. They were H. G.
\illage next to Colson’s laundry,
announced this week that a Commiission; D. K. Sing of CJIhar-
geries of revival services was be-
Jng conducted there. Services are
ibein^ conducted each evening by
'^the Rev. Roland Fields of Laurin-
;hurg, and special singing services
lare being held. He welcomes the
.public.
Poole’s Medley
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
Thes'V (ikers defy the courts
and th'^«'>cutive department of
the Federal Government. John L.
Lewis pays very little attention to
judges and Presidents and the
like.
pected to be observers of the law.
■ Fellow' citizens, you may readily
see now that' governments like
curs, a government of the people,
can hailfly be effective among
wicked, impenitent .people. Only
people who fear God .and obey
His commandments are to be ex-
The ciivil law has its origin in
the Moral Law, delivered on Mount
Sinai. In other woiFs, every prin
ciple of law known to man , is
discovered in the Ten Command
ments.
lotte, .Commission member from
District 6; P. K. Gravely of Rocky
Mount; and Col. Frank L. Page of
Greensboro, both of w’hom are past
presidents of the Federation.
All club members and the public
are cordiially invited to attend. A
business session as well as an
open forum discussion on state
wide problems will be held.
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Former Resident
Dies In Lumberton
Mrs. C. H. McNeill, 42, died
Tuesday night at 8:15 o’clock at
Baker-Thompson hospital in
Lumberton. Mrs. McNeill was a
resident of Rad Spring? and had
been a resident of Hoke County
until about two years ago.. Before
her marriage she was Miss Annie
Moore.
Funeral services will be con-
All the great'anil.i true men are ducted at Ph'.ladelphus Pi-esby-
not up in Washington. There are j terian church today,
thousands back in their homes Surviving are her husband and
, , keep 5 to 6 brood sows. He is now
Staley and C. S. Pickett, both from , . ■ ^ *
i planmng . a grazing program of
outside the county. Botn were
fined $10 anii
trial.
the cost? of the
TOBACCO NOTICE
equal to any in. office. There are
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two sisters, cr.e of whom is Mi'S.
Austin B’utler of this county.
The closing date for all
Combination? and Divi?ions for
Flue-Cured Tobacco will be May
1, 1948, ?ay? T. D. Potter, Chair
man of the Hoke County AAA
Committee. He also stated that
all tracts of lafl owned and
operateii by the same operator
□r by husband and wife within
a county may be combined if
operated as one family unit.
Any part of a farm cash-rented
to another operator shall re
main a part of the original
farm. In no qase will the com
bination ■ of the cash-rented
tract with the farm operated
by ■ the renter be permitted.
Anyone desiring to have farms
div'ded or combined for ’.948
i should go to the AA.A office by
May 1 and make the request.
soybeans, millet, oats, amd lespe-
deza for his hogs. For his cattle,
he will plant one pasture to
serecia lespedeza, one to soybeans,
and. another to tall fescue and
Ladine Clover for permanent
pasture. Widliam plans first to pro
duce plenty of home grown meat
and next fee>d out pork and beef
'for sale to supplement the farm
, income.
i Approximately twenty-five
farmers attended the ditching and
'tile laying demonstration on Mrs.
J. S. Johnson’s farm last Friday.
Those atterjciing were impressed 7
■w'ith the type of work being done ’
by the ditching machine. This ma
chine digs the ditch with the prop- '
er amount of fall for tile installa-
tjon. Ditching by hand is slow and:'^;:
vsuaTy requires much extra work .
to keep “.te bottom of the ditch oa
a uniform slope reatay for tile
l-.iynig. The group was impressed .
rv't’-. the .amount of -tvater bein® ''
‘he land to be
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I ■ moved from
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