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•'tils;' ■-*-1. i -/¥ -«j "sSK^-i'' ■-P 41 mt- 5 " • ^ ,''et r-’'»^C•.!-*••■• •■: I • • ■ _ • • • V-l.'i^'.. . -• •;*.'_•«■ '■liV ’ ‘...p T/ r . i % ‘3 voicidr IRCIDdM U* PS;- , V. iA>d.. ; ■'* jV- -••■"'-/44 Vs-: “ »*» -^1 dlMMAN OrUBEMY 1 Journal Tfce Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal ifoLUME XLU, NO. 50 THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1948 RAEFORD, N. C. S2LM FEB YOUR ISCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald Miss Ella Stephens Barrett, State Supervisor of Counciling for the State Board of Education spent the day here yesterday checking on the work done in vocational guidance and counciling and in meeting with the Raeford teachers. Miss Barrett was most coonplimen- tary in what she had to say about the program. Miss Miriam "Watson heads the program at Hoke High. ' We hope to expand the program in all the schools next year. Controller of the State Board of Education Paul A. Reid spent part of Tuesday in the county. Mr. Reid came down t: make the Confed erate Memorial day address for the Hoke County Chapter of the U. ,D; C. at Hoke High. Mr. Reid made a splendid address that was enjoyed and appreciated by all who heard him. 'While here he visited a few of the schools and the office of the County Board of Education. Mr. - Reid was vwy much pleased with what he had time to see. "^-The Rockfish school will pre^ sent its operetta, “Cinderella” on ■Wednesday evening, May 19, at 8 o’clock in the school aduitorium. Teachers and pupils have worked hard on the production and a treat is in store for all who attend. Rockfish. always puts on a good program and we are sure that this will be no expeption. Be sure and attend. • • % Mrs. Annie 'Vl^ Male^^tate Su- gram, will be in Hbke COnnty next Tuesday to visit as many lunch rooms as possible and po hold a meeting with the principals and lunchroom managers that after noon at 3:30. The meeting will be 'held at the courthouse in the superior court room. Standard tests were given in all the white elementary schools on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Jean’s Foundation Supervisor Annie A. Pridgen of the Colored Elementary school attended the funeral of the State Jean’s Super visor of Elementary schools which was held in Georgia on Wednesday afternoon. The Hoke High band under the direction of W. O. Melvin went to Rowland last night at the invita tion of the Rowland P. T. A. This, is the second invitation the band has had to play at schools out of the county. They were also invited to play at the opening game of the Tobacco State and Peach Belt leagues at Red Springs and Rae ford. They also played for the first game under the lights that Hoke High played here. We are proud of the record the band is making. DistrictMeeting Of HOC Clubs Well AMed Approximately 300 Home Dem onstration Club Women from Cumberland, Hoke, Robeson and Scotland Counties attended the district meeting which was held .in the Raeford Presbyterian Church last Thursday. The Rob eson County Women received the gavel for having the largest del egation based on miles traveled. Mrs. Harriet Pressley of Ral eigh, who was selected as the “North Carolina Mother of 1948’ spoke on the “The New Look,” not referring to "the new look in clothes,, however. She based her remarks around the three “C’s”- curiosity, concern and contribu tions. Those present were urged to take a new look into these “C’s”. She stated, “We as wo.men, need to develop dnough curiosity about local, state, national and world affairs to be concerned enough to keep ourselves wJ^ll informed so that •v^e may be able to make our contribution by doing all in our power for world peace.” Mrs. E. P. Gibson, Vice Chair man presided over the meeting in the absence of Mrs. Marshall Newton who has just recently re turned' from the hospital. Mrs. Mary Lee McAllister. Southern District Home Agent, brought greetings from the state office. Each of the four counties gave brief reports of outstanding work accomplished during the past year. ''' New officers elected were Mrs. E. P. Gibson, Laurel Hill, Chair man, Mrs. A. A. McCormick of St Pauls, Vice Chairman, and Mrs. Carl Jones of Laurinburg, Secre tary and Treasurer. - The meeting adjourned after TAdiich a picnic lunch was served by the Hoke County Club mem bers with the food and nutrition leaders in charge. 0- ' To Improve Power Plant At McCain HOUSE OF DAVID HERE MONDAY These long-haired, bewhiskefed bqseballUts from the House of David will play the Raeford Rebels of the Peach Belt League at Armory Park Monday night at 8 o’clock. This bunch of ath^tes, all bedecked with b^rds and some with flowing hair, present one of the biggest ^dities ih the sporting world. Nobody will dispute the validity of their claim of being the most unique attraction in baseball today. The team is an annual visitor in many cities but nev^ do the home fans grow tired of watching them plajlE The novelty of men looking like fit subjects for an undectaker to work on scampering around a baseball diamond lilce kids doesn’t seem to wear off. As a matter of fact many-of ti^ players are not so ancient, in spite of their deceptive appett^c^. Every member of the squad is a real baseball camouflaged by the hirsute adornments. Many of tiiem have chances to enter organized baseball shaven, but rel^fion as taught to them, forbids and the leagues are the losers. Congressman Charles B. Deane advised this week that the Sur geon General had approved a Federal Grant of $36,G66 through the North Carolina Medical Care Commission for the alteration of and the construction of an addi tion to the Power Plant at the North Carolina Tuberculosis San atorium at McCain. Mr. Deane said that tiie total cost of the project would be around $110,000. Last Wednesday night the Mild- ouson school committee held a ■meeting and re-elected the entire faculty for the term 1948-49. J. M. Andrews, principal, immediately tendered his resignation. The com mittee, after arguing with Mr. Andrews and trying to presuade him to stay on, finally accepted his resignation with o great deal of regret. Mr. Andrews is a candi date for political office and felt that he could not re-consider. We regret losing him and feel that the school system of the county has suffered a distinct loss. 0 iSCOTT HERE YESTERDAY W. Kerr Scott, former North .Carolina Commissioner of Agri culture and presently candidate for Democratic nomination as governor, was in Raeford mudi of yesterday in fee interest of his candidacy. WORK TO START ON MILL MONDAY The Hoke County De- velopment Corporation signed a contract last week with the V. P. Loftis com pany, general contractors of Charlotte, for the con struction of a building on the corporation’s property here for the use of the A- merican Wringer company of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Representatives of the Loftis company have stated that they expect to begin preparation of the site on Monday of next week and expect to com plete the building in app roximately three months after it is begun. The building to be erect ed was described in a recent issue of The News*Journal ^d will be substantially as it was described. Its total cost will run in the neigh borhood of $90,000, but the Loftis contract is not in this amount due to the fact that the type of heating to be used has not yet l^n determined and will be in a separate contract. The town commissioners have voted to take the garbage cans off the streets. They will be put in the back and the men have been instructed to collect garbage from 4»feere. It is hoped that everybody will cooperate in this to make a cleaner looking more beautiful town. 0 CHILDREN’S PICTURES Inspection 'Lane Will Open Here Again Next Week The State department of motor vehicles has announced that Me chanical Inspection Lane number 26, which was here for several weeks in March and April, will be returned to Raeford next Monday, May 17. The lane is expected to open for auto inspection by Tues day and will remain open here for two weeks, closing on Satur day, May 29. The lane will be operated by the same personnel who were with it the frist time it was here. The supervisor in charge will be Paul B. Avant, of "Whiteville. All cars are required to pass an inspection at some time during 1948 and twice yearly thereafter. Cars re jected at the first inspection are required to return within one week with the deficiencies cor rected. ^ 0—^ GARBAGE CANS WILL STAY IN THE BACK Plates for fee pictures of fee children of the community who had their pictures taken March 6 for publication In fee paper have arrived and fee first of feem ap^ar on page 10 of this issue. The feature, entitled, “Citizens of Tomorrow,” will be continued until fee picture of eadi of fee more than 100 children photo graphed has appealed in fee paper. They are being run in no particular order; the printer just runs fee first two he picks up each week.- Paul Reid Gives Memorial Day- Address Here As has been the custom for many years the United Daughters of the Confederacy sponsored Memorial Day exercises (Confed erate Memorial Day, May 10) which was held at the High School Tuesday morning. “Our forefathers came to Amer ica seeking their freedom: Eco nomic freedom, religious freedom and political freedom,” said Paul Reid in his address to the members of fee U. D. C. and student body of the Hoke County High school. Mr. Reid reviewed the background of American history from the time that the people began to de velop new concepts of government of and for the people up to the time of the sectional differences that brought about the civil war. He emhasized the heroic part that North Carolinians took in the war between the States. Then Mr. Reid discoursed on the life and works of Robert E. Lee. “Lee,” he said, “was a man of all times, a great general and a promoter of Christian democracy.” Mr. Reid closed his address wife a few re marks about the United Nations’ stand for a peaceful world. The complete program follows: America; Invocation, Rev. P. O. Lee; Pledge of Allegiance to fee Flag of fee United States; Salute to fee Confederate flag; Dixie; Introduction of speaker, Harry Greene; Address, Paiil A. Reid; “Tenting Tonight,” sextette; Bene diction, Rev. J. D. "Whisnant. 0— CHURCH AT SHILOH Plan Recreation Program Again During Summer The Hoke - Raeford Parent- Teacher association has announ ced by letter this week that it in tends to sponsor the supervised, recreation program for school-age 'boys and girls of fee community again this summer. The program is to be under the supervision of Coach Haywood Faircloth, who handled it so well last summer, and is to run for eight weeks. The program was well attended last summer and has been hailed by parents and youngsters alike as a most worthwhile project. It consists of organized recreation mornihg and afternoon for all boys and girls of school age and is con ducted for five days each week. In the afternoons the young folks are taken to the creek where many learned to swim last summer. Their play there is w'ell guarded and supervised. The PTA has ad vised that a bus. has been obtained for the use this summer, transpor tation to and from the creek hav ing been one of the difficulties en countered last year. In addition to the daytime ac tivities, supervised recreation is to be made available to the teen agers on three ni^ts each week. The PTA was able to sponsor this program last summer through the use of generous contributions of persons and firms of the com munity who were then aware of its importance. These same persons and firms and others are being asked to give again this year and it is expected that they will be glad to be able to do so after having seen fee worth of the pro gram proven. Mrs. Tommie Up- chiarch, treasurer of the PTA, will accept contributions. 0 — Time Short For C And D Drivers CROWDS AHEND FIRST NIGHT GAMES IN BAIL PARK HERE Crop Dusting Program Ready The Dixie-Aero Dusters, operat ed by the Scotland Flying Service at the Laurinburg-Maxton airport, are ready to begin dusting opera tions in North Carolina and neigh boring states, C. T. Modlin, mana ger of the flying service announc ed this w'eek. Modlin and his associates plan to operate si.x or more planes in crop dusting work this year and their operations will extend into South Carolina and Georgia and possibly other states. The Aero Dusters are set to give the farmers the best possible crop dusting service by air plane, Modlin said, and further plans call for the possible addition of a heli copter next year to aid with the dusting operations. The Scotland Flying Service, op erators of the Aero Dusters, have been in operation at the Laurin burg-Maxton airport for some time and are now fixed base oper ators of the airport for the towns of Laurinburg and Maxton. 0 Practically No Recorder’s Court Over 500 Present For First Games Under Lights Last Saturday Night There will be a morning worship service at Shiloh Presbyterian dhurch at 11:00 o’clock next Sun day morning, May 16. The sermon will be delivered by Dr. French, of Northville, Michigan, who is visiting Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Willis at ■ RALEIGH, N. C. May 10— A report issued today by the De partment of Motor Vehicles shows that since January 1, only 38,800 persons wife surnames beginning with C and D have received their new driving licenses. That means. Department offic ials pointed out, that some 111,200 persons in the State are going to face a lot of inconvenience in waiting in long lines unless they get jtheir new di^iving permits during May. It is estimated there are around 150,000 drivers in the State with last names beginning with C and D. The deadline on C and D re newals is June 30, but June is also the' month when chauffeurs licenses have to be -renewed. The Department said license examiners could not be kept busy during June issuing nothing but chauf feurs licenses, and unless the re maining C and D drivers report to their examiners during the re mainder of May, they may- have trouble getting their licenses by the deadline. Officials stated that there will be absolutely no extension to the time, and any C and D who puts off obtaining a new license must suffer the consequences of fee faw—which means that if 'he is caught driving on an old license after June 30, he will be found guilty of misdei|ianor and will be fined not less than $25. The Department also stated' that there will be no additional examiners added during the next two months to take care of fee expected last-oninute “rush,” and added that persons who do not get their licenses immediately will have to suffer the ordeal of wait ing in long lines. State highway patrolmen will make spot checks along fee high ways after June 30, in order to apprehend any C and D drivers who have not obtained licenses. Beginning -wife July 4> persons with names be^nning with E, F, or G, will be re-examined until Decenil)er 31. Only five cases came up for trial before Judge Henry Mc- Diarmid in Hoke C5ounty record er’s court Tuesday. Three of these were for speeding and the^defend’- ants forfeited their bonds by failing to appear. These three were Ambrose Taylor of Asheboro, ■E. H. Moniz, of Florida, and James Elkin, Jr. of Kentucky. All were white and each forfeited a bond of $25. Archie F. Bristow, white, ten dered a plea of nolo contendere to the charge feat he had assaulted his wife and sentence of 30 days was suspended on pajunent of fee costs. Alfred Chavis, Indian, pleaded guilty of carrying a concealed weapon, and sentence of 90 days was suspended on payment of $50 and the costs and on condition of two years good behavior. 0 SERGEANT IS LUCKY First Sergeant Franklin L. Manning, colored, of Fort Bragg, went to sleep at the wheel of his 1947 Buick convertible at about 2:00 a. m. last Friday and went over the embankment just this side of the bridge oyer Rockfish creek on highway 15-A. The ser geant’s convertible was badly smashed up but he -was uninjured. The State Highway Patrol investi gated and made no arrests. 0 POISON OAK CLEANUP The opening night -with lights at Armory Park last Saturday was I a big success in spite of the un- I expected absence of Ray Gallo- i way, Legion department com mander who was to have m.ade the i 1 . . j d'edication address. Appropriate I remarks were made by President i Harry Greene of the Raeford Re- ! bels of the Peach Belt League and * Mayor W. L. Poole, the high school ' band played and a big crowd sa-w ■ a ball game. ' The flag raising ceremony was staged by the Raeford, troop of the ; Boy Scouts of Am.erica and m.usic ' was furnished by .the Hoke County High school band under the di rection of W. O. Melvin. As advertised. Mayor, Poole caught the first ball to get the first night game under -way. I: was thrown by Harry Greene, who had to use an outfielder’s hop to get it to the mayor. As to the game itself, that didn’t turn out quite so well as the other festivities for the home team as Southern Pines came out on fee long end of a 4-0 score. Raeford got two hits off of Hardison and Perham. Jimmy Conoly pitched eight innings for the locals and Clyde Updiurch, Jr., relieved him for the last inning. Team officials report that 520 persons were in attendance at the opening game and that there were 406 paid admissions. , Hoke High Wins Hqkiik,,Hi^ is their first^game, under the new lights, beat Seventy-First High nine to seven Tuesday night when fee crowd was again good, over 200 being in attendance. John D. McMillian pitched for Hoke. He was outstanding at fee plate, getting a triple, 2 doubles and one single in five trips. The "Wonam’s Club of Raeford • is sponsoring a poison oak clean up campaign at the community park. The club is furnishing 2-4 D Weed Killer and is hiring high school boys to do the sprasdng. The Extension Service is lumisih- ing technical information about fee use of this material. 0 CONVENTION SATURDAY »The Hoke County Democratic con-vention will meet in fee court house here on Satiuday, May 15, for the purpose of organizing at^ electing detegates to fee State convention, accociding to Walter P. Bafcer^ chairman of the Hoke county Democratic executive com mittee. Five persons were elected from each precinct to the county convention at pi^nct meetings held last Saturday, By A. S. Knowles Farmers have become quite concerned with the com bill bug. This pest is now causing damage throughout the County. A large number of farmers have inqxiired as to the best -way of controlling this insect, but at the present there seems to be no one way of com pletely wiping out this insect or coping with the situation, except a three or four year crop rotation. According to some reports even that may not be a complete con trol. Things to Do Place the com at least 100 yards from infected fields. Winter-plow infected corn fields in order to expose the com roots where the bill bug usually spends the Winter. In fields completely destroyed by the bill bug the affected plants should be plo-wed up in order to destroy their so^lrce of food. Farmers should produce better pullets "for fall and winter laying. This can be done by the use of range shelters located on lots where grazing crop has been planted. This also helps to reduce fee feed bill. Pullets grown on fee range where they can get good grazing cah be fed up to 25% cheaper than pullets grown in house or lot where no grazing has been provided. This also produces much- better pullets. They will be stronger and will go through fee winter and laying season in xnndi better conditioiD. Range feeltors can be very simple or oomidicated, but in this section, it is. nec essary to have a range fedter feat has a good roof as It seldom gets cold enou^ to need any sidlnt. Pullets should be put on ramie
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