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TEN PAGES
THURSDAY, JUNE S, 1948
RAEFORD, N. C.
S2J0.PEK
YOUR
ISCHQOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
W€ regret that through an over
sight the account of the Raeford
Graded School Operetta was left
out of last weeks school news.
The school presented “Modier
Nature Wins” to a large and ap
preciative audience in the high
school auditorium. The Operetta
' was set in two acts. TeacH^s and
pupils put a lot of work on the
production and parents put much
into the costumes. The costumes
were colorful and the music
catchy. Prihcipal Turlington
created light effects that added
ibeauty and color to the scenes.
Over 200 pupils took part. A great
deal of favorable comment has
' been heard regarding the produc
tion.
' Last Friday evening at 8:00 o’
clock the senior class gave their
class night exercises in the high
school auditorium. A. passenger
ship motif was used.
Act I depicted the seniors as
-they embarked for a 4 year train
ing cruise on educational seas. Act
II showed King Neptune’s Court
where they had to appear* and
show their proficency before being
.allowed to disembark. Act JII
protrayed their landing at the port
of graduation. The, cast was as
follows: Welcome-Mlralyn John
son-Salutatory, Captaifl-Zeb Moss,
. 1st Mate-Neill Blue Sinclair, 3
ISailors-Mfelv^ Hwe, Whit^tford
-iJohies, Buster Maxwell; Purser-
Sam Hendrix, Quarterm^ter-
^ Wnrtern.’ChBdremi, i^dM Operator
-Fred Wood, Chief Engineer-Alton
Clark, Captain’*,,. Aide-Francis
_^rks, ^pr^Doctoj-Bobby Mur
ray, -Ship^iS iKStesstAltienia Cur
rie, Stewardness-Lois Autry, King
Neptune-Bill Moses, AmbassadSr-
Foster McBryde. Historian-Gwen
Gore, Testator-Carlene Freeman,
Giftorian-J. D. McMillian, Anci
ent Mariner-Neill Adams Mc
Neill, Poet-Jack Lee, Statistician-
Janie Veasey, Passengers-Billie
, Mae Aldred, Bonnie Kate Blue,
Katherine Blue, Dorothy Collo-
way, Grace Carter, Doris Clark,
Elaine Cole, Myrta Cole, William
Freeman, Nita Gulledge, Marvel
Neill, Virginia Monroe, Irma Ray,
Ruby Strother, Lana Terrell,
Lee, Louise Lunday, Betty Mc-
Lanchlin MacDonald; Farewell-
Nancy Lee , Cole-Valedictory-
Pianist-Mrs. Kerr Stevens-Pro-
duction Manager-Miss Mary Mc-
Innis. Despite the rain a large
. and enthusiastic audience honored,
the seniors W'ith their presence.
Cooperative Here
Gets $120,000
Loan From REA
Local REA Receives Money
For Membership Extension
And Office Construction
On Sunday, May 30, at 11:15
o’clack the Baccalaureate Sermon
was preached ■ to the senior class
in the' High School Auditorium
by Rev. P. O. Lee, Pastor of the
Raeford Methodist Church. Rev.
Mr. Lee _ preached an elequent
sermon packed full of good advice
to the graduates. They should go
out into the w'orld and make good
if they follow his advice.
Rev. J. D. Whisnant, Pastor of
the Raeford Baptist i?hurch pro
nounced the invocation and Rev.
W. B. Heyward, pastor of the Rae
ford Presbyterian Church- the
benediction. The glee club under
the direction of Mrs. Kerr Stevens
sang “'Send Out Thy Light” by
Gourrod. Mrs. J. C. McLean was
the faculty member in charge of
the exercises.
Monday, at 10:30 a. m. the
Seventh Grade Promotion Day
exercises took place in the Hoke
High Auditorium. The exercises
opened with a Band Concert by
the Hoke High Band under the
direction of W. O. Melvin, band
master. The band played the pro
cessional after which Rev. E. B.
Booker, of the Rockfish Baptist
Church pronounced the Invoca
tion.
The salutatory address was
given by C. J. Benner, Jr. of the
Raeford Graded School. The Rae-
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The local Lumbee River Elect
ric Membership Corporation has
just been advised by Claude R.
Wickard, Administrator of the
Rural Electrification Administra
tion, of the approval of a $120,-
000 loan to take care of additional
short extensions along the present
system and also construct an
office building and warehouse.
The Corporation was organized
in 1940 and to date has more than
1100 miles of line serving approx
imately 3600 members within
Hoke, Scotland, Robeson and
Cumberland counties.
According to D. J. Dalton, man
ager, C & S Construction’ Com
pany will finish a 300 mile con
struction contract within the next
two weeks. The Cooperative
construction crew will finish up
approximately 75 miles of line
within the next 30 days. Some of
thesd poles have been set more
than a year as the Cooperative has
not been able to obtain conductor
and transformers enough to com
plete all the mileage as it was,
constructed.
Tile new loan will increase the
capital of the local corjioration to
$1,948,000 which amount will
eventually furnish electric service
to more than 5,000 members.
The Cooperative is a locail
Membership corporation charter
ed under the North'Carolina Rural
Electrification Membership Act of
ISSS. C. A. Alford of Rowland is
is now president and has been
since the . corporation .Was orggp-
ized.^C. L. Ballance of St. Pauls
is vw^prilsideht, J. R. CaddelT 'of
Maxton is treasurer, and Mrs.
Lucy Smith of Raeford is Secre
tary.
To datC^ the Corporation has
made all obligations on its loans
and has made advance payments
of some $32.,000 with $10,000 in
vested in war bonds. It is now one
of the larger REA cooperatives of
the state and is operating on a
sound, financial basis, according
to the manager. .
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Walter Jackson
Funeral Today
Funeral services will be con
ducted at Epbesus Baptist church
at four o’clock this afternoon for
Walter Jackson, 29, who died
suddenly of a heart attack Tues
day afternoon while swimming at
Page’s Lake. The service will be
conducted by the Rev. Charlie
Hester of St. Pauls and the Rev.
E. B. Booker of Rockfish. In
terment will be in the church
cemetery.
Mr. Jackson, a resident of
Lumiber Bridge, is survived by
his widow, the former Miss
Louise Graham of Lumber Bridge;
five children, Graham, Larry,
Carolina, Edward and Johnnie; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Jackson of Raeford Route 1; six
brothers, Z. E, Roscoe, L. J. Jr.,
Jennette, all of Lumber Bridge,
Boy of Red Springs and Currie
of Raeford Route 1; three sisters,
jVlrs. H. S. Carroll of Raeford
Route 3, Mrs. R. E. Smith of Man
chester and Miss Maggie Jane
Jackson of the home.
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COUNTY EXCEEDS QUOTA
IN CANCER FUND DRIVE
^erican Ugion
Recorder's Court LCRSCS Ball Park
To Pay For Lights
Post To Manage Field
Until Ii^ebtednes Has
Been Paid, Then Re-Lease
In recorder’s court Tuesday
morning 12 cases came up and
were disposed of before Judge
Henry McDiarmid. Five were for
speeding and involved white
tourists. Each posted a $25 bond
and kept touring, forfeiting the
bond. .
O. V. Taylor, local white man.
charged with giving a bad check,
entered a plea of guilty and paid
the amount of the check and the
costs.
Quick McKoy, colored, had
posted a $20 bond for having been
drunk and disorderly'. He failed to
appear and forfeited the bond.
Beatrice Gales, colored, was
charged with the larceny of a
watch from Mrs. Frank Williams.
^Probable cause was found and she
was ordered held for Superior
court. Bond was set at $300. ,
Irving Smith, colored, was
charged with breaking and enter
ing P.nd larceny at Calvin Little’s
“East Side Country Club,” north
east of Raeford. Probable cause
was found and bond was set at
$100. •
Colonel Junior Johnson, Indian,
got 6Q days to be suspended on
payment of $25 and the costs for
an aggravated case of speeding.
Alford Baker, colored, was
charged with using profane and
indecent language and assault.
The State took a nol pros as to
the assault charge and he pleaded
guilty of the profanity and paid
$10 and the costs.
Paul Brigman, w hite boy said
to be about 13 years of age, was
charged with assault with intent
to cpmmil rape. No cause/was
found and he was freed \
BOARD HAS PETITION
FOR ELECTION ON BEER
G. B. Rowland, chairman of the
Hoke county board of elections,
reported yesterday that he had re
ceived the petition for an election
to determihe whether beer and
wine could be sold in the county.
Rowland stated that he was com
pleting the necessary details con
nected with the Democratic prim
ary last Saturday but that the
board would meet and take action
on the petition* in the very near
future. •
The board' will ball an election
on the question if the petition
appears to be in order and if it has
the required number of signatures
of voters in the last primary for
governor. The election must be
held not less than 60 days from
any other election or primary.
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The Ellis Williamson American
Legion post at its last meeting
made arrangements to raise the
rmaiiiing three to four thousand
dollars needed to complete paying
for' the li^Ung system at the
Armory ball park. The money
was borrow^ from members of
the post and then an arrange
ment was made with the county
whereby t^ post could-lease the
park and flaiidle all affairs held
there until such time as they
were able to return the borrowed
money.
At the termination of this lease
another will be written in which
the county and the legion post
will work out a plan to share
whatever -the proceeds after that
may be. - i ,
Under l^e present set-up the
legion post will operate the park
through a board of trustees chosen
from those legionnaires who are
lending the post the money to
finance the project, total cost of
which ran slightly over $7,500.
These t^tees are Buck Blue,
Devoe A^tin, Alfred Cole, Robert
Gatlin and T. B. Lester, Jr.
Clubs hhd organizations using
the park games will pay a flat
fee for thf liidit bill and then split
the net g^rooeeds after taxes on a
percentage basis -with the post
which will l^ply such money
to the m^jay owing on the lights.
No split will be required of games
played by the county high school,
in view ©f the fact that the pro
motion athletics
was one of the primary reasons
the post began the lighting pro
ject in the first place.
Garden Club Will
Give Amateur Show
Rehearsals are under way for
“Fun For You,” sponsored by the
Raeford Garden club and to be
presented Thursday and Friday,
June 10 and 11 at the Hoke High
school auditorium. The net profits
of the production will be used by
the Garden club for their “Park
in the Pines” project.
The production is under the
direction of Miss Gerry Mc-
Closkey and is an impersonation
of ,several well known radio
shows. There will ibe impersona
tions of such celebreties as Tom
Brenneman, Dr. I. Q., Harry Von
Zell, Minnie Pearl, Uncle Ezra and
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Rebels Win Again
In Peach Belt Loop;
Play Here Tonight
The Raeford Rebels of the
Peach belt continued their re
cently-begun winning ways when
they defeated the league-leading
Beaunit mills team of Rockingham
here Tuesday night, 6 to 3. The
home team looked good in the
contest, getting 11 hits; and play
ing errorless defensive ball. **
Andrews started for Raeford
and was relieved by Kapushin^i
after two innings. Each aRo-wed
two safe hits and Kapushinski
got credit for the victory. The
game was the third straight vic
tory for the local team since they
started winning after loosing their
first five. The fruits of the vic
tories are becoming increasingly
apparent in the larger crowds
attending the games.
The Rebels will play the Aber
deen team at Armory park tonight
with game time being set at
seven forty-five. This game was
scheduled for last Saturday night
but was rained out.
PRIMARY PUTS FOUR NEW
ON COUNTY BOAW
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Mrs. E. M. Baker
Dies On Monday,
Is Buried^ Tuesday
Mrs. Maggie Elizabeth Baker,
widow of the late E. M. Baker,
died at her home here Monday
afternoon. Mrs. Baker^s health had
not been good for about a year,
and she became very ill on Satur
day.
She was formerly Miss Maggie
Stanford of Mecklenburg coxmty
and came here with her late hus
band about 35 years ago. She was
78 years of age.
Funeral services were conduc
ted Tuesday afternoon at the home
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FORMER RAEFORD GIRL
NAMED ALUMNAE HEAD
Miss Martha Gaitley of Red
Springs and Fayetteville was e-
lected president of the Flora Mac
donald college Alumnae associa
tion for the next two years at a
meeting of the association held
A the college last Saturday.
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CUTTING SATURDAY
J. M. BROUGHTON
Nqniinaieid , over William
B. Umstead for United States
Senate.
w/m/£L
Watson Remains;
To Be Solicitor;
Tops Moses; 1579 Y^tenr
A. D. Dammons was arrested
Sunday by Officers Price, Wright
and Dees on charges of cutting
James Leach in an altercation at
Carl McKenzie’s station on the
Antioch-Dundarrach road Sat
urday night. Leach is said to
have been seriously cut and is in
a Fayetteville hospital. Dammons
is in jail, no bond having been
set until it appears more probable
that Leach will recover.
Mrs. J. H. Blue, Hoke county
chairman for the fund drive for
the American Cancer society, re
ported this week that the quota
this county was to raise for the
fund had been considerably ex
ceeded. The quota for the county
was set at $500 and when Mrs.
Blue reported $629 had been
turned in with more still to come.
She expressed her appreciation
for the fine cooperation given the
drive by both worker and donors.
OFFICIAL PRIMARY
Candidates 'S 'S
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FOR RECORDER
Mos6s 15 38
RETURNS FOR HOKE
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COUNTY
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ti w
3 O
116 51 708
McDiarmid
89
138
84
27
62
19
48
140
224
40
871
FOR SOLICITOR
Smith
17
45
51
51
32
23
109
120
24
526
Andrews
89
143
83
38
89
77
^99
149
218
67
1052
FOR COMMISSIONER
Thomas
18
43
88
41
58
84
94
169
242
79
916
Wright
80
109
79
56
60
29
99
142
214
28
896
McMillan
81
88
117
41
77
92
68
168
220
79
1031
Smith ..
78
67
87
73
57
84
52
156
199
72
925
Watson
106 >
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72
66
70
9
99
125
126
5
848
Lytle
’9
70
57
18
57
86
52
152
212
83
796
McNeill
43
44
49
30
49
10
83
101
123
7
539
Pickier
74
64
42
42
51
13
139
103
113
13
634
Townsend
26
30
71
57
81
99
60
109
142
92
767
FOR GOVERNOR
Johnson
73
108
46
17
50
16
38
121
157
22
648
Scott
27
61
62
66
60
80
104
97
133
50
740
Albright
5
10
18
9
'8
5
17
35
36
22
165
FOR SENATOR
Broughton
34
65
60
54
83
38
117
113
148
58
771
Umstead
71
102
61
33
30
57
43
123
178
36
734
CHARLES M. JOHNSON
High man governor’s race.
Mr. Johnson will be con
tested by Kerr Scott in sec
ond primary on June 26.
W. KERR SCOTT
Second man in the gover
nor’s race, Mr. Scott has
called for a rim-off with
Charles M. Johnson.
“Shout Freedom’^ To
Run Thru Saturday
By popular demand “SHOUT
FREEDOM”, now playing at his
toric Southern States Fair grounds
in Charlotte, has • been extended
two nights to run through Satur
day June -5; it was annouhced
today.
“This action was taken to ac
comodate the thousands of school
children and their parents who
have not been able to see the show
because of conumencement ex
ercises and final examinations,”
Bob Allen, business manager,
said today.
The play, which is packed with
thrilling battle scenes and other
exciting highlights, deals with the
independence and liberty in the
Carolinas during 18th century
Revolutionary days. The produc
tion has a cast of more than 130
led by Norman Cordon, nationally
known basso baritone and New
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1579 of Hoke county’s tw® ttt
three thousand eligible votctS
went to the polls in the Deino»"
cratic primary last Saturday and^
elected a board of commissicxien^
a judge and prosecuting attorocsT
of the Recorder’s court, favored "
W. Kerr Scott for Governor
J. Melville Broughton for United
States senator and went along
with the rest of the State for
several other State officers voted
on.
For the board of commissioners
F. Knox Watson of the old board
was. ree/ected, the only one of
three of the present board who
were seeking reelection. New
members of the board will be J.
Fulford McMillan. W. Marshall
Thomas. John Wiliarh Smith and
Julian H. Wright. Others running
were G. C. Lytle, Hector Mc
Neill, E. R. Pickier and O. T.,
Townsend.
Judge Henry McDiarmid was
retained as county recorder,
leading his opponent, Talmage O.
Moses, by 163 votes.
For prosecuting attorney of the
recorder’s court J. M. Andrews
in unseating N. McNair Smith got
exactly twice as many votes as
Smith recei'ved.
The county favored W. Kerr
Scott by M votes over Charks
M. Johnson for governor, although
the State gave Johnson a plurality
of several thousand. R. Mayne Al
bright ran third in the county and
State and Baker, Boyd and Stanley
follow^ in that order.
'In ^ race for the seat in the
United States senate now oc-
upied by William B. Umstead
which J. Melville Broughton won
this county favored Umstead by a
few votes for the short term bbt
gave Broughton a 37-vote ma
jority for the long term.
The vote for the candidates by
precincts appears separately.
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
Boll Weevil
The Cotton Boll Weevil has al
ready made its appearance in cot
ton fields around the county. In
spection of fields this week indi
cate that the wee\'ils are migrafting
from hi'oernation. Weather con
ditions at present are favorable
toward the migration and repro
duction of weevils. Farmers' are
urged to. inspect their fields of
older cotton, particularly where
squares have formed. Inspection
should be made aroxmd buildings,
hog pens, hay stacks, hedgerows,
and any other place where weevil
hibernate during winter. Look
for weevil in the buds of cotton
and in the larger squares. In
spection of fields should be made
2 or 3 times a week in order to
know how rapidly the weevils are
migrating. On fields that are
badly infested treatment should
be started early.
Based upon reports of the
number of weevil living over
winter and the fact that weevil
have already been formed in sHne
fields, it would appear that ^
farmers should make preparation
toward fighting this pest. At least
a portion of Benzene Hexachlor-
ide or other dust should be ob
tained if weevil are to be kq>t
under control.
Wire Worm Damage
Several reports have been made
during'the past few days concwm-
ing the damage to com by the
Wireworm. This insect feeds ott
the corn as soon as it has iMeft.
planted and very often befogqit
sprouts, causing serioos
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