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THURSDAY, JULY 8,1948
RAEFORD. N. C
FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
Floor Sandinsr Demonstration
A Floor Sanding Demonstration
will be held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Potter on the
afternoon of July 13. Both men
and women are urged to attend
this demonstration.
Surplus Iridi Potatoes
One car load of Surplus Irish
Potatoes _is being delivered to
Hubert Cameron and Clarence
Blown. These potatoes were pur
chased by the government in order
to support the prices paid to farm
ers and will be used by the local
men in feeding demonstrations.
They can only be fed to hogs and
cattle. This particular program
ends on June 30th. No orders were
taken after June 25 by Hoke Coim-
ty and other adjoining counties.
Healfli Officer
Says No Case
Polio In Hoke
Says One Case. In January
In Little River Prior
To Present Outbreak
Freeze Vegetables and Fruits
Farmers are reminded that they
should put a portion of fruits and
vegetables in the Freezer Locker
Plant in order to supplement the
canned and stored fruits and veg
etables at home. It helps out the
diet to have'fresh fruits and veg
etables, and putting some in the
locker plant assures farmers that
they will have some fresh fruits
and vegetables even in winter.
6. Keep clean. Wash hands be
fore eating. Keep flies and other
insects away from food. Dpn’t
leave garbage uncovered.
Farm and Home Week
The annual Farmand Home
Week will be held at State College
August 30 to September 3. Over
2600 farm men and women at
tended the occasion last year. For
the first tim'e in a humber of years"
as many men attended as did
women. It is suggested that at
least one man and one woman
from each township attend this
year. In order to make the pro
gram more interesting and the de
sire to attend greater, a number of
Doctor J. W. Willcox, Health
Officer of Moore-Hoke District,
reports there has been no case of
Polio in Hoke County during the
recent out-break. An Indian child
in Little River Township develop
ed Polio in January 1948 and was
treated at the Orthopedic Hospital
in Gastonia.
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He advises all parents to. follow
the instructions laid down by the
National Polio Foundation,
1. Call a Doctor immediately if
any of these symptoms appears—
Headache, nausea, a cold or rore-
throat, upset stomach, muscle
soreness or stiffness, or unexplain
ed fever.
2. Aviod new contacts. Try not
to mingle with crowds. Keep chil
dren away from theaters, trains
buses, boats, '^flanes, or beaches
where they mingle with strangers.
3. Don’t get over-tired because
extreme fatigue makes you an
easier victim. Too strenous play,
late hours, irregular schedules are
possible invitations to attack by
Polio.
4. Avoid chilling. Do not stay
long in cold water,
5. Do not swim in polluted
water.
" To date Moore County has had
35 cases reported in 1948. Most
authorities now believe most Polio
is spread by carriers. The polio
germ is eliminated from carrier or
patient through the intestinal
contests will be held throughout
the week where valuable prizes
will be given away. The prizes will
range from a farm tractor down to
small electrical appliances.
Portable Saw Milf
A commercial concern is offer
ing to use a portable saw mill in
Hoke County if the interest is
sufficient to justify it. The cbn-
.cern offers to move the saw mill to
any farm that would have from 5
to 10 thousand board feet to saw.
The farmer would be expected to
saw and assemble the logs ready
for sawing into lumber. This may
be of service to some farmers that
would not be able to get such
small amoimts sawed any other
way. If any far,mer is interested in
having the use of a saw mill to
cut from 5 to 10 thousand feet of
lumber he may contact the County
Agent’s office for further infor
mation.
Cotton ‘
, J. T. Conner, Extension Ento-
mogolist, found only 2.4 per cent
boll weevil infestation during the
past week. The hot weather has
had its effect upon the weevil pop
ulation. By careful checking the
fields and determining the extent
of damage may save dust and
money. Dust when 10 per cent or
more infestation.
Tour
The Board of Agriculture is
sponsoring a five day tour, August
30 to September 3. to Tennessee.
Alabama, Georgia and South Caro
lina. The proposed tour will cover
1145 miles. Transportation ^will
cost $13.50 per person. The Board
of Agriculture sponsored the one
to Beltsville, Md, last fall. That
one was interesting and very ed
ucational. The one being planned
this year covers a variety of in
teresting scenes and places. The
cost of transportation should be
turned into the County Agent’s
office by August 15.
The only portals of entrance are
the mouth and nose and we know
now most germs get into the hose
and mouth, hence use common
sense, avoid contacts and follow
the other rules given above.
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Local Guard Unit
Leaves Saturday
For Camp Stewart
After a layoff of seven years
about 100 of the young men of
this county will leave Saturday
for a two-weeks period of summer
training with the National Guard.
The unit, will leave in two groups
Saturday for . Camp Stewart,
Georgia. One group will leave at
seven a. m. by motor convoy and
another will leave shortly after
noon by bus for Fayetteville where
they will board a train for Camp
Stewart.
The local battery is commanded
by Captain Paul Dickson with
Lieutenants Luther W. Clark, Ed
win C. Newton qnd Talmadge
English. First Sergeant of the imit
is Jesse N. Gulledge. The battery
is a unit of the 677th antiaircraft
artillery battalion, commanded by
Lt. Col. Younger F. Snead. Local
officers of the battalion hearquar-
ters attending camp will include
Major T. B. Lester, Jr. and Cap
tain Raymond A, Muench.
YOUR HEIP, PLEASE
Two members of the staff of
this newspaper will be with the
National Guard in Georgia for
the next two weeks, and the
paper will be somewhat short-
handed, in both the news and
mechanical departments. We
ask, therefore, that in order for
the paper to be newsy and to
reach you on time yon please
call in your news items as
early as possible for the next
two weeks. Early submission ot
advertisements will also be of
great help to the meehanloal
department.
John A. Cameron
Dies Thnrsday;
Funeral Friday
John Alexander Cameron, 77-
year-old retired naval stores and
lumber dealer and member of one
of the - pioneer families of this
section, died at his home here
early last Thursday morning after
a long illness.
Mr. Cameron had suffered a
severe stroke about two and one-
half years ago and had been con
fined to his b^ for about a year
and a half. His condition had
weakenesd considerably the first
of last ,^week and death was not
unexpected.
He was the son of the late
Samuel J. and Margaret McKeith-
an Cameron and was a native of
the Longstreet section of what is
now the Fort Bragg resenratidh.
His home was here after the res
ervation was formed.
Funeral was conducted at' the
home at four o’clock Friday by the
Rev. W. B. Heyward, pastor of the
Raeford Presbyterian church, and
the Rev. Frank S. Blue of Linden.
Burial was in the Raeford ceme
tery. Pallbearers were Sam Morris,
Harold Keith, John McKay Blue.
Martin McKefthan, Herbert Cam
eron, Marvin Blue, W. L. Mc-
Fadyen and Paul Dezerne.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Miss Annie Blue; three
daughters, Mrs. James W. Hewitt
of Martinsville, Va., Miss Lura
Cameron of Wilson, Miss Marg
uerite Cameron of the home; five
sons, John B. and Charles Cam
eron of Raeford, Alex B. Cameron
of Gainesville, Ga., Marcellus
Cameron of Elizabethton, Tenn.,
William Locke Cameron of
Wallace; three sisters, Mrs. Bruce
Morris, Mrs. Angus Keith and
Mrs. W. M. Blue, all of Raeford;
one brother, Frank Cameron of
Raeford.
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Car Inspection
Rules Tighten
RALEIGH,—The State Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles announced
today a new set of rules and reg
ulations, effective immediately,
designed to speed up the mechani
cal inspection pi?ogram of vehicles.
The regulations set five dead
lines for the remainder of 1948
during which various models of
vehicles must be presented for in
spection.
The new rules were made neces
sary, according to Arthur T. Moore,
director of the department’s me
chanical inspection division, be
cause at the end of June only
250,185 Of the state’s 882,252 reg
istered vehicles had been inspect
ed.
The new requirements require
that:
1—‘All motor vehicles of prear
models up to and including 1936
and vehicles of year model 1947
and 1948 must be inspected by
August 31.
2'—Year models 1937 and 1946
must be inspected by September
30.
3— Models 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944,
and 1945 must be inspected by
October 31.
4— Models 1940 and 1942 must
be inspected by November 30.
5— Models 1941 and 1949 must
be checked by December 31.
The commissioner of motor
vehicles is given power under the
mechanical inspection law act
passed in the last Legislature to
make such rules and regulations
as he deems necessary to admini
ster the law.
The regulations announced to
day also set forth the requirements
for the semi-annual inspection
periods beginning in 1949.
They say in part the vehicles
inspected during the first six
months of 1948 must be submitted
for the first semi-annual inspec
tion in 1949'on or before March 31.
ANTIOCH CHURCH IS ERECTING
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION BUILDING
Work has begip on the Religious
Education Building at Antioch
Presbyterian cmirch. The accom
panying cut is me artist’s drawing
showing the biulding now under
construction at | the rear of the
church, and theiproposed colonial
front and spire.} Only the Educa
tion Building ^ to be built at
present. Arch. IVmEachern is chair
man of the buildjng committee and
Clyde Campbell fis in charge of the
construction. Tpis building will
have adequate space for all classes
of the enlarging Sunday School.
The church bus purchased about
a year ago has had a large part in
the improved attendance at Sun
day School and Church. During
the Daily Vacation Bible School
recently concluded the bus trans-
portated about 50 children each
day. A total of 139 pupils and
workers were enrolled and certifi
cates for perfect attendance were
awarded to 77 boys and girls.
On next Sunday morning Anti
och Church will ordain and install
two elders and fdur dfacons. The
elders are J. M. Andrews and W.
L. Gibson. The deacons are W. C.
Hodgin, David Currie. F. C. Mc-
Phaul, and W. D. McLepd. It is
hoped that a large congregation
will be present for this important
service.
Fineral Servi^ Semifinal Games
Held Tuesday For
Mrs. J. C. Thomas
Today In Semi-
Pro Toorney
Both Raeford Teams
Eliminated; Finalists X#
Play Best Two of Three
Belk’s, Milk’s
Tie For L^d In
Softball
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At,the close df fhe first round
.of play in theij^wly-organized
softball league the teams repre
senting Belk-Hensdale Co. and
Mack’s 5 & 10 are leading with
two victories each and one loss.
Next is the Raeford Auto team
with one win and one loss and
trailing is Amos cSe co. with two
losses.
The teams have been playing
on Tuesday and Thursday after
noons and much interest has been
shown.^In the second round( one
game will be played on Tuesday
afternoon, two on Wednesday
afternoons and one on Thursday.
The Wednesday games will start
at five p. m. and the others at
six-thirty.
Schedule for the second round
is as follows: July 13, Belks vs
Amos; July 14, Amos vs Ford and
Mack’s vs Belk; July 15. Ford vs
Mack’s; July 20, Belk vs Ford;
July 21, Mack’s vs Amos and Ford
vs Belks; July 21 Belk vs Amos.
Baptists Will Hold
Church Services
In New Building
“In Union There is Strength,”
and cooperation the Rfiefprd Bap
tists really had last Wednesday
when they cleaned off the church
lot. Tractors and other heavy
equipment and muscle grease
made the grounds level in a short
time. The tool house and all work
material were removed, leaving
only the ditch on the North side
for the town to clean.
This \veek furniture was put
into the basement and the Sunday
school section of the church.
Ser\-ice3 will be conducted in the
basement starting next Sunday
and Sunday school will be held in
the building. Furniture has not ar-
r:\-ed for the main part of the
building.
Funeral service was conducted
here at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday
morning for Mrs. Lillie Lentz
Thomas, widow of the late J. C.
Thomas. Mrs. Thomas died at her
home here early Monday morning.
aRer an illness of several days.
She had had some heart trouble
for the past two years, but a sev
ere attack last Friday was the
beginning of her final illness.
Mrs. 'niomas was bom near
Norwood in Stanley county in
September 1870. She was the old
est of ten children of Luther
Augustus Lentz and Eugenia
Shankle ^ntz. After :(nishing
school she taught for several
years. It was while she was teach
ing in Richmond county that she
met James C. Thomas, who she
married on January 1, 1901. They
came to this community to live and
she lived her entire married life
here. In 1923 they moved from
their country home to a new home
they built in town and it was here
that she died. Mr. Thomas died in
1926. and her son Crawford and
family made their home with her.
Her parents later bou^t a farm
in what was then a "^art of Robe
son county but now Hoke and the
family moved there to live. Many
of her brothers and sisters attend
ed Raeford Institute.
Mrs. Thomas was a charter
member of the Raeford Methodist
church, having been one of the
first ten members. She took an
active part in every phase of
church work and was active and’
interested in club and civic , work-
Her hobby was flowers. This was
manifest in the beautiful flowers
with which her garden was filled.
Hers was the first death of the j in the first of a dozen cases
children of her parents. All the j tried before Judge Henry Mc-
brothers and sisters were present ^ Diarmid in Hoke county recorders
I court „ Tuesday morning Willie
There has been a lot of bas0-
ball around here for the past
although there have not been tfw
crowds in attendance that were
expected. Two games have beea
played daily in the Southeastern
District Semi-Pro tournaznoit
under the direction of Conunis-
sioner William L. Poole.
The Raeford Peach Belt
was eliminated early in the tour
nament by Bladenboro by a score
of 18 to one. Raeford High, whidl
had won the first game, lost 4-0 to
Waverly Mills- of Laurinburg on
Tuesday afternoon. Bladenboro’s
Spinners spanked St. Pauls 3-0 on
Tuesday night.
Waverly Mills will meet Bladen
boro at four o’clock this afternoon
in the first game of . the semi
final round of the tournanient and
the winners of yesterday's quarter
final.games -.vill meet in the other
serni-final game at eight o'clbck-.
Both of Tuesday’s games safw
the winning pitchers hurl shut
out games. Mack Grandy, former
Laurinburg Legion star and Wake.
Forest football and baseball player,
hurled two-hit ball in getting the
first win of the day over Raeford
High school. Waverly Mills coun
ted two runs in the second inn
ing and added two more in the
fifth to clinch their game.
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Judge Md^armid^
Hears Cases ^
Tuesday Morning
''•r',
Demonstration Of
Floor Sanding Td
Be Held Tuesday
“Arrangements have been made
for Mr. Richard Dunlap, Manager
of the Carolina Sales and Service
Division of the Clark Sanding
Machine Company of Charlotte, to
give a floor sanding demonstra
tion in Hoke Couqty,”, says Jose
phine Hall, Hom4 Demonstration
Agent. The demonstration will be
given on Tuesday P. M. July 12,
at two o’clock at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Potter, who live
about five miles from Raeford on
the right side of the highway go
ing to Rockfish.
Mr. Dunlap will supervise the
sanding of the floor of one room
and will teach the people who at
tend the demonstration to do the
actual sanding. Both men and
women are cordially invited to be
present and both will be taught
to use the sanding machine. At
the same time the floor sanding
demonstration is going on Mr.
Dunlap will also conduct a dem
onstration on waxing floors or
linoleum.
All persons interested in floors
are invited to be present and see
the demonstration. Anyone making
plans to refinish floors has 'an ex
cellent chance to get first hand in
formation on sanding, finishing
and waxing floors.
Make Improvements
At Flora MacDonald
Flora Macdonald College, no'W
in full swing on an all-time high
record of vacation improvement
activities, includes as its number
one project, the complete renova
tion of the chemistry laboratory
and the installation of new equip
ment throughout, designed to Re
light the scientific eyes and minds
of 1948-49 students and professors
in that department.
Equally modern equipment will
be added to the biology depart
ment before the opening of college
in September. These improvemnts
in th science department were
Were made possible by the gene
rous contribution from the General
Education Fund for this purpose,
last fall.
Also, by the opening date in the
fall, Page Hall, East Second dorm
itory, renamed in honor of the
late Mrs. Flora Shaw Page,, a
former president of Faye.tteville
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TO SHUT OFF
POWER TOMORROW
Ben Hurley, of the Carolina
Power and Light company, an
nounced yesterday that the
electricity would be shut ioff for
two hours tomorrow afternoon
in the business section and part
of the residential section of
Raeford. The power will be off
from two until four o'eloek for
the purpose of performing pre
ventive maintenanee to prevent
serious delays and daunage at
some later time.
at the funeral.
Surviving are a son, Crawford L.
Thomas of the home, and two
grandchildren. Iris and Crawford.
Jr.; two stepsons, W. M. and J.
Bcntcn Thomas of Raeford: a
step-daug'ater. Mrs. Ina Thomas of
Raeford: .dx sisters, Mrs. J. W.
Bradley. (Bettie) of Cary. Mrs’. B.
W. Lanier (Jessie) of Norwood.
Mrs. C. S. Bennett (Mattie) of
High Point. Mrs. J. E. Blalock
(Nannie) of Parkton, Mrs. J. L.
Bennett (Ollie) of Fayetteville and
Mrs.' J. K. McNeill (Beulah) of
Raeford: three brothers. J. C.
Lentz of Durham, D. C. Lentz of
Asheville and L. A. Lentz of
Raleigh.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday at the home by Rev. P. O.
Lee, pastor of the Raeford Mei{hol-
ist church, assisted by'‘Rev. W. L.
Maness of Gibson and Rev. B.
P. Robinson of Raeford. She was
buried in the Raeford cemetery.
Pallbearers were N. A. McDonald,
Lawrence McNeill, H. L. Gatlin.
Jr., Walter Baker, Yoimger Snead,
Julian Blue, R. B. Lewis and Lewis
Upchurch.
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RED SPRINGS POLICEMAN
HELD FOR BEATING SON
LUMB>EETON, —Milton John
son, member of the Red Springs
police department, will be given a
preliminary hearing Friday on a
charge of assault upon his 12-year-
old son, Albert.
Sheriff \V. C. Britt said the
mother reported Albert required
medical attention after his father
had beat him with a leather belt.
The sheriff said the boy’s back,
shoulders and sides were a mass
of welts and bruises.
Johnson is free on $200 bond
pending his.hearing before Coim-
ty Recorder W. B. Ivey.
Sheriff Britt said that Johnson
several weeks ago shot his daugh
ter in Hie leg with a .44 caliber
revolver. Johnson reported the
shooting was accidental, the of
ficer said.
Scott and Calvin Scott, both white,
were defendants in a case :n which
were charged with using profane
and indecent language in the
presence of two or- more persons
by A. J. Garrison. They were
found not guilty..
Emanuel Flcrio. white' of Yonk
ers, N. Y. 'paid the costs tor speed
ing.
Charlie Singletary, colored, got
60 days to be suspended on pay
ment of ' $20 and the costs , for
carrying a concealed weapon.
Ozell Beatty, colored, was found
guilty of forcible trespass, as
sault on a female, being drunk and
dsiorderly and carrying a conceal
ed weapon. He was sentenced to 6
months on the roads amd sentsice
was suspended on payment of $150
and the costs.
Leroy Murchinson, colored, got
60 days suspended on pa3rment of
$50 and the costs for carrying a
concealed weapon.
Mrs. Bud Carpenter, white. 9>t
a 30-day jaU sentence suspended
on payment of the costs for bmng
drunk and disorderly. Bob Me-
Minn and Martin Bowers, both
white, and John Henry Johnson,
colored, each got 30-day road
sentences suspended on payment
of tiv“ costs for being drunk and
disorderly.
Howard Lee Melvin, colored,
pleaded guilty of forcible tres
pass and sentence was 60 days to
be suspended - on payment of $10
and the costs.
Authur M. Michael, white, got 3
90-day sentence suspended on
payment of $100 and the costs.
Robert Blake Lewis, Jr., white
transient, forfeited a bond of $35'
for speeding.
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FIELDS CHILD DIES ,
John Kenneth Fields, infant son
of Bfr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fields
who was born at Scotland countF
memorial hospital on Wednesday,
June 30, died th^ on Ftiday,
July 2.