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k* V YOUR ISCHOOI. NEWS I By K. A. MacDonald | Administrative Conference ■Tuesday morning an administra tive conference -was held in the office of the county superintend ent. Present from the State De partment of Education ■were Miss Mary Van O’Briant, assoaiate in the Division of Instructional Ser vice, and Miss Eloise Camp, School Library Advisor from Hoke Coun ty, in addition to the superinten dent, R. A. Smoak, W. T Gibson, Jr., T. C. Jones and J. W. Turlington. Problems of admini stration, organization, and in struction were discussed. These administrative conferences are being held by the State Depart ment of Education in all admini strative units in the state Pre-School Schedule t The following pre-school sched ule was arranged at a short prin cipals meeting on Tuesday. Bus drivers meeting, Monday, Sept. 13, at 9:30 a. m., Hoke High building. Princpials meeting, Monday, September 13, 2:00 p. m., Superintendent’s office. County wide teachers meeting, Monday, September 13, 8:00 p. m.. Hoke High building. Tuesday, September 14, local school faculty meeting, hour and place tp be announced by principals. All schools open Wed nesday, September 15, at 9:00 a. m. Opening hours for Thursday and following days will be announced by principals' on opening "day. K. A.. McDonald, W. T. Gibson, Jr., R. A. Smoak and J. W. Tur lington attended a wor’k confer ence on Resource-Use at Chapel Hill this week. It is hoped by principals and superintendent that a Resource-Use workshop may be organized for the county early this fall. Coach Haywood Faircloth is carrying on football practice these afternoons and evenings. Looks like he has some good material in the making. J. W. Turlington, book room manager and principal of Raeford Graded, is here getting the books shape for the opening of in school on the 15th. Mrs. Jason Barnes has been ap pointed county lunchroom super visor. Mrs. Barnes will supervise the lunchrooms in the county and do central buying for them. She will also operatqf'the county store room where most; of the supplies for the lunchroom will be carried. It is hoped that through Mrs. Barnes’ efforts better meals can be served the children of the county in spite of the rising cost of food. 0 MULE WALKS, CAR TOWED AFTER COLLISION OF TWO Mrs. J. N. Maxwell Dies Thursday At Age Of 84 Mrs. J. N. Maxwell, 84-year-old Raeford woman, died late last Thursday at the home of her daughter,' Mrs. T. W. Burkhead, in Candor. Mrs. Maxwell had bpen in declining health for about 15 years and her condition had been critical for several months. She had been making her home with her daughter for the past year. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Maxvyell was Miss Alice McKay. She was a memby of the Raeford Methodist church and a charter member of the Missionary Society of that church. Funeral was conducted here at the home of her son, W. S. Max well, at 10:30 o’clock last Sat urday morning by the Rev. P. O Lee, pastor of the Raeford Meth odist church, and the Rev. B. P. Robinson, a former pastor. Burial was in the Raeford cemetery. Surviving are her husband, J, N. Maxwell of Raeford, one dlaughter, Mrs. Burkhead of Candor; three sons, W. S. of Rae ford, H. C. of Shannon, and N. A, Maxwell of Red Springs, RFD.; 2:1 grandchldren, and nine great grandchildren. 3 Two Softball Games At Park Tonight Last Tursday night at Armory Field two' games were played in the local softball league. In the first game Home Food Market defearted Mack by the score of 8-6 to remain undefeated. Amos defeated Belk 6-5 in the second game. Tonight (Thursday) Belks will play Home Food Market and Mack will play Amos. Tuesday night Mack plays Belk and Home Food Market meets Amos. Game time 7:30 p. m. Admission FREE. STANDINGS Team W L Pet Home Food Mkt 3 0 1.000 Amos J2 1 .667 Mack 1 2. .333 Belk 0 3 .000 0 LITTLE CRIME, JUDGING FROM RECORDER’S COURT Registration For Friday A. M. At about three a. m. Monday a 1940 Oldsmobile owned and opera ted by T. G. Young, white of Red Springs, hit a mule loose on the highway about three miles this side of Aberdeen. The car was smashed in on the front enough to have to be towed away and the in vestigating patrolman stated that the mule was still afoot when he left the scene. No arrests were made. 0 HITS SAND, GETS HURT At about 4 p. m. last Saturday Jesse James McCaskill, colored, hit a sand bed in the turnpike road about six miles west of Raeford. The 1947 Ford truck of A. B. Tapp which he was driving got out of control and smashed up a bit. McCaskill was also hurt, suffer ing a broken arm and minor in juries. The State Highway patrol investigated and made no arrests. In ‘ recorder’s court Tuesday morning three individuals paid the costs for being drunk and disord erly and two paid $10 and the costs for speeding before Judge Henry McDiarmid and there was no more. The drunks were Bud Handon, John Henry Johnson and Albert Collins. The speeders were Wood- row Moses, colored truck driver ot South Carolina, and James E. Johnson, white truck driver of Lumberton. 0 DISCHARGE PAPERS Washington. — Selective ser vice headquarters Monday ad vised veterans to bring their discharge papers with them when they report for draft registration. All men 18 through 25 must register between August 30 and September 18, but most vet erans are exempt from the peacetime draft. Selective Service officials ex plained that veterans can make it easier for themselves and for their local boards if they bring pirowf of previous military serv ice. Under the law, the boards automatically will pass over all men who served: 1. A year or more between September 20, 1940, and June 24, 1948; or 2. Ninety days or more dur ing the “shooting war” from December 7, 1941, to September 2, 1945. Those who served more than 90 days, but less than a year between September 20, 1940, and June 24, 1948, will be de ferred if they join up in a drill ing reserve unit’of the armed forces. Selective Service Gets Under Way Registration Going On At Five Places In County; Runs Through Sept. 18 I . After a layoff of something over a year the draft boards got into operation again this week when men between the ages of 18 and 26 began registering under the Se lective Service act of 1948. In this county the registraton was being handled in five places in the coun ty. At the courthouse 115 25-ydar- olds registered Monday. Elsewhere in the county the registration was being conducted by Oscar Town send at Rockfish, Hurley Jones in Little River Township, David Currie for Allendale and Antioch townships, and by Mrs. "D. H. Johnson at Ashley Heights. , The registration started with the oldest men in the group and will continue through September 18 with the youngest being registered last. Men born in 1924 register to day and tomorrow; in 1925, September 4 and 7; 1926. Sep tember 8 and 9; 1927, Sept. 10 and 11; 1928, Sept. 13 and 14; 1929, Sept. 15 and 16; and men born in 1930 before September 19, 1930, September 17 and 18. This regis tration schedule vvas prepared to group the men in order to dis tribute the load and relieve con gestion. State Selective Service Head quarters has announced that, from inquiries received, there appeared to be .two questions giving the public the most trouble. One is whether persons who registered in 1946 and 1947 under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 are required to register again. It was pointed out that no registration under the 1940 Act would have any bearing upon the registration under the Selective Service Act of 1948, and that all males between the ages of 18 and 26 are required to register. The second question is whether members of the National Guard and active or inactive reserve of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps are required to register. Men of this category are required to register, although in most instan ces. they will not be liable for in- duotion under the Act. A staff officer, in discussing the registration, placed emphasis upon the ways in which the public could help expedite the registration process. He urged that everyone present himself for registration on the dates provided for registration of his age group. He pointed out that this would distribute the reg istration load and relieve conges tion.. Last Friday at! about seven- thirty in the morning the Buick automobile in , which Bradford Collins was bringing his wife and four others from work in Red Springs was involved in an ac cident with a truck owned by Jim Watson. The wreck took place near the county line when the truck turned off the highway and was hit from the rear by the Buick, which was largely de molished. Collins suffered severest in juries, although not being criti cally hurt. Also injured were Mrs. Collins, Eugene P. Smith and William D. Cothran. Mrs. Collins was treated but not hospitalized. Smith and Cothran were admitted to a hospital but have since been discharged. Collins is still in the hospital. Other occupants of the car were Ransom Baucoin and Jimmy Woodhouse, both of whom were unhurt. The accident was investigated by State Highway Patrolman D. G. Surratt. No arrests have been made. — 0 Lagging Auf,nists Get New Delay Raleigh', Sept. 1-Several thousand Tar Heel motorists who failed to meet a , mechanical inspection deadlinfe last night can drive for a while without fear of being hauled into court. Those who failed, to meet the deadline will be ci^ed to an in spection lane during the next 10 days instead of being cited to court. Col. H. J. Hatcher, patrol commander, reported today. Cars of 1936 and prior years and 1947 and 1948 models were due to have been inspected yester day, but Arthur T. Moore, di^ctor of mechanical inspection, estimat ed that several thousand failed to meet the deadline. The lanes throughout the state were jammed with long lines of cars during the last few days pre ceding the deadline. Moore reminded owners of 1937 and 1946 models that their dead line iS coming at the end of Sep tember. . He said that reports from over the state indicated the lanes were busy but the lines were not as long as they have been during the last few days. 0 ^ Superior Court Adjourns Friday Beer Voted Out 770 To 283 In Election Saturday Cumberland Follows Suit On Tuesday , Bringing No- Beer Counties To 17 A registrant can speed up his own registration by having the following information in his pos session at the time he presents himself for registration: 1. The local board with which he was registered under the Selec tive Training and Service Act of 1940. 2. If the registrant was ever rejected for service in the armed forces, he should be able to give the date of such rejection. 3. A registrant who served in the armed forces of the United States or a co-bqjligerent nation since September 16, 1940. should be able to give the branch of armed forces, his service or serial number, the date he entered the armed forces, the name of the last organization he served with, and the date of his separation from the service. 4. If the registrant is at present a ihember of the National Guard or the actve or inactive reserve of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps, he should be able to give the branch of the armed forces, his service or serial number, the date he entered the service, and his present grade and organization. Florence Tate, colored, got a sentence of not less than seven nor more than 12 years for the killing- of Elvinia McKay, Indian girl, near the Lumber Bridge road June 19. Her husband, Thom as Tate, Zenios Hanes and Robert Woodcox, were all released and their bonds continued for further hearing at the next term of court on their parts in the matter. Richard MePhatter, colored, charged with killing Leo Steele, had his case contimied again due to the absence of his attorney. ■Walter Lee McKinnon, colored, was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon on Albert Mc Kinnon. Sentence of 12 to 18 mon ths was suspended on payment of $600 at the rate of $25 a month to Albert McKinnon and the coui't costs. Eight divorces were granted and the session was adjourned at 1:30 p. m. Friday. q. ' ‘ — 0 CAMPBELLS BUY MAIN STREET HOME FROM LEES Hoke County was one of nine counties in North Carolina which voted against the legal sale of beer and wine last Saturday, and on Tuesday three more counties voted the same way to bring the total to 17 counties which have voted that way in the State. Votes in the individual precincts in the county may be seen in a box elsewhere on this page. The total was almost three to one against the legal sale of both beer and wine. Drys scored one-sided victories in the other eight counties voting Saturday \lso ranging from a margin of 12-1 in mountainous Madison county to better than two to one in the coastal plains county of Duplin. Gaston, most populous of the counties voting under the special referendum act passed by the 1947 General Assembly, voted three to one against the legal sale of beer and wine. Counties voting Saturday were Hoke, Madison, Gaston, Alexander, Macon, Montgomery, Avery, Co lumbus and Duplin. Those voting Tuesday were Cherokee, Cumber land and McDowell. Figures in Cumberland county were for wine 4235, against 5617; for beer 4357, against 5506. The city of Fayetteville voted for the legal sale of beer but the mar gin in the county outside was suf ficient to vote it out. 0 Middle Belt Tobacco Markets Open Today The fourth round of selling of the 1948 flue-cured tobacco crop begins today with the open ing of Mddle belt markets. As the other belts, officials look ed for lighter sales than last year’s, principally because of the 27.52 per cent acreage cut order ed this season by the agriculture department. On the basis of prices on other belts which exceeded 1947 fig ures, growers anticipate better re turns for this year’s crop. The Middle belt last year sold 162,002,983 pounds at an average price of $42.65 per hundred pounds’. This compared with 1946 when 170,371,049 pounds brought a record average of $47.20., Four of the Middle belt markets opening today actually have been selling for two weeks But today they will have buyers from major companies on hand. The four are Aberdeen, Carth age, Sanford and Fuqday-Varina. Contending they had lost sales in the past to markets which opened sooner, the four started sales with the Eastern belt on August 19. Major companies did not assign them buyers, though, and offer ings have been taken by independ ent buyers and warehousemen themselves, LIFT BAN ON GATHERING OF CHILDREN; SCHOOLS OPEN 15TH Chamber Requests Investigation Of Phone Situation j| Kids Freedom Was Effected Tuesday Midnight By Meet At Courthouse In Afternoon State Utilities Commissioner Is Asked To Determine If Service Here Is Satisfactory The board of directors of the Raeford Chamber of Commerce, Ihc., at a recent meeting directed the secretary to write the North CaroRna Utilities Commission a letter on the subject of the tele phone service given this com munity now and for the past few years. The letter, forwarded this week to Stanley Winborne, Utilities Commissioner, is as follows: “Dear Mr. Winborne: This is a complaint about the service this community receives from the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company. It is the general opinion here that this service is unsatisfactory and that the subscribers are entitled to better. The dial telephone system here was installed in 1922. Service has been poor and equipment faulty fo't’ about 10 years now, and num erous complaints have been made to the company in that time. Some of these complaints have brought excuses, others promises, but there has been little noticeable im provement in the telephone ser vice. During the war the com munity was sympathetic to the excuse that materials and labor were not available. In the three years since the war the Company’s tune has gradually' changed from excuses to promises, but results have remained nil. It is estimated that the average telephone is out of order about twenty percent of the time for local and long distance use and that in a higher percent age of cases the long distance service is not good when usable. This is; therefore, a formal re quest that your office investigate the telephone situation here and take corrective measures if they are needed. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, we remain. Yours very truly, Raeford Chamber of Commerce, Inc.” 0 Certain Drivers Need New Licenses All drivers whose names begin with E. F. or G must renew their licenses to drive between now and December 31, 1948. Walter E. Yow, local license examiner, states that these drivers have so far been slow- coming in and he advises them to go ahead and have their licenses renewed now and avoid the rush and waiting in line that will cer tainly occur as the December 31 deadline gets close. Mr. Yow is in Raeford Wednes day and Thut-sday of each week. He uses the jury room at the court house for his office. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Campbell purchased the home at the corner of Main street- and the .Aberdeen road from W. C. Lee this week and will move into it in the near future. They presently re side on the Laurinburg road. The Lee family have purchased a home in Fayetteville where Mr. Lee has been in the autom.obile business for some time. BEER AND WINE VOTE Precinct WINE BEER ^■'^For Against For Against Allendale 32 27 31 27 Ashemont 10 58 13 57 Antioch 34 77 36 76 Blue Springs 30 58 31 60 Little River 9 16 9 16 Mildouson 38 75 ♦ 38 83 Puppy Creek ..^ 5 71 9 68 Rockfish 15 43 16 43 Raeford 1 47 141 53 143 Raeford 2 45 "— 200 47 197 ■ Totals 265 766 283 770 Welcome news to the, children of the county -.vas born at a joint meeting of the county boards of health and education at the courthouse Tuesday afternoO'n w'ken the groups decided to lift the ban on gatherings -which had been in effect in the county since the meeting of the.board of health on July 27 due to the epidemic of infantile paralysis. Children under 16 had been restricted from at tending gatherings’ of any kind, church, swimming, parties theatres and all others. Also undoubtedly happy to .hear the news were the operators of theatres in the county. J. B. Mc Intyre of the Raeford theatre ina- mediately. announced resumption! of five o'clock matiness at his theatre. They had been discon tinued since shortly after the re striction on children's activities became effective. Along w-ith the lifting of the ban came a decision by the meet- ' ing to postpone the opening of the schools a week from Septem ber 9 to Wednesday, Septem’oer 15. This was done by the Board of health after 'Considerable dis cussion of the matter with other doctors 'of the country who had been invted to the meeting. This delay was explained 'oy stating that the extra period after lifting o| the ba^^equld allow bation per^d foHhe diseasenR* any is present in the county. The Board of health yesterday issued a request to all parents of children who are to enter school for the first time this year to be certain that these children’s vacci nations have been completed be fore school opens. These vaccina tions may be obtained at the county health office on Tuesdays from nine to 11 a. m., on Fridays from nine tp four p. m. and on Saturdays from nine to.,.11 a. m. Also attending the meeting and entering. into the discussion of what course should be followed for the best interest of the children were the principals of the sc'r.-ools of the countv. FARM NOTES I Bv A. S. Knowles Cotton Marketing There have been several reports recently that farmers are selling their cotton 'oeiow the government support prices Cotton farmers are urged to have a sample of each bale at the gin in order to get the classification of grade and staple made through them an unbiased opinion of the grade and staple. It will require from 2 to 4 days to get a report on a bale of cotton to be classed. It may mean the saving of from $5.00 to $15.00 per 'oale to get the report. From now on, the reports will not contain the length of staple and grade of cot ton but will actually show the support price of each bale. Local warehouses will be in position to make commodity credit Corpo ration loans. Saving Seed Cotton farmers are urged to save sufficient cotton seed of known orgin for their own uie at more where facilities are avail able to keep good seed. Based upon, the counties experiences during the past few years with respect to getting good stands of cotton, it is advisable to save the cotton seed harvested early in the season or at least until seed are saved of a s'uperior quality later in the season. Picking and Handling Hoke County cotton farmers are ’ (Continued on back. pege)i
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