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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLUl NUMBER 18
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1948
RAEFORD.N. C
Slit PEB YEAR
YOUR
ISCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
O. D. Griffin, state bus driver
trainer, was heiie tiraining bus
drivers on ‘Wednesday He will be
back in the county at an early
date to train additional drivers.
Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Grif
fin and the principals we are get
ting the best supply of drivers we
have had in years. We are hoping
for a banner year in transportation
and ask the cooperation of every
one involved
The Raefor dGraded school has
• • • '
had several very successful fire
drills since school opened. We
hope that all of the schools of the
county are doing likewise.
The Colored and Indian tchools
of he county opened their doors
’ for the 1948-49 session on Mon
day, all with good enrollments..
The Upchurch school had the lar
gest opening day enrollment in
its history We hope that every
one. teachers, parents, pupils^ will
cooperate to the end that crops
may be gotten in at as early date
as possible, so that as nearly as
possibly 100% attendance may
be made after the first month.
-Securing good attendance is to be
a major item in the work of all
schools in the county this year.
On last Friday afternoon a
countywide Negro teachers meet
ing was held at the Upchurch
school. President J. E. Kearney of
the.-Hoke County Unit of the N.
E.A., p/esided,^ M/k. Hey-,
ward held the devotionol exer
cises. Mrs. Flora Alice Crowder
of the Health Department talked
on the Health plans for the year.
J. W. Turlington discussel the
book situation and new state rules
for he distribution of books. The
superintendent and supervisor
conducted the business part of
the meeting.
Health Deparfment
Continues Active
Against T. B.
Since the Mass T. B. Survey held
by the State Sanatorium in coop
eration widi the T. B. Association
and the Health. Department, much
interest has been aroused about
Tuberculosis and the related work
among the people of the county.
Several active cases of tubtercu-
losis were diagnosed and patients
admitted to the Sanatorium. Many
suspicious cases wnere found and
follow-up started immediately by
the Health Department. The De
partment is also doing follow-up
work with cases other than those
brought out as a result of the
Survey, according to Doctor J.
W. Willcox, Health Officer for
Hoke County.
In the month of August 1948,
alone, the Health Department co
operated with the State Sanatori
um in the examination cf 33
patients, 10 of whom w.ere White
and 23 Colored. Appointments
were made by the Department for
those patients, transportation was
provided in those cases where
necessary and visits have been
made to the homes for the purpose
of reading tuberculin tests, check
ing on sputa specimens sent in for
examination and helping the
patient to carry out the doctor’s
orders. At present, two patients
are a home waiting admission to
the Sanatorium.
Tuberculosis is a contagious di
sease, often spread from one
person to another through care
lessness. The germ is contained in
the discharge from the patient’s
mouth and nose—in the sputum,
ih^. §aliva and the . spray from
coughing and sneezing. The spread
of tuberculosis can be checked
with ordinary care and precau
tions.
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LARGE ATTENDANCE.
AT SQUARE DANCE
Presbyterians To
Have Services
Next Wed.—Fri.
A series of pre-communion
worship services will be conducted
at the Raeford Ihnesbyterian
church on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday nights of next week,
beginning at 7:30 o’clock each
evening.
Dr. George Mauze, pastor of the
First Presbyterion church of
Winston-Salem and one of the out
standing preachers of the Southern
Presbyterian church, will deliver
the sermons. Dr. Mauze is con
sidered especially effective in his
messages directed to young people
and he is in constant demand for
services in the State.
He graduated from Davidson
college in 1923 and Union 'fheo-
logical seminary in 1929. He
served as pastor of the First Pres
byterian church in Kinston from
1929 to 1932, at the First Presby
terian church of St. Joseph, Mis
souri, from 1932 to 1941 and he has
been at the Winston-Salem church
since 1941. He was moderator .of
the synod of Missouri in 1940.
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Brush Burning
Permits Needed
Hoke County is indeed fortu
nate in having secured the ser
vices of Dr. Richard Weaver of
the State Resource-Use Commis
sion and the University of North
Corolina to conduct a workshop
on Resource-Use for the teachers
of the county. This course will
carry credit.
The first meeting will be held
at the Hoke High building on
Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
The teachers of the county voted
almost unanimously to ask Dr.
Weaver to give the work. It should
be said that those not voting for
it were already enrolled in ex
tension courses and could not
take on an additional load
Ex-teachers living in the coun
ty who wish to raise or renew
their certificates are cordially in
vited to enroll. Others who might
be interested in this work are in
vited to sit in on the session at
any time. A schedule for the ses
sions will be worked out at the
Monday afternoon meeting.
Wednesday of last week the
Rockfish P T. A. held its first
meeting of the year. Rev. B. O.
Shannon, pastor of the Galotia
church, made the address.
At the meeting it was voted to
cooperate with the teachers in
institueing a rest period for all
the Children after lunch each
day. This is a very important and
progressive health measure. It
will be watched with a great
deal of interest by all schools in
the county. We believe that Rock-
fikh is leading the way both to
better health and better academic
work in the elementary schtols.
The series of square dances be
ing held at the Armory on Friday
nights under the auspices of the
local National Guard unit got off
to a good start last Friday when a
large crowd attended. Music was
furnished by Elmo Stainton and
his boys and all present apparent
ly had a good time. The dances
start at 8:30 p. m.
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DIAPER SERVICE IS
NOW AVAILABLE HERE
Mildouson reports that enroll
ment has picked up from the 67 on
opening date to over 80 on Monday
of this week. This is indeed good
news.
The Board of Education met in
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Ray Muench, resident of Rae
ford ond operator of Fayetteville’s
Baby Laundry, announced recent
ly that the laundry had begun
making deliveries to Raeford,
Aberdeen, Southern Pines and
Pineiurst on Tuesdays and Fri
days of each week.
Ingatherings
The annual harvest ingath
erings will be held at churches
in the country at various times
during he next few weeks of
fall. Meals will be served, with
the main dishes in most cases
being chicken salad and barbe
cue. There will be sales of food,
handiwork, produce, cakes, and
the like at all of them. For
the benefit of these churches
and the people who wish to ta-
tend these ingatherings we will
carry a schedule of those we
are told about in this space
until they ore held.
Ephesus Baptist church-Wed-
nesday, Oct. 6, meal at noon,
sale following.
Parker’s Methodist church-
Friday, Oct. 8, meal at 6:00 p.
m., sale following.
Shiloh Presbyterian Church-
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 5:30 to 8:30
p. m. brunswick stew and
barbecue.
Antioch Presbyterian church-
Thursday, October 14, meal at
noon, sale following.
County Forest Warden C. F.
McBryde this week called the at
tention of all to the fact
that the law requires that burning
permits be obtained before burn
ing brush on or near woodlots
during the forest fire season
months from October 1 to Nov
ember 30 and fro.m February 1 to
June 1. The permits are free and
the law is designed to protect
woodlots from indiscriminate
burning. They rhay be obtained
from Warden McBryde or any
district forest warden.
Obtaining a permit does not re
lieve the permittee of the re
sponsibility if the fire gets out of
control. To be safe the following
rules should be observed:
1. Obtain a permit and notify
your neighbors of your intention
to burn.
. Plow a good fire line around
the area to be burned.
' 3. Burn only after a good raiii
when the woods are damp and the
fire will spread.
4. Burn in the evening and on
days when there is no wind and
the humidity is high.
5. Keep fire fitting tools and a
supply of water on hand while
burning.
6 Keep your brush piles small.
■ 7. Patrol the area after the burn
ing is completed. Be sure all the
fire is out.
District wardens are as. follows:
J. A. Webb, RFd'3; H. E. Currie,
RED 3; Leonard McBryde, Aber
deen RED 1; Hugh Overton, Rock-
fish; D. H. Walters, Vass, RFD 1;
J. A. Roper, Maxton RFD; Belton
Beasley, Dundarrach, and the
sheriff’s office in Raeford.
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LIBRARY NEWS
Frank Jeter
To^peaJcAt
REA Meetmg
State Collie Extension
Editor To Talk; Elect New
Director) Gives Away Prizes
The annual meeting of the
Lumbee River Electric Member
ship Corporation will be held
Wednesday, November 3, 1948 in
the Hoke County Courthouse,
Raeford, N. C. at ip:30 a. m. Frank
Jeter, Extension ’ Editor, State
College, Raleigh, N. C. will be the
guest speaker for t^e occasion.
The nominating committee
consisted of the following: D. D. F.
Ray, Wagram, Lonnie P. Smith,
Maxton, R. L. Lytch, Maxton, J.
Fulford McMillan, Raeford, Mar
shall Newton, Raeford, Rodney O.
Page, Orrum, and Walter Chason,
Lumber Bridge. This Committee
met in the REIA Office in Raeford
and nominated Marshall Newton
chairman of the committee to pre
side at the meeting.
After a general discussion by
all members of the committee, the
following members wre nominated
to succeed themselves: Ryan Mc
Bryde, Raeford, J. McN. Gglis,
Fayetteville, J. E. Morrison, Max-
ton, J. R. Caddell, Maxton, Mrs.
Lucy Smith, Raeford, C. L.
Ballance, St. Pauls, and C. 'A. Al
ford, Rowland. These are all of the
old board of directors except
Perry Leggett of Fairmont and R.
F. Morris of Laurinburg, Rowland
R. Sealey of Fairmont and H. C.
Newton of Laurinburg were
named to replace Mr. Leggett and
Mr. Morris respectively.
The committee commended the
board of directors for the fine job
that had been done to- date, and
stated that their only reason for
the two changes in the board was
due to geographical representation
of the area being represented by
the directors in question.
The .meeting has been well
planned and promises to be one of
the outstanding events of the year.
Transaction of Cooperative busi
ness and the election of directors,
for the incoming year will be the
principal items of business.
Elaborate entertainment for all
members present is promised as
several hundred dollars worth of
prizes, including a late model
Thor ironer, and many other han
dy small appliances will be given
to lucky members.
Northwest Comer: Oregon and
Washington, the Last Frontier is
a book of excellent photographs
by Henry Sheldon, with introduc
tion and commentary by Stewart
Holbrook.
Alice Tisdale Hobart, author of
Oil for the Lamps of China, and
The Peacock Sheds His Tail, has
written a new book, The Cleft
Rock, a story of California, which
is now in the library.
Other new titles are:
On Jordan’s Stormy Bank,
Rowell; Hospital Zone, Seifert;
Trumpet in the City, Miller; Fai'e
by my Side, Knight; Just and Dur
able Parents, Ellen wood; The Age
of the Great Depression, Weeter;
Short Novels of the Masters,
Neider; Toward the Morning,
Allen.
Hoke County Library will be
closed Friday, Oct. 8, so that the
librarian may attend a district
meeting of librarians and trustees
at Clinton..
Plan Conference
On Law Regulating
Tobacco Curers
RALEIGH.—The result of a
year’s experience under the law
providing for the approval of com
mercial heating plants for curing
tobacco will be discussed at a
meeting to be held in the Board
Room of the State Department of
Agriculture at 10 o’clock Friday,
October 15, according to as an
nouncement by C. D. Baucom,
State Superintendent of Weights
and Measures.
“The purpose of this’meeting is
to review accomplishments”, Bau-
oom said, “and todisouss, both pro
and con, the law, regulations, and
enforcement procedure, as well as
any other matters pertinent to
curing tobacco with commercial
curers and the fire hazard in
volved.
“Invitations have been extended
to farmers, agricultural extension
workers and manufacturers of
commercial curers to attend tne
meeting, and anyone will be given
the privilege of expressing his
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Hoke Farm Bureau
Head Points Out
Its Advantages
The coming year is “the most
important ever faced by farmers
and we in North Carolina know
that to hold on to the gains already
made, we must be more strongly
and fully organized that even ibe-
fore,” Richard Neely, Hoke County
Farm Bureau President, declared
today.
“The North Carolina Farm
Bureau’s current state-wide cam
paign for 80,000 members provides
Tar Heel farmers with an oppor
tunity to get into the fight for
agrictilure,” he said. “On all sides
today we hear the farmer being
unjustly blamed for the high
prices of food.
“Seme of the leading radio
commentators and newspapers in
the nation’s industrial centers, and
even in some of our bigger South
ern cities flatly blame the farmer
and his program for inflated food,
prices.
“We hear these charges that the
farm price support program has
skyrocketed the cost of food, even
though we know this to be untrue
because most commodities are
selling at prices far above the
government price support schedule.
Despite the fact that this argument
against supports does not hold up,
some consumers are being led to
believe it.
“This condition alone should be
enough to alert farmers to the
need for strong sound organiza
tion.”
Neely pointed that on Friday,
September 3, Secretary of Agri
culture Charles F. Brannan em
phasized that high food prices are
not the result' of farm price sup
ports. Brannan pointed out 'that
the government is not supporting
the price of dairy products, poult
ry, meat or any animal from which
meat comes.
Brannan added that bread has
no government support price, but
the price of bread has not coine
down even though wheat prices
have dropped almost $1 per bushel
in recent months. He also stressed
that the 1948 wheat price support
is $2 per bushel while the 1947
season average price received by
farmers was $2.31.
“Price supports are helping the
consumer by encouraging produc
tion,” Brannon said. “It is partly
due to the price support system
that our people are enjoying better
diets, including a great deal more
meat and milk than in pre-war
yearV’
Neely said that because some
people would like to have the
farmer take the blame for the
high cost of living, farmers should
be more determined than ever to
organize to work together for their
own welfare. Hoke County has a
Farm Bureau membership quota
of 375 in the present drive, he
added.
“There is no reason why every
•farmer in North Carolina should
not be a member of Farm Bureau,”
Neely said. “The only way farmers
will ever reach and maintain their
rightful place in our national eco
nomy is through organization, and
Farm Bureau, with more than 1,-
276,000 farm families making up
its membership in the nation,
provides the American farmer
with the strongest voice he has
ever had.”
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Methodists Plan
Workers* Schools
FIRST FOOTBAIL GAME UNDER
LIGHTS HERE TOMORROW NIGHT
Light Session Of
Recorder’s Court
In Hoke County recorder’s court
Tuesday morning only two cases
wene tried. Several others were
continued and one, the case in
which Marvin David Jones, color
ed, was charged with speeding,
was continued because of the ab
sence of the defendant. Judge
McDiarmid issued a capias for
Jones.
Louis McLure, colored, entered
a plea of nolo contendere on
charges of carrying a concealed
weapon and using profane and in
decent language. Sixty-day sen
tence was suspended on payment
of $50 and the costs.
James Murchison, colored, paid
the costs for simple assault.
Hoke High Bucks Play
Rowland In First Home
Game; Kickoff At 8;0Q
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Raeford Native
Dies In Crash
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FAIRMONT STILL OPEN
Buck Blue came in yesterday
with the suggestion that some
farmers might like to know that
the Fairmont tobacco market
would remain open until next
Thursday, October 7. The Lumber-
ton market closes after sales to
day.
The Board of Education of the
Fayetteville District of the Meth
odist Church has made plans for a
series of Christian Workers’
Schools throughout the district.
One such school is planned to be
held in Laurinburg Oct. 6-8, begin
ning at 7:30 each evening. The
pastoral charges included in the
Laurinburg school are Caledonia,
Raeford, Laurel Hill, Laurinburg,
St. John-Gibson, Rowland, Red
Springs, and Maxton. A well
qualified faculty has been secured,
and indications are that the en
rollment will be large.
Rufus Beck, Jr., maintenance
supervisor at Goldsboro hospital
was killed instantly last Thursday
night about 10:30 when knocked
from a motor scooter he was
riding. The accident occurred in
front of Belfast school on the
Wilson highway.
Corporal Parks Alexander of
the State highway patrol quoted
the driver of the alleged death
car, James Elmore of Pinckney, as
saying that he was blinded by,
the lights of an approaching car
and did not see the scooter.
Beck was a native of Raeford.
He is survived by his wife and
two ■ small daughters.' His fathey
lives in Raeford.
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MULTI-ALARM FIRE
DOES LITTLE DAMAGE
The switch at the town hall
fire alarm got turned on Monday
night between eight-thirty and
nine and was a minute or so get
ting turned off. By that time
everyone within hearing had come
to the conclusion the town was
going up in smoke.
The occasion was a misbehaving
oil stove at the home of Mrs. A.
R. Morris next to the Baptist
ohurch. Mrs. Morris had been out
after supper and on returning had
discovered the kitchen full of
smoke. There was not much
damage, mainly that the finish on
her kitchen walls was blackened
and ruined.
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IN MEDITERRANEAN
Two Raeford men, Daniel Reece
Campbell, , seaman, USN, and
Leonard Allen Baker, seaman ap
prentice, USN, are serving aboard
the destroyer USS Putnam, now
cruising in the Mediterranean Sea
as a part of the Sixth Task Fleet
of Admiral Richard L. Connolly’s
Eastern Atlantic and Mediterran
ean Forces.
NOTICE
DATE ON LABEL
If the date on the address
of your paper is before
Sept. 15, 1948 you will not
receive The News-Journal
next week unless you re
new yoiur subscription in
the meantime. As has been
our custom in the past, we
have let subscribers get be
hind in the summer, but fall
is here now.
How about renewing?
We'd like to keep on send
ing you the paper, but we
make a living at it and we
can't afford to send it out
for nothing. In most cases
you’ve had a month or two
since your subscriptioi| ex-
pir.ed, anyway.
Coach Haywood i^irclpth's
Hoke Cormty high school football
team takes the field at Armory
park here tomorrow night against
Rowland High in the first night
football game ever played in this
town. The kick-off is scheduled
for eight o’clock and the boys
wound up their heavy work with a
scrimmage yesterday afternoon.
The squad worked out for sev
eral weeks and is getting in good
shape, although they were out
classed by a bigger and faster
Lumberton team last week. This
week, however, the Bucks are
taking on an opponent from the
same class High school and local
fans will have a chance to see
what they can do. Fourteen yetter-
men are back from last year’s
squad and afford a fairly present
able starting lineup, although the
supply of reserves is somewhat
short. The boys are appearing in
new’ game uniform.s this season.
On Friday of next week the
Bucks will meet the Elizabeth
town team on Armory park here
at eight o'clock.
Probable starting lineup for to
morrow night’s game will be ends,
Keith and Clark, tackles, Alexan
der and Freeman, Guards Blue
and Sinclair, center. Huff, backs,
Norton, Leach, Niven and Gul-
ledg^
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FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles f
Com
-Yields are being checked for the
corn contestants. I. L. New'ton of
the Duffie Community has a yield
of 118.6 bushels per acre of com
as a result of following recom
mended practices. Mr. Newton
planted com in 3 1-2 foot rows and
14 inches in the drill. He put 500
pounds of complete fertilizer
under the corn at planting time.
He side-dressed the com at laid-
by time with 500 pounds of
calnitre per acre in each middle
of the corn. Mr. Newton had about
normal rainfall. Other com yields
will be checked within next few
d^ys.
A’ com picking demonstration
was held on C. M. Gainey’s farm
one day last w'eekT Several farm
ers attended the demonstration.
The com crop should be harvested
as soon as possible after it
thoroughly dries.
Home Orchards
The home orchard can be a
solu-ce of enjoyment and also
furnished lots of fruit where it is
properly managed. Very little
fmit is obtained from trees where
no spraying schedule is followed.
Durinig October peach trees should
be treated for the peach-tree
borer. Fpr this treatment use
either ethylene dichoride emulsion
or j>araiichlO'rbenzene. After the
trees have become dormant they
should be sprayed to control scale
insects. This may be done with oil
emulsion plus a dinitre compound
or it may be done with lime sul
phur spray.
Grazing Crops
j Farrners sho'uid co.Tiplete their
I seeding of their fall and' winter
! grazing crops as soon as possible,
; and they should also .complete the
; seeding' of per.manent pastures,
within the next 2 weeks. Now
that we have sufficient moisture in
the ground it is advisable to put
this crop in as soon as the laod
can be prepared. Where small
grain for grazing or seed is plant
ed, the seed should be treated with
Ceresan to prevent certain
diseases.