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> -i. ■f-.'^''.:;'-s:.[ .’''ijV'K.;|fe i£*. •V-*-'- '-. *r. 'i.' ‘-i’. i'+iV'^r mM r . l,'."Ml ■/' ■ ■ f > ■■':V r. * ■\ VOICE QE IREEDOM HOMj GUARDIAN Of UBtMt ffm fSSw‘ I ^2«zr VOICE or JNEIDOM [■mmiKn The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLIII NUMBER 19 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1948 RAEFORD. N. C. S2.00 PER YEA» ¥ Oh YOUR 'SCHOOL NEWSj By K. A. MacDonald [ Democrats Plan District Rally In GUEST SPEAKER SEA Contracts Last Alynday evening an exten sion class in Resource-Use educa tion was organized for the Hoke county teachers. Dr. Richard Weaver of the University of North Carolina and the State Resource- Use Commission will conduct the class. The class will meet each Monday afternoon for 16 weeks. Four hours of credit, either under graduate or. graduate will be given for the successful completion of the course. Certification credit will also be given. Dr. Weaver had made arrange ments for aid in putting on the course to be obtained locally from the Farm and home agents, soil, forests and wildlife conservation agents, the FSA, Health Depart ment and Welfare Department. Also various consulants from the state office of the agencies will be brought in from time to time. The idea behind the course is to assist the teachers from the first grade through the twelth in mak ing use in their work, of local resources and teaching the child ren the value and need for con serving these resources. Party Leaders Of State And National Governments To Be Present W. Kerr Scott, Democratic Nominee for Governor, will head the delegation of outstanding Democratic Leaders who will at tend the Eighth District Rally in Carthage on Monday, October 11th. C. B. Deane, 8th District Rep resentative, is working out the details for the Rally and he points out that the program will begid promptly at 2:30 in the afternoon. In addition to Mr. Scott, othej: distinguished leaders of the State and National Government who will be present include United States Senators Clyde R. Hoey and William B. Umstead. Others to at tend will include J. Melville Broughton, Candidate for the •* img O’ Eiigs Charlotte Firm Gives Low- Bid On $60,000 Structure; Six Months To Euild McCAIN MEMORIAL TO BE DEDICATED ■ Dr. George Mauze, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Winston-Salem, is shown above. Dr. Mauze began a series of Pre-communion ser vices at the Raeford Presbyte rian church last evening. He , , will continue these services at United States Senate; H. P. Tay- i seven-thirty tonight and again Hoke County has been asked by Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, State Super intendent of Public Instruction to participate in the preparation of a new course of study in health, physial education and saftey. A county coonimittee consist ing of H. A. Faircloth, chair man ,»R. A. Smoak, T, C. Jones and J. W. Turlington has been ap pointed. Mr. Smoak will head a Jones'one on physical education and Mr. Turlington on safety. These gentlemen will organize their committees. They will attend a meeting in Fayetteville next Monday afternoon that has been called by Dr. Erwin for all county committees. At this meeting they will be given information as to the type of work and reports that the State Department wishes them to undertake. lor. Candidate for Lt. Governor; Thad Eure, Secretary of State; Harry McMullan, Attorney Gen eral; Forrest H. Shuford, Com missioner of Labor; Clyde A. Erwin, State Superintendent of Public Instructions; L. Y. Ballen tine, Commissioner of Agriculture; William P. Hodges, Commissioner of Insurance; Henry L. Bridges, State Auditor; Brandon Hodges, Candidate for the State Treasurer. The Eighth District Rally is the fourth Congressional, Rally held in the State. Campus Waynick, State Democratic Chairman, will like wise be present to report on the progress of the campaign in Nprth Carolina. Each of the twelve coun ties in the Eighth District is per- :'Mting plans to send a large del egation to the Carthage Rally. A minimum of 1,000 people is ex pected. Chairman Waynick announced at seven-thirty tomorrow night. Fire Disasters Still Threaten, 11 Board Says At a recent meeting'of ‘.he board- of directors of Lu;:'. cc River Electric membership Corporation bids were received fn an office and warehouse buildinc. After all bids were opened and tabulated. Southeastern Construction' Com pany of Charlotte was declared low bidder, bidding $55,705.00. The board of directors unanimously approved the bid subject to Fed eral REA’s approval. D. J. Dalton, manager, states Federal REA’s approval will be secured within ten days, after which the contract will be execu ted and construction started. Ac cording to contrs(ct the building should be completed within six months of construction time. The building is to be of solid brick wall construction, located on the east side of Red Springs, on the norh side of highway 211, just within the city limits. Southern Engineering Company, .Architect, of Atlanta has designed the build ing according to Federal REA’s latest approved office and ware house building plhns. Dalton states that many of the The Board of Directors of the North Carolina Sanatoria plan memorial exercises at the Sanatorium at McCain oil Wed nesday, Cctohcr 27. The exer cises will be in memory of the late superintendent. Dr. ^P. P. McCain, and the unveiling of a portrait of Dr. CcCain will be a feature of the occasion. A building will also be dedicated 1 to his name. HCK! m isiWii I W Hi V Kiwanis L-\uo Has “Jason Barnes Night Last Thursday Mfl I iLr Biuk.s Look Good Defeating Rowland In First Night Gasiae Here Last Friday .1' C- j.; : IlU.- 3 Car Thefts Last Week-end; Two Arrests Kaet;.ird- tor tne while Mr. Barnes te Highway We are sorry to report the death of the mother of W. C. Campbell, principal of the Bowmore school. Principal Campbell has one of the longest terms of public service in Hoke county and has many friends both colored and white who will sympathize with him in his loss. The Raeford Grade school is now ringing the big bell at 8:30 in the morning. The tardy bell rings at 8:35 and any pupil not in his room when the 8:35 bell rings is counted tardy. Princiiial Turling ton requests that parents with children in the Graded school take note of this and cooperate with the faculty in getting pupils to school on time. Great fires which have swept American cities during the past century show the need for con stant vigilance against the confla- 1 {Cooperatives in the State are plan- gration hazards, e'ven in these j ^ing construction a headquarter times, according to the National j building but that this building will Board of Fire Underwriters. ^e one of the first to be completed. Fire Prevention Week itself is I q, dated from the great Chicago Fire p, Mj»rlonald of 1871. Almost every major Amer- T lora MaC^Iiaia lean city has been devastated by | President J^081|fnS sweeping fires, some with .heavy loss of life. And the day of con- I Dr, Henry flagrations is not passed. Last [given the Bedinger has of trustees of year, there were 35 major confla- j Flora Macdonald Cpllege notice grations—fires causing a million of his resignation as president of dollars or more in damage—in the I the college after a service of 18 United States alone, causing de- years in that capacity. He will in Raleigh on Saturday that ^^ Ltruction totaling $110,520,000. I become pastor pf the Presbyterian previous three rallies held in the America’ s earliest widespread church at Pineville. Western part of the State were conflagration laid waste most of A committee from the board of enthusiastically supported and L ^ business district of New York trustees, of which Halbert Jones well attended. of Street, in 1835. of Laurinburg is chairman, has The Young Democrats of Moore goiergency calls brought fire been named to recommend a suc- County will be host at the Carth- fjgjj,fgj.g f^om cities as distant as cessor to Dr. Bedinger. This com age meeting and they join with Philadelphia, but freezing weather mittee is expected to make its Moore County Democratic Chair- I^gj^^ioappg,^ fhem and the loss report at a meeting of the board man, Mosely G. Boyette, in ex- oao,000. at the college on Thursday, Octo- tending a very cordial welcome to Great Chicagoi Fire her 14th. the Democrats of the Eighth O’Leary’s cow is univer- Flora Macdonald College has District to attend what is expect- blamed for the great Chicago made steady progress during Dr, ed to be the largest gathering of fSTI, which took 250 lives Bedinger’s administration. He be- Eighth District Democrats held in I j^ff 100,000 homeless. The came president in the midst of a many years. | drama of the destruction of a great 1 depression when a large debt bad city obscured the fact that another accumulated during the lean years fire costing three times as many preceding his coming. The budget lives was raging across Wisconsin j was balanced and the debt was during the same week. This was liquidated through^ the activity of the Peshtigo forest fire one of the j the Debt Liquidating Association, most spectacular in history. In recent years through the In 1872., groups of citizens gath- I Flora Macdonald Improvement ered in Boston to watch flames I Fund, about $275,000 have been spread from block to b 1 o c k added to the assets of the college through the business district of A large part of this was added to the city. They wondered why fire | the endownment which is now equipment was so slow in arriving, j $355,000, of which $80,000 is in Local law enforcement officers received reports of three cars be ing stolen during the past week end All three cars were recovered and arrests were made in two of the three cases. The 1936 Ford coupe of Jeff Davis. was stolen from Main street near the theatre about 8:30 p. m. Saturday and was found un hurt near the Raeford Oil com pany plant on the Aberdeen road Sunday afternoon. No arrest has been made in this case. Leroy McLean, colored, was convicted in recorder’s Court Tuesday of the temporary larceny of a'1941 Chevrolet belonging to Woodrow Wilson, colored man of Washington, D. C. The car was taken from a home where Wilson was.visiting in South Raeford, and apparently broke down with Mc Lean before he got very far down the Red Springs road. In the third case the 1948 Ford of Percy Gillis, white, was taken from his home i\ Raelord at a- bout 8:30 p. m. Saturday and was recovered about 30 or 40 minutes later by a patrolman in Aberdeen. James David Walters, white man who has a criminal record here, was caught there for speeding and other charges and convicted of them in Moore county recorder’s court. He got a sentence of six months there and is awaiting trial here on charges of hit-and- run and stealing the car. He is .waiting in the county jail. 0 [Celebrate 60th Anniversary The schools, and especially those connected with transporta tion, regret very much tiie resi gnation and leaving of Patrolman Jason Barnes. He has been a never-failing friend of the pupils and especially the bus drivers and those direbtly charged with the supervision of transportation. He has gone out of his way to be helpful time and - time again. We sincerely regret his leaving but just as sincerely wish him success in his new work. Patrolman Surratt, who takes Mr. Barnes’ place, has promised us the same kind of cooperation and help and we are looking forward with genuine pleasure to working with him. We earnestly request again that all parents watch their children very carefully for any signs of ill ness. If they show any signs what so ever we request that the par ent make sure they are well. The polio situation in the state is not clearing up as fast as we had hop 6d so we cannot aflord to let up in (Continued on page 4) 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 aeing 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 »n this spaie until they ore held. Parker’s Afothodist eknrek- Friday, Oct. 8, meal at 6:00 p. m., sale following. ShUoh Presbyterian Chnreh- Tuesday, Oct. 12, 5:30 to 8:S0 p. m. brunswick stew and barbecue. Antioch Presbyterian church" Thursday, October 14, meal at noon, sale following. Lumber Bridge Baptist church-Tursday, October 14 meal at noon, sale following. Tabernacle Baptist Church- Rockfish, Wednesday, October 20, meal at 6:00 p. m., sale fol lowing. Bethel Presbyterian Church- Thursday, October 21, meal at noon, sales following. Galatia Presbyterian Ghurch- Wednesday, October 27, meal at 6:00 p. m., sale following. and later discovered no one had. bothered to turn in an alarm. I When the lire ended leur days later, damage had reached $75,- 000,000. Baltimore Conflagration the scholarship fund. A part of this fund was devoted to improve ments in the college buildings and equipment. More than half of the modernization plans have been completed. These plans c^ed for a thorough renovation of the Th^ Baltimore lire of 1904, which leveled 80 city blocks, led to whole plant. I the inspection of large cities by I (Contliiued on page 4) the National Board of Fire Under writers, which reported that “San I INSTALL PASTOR Francisco has violated all under' writing traditions and precendents i g Ewart will be in- I by not burning up.” Six months pastor of the Bethel later, an earthquake started presbyterian church at the even fire which all but destroyed the I California city. The lesson taught by that de I struction was Sioon forgotten in many cities and fires swept through Chelsea, Mass., in 1908, [destroyed 682 'buildings in Au gusta, Ga., 1916, and caused $5,- 500,000 damages in Atlanta, Ga., I the following year. Other ■ cities which have been I partially or wholly destroyed by fires include Savannah, Ga., in 1820; New Orleans, La., 1837; [charleston, S. C., 1838; Pittsburg, (Continued on Page 4) Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ellis cele brated their 60th wedding anni versary on Saturday, October 2. On their golden wedding anniversary 10 years ago they had big celebration but this time only members of the family were present due to the condition of Mrs. Ellis’ health. Before marriage Mrs. Ellis was Miss Katherine Elizabeth Currie. Their children are Miss Mar^ garet Eunice Ellis and W, C Ellis, both of the home, £H. W Ellis of Route 1, Mrs. Marlin Me Keithan of Raeford, Mrs[^ R. B Hardister and Mrs. H. L. Ennis of Burham. They have 11 grand children and four great grand children. 0 LIBRARY NEWS Mr. and M popular couple past seven year was here with the S*. Patrol, were honor gue.-ts of the Kiwanis club at the weekly meet ing last Thursday. The club had designated the affair ‘-Jason Barnes Night” at a previous meet ing, and the program was arranged to pay trib-dte to PatroLman Barnes, as he concluded several years of courteous and efficient service to the people of Raeford and Hoke county as a member of the highway patrol. Sheriff D. H. Hodgin spoke briefly on the merits of Mr. Barnes as a law enforcement officer. He told a crowd of 5Q Kiwanians and guests that Jason iBarnes had rendered unusual service during the past several years in helping the people of Hoke county to ob serve rules and regulations for highway safety. “In addition”, he said, “Jason Barnes has always had a friendly smile and welcome hand for every resident of the county and was well liked and respected by everyone who knew ■him.” Dr. Marcus Smith then paid tribute to Mr. Barnes as a citizen of the community. In a few well chosen words he old the group how much a man of his caliber would be missed in community life. Dr. Smith stated that, “As a gentleman and a fine citizen he has set an example which could well be followed by young and old alike.” Tom Cameron, chairman of the program committee, then presen ted Mr. and Mrs. Barnes with a small gift from the club and wished them every success in their new business venture. Mr. Barnes thanked the group for their consideration, stating that he had learned to love the people of Raeford and Hoke coimty and that, although he was going into business in Leaksville, N. C., he would be back to Raeford to visit his friends from time to time. Lt, Governor Ira Ford then completed the program with a short talk on “Faith.” -.n --..‘.e pLiye.i re:-? also the fl;-; season for The team high here ■ 'od Faircloth's ;,;i gave 'some to-wta er-i a 19-6 score, rich' s". .'.e to be :■ St F-s.-'.a:'. It was a a.‘re of the e Bj.cks. meets Elizaoethtown. tonight (Thursday) 'vvith the kickoff being set tor 3:15. This.game was scheduled for to morrow night but was, changed clue to a fair being held in Eliza-, bethtown tomorrow. The home team got an early lead last Friday night when Johnny Sinclair bilked a Row land punt in the first quarter and Buddy Blue covered it in the end zone for the tally. Freeman missed the kick off for the extra point. Also in the first quarter. Bill Niven went through the Rowland line from the 15-yard line for another score. This time Norton hit.'the line to make the extra point and Hoke High led, 13-0. In the second quarter Niven passed to Keith on the Row land 30 and he scam.pered over for the third and last tally for the home team. A reverse failed for the extra point. In the quarter the game was about' fall, with Row land a little stronger, if anjdhinf., Gulledge look good, hoamver,, on several tonSdruns, but Ike iiaam team failed to score. -f The visitors picked UJE Qtiiir sj^ points late in the final period-on an intercepted pass, failing to make the extra point. ftl -rSd FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles Student Draft Rule Given Rat Control Farmers and others that wish to take part in the Rat Control campaign to be held on October 21 are urged to put in an applica tion at the County Agent’s office by Monday, October 11. It is necessary to know the number participating in the campaign in order to make up sufficient amount of bait. The bait will con tain Red Squill and will be put in 3-pound packages for $1.00 per package. The bait will not poison domestic animals but is very ef fective in the control of rats. ing service there next Sunday night, October 10 at eight .o’clock The Rev. Mr. Ewart is also pastor of Shiloh Presbyterian church Communion service will be held at the 11:00 a. m. service at Bethel next Sunday. 0 MAKES DEAN’S LIST Miss Shirley Blue, student at Duke University, is among the 192 coeds to be placed on the Dean’s List for the fall semester. This was on the basis of her high scholastic average in 1947-48. Bold Galilean, a novel of the time of Christ, by LeGette Blythe, which is now in Hoke County Library, received mudi favorable comment in both the Charlotte Observer and The News and Ob server, Sunday. LeGette Blythe is the literary editor of The Charlotte Observer. The World’s Great Madonnas, by Maus, has been presented to the library in memory of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Culbreth. How’s Your Bridge Game, just received, is a contract quiz book, by Florence Osborn, editor of The Bridge Deck, New York Herald Tribune. On account of a district meeting of librarians and trustees, at Clinton, the library will be closed Friday. Regulations regarding the post- ponment of induction for high school and c|^ege students were released by Wake County Board No. 93 today. All students requesting post ■ponement of induction -will be re quired to furnish a certification from the high sdiool or college they are attending to the effect ttiat they are pursuing a prescrib ed course of instructim, Sunon said. Students are reqiuired to take fie physical examination before their induction can be postponed; he added. Regulations for high school stu dents are: Any person satisfactor ily pursuing a full-time course of instruction who is ordered to re port for induction prior to his graduation, shall have his in duction postponed (1) until the time of graduation, or (2) until he attains 20 years of age, or (3) until he ceases satisfactorily to pursue such course of instruction, which ever is the earlier. For college students; Any person satisfactorib' pursuing a full-time course of study at a college, uni versity of similar institution -who is ordered to report for induction shall have his induction postponed (1) until the end of the academic year, or (2) until he ceases satis factorily to pursue such course of instmetion, -whichever is earlier. Pasture Maintenance All permanent pasture and tem porary grazing crops should be seeded prior to the middle of ' October for best results. In order to maintain and supply the great est amount of grazing it is recom mended that the pasture be top- dressed with 200 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per acre in the fall, soon , after the plants are up and again in January or FAruary, depending xipon the fertility of the soU. Those farmers that plan to put in alfalfa and! have not been able to plant so far should do so lor the middle of October for best re sults. Farmers have sho-wn a keen in terest in obtaining additional nitrogen for top-dressing grazing crops during the past few days, but we still have a small quantity- to be alloted from the 30 tons of Nitrate of Soda coming to Hoke County this month. Others -wish ing to obtain up to 400 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per acre for graz ing crops should file an application at once at the County Agent’s office. This program should prove successful in boosting the amount s of grazing obtained from the various pasture grasses. It will not only boost the amount ti grazing but should kniwrove tiw protein content. ( Continued on p«i» 4 )