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The Hoke County Newt
The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLm NUMBER 27
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,1948
RAEFORD. N. C.
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FARM NOTES
By A. S. Knowles
Recommended Practices In
crease Net Income per Unit—
Through the use of recommended
practices, net returns per acre of
crops can he increased to $30.37
for com, $22.06 for wheat, $2'8.48
for oats and $34.17 for lespedeza
hay. This represents a 663 per
cent increase in net returns per
acre of corn.
By using alfalfa for hay instead
of lespedeza, net income per acre
may be increased from $34.17 to
$63.86.
Recommended Practices Require
About the Same Amount of Labor
and Poiwer as Present Practices.
In some cases a small amount of
additional labor" is required to
harvest the more bountiful yields.
The amount of man labor, horse
hours, and tractor hours prior to
harvest time are about -the same
for most enterprizes. Recommend
ed practices for cotton require only
three additiorial hours, four for
corn and none for small grains.
Labor and power requirements on
livestock enterprises remain al
most constant.
Size of Business May be In
creased. The use of better prac
tices on all enterprises makes it
possible ito produce sufficient feed
for present livestock on less acres.
This makes it possible to either in
crease' livestock numbers or sell
more crops.
Hoke Joins 52
Other Counties h
Friendship Train
Farm Produce For Overseas
Aid Wm Be Collected
Here December 14 & 15
Stored Com Inseofs
Where Do They Come Froilf
Generally, com becomes infected
first in 't|ie field. The adult in
sects fly to the field about the
time the corn begins to silk, com
ing from Infested farm-stored
grain of feed. These adults lay
their eggs on exposed kernels, and
by the time the corn is harvested,
it is usually heavily infested.
Therefore, there are several things
a farmer can do which will aid
considerably in preventing his
grain from becoming infested.
Prevent Field Infestation
1. Plant varieties of corn with
long, tight shucks.
2. Harvest as soon as it is dry
enough to store.
3. Get rid of ears with exposed
tips or damaged shucks.
Follow up these practices, tiie
grower should clean up his old,
infested grain in the summeri In
June or July any grain which has
not been used should be fumigated,
(this will help prevent insects
from moving to grain in the field)
or removed from bins where the
new crop will be stored. The walls,
ceilings and floors should then be
sprayed thoroughly with 2 1-2 per
cent to 5 per cent DDT. About one
gallon should be used for each
500 sq. ft.
Farm Records
It really pays to keep farm rec
ords. Without them, a farmer is
just drifting around like a ship
• with a broken rudder. Getting no
where fast. Resolve to keep your
farm records better in 1949.
December Jobs
(1) Disk in all stalks. (2) Se
lect new tobacco plant bed sites
with southern or southwestern ex
posure on well-drained loamy soil
# where chemicals are no(t used on
permanent sits. (3) Broadcast
stable or poultry manure over
garden. (5) Break garden in
order to let winter freezes pulver
ize the soil. (5) Muscadine grapes
may be pruned. (6)«Apply dormant
sprays. (7) Make dairy cows com
fortable by furnishing a warm dry
place. (8) Provide dairy cattle
with a convenient, ample supply of
drinking water at a moderate tem
perature. (9) Graze fall siwn
crops, as gro\\^th and weather per
mit. (10) Examine cattle for lice
monilhly throughout the winter.
When an infestation is found,
treat cattle promptly. (11) Furnish
salt, clean water, and mineral mix
ture for all livestock. (12) Use pro
tein supplement for beef cattle if
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Hoke County has joined the 52
other counties of the - Tar Heel
State in organizing a Friendship
Train collection from all farmers
of donations of farm produce for
overseas relief, the Rev. P. O.
Lee, county chairman announced
this week. Plans are completed for
county cooperation with the North
Carolina C^istian Rural Over
seas Program, known by its abbre
viation CROP, in its project of
collecting corn, wheat, soybeans,
cotton, peanuts, oats, pecans,
syrup, canned milk, beans, rice,
sugar, salt and canned foods for
shipment to overseas relief agen
cies.
The Tar Heel Train will leave
Salisbury the latter part of De
cember collecting freight cars o|
donated produce on its trek to
Norfolk, Va. North Carolina will
be among approximately 30 states
throughout the country organizing
similar trains of goodwill for
needy Europe by Christmas time.
The following local chairmen
for the committees of Hoke county
have been elected:
Dundarrach, Mrs. Clara ; Mae
Jones and Pete Canady; Raedeen,
Mrs. James Jones and Cliff Cono-
ly; Pine Forest, Mrs. Winnie Cam
eron and Bernice Williamson;
Arabia, Mrs. Stanley Crawley and
W. L. Smith; Buchan, Mrs. Floyd
Seals and Barney Brown; Mont
rose, Mrs. Pete Sawyer and Rev.
S. ,A. Ewart; Ashley Heights, Mrs.
N. F. Sinclair and J. D. Pickier,
Jr.; Blue... Springs, Mrs. Wllmer
McBryde and J. R. Hendrix; Way-
side, Mrs. L. H. Koonce and John
Parker; Rockfish, Mrs. A, W
Wood and T. C. Jones; Allendale
Miss Willa McLauchlin and Dave
Currie; Antioch, Mrs. J. M.An-
drews and Walter Gibson; Little
River, Mrs. Alex McFadyen and
J. W. Smith; Mt. Pleasant, Mrs.
Lena Jones and Ed. Simpson.
T. B. Upchurch has been named
publicity chairman and Miss Jesse
Bright Ferguson, Secretary and
Treasurer. Israel Mann will serve
as shipping clerk along with a
committee from the Kiwanis club.
Clhairmen from each of the local
churches have been appointed as
follows: Methodist, T. B. Up-
church,Jr.; Presbyterian, J. L. Mc
Neill; Baptist, Robert Gatlin.
Mr. Lee states thait a number of
the above named chairmen had
not ‘been contacted but they are
being ‘counted on to make the
drive a success.
They will arrange for trucks to
be driven down the roads of the
county, to pick up the materials
anyone may wish to donate. Farm-
families are urged to carry their
gifts ito the local community
building on December 13th and
14th so the Friendship Train
Trucks can collect their contribu
tions.
Mr. Lee, county chairman, states
that all grains donated should be
bagged in good' used fertilizer
bags, and tied with binder’s twine:
Canned goods must be in tin cans.
' CROP, the organization with
which the county is working, is
a national program sponsored by
Church World Service, Catholic
Rural Life and Lutheran World
Relief. Through voluntary aid of
farmers, ministers, farm agents
and civic leaders the material for
relief is collected, and in Europe
the distribution is handled entirely
by church relief agencies.
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Bondsman Pays
Off For Absent
Embezzler Tuesday
John darroll, Fayetteville color
ed man, was charged with embezz
lement in recorder’s court Tuesday
before Judge Henry McDiarmid.
Carroll being out on bond and ap
parently having departed for parts
unknown, his .bondsman entered a
plea of guilty of temi>orary larceny
for him, planning to make good the
loss to the prosecuting witness.
The State accepted this plea and
judgement was suspended on the
return of $80 and an acetylene
torch to T. C. Scarborough, the
proseruting witness, and payment
of the costs, of the court. Capias
for Carroll was issued and the ease
is to be reopened at the request of
th solicitor when he is apprehend
ed.
Tommie Bryant, Indian, was
found guilty of driving'drunk and
sentenced to 60 days on the roads
to be suspended on payment of
$100 and the costs.
Grady Locklear and Graham
Locklear, Indians, wfere each
found guilty of possessing “still-
beer.” and operating liquors stills;
Each got five months on the roads
to be suspended on payment of
$35 and the court costs.
J. B. Riggsbee, white, paid the
costs for simple assault.
Joseph Schultz of Texasi, Claude
Brown of Georgia, and Thomas J.
Just of Minnesota, all white, each
forfeited a $25 bond when he fail
ed to appear for trial for speeding.
A. T. Hicks, white of Moore
county, entered a plea of guilty of
driving with no operator’s license.
Prayer for judgement was con
tinue on payment of $25 and the
costs.
Mary Bethea, Junior Bethea,
Jamies McKenzie and Willie Rain
ey, all colored, were found,guilty
of violating the landlord and ten
ant act by removing crops without
the landlord’s knowledge. Each
got 30 days to be suspended on
payment of the costs.
Mary Bethea and James Mc
Kenzie were also tried for adultry
and found guilty and got 30 days
each to be suspended on payment
of $10 and the costs. Mary Bkhea
paid out.
James McKenzie was also found
guilty of careless and reckless
driving and driving drunk. He was
sent to the roads for one year,
this year to include the 30-day
sentences in the other two cases.
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Santa Claus Agrees to Pay Advance
Visit To Ra^ord; Arrives Next Thurs.
Choral Society
Will Present
Messiah Dec. 10
A communication, was received
late yesterday afternoon direct
from the North Bole by tiie Rae-
ford Chamber of Commerce to the
effect that Santa Clause would be
able to make a short advance
visit to Raeford again this year as
he did to Collins Department
store here last December. He said
that he expected. to get here at
about 4:30 o’clock next Thursday
afternoon and that he would stop
on Main street in front of the Bank
of Raeford to greet any of his
friends Who might like to see him
at that time.
He also said he would try to
bring a small gift for any of his
young friends who appeared to
greet him when he arrived.
Chamber of* ‘C!k>mmerce officials
stated yesterday that they were
planning every courtesy for the
Old Gentleman while he was here
and that the welcomihg ceremon
ies would probably be broadcast
over Southern Pines Station
WEEB for the benefit of those un
able to be present. They plan to
send a fire truck to greet him and
tos have a State Highway patrol
escort, as well as music appropri
ate for the occasion.
Mayor W. L. Poole, when told
that Santa Clause had agreed to
come to Raeford next Thursday
expressed himself as highly
pleased that one of the world’s
best known characters should
come here and said that he would
personally welcome him to the
town and extend him every
courtesy. More about the final ar
rangements will appear in next
week’s papW.
All Men’s Choir
To Give Program
At PJC Sunday
Maxton, N. C.—The All Men’s
Choir, featuring the Scotland
County Choral Club and the Glee
Club of Presbyterian Junior Col
lege will 'be presented in the col
lege chapel on Sunday evening,
December 5 at 8 p. m. The public
is invited. Men’s chorus groups
from' Rockingham, Hamlet, Mc
Call, Laurinburg, and Presbyterian
Junior College will participate im-
der the direofioh of Jerome Pence
of Wagram, N. Ct The All Men’s
Choir was hail^ with high praise
last year and it is expected the
program will be even more out
standing this season.
Presbyterluti Men
Meet In Sanf oVd
HOKE HIGH
SCHOOL NEWS
The individual pictures for the
annual came this week. The group
pictures, however, were not good
and are being made over today.
Mrs. L. W. Turner and Mrs. Roy
Baker, grade mothers for Miss Mc-
Keithan’s home, visited the school
prior to the holidays and served
refreshments to the pupils in Miss
McKeithan’s section of eighth
grade.
A film strip, “The Eve of the
Revolution,” from “The Chronicle
of America,” was shown to Mrs.
Cameron’s history classes Wed
nesday.
Men of the Church representing
every Presbytery in North Caro
lina gathered in Sanford Saturday
and Sunday for a two-day con
ference that closed Sunday night
with the election of officers.
Speakers at the meeting includ
ed Dr. John R. Cunningham, pres
ident of Davidson college, Walter
Fraley, director of activities in the
First Presbyterian church of Char
lotte, Paul Moser of New York,
secretary of the National Council
of Presbyterian Men, and many
other church leader?.
Among those attending from
here were Marcus Smith, president
of the Men of the Raeford Presby
terian church, the Rev. W. B. Hey
ward, pastor of the church. Elder
Clarence Lytch and Deacon Neill
McFadyen.
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Farmers Will Vote
In County Today
Miss McKeithan’s are classes
are beginning a unit of study in
Christmas designing.
Mrs. Gore’s Latin classes are
rehearsing for a Latin Christmas
program to be given before tiie
holidays.
SEVEN MORE REJECTED
Seven miore Hoke county men
between the ages of 19 and 25 were
sent to Fort Bragg recently for
pre—induction physical examina
tions and all have been rejected
for military service. This was the
second group to go from this
county since the Selective Service
act of 1948 became effective.
“Twenty-Six Old Characters”, a
film strip tracing the origin and
development of our present alpha
bet was shown to the history class
es on Tuesday of this week.
On December 16 at 8:00 o’clock
the sophomore, junior, and senior
classes will present “Darktown
Strutter’s Minstrel.” The minstrel
is being directed by Miss Erma
Williams.
The members of the Journalism
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An intensive effort is being
made to induce Hoke County
farmers to turn out in strength at
the polls today to vote for com
mitteemen to serve in the opera
tion of the production and market
ing administration program in the
county during the coming year.
iPolling places (have been set up
tn each county commtmity and
nominating meeting , will be held
at 9:00 o’clock this morning. The
.pools will remain open until 6:00
o’clock.
Polling places are as follows:
Allendale, Allendale (Community
House; Antioch, Antioch Commun
ity House; Blue Springs, Blue
Springs Community House; Little
River Community House; Mc
Lauchlin, Rockfish Community
House; Que whiffle, Montrose
Community House; Raeford, Hoke
County Courthouse (Court Room);
Stonewall, Dundarrach Commun
ity House.
Three regular committee mem
bers and two alternates will be
chosen in each cornmunity. A del
egate will also be elected to the
county convention, who will meet
on December 3rd and elect the
county cbmimittee of three mem
bers.
Joe Gulledge, Jr.
Is Choseh State
DeMolay Officer
Officers of of the Order of De
Molay in North Carolina for the
new year were elected at the clos
ing session of a two-day conclave
held at the Masonic Temple in
Charlotte last Sunday, and High
Point was chosen as the site for
the. state-wide conclave in 1949.
Among the State officers chosen
was Joe Gulledge, Jr., of Rae
ford, as state junior Inaster coun
cilor. Joe is the son’ of ]|tr. and
Mrs. J. E. Gulledge'mid'!$'• mem
ber of the Southern Bines chapter
Order of DeMolay. Edwin Smith
also attended from Raeford.
Fourteen chapters were repre
sented at the meeting. These in-
cludedi..6ix chapters formed this
year. They are Southern Pines
Jacksonville, Kinston, Fayette
ville, Beaufort and Morehead
City. Much progress during the
year was reported
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Mrs. T. D. Potter
Ps^sses Monday;
Funeral Yesterday
Mrs. T. D. Potter died at her
home near here at about 10:30
Monday night. She was 68 years of
age and had been dll for about a
year, critically for the two weeks
preceding her death.
Before her marriage Mrs. Pot
ter was Miss Dolphie Williams.,
daughter of the late W. D. and
Catherine Davis Williams of
[Robeson county.
Funeral services were conducr
ted from the home yesterday
afternoon at 2:30 by the Rev. P.
O. Lee, pastor of the Raeford
Methodist church, ithe Rev. W. L.
Maness of Gibson and the Rev. B.
P. Robinson of Raeford, both
former pastors, and the Rev. W. B.
Heyward, pastor of the Raeford
Presbyterian church. Burial was
in the Raeford cemetery.
On Friday evening December
10th at 8:5 the Civic Choral
Society of Red Springs will pre
sent as their offering for the first
concert of the winter season “The
Messiah” by Handel, in the audi-
tot^ium of Flora Me Donald College
at Red Springs.
Robert Reuter, Dean of Music
at Flora McDonald College, will
present a chorus of 90 voices and
the following outstanding soloists;
Caroline Buie (soprano) of Red
Springs and San Antonoo, a grad
uate of Flora McDonald College
and a gifted singer; Frances Lehn-
erts (contralto) of New York, a
nationally known artist recognized
as one ' of the most gifted young
singers' by the metropolitan audi-
tione. of the air; Robert Topping
(tenor) of Pittsburgh, one of the
finest tenor voices to be. heard to
day, he sung with a number of
the leading symphony orchestras
of the country; Raymond Brown
(bass) of Lumberton, N. C. also
Baltimore, Md., will round out one
of the finest puartets yet to be
presented by the Choral society.
Accompaniests will be Ruth
Topping, Organist, of Pittsburg,
Pa. and Alice Walker, Pianist, of
Raeford, Miss Walker is Director
of Education and Music at the
Raeford Presbyterian Church.
This concert presentation at
Red Springs has become an annual
event of great interest to music
lovers all over North and South
Carolina. The singers come from
a number of surrounding towns
and rehearsals start early in the
fall and it is believed that this
year’s presentation will , toe the
most outstanding concert given to
date by the Choral society.
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Graham MacDonald
Dies In NorfoH:
Govamnent Beb
On Prosperity
For Another Year
it'
Agriculture Dept. Asks
Farmers To Produce More
Poultry, Milk, Meat, Etc.
Graham MacDonald, 53,,native
of Cumberland county and brother
of Superintendent Kenneth Mac
Donald of the Hoke County
schools, died in a hospital in Nor
folk, Virginia, last Friday night at
about 10 o’clock' He had been
critically ill for several days with
a heart condition. Kenneth Mac
Donald had gone to Norfolk on
Monday to be with his brother.
An employee of the post office
department in Norfolk, Mr. Mac
Donald was reared in Cumberland
county and taught school for a
time at Hope Mills after his».grad-
uation from Davidson college. He
was a son of Lauchlin MacDonald
and Emma Cotton MacDonald. He
went to Virginia to live in early
manhood;
Surviving, iir addition to his
brother Kenneth MacDonald, are
his wife, Mrs. Medora MacDonald;
sons David and William MacDon
aid, all of Norfilk; a sister, Mrs.
A. D. Cashwell of Hope Mills; and
14 neices and nephews^
Funeral services were conducted
in Norfolk on Sunday afternoon at
two o’clock and lburial followed in
a cemetery there.
The government staked more
chips on continued prosperity this
week, asking farmers to produce
extra poultry, milk, vegetables,
sheep and lambs next year. An
ticipating “continued high con
sumer demands.” the agriculture
department announced these 1949
goals:
Poultry—35,100,000 turkeys and
700,000,000 young chickens—A 10
per cent increase. It suggested
however, that this year’s estimat
ed total of 425,000,000 laying hens
be cut by 20,000,0:‘30. That would
give each person an average of
270 eggs—instead of 380—during
the year, and about four pounds of
turkey and 23.5 pounds of chicken.
Milk—a 3 per cent boost to
120.000.000,000 pounds. The de
partment didn’t ■ say what that
amounts to per person, but it did
give a per-cow figure: Better than
this year’s record 5,000-pound
average.
Vegetables— with acreage in
creased to 717,850, the department
suggested 5 per cent more lima
beans, sweet com and cucumbers;
7 per cent more snap beans; 12
per cent more sweet potatoes; 4
per cent more beef and wata-
melons and 2 per cent more to-
nnatoes. Goals for peas, peppers,
cabbage, carrots, cauliflower and
spinach will be the same as thl^
year’s, but a cut was advised od
lettuce, celery, cantaloupes, iKmey-
dews and onions.
3ibeep and lambs—the addition
of^’at least 2,000,000 to this year’s
fick of “3,500.000. ■■ -n. I , “^'7
The ■ department already has
called for a 17 per cent boost in
the 1949 spring pig crop—to in-'
sure more pork chops for next fall
and winter.
Since consumption of farm
products tends to rise and fall
with business and employment
conditions, the call for increases
was taken as a favorable straw
in the economic wind.
. From this year’s record farm
production, the department said,
Americans have had 14 per cent
more to eat than in pre-war years,
while breaking all marks in the
amount of food sent overseas.
During the crop year ended last
July 1, this country exported 19,-
347,000 long tons of food, mostly
grain, topping the previoijis year’s
record by 187,000 tons.
But because of the huge wheat
and potato production, the depart
ment has asked farmers to cut’
d(Wn next ye^s planting to pre
vent market-glutting surplxises.
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1949 License Tags
Placed On
Sale Yesterday
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Surviving are her hu^and, Tom
D. Potter; one son, Alton Potter;
both of this community; three
daughters, Mrs. E. V. Duncan*of
Raeford, Mrs. Veil Smith of Ham
let and Mrs. Frank Newwherter Of
the home; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
McCormick of High Point and Mrs.
T. T. Monroe of Lumberton; one
brother, T. D. Williams of Raeford.
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ARMY AND AIR UNITS
NEED COLORED VETS
Sgt. Gardner, U. S. Army and
Air Force recruiter who is at the
courthouse on Wednesday morn
ings from 10:00 to 12:00, said
yesterday that both the Army and
the Air Force have vacancies in
good grades for colored veterans
of World War II. He s;aid that
these veterans may enlist in their
old grades for immediate assign
ment to the Occupation Forces in
Europe, and urged interested vet
erans to see him.
MONTANA VISITOR
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Johnson of
Miles City, Montana, have been
visiting Raeford and Hoke County
for the past week. Mr. Johnson’s
father, the late Pat Johnson, left
here something like 30\ years ago
but wiU doubtless be remembered
by many old timersi. The John
sons are accompanied b y Mr. anc
Mrs. Lyman Choate of Miles City
and are putting up at thV^aeford
Hotel. Mr. Choate is pilothig Mr,
.Johnson’s plane on the trip
WHIRLWIND FINISH
The Hoke High Bucks wound up
the 1948 football season with a
bang here in their Thanksgiving
Day garne against ShaRotte High
school. 'The Bucks ^ored at will
and came out on the very long end
of a 64 to 6 score. Every man on
the Hoke squad played and the
quite sizable hometown crowd of
fans were gratified to see such a
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Orange and: black are again the
color ssheme as North Carolina
lirense plates for 1949 went on sale
Wednesday, December 1, at the
Motor Vehicle Department in
Ralei^ and the 63 branch offices
throughout the State.
The ’49 plates, have black letters
on an orange background-the re
verse of this year’s tags.
Inmates of Central Prison have
already made around > 800,000
plates at a cost to the Department
of 10 cents a pair, and will manu
facture more as needicd. Of the
total plates, around 700,000 have
been shipped to the branch offices,
strategically located throu^out
the State for the convenience of
Motorists. The remaining ones are
on sale at the Department in Ra
leigh.
L. C. Rosser, Motor Vehicle
Commissioner, said vehicle regis
tration in North Carolina had
reached 955,000 this year, and he
estimated that it would probabty
hit a million in 1940.
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