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■■'. -r- ’r'-mF ~Mp.i'- '•--■'*4' -p: t"* f4^^- / j: rJ»-- Vr-'^- f } - ' : . V"' ^1/ -.; .■' i'-^'? '■''/? ‘'T’T' .r ,_ • -J*: ;-J’ - v-'^ar :- • • mm VOICE Of IREIPOM ^OME \0- ■ ^ ’* « GUARDIAN OF IIBERTT »•«!» jriitit EVW. • i VOICE or fNEEPORt MMl The Hoke Ccmnty News The Hoke County Journal r- :"%'. ■’ ■ GUMOfAN OfUBfin VOLUME XLIII NUMBER 31 HURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1948 RAEFORD. N. C. SZ^PEBYEAB ••■-:•:-" 1':; YOUR [SCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald Happy "New Year! All schools in the county wili reopen' after the holidays oiTMon- day, January 3, 1949 at the usual hour. Two copies o^f the fuU report of the North Carolina Education Conunission and two copies olf the reoommendations of the conunis sion have been received by the office of the Board of Education. These copies of the report vdU be available to anyone desiring to, see ■'* them. This study of education in North Carolina is an outstanding piece of work. The'report of the coanmission deserves tli'e study of every person interested in the wel- *^fare of Noth Carolina. COMMITTEE PICKS J. B. THOMAS TO SUCCEED SENATOR McBRYDE ' It is hoped that the cold snap during the holidays did not seri- ^ ously damage the water system and heating plants in the schools. A check is being made at the pres ent time to see that everything is in shape for the opening Monday. . R. A. Smoak and family spent part of the holidays in South Caro lina with Mrs. -Smoak’s mother who has 'been ill for some time. R. F. Marsh, prihcipal of Mild- ouson School, is i^ndinig the hol idays in Marshville, N. C. with his ifamily. W. P. Phillips, head of the vo cational - agricultural departoent pf Hp^ High, will talk te^the Rae- the work of his department with both the regular school program and the adult education program. A. S. Gaston, principal of the Upchurch School, has been spend ing the holidays with his wife who has been de^erately' ill at their home in Wilson, N. C. We are glad to report that she is some what improved at this writing. Miss Margaret McKenzie of the superintendent’s office spent the holidays with relatives in New Jersey. it was a pleasure to see all the college boys and ^Is while they were hbme for the liolidays; and it is an especial please to know that they are all doing so well with their work. Miss Miriam Waston, cdtinselor for the Guidr ance Departm«ill^ been keeping up with them ally^ and has re ceived good reports from -the schools, colleges and nursing schools that are being attended by Hoke High Graduates. TVdiss Wat' son also keeps up with those who have gone to work and has a good report to make on them. We are proud of our graduates. J. W. Turlington, principal of the Raeford Graded School, is spend- 'V: ing the holidays with his family' - in Fremofit, N, C. To Be Elected Monday In Special Election; No Republican Candidate The Hoke County Democratic committee met at the courthouse ■here Monday morning and chose J. Benton Thomas to Succeed' to the l'2th district seat in the Senate of the North Carolina General Assembly which was vacated last week by the resignation of Ryan McBryde due to his health. Thomas will be elected in a special election which will be held in the four counties making up the district on next Moaday. January 3. His election is certain, as Sim A. DeLapp of Lexington, State Re publican chairman, and GOP lead er^ in the senatorial district have announced that there wiU not be Republican candidate for the seat. An election is required fay law and will be held, in spite of the fact that the only candidate is unopposed. .The rotation system, imder which Hoke and Moore alternate one of the district’s two senate seats, brought the seat to tliis coun ty this year and the nominaton of a candidate' to succeed Mr. Mc Bryde was left up to the Demo cratic executive oommitteie, of this county. Walter P. Baker, chair- onan, has certified the selection of J. Itenton Thomas as the Demo cratic nominee to the chairman of the election Iwards in the four counties. Also considered by the committee for the nomination were T, _Q. Moses and G. B. Rowland, 'both attorneys of the county. Hal Walker of Randolph county has been elected to the district’s other seat for the 1949 session. Hoke, Harnett, Randolph and Moore counties make up tlie dis trict. Mr. Thomas retired from service with the Hoke Oil apd Fertilizer company in 1946, after 30 years wi,th ithe company oyer 25 of which he had t)een secretary and general manager. He is now* a farmer and operates the Thomas Brothers gin here with his brother, W. M. Thomas. He served as county Dem ocratic chairman for twelve years and s now secretary of ithe execuo five committee. He is past presi dent of the Raetord Kiwanis club and a past president of the Rae- ord Sh^e club. He is a Methodist and a Mason. McBryde. Re-Enters Hospital Ryan McBryde, who was a pa tient at a Fayetteville hospital last week when he sent his resi gnation to Governor Cherry, re turned to his home here the last of the week. On Sunday he returned to the hospital, not because of any particular change in his condition but 'because he just thinks he’ll get along better there. Doctors have ordered him to remain in bed for about two moniths.. New Growers Can File Until Feb. 1 For Allotments All eligible producers interested in applying for a “New Grower” tobacco allotment should file an application at the Hoke County AAA office prior to February 1, 1949, Rotiert J. Hasty, Chairman, Hoke County AAA Committee, said this week. He pointed out that in order to be eligible for a new grower to bacco allotment, the following conditions n^ust be met: (1) The farm operator shall have had expefTence In growing the kind of tobacco for which an allotment is requested either as a share cropper, tenant, or as a farm operator during two of the past five years: Provided, however. That a farm operator who has been in the Armed services shall be deemed to have met the require ments hereof if he has had ex perience in growing tiie kind of tobacco for which an allotment is requested dwing one year either within the five years immediately prior to his Mitry into the armed services.or since his discharge from the armed services. (2) The farm operator shall be largely dependent for his liveli hood on the farm covered by the application. (3) The farm covered by the applicatitm, shall ^ the only farm ownfed or dpefated by^'the farm 'Operator for which a. Burley or flue-cured tobacco allotment is establihed for the 1949-50 market ing year; and (4) The farm will not have a 1949 allotment for any kind of to bacco other that that for which ap plication is made hereunder. , —0 NEW YEAR’S PARTY AT SQUARE DANCE FRIDAY YGU-and the year ahead...; I IndKiofl ordains this the season oT resohre. let's keep our resolutions, simple but Hm. Ideas hate kgs. R, oe a local level, we resohre to make this comoHinitf a heller place in which to live, il may have an effect oa making the world oi lafioos a bdler place m which governments may Hve. Si^n in your own backyard. You flgure out what yoi caa do to hel ler Uk churches, schoobaad insHutiou oi tfab place tre caO on how. | We'B start hi o« own backyard, for the year ahead. Has lewv paper pledges a program oi compkle edHorial support lor any aid aB efforts at community beflemeil. This communily b only as strong as we make ff. No om outsit it cares modi what hap pens to our town. Sul we care, let's prove that we care by mak> v^ing that resolution now-t o build '"Ja hitter community. -yj his in that spirit that the peo- ^ I FT P*® *ho publish thb paper wbh for you i */ tr'v * Inspection Lane Is Operating This Week Motor vehicle inspection lane is ■being operated this week here on Main street, and will remain open through Dec. 31, the sitate high way patrol ofipce announced. December 31- will be the dead line for inspection of motor ve hicles of all noodels. After that date persons operating motor ve hicles that do iwt bear the state in spection stick^ win be subject, upon convictkMl in court, to penal ities imposed ^T^Uider the new state vehicle inSper^n law. .r-0— , LEGION HAS fine DANCE ' Odaidlk-'-Haywood Fatitoliotti jk spending the holidays wi^th : rhis family in Sampson CWttity.'ti'V:- . . Misses Joanne Shiel and Ar lene Parnell of the Rockfish fac ility are spending the holidays at home. Misses Erma Lee Williams and Doris Bradly of the Hoke High faculty are spending the holidays in Hemingway, S. C. and Kipling, N. C. respectively. . a 0 > CUB SCOUT MEETING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOINS NATIONAL ORGN. fL of ihe Refofd '''Chamber''' dF'' Conunerce^ Ihie.. announced 'this 'week that the clianlber had been accepted for onembership in 'the Ohaihber of Cosnmerce of the United States of America. This wll entitle the local unit to receive all publica tions and data on government ac tivity from the national chamber, and to keep up with the activities of other chambers of commerce over the country in the promotion Of business in their respective communities, Mr. Lewis, said. 0 APPEARANCES IMPROVED The Christmas Dance given at the armory by the Ellis Williamson American ]ed|cm: post last Thurs day i and Semiring the muac- of Stephen Lambert and his orches tra was no howling success finan cially, according to Legion offi cials. It did make expenses, how ever, and afforded a very pleasant evening for the young people of the community and surrounding area. . Coldest Weather Of The Season A rainy Christmas Eve and driz zly Christmas morning gave way to clear crisp weather Sunday and Monday and this section came out of the Yuletide in the grip of the coldest weather of the winter to date. About an inch of rain mixed with considerable sleet fell Christmas Eve. Temperature fell steadily Christmas day as the weather cleared and there was a low of around 20 degrees on Sunday morning and low temperature on Monday morning was about 15 degrees. • The weather began to warm up and get cloudy on Tuesday, how ever," and yesterday it was quite warm with occasional light radn during the day. 0 NO RECORDER’S COURT There was no recorder’s court this" week, all' cases having been continued until next Tuesday. MnHODIST CHURCH DESTROYED BY FIRE LAST SUNDAY AT NOON J. T. Townsend Taken By Death Thursday A. M. John Thomas (Teddy) Town send, native of Rockfish, who had been in the tailoring busings in Fayetteville for a number of years, died in a hospital there early last Thursday morning. He was 62 years of age. Mr. Townsend was bom in Rockfish when it was a part of Cum.berland county, a son of. the late yWilliam S. and Margaret Blue Townsend. He had made his home at the Millbrook hotel in. Fayetteville. He also had lived in Raleigh for a time. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at three o’clock at the Rogers and Breece chapel in Fayetteville by the Rev. A.. S. Parker, assisted by the Rev. B. O. Shannon, pastor of Galatia Presby terian church. Burial was in the cemetery at Rockfish Pallbearers were George Owen, P. McK. 'Wil liams, McAdoo Boseman, O. L. Townsend, D. A. Gillis, Glenn Newton, K. P. Ritter and A. L. Maynard. Honorary palll)earers were members of the Elks club of Fayetteville of which the deceased was a member. Surviving are three brothers, N[ E., W. F. and B. P. Townsend, and a sister. Miss Carrie Townsend, all of this county. Two Inspections Are Required In 1949 And After our POOR schools Neill McFadyen, scoutmaster of the local Cub Scouts, has an nounced that there will be a meet ing of the boys and their parents at the Upchurch airport tomomo:W night at 7;)30 and 'he urges all the boys and thei? parents to be present. K. A. MacDonald, 'county super intendent of education, reported yesterday that full-length mirrors had arrived for the schools here, one for each room. He Stated that these were required in all accredit ed schools by the Sta\e depart ment of public instruction. Members of Battery A, local National Guard unit which spon sors a' square dance at the ihiory every Friday ni^t are taking steps to have a real New Year's paAy at the dance there toinonnw night. Favors stich as horns, ih|Bts or something similar have been ob tained for all and the services of Anson Purdie, well known and popular figure caller of Fayette ville, have been arranged for. Purdie will caU the dance and the music will hie by Elmo Stanton and his 'Ijoys as usiual. ^ 0 N C Tobacco Acreage Yield Largest In History For 194S ' North; Carolina produced more flue ctired' tobacro pier acre this year than’ at any i^reidous tinne iii its his^fy and ^ .exp^ted eq*' ual the all-time recoid in eotton production, the Fedier^-S^te.Groip Reporting service s'aid last week The flue cured,tobacco Crop'ten tailed 746,300,009 pounds, actually 17.8 per cent below 1947. but the govemmient had reduced acreage by 27.52 per cent. So the crop av eraged 1,236 poimds an acre, bet tering by 91 pounds the previous record of 1,145 pounds set in 1947. The Tar Heel average was two pounds over the national average. This wasi the final rejjort for the tobacco crop, but coomplete figures are not yet available on the cotton crop. The Crop Re- I>orting Service forecast, how ever, that production will to tal 680,000 .bales of 500 poimds each, an average of 454 pounds per acre, which equals the rec ord set in 1944. This is 10,000 bales below tte November fore cast. . • From KIPLINGER Magazine Editor's noto—We'^ seen much publicity about ^oota in this eountry recently, and cVen more about schools in North CTsroUna. Miout M this has been pnhll^y prepared by people who wuMtk in or in eminection with'the selHHda and wbmn some of ns are perhaps prone to consider prejudiced and to dinegard their statements accordingly. The article whMi fMlows is taken from a magazine which is devoted solely to the interests of business and Imsinessmeii—no prejudice is involved, Just good business reasoning. It is too long for ns to print in one issue, so we'll spread it over several. The first is below. "We Americans have fine automobiles, good roads and lots of them, electric stoves, refrigerators, telephones, milk de livered to the door, laundries that call for and deliver, electric service to the house in the hills, bus service to everywhere, water out of the faucet, soaring office buildings,* georgeous movie houses. » . ' These are the things we pay for. We also have wretdied schools. The reason we. have wretched schools Is that we are not willing to pay for better achoMs. Let's not dodge the issue. Let's not be soottted by those who say the problein of->-sdMiol^is cocnpli- cated. Of ronzse lt.is.^But down at the deep: fimth of ;the school situ ation is .moa^'X-i^your money,-"tax money.- Lefs be honest, or honest: We do not crave exceUail^ school as much as we say we crave them. ■' Is this observation pleasant and constructive? No, it is most un pleasant, most destructive. It tends to destroy our good opinion of ourselves. But the good opinion is not warranted. Most .public schools are stuffed to the rafters. Too many children to take care of. And too few teach- Not enough buildings*. Too ers. little proper equipment. And all signs indicate that things are gd- ing to get even worse. So you wiU hear schools, schools, schools for the next ten years, and the hue and cry will not be phony. The present crisis goes back to the recent war years. America had a colossal baby boom. Now the vanguard of these babies is six years old and swarming into the schools. Next year there will be more of them. The year after, s' more. By, 1952. the schools will hsve tq ti^e 5. millimi iprme chil dren than they had to handle 10 years eorUtf., Biiggeait shocker is that we will not have nearly enou^ qualified teachters New teachers are not entering the profession at a rate sufficient to take care of even the present' number of children, let alone the extra mUlions coming up.' ,.']^tiead of getting a better edu cation, sufficient to the needs of this age, your children and your neighbor’s children may get poorer schooling than you did. You probably were not one in a class of 40 or 50 children, as to day’s child very likely may be. So what? You reaUy cannot assess the loss. Perhaps your dau ghter will not become a fluent reader. Perhaps your son will never learn to figure efficiently, or will miss guidance into the right job. Perhaps many children will not acquire the “large-mind- (Continued on PagWi) RALEIGH, N. C.,—The Motor Vehicle Department announced in spection periods for various model vehicles for the first half of 1949. The Mechanical Inspection Law, passed by the 1947 Legislature, provided that all vehicles register ed in North Carolina be inspected once during 1948 and twice a year thereafter. —s Al^xjrding to a new In^e^on Manual, released today by the Me chanical Inspection Division of the Department of Motor Vehicles, tlte first semi-annual in^)ection period for each year will begin on Jan. 1 and end on June 30. The second semi-annual inspection i)eriod^will begin on July 1 ad end on Decem ber 31. The Manual sets forth the in spection deadlines for all vehicles for the first inspection period as follows: All vehicles of the year model up to and including the year 1936 must be inspected by January 31, 1949. All vehicles of 1937 and 1938 models must be inspected by Feb ruary 28. Models 1939 and 1940 must be inspected by Morch 31. « All vehicles of the year models 1941 and 1942 must be inspected April 30. els 1M3 through 1947 must be im^eoted.by Juqe 30-. The Manual j^urtitat- atatas that “the operation of any vehicle aft» the time Umit sat for in^Kction, without displaying the official seal of approval, will be a violation of the Motor Vehicle Laws of 1947.” A provision is made thi t begin ning Janueury 1, 1949, the (►wner of a vehicle will have 30 days from the date of acquisition oya vehicle to have it inspected, provided that pending inspection, ovraer shall have with him at^^^ times a bill of sale or other sjlificient evidence to show' the date ^nd. place of acquisition ofAhat vehicle. Arthur T/Moore, Director of the Mechanics Inspection Divisic^; said the/Wkme type of seals, stick ers, andt tabs will b© used in 1949 as h^e been used in ’48. These inoHide the blue seal of approval in shape of the State of North arolina; the red diamond seal for (Ctmtinued on page 4) Parsonage^ Saved; ^Services Planned For Sunday, Probably In Schoolhonse The Raefq'rd Methodist chiircb burned to the ground in about 40 minutes last Sunday. The fire started shortly before nom and all standing parts had fall^ in the blaze by 12:30 p. m. The weather ’ was^'oelow freezing and there was a high wind which, luckily, was blowing from the north when the olaze was high, and the old pastor-. iu.Ti next door on the north side of the church did not bum. The courthouse on the south side did not suffer greatly, • although about forty windows were broken' by the heat and water which was being hosed to the roof by the fire department. Damage to the roof, if - S.ny. has not been ^termined according to John McGoogan. The church loss was covered by six thousand dollars fire insurance. According to Fire Chief R. B. Lewis the fire started from a flue in a small rear foom whkh bad loemi used for Sunday aAocl classes. .When first noticed it ap peared to be just a litOe smoke coming from the wall near a flne^ and a hand fire extinguiaher wzta first used. The fixe ve^ AarttF burst out and engulfed Ibe place, however, and it was too lala to do mudi afboot it Church aereieea woe in progress edien the ttoe started but the congregatka had left the church before it beeaime apparent that it was on fire. AB four pianos and a small aanouat at fuHuture were' saved."’ The Rev. P. O. Lee was out of town and the services were being conducted by lay leaders. Mr. Lee said yesterday that a .meeting was to be held last night to determine just where services would be held in the immediate future. He said services would be held next Sun day, probably in one of the scTiool buildings. FARM NOTES By A. S. Knowles Livestock DevelofOMBl It has been pointed out in diis column many times that a forage and pasture program is neeeaaaiy to the development hd growBi of livestock. This phase of the j«o- gram appears to be well undo: way. Ten years ago there was Jess than 200 acres of lespedeza grown in the county w-hereas to day there is 10,000 acres being grown. There was very little pas ture other than native grasses whereas today there is over 2500 acres of improved permanmt pas ture. Farmers have given serious consideration to the development pf temporary pastures, bofii sum mer grazing and winter graiiDg crops. This program has advanced to the point where livealodr can be increased on most fanns. Ten years ago there were ap proximately 800 brood sows on farms in the county, wfa«eas to day there are approximately 1300. Hogs fit in well on a large nuniber of farms. Most farmers are now .providing their, home meat supply and a good many of them sell from' one to several dozen bogs par year. Farmers have followed better sanitation practices during the past ten years and th«firt>y have reduced the amount of di seases, .particularly cholera. \, Poultry There has been rapid prograos : made in the improvemoat at qdal- : ity of poultry in county as. wd3l as in quantity. Tai years ago were on farms of Hoke County ap- plroximately 17,000i puBftts andt^ ( Gontinaed on pago 4 ) \
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