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The Hoke County Journal
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1949
RAEFORD. N. C.
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92.00 PER YEAS
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schools re-opened after the
lays with full attendance. All
the teachers were in place ex-
those who have been out
siclc>Cor some time. At this writing
all'01 these teachers are improv
ing. I
It is hoped that all parents will
make a special effort to keep their
childreh in sclDool as every day
mdsse^ ^ handicaps the child to
' that extent.
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The exte^ion class taught by
_ Dr. Richard Weaver of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, resumed
work'on Monday. At the Monday
cslass Dr. C. W. WiUoox, health
t^.'^^tticer, aiid Mrs. Crowier, county
• liurse, assisted Dr. Weaver in a
panel discussion of county health
problems that^ the teachers can
. assist with.
The Rockfish P. T. A. held its
January meeting at the school
building on yesterday evening.
' Mr. Johnson of the Veterans Ad
ministration visited the county
Monday to make a survey of the’
. veterans trades classes and their
work. Reports of irregularities in
the trades classes over the state
prompted this survey. Mr. Johnson
reported to the superintendent that
he found every thing in Hoke
County in good shape, with no
infractions of the rules and that he
would recommend to Ithe Veteyrans
Administration that our setup and
propedf^itl^ut change.
'" We read with interest last week
the first of a series 'of articles in
The News-Journal copied from
Kiplingers Magazine on “Our Poor
Schools.” We hope that every read
er of The News-Journal will read
these articles as they give an un
biased picture of the schools in
the nation today. If we want better
schools now is the time to get them
while the legislature is in session.
If you wi^ better schools tell our
members of the general assembly
how you feel about it.
We are glad to be able to make
the school facilities available to the
Raeford Methodists who lost their
church by fire the Sunday after.
Christmas.
It is requested that the few
schools that have not reported on
Junior Red Cross do so at-once to
Dr. R. L. Murray, chapter chair
man, and that those who have not
reported on Christmas Seals dio so
at once to Mrs. N. A. McDonald,
Seal Sale chairman.
Preparartions are being made to
latmch the March of Dimes. We
hope and expect that every school
will enter whole heartedly into the
campaign. The children of the
county along with their parents
have so much to be thankful for
for being spared during the epi
demic last summer that we should
do all in our power to more than
raise our quota as a kind of thank
offering. Incidentally, we miight
need the mioney if we have another
epidemic next year. We hope that
every child and every parent will
contribute.
Below is given the total enroll
ment, membership and percentage
in attendance in the colored schools
for the third month: Fryes Mis
sion 69, 69, 93; Timberland 54, 54,
90; Shady Grove 57, 56, 76; Bow-
more 115, 115, 84; Freedom 109,
99,.. 80; Burlington 204, 196, 85;
Friendship 53, 53, 85 ^ Bridges
•Grove 46j 46, 90; Piney Bay 41, 41,
89: li^Farland 36, 33, 89; Lilly's
Chapel 55, 5i5, 87; Edinburg 33, 33,
85; Millside, 73, 73, 70; Rockfish
Jlored 70, 60, 86; Buffalo 72, 68,
Peachmont 59, 59, 87; White
^k 87, 87, 89; Laurel Hill 120,120,
iian Schools. Antioch 98, 98,
iacedonia 76, 76, 89.
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Carolinas Ginners
To Meet Jan. 17
In Bennettsville, S. C.
Announcement was made today
by George T. Ashford, Red
Springs, N. C., President of Th®
Carolinas (dinners Association, that
the 1949 Annual meeting of the
Association will be held January
17th in Bennettsville, S.. C. The
group will meet in the Armory,
which « located ope mile North of
Bennettsville, one block off High
way 38.
The Carolinas Ginners Associa
tion, originaily the North Caro
lina Ginners Association, was
founded in 1938, and in December,
1946, combined with South Caro
lina to make the present Associa
tion. The Association was founded
for the primary purpose of ad
vancing the ginning industry in the
Carolinas and Virginia. Considera
ble progress has been made to
ward this 'goal, and this meeting
marks another step forward in
which the ginners will coordinate
their efforts and ideas toward
making the ginning ihudstry a
more modern and progressive in
dustry.
The program is designde to em
phasize the trends which ginners
and producers must turn to keep
cotton on the competitive markets.
Among the ^eakers that wiU ap
pear are Mr.> William E. Meek,
Agricultural Engineer, Delta Ex
periment Station, StoneviHe, Miss.
He will speak on the subject of
“Mechanical Production of Cotton
Through the Eyes of an Agricul
tural Engineer.” Mr. W. K. Ander
son, cotton ginner and producer of
Clarkdale, Mississippi, will speak
on “Mechanical Production of Cot
ton Through the eyes of a Ginner.
and Producer.” From the U. S.
Gin Laboratory at Stdneville,
Miss., comes an old favorite among
ginners, Mr. Charles A. Bennett,
■Senior Mechamical Engineer at
the gin laboratoiy, who will talk
on “Recent Developments of Gin
'Machinery and EquipT*Mjt.”
•Also to speak at the ginners is
Mr. A. W. Fisher of Cannon Mills,
Kannapolis. N. C. Mr. Fisher is
expected to express his viewpoint
on how the textile industry d'e-
sires to receive cotton from the
gin. Mr. J’loyd F. Bondy, Ento
mologist of the^’Pee Dee Experi
ment Station, Florence, S. C., will
speak to the group on “Cotton
Insect Control and Insecticides
Recommended for the Carolinas-”
The luncheon speaker can not be
announced at this time. There will
also be time alloted for the .pur
pose of answering questions from
the floor.
There will be a business session
for the members, and^ery mem
ber is urged to be present. All
other cotton ginners throughout
the Carolinas arid Virginia, as well
as cotton producers, are extended a
special invitation to attend this
meeting, The general public is also
invited to attend.
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Deer Hunters In
Wreck Saturday
Last Saturday at about 12:45
p. m. two cars from outside 'the
county were involved in an acci
dent on the Aberdeen highway
near Carl Riley’s home. The acci
dent was between a 1946 Chevro
let coupe driven by Russell
Moffitt of Ramseur and a 1948
Ford coach driven by Arthur
Motsinger of Winston-Salem.
Two passengers in the Ford were
hurt,*one suffering a broken leg
and the other severe facial cuts.
Both were hospitalized and both
drivers were convictod of careless
and reckless driving im recorder’s
court Tuesday. The Ford car was
severely damaged. Both—gr-oup
were deer hunters.
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DRn.L MONDAY NIGHT
Hoke High Cage
Teams Wm Two
Here Tuesday
Coach Haywpbd Faircloth’s
Hoke High school took both games
of a doufoleheader against Tar Heel
here Tuesday night'. Last Friday
night the local split a doublehead
er here against Massey Hill.
Tuesday night the girls won the
opener in a free-scoring game, 39
to 9. Marian Lewis was high scor
er for the second game in succes
sion, getting 16 points. Most of ffie
game was played by the third
and fourth teams. This game was
the eleventh consecutive victory
for the local girls, counting the
last eight games of last season.
The boys also won by a one
sided score, 50 to 19. For the Bucks
Lester was high with W points and
GuUedge and Davis got 10 each.
Last Friday the girls won their
game against Massey Hill. 38 to
24. Marian Lewis was high with
17 points, followed by Lyda
Willia'm® with 12.
The local 'boys lost their game
against Massey HUl, 23 to 32.
Lester was high for the
home team with 7 points while
Jerome led the visitors with, 14.
Deer Season Over, *'
Others End Sooii ;>
The ieer season ended on Jan
uary 1, 1949, District Game Pro
tector H. R. McLean renphtled all
hunters this week. Quail, rabbit,
squirrel, and turkey will close on
January 10 he said. He further
stated that the duck season will
end on January 8.
Dove may be hunted in the
afternoons only until January 20
with a .bag limit of 10. McLean said
that this was a Federal regulation.
O’possum and racoon may be
hunted at night only with dogs un
til Feb. 15.
All seasons close as above stated,
McLean said, and he said that
there had been no extensions as
some reports have stated.
Scotland Is Dry,
Fayettevfllci Wet
The city of FayetteyUle Tuesday
re-legalized the sale of beer and
wine. .
Complete, urioff^ial returns
from all eight of the city’s wards
shown:
For beer, .2144; against beer,
1441. ' V
For wine, 2119; against wine,
1481. ;
In a county-wide election , last
August 31', both beer and wine
were voted out in Cumberland
county and sale of beer and wine
ceased November 1.
Immediately thereafter Fayette
ville voters petitioned for a s^)a-
rate election in the city, which
favored the sales by i wide margin
in the county referendum. Sales
began again in Fayetteville yester
day.
Scotland Vote Decisive '
Scotland county! citizens out
lawed the sale of beer and wine
in a decisive victory at the poles
Tuesday.
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•Unofficial retui^ from the
county’s 11' precincj^ showed:
For beer, 804; ai^st, 1325.
For wine, 677; a^inst, 1372.
'Qfificials descrii^ the voting
as light A total had been
expected to clima^iilntensive cam
paigns for both and drys.
AIRPLANE WRECK HERE;
PAPER ALMO!^ IMPROVES
Paul Diickson, Jteerator of The
News-Journal drives an air
plane with about the same effi
ciency, drove one into the groimd
while attempting a landing at
Lewis Upchurch’s airport here
Portly before eight o’clock last
Friday morning. The airplane, a
four-place Stinson “Voyager,” was
almost a total loss, but Dickson
suffered • nothing worse than
chagrin. He was flying alone at
the time of the accident, and the
lane was insured.
Bank Robbery
At Pembroke
Monday Noon
A lone gunman, said to have
been an Indian, held up the Scott
ish Bank at Pembroke at about
noon ‘Monday and made his sscape
with about $9000 in ca^. Bank
officials reported that the gurinSan
entered the 'bank alone and flash
ed gun on the teller. The robber
took all the bills that were at the
cage and made his escape in an
auto that was waiting outside.
The FBI^n Charlotte announced
Tuesday that three Robeson coun
ty Inidians had been- arrested in
connection with the robbery and
that two of them had admitted
having a part in the robbery. San
dy Hunt ws arrested shortly after
the robbery between Red Springs
and Pembn^e and Crawford
Hunt was arrested in Robeson
county later Monday.
The third, Donald Hunt, was
taken in a tourist cabin in Hoke
county early Tuesday by FBI
agent, a d^uty rtveriff and a State
Highway patrolman. About $1000
was found on his person at the
time and the officers say that he
admitted having had a part in the
robbery.
Sandy and Cra^rford Hunt have
been bound over to the spring
term of Federal district court in
Fayetteville, and Donald Hunt was
to ihave a hearing yesterday. Offi
cers are conducting their search
for the remaining $7000 or $8000
missing.
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re stated. '~"^lane was insured.
POOh^ schools
Editor’s note—^This is the second part of an article from
Kiplinger magazine which we started last week and which we are
running because of its unbiased good sense on a subject in which
everyone should be interested.
CHILDREN
Getting More Numerous
The local national guari unit
will resume its regular Monday
night drills at the armory at 7:30
next Mtonday, January 10. The unit
has not had a drill assembly since
December 20 due to the Christms
season.
According to the best advance
population calculations, about 10
1-2 imUlion children should have
been born from 1941 through 1945.
Actually 14 1-2 million arrived.
The war with all its uncertainties
and disruptipns upset the down
ward trend in the national birth
rate. We had a baby boom.
Remember the diaper shortage?
Now it has turned into a school
shortage. As of the first of this
month, the U. S. Bureau of the
Census has estimated that 2,843,-
000 children will be ready to start
school. .This is some 740,000 more
than ithere were in 1939.
By studying the birth records,
the bureau also has given the
schools exact forewarnings of how
many more are coming. These are
the total numbers who will be en
tering school in the coming year:
1949—2,963,000
195D=-24J7,000
1951'—2,755,000
1952—3,291,000
Thus in 1952-53, the schools will
have to handle about 500,000 more
first grad'ers than in 1951 and al
most 900,000 more than they did
in 1946.
' By 1955, the crest of children
will reach the fourth grade and in
1958 the seventh grade. And in
1'958 the seventh grades will out
number’ the seventh graders of
1946 by nearly 1,100,000.
Five Points People
Finish Their Church
And Hold Service
By 1956 total enrollment in the
public elementary schools is ex
pected to exce^ 24 million, com
pared with 20 million this year.
(There are another 2 1-2 million in
parochial and private schools this
year.)
On the basis of these national
statistics, you can think of the
oncoming children as a '•wave, a
very high wave that will sweep
through the schools until it runs
itself out in the 1960’s.
Of course there will 'be excep
tions—.places where there will be
scarcely a ripple. In many sec
tions of the South, in the Dakotas
and other .parts of tiie county
which has lost population, the
schools may not experience much
of a rige m enrollment. Extra
children born in such districts will
only replace those lost by migra
tion. There will be no jamming
of the schools.
On the other hapd, on the West
Coast, in the Great Lakes region
and in other places where people
have moved in great numbers, the
flood of chUdren will be over
powering.
The same kinds of variations are
found within individual cities and
school dstricts. In the old down
town sections of some of the large
cities, it will be possible to point
to half-fiUed schools. But out in
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OFFICERS SEEKING EX-CONVIU
FOR SHOTGUN SHOOTING TUES.
('By Rev. G. W. Crutchfield)
On the Second Sunday in De
cemiber meanhers and friends of
the Community Chapel Methodist
Church, Raeford Route 3, held
services for the first time in their
new church building, which was
recently completed with the ex
ception of painting.
Community Chapel was organ
ized in August 1947. Prior to the
completion of their building, the
congregation used a tenant house
for holding Sunday School and
churdh services.
Members and^ friends of the
church gave liberaUy both in
money, materials and time. All of
the rough lumber used was dona
ted. The foundation blocks and
finishing ‘materials were purchased
out of 'donations to the building
fund. All the. work on the building
was given free of charge, thus
saving tiie expense of labor. The
donations of money, materials and
labor made possible the completion
of the neat and adequate frame
building within a very short time.
The pastor and officers of the
church wish to express through the
columns of this news paper their
sincere appreciation to everyone
who has helped in toe building of
the church. It is a fine manifesta
tion of community spirit, giving,
■cooperation and loyality. Their
grateful appreciation goes also to
those outside toe community who
gave oinsolicited cash donations.
The following is a list of toe
donors, in'cluding money, materi
als, and labor: The§e are the ones
that give money, R. L. Chambers,
Lide Rogers, H. E. Currie. A. A.
Walters, Mrs. Henry Baker, J. A.
Webb, Woonrow Lewis, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Gordan. A friend in
Rockingham, a friends at Beaver
Dam, W. L-Thomburg, Mr. Crisco,
N. F. Sinclair, Myrtle L. Johnson.
Israel Mann, R. A. Smoak, Mc-
Lauchlin Co., Baucom Appliance
Co., A friend in Fayetteville, Mrs.
Wallace Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Calloway. These are the ones who
gave labor on toe church: H. B.
Nixon and sons, A. A. Walters and
son, R. L. Chambers and son,
Jark Baker and Brothers, Wood-
row Lewis, Tom Baker and Son,
H. E. Currie and Son, John Allen
Webb, Clarence Webb, Lide
Rogers, Mr. A. L. Crisco and son.
I Their deepest thanks go to all.
Escapee Smt
ToS^torinm
For 12 Mondis
Judge McDiarmid Sentences
Doeslayer, Drivers, Drinkers
In Recorder’s Court Tuesday
In recorder’s court Tuesday be
fore Judge Henry McDiarmid
Liitoer Harris, colored, patient of
the Negro Division of the State
Sanatorium at McCain, was
charged vFith being drunk and
disorderly, carrying a concealed
weaiwn and escaping from an of
ficer. He was convicted on two
counts and found not guilty of
carrying a concealed weapon. Sen
tence was one year in toe prison
division of the sanaltorium.
Bond Samuel, white of Guilford
county, was charged with killing
a doe and found guilty. Sentence
of 60 days was suspended on pay
ment of $50 and the costs.
John D. King, colored, pleaded
guilty of driving dmi^ and got
90 days to be suspoidod on pay
ment of $100 and the Costs.
Carl Rose, white, got 30 days
suspended on payment of the
costs for speeding. 4
Lacy Smith, coloreiS, got 60 days
to be suspended on payment of $25
and the costs and on condititm of
two years good behavior for vio-
kting toe prohibition’ laws.
■ William’ Washington, colored,
and Leroy Henderson, Indian,
each got 30 days to be suspended
on payment of $10 and toe costs
for improper brakes.
Russell Moffitt and Arthur
Motsinger, both white, were found
guilty at careless and reckless
driving as a result of an accident
they had with each other. Thirty-
days each was suspended on pay
ment of the costs.
Delmore Jacobs, Indian, got 60
days suspended orit payment of the
costs for assault with a deadly
weapon. '■
William A. Cook and Charles F.
Counts, 'boith white, were each
charged with careless and reckless
driving as a result of an accident
they had. Cook was found not
guilty and Counts was found
guilty. Sentence was 30 days to
he su^ended on payment of the
costs.
Howard Adams, colored, got 90
days to be suspended on payment
of $26 and the costs lor assaulting
Laurie Stocks, also colored, with
a deadly weaiwn.
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LIBRARY NEWS
A best seller, “Bride of Fortune”,
by Harnett T. Kane, based on toe
life of Varina Howell Davis, the
First Lady of the Confederacy, is
now in the public Library. Another
book by a popular author, Frances
Parkington Keyes, “Dinner at
Antoine’s”, has also been received.
Other new titles are: Three to
Make Ready, Turlington; Francis
Goes to Washington, Stern; And
There I Stood With my Piccolo,
Meredith Willson; A Time for
Laughter, Wellner; John Goffe’s
Mill, Woodbury; Gentlemen,
Hush, Wheelwright; Lauder
From Downstairs, Ormonde.
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MONTHLY CLINIC
IN LUMBERTON
The monthly ortoopedic clinic
will be held in the basement of
the agricultural building in Lum-
berton on Friday, January 7. Dr.
Lenox D. Baker of Duke hospital
will be the surgeon in charge and
patients are requested to register
between eight and eleven o’clock.
NATIONAL GUARD
TO INAUGURATION
Battery A, 677th Anti-«ircniltt
artillery battalion, plans to go 4(>
Raleigh today to participate in Rie
inaugural parade and review at
toe inauguration of W. Ken
Scott as governor of Notto. Caro
lina. The unit is carrying
70 men and officers and its
automatic 40 millimeter Botes
anti-aircraft guns. The groiQ) ■w®
be guests of lihe Ralei^ units at
hinch at toe armory there and
will return this afternoon.
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Buddy Barrett Is Beii^
Sought For Using Shotgna
On Charlie McDougald Here
Buddy Barrett, about 40, colored
native of these parts, is being
sought by officers of the local
sheriffs department for allegedly
shooting Charlie McDougald with
buckshot in a row near the Ed
Buie funeral home north of here
on Tuesday night. McDougald is
a native of here but is employed
In Cleveland, Ohio, and is at home
on vacatiOTi. He was shot witii
buckshot at close range in toe
left shoulder. He was taken to a
hospital where he stiU lived at last
reports. ♦
According to toe story officers
got from eyewitnesses to the af
fair, McDougald had bought a
pint of whiskey from Barrett and
when he showed a roll of money
in i>aymg for it Barrett snatched
the money from him. McDougald
is said to have gone and got a .31
caliber pistol while Barrett got
his ^otgun and fliey met in
road. McDougald shot at Barxetf
three times with toe pistol
fore he was hit. He told
that after Barrett shot him he'
the pistol away from him and i
him over the head with it. Barrett
is said to 'have bad S; woman wititt
him when he left
Barrett has a criminal record of
several convictions ffa* has'Slwut
14 years in prison aRogetoerr hig
longest sentence bemjf seven tc
years for rape. The shootu
place at about seven o’clock. Mc
Dougald said Barrett robbed him
of $260.
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Telephone Co.
Has Man Here
The Carolina Tel^hone and
Telegraph company announced
this week through its district m'on-
ager, W. W. Aycock of Fayette
ville, that it had stationed a fuQ'
thne service man in Raeford. Mr.
Aycock said that Craig Brigman,
one of toe company’s experienced
service and repair men, had faemi
transferred from CHinton whexe
he has been statkmed for some
time.
Aycock said that service and re
pair work here would be handled
by Brigman, but that teIe|)haBe
subscribers should call Fayette
ville to report these matters as
they have in toe past. He aiso said
that Mrs. Helen S. Barrixigton
would continue to collect for the
company here.
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North Crolina cotton growers
produced an average of 454 pounds
of lint per acre in 1948.
large crowd enjoys
NEW YEAR’S DANCE M
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The largest crowd to attend a
dance at toe local armory recently .
was toere for the square dance
and New Year’s Eve party last .
Friday ni^t, and according to re
ports a good time was had by alL
The dances s^e held every Friday
night by the local NatiiMUil Ckiard
unit and last Friday ni|^t favon
and noisemakers were imvidad
for everyone and seyerel frelt
cakes were given as prises. Sfano
Stanton provides the musk eeery
Friday night