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VOLUME XLm NUMBER 35
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27,194»
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YOUR
ISCHOOL NEWS]
By K, A. MacDonald
All white schools have reached
■the middle of the year. Mid-term
examinations are heing given to
day and tomorrow. We hope that
parents will make an effort to
have their children in school.
Younger Snegd made a talk at
the chapel hour yesterday to the
Hoke High school students on
“Companionship.” This was one
of a series being given by the Am'
erican Legion in an effort to pro
mote good citizenship. We think
the American Legion is doing a
good work in this respect.
The March of Dimes is turnihg
into a “March of Dollars” in the
schools. All schools in -the county
are cooperating in the current
campaign. We hope the county
will far exceed its quota ^or this
most worthy cause.
Monday afternoon Mrs. C. H.
Giles, county superintendent of
Public Welfare, put on the prog
ram for Dr. Richard Weaver in
the Resource-Use class. Mrs. Giles’
program dealt with the services
of the Welfare department, and
especially those that the teachers
,; could call on for aid in their ef
forts to improve living and learn
ing in Hoke County. Mrs. Giles
was assisted fey Dr. H. K. Dorsett
of Meredith college and the State
department of Public Welfare.
, Dr. Dorsett is professor of pschy-
ology at Meredith. Miss ^!lla Down
ing, field representative of the
^State d€^)vtment Public
• fare, dSaciiss’ld Bie child welfare
service rendered by the depart
ment. H. A. Wood, executive^ sec
retary of the State Blind Comm
ission, told of the services of the
the commission to children with
impaired vision. H. E. Springer,
assistant director of the State Vo
cational Rehabilitation Service,,
explained ho^y his agency helped
with children who need rehabili
tation. O. A. Barbour of the State
department of labor, explained
the services to be had from his
agency. It was a most worthwhile
program and both Dr. Weaver and
the class appreciated Mrs. Giles’
efforts.
Plans Complete
For Benefit Show
Tomorrow Night
Advance Sale Indicates
Large Crowd to Attend;^
Magician, Dancer, Pianist
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The toenefit show scheduled for
the Hoke county high school to
morrow night appears destined to
be a financial success for the
March of Dimes and one of the
more outstanding entertainments
in some time as well.- Robert Gat
lin, president of the Kiwanis club
which is sponsoring the affair,,
yesterday expressed his gratitude
to the groups handling the ad
vance ticket sale and to the pub
lic for its good response in buying
tickets. He also commended and
thanked the Business and Pro
fessional Women’s clulb fof their
fine work in selling and collecting
for the ads in the program for the
entertainment.
From all reports from those who
have heard her perform, Mrs.
Mafie Farolfi Short’s talent as a
pianist is probably beyond any
ever displayed here except on her
own previous appearance before
the Raeford Woman’s club last
year. She will headline the 90-
minute program and will play six
selections.
Adding variety to the program
will be numbers by Miss ghirley
Jean (Rogers, talented tap, toe and
ballet dancer of Lumberton, and
amusing and baffling tricks by Fay
Ridenour, weH known amateur
magician and professional photo
grapher of Fayetteville.
The program will begin prompt
ly at eight o’clock tomorrow night
iif the (Hoke county 'high"" school
auditorium.
Pretty Little Victim Feeds Her Teddy Bear
Only Four Days
Left For Donors
To March Of Dimes
Pretty little Barbara Sue Maddox, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. N. Maddox of Route 1, Sanford, is fast recovering
from an attack of polio suffered in last summer’s epidemic.
Here she is seen giving some of her dinnmr to her teddy bear
at one of the State’s convalescent hospitals. Treatment and
convalescence is long and expensive and your dimes and
dollars in the current March of Dimes will help other little
victims like Barbara to get the care they need.
R. A. Smoak, principal of the
'Ashemont School, was drawn on
the special venire called for this
term of court. He and the school
were fortunate in that he was ex
cused.
During this te.rnti of court the
county superintendent was called
before the grand jury for a report
on the school buses and school fa
cilities. He was able to give a good
report on the condition of buses
and buildings. All buses had had a
regular inspection last week, in
addition all safety devices were
inspected Monday and found to
be in good condition. The superin
tendent was able to report that
all buildings were in better than
fair condition and that most of
them were in excellent condition.
Dictrict Sanitarian MiUs, last
week, had made an inspection of
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BALL GAME TONIGHT
Northern Lights
Seen Here Monday
Unusual for this part of the
country was the visibility of the
aurora boreolis or northern lights
in the sky on Monday night. The
display was visible for several
hours and, according to radio
and newspaper reports, was
visible over a large part of the
south.
The lighting had the appearance
of a red glow like that of a dis
tant fire, with occasional white
bands like searchlights moving
through it. Greed and yellow
streaks also appeared in it and
later it became a pale milky glow.
It was visible here until about
11:00 o’clock.
The phenomenon is quite com
mon in the northern states and in
the extreme north it takes on very
spectacular forms.
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Date For Chicken ^
Supper Changed
The date for the chicken ^ew,
oyster supper and play for (the
benefit of the March of Dimes,
which was scheduled to be held
at the Rockfish school tonight, flias
been postponed until next Wednes
day night, Feto. 2, the Rockfish
committee reported yesterday. The
postponement is because of the
serious illness of Mrs. A. L. Long.
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Monday Deadline
FoT^ Applications
From the office of the Produc
tion and Marketing Administra
tion comes the reminder that
next Monday is the final date for
filing “New Grower Applications”
for 1949 tobacco allotments.
Under provisions of the law, a
small acreage is set aside each
year for allotments to experienced
growers who haye acquired eligi
ble land and who are qualified
otherwise. One of the requirements
is that the application for a “New
Grower Allotment” must be jEUed
not later than January 31, and
public notice has been previously
given of this deadline.
March Of Dimes
Get# $15.00 Gift
The 1949 March of Dimes cam
paign ends in another four days.
Lewis Upchurch, who heads the
drive in Hoke county, said this
week, that the goal for 1949 may
still be reached if citizens of the
county put their shoulders to the
wheel during the few days left
for fund-raising purposes.
“When January 31 has passed.”
he said, “we will know just how
well we will be equipped for the
hot polio months of summer
time. Let us not forget that this
18-day drive must produce re
sults sufficient to provide care for
all those who may ibe stricken
during the . next twelve months
period.”
“A heavy responsibility rests on
the shoulders of everyone in our
community,” Mr.. Upohurch said.
“That responsibility is to see to it
now, that every possible aid can
be given to all (jur boys and girls
next summer, should infantile pa
ralysis strike at our homes. We
hope we may escape this year. But
hope alone is a fool’s weapon. We
know greater contributions to the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis are needed in its fight to
help where polio has stricken, to
help those who were stricken in
prior years and to carry on the im
portant research which eventually
will erase infantile paralysis from
the list of dangers facing our chil
dren.”
Only four .more days are left to
live up to those responsibilities, the
March of Dimes chairman pointed
out. His appeal to our readers is:
“Give to the March of Dimes —•
this year give 50% MORE to this
great cause.” /
JUDGE WaMS pronounces
DEATH SENTENCE FOR JONES
Club Women
To Visit Raleigh
February 1st.
The Mardh of Dimes fund got a
gift of $15 last week when em
ployees of the State Highway and
Public Works commission at a
meeting in Lumberton on Thurs
day night contributed $50 to the
fund.
The fifty dollars contributed was
divided into three parts and $20
Of it presented to the Robeson
county Mardh of Dimes committee
and $15 each to the March of
Dimes committees of Scotland and
Hoke counties. Highway employees
of the three counties were present
at the meeting and contributed the
money.
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our POOR schools
Inspection Lane
Is Here Again
Inspection lane number 29 of the
State department of motor ve
hicles returned to Raeford yester
day afternoon and will open for
business at eight o’clock this mom.
Editor’s note—^This is the third part of an article from
Ki^linger magazine which we are running because of its unbiased
good sense on a subject in which everyone should be interested.
BUILDINGS
Old And Jammed
The Raeford Rebels, strong
semi-pro basketball team, will
play the Aberdeen AUstarp in the
Hoke county high school gymna
sium here tonight. The game wiU
start at eight o’clock. It is for the
benefit of the March of Dimes and
is being sponsored by the Raeford
Kiwanis club.
McBRYDE IMPROVES
Former State Senator Ryan Mc-
Bryde is now at home and able
to get out of bed and around the
house. He had been confined to his
bed for several weeks with a
heart condflionT He expects to get
out of the house in a few weeks.
WRECK THURSDAY ON
DUNDARRACH ROAD
Tom Hall was driving a 1939
Ford out the Dundarrach fbad at
about six o’clock last Thursday
when he was in a wreck with a
1948 CSievrolet driven by Thomas
Simetich, soldier of Fort Bragg.
Hall got off the road on his right
about a half mile beyond Cook’s
service station, but the investi
gating patrolman' says Simetich
cossed the road and hit him. E. J.
Miller, a soldier in the Chevrolet,
suffered a cut on the head and is
in a Fort Bragg hospital. Hall and
his passenger, Hinton Lane both
suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Simetich. wias charged with care
less and reckless driving.
School Buildings, as a rule, are
jam-packed. Children often are
stuck into portables and other tem
porary schoolrooms.
Two groups of children some
times have to share the facilities of
the first grade—one group in the
morning and (Aie in the afternoon.
Out of 220 cities questioned by the
NEA, 54 reported that they are
holding half-day sessions. Some
75 others said it was impossibie tq
predict whether they would have
to turn to this expedient later.
All of this only points up the
serious shortage of school build
ings in ii^ny places. The NEA esti
mates that the schools now are
housing one third more children
than they were designed for.
The schools have been triply hit
on space. During the war school
construction was cut off except for
a few emergency buildings. Build
ing since has been hampered by
high prices and material shortages.
Even with the normal arrival of
children the schools would have
been. in. a bad way. Facing the
wartime flood, the schools are
like the old: lady Ilf the shoe. They
have so many children they don’t
know what to do.
The problem of what to do about
school space is complicated by un
certainty about how many children
will come along in Ihe future. Will
births continue at their present
high level? Should the schools pre
pare for a permanent 25 percent
increase in children? Most of the
population experts are betting that
the birthrate will fall again.
In any event, it is wholly un
likely that any new building will
be wasted. Thousands of schools
are obsolete, structiu-ally and edu
cationally. Many a school built be
fore 1900 still is in use. Only 3.9
percent of city school buildings
have been constructed since 1939.
In buildings, on the whole, we’re
about 20 years behind.
The modern school bears little
resemblance to the little red school
house or to the pfetentious Tudor
manot-'house that many cities built
during the 20’s and 30’s.
The Mission School in San Ber
nardino, Calif.—an- example of
modern type—spreads out over a
10-acre site. Classrooms open on to
a patio wfhere the children freq-
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at their old stand on North Main
street. The lane will be here
through next Monday, January 31.
B. H. Hutchinson, lane super
visor, wishes to call the following
inspection deadlines to the atten
tion,ol motorists and to urge those
who do not have a nearby dead
line to stay away, so those who
have to be inspected now can do so.
All motor vehicles of year model
up to and including the year mod
els 1936 ^hall be inspected on or
before January 31, 1949; models
1937 and 1938 on or before Febru
ary 28, 1949; models 1939 and 1940
on or ibefore March 31, 1949;
models 1941 and 1942 on or before
April 30, 1949; models 1943 thru
1947 on or before May 31. 1949;
models 1948 and 1949 on or be
fore June 30, 1949.
BOYS WIN ONE, LOSE
ONE; GIRLS DROP TWO
The topic of di^ussion at Home
Demonstration Club meetings in
February is “Citizenship” says
Josephine Hall, Home Agent. To
start this program for the month a
group of club women have made
plans to visit the State Legistative
in 'Raleigh on Tuesday, February
1st. The trip is open to any Hcane
Demonstration club member in
Hoke County.
A chartered bus will leave in
front of the Raeford Courthouse
at 7:30 a. m. At ten o’clock the
group will visit the Hall of History
where Dr. Crittenden will talk to
them for a short time. The State
Museum will be visited and at
11:30 the women will go to the
CJapitol to visit the Senate and the
House of Representatives.
Arrangements have been made
for the group to have lunch in a
private dining room at the S & W
Cafeteria at 1:30. Mrs. Mary Lee
McAllister, District Home Agent
from State College, J. B. Thomas,
Hoke County Senator and Harry
Greene, Hoke County Representa
tive, will join the club women for
lunch.
The afteriioon will be given to
shopping and sightseeing with the
bus leaving for Raeford around
4:30 p. m.
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The following ladies are plan
ning to go on. the trip: Mrs. N. F.
Sinclair, Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs.
Percy Gillis, Mrs. J. M. Andrews,
Mrs. Foster McBryde, Mrs. F. L.
Eubanks, Mrs. J. H. Plummer, Mrs.
D. A. McDougald, Mrs. A. A. Mc-
Innis, Mrs. N. A. Maxwell, Mrs.
Percy English, Mrs. C. F. Boahn,
Mrs. Albert Quick, Mrs. John
Glisson, Mrs. Ralph Cothran, Mrs.
Lewis Parker, Mrs. J. A. Patterson.
Mrs. Herman Koonce, Mrs. Stanley
Crowiey, Mrs. A. R. Currie. Mrs.
Neil Clhrk, Mrs. Luther Clark, Mrs.
Lester McMinnis, Miss Bonnie
McLauchlin, Miss Maggie McNeill,
Mrs. Joe 'Lovett, Mrs. E. N. Mc
Call, Mrs. T. C. Jones, Mrs. Dick
Parker, Mrs. Lucy Smith, Mrs. W.
E. Blue, Mrs. Will McBryde, Mrs.
Jim Reynolds, Mrs. Portia Bethea,
Mrs. Neil Meinnis and Josephine
Hall, Home Demonstration Agent.
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Jury Takes Only One
Hour To Return Verdict
In Murder Case Yesterday
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Judge Clawson L. Williams of
Sanford at one o’clock yesterday
ordered Uzell Jones, negro of
Quewhiffle towmship to rise in
Hoke County Superior court. He
then proceeded :o sentence Jon^
to death in the gas chamber in
Raleigh on Friday, March 18,
1949. Jones remained impassive
until the judge pronounced the
words, “And may God have mercy
on your soul.” upon which he
shook his head in despair.
Jones was charged and con
victed of the first degree murder .
Of Flora Belle Anderson at her
home in Quewhiffle to'wnship,
Hoke county, on last December 10.
A special venire of 75 jurors were
called Monday when only ei^t
were obtained from the regular
venire of 28. A total of 77 were ex
amined before the required 13
were accepted to sit on the case.
The jury ■was completed by noon
Tuesday and the evidence for the
State and the defendant by night
Tuesday.
Jones came into court without
counsel and the court appointed
N. McNair Smith to defend him.
He went on the stand bimeeif
Tuesday and admitted suJsstanti
oUy what he had told officers
when he was arrested.
He appealed the verdict to fite
State Suprmie court and was al
lowed to do so as a pauper, which
means that, tlie State wifi furnish
his counsel fear the apwlLa? vrsSL
Bill Jackson, white of Southern
Pines paid $50 and the costs for
assault in a case in which he was
charged ■with hit and run driving.
The State took a nol pros in the
case against Robert Woodcox and
Zenios Hanes.
Hoke High’s basketball teams
had not such a good week, losing
two to Hope Mills and splitting
with Parkton. The local girls lost
a close one to Parkton, 42 to 41
while the boys won by a score of
44 to 41. In Hope MilTs Tuesday
the girls got beat 40 to 25 and the
l^ys lost 42 to 30. The locals play
Seventy-First here next Wednesr
day night.
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UPCHURCH AT DUKE
Tommie Upchurch, who has
been suffering with a severe head-,
ache for several weeks, was moved
from Highmsith hospital in Fay
etteville last week to Duke hos
pital near Durham..Mrs. Upchurch
said yesterday that he was, much
impoved now and that he planned
to come home tomorrow if im
provement continued, •
There was ■ lots of bad and
damaging weatljer acro^g the na
tion yesterday. Snow, sleet and
rain fell from the Atlantic coast
to Southern California.'
Colored Family
Loses Everything
Mrs. C. H. Giles, county super
intendent of Public Welfare, re
ported to the News-Journal this
week that Moses Townsend and
family, colored, who live on O. B.
Covington’s fairm in Antioch
township, lost their house and all
their possessions by fire on Jan
uary 19. The Townsends have
seven children between the ages of
one and 16 years and Mrs. Giles
stated that her office would de
liver any contributions - of cloth
ing or anything anyone would like
to give this destitute family.
Moses Towiisend came to to-wn
this week and ^aid that many of
his friends white, colored and
Indian had already teen most kind
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and that he and Ms family were
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Raeford/Rebels Beat
Wagram 67 To 65
Raeford Rebels defeated the
Wagram All-Stars .67-65 tere
Monday night.
Luke McNeill, Raeford’s six-
foot thr«e—and one-half center,
again was the pace setter for the
locals,,dropping in 24 points. Bill
Clark connected for 2ll points for
the Rebels..
At the halfway mark Raeford
held a 27-24 lead. The victory
was the Rebels second this season
over Wagram.
Four divorces were granted and
court adj earned yesterday after
noon.
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Laundry Equipment
Demonstration
Wednesday P. M.
On Wednesday afternoon, Feb
ruary 2nd, at 2:30 Miss Frances
Maness, a trained HO'me Economist,
will give a demonstration on the
use of laundry equipment. The
demonstration •will be given up
stairs . in the Home Economic De
partment of the Hoke High “schooL
Miss Maness will show the use of
the ■w’ashing machine, the dryer,
water softeners and detergents,
and other laundry and electrical
household equipment.
The public is cordially invited to
see the demonstration. Josephine
Hall. Home Agent, says the Hoke
County Home Demonstration club
women are urged to be present.
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Renewal Time For
Names, H Thru K
W. E. Yow, license examiner for
the State department of, MdHor
vehicles, this week reminded all
persons whose names began ■with
the letters H, I, J. or K tiiat they
only have until June 30 to renew
their driver’s licenses. He also
said that onl.v a small percent^
of these persons have thus far
appeared for their examinations
and he advised them to do so
soon as there will undoubtedly be
a rush late in June.
Mr. Yow works in Aberdeen,
Raeford, Southern Pines and Pine- .
hurst and gives the written, onl 7
and visual psurts of the examSS^
tion. He is in the A & R bqtWtng.
in Aberdeen oh Monday and Tubs-*
days, at the jury room at the
courthouse in Raeford 'Wedne^
days and Thursdays, ait the
station in Pinehuzist on Fridiiqm^
and at Mi^eilTs service station In |
Southern Pines on Saturdays."’*