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YOUE k' [SCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald Last week W. O. Melvin, band director at Hoke Hi^, took Ada Grooms, Margie McDougald, John McLauchlin and Milton Mann.to Greenville, N. C. for tiie ^Jast Carolina Music Festival. Then these young people played in the composite band made up of re presentatives of the school bands in Eastern Carolina. Milton Mann took first French horn out of eight, John McLauchlin played second clarionette out of 20 in struments and Margie MoDoug- ald made ’ third saxaphone. We think this was a wonderful show ing for our band and for the young people and Mr. Melvin who made the trip. 28 Hoke Teachers Complete Resource- Use Course Here We are glad to report that Jun ior Long, who was injured in an accident at the Raeford Graded school last week, is getting along nicely at Highsmith hospital in Fayetteville. There wlil be a Boy Scout pro gram at the, Raeford Graded ^ool tomomw at deven o’- c|pek in honor of National Boy Scout wedic. iThe Raeford Distriot school Immittee started visiting the schools under tiieir supervision yesterday wheri they visited and mpected the Noke ..High ^sAool. ^is hoped that they wiU con- these infections until all si&^ls are vis^d. AwiU itl^H^gwiti mbritthly, nuey^tiSg noonday night, February 14, at 8 o’clock in their office at the courthouse. Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts at tended a Court of Honer in Laur- idburg' last Friday night. Besides scouts and cubs, attending from Raeford were J. W. Turlington, scoutmaster, Mesdames Lacy Mc- Fadyen, C. J. Benner and Lewis Upchurch, Mr. and Mrs. Neill McFadyen, L. S. Brock and Ar chie Howard. Chapel Hill, Feb. 3—Twenty- eight teachers and principals have completed an Extension Class in Community Education invoke County sponsored by the University of North Carolina and directed by Dr. Richard L. Wea ver, \program director for the Nortn Carolina Resource-Use Education Commission. Superintendent of Hoke Coim- ty Schools, K. A. MacDonald, handled the registration for the course and assisted in the ar rangements with consultants. Studies were made of the re source problems in Hoke county, particularly agriculture, soil con servation, forestry, homemaking industry, health, welfare, and wildlife. Consultants from the various local and state agencies who as sisted in the field trips and dis cussions were: Abner Knowles, county agent; Miss Josephine Hall, home demonstration agent; Natt White, Soil Conservation supervisor; Dr. J. W. WUlcox, County Health Officer; Mrs. Flora A4ce Crowder and Miss Parks, copity nurses; Mrs. C. H. Giles. Superintendent of Welfare; L. H. Jobe, Fmn Home administrator; Ross Douglas, ex tension foresterj Robert Shaw, in charge of education. North Caro lina Division of Forestry. Annie Rae Moore, School Health Coordinating Service; Mary Van O’Bpient, .Department of Public Instruction; Win Donat, Wildlife Resources Commission; Ida Friday, in chage. Health Ed ucation Workshop, University of Norlh ;CaH)lina; [ C. M. Brick- house, District'extension agentf Pauline Gordon, Extension Home Management specialist; Paul Kel ly, Department of Conservation and Development; Prohibition Law Violators Tried Here Tuesday Recorder Fines Several Others For Drinking, Driv ing Drunk, Fighting, Theft Pupils, teachers, P. T. A. and grade mothers haive been coop erating in a beautification pro gram at the Raeford Graded school. They have repainted Mr. Turlington’s seventh grade room, hung drapes in Mrs. Stephens’ sixth grade and Mrs. Roberts’ fourth grade rooms. We hope that the good work continues. Mass Ella Downing and Dr. H. K. Dorsett, Department of Puplic Welfare; A. B. Barbour, Department of Labor; H. A. Wood, Commission for the Blind; !h. p. Springer, - Vocational Rehabilita tion Service; William P. Phillips, Vocational Agriculture teacher; William Gibson, Jr., principal and Miriam Watson, guidance counselo;^. The Pine Forest Home Demon station Club served the class a chicken dinner after the last ses Sion held last week. —-0 , CUBS POT LUCK AND " PET SHOW TOMORROW For violating the ■ prohibition laws, pint-peddling in most cases, several defendants were fined Tuesday by Judge Henry Mc- Diarmid in Hoke county record er's court. Kelly Stubbs, colored, got 90 days to be suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. William T. McQuage, white, got six months to be suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. James Gay and Marshal Cherry, both colored, 2 cases, each got six months to be suspended on payment of $100 and' the costs. Daniel Goins, Indian, 90 days suspended and payment of $50 and the costs and John S. Mc Lean", colored, 30 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs and two years good behavior. William Davis, white of Cumber land county, 30 days suspended on payment of the costs. Davis also had to pay the costs and $70 damages for damage to personal property. ^ Furman MdRae, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs and a $8 doctor bill for assaulting Sallie May Priest. Paul Dickens, white, paid the costs for illegally removing tim ber. He also had to settle for the timber. , For speeding three transients left $26 each.* Johnnie Goodwin, white of Scotland county, got six months suspended _oij payment .of . the costs and $341 damages for care less and reckless driving. John P. .McLeod, white of South Carolina, left 9 $25 bond for parking on the highway. For being drunk and disorderly the following got 30 days to be suspended, on payment of the costs: Irene Davis^ white of Cum berland county and Vance Mc Donald, colored. Robert Lee Grace, colored, got 90 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs for earless and reckless driving. Johnnie and Sarah Robeson, colored, paid the costs in a fam ily charge of larceny which had been settled among those involv ed by the time of the trial. Local Guiird Unit Gets Bigger Since Recruiting Opened Battery A, local National Guard unit, has gained 11 men in stren gth since restrictions on recruit ing were temporarily lifted about two weeks ago, local officers re ported this week. The restriction, which has BSen in effect since the Selective Service act of 1948 be came effective last year, was lift ed to allow the enlistment of ap proximately. 30,000 men in all the states and' territories. As soon as this number of men join the Guard the restriction is expected to be applied again, due to the limited budggt of the National Guard in the' country. Battery A now has 95 members of an allot- loted strength of 105, needing only 10 men to fill up. Those enlisting were Robert L. Mott, son of Mrs Mary Shubridge and the late Sgt. Sidney Mott of the Regular Army; Kenneth A. Haire; Thomas E. Alexasder, son Haire; Thomas E. Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Alexander; John W. Caddell, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Caddell; Doug- ald M. MdJougald, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. McDougald; J. F. Niven, son of Frank Niven and the late Mrs. Niven; Fred J. Hol land, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Holland; JoJ^ K. Clark, son of Mr. and Mn. Glenn Clark; Ro bert T. MoOlrt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Misorf McGirt; Raymond E. Baker, son Mr. and Mrs. James M. Baker oif?‘Cumberland county; Floyd A. K^h, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A, ikeith. The local'battery is tentativdy scheluded to ittend summer train ing at Camp J&tewart, Georgia, a- gain this spmnier, probably, from July 24 t^A«tast 7. Battery A led all units firing at towed aer ial targets there last summer and was designated Honor Battery for the encampment by the group commander. ■0- . There will be a faculty meeting at Hoke High this afternoon for the purpose of instituting a cur riculum revision study in the schools. » Miss Miriam Watson, W. T. Gibson and K. A- MacDonald have'been invited to take part in a panel discussion and act as consultants in a “Guidance in the School Program” forum of the class in Resource-Use con ducted in Fayetteville by Dr. Richard Weaver of the University Of North Carolina. The Rockfish school contribut ed $20.68 to the March of Dimes Campaign. ' " ■ Demonstration Club Women Visit Raleigh Neill McFadyen, master of the local Cub scout pack, announced this week that his boys would hold a pot luck supper and a pet show at the airport at six o’clock Saturday night. He imged all Cubs and their parents to at tend and bring basket suppers. Pets of the boys, will be exhibit ed. -0 G. C. LYTLE n.L G. C. Lytle, who has had an attack of virus pneumonia was better last week but had a re lapse on Friday, - and was taken 'to Highsmith hospital. However his condition is now showing im provement. James Byrd, colored, was found guilty of temporary larceny of a truck, belonging to Frank Tapp, for whom he worked. The truck had been damaged, apparently and Byrd got six months to be suspended on payment the costs and about $200 worth of repairs to the truck. He appealed to Su perior cdurt and po5ted a $300 bond. ^ LIBRARY NEWS Consignment of tornato . paste and dried milk have been teceiviied at the .county storeroom for the use of the school lunchrooms. V ——— The colored dentist is finishing up three weeks of work in the colored schools .of the county, this week.’He set up his clinic at the Upchurch school. The county schools brought their pupils who needed attention to him. there. It is hoped and expected that a white dentist will be h.ere early in the spring. • / The Upchurch school has open- (Continued on Page 5) INCOME TAXES . For those who don’t know it Income tax returns’ for the year 1948 must be fled not teter than March 15, 1949, With the collector inti^al, revenue for tl^e disfriot'. in which you .liv^ or have your principal place of business. ' Fdr those needing help a de puty collector of internal re venue will be in the Hoke coun ty courthouse on March 1, 2 and 3 and on March 9 and 10 to give any assistance or ad vice needed. Nor charge will be made fttr these sendees. Three volumes of The Life of Robert E. Lee has been present ed to Hoke County Public Lib rary two by the Literature De partment of the Woman’s Club, as a memorial to Mr. W. W. Ro berts and Mr. F. G. Leach, whose wives are members of the club. The third volume was present ed by Mr. and Mrs. Younger Snead in memory of Mrs. D, S. Poole. Mrs. A. R. Morris and Mrs. Harvey Cole have presented It Does Add Up, by Elmer A. Hil- ker, in memory of' Mrs. T. D. Potter. The much asked for Cheaper By the Dozen, by ''Gilbreth, is now in the library. Other new titles are: I Capture the Castle, Smith; Chinatown Family,. Lin Yutang; The Plague and I, Mc Donald; Vogue’s Book of Eti quette; Guideposts, Peale; Cru sade in Europe, Eisenhower; The Gathering Storm, Churchill; Roosevelt and Hopkins, Sherwood; It Gives Me Great Pleasure, Kim brough. Firty-three Hoke County Home Demonstration Club members and Josephine HaU, their Home Dem onstration Agent, spent a most en joyable day in Raleigh on Tues day. The group traveled to Ra leigh in a large bus and one auto mobile. The first place visited was the Hall of History where they were met by Dr. C. C. Crittenden who spoke to them for a short while on the purpose of the Hall of His tory and its divisions. Next they saw the parade and auditorium ceremonies which marked the acceptance of gratitude gifts which were sent in a 1318 model box car from Prance. The gifts from the people of France were sent as a token of their appre ciation to the state for its con tribution to the Friendship Food Train sent to them last year. A- mong those appearing on the pro- grarn were Jonathan Daniels, Ed itor of the News and Observer, French Consul Jean Strauss, the Countess de Pels, chairman of the Paris committee and Gover nor Kerr Scott. State patriotic organizations and several bands appeared in the parade. The group then visited the cap- itol where they attended sessions of the Senate and House of Re presentatives. They were met by J. .B. Thomas and Harry Grene, and were introduced and extended courtesies of both Senate and House. After lunch the state museum was visited and • the group saw the gifts from France unpacked and some of them put on display. A short time was' given the ladies to shop and at 4:30 the group went to the ' Governor’s Mansion where they were grac iously received. They were shown through the downstairs of the building. One item of interest that the group saw was the large din ing table set for breakfast for (Continued on Page 5) Hoke High Cage Teams Do Well During Week Girls Take 3 Straight; Boys Win Two of Three; Jayvees Play One, Win 'In the last seven encounters by the boys^ girls- and junior varsity basketbaU teams of Hoke High school. Coach Haywopd^ Fair- cloth’s charges have/oe^ tri umphant in six. V Here on February 2 the locals took both ends of ^ doublehead er from the boys and girls of Seventy-First high school. The girls were paced by Marian Lewis with 15 points in taking their game 22 to 15. Next High scorer in this game was Newton of Seventy-First with six points. The Hoke boys came out on top in their game also, winning 39 to 36. This game was close all the way, although Hoke stayed ahead throughout the game. Joe Gulledge led with 16 points and Cantrell was high for Seventy- First with 11. On Febinary 4 three ' games were played here with teams from Hope Mills. The Hoke Jay vees and girls won while the local boys were edged by one point to lose 36 to 35. Bo Baker led the Jayvees with nine points. In the girls game Mary Sue Up church held high-scoring Betty Hester to eight points from the floor. In an earlier game Hester had scored 24 points to lead Hope Mills to victory. Lewis got 16 points followed by Lyda 'Williams with 10. In the boys game Gull- edge. had 16 points and Itees 17 for Hope Millsw On February 8 the Hoke High teams went to Parkton and won two games. The local girls won 31 to 26 after having lost to Parkton earlier. Coach Faircloth praised his guards highly for holding the Parkton girls to 26 points as in a previous contest McDonald of Parkton got 26 points. She got eight in this game. The boys won 58 to 34 in a fairly easy game. The boys and girls play Wa- gram here tonight at seven-thir ty. For the season the girls have won nine and lost three and the boys have won eight and lost four Coach Faircloth asks that any one having a Hoke High base ball uniform' to please return it. Last summer about the time of the semi-pro tournament here 15 were borrowed and only 8 re turned. March of Dimes Figires Some money still re mains to be turned in to the county March of Dimes chairman bnt the following figures were received from Lewis Upchurch, county chairman, yesterday and are accurate up to that time. The county’s quota was $2840 in the drive and the local committee set a goa lof $3000. The com munity and county fig- iu*es follow. Allendale $214.00 Little River $151.00 Blue. Springs $327.00 McLauchlin $421.00 Timberland $113.00 Ashley Heights $202.00 Dundarrach $900.00 Antioch $900.00 Raeford $1940.00 Sanatorium $125.00 County Total $5293.00 South Carolinian Next Speaker On Presbyterian Hour The next speaker on the Pres byterian Hour network will be the Rev. William B. Ward, of tiie First Presbyterian Church, Spar tanburg, S. C. The Rev. Mr. Ward is a native of South Carolina. He received his training at Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. He took post graduate work at the Univer sity of Edinburgh and at the School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. He begaii his minis try as assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Charles ton, W. Va., .later serving in Orange. Ya., and Elkins, W. Va. He has recently undertaken the pastorate in Spartanburg. Mr. ■ Ward is one of the out standing younger ministers of the church. His topic will be “Time for Decision for Applied Christ ianity.” This broadcast may be heard in this community on Sun day, Feb. 13 at 8:30 a. m., over Radio Station WPTF. Mrs. McEachern Dies In Hamer County Goes Over Seal Sale Quota Mrs. Neill A. McDonald, Jr., Seal Sale chairman for Christmas Seals, reports that the sale has been completed and that Hoke County exceeded its quota by $310.82. The county with a quota of $12i00.00 actually r a is e d $1510.82 divided as 'follows: Mail Seal Sale $607.02, Bond Sale $777.50, School Sale $126.30. The State 25 per cent or $377.71 has been sent to the state office and $1133.11 has been turned over to the local chapter treasurer, Mrs. K. A. Matheson, for the -work of the local chapter of the Na tional Tuberculosis Association. Mrs. MacDonald, general chair man who represented the W- oman’s^lub, and Younger Snead, Bond Sale chairman represent ing the Kiwanis Club, wish to thank all committee members who gave unselfishly of their time to the drive and all those who so generously gave of their means. Mrs. MacDonald states that the cooperation and gener osity of everyone made her work a pleasure. The Hoke County Chapter’s part of the funds will be used to carry on the fight against tuber culosis here in Hoke County. Mrs. James A. McEachern died Tuesday at her home in Hamer, South Carolina, and funeral ser vices were held there yesterday afternoon. Mrs. McEachern was Miss Jes sie Campbell, daughter o^ the late Hugh A. and Sarah Campbell and she was born in Robeson county, N. C. She was a sister of the late McLean Campbell of Raeford. She was born October 16, 1368. ' The funeral was conducted at the Hamer Presbyterian church at three o’clock yesterday and burial was in the cemetery at Kentyre Presbyterian church. 0 DRAFT NOTICE Notice has been given by the Hoke county draft board to the effect that;' while no men are be ing drafted at present, aU rules and regulations as to registering, etc., still apply to men in the af fected age groups. According to the local board all men are required to notify the board of a change of address, including 26-year-olds. All 18 year-olds must register, within five daj's after their 19th birth day. . 0 McBRYDE IN HOSPITAL Ryan McBryde, who has been in bad physical condition with a heart ailment, suffered -a re lapse last week and is now in Duke hospital. At last reports he was improving. 0 Tomihie Upchurch has not im proved as expected since return ing from the hospital He is still suffering severe headaches. Board Employs Farm Agent At Meeting Monday Nash County Assistant Is Hired; County To Publish Financi^ Statemoit At their regular monthly meet ing Monday the Hoke county board of commissioners received several, applications for the po sition of county farm' agent va--' cated on February 1 by the re signation of Abner S. Knowles. From the • applications the board chose Herman E. Vernon, pre sent assistant farm agent of Nash County. Mr. Vernon will begin work as soon as he is able to se parate himself from his present duties. The county will pay him $135 monthly, the 'oalance of his $4200 annual salary being paid by the State as well as his ex pense account. The board also ordefred the county accountant to pidslish a financial statement for the coun ty. This will appear in next week’s paper. Other business transacted by the board dealt mainly with roads in the county. They voted to ask the State highway commission to rebuild the Raeford-Vass road from Jess Dunlap’s station to die Fort Bragg line and to ask the Army to rebuild it through the reservation. The commission will also be asked to improve the road from highway 15-A’ art the Marshall Thomas farm to the pavement at Mrs. W. J. Mc- Diarmid’s and from 15-A at the P. H. Wrigjit place to W. A. Mc Lean’s residence. _ 0— _ ' - « . ■ Large Holdings Of U. S. Savings Bonds In County And State ' The people of Hoke County to day are holding a backlog of fin- ancir,! security in U. S. Savings Bonds amounting to $1,394,039.50 J. L. McNeill, county chairman of the' Savings Bonds Commitfee announced. “This sirni represents the net holdings of Series E, F, and G War Bonds and peacetime Sav ings Bonds, (after all redemp-, tions or ‘cash-ins’, have been de ducted) since May 1, 1941 and through December 31. 1948,” Mr. McNeill said. This information was received by the' ■ county chairman fr^m Allison James, State Director of the U. S. Sav ings Bonds Division in Greens- » boro, in the annual Savings Bonds Report for 1948. Total sales overall from May 1, 1941 to December 31, 1948 were $1,991,484.50. Cash ins for • the period, therefore, sunount to $597,445. Savings Bonds sales for this county for the year 1948 (Janu- aiy 1 through December 31) were as follows, according to the an nual report: Series E Bonds, • $86,690.25; Series F Bonds, $5,- 180; Series G Bonds, $10400; county total for 1948, $10il,9704Sk “These splendid U. S. Savings Bonds holdings and sales are community assets of the highest type,” Mr. McNeill continued.. “They will stand the m«hy uri dividual owners in good stead in ■ time of financial need; they will help stimtilate. local community business when and if times get hard; they bring in to our coun ty interest and accruals about 2 1-2 percent a year on the total, holdings. . “The primatry and patriotic reasons for the .Savings Bond^, program, of course, are to stabilize the nation’s economy bpj fighting inflation, and to proji^^ ly managed the $252 billion al .War debt by spreading it ly among our people, but th* product of ‘community juad futttre buQdng poww county’s citixBns is a ffillih^ ? portant itoson also. Ttoa a|^ (Continued on Saga i)# ^: habiyltf 4 it*
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