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^1 ■V ""v.r -, .-^1 ^ , . r,. . ■ . . '4i i' -•'’“fi-f / f/ ' n '-S-. :-■■■.>■'■ T.-v.--, ■ \ - ' " V : » ■■ ...i---. '* A_aiJ_ V ■ A".- v-ff *■ . -• -.%■' Jfv'..- 1 —...- ^ T VOlCf Of fHItPOM HOME] oruBEnn f ’ . w V*Mtt| ftm l«U^ Ik e - •.; f The Hoke County News VOfCf Of ISEIOOM The Hek# County Journal jia VOLUM E XLin NUMBER 38 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1949 RAEFORD. N. G. S2.M YOUR ISCHOOL NEWS] By K, A. MacDonald The County Board of Education met in' regular session- last Mon day evening With all members of the board present. At this meeting the resignations of D. K. Parker, Percy Gillis and M. S. Gibson, schopP . committeemen for the Hockfish School district, 'were ac- tepted. Messers Parker and Gillis were probably the oldest com mitteemen, in point of service, in fhe county. Mr. Parker having served 22 years and Mr. Gillis al most as long. These men have served long and faithfully and the county and community owes them a debt of- gratitude for all the time. and effort they have (devoted to the cause of educa tion. The Board of Education Wishes to thank each one of the three. At this meeting Messers P. C. English, Don Wilkes and Vernon Parsons were appointed to fill out the unexpired terms. We hope that these gentlemen will accept the appointnient and will work for the betterment of he educa- ional opportunities of the child ren of their district. The Mildouson school had a rather unique enrollment for the fifth month, 43 girls and 43 boys. It isn’t often that the boys and girls balance. Usually the girls outnumber the boys. In the recent state tests given at Mildouson it was found that the sudents ranked higher in ar ithmetic ifhd ^ lower. in reading vtht^n any ether subject. ® I' ■ . - ■ Mrs. H. Johnson, chairman of the polio drive in Quewhiffle , Township, gave an outing for the pupils in Mr. Smoak’s and Miss Thornburg’s rooms of the Ashe- mont school to show her appre- \ciation for the good work these pupils,did in the polio drive. / 'here was a called meeting of ‘the Hoke County Unit of NCEA at Hoke High Tuesday afternoon ■at 4:15. o’clock to hear reports from R. A.Smoak and Mrs. Ru- ria Shelton, who attended a state meeting of association leaders in Raleigh on Saturday. The reports indicated that the legislative program of the asso ciation is being pushed with vigor by the state legislative commit tee. They also indicated that these efforts were meeting -with quite a degree of success. After this meeting adjourned a short prin cipals meeting was held for the transaction of routine school bus.- iness. Quite a number of lunchroom reimbursement checks arrived this week. National Guard Unit Converted; To Get Tanks Battery A, local National Guard unit which has been a part of the 677th Antiaircraft battalion for the past two years since its or ganization, was reassigned to the 130th Antiaircraft battalion this week and also assigned to the 30th Infantry division. The main importance of the change to members will be the fact that the weapons of the unit will be changed. At present the battery is armed with towed 40 millimeter guns and towed 50 caliber machine guns. Under the new assignment the unit will be armed with self pro pelled guns, or twin 40 millimeter guns mounted on tanks. Machine guns of the unit will be mounted on self propelled half track ve hicles. Instead of towed weapons, as heretofore. Enlistments in the unit have jumped sharply in the past two weeks and /only nine men are needed now to bring the unit to it authorized strength of 105 men. 0 Cases Involve Speeding, Liquor In Court Monday • Most cases before Judge Henry MciDiarmid in Hoke County re corder’s court Tuesday involved speeding, being' drunk and dis orderly or violation of the pro hibition laws. For being drunk and disorderly Grady Smith, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs and Donald Shaw, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of' $10 and hte costs. Doroty Mc Collum, colored, same. For violating the prohibton laws, Libby Hunt, Indian, 60 days suspended on payment of $50 and the costs and two years good behavior; Vanester , Shaw, color ed, 90 days suspended on pay ment of $25 and the costs; Alex Campbell, colored, 60 days sus pended oh payment of $25 and the costs; James McMillan, color ed, same. Four out-of-state speeders left $25 each. Another for going 80 miles an hour paid $50^and the costs. Billy Faulk, local white white man, paid $10 and the costs. J. G. Jordan, white, got 30 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs for no driver’s license. Aden Watson, colored, got two years on the roads for non-sup port. This sentence was suspend ed on payment of the costs and on condition that Watson pay $10 weekly toward the support of.,his children. The clerk was instruct ed to send him to the roads when he missed a payment. 0 LocalMenTo Attend Meeting Of Cotton Council Porducers, Ginners, Crushers, Spinners Will Meet In California Valentine parties were held in all the schools during the last lew days. Valentine programs were also put on in some of the schools. Greene Introduces Bills In House The Raeford Graded school seventh grade and possibly the. Mildouson and Ashemont seven th grades are planning a. trip by bus to Raleigh, Durham and Cha.> pel Hill one day next wetk. The total enrollment member ship and percentage ip attend ance in the white schools for the 5th month is as follows: Ashemont ISO, 148, 93.5; Hoke High 8th drade 86. 81, 91.2; 'Hoke High 261, 242, 93.3; Mildouson 96, 86, 97; Raeford Graded 492, 427, 89.4; ^ Rockfish 130, 106r.95.2. Mr. Griffin, with the Safety Division State Highway Commis sion, visited Hoke this week. He brought a copy of bicycle rules (or all children' with a bicycle. If you have a bicycle ask your principal for your copy. - (Continued on Page-8) Representative Harry Greene introduced two bills in the N. C. House of Representatives last week. ^ , House Bill 283, “To amend a previous bill so as to. permit the governing body of the Town of Raeford to levy and collect an annual ad volorem tax at a rate not to exceed $2 on the $100 va luation.” This bill, as its title in dicates, repeals so much of the previous bill as conflicts with this act. Reported favorably by House Finance committee on Feb. 9 and passed third reading in House on Feb. 11. ■ Received In Senate op Feb. 12. On February 7 Greene also in troduced a bill to make the same applicable to Hoke county.. This passed ihree readings in both houses by-Feb. 12. ^ 0— STOCKHOLDERS MEETING , * There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Hoke County Development Corporation at the Courthouse, Monday night, Feb ruary 211, at 8 p. m. ,'Lincolnton, N. C.—Twenty-two prominent members of the North Carolina-Virginia cotton industry will serve as official representa tives of the-area’s cotton interests at the National Cotton Council’s eleventh annual meeting at Los Angeles, Calif.. March 7-9, B. C. Lineberger, Lincolnton, chair man of the Council’s North Caro lina-Virginia Unit, announced here today. The North Carolina-Virginia cotton leaders, along with other Council delegates representing cotton farmers, ginners, ware housemen, merchants, spinners, and cottonseed crushers from 18 cotton-producing states, will plan the- cotton industry’s 1949 acti vities in research, sales promotion, production and marketing, and foreign trade. Mechaniation of cotton pro duction and „ insect control wiU receive specia.1 attention at the Cotton Qouncil sessions. These are two of the farmer’s chief pro blems in his efforts to increase farm income through lowered production costs, Mr. Lineberger said. The cotton group also will place heavy emphasis on plans for a campaign to remove all federal and state taxes and legislation which discriminate against mar garine, cottonseed oil’s greatest market. Mr. Lineberger stated that the removal of these laws would increase'the sale and pro duction of margarine, thereby adding to the cotton' farmer’s in come from cottonseed. “The Los'Angeles meeting will be the cotton industry’s most im portant meeting of the year,’ Mr. Lineberger declared. “Represent ing the entire'raw cotton indus- tbe National Cotton Council will set 'Up an integrated, for ward program designed to build new markets and expand pre sent markets both at home and abroad.” ^ Pointing to the significant role that cotton plays in the North Carolina-Virginia area by citing the '$90,625,009 income that lint and seed brought into the region in 1947, Mr. Lineberger said, “All of us throughout the region have an interest in. the plans and pro grams of the cotton industry.” North Carolina-Virginia dele gates to the Cotton Council meet ing-include: Producers: T.'-B. Upchurch, Jr Raeford; Fred P. Johnson, Ra leigh; Ginners: George T. Ashford; Crushers: L. M. Upchurch; ■' Also, warehousemefi, merchants, and spinners. 9 District Hig}iway CommissionBr Is Visitor Tuesday The Board of CifiBiJiissioners met on Tuesday in v „*cial Ses sion to hear George ^ ^ ^>, of Lex ington, N. C., thet new Highway Commissioner for this District, explain the proposed .$200,000,- 000.00 Bond Issue. Ac|ording to the proposed alloca*: jn, Hoke Coimty would receivtj $1,268,- 000.00 or enough to an es timated 100 miles of road. At pre sent Hoke County, has 398 miles of road with 84.1 miles paved and 8.4 miles ur>der construction; 'making a total of ,92.5 miles pav ed or under construction. Deduct ing this from total mileage leaves 305.5 miles unpaved and deduct ing the 100 miles proposed to be paved, would leave 205.5 miles which the Commission proposes to improve with sand, clay and gravel. The program is to be financed .with the present |as tax of 6 cents, plus a nextra 1 cent pro posed gas tax, making a total of 7 cents per gallon. Attending the meeting, other than M. Coble, wfere L. E. Whit field, District Rngineer, J. W. Spruill, Assistant:; Engineer, Roy McKeithan and 'Luther Powell, Supervisors. j It was the first opportunity the Board had bf meeting Mr. Coble, and he made a favorable impressiem on all members. They appear to believe that he will make an able Highway Commis sioner; and that should he be ele vated to the Chairmanship of the Commission that he would make an excellent Chairman. , ."j- Presbyterian Hour Has Virginia PsLstor Sunday Morning 8 Schools Enter Cage Tourney Starting Moi^y Local American Le^on Post Sponsoring 4th Annual High School Event Here Raefoird’s Fourth annual Amer ican Legion High School basket ball tournament will be played in the high school gymnasium here next week. According to direc tor W. L. Poole, eight teams have entered the affair which will be gin on Monday night. Girls and boys teams from the eight schools will participate and two games will be played every jiight next week, Monday through Satur day, with the finals being played on Monday night, February 28. The preceding three tourna ments were won in 1946 by Ab erdeen, in 1947 by West End and last year again by Aberdeen. Teams entered this year include Wagram-, Philadelphus, Maxton, Red Springs, Wfest End, Hoke High School, Laurel Hill and Parkton. Games will start at 7:30 each evening with the girls game being played first. Pairings are Monday, Wagram vs Philadelphus (boys and girls each night); Tuesday, Red Springs vs West End; Wednesday, Max-/ ton vs Hoke High; Thimsday Laurel Hill vs Parkton. The're maining three nights of play will be between winners of the games above. The tournament is being spon sored by the Ellis ’ Williamson American Legion post which will furnish the officials and other wise manage the 'affair. A suit able trophy will be awarded the' winning team and an all-tourna ment team will be selected. 0 Nurses To Hold District Program A special program '_^to select “Miss District No. Seven Student Nurse of 1949”.will be held.-at the High School Auditorium, Lumberton, N. .C. Tuesday, Feb ruary 22nd, at 8:00 p. m. Speak er on this occasion will be James H. Clark, Elizabethtown, N C. Chairman of the N. C. Medical Care Commission. Civic leaders. High School stu dents and the general public are invited. . Student nurse contestants in the District will make two min^ ute talks on “The advantages of Nursing as a Career.” The stu dent selected will represent Dis trict No. Seven of the N. C. S. N A. in the State-wide contest t6 select “Miss N. C. Student Nuijse of 1949” to be held at Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh, March 18th. Supt. K. A. MacDonald of Rae ford will be a judge ^at the Dis trict contest. The Presbyterain Hour presents as its next speaker the Rev. Ro bert W. Miles, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Ky. Dr. Miles is a native of Vir ginia. He is a graduate of David son College, taking his theologi cal work at Unions Serninary in Richmond. For (putstaij^ng ser vice, Washington and Lee con ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He started his ministry as assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Chxirch of Greensboro, N. C., later becoming pEistor of the Presbyterian Church at Auburn, Ala. From there he was called to be University Sec retary of the Assembly’s Com mittee on Christian Education He returned to the pastorate, tak ing the ^Westminister Presbyter ian Church in Lynchburg, Va., from which church he was called to his present pastorate. He is the author of the book, “The Frenchman—John Calvin”. He re presents the Presbyterian Church on the Western Section of the Alliance of Reformed Churches. Dr. Miles’ topic on this broadcast will be “Time for Decision for Ithe Gocpel Ministry”, and may be .heard in this community on Sunday, February 20, at 8:30 a. m., over Radio Station WFTF. 0 J. B. McPhail Is Buried Wednesday Funeral services were conduct ed yesterday afternoon at three o’clock from his home in Cum berland county for J. B. McPhail, 78, who died in a Fayetteville hospital Monday night after an illness of six months. Services were conducted by the Rev. E. B. Booker and the Rev. R. C. Mooney, and burial was in the family cemetery. Mr. McPhail was horn in East- over township, Cumberland coun ty on January 30, 1871, a son of the late William McPhail and Mrs. Virginia Williford McPhail. Surviving are one sone J. R. McPhail ot Fayetteville. RFD; one daughter, Mrs. J. R. Sexton of Raleigh; two brothers?''J. F. Mc Phail of Raeford and U. D. Mc Phail of Fayetteville, RFD; and by six grandchildren. —^ 0 HOKE MAN PROMOTED IN CANAL ZONE Many Attend Legion Meeting Tuesday Night ■ A total of 30 members and ot her vet'erar..' were' present at the American Le.gion meeting at the High school cafeteria Tuesday night an dei.joyed a- steak supper prepared by Legionnaire W. L. Poole anri his committee. After the meal business was discussed which included an ar rangement by which several of the members would contribute the use of their trucks tcf bring bleachers from Fort Bragg to the baU park here. These bleachers are a gift to the post by T. C. Scarborough. Membership chair man R. B. Lewis reported on the increase of members an said that the membership of the post was now 125 of over 600 white vete rans in the county. A live duck property of the post, tv-as handed to Commander Alfred Cole to keep until he gets 2 members after which he passes it to an other member who must keep it the same length of'' time. The post discussed plans for the High school basketball tour nament here next week and plan ned to enter a team in the Jun ior. Legion baseball competition this summer. Program was presented by W. ■P. Phillip^a, veterans education director here, who gave facts a- bout the training being conduct ed and showed a film on the subject. He reported that 93 vete rans are now availing themsel ves of this training. Plans were made for the next meeting to be held next month and it was de cided to have another feed for 50c a head. ^0 - Plan Special Services At Baptist Church Southerners Win Export Rights For Fats And Oils Southerners in Congress last week won their fight to remove limitations on exports of cotton seed oil and other fats and oils and thus check their, rapid drop in price due to existing surpluses of all types of edible fats and oils in the, country. Farmers and pro ducers have been of the opinion that the surplus was due to ex port restricUons which kept A- merican fat pt-oducts oil foreign markets. According to Lewis Updhurch. local seed crusher who was in Washington last week* with others from\ the south, the^lead in the fight 'to remove the controls and thus bring a greater income to the (Continued on Page 4) Army Headquarters at Quarry Heights, Canal Zone, has , just announced the recent promotion of William E. Sipfle formerly of Sanatorium, N. C. from Private First Class to the grade of Cor poral. This rating is equivalent to the previous Army grade of Serge ant, under the new Army pay scale which became effective August 1,. 1948. Corporal Sipfle is now on duty with the, 7461st SU(SIG) at f't. Clayton, Canal Zone. 0-^:— LUMBER BRIDGE SUPPER, DANCE FOR POLIO FUND The I^hjber Bridge Grange will sponsor a barbecue and chicken supper at the old schoolhouse in Lumber Bridge next Wednesday ni^t, February 23, for the bene fit of the March of Dimes. Sup per will be served from 6:30 to 8K)0 and a square dance will start at 8:30. Everything is being con tributed and all proceeds wiU go to the March of Dimes. The formal opening service of the sanctuary of the Raeford Bap tist church will be .held next Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock, church officers announced this week. A service was held in the church a week ago last Sunday after the pews were installed dur ing the preceding week. Church officials state that the sermon next Sunday wiU be dfe- livered by the Rev. J. E. Reamy of BlackviUe, South Carolina, a former pastor. Several other for mer pastors have also been in vited to attend and participate in the .service but word had not been received from most of them yesterday. The Rev. J. D. "Whis- nant, most recent former pastor of the church who now lives in Taylorsville, has indicated his in tention to be. present. Methodist to Join Relative to the Baptist open ing service the Rev. P. O. Lee of the Raeford Methodist church made the following statement yesterday. “The pastor and the Board' of stewards of the Rae ford Methodist church have call ed off their church Sunday, Feb ruary 20. We desire to meet with the Baptists who are dedicating their "new church. We want to meet and rejoice with them m their great accomplishment. We will have our Sunday School at the regular time.” .i »—0 : Raeford Kiwanis Club Celebrates 25th Aimiversarjr Ladies, First President, Charter Members, Di.strict Governor, Are EntertaiiKd The Raeford Kiwanis cl’ob cele brated the 25th anniversary of its charter nigh: with a dinner meeting in the Presbyterian: church basemen: last Thursday night. Guests of the club includ ed the ladies, charter members,, widows of former members and Kiwanis officials from the Car- plinas District." Tom Cameron served as. toastmaster of a. plea sant evening which was spent primarily in talking of events and personalities of the club since it was chartered here in 1924. Guests of honor aside from the district officials were Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stackhouse of Rich mond, Virginia. Mr. Stackhouse was principal of the school here from 1924 to 1927, was the mov ing spirit in the organization of the Kiwanis club here, and was its first president. lie spoke to the group briefly and commended the club and the comrhunity on the progress made in the past quarter-century. Charter members of the club who are not now members w^re recognized. These included A2bh McEachern, Laurie McEache^ M. L. McKeithan, N. McNahr Smith and Clyde Upchurch. Charter merhbers who have maintained continuous memfaCT- ship in the club were recognized and each had a few words, to ^y. These were R. B. Lewis, Walter P. Baker and J. Benton Thomas. The fourth of these, Ryan' Mc- Bryde. was not present, being sick. A. K. Currie was also recog nized as a charter me.m.ber and present member, cut his mem bership had not been continuous. The four 25-year members were recognized by Herbert .“W. Henning. Carolinas District sec retary of Darlington. S. C. Mr. Henning installed the four as members of Kiwanis Internation al’s Legion of Honor and presentr ed them lapel buttons and certi ficates. Ryan McBryde’s button and certificate was received by his son, Tom, also a Kiwanian. Attendance buttons were pre sented to a number of Kiwanians for having perfect attehdance by Paul Butler of Southern Pines, Division lieutenant governor. Buttons were presented to sev eral members for one year of perfect attendance, to N. A. Mc Donald, K. A. MacDonald and A. H. McPhaul for three years. Mar ion Gatlin received a 5-year but ton and Cecil Dew received a 6~ year button. The group enjoyed several musical renditions on the marim ba by Mrs. L. B. Creath of Sou thern Pines. The feature address of the o> casioiy was delivered by H. Spur geon Boyce of Durham, governor of the Carolinas district of Ki wanis International. Mr. Boyce developed the Kiwanis motto, “We Build,” and parid several nice tributes to. the ladies of Kiwanis. UPCHURCH HOME Tommis Upchurch came home yesterday morning from a Fay etteville hospital where he' had been for several days with a re currence of his head trouble. He says he feels pretty good now and hopes he’s patched up well enough ■ to make another crop. McBRYDE ABOUT SAME Ryan McBryde was feeling bet ter at last reports, but the cause of his trouble remains undeter mined and his condition is stil quite serious. He is a patient a1 Duke hospital. -0- PTA PARTY TONIGHT The Hoke - Raeford Parent- Teacher association is sponoring a card, tournament at the Hoke High gymnasium tonight to which the public is. invited. Games will , start at eight o’clock and there win be refreshments for evetyr one and plenty of prizes. carl MORRIS ILL Carl Morris, who has been In t Charlotte hospital lor the pait week, having-been transfaited from Moore OHinty hoegilt^ still in a serious ceodittoa at last reports.