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VOLUME XLm; NUMBER 40
. THURSDAY, MARC|1 3,1940
RAEFORD. N. C.
S2.0t PEBTKRn
YOUR
iSCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
The total school participation
in the March of Dimes campaign
as reported to coun^ chairman
L. M. Upchurch, was $880.14. We
think this was a fine report by
the schools. We appreciate their
interest in and efforts for this
most worthy cause.
Thomas McN^J'
Of Lumberton;
Dies Sunday
Quite a number of Hoke Coun
ty people are- in 'Raleigh this af
ternoon attending hearings on
school bills -by the appropriations
committees of the legislature.
The Raeford Graded school
faculty held a meeting Monday for
the study of the curriculum. Re
gular weekly meetings are plan
ned for the spring term for the
study of various problems facing
the school.
Plans are being made by the
Hoke High school faculty for a
meeting with representatives of
the State Department of Educa
tion for a further study of their
plan for a revisipn of the curricu-^
lura. It is the desire of the facul
ty to make the work offered in
high school more nearly meet
the needs of the youth of today.
An extensive study is being made
and it is hoped that the plan un-
'der study will be ready for pre
sentation to the local school bosfd
and the (Board of (Education befor?
school closes this sp]::ing.
We are glad to jhsport that Jun
ior Long, who had his leg brok-
' en in au accident lit • the iRaisford
^6iMiedi\s.iih0t» recelltJbr,
home from the hospital and is
progressing nicely.
' Mr. Strickland and Mr. Foster
from the District Office of North
Carolina Security Commission lo
cated at Fayetteville, visited the
high school last Wednesday and
presented the picture “Finding
Your Life’s Work” to members of
the senior class.
Report cards go out again next
week. This is the first grading
period since the mid term exam
inations.
Miss Peggy Harris, field repre
sentative of Flora Macdonald
College, visited the hgih school
on Thursday of last week and
spoke to the girls of the senior
class.
Mr. Melvin is entering his band
pupils in the District music con
tests to be held at the New Han
over High School in Wilmington
on March 18.
Mr. Griffin, District Supervisor
of School Buses, visited the high
school Tuesday morning and
spoke to the regular and substi
tute bus drivers on “Safety.’
Jean’s Supervisor Annie W.
Pridgen left yesterday to Tuske-
gee, Alabaina, to attend the Na
tional meeting of Jeaf^-Q^,uper-
visors. This meetin j:'^'lled
by the Southern Edui^^fc^^-
dation of Atlanta. I Ra
tion finances the work jj'^^'the
Jean’s Supervisors. Dr. A. C.
Dixon, executive, secretary of the
foundation, was in Hoke County
last fall.
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SON OF L. E. REAVES
SLIGHTLY INJURED
Tommy Reaves, 8, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. E. Reaves of Fayette
ville and formerly of Raeford Was
slightly injured Tuesday by 'a car
driv.eri by Joe W. Temple, of Fay
etteville. The accident occurred
on Hay street in Fayetteville. Mr.
Temple said the lad ran into the
fender of his car, He took the
the child to Highsmith hospital
where he was treated for a sinall
, cut on the forehead.
Thomas Alexander iMjftbill,
prominent Lumberton attorney
and former solicitor of •Qie ^l^inth
Judical District, died 'Sunday
morning at 4:30 o’clock at'Pitt
man hospital in Fayetteville
where he had been critically ill
with pneumonia for five days.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the r First Presbyterian
Church in Lumberton, of which
he was a senior deacon, Monday
at 4:30 p. m., by his pastor, the
Rev. R. L. Alexander, assisted by
the Rev. John H. Bonner, Jr.,
rector of Trinity Episcopal Church
of which Mrs. McNeill is a mem
ber. Interment will be in the
family plot in Meadowbrook Cem
etery in Lumberton.
Mr. McNeill was a native and
lifelong resident of Lumberton.
He was a son of the late Judge
Thomas A. McNeill and Caro
line Smith McNeill of Cumber
land County. He attended school
in Rock Hill, S. C., and at Geor
gia Tech and was graduated from
the Univresity of North Carolina,
where he was a member of Alpha
Tau Omega fraternity and a foot
ball and track star. Ulpon receiv
ing his license in 1908, he began
practice of law in Lumberton.
For 16 years he was solicitor
of the Ninth Judicial District,
being succeeded in 1938 by F.
Ertel Carlyle, now Congressman
from the Seventh Congressional
District. He served as president
^ the Robeson County and Ninth
Judicial District Bar Associations
was chairman of the Robeson
Democratic Executive Commit
tee and was a delegate to at least
three national Democratic con
tentions. ,
In 1912 he was married to Ros
alie Williams of Red Springs,
who survives, together with three
daughters, Mrs. Caro M. Pugh of
Washington, D. C., Mrs. Robert
T. Masuengale of Austin, Texas,
and Eleanor McNeill of Chapel
Hill; two sisters Mrs. James Rus
sell and Mary McNeill of Atlan
ta, Ga., and two grandchildren.
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Methodists Plan
Farm Day Service
Having been raised on a farm,
the Rev. P. O. Lee, Methodist
minister, says he knows What is
uppermost in the minds of farm
ers during the first and second
weeks in March. About the only
thing farmers can think of dur
ing this time is-^jihe farm arid the
soil, he says; '
With this in mind Mr. Lee has
prepared two sermons especially
for farmers. The first is entitled,
“God’s Gift of Bread”, and the
second is “Our Sin Against God’s
Gift-the Soil.”,
March 13 will be set aside as
“Farm Day” at the Methodist
church. This day will be observ
ed in cooperation with the County
Farm agent and the Soil conser
vation agent. Mr. Lee invites all
farmers to attend these services.
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PHONE COMPANIES RATE
HEARING NOW GOING ON
Warehouse Head
Opposes Tobacco
Acreage bcrease
Bright Belt President
Says There Is No Basis
For Any Such Increase
Raleigh, N. C.—Fred S. Roys
ter, Henderson, President of the
Bright Belt Warehouse Associa
tion, has declared that at a Wash
ington conference of flife-cured
tobacco interests Thursday, Feb
ruary 24, he “strongly opposed
any further increase in the 1949
acreage quotas because there is
no basis in fact for any such in
crease.”
Royster said IRe conference was
called by the To'bacco Branch of
the United States Department of
Agriculture to examine the pre
sent situation and decide whether
there should be an increase, in
quotas above the 5 per cent in
crease already announced. At
tending the conference were
menibers of the Production and
Marketing Admihi^ration state
committees from North Carolina,
Virginia, South Carolina' Geor
gia and Florida, the flue-cured
states, and representatives of
farm organization and the Loose
Leaf Tobacco Exporters Associa
tion. '
In making known his strong
opposition to ah additional quota
increase for 1949, Royster issued
the following statement:
“The 1946 flue-cured tobacco
crop totaled 1,352,000,000 pounds,
so the recommendation was made
that the 1947 quotas be reduced
by 15 per cent. The Department
of Agriculture, Jiowever, insisted
that iS per cent was too much of
a Tp.duction and so the quotas
wdre reduced only 2.3 per cent.”
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186 Pedestrians
Killed In State
During Last Year
Applications of phone comp
anies for rate increases' were
heard by the utilities commission
yesterday and today.
■Hearing on an application by
the Southern Bell Telephone
company began yesterday. Sou
thern Bell is asking that a pre
vious request for rate increases
totaling $2,6.67,000 be boosted to
$3,429,000.
Today the commission will hear
an application from the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph comp
any of Tarboro. The Tarboro firm
wants a previous request for
rate increases of $700,000 a year
upped to $930,000.
Both firms said that wage in
creases granted workers made the
additional boosts necessary.
Raleigh, C.,—Here are the
facts on last year’s fatal pedes
trian accidents in North Carolina,
reported by the Highway Safety
Division of the Motor Vehicle
Department.
NUMBER — Of the 734 per
sons who died in traffic in the
state last year, 186 were pedes
trians. The previous year 227
pedestrians died. ^
■AGE — Fifty-nine victims were
under 10 years of age, 40 were
over 65.
SEX — Fatalities amoung men
and boys were 157, among women
and girls, 29.
ACTIONS — Seventeen pedes
trians were killed at intersections,
2,5 were struck down while cross
ing between intersections; 19
walked from behind parked cars;
44 were crossing rural highways.
Twenty-four youngsters were
playing in the roadway. Nine were
killed lying in the road, and oth
er pedestrians were fatally struck
while working in the road, push
ing vehicles, getting off or on
vehicles, and walking in road
ways. '
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BAPTISTS TO HOLD
SERVICE SUNDAY
South Caroiiman
Is Presbyterian
Radio Speaker
The Presbyterian Hour will
feature as its next speaker the
Rev. Dr. William H. McCorkle,
pastor of the Westminister Pres
byterian Church in St. Louis,
Missouri. Dr. McCorkle was edu
cated at the Citadel Millitary Col
lege in Charleston, S. C., took
his work in theology at Union
Seminary. Richmond, Va. and did
graduate work at Princeton Theo
logical Seminary in Princeton,
New Jersey. King College in Bris
tol, Tenn. conferred upon him the
honorary degree of Doctor of Di
vinity. He is a native of South
Carolinai
He began his ministry as assist
ant pastor of the First Presbyter
ian Church in Knoxville, Tenn.,
and then served as pastor for five
years, resigning to become pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church
in Kingsport, Tenn.
Dr. MoCorkle had a distinguish
ing record ; as , chaplain in World
War II, and upon his return from
the war, was called to his present
pastorate in St. Louis. His topic
wili be “Time for Decision for
phrist as Partner in Business.”
This broadcast may be heard in
this community on Sunday, March
6, 8:30 a. m., over Radio Station
WPTF.
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Yearly Report Of
Red Cross Chapter
The roport of Mrs. W. R. Bar
rington, secretary of the Home
Service Committee lists many ac-
ti^^^ities for 1948. Telegrams sent
50, telegrams received 60, long
■distance calls 401 -iiiiergency lea
ves 15, extensions of leaves, 12.
Social histories 16, WDAGO
Forms 2'8, Dependency discharges
8. Assisted with burial of the dead
4, death claim compensation 4,
VA Forms 8256B 3, Welfare social
histories for VA in and out of
state 12. Physicians diagnosis and
prognosis 25, VA Form P 22- 15
12 loans ranging from one to one
hundred dollars hae been made
to veterans, servicemen, their
wives and families due to illness,
living expense, rentals, transpor
tation emergency or otherwise.
Six of these loans have been paid
in full and three partly ■ paid.
Total amount of loans $343.00.
Amount paid back $211.00. At
least 25 servicemen and families
have been assisted in securing a-
partments.
The Red Cross office is open
daily from 2 to 6 p. m.
The treasurer, Mrs. Belton
Wright reports that seven, fami
lies were given financial assist-
0
ance to the amount of $372.31
when their homes were destroyed
by fire. She also reports the pur
chase of a wheel chair to be used
by those who need it free of
charge,
New Fann Agent
Assumes Duties
Here March 1st
H. E. Vernon Of Caswell
County Takes Over Job
Vacated By Knowles
Herman E. Vernon, of Yancey-
ville, assumed his duties here this
week as County Farm Agent suc
ceeding A. S. Knowles, who went
to Southport February 1 to be
come f2U'm agent of Brunswick
county.
The new agent is a native of
Yanceyville in Carswell county.
He went tp (North Carolina State
college and graduated in 1943,
taking the degree of bachelor of
science in farni manageipent.
Following his graduation from
college Mr. Vernon entered the
Army and stayed three years. He
was overseas in the European
theater with the 10'2nd Infantry
Division, receiving two battle
stars.
For two and one-half years
since his separatiom-^ from 'the
Army he has been in Nashville,
Nash County,; as assistant to the
county farm agent: The first year
he was assistant for tobacco, xm-
der the legislative bill as of the
State. For the last year and a
hall he was assistant for farm
management. He comes to Hoke
county highly recommended by
his superiors and the people of
Nash county.
He has been married a little
over two months, his wife being
the former Miss Helen Braswell,
of Whitakers, in Nash county.
Mrs. Vernon plans to finish this
week as a teacher in Nash coim
ty and will join her hu^and here
this week end. They have an a-
partment in the home of N. MeL.
MoDiarmid here.
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Mrs. Sallie Webb
Passes Tuesday;
Funeral Today
Mrs. Sallie Holt Webb, 69, died
Tuesday morning of a cerebral
hemorrhage at Moore county
hospital. Funeral services will be
conducted this afternoon at two
o’clock at Ashley Heights Baptist
church. Burial will be in the
Ashley Heights cemetery. The re
mains will be taken to the church
one hour before the service.
Mrs. Webb became ill Sunday
afternoon and was' taken to the
hospital, that night.
She is survived by lie'r husbhnd,
J. A. Webb; six sons, C. C. Webb
of Reidsville, Otis, Clarence and
Reuben Webb of Raeford, John
Allen and Franklin Webb of the
home; three daughter, Mrs. Wil
son C. Van Houn of Lorain, Ohio,
Mrs. G. N. Saunders of Reidsville,
and Miss Mary Webb of the home;
four brothers, Tyler Holt of
Schoolfield, Va., Charlie Holt and
Enos Holt of Reidsville and R. L.
Holt of Spray; and several grand
children.
Recorder’s Court
Patrolman Nabs
Speeding Goose
state Highway patrolmen
brought in four travellers for
passing through too fast last week.
Among them was one Mary
Goose, white of New York City.
All were called for trial at Re
corder’s court before Judge Mc-
Diarmid Tuesday morning and all
failed to appear. Each forfeited
$25 bond.
Ollie Benson and Catherine
Benson, colored, each paid the
costs for violating the prohibition
laws.
Neill T. Johnson, white of Cum
berland county, was found guil
ty of non-support of a minor child.
Sentence was one year on the
roads to be suspended on pay
ment of the costs and $25 monthly
to the clerk for the child’s sup
port.
George T. Cunningham, colored
of the army, paid $10 and the
costs for having improper license
plates.
B. D. Carroll, white of Cumber
land county, paid' the costs for
passing on the crest of a hill.
Walter H. Evans, Indian of the
army, paid $25 and the costs for
not having a proper driver’s
license.
Dave Koonce, white, was found
guilty of careless and reckless
driving. Judge McDiarmid let him
off with the costs as no damage
was done.
Dorothy Diggs, Clara and John
McKay, all colored of McCain,
were charged' witji the lareeny of
bed linen from' the Sanatorium.
Dorothy and Clara Diggs, were
fined $10 each and the costs and
judgment was continued on Mc
Kay. ,
Carl Rose, white, was found
guilty of giving Julian McKeithan
a bad check for $120. Sentence
was 90 days to be suspended on
payment of the check and the
costs. Defendant appealed to Su-.
perior court and posted' bond of
$200.
Hoke High GiHs
Go To Finals h
Legion Tourney
West End Girls Win; 71st
. Boys Beat Hoke; Red
Springs Boys Final Winners
Plan Demonstration
For Club Women
Miss Virginia Wilson, Exten
sion Nutritionist, of State Col
lege, Raleigh, will give a demon
stration on “Simple Entertaining”
at the Hoke.. High School Home
Economics Department on Wed
nesday afternoon, March 9th at
2:30. Miss Wilson will demonstrate
party refreshments and discuss
the etiquette of simple entertain
ing.
The Hoke County Home De
monstration Club women are ur
ged to attend the demonstration
and anyone else in Raeford or the
surrounding communities is cor
dially invited to be present, says
Josephine Hall, Home Demon
stration Agent.’ , '
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KIWANIS TO CHURCH
' There will be a morning wor
ship service at the Raeford Bap
tist church next Sunday morning.
The Rev. H. O. Banning, pastor
of the Walkertown Baptist church
at Walkertown, N. C.. will deliver
the sermon at eleven o’clock.
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G. C. LYTLE AT HOME
f
G. C. Lytle returned to his home
at Antioch from a Fayetteville
hospital last Thursday. He had an
attack of virus pneumonia, had
a relapse, and was critically^ ill
for several weeks. He wishes to
thank his friends in Raeford and
the county for the many kind
nesses shown him ‘and their in
terest in his condition. He' and
his entire family appreciate it all.
He’s Newspapering At 90
(Note—^The followii.ygg'>are ar^
tide was written by^Sronard M.
Barnes and appeared in the News
and Observer last Sunddy. As it
concerns one of our best known
as well* as ««s4dest citizens we be
lieve it to be of general interest.
It appears below exactly as it
appeared in the News and Ob-
serv^.—^Ed. .
Raeford,—David Scott Poole,
90, still writes a'filblumn for the
newspapers in the Sandhills. This
remarkable man was born Aug
ust 3, 1858, in Montgomery Coun
ty about five miles above Jack-
son Springs. He has spent all his
life serving the Sandhills area of
this State as a teacher and jour
nalist with an occasional bit of
legislature representation.
“Poole’s Medley” by D. Scott
Poole appears weekly in The
Sandhill Citizen, published in
Aberdeen, and The Hoke County
■News-Journal, published in Rae
ford. He admits the linotype op
erator may not read his handwrit
ing. He takes care of that by hav
ing his daughter, Mrs. Ina Be-
thune, type his column for him
after he has written it out.
Mr. Poole’s, stamnia reflects
his claim to Scotch ancestry. The
Poole family . settled in Virginia
more than a hundred years before
the. American Revolution and
scattered so widely that some of
them appeared in twelve of the
Thirteen Colonies’ armies in the
Revolutionary War..j^
Still Active.
I found D. Scott out in his back
yard 'burning leaves which had
been raked off his lawn of bright
green winter grass.
He carries his age well for he
is only slightly bent with age; he
has clear blue eyes, grey hair, a
The committee on Support of
the churches of the Raeford Ki-
wanis club is planning for the
members of the club to go to the
Presbyterian church in a body
tonight to hear the Bible lecture
by Dr. H. Crossley Morgan.
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MAKES MATH CLUB
Among the 15 new
ceived at the Feb;
of the Student Math c*'
Macdonald college was
'rs re-
\eeting
!t Flora
Mrs. B.
The girl’s basketball team of
West .End beat the Hoke High,
entry decisively here Monday
night to win the Fourth Annual
American Legion high school ^9S-
ketball tournament. Final score
in the game was 42 to 28, the local
girls losing their drive when
High-scoring Marian Lewis went
out early on fouls.
In the boys’ division of the
tournament the entry from Red
Springs High school came out on
top, beating 71st High school 45
to 38 in the finals on Monday
night. Outstanding player of the
toura/ment was judged by offi
cials to be Beck of the Red Springs
team.
In last Thursday night’s games
the 71st girls beat Parkton, 39 to
33 and the 71st boys beat Parkton
45 to 38.
On Friday night the West Fkid
girls beat Wagram, 45 to 30, and
the Red Springs boys beat Wag
ram, 52 to 33.
. On Saturday, night in the semi
final the Hoke girls won a thril
ler’from Tlst, 26 to 25. The lead
ih the game changed several
times with 71sf holding it most
oif the last half. The Hoke girls
tied the score just -a minute cm
two before the game ended at
25-all.‘ Th^ the Hoke team .®rt
a free throw and made it to lead,
26 to 25. Then, as the game ended,
71st got two free throws in over
time, but missed them both and
Hoke won; 26 to 23.
In the. boys’ game Saturday
night the 71st boys edged the
Hoke, boys in a close game, 38
to 36. This was a hard-p.layed con
test in which each team held the
lead several times and .in which
one field goal was the margin
of victory. ‘ '
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4 Hoke Men ^
In State College
Engineering School
Raleigh, N. ■ C., Feb. 28—The
winter term enrollment in the
School of Engineering at N. C.
State College includes 4 students
from Hoke County, a survey of
the institution’s registration fig
ures indicated today.
Dean J. H. Lampe announced
that the School pf Engineering
now has a total enrollment of 2,-
609 students, including 1,823 vet
erans of World War II.
The Mechanical Engineering .
Department attracted the largest
number of students with an en
rollment of 743. The Electrical
Engineering^ Department drew
565 students; and the Civil Engi
neering Departm«it registered
470. Other departments in the
College’s School of Engineering
show the following enrollment:
Engineering General 301; Indus
trial, 202; (Chemical, 182; Cera
mic, 76; Geological, 26; and (gen
eral, 18. There are also 86 gradu
ate students.
The following students from
Hoke County are enrolled in the
School: Alfred G. Eubanks, Mc
Cain; Richard G. Jpnes, McCain;
Hamer J. Leach, Raeford; Joseph
R. McsAnulty. Raeford.
B. Cole of Raeford. .A. high schol
astic average is required for
membership in the math club.
VFIE BETTER
(Continued on Page 5)
Murdock i
seriously ill at uie Veterans hos
pital in Fayetteville for the past
two week.'^^^as reported yester
day to be Jr^.tly improved. How
ever, he is still unable to have
visitors, but would appreciate
cards and letters from friends.
REGISTRATION WILL
GUIDE APPORTIONMENT
Current automobile registra
tions rather than 1940 census fig- .
ures will be used in the appor-
lionment of rural roads which
may be built if the bond i^ue
requested by Governor Scott is
approved by the people, accord
ing to reports from Raleigh.
• The other factors to be used in
determining the distribution of
road funds will be total high
way mileage and the total mile
age of unpaved roads in the
ous counties.
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