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^OLUMl: XUH; NUMBER 42
YOUR
[SCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
The Heke-Raeford PTA will"
[hold its regular monthly meeting
[in the Raeford. Graded school
I auditorium Monday evening, Mar
ch 21, at 7:45 o’clock. Mrs. N. L.
McFadyen, president, urges that
all members make plans to at
tend.
THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1944:^
RAEFORD. N. C.
S2.09
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Last Wednesday evening the
■Rockfish PTA met at the school
building with Mrs. P. C. English,
president, presiding. Rev. E. B.
Booker, pastor of the Tabernacle
church made a splendid talk on
cooperation. After the meeting re
freshments were sensed by Mrs.
Wood and Mrs. Knight. The lar
gest attendance of the year was
had. We hope the interest in the
school will continue.
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Last Friday night the Hoke
County Unit of NCEA held a din
ner meeting in the Raeford Grad
ed school lunchroom. At this meet
ing the teachers had a? their
guests members of the County
Board of Education, County Com
missioners, local school boards,
county officials, president of all
PTA’s and other citizens interest
ed in education.
Special guests were Senator J.
B. Thomas and Representative H.
A. Greene. Both of these gen
tlemen talked on the legi^ative
situation in Raleigh particularly
as it affects school matters. Mr.
Greene explained the foundation
plan for financing the school pro
gram of the sta^te commission on
education. Mr. Thomas explained
that it was hardly possible that
thjs plan in its gntirety would go
throTjBlj.s'bt this sessiop, »H4ns to
a ve^ di^ed^opinion in the leg
islature as to the method of fin
ancing. Both of these gentlemen,
however, were of the opinion that
a. good sound school program
would be put .through.
Members of the NCEA are vot-
. ing today for both local unit and
state officers. Polling places are
established at each school.'Ballots
will'be canvassed by the election
committee appointed by President
B. A. Smoak. Results of the local
election will be announced next
week.
At the Raeford Graded school
faculty meeting Monday after
noon a discussion was had in re
ference to the need of certain
mal-adjusted students for psy-
chological-examinations. This does
not mean that the school has
mental cases, but it does mean
that certain students would pro
gress better if certain problems
they are faced with could be sol
ved. The psychological divisions
of the State Board of Health and
State Board of Welfare have been
contacted and have promised their
services. Mrs. Giles is handling
the contacts with the state de
partments. '
Army Maneuver
Are Scheduled
For Next Month
Operation “Tar Heel” Will
Bring 10,000 Troops In
This Area From 2 States
Operation “Tar Heel”, described
as one of the U. S. Army’s most
extensive field maneuvers since
World War II, will bring tliou-
sands of soldiers into this area
next month with headquarters at
Fort Bragg and Camp kackall.
Plans for»the field exercises at
the two canips were announced by
the Army Department at Wash
ington last week.
Congressman C. B. Deane has
informed local persons that the
size of the i^.neuvers will be that
of the present military personnel
strength at Fort Bragg and Camp
Mackall, plus some 10,000 troops
from Fort Meade, Maryland, Fort
Penning, Georgia, and units of the
1st, 2nd and 3rd armies.
Much work has been done in
the Mackall area during the last
few weeks in preparation for the
giant maneuvers. Camp Mackall
has been turned back to the State
Wildlife Commission, but the pos
sibility has been expressed here
that the entire establishment
might again be taken over by the
Army for its use.
Participating in the exercises, to
be known by the code name “Tar
heel,” will' be a task force con
sisting of Fifth Corps Headquar-
tei's; the 82nd Airborne Division;
tank, artillery and service sup
port units; tactical air units of the
Continental Air Command; and
enemy units of the “Aggressor
Force.”
■National Guard and Organized
Reseiye Corps personnel will par
ticipate in the exercise to the
greatest’ extent practicable.
“Exercise ‘Tarheel’ will be an
advanced training exercise,” said
General Jacob L. Devers, Chief
Army Field Forces, Fort Monroe,
Virginia. “It is designed to train
Army units in troop movement
and field operations imder simu
lated combat conditions and to
provide operational training for V
Corps Headquarters, Participation
by the Air Force will provide val
uable joint operations training
which is included in this type of
exercises whenever possible.”
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Lieutenant General Alvan O.
Gillem, Commander of the Third
Army, Fort McPherson, Georgia,
will command the entire exercise.
Corn Movie To Be
Shown To Farmers
Here Next Week
We regret that the 'wind arose
Tuesday afternoon after a large
pile of discorded books had been
set on fire and scattered the
charred remains of these worn,
out tools, of learning over a large
area.
Quit^ a bit of spring cleaning
and fixing up is going on at the
Raeford Graded school. Mrs. Mc-
Phaul’s room has embarked on
a Dutch .project and out of what
the children learned about Dutch
cleanliness has grown a new pro
ject embracing a thorough clean
ing and refinishing of their rooms.
Mrs. Snead’s room is putting up
curtains they have bought them
selves. Mrs. Bishop Robinson’s
room is repainting blackboards
with money raised by a program
given on the completion of an In
dian project worked out the
class. We hope other rooms and
schools will emulate the good ex-
( Continuea on page 4 )
Club To Honor
N. C. Congressmen
The North Carolina Democratic
Club of Washington (D. C.) will
honor the State delegation of the
81st Congress at the thirteenth
annual banquet of the club, to be
held at the MajbElower hotel, Fri-
jday evening, March 18th. at 8.00
o’clock, according to John A.
'Lang, president. '
Speakers at the banquet will
include the Honorable Clyde R.
Hoey, senior senator from North
Carolina; Capus Waynack, State
Democratic Chairman; and H.
Clifton Blue, State President of
Young Democrats.
Entertainment will be provided
by Winston-Salem’s Joe King,
ventroloquist, assisted by Dummy
Brandy Wine in a pi^ogram en-,
titled “Brandy Wine Speaks for
the People.” ,
■A dance and social hour will
follow the 'banquet and King’s
entertainment feature.
Between 300 and 400 guests are
expected to attend, and the North
Carolina Democratic Club invites
anyone from North Carolina who
is or can be in Washington on
March 18th ot come to the ban
quet. Tickets may be' obtained
from Henry Oglesby, Rooni 1015,
New House Office Building,
Washington, D. C.
Hoke Coimty corn growers will
have an opportunity next week
to see a corn production movie
in full\color entitled “More Corn
Per Acre.”
The movie will be shown at
three' meetings in the county. On
Tuesday night at 7:30 it wiU be
shown in connection with thi^ re
gularly scheduled veterans class,
but the meeting will not be limit
ed to veterans. On Wednesday
night the showing will be at the
Little River community house at
8:00 o’clock. A meeting will be
held on Monday night, March 21,
at the-Upchurch High school for
negro veterans and farmers to
see the film.
The sound movie has just been
released by the Extension service
of State college and was made by
Dr. Landis S. Bennet under the
supervision of Dr. E. R. Collins,
extension agronomist, who has
headed the corn production pro
gram? in the state in recent years.
The movie tells the story of
progress in corn production in
North Carolina and was filmed
in actual fields throughout the
area.
All farmers of the coimty are
invited to attend the meeting and
see the movie.
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Funeral Services
For W. G. Smith
Held Monday
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon for William G.
Smith, 45-year-old former Mont
rose resident who was drown Fri
day when he fell off a quarter
boat into the Gulf of Mexico
near^ Cameron, La., * ♦
.. Services were held at the grave
side at Shiloh Presbyterian church
cemetery and were conducted by
Rev. John Craven, assisted by
Rfev. S. A. Ewart.
Mr. Smith was working aboard
the Allmac No. 2 a quarter boat
'of the J. Ray McDetmott company
'of Harvey, La., engaged in oil
operations in the Gulf. His death
was pronounced accidental.
• He is survived by his wife, the
former Kathleen Seaford of Mont
rose, a daughter, Helen; his mo
ther and a sister, Mrs. Ed Yar
brough of Laurel Hill. Rrs. Srhith
and daughter have been making
their home at Laurel Hill and she
has been working for the McNair
Investment company.
Mr. Smith was the son of Mrs.
■Virginia Graham and the late
Walter Smith of Montrose and
was a member of the Shiloh
church.
Presbywian Hour
Featur^ Y ounger
Ministe^^his Week
Following ;ilts policy of present
ing from tinie to time the voices
of younger 'ministers of the
Church, the ^Presbyterian Hour
will have next speaker the
Reverend Pbifer of
Rock Hill; Mr. Phifer is a
native of Tepfessee, was educated
at Cdhter College and Louisville
Presbyterian' Seminary, and did
graduate work ait Vanderbilt Un
iversity: He; started his ministry
in the Presbyterian Church of
Franklin, Tenn., from which field
he moved to his present pastorate.
Mr. Phifer is active in the work
of the Presbytery and Synod,
having served on committees for
Woman’s Work, Young People’s
Work, Home Missions and Evan
gelism. Hi^ topic on the Presby
terian Hour will be “Time for
Decision for the Church of Christ”
and this broadcast may be heard
in this community on Sunday,
March 2)» at 8:30 A. M., over
Radio Station "WPTF.
Chamber Heaii
Represmi^tive Of
National Crdup
Speaker From U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce Talks
About Education At Dinner
Acaden^ Graduates
Thqinas Sacca
Thomas R. Sacc^, whiT resides
with his wife and daughter, at
159-17 ftorrace Harding Boule
vard, Flushing, Long Island, is a
member of the class of' February
’49 of the Academy of Advanced
Traffic, New York, where he com
pleted a two-year curriculum in
Traffic Management and law, and
was graduated at exercises held
at the Downtown 'Athletic Club.
^ Sacca is .married to the former
Hattie M. Bouyer of Raeford,
North ^Carolina. During the war
he served wrfh^the United States
Army in the"'Antl^AirCra’ft Ar-*'
tillery. Infantry ahd Adjutant’s
General Department, he saw over
seas servifcq in the Philippine Is
lands.
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WITH EIGHTH ARMY
ON JAPANESE ISLAND
PFC, Thomas T. Davis, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John T. DaVis of
Raeford,, North Carolina, is now
serving with the , p4th Infantry
Division Headquarters.
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The 24th Division, also known
as the “Victory” Division, now oc
cupies the entire island of Kyu
shu, third largest and southern
most of the Japanese chain.
Kyushu, where he is now serv
ing, is noted for its beautiful
beaches and mild climate, which
afford pleasant living for occupa
tion soldiers.
Tarheel In Washington
By Lester Baker
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If Congressmen know the de
sires of their constituents there
are very few farmers who want
to be brought imder QPresident
Truman’s proposed Social Secur
ity system. Rep. Robert L. Dough-
ton, from North Carolina’s Ninth
Congressional District, said he had
not talked to a single farmer who
wanted to be included in the pro
gram. He stated further that he
is not disposed “to take them by
the nape of pie neck and the seat
of their pants and drag them un
der it.”
As the year 1949 trails forward
into the month of March the un
employment situation continues
to grow more and more severe.
Thousands of jobless men and
women are crowding into em
ployment offices and going from
place to place in search of work.
What a change this is from the
situation that began about 1942
and lasted until near the end of
1948. In those years it was easy
to pick up a job most anywhere.
But it’s a different story now.
Supply is rapidly catching up
with demand. Thus, one factory
and plant after another is cut
ting down on the number of em
ployees. And in some oases clos
ing shop.
The latest report on the unem
ployment boom is 'that the num
ber of jobless rose to 3,210,000 in
February. It was an increase of
550,000 over January, and an in
crease of 1,250,000 since the first
of the year.
Employment offices throughout
the country are advising people
to hold‘on to the jobs they have
and not consider a change until
things get better.
Ed H. Cherry, representing the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, presented an illustrated
program entitled “The Growing
Challenge,” to members of the
Raeford Cham'ber of Commerce at
a dinner meeting at the High
school cafeteria Tuesday night.
The program being of particu
lar interest to educators. Presi
dent R. B. Lewis introduced K. A.
MacDonald, county superintend
ent, W. T. Gibson. Jr., High school
principal, and Mrs. Neill McFad
yen, PTA president, to the group
before introducing Mr. Cherry.
As a preface to his remarks
the speaker explained to the
gathering that the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce was nothing
more than a unification of Cham
ber of Commerce in individual
communities all over the country.
“If the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce .is run by ‘Big business,’ ”
he said, “it is the same big busi
ness that is present here tonight.
The U, S. Chamber is nothing
more than a Washington agency
for local chambers all over the
country,” Mr. Cherry said. He
said if tries to keep local cham
bers informed as to pending leg
islation affecting business and the
country’s welfare, and it also tries
to take any actim desired by most
of the member "chambers to in
fluence the outcome of such leg
islation.
Mr. Cherry’s talk was basically
abou^ Education, speaking strict
ly from hte businessman’s view
point. All facts used in his talk
were prepared by businessmen,
not school teachers, he said. He
showed how the per capita income
of any political subdivision is al
ways directly proportional to the
degree of advancement of educa
tion of the average citizen. In
other words, figures’'proi^e that
people with more education make
more money in over 90 percent
of the cases. He also showed the
position of North Carolina in the
natioq with regard to educational
facilities offered, and the way the
amount ■ of money spent for ed
ucation had not increased in pro
portion with the increase in na
tional and individual income
since 1940. He also showed the
percentage of unqualified teach
ers who are teaching in school's
today in the various states. In
North Carolina, for example,
there are 1200 teachers in the
schools who do not meet the state
standards., Another interesting
point brought out was that in New
York State, for example, five
years of college are required for
a graded or high school teacher,
while in some states only a high
school education is required.
Mr. Cherry closed his talk by
urging the local Chamber of Com
merce to take an interest in the
schools of Hoke county, to see
that they are good, and that the
best we can gtt for our money is
provided for our children.
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Scouts To Hold
Court Of Honor
Here March 30
JURY FREES M. H. GROOMS M
SHOOTING OF FONZO JACKSON
Gets Ten Days
For Going Thru
Traffic Signal
Judge McDiarmid Also
Gives Extra Fast Driver
90-Days; All Pay Out
In Recorder’s court Tuesday
morning- Judge Henry McDiarmid
sentenced Henry C. Jordan, Gas
tonia white man, to 10 days in
jail for failing, to stop at a stop
sign on Main street here. Sen
tence was suspended on payment
of the costs,
John Calvin Shaw, white man
of Rex, got a . 90-day sentence
when it appeared that he had been
speeding over 7’5 miles per hour
and couldn’t give much reason for
his hurry. Sentence was suspended
on payment of $50 and the costs.
Roy Long, colored of Lilesville,.
got 50 days to be suspended on
•payment of $25 and the costs for
having no operator’s license and,
improper brakes. For having no
operator’s licenses W. F. Thomp
son and Caleb 'W. Cox, both white
soldiers, each got 30 days to be
suspended on payment of $25 and
the costs.
Three transient speeders eaclj.
left'bonds of $25.
George Hollingsworth, colored,
got 60 days suspended on pay
ment of $25 and the costs for
driving a for hire car without
chauffeur’s license.
Lee Shaw, colored, got 90 days
suspended on payment of $25
and the costs for careless and
reckless driving. He appealed to
Supefior court and posted a bond
of $150.
Willie McMillan and Belton
Hasty', both colored, charged with'
giving bad checks, had to pay
the checks and the costs.
Henry Willis, colored of South
Carolina, paid $10 and the costs
for driving with improper brakes.
C. L. Monk, white of Hamlet,
paid $10 and the costs for speed
ing.
Mallie Shaw, Jr., colored, got
90 days to be suspended on pay
ment of $100 and the costs for
driving drunk.ii
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HOKE HIGH
SCHOOL NEWS
Panel Rules Justifiable
Homicide After Hearing
Evidence At Inquest Here
The REA and the Agriculture
department have put their back
ing behind a bill to allow REA
to finance rural telephon Hnes
for farm families. From the looks
of things now, the bill has a good
chance of becoming law — al
though there may be some a-
mendments.
There is growing support for
the bill from various farm or
ganizations and individual farm
ers. And in the Congrers there is
a good number of both Democrats
and Republicans who favor it.
(Continued on Page 8)
Boy Scouts of the Western Dis
trict of the Cape Fear Area coun
cil will meet at Raeford March
30th for the March court of hon
or.
The court of honor will be held
at the Raeford Graded school aud
itorium at 7:30 o’clock. James Ma
son of Laurinburg, chairman of
the district advancement commit
tee will preside.
The public is cordially invited.
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Murdoch McDuffie was report
ed to have been slighted improved
yesterday. He has been very ill
in Fayetteville "Veterans hospital
for several weeks.
A “Preview of Progress” was
presented before the student body
of the Hoke High School in a
lecture-demonstration by H. M.
Brifner of the DuPont Company
Tuesday. His appearance was ar
ranged by Principal Gibson and
the Carolina Assemblies.
Alice Sutton Matheson won
first place in a Soil Conservation
speaking contest sponsored by the
Bankers Association. Anne Gore
came out second, and Graham
King thir^ The conservation pro
gram in ^e hi^ school was di
rected by Miss Miriam Watson.
The finals were held Friday
morning with Mr. P. O. Lee, Mr.
H. E. Vernon, and Mr. Nat 'White
serving as judges. Alice Sutton
Matheson will go to Mount Gilead
to take part in the District con
test.
Mr. Phillips’ agriculture boys
won third plape in a “Parliamen
tary Procedure” contest held at
a District meeting of the FFA in
Laurel Hill Monday afternoon.
Wilson satalogue cards have
been purchased for the high school
library.
“Aunt Tillie Goes to Town”, a
comedy-drama in three acts will
be given by members of the sen
ior class this spring. Rehearsals
are already underway- Miss Wat
son is directing the play.
On Wednesday morning at 10:30
in the high school auditorium the
Carolina Assemblies presented
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M. H. Grooms, 55-year-old
farmer of the Rockfish section of
the county, was freed by a coro
ner’s jury here yesterday after
noon following the fatal shooting
of Fonzo Jackson, 42-year-old
farmer of the same section at
Jackson’s hcm§ Tuesday after
noon by Grooms. Inquest was held
before Coroner W. L. Roper and
jury in the courthouse here at
two o’clock yesterday, and the
jury returned a verdict of justi
fiable homicide.
Mrs. Jackson. wido'vV of the de
ceased, told the jury that her hus-
'band' and Groo.ms had been to
Parkton, where Grooms had tak
en her two sons and her husband
for the sons to get haircu‘:s. She
said that on their return from
Parkton Grooms ca.xe into the
house and said that her husbanc^
was very drunk She said she
went outside to see if she could
get him in and that he took out
his knif|(l^nd told her to let him
alone, or words to that effect.
Then, in a part of the testimony
that is not clear, he apparently
made a hostile motion toward
Grooms with the knife, hpt threw
it dowm. Then she said Grooms
shot him. Annie Jackson, age, 14,
daughter of the deceased and Mrs.
Jackson, testified substantially
the same as her mother. She also
said that she had picked the knife
up and walked several steps with
it before Grooms shot her father.
Weldon Maxwell testified and
said that he went to the Jackson
home on business and met Grooms
coming out as he went in and that
when he got there found Jackson
wounded and took him to Fay
etteville to a hospital where he
was found to be dead on arrival.
He said he knew nq more than
that.
Rural policeman Harry Dees
testified to the coroner’s jury
that shortly after dark Grooms
came to the county jail and ask
ed him to lock him up, as he had
just shot a man. Dees said he
asked him if he had killed him
and that Grooms said he didn't
know and for Dees to go see.
Dees said he went to the Jackson
home but found him gone to
the hospital. He said further that
Grooms told him that he had told
Mrs. Jackson how drunk her hus
band was and that she came out
and Jackson threatened her with
the open knife, and that she had
returned to the house. Dees said
Grooms told him that Jackson
then threatened him with the
knife, offering to “cut his damn
head off.” Dees said Grooms said
he backed up as Jackson advanc
ed with the knife but that when
he backed into “a clothes line or
something in the yard” and Jack-
son still advance he shot him.
Dees also said that Grooms told
him that when they started back
from Parkton Jackson said he
had consumed a pint of liquor
there and offered him some vdiich
he had refused. Grooms elected
not to testify before the coroner’s
jury.
Jackson’s body had been en
tered by two bullets from a pistol,
death being caused by one through
the left side of his chest. He is
survived by his wife, three cfti-:
ghters. and two sons. Funeral is
to be held at two p. m. today.
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DR. BROWN VERY ILL
Dr. G. W. Brown was carried
to a Fayetteville hospital last
Fi'iday afternoon in a critical
condition with a heart ailment.
He is reported to have improved
somewhat since Tuesday, but his
condition is still considered cri
tical.