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1 ' YOUR ISCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald ■n-‘» The Board of Education mejt in regular session at 10 a. m. Mondriy with all members pre sent. Re-organization and the elec tion of a chairman, vice-chair man, the appointment of the su perintendent and the various dis trict committees were deferred until after the legislature passes the omnibus bill appointing the various boards of education. The Board now holds ofjice under a statute that says they shall hold office until they or their succes sors be appointed and qualified. The complexion of the Board will be the same except for a new member appointed to take the place of the late D. B. McFadyen. I ^4- •V;: ! > The elementary teachers of the county met at the Raeford Grad ed school Monday of last week with J. W. Turlington presiding. Miss Mary Van O’Briant of the State Department of Public In struction. Raleigh, met with the teachers and discussed rating sheets tor elementary classrooms and school., The teachers were given copies of these rating sheets and .yere asked to study * them and see wherein itheir classrooms and schools could be improved. . -4: t. Mrs, Mary Roberts of the Rae ford Graded school faculty is back at work this week after having been ill last week. Mrs. J. S. . Poole substituted ^or her. . Miss Claudia Cates of the same .faculty was out qry..,}yffnday and account .of illness. Mrs. Neil Senter sub stituted for her. The Raeford Graded faculty has started the difficult task of selecting the cast for the com mencement operetta. The schools all put on delightful productions in the spring that are looked for ward to by the parents and fri ends each year. HHS Baseball Team Wins Two; Play Here Friday Coach Haywood Faircloth’s Hoke high baseball team opened the season against Wagram high in Wagram on Wednesday of last week. The locals i;ook the game, 5 to - 0, behind the pitching of Earl Lisenby. Catchers were George Freeman and Doug Clark. McMillian and Freeman were outstanding at the plate. On Friday afternoon in the opening home game the Bucks ran roughshod over Parkton high, winning 16 to 0. McMillian pitch ed and hit a home run inside the park. Leading hitter was Joe Davis with three safeties in three trips to the plate. The Hoke team went to Red Springs yesterday where they were scheduled to play Red Springs high in Robbins park. Red Springs, reputed to have strong team, will come to Raeford tomorrow afternoon for a return game wit)i the Bucks. Coach Faircloth’s squad isjnade up of mostly young and inexper ienced players. Uniforms were issued to the* following: George Freeman. Doug Clark. J. D. Mc- Millian, Earl Lisenby, Bobby Mc Neill, Bruce Phillips, Billy Les ter, Eugene Teal, Thomas Bob bitt, Carl Fields, Marvin English, Joe Davis, Tommy Cole, Landon Yarborough. —o:— Lumbee REA Co-op Completes Eighth Year Of Pperation The local REA Cooperative completed its first eight years this week. The Lumbee Rivei Electric Membership' Corporation energized its first lines on April 5, 1941.. The first construction program covered four hundred seventy-five miles of line serving twelve hundred members. Today 1 Couple Fights, Other Gets Drunk, loth Get Fines Drunks, Chicken Thieves, Speeders, and One Ice Pick Tot^r Pay For Mistakes Almost all the misdemeanors appeared on the docket in re corder’s court Tuesday before Judge" Henry McDiarmid. In one case Lue Mattie Holl ingsworth colored, was charged with driving the family car while drunk and in a careless and reck less manner, and her husband, Ed Hollingsworth, who Was along was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Lue Mattie got a 90-day jail sentence to be sus pended on payment of $100 and the costs. She appealed to Sup erior court and posted a $200 Chickenpox and measels are beginning to break out in the var ious schools of the county. Par ents and teachers are. requested and warned to be on the lookout for these diseases of childhood and take such measures as indi cated. Thse who wish may stop by the Health Department in the basement of the County Office Building and get pamphlets on the diagnosis and treatment of these diseaises. bond. Ed pleaded guilty and got 30 diyS' suspended on payment of $10 and the costs. In another case Tom McPhat- ter, colored, was found guilty of assaulting his wife, ■ Lizzie Mc- Phatter. 30-day sentence was su spended on payment of the costs. Lizzie got 'the same sentence for carrying ^ concealed weapon, to- wit an ice pick around in her purse. John Frank Gibson and Eldon Parker, both colored, pleaded guilty to stealing some chickens. Sentence was 30 days each to be suspended on payment of the costs and $9 for the chickens. Delmar Herndon, white soldier, was found guilty of driving after his license'had been revoked and sentence was four months, sus pended on payment of $200 and the costs. Thomas Smith, colored, got 60 days suspended on payment of the costs for violating the land lord and tenant act. He also a- greed to return and make good his agreement with the landlord. Four transient speeders for- Canderi Drive Is SdKeduled For ITlus Moi|th April, has been proclaimed as Nations^ Cancer Control month. Ill y^, 2,898 North Carolinians died ot'Cancer. But one half of those who develop cancer in Noiilh Carolina can be cured by knowledge doctors now have. The Society is expanding its programs of - education, service and research. The successful execution of these vital 'plans depends on the con tinued and increasing support of the general public. A door tp door solicitation will be made.Various committees have been assigned to make the can vass. It will be possible for everyone in this area to have the opportunitjj of giving to the can cer drive. The help of practically every one ih this county is needed. “Cancer knows no bounds of race, color, creed, or economic back ground.” As the slogan this year suggests, cancer can strike any one. Everyone can have a chance to strike back by working and giving to the American Cancer Society drive. —» 0 Charlie Justice Will Speak At All-American Football Player To Attend Meeting Here Next Tuesday Night Alfred Cole, commander of El lis Williamson ' post 20 of the American Legion, announced this week that Charlie Justice, all- American halfback from the Un iversity of North Carolina, will be the guest of the post and fea ture speaker at the next regular meeting at the High School gym nasium next Tuesday night. The Legion post, which plans to sponsor a Junior Legion base- 'ball team here this year, is in viting all boys eligible for the team to attend*the meeting and hear Justice. Boys aged 15, 16 and 17 years are eligible to play on each. They were elected. Others Spirited Election, Around 30 Vote Here Monday Mark Twain or somebody said, “Eve.-ybody talks about the weather, but nobody does any thing about it.” Well, everybody talks about what is done around this town, what cught to be done and what is lio: done, blit mighty few bo ther to do anything. Only three citizens of the town were inter ested enough to run for the five seats on the town board and only about 30 were interested enough to vote. , W. L. Poole, present mayor and only candidate, got 24 vq^es and G. B. Rowland got one write-in. For commissioner Mitchell Ep stein and T. B. Lester got 27 votes each and J. M. McDuffie got 29. Highest among the write- ins were Belton Wright and Archie Byrne with seven votes Soldier Dies Instantly Sunday In Road Crash Alone In Small Velikle^ Hits Big Truck Almost Head On; No Others Hnr^i Annual Meeting Of Presbyterian Men At FMG April 28 The Men of the Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville Presby tery will have their annual meet ing at Flora Macdonald College on April 28th at 7:00 p.- m. This will be a dinner meeting and will be held in the dining hall the same as last year. The Rev. S. Hugh Bradley, pas tor of the Presbyterian Church of Decatur, ^a., has been secured as the main speaker. Mr. Bradley is a very forceful speaker and has spent much time in China in recent years. All Presbyterian men are in vited to attend this meeting. junior teams. In addition to his talk to the Legionnaires and boys present, Justice will show movies of a football game played by the Uni versity of North Carolina last fall. Cole said that plans had not been completed for the affair and he asks all members of the post to attend a meeting at tiie gym at eight o’clock tomorrow night to c|scuss the affair and complete final details. The legionnaires will have tickets for the affair and members are urged to get their tickets' early, as- it may be pos sible to offer a limited number of tickets to the public. the Cooperatice has more than ^^25 bon^s each. E. M, Ed. fourteen hundred miles of lines energized with s^wice thousand rural homes. to five ! wards, colored, and Lewis A. We are sorry to report that there is a case of scarlet fever-in the Mildouson district. This case is quarantined (by the way, mea sels and chickenpox are not quar- antinable). The Ashemont PTA has em barked on a school ground im provement project. We hope that this project will be a continuing and growing affair. This school sit could be made a beautiful spot. We hope the PTA will make it so. The NCEA will meet in Ashe ville tomorrow and Saturday. On Friday, March 25, the coun ty-wide Negro PTA held' its an nual meeting at the Etowmore School. A splendid program was put on by various schools show ing the different types of school work done. A most creditable dis play of written and band work was made. The high light of the occassion was the address made by J. R. Larkins, consultant on Negro education. State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, Raleigh. It is a pity his address, could not have been heard by everybody in Hoke County. The pre-school clinics have been started as per the schedule published heretofore in the News- (Continued on back page) During this month the Coopera tive will complete changing its old 450 KW substation to a new 1000 KW bank. The new substation will have eighteen individual phases leading to all parts of Hoke, Cumberland, Robeson and Scotland counties; as compared to only six phases previously. This improvement -will permit better service to yall members by decreasing the number of mem bers out in cases of troujple e/id will also permit the trouble to be located and cleaned up much quicker. To date the Cooperative has borrowed nearly $2,(M)0,000; the monthly revenue averages $17,- 000 and the wholesale power bill now is more than the total amount of revenue wasiper month in 1941., A new home office and ware house building is imder construc- 'tion in Red Springs. Plans are that this building will be com pleted and the office,will be mov ed to the new location in July. • \ The local Cooperative is own ed by the members it serves. C. A. Alford of Rowland is presi dent, an office he has field since organization. This is one of the largey farmer owned cooperatives in this section of the state and has contributed much to the rural standard of living in this area. 0 County Raises Red Cross Quota Israel Mann, county Red Cross drive chairman, said yesterday he was happy to announce that the county had exceeded its quota as usual. He said complete figures were not yet available as all sec tions of the county had not ye reported, but he was certain f the quota of $1686 had been Smith, white, each appeared for trial for speeding and each paid $10 and the costs. Annie Mae Kelly and Hattie McFadyen, both colore^d, were charged with assaulting the other with a deadly weapon. Each got 60 days 'to be suspended on pay ment of the costs. Gossie McIntyre, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and the costs for. violating the prohibition laws. Othello Blue, colored soldier, got 30 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs for driving without a license. Charles E. McQueen and Wal ter Sinclair, both colored, each pleaded guilty of driving drunk and each got 90 days to be sus pended on payment of $100 and the costs. p PMA Group Has Dinner Monday The Hoke county Production and Marketing administration personnel had a dinner meeting at the high school lunchroom Monday ni^t. .The meeting was addressed by Horace D. Godfey, State chief of Programs Opera tions of the Production and Mar keting administration. He was in troduced by J. E. Nicholson, PMA field man. The group was welcomed by R. J, Hasty, chairman of the Hoke C. A. C. A. and guests were re cognized by Miss Louise Blue, secretary of the group. Herman Vernon, county agent, discussed the importance of cooperation be tween Federal agencies. About 50 persons attended. 0 DIST MEN’S MEET Ford Ageiicy Gets Award Bernard Bray, manager of Rae ford Auto Co., local Ford dealer, last Friday afternoon was award ed the Ford Dealers “Four-Let ter Achievement Award,” by a district representative of the Ford Motor Company. . The award certifies that the local company has excelled in sound finances, efficient manage ment, competetive spirit and mo dern facilities. The representa tive, R. B. Kinsey of Charlotte, said 'that Raeford Auto was one of a very few in the district to receive the award. , 0— PHILADELPHIA MEETING K. A. MacDonald attended a three-day meeting of the Ameri can Association of School Admin istrators in Philadelphia, Penn sylvania, last week. He reported that there was a good represen tation from North Carolina, in cluding Superintendent Clyde Erwin. Mr. MaciDonald returned by way of Washington, D. C., where he conferred with Con gressman C.' B. Deane. 0 BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Negro Champs To Play Here Friday Night The local American Legion post annouces that the Birmingham Black Barons, negro world cham pionship baseball 1;pam, will play the Asheville Blues in Armory park here tomorrow night. Game receiving write-in votes were J. W. McPhaul 4, James Lentz 5, C. L. Thomas 5, J. L. McNeill 4, Clarence Lytch 4, W. J. Coates 5. Several others received .one or two write-ins and about half las many got voted for as voted. 0— MacDonald Goes To Polio Meeting Kenneth MacDonald, chairman of the Hoke county infantile par alysis committee, attended a meeting of polio workers and foundation members at the Lake- view Hotel in Moore county- Tues day night of last week. Eight, counties were represented at the meeting. Phillip S. Randolph, state di rector for 'the National Infantile paralysis ' foundation, pre'sided over the meeting and gave the re presentatives some facts about polio in this area. The district quota in the March of Dimes drive in 1949 was S70.- 660 as compared to a^ quota of $49,846 in 1948. The district rais- time is eight o’clock. . . . , The Barons are the outstanding ed $105,041 in 1949. This county s Negro baU elub in the country, kuota this year was $3,000 and having won the pennant in the $5335.17 was raised. In spite of Negro American League last year. This year on the grapefruit cir cuit in Florida they have defeat ed the St. Louis Carding three times, and the Montreal and Col umbus teams ot the International League once each. They defated the New York Cubans last year for the championship. Four players have graduated from the arons to the major lea gues. These are Satchel Paige, Larry Doby, Artie Wilson and Bankhead of the Brooklyn Dod gers. 0-: BETHEL CAKE SALE report next week. of the Raeford Meth- jh will hold their mon- ting and supper at the ceeded. He promised a complete I Upchurch airport tomorrow night TERPS PLAN DANCE .HERE NEXT FRIDAY The Hoke County High school band will give a concert in the auditorium at the school next Wednesday night at 8:00 o’clock. Selections will be varied to ap peal to everyone. Overtures, marches, waltzes and a French horn solo by Milton Mann will be played. , _0 NEW BANK EMPLOYEE at seven o’clock. A. W. Wood, Jr., of Rockfish, has accepted a position with the Bank of Raeford and will began work there on Monday. He is a graduate of Hoke High school and a Navy veteran of World War II and has been associated with his father at Rockfish since getting out of the Navy. The Women of Bethel Presby terian church have announced that they will have a cake and cookie sale in the front part of the sliowroom at Raeford Furni ture company on Saturday morn ing, April 16. The sale will start at nine o’clock and last as long as the cakes do. The proceeds will go into 'the Sunday school room building fund at Bethel. this, MacDonald said some coun ties are out of money and will have to get financial help from the national organization. He said Hoke county has $1252 at the present, time and this, will not last if there is one case oC polio in the county this year. Randolph said that not so many cases were expected -this year as last, but that the usual incidence of the disea^ indicated that there would probably be from 100 to 150 cases in the State this year. •He expects to be in this county in the near future to confer with local officials. -9 r- Manuevers Delay Sandhills Fishing Sergeant John Daniel pramgeiji’j 34-year-old Conway, S. C. man*-' never lA'ew what hit • him whefK'; his Willys “Jeep” Statoin wagonl ran into the side of an oncom-^ ing produce van about a half*-- mile north of the Hoke-Scotland: county line near midnight Sun—] day. The truck, driven by Eu-; gene Edward Carter, was Off ] Maryland registry and was, en-' route to Florida for produce. Car ter and his assistant driver who., was sleeping in the back of the cab, were both unhurt. Grainger, ■who was alone, appar- I ently wen: to sleep at the wheel I of his vehicle, as Carter said the,! jeep cut over into his truck, hit-r.j ting just in back of the cal^ smashing a wheel and - running under the van body. The engine and left front side of the jee]? was' completely demolished and the right side and rear were un hurt. Grainger’s head apparently struck the left front comer post of the jeep which was smashed in. His head was co,mpletely crudi-r-j ed and death was obviously in-1 stantaneous. The jeep c^me to rest in the I intersection of the “wire roa^ with U. S. Highway 15-A. Tlie truck went 60 or 70 leei further down the highway and, taming I to , the right, turned ov'er andl came to rest across the highway! on its left side. Damage to the.| truck was not great. It took, the combined efforts! of two'WTeckers several hours to! move the truck from the road. During this time one way traffic was able to get by on the east shoulder of the road, the pave-j ment being completely blocked. Coroner W. L. Roper investi- j gated the accident Monday and! exornerated the truck driver of I all blame in connection with thc| death of Grainger. ^ 0 The Terpsichorean club of Rae ford has announced that arrange ments have been completed with Tommy Cavallo to bring his well- known night-club orchestra here for a dance to be held at the Rae ford Armory on Friday night of next week, April 15. It has been the club’s custom in past years to hold a pre-Easter dance for the young people and those who feel young, and ar rangements were made ■with Bat tery A, National Guard unit, to skip one of the series of Friday night square dances at the Ar mory. Square dances will be re sumed on Friday, April 22, to the music of Elmo Stanton’s 5-piece string band. There will also be a square dance tomorrow night. Army maneuvers at Camp Mac- kail from March 20 through May 31 will prevent fishing, in thO'i Sandhills Lake of the Camp Mac- kail area during that peri'Od, ac cording to Clyde P. Patton. Ex ecutive Director of the North North (^arloina Wildlife Resources Commission. Lt. General John Hodges, Oom- manijing General of the 5th Corps and Senior Officer of Fort Bra^, in a letter to the Wildlife Re sources Commission, stated that “it is not desired or advisable to open the lakes or lands of this area for public fishing until after May 31, 1949.” General Hodges stjated that the maneuvers should not interfere with present plans for prepara tion of these lands and waters for public fishing. “The 'Wildlife Resources Com mission,” Patton said, “had con sidered opening the Camp Mac- kail area to fishing April 1, but military necessity must take pre cedence over the deares of sports men in this case. Arrangements are being made to open the Sand hills Lakes as soon as possible after May 31.” FERA Will Help Farmers In Need Washington, D. C., March 3C Representative Charles B. of tjie Eighth* Congressional trict announced today that House of Representatives tc favorable action on a bill to Federal Emergency Loans to mers who experience some ter or emergency during a season. The Congressman pointed that the House cleared on Ma 29 a conference report on 2101, which ■wiU grant to the retary of Agriculture the poi to m-ake loans when he finds a production disaster has caua a need for agriculture which is n-ot available from mercial or local sources. Deane was especially ini ed in assisting in the promol of this legislation in view ol serious problems faced by peach growers within weeks when it was ffelt that great damage had resulted cause of cold weather. The fits of this legislation will be tended to other fruit and culture commodities In the evcsf of a disaster. The Eighth District Con man indicated that applicatic for disaster relief should b® with the office of the ol Agriculture, Washington, IX 0 DR. BROWN HOME Dr. G. W. Brown, who has critically ill for some time Fayetteville hospital, is somewl improved and came home day. His condition is stQl ered quite serious, however. '•!(' J
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