YOfUR
[SCHOOL NEWS]
By K. A. MacDonald
T. E. Glass of- Raleigh, 'State
school bus inspector, was a visi
tor in Hoke last Thursday. He in
spected and priced all discarded
buses, These buses are now for
sale, as is. Any otte interested
may secure further information
by calling at the office of the
county superintendent or the
county school garage.
Buddy Barrett
Gets 7 Years In
The Ashemont pre-school clinic
was held at the school-on Mon
day morning.*-Ten children were
examined. Doctors from the San
atorium held the clinic. We appre
ciate this help a great deal.
The Raeford Graded school pre
school clinic is being held, today
The local ’ doctors are , assi^ing
with this work. Doctors Munray,
Matheson and O’Briant are in
charge. Members of the PTA,are
also assisting in various capacities.
We appreciate this help a great
deal.
Nine Other Criminal Gases
Tried Before Judge Burney;
Civil Cases Yesterday
Two Drown In
Upchurch Pond
Sunday P. M.
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■ The Rockfish school will pre
sent its operetta “Snow W^j^te and
the Seven Dwarfs” tomorrow,
Friday, April 29, night- at 8 o’
clock. We are sure a large crowd
will be present to see the pro
duction. Teachers and pupils have
been' working _hard and a well
costymed and staged show will be
put on. . -
The Hoke County Board of Ed
ucation will hold its biennual or
ganization meeting on Monday
evening. May 2, at & o’clock. This
-jii*, -ineeuitg WiMT - have
been held on the first Monday in
April, but the legislature did not
get the omnibus bill, appointing
the members of the bo^d passed
until late in the month, conse-
' quently the meeting had to be
postponed until May.
At this meeting the board will
organize. The chairman and ■vj.ice-
chairman and the county super
intendent and secretary will be
elected. Then the board will ap
point the district school commit
tees for the next two years. The
Board will be composed of Carl
G. Riley, R. H. Gatlin, A. W. Wood,
and W. H. Gibson, who have ser
ved before, and N. L. McFadyen
who' wifi be new on the board,
having been nominated by the
executive committee to fill the
place of D. B. McFadyen, who
died almost immediately after
having been nominated in the
primary of 1948. The Board of
Education has been, operating as
a four man board since Mr. Mc-
.Fadyen’s death until this time
The county superintendent
spent Monday in Durham attend
ing the organization meeting of
“The Family Security Committee”
of the North Carolina Conference
for Social Service. The job for
this committee is to secure all
data pertaining to the subject and
to formulate plans for adding *o
the security of the family on all
social and economic levels. Super
intendent MacDonald represented
the public schools on the commit
tee.
Buddy Barrett, local colored
ynan with about a dozen years
experience in the State Peniten
tiary, returns there for seven
hiore this week. Barrett entered a
plea of guilty of assaulting Char
lie McDougald on Tuesday night,
January 4, north of Raeford with
intent to kill him. McDougald,
colored of Cleveland. Ohio, was
seriously wounded with buckshot
but lived. Barrett, was sought for
several days after the shooting
before giving up and left the' jail
one time since for several days
but was caught by officers. Judge
Burney sentenced him to not less
than seven nor more than eight
years in prison. Alvina Gillespie,
colored woman who was with
Barrett, also entered a plea of
guilty. She was sentenced to serve
18 months in the county jail to
be worked under the direction of
the sheriff.
James Byrd, colored man who
appealed a conviction for larceny
of a truck from recorder’s coui:t,
was found guilty by the jury, but
mercy was recommended. Byrd
was sentenced to 90 days on the
roads to be suspended on pay
ment of the costs and $100 to C.
F. Tapp, owner of the truck, which
was wrecked.
Mildred McMillan, colored wo
man charged with assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill,
pleaded guilty and got not less
than three nor more than -four
years in the state prison.
Wes Williams, colored, was
found guilty of stealing. $80 from
Zula Morrison. Sentence of 12
months was suspended on return
of the money and payment of the
costs. He was placed op proha
tion for five years. "*
Clyde and Henry McLauchlin.
colored, appealed a conviction by
a justice of the peace for violat
ing the state forest fire laws.
Judge Burney sent the case to re
corder’s court for trial.
T;I3 state took a nol pros with
leave in the case in which Mattie
Belle Worthy, colored, was charg
ed with manslaughter, and she
was freed. ■
The cases against Lee Shaw for
careless and reckless driving and
Lue Mattie Hollingsworth for
careless and drunken driving
were also dismissed for lack of-
evidence. Both are colored.
Karl Zinkel, white soldier, was
charjed with aiding and abetting
in armed robbery. He was given
a five-year suspended sentence
and placed under probation for
five years. ,
Four divorces were granted.
W. R. Tillman, Jr., 34, and
Watson Faircloth, 45, both farm
ers of the Cumberland Mills sec
tion of Cumiberlahd county, were
drowned Sunday in Upchurch’s
pond about four miles from Hope
Mills. j
The two men were members of
a^ party which was having a fish
ing party at Waldo’s landing and
they were fishing and failed to
come in for lunch at a preaixang
ed autp horn signal.
The two were apparently fish
ing about a mile up from the
powey plant and were drowned
less than 50 yards from the banks.
It is also reported that both were
good swimmers, so cause of their
drowning is something of a mys
tery.-
Tillman’s body was discovered
at about six o’clock Sunday after
noon when a fishing pole sticking
out of the water was pulled in
and found to be caught in his
trousers. Water was about 30 fbet
in that area. The body of Fair-
cloth was not discovered until
Tuesday afternoon after much of
the water had been drained from
the pond.
Funeral services were conduct
ed for Mr. Tillman Monday af
ternoon at Camp Ground Metho
dist church by the Rev. Russell
S. Harrison, assisted by the Rev.
B. O. Shannon.
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Names Committees
For Clean-Up
15-21
Chamber of Commerce
Head Divides Town Into
Five Sectioiis For Drive
Durhmh Minister
Accepts Call Of
Baptist Churdi
Columbus County Native
Will Come To Raeford To
Be Full-Time Pastor In May
FMC To Present
May Day Pageant
Next Tuesday PM
LIBRARY NEWS
The annual May Day pageant at
Flora Macdojjald College will be
presented in the outdoor-theatre
on the back‘ campus, on Tuesday
afternoon. May 3, at 5 o’clock.
MiSs Ethel Bateman, director of
physical education, has chosen
this year an original theme,
“Spring Calendar,” for the pag
eant. Gay Irish lilts and jigs, in
honor of the patron Saint Pat
rick, will be used to depict March,
all in colorful costumes. A group
of impudent clowns will usher in
April witli an “April Fool Dance”,
followed by the Easter Parade and
April Showers dances, in which
the leading duo dances will be
done toy Phyllis Dyer of Leaks-
ville and Zelma Grantham of
Fairmont. May Flower dances,
ending with the May Pole, will
feature the closing month of
spring. Interspersing the dances
of the spring months, will be
the Scottish dances, without which
no pageant at Flora Macdonald
would be. complete. The program
will open with a precision drill
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HEYWARD IN RALEIGH
The Rev. W. B. Heyward went,
to Raleigh Tuesday to be with his
mother, who was to undergo an
operation there yesterday.
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President R. B. Lewis of the
Raeford Chamber of Commerce
this week announced his appoint
ments to committees to lead the
town in- getting itself spruced up
in the “Clean-Up Paint Up 'Week”
being sponsored by the chamber
during the week . of May 15 to
May 21.
In appointing the committees
and sketching the campaign Lewis
divided the residential part of
to-wn into form sections with a
committee being appointed for
each, and made a separate sec
tion of the business part of town
with a separate committee to be
responsible for getting that
cleaned up.
He said tha.^5*ie had tried to
pick individua’^ior the commit
tees who would take the necessary
time to organize the drive and to
get all residents and firms in
their sections to really do all pos
sible in the way of cleaning and
beautifying their premises. He
also made a special plea to every
one in Raeford to cooperate with
the Chamber of Commerce to
make the campaign a real suq,-
cess anl Raeford a cleaner, neat
er town. '
The town was divided into four
sections using the corner 6f Ed-
inboro avenue and Main street at
the courthouse as center. The
business section, is from Edin-
boro avenue to Harriss avenue
^(^a^inburgTf£e''4Ci.:pimiip
tees folow.
N|rth East Section. East of
Main street and North of Edin-
boro avenue. Israel Mann, Chm.
Paul Dezerne, G. B. Rowland, W.
P. Baker. J. A. Baucom, Edison
McGirt. James Stephens, J. E.
Conoly, D. H. Hodgin.
North West Section. West of
Main street. North of Edinboro
avenue. C. L. Thomas, Chm. R.
L. Murray, C. P. Kinlaw, J. K.
McNeill, Jr., J. L. McNeiU, Ernest
Campbell, A. K. Currie, John Mc-
Koy Blue, James Tillman, Ed
Smith. Clarence Brown and J. B.
McIntyre.
South East Section. East of
Main street. South of Edinboro
avenue. John W. *McPhaul, Chm.
R. L. Carter, N. L. McFadyen, S.
M. Koonce, Archie McDiarmid,
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The Rev. Judson Lennon, as
sociate pastor of Grace Baptist
church in Durham, who preached
here on Sunday, April 10, has ac
cepted a call from the Rgeford
Baptist church and will come here
to be its full-time pastor on the
fifteenth of next .month, church
officials announced this week. He
will be the second full time pas
tor the church has ever had, and
the other was only for a - brief-
period quite a few years ago
The new pastor is 28 years of
age and was born in^ Columbus
county near Whiteville. He is the
son of the Rev. Rufus Lennon,
retired Baptist minister of Wake
Forest. He was educated at Wake
Forest college and the Louisville
Seminary in- Louisville. Kentucky.
For the past two years he has
wQffked under the Rev. A. B. An
derson as associate pastor of the
Durham church. ^
Mr. Lennon is married and has
one child, a one-year old son.
Mrs., Lennon was formerly Miss
Harriet Orr of Charlotte. She at
tended .the -Louisville seminary at
the same time Mr. Lennon did.
Much activity is apparent at
the pastorium here, vacant for
some months since the departure
of the Rev. J. D. Whisnant. Paint
ing and repair work are going on
and the house and grounds' are
being cleaned in preparation for
the arrival of the Rev. and Mrs.
LCiunon and son.
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John W. McKenzie
Dies Suddenly;
Funeral Today
John William McKenzie, 67-
year-old farmer of the Gold Hill
section of the county, died at his
home, at about midnight Tuesday
after having suffered a heart at
tack at eight o’clock. He had suf
fered a prevn?us heart attack a
year or more ago but had not
been ill recently before the fatal
attack.
He was born in the same section
and spent his life there. He was
a son of the late Hugh Arch and
Rachel McArthur McKenzie and
was a deacon in the Antioch Pres
byterian church.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at the Antioch church at
three o’clock this afternoon by
the Rev. J. W. Mann, pastor, and
burial will be in the churchyard
cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, the
■former ?.Iary Jane Currie; two
daughters, Miss -Helen McKenzie
of Lancaster, S. C.. and Mrs. Frfd
Johnson of St. Pauls; one sister.
Miss Ella McKenzie of this county.
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Last Chance To
Borrow Money
On 1948 Cotton
General Marshall
Visits Sanatorium
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The Raeford Graded school has
been busy during the past week
with many varied actiivities. Mrs.
Shelton’s room has started a
purse making project. The pupils
have secured leather and acces
sories and are tooling the leather
themselves. They expect to make
some nice purses.
Mrs. Ben Robinson’s room held
an Easter egg hunt (even if be
lated) at the home' of Mrs. Colon
Scarborough. The grade mothers
served refreshments.
Mrs. Freeman’s first grade has
started a nature study unit. The
children are collecting ’ cocoons,
turtles, tadpoles, etc. for an ex
hibit.
Mrs. Snead’s 6th and 7th grades
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America’s Best 'Small House,
includes 40 new houses selected
by a jiury of architectural photo
graphers from all over the coun
try. The editor, Williani J, Hen
nessey. is Architectural and
Building Research Director of
“The American Home.”
Death Be Not Proud, by John
(Junther, is a memorial to. his son,
who died in 1947 following a series
of operations for tumor of the brain
Other new titles are: Elizabet-
Captive Princess, Irwin; The Du-
kays, Zilahy; Cutlass Empire,
Mason; High Holiday, Norris; A
Wreath . of Roses. Taylor; The
Golden Fury, Castle; Strong Cit
adel, Burt.
Mysteries: The Bramble Bush,
Duncan; The Hangman’s Tree,
Disney; Spin Your Web, Lady,
Lockridge; The Case of the Dub
ious Bridegroom, Gardner.
The library has recently been
painted and plans are being made
to hold Open House 'Thursday,
May 5, from 2 to 5 in the after
noon, and from 7:30 to 9 in the
evening. The public is invited.
ATTEND SCOUT MEETING
Lewis 'Upchurch and Israel
Maqn flew to Charlotte Monday
and attended a regional execu
tives meeting of the Boy Scouts
of America. Dr. R. L. Murray,
who was in Charlotte, attended
also.
BETHEL CAKE SALE
The ladies of B^hel .Presby
terian church will hold another
cake sale at the Raeford Furniture
store Saturday morning, starting
at nine o’clock and continuing
until the cakes are gone. The
proceeds will go into the church’s
Sunday school building fund.
BALL GAME FRIDAY P. M.
The Hoke High Bucks, with
three victories in the past week,
meet the Aberdeen High baseball
team here in Armory Park at
8:00 o’clock tomorrow night. They
have beaten 71st, Wagram hhd
Parkton in their last three.
(Omitted Last Week)
The main topic of conversation
at N. C. Sanatorium at McCain
last week was the visit of Gen-'
eral and Mrs. Marshall. The kind
liness and consideration of Gen
eral and Mrs. Marshall endeared
them to the ihaiiy patients of the
sanatorium with whom they chat
ted and shook hands last Friday
afternoon.
The General came as a result of
a letter written by John S. Hol
land, a patient of N. C. Sanator
ium and Register of Deeds of
Craven County, inviting the
Marshalls to visit the institution
The reply, return mail, con
ditioned General Marshall ac
ceptance on an invitation by Dr.
H. S. Willis, Superintendent. This
was promptly tendered.
New Easter pajamas and bed
jackets were donned by the pat
ients in anticipation of as the
news of his visit spread. Many
patients were allowed to stand at
their door , ways—for this, occa
sion—to greet and be greeted by
General and Mrs. Marshall.
They were escorted through the
wards by Dr, an^ .Mrs. H. S. Wil
lis and Dr. J. S. Hiatt, associate-
superintendent . and accompanied
on each ward by the doctor in
charge. The General expressed
regret at not being able to see all
wards of the Sanatorium.
Mrs. Johnson Passes
In Fayetteville
Mrs. Florence Leslie Johnson,
aged. 70. died Sunday night at the
home of a sister, Mrs. Ida Mon
roe, in Fayetteville, after a leng
thy illness.
She was born in Cumberland
county, a daughter of the late
Alex Lester and Mrs. Sarah Lind
sey Leslie. She* was the widow
of C. L. Johnson of Wade and
had made her home^n Fayette
ville for a number of years.
She is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Ida Monroe of Fayetteville,
and Mrs. Sallie Bruton of Seven
ty-First township; and a num
ber of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday afternoon at three
o’clock from the Jernigan Funeral
Home by Dr. Walker B. Healy
and the ReV. Beverly O. Shannon,
pastor of Galatia Presbyterian
church. Burial was in the Galatia
church cemetery.
Active pallbearers were ne
phews of Mrs. Johnson: Leslie
Bruton, Leslie Monroe, June Mon
roe, N. A. “Buck” Monroe, Ken
neth Monroe and Scott Camp
bell.
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becomes TRUSTEE OF
GREATER UNIVERSITY
Don’t know whether becoming
a trustee of the Greater Univer
sity of North
Carolina is rea
son to run his
pictime or not,
Iput the gentle
man to the left
is Hoke county’s
R epresenta tiye
H. A, Greene,
who was ap
pointed to the
board of trus-
t e e s several
I weeks ago. We
I are running the
picture because
we are so slow hearing about
things sometimes.
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John Walker is a patient at
Veterans Hospital in Fayette
ville.
The last date for applying for
a loan on 1948 cotton is April 30,
1949. This is the final date pro-,
ducers will have an opportunity
of placing their 1948 cotton crop
under government loan.
The U. S. Department of Ag
riculture announced today that all
1948 - crop loan cotton, including
American-Egyptian, still under
loan on August 1, 1949. will^ be
pooled on that date by Commodity
Credit Corporation for producers’
accounts. The loans mature July
31. 1949. On March 17, 1949, loans
were outstanding on about 4,-
400,090 bales of 1948-crop cotton
from the 4,865,000 bales placed
under loans to that ddte. In North
Carolina 145,153 bales are under
loan.
Producers may either sell their
equity” in the loan cotton or re-;
deem the cotton from the loan
and sell it in the open market.
Producers are urged to give ser
ious consideration to marketing
the loan cotton before it is plac
ed in pools. At present market
price?, farmers should be able to
dispose of a substantial amount of
this cotton at prices that will give
net profits above the loan and
charges against the cotton.
The 1948-crop loan cotton not
redeemed prior to August 1, 1949.
will be placed in pools, as pro
vided in ithe loan agreements, and
sold ni an orderly manner by
Commodity Credit Corporation.
On' final liquidation of all cotton
in the pools, the net proceeds, if
any, after deduction of all ad
vances, interest and accrued
costs - including storage, insur
ance, and handling charges - will
be distributed among the producs-
ers whose cotton was placed in
the pools, in propeniion to the a-
moint of Hie loans on the cotton
placed in such pools. No payment
will be made to producers at the
time their cotton ,is placed in the
pools, and after July 31, 1949,
producers •will not be entitled to
order the sale of the cottop.
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Grand Jury
hdicts Grooms
For Jackson Deatli
Charged With Mtir&r Baf:
Judge Allows Bond; To Bci
Tried At August Term
The Hoke county grand jury,
at its meeting for the April term
of superior court here this Week,
returned a bill of indictment a-
gainst Manley H. Grooms, 55-
year-old white farmer of the
Rockfish section. Grooms was
charged with the murder of Fon-
zo Jackson, 42, at Jackson’s home
on the afternoon of Tuesday.
March 15.
The indictment originated in
the grand jury, as the coroner’s
jury at an inques: held here the
I day after the killing found that
I Grooms’ killing of Jackson was
ijustifiable homicide and did not
charge him with any offense. He
was charged with carry.ing a
concealed '.'ceapon in Recorder’s •
court the ne.xt week and paid a
fine.
Jackson’s body contained two
pistol , bullets and /ieath was
caused by one through the heairt.
Evidence at the coroner’s in
quest indicated that Grooms had
taken Jackson and his two sons
to Parkton in his car that after
noon and that the shooting took
place in Jackson’s yard after their
return. Grooms did not testify at
the inquest.
Continuance was granted the
defendant fay Judge John I. Bur
ney and he was released under
a bond of $1000 to be tried at the
August term of Hoke county sup
erior court.
FARMING
[By H. E. Vernon, County Agent]
Small Grain
Most farmers this spring have
been concerned over excessive
yellowing in their wheat. This
condition has been due to either
mildew or rust, and in most fields
both of them. Yields on these
fields will naturally be lower and
the grain will not be filled out as
well as in normal growth. Weath
er conditions this winter and
spring have been ideal for mildew
and rust and there is no way of
treatment after • the wheat is
planted. Some varieties are more
resistant to rust and mildew than
others; and to get a good compari
son, interested farmers can see
these differences in a variety
test on the T. B. Upchurch farm.
This official variety of the N. C.
Improvement Association is lo
cated on the Upchurch fsum just
off the Raeford-Dundarrach road.
Some of the wheat varieties thaf
are fairly resistant to Mildew and
rust are 5450 and 5466. See foam,
these varieties will be available
in small quantities this year for
the first time. 1
RED CROSS GETS
LAST FUNDS IN
Israel Mann, county Red Cross
drive chairman, reported this
week that three other contribu
tions had come in to finally close
the drive for the year. .Those re
ceived were Raedeen, $18.00,
Rockfish, $17.00, and a contribu
tion from the CROP drive freight
fund last year of $26.84. This
brings total contributions in the
county to $1832.40, exceeding the
quota by $146.40.
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Ryan McBryde is at his home
now and his condition is said to
be considerably improved and he
welcomes visitors.
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Outbreaks of . cholera tfsd bib-
cr diseases have beat widespirOBd
both in Hoke County and in thn
State. With the price of hogs
$16-$17 per hundred pounds ik
takes very few losses to make Ibe
aferage farm hog rafting an un
profitable- set-up. I have had
numerous questions recently a-
bout “What can I do to make
cheaper meat.” .4 growing, well-
fed, thrifty pig is much more re
sistant to “Ailments” than the
hog that, is just carried along. I
would suggest three things that
could be done now: (1) provide
clean ground for the sow and ^
then the yoimg pigs, (2) plant at
least 0.1 acre of soybeans for each,
hog for summer grazing, and (3)
provide some mineral supplement.
All three of th^ .are inexpen
sive and can be done on inoet
farms. A good cheap mineral sup
plement can be made by mixing^
one gallon of lime, one galhxi of
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