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The Hoke County News
The Hoke County Journal
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VOIiUME XLIII; NUMBER 49
THURSDAY, MAY 5,1949
RAEFORD. N. C,
S2.00 Fiat YEAB
msi
>,YOUR
SCHOOL NEWS!
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By K. A. MacDonald
The ftaefora Graded school will
ft
present its spring operetta “Flo
rinda, or the Rose and the Pearl”
tomorrow night, Friday, May 6,
at 8 o’clock in the Graded school
auditorium. In addition to this
presentation the operetta^-i^ill be
giveiT at about 10 A:.M. on the
same day for the benefit of the
school children. Mr. Turlington
says that any parents who find
it impossible to attend on Friday
night will be welcome to the
morning performance.
Last Friday. night the Rockfish
school presented its operreta,
“Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs,” to an over-flow crowd
that jammed the house far bejmnd
the doors. The presentation was
excellent'' and the audience en
joyed it thoroughly. Teachers and
pupils are to be congratulated on
the excellence of their produc
tion.
Principal J. W. Turlington of
the Raeford Graded school an
nounces' that Fast week a fire
drill was held at which time the
building was entirely cleared in
one ivinute'and four seconds in
cluding 3 children on crutches.
We think this is a splendid ac
complishment, and that the par
ents should appreciate the efforts
for the attention to the • safety
given their children by principals
and faculty.
Principal W. T. Gibson of Hoke
High and Mrs. Mary Mclnnis,
Science tea(:''?ier,‘auen'ded a-grttentre
conference called by the State
Department of Public Instruction
in “Fayetteville on last Tuesday
after'foon- This conference was
held for a study of new science
textbooks and new methods in
teaching science.
/
On next Tuesday standard tests
will be administered to the sev
enth grades in all white elemen
tary schools. Wednesday tests will
be given in all -other grades in
these schools. Wednesday will
a'lso be seventh grade day at
Hoke High. All seventh grade pu
pils will be guests of the hign
school on that day.
The Hoke High band has been
invited to play for. the regular
monthly meeting of the Rockfish
PTA at the Rockfish • auditorium
tonight at 8 o’clock. We under
stand that this will be a joint
meeting of the PTA and the Home
Demonstration club. Vfe are glad
the band will be able to play for
this meeting and* we hope there
will be a full house to hear the
program.
Last Friday at 1:30 p. m. the
Timberland and M c‘F a r 1 a n d
schools held a joint meeting at
which time the best readers in
the primary and grammar grades
from each school completed wPh
each other. Splendid reading cc-
comp^lshments were shown by the
contestants from each school.
After the reading contest spell
ing matches were held with con
testants from the primary graaes
completing and those from the
Grammar grades against each
other. The spelling was excellent
and showed that good work had
been done both by pupils and
teachers. This get-to-gether-Jay
is a yearly event for McFarland
and Timberland.
On Tuesday night the seventli
grade of the Upchurch school g'av.e
its operetta before a ,large and
enthusiastic audience. Pupils and
teachers are to be congratulated
on the quality of the performance.
Last Friday the Upchurch choral
club broadcasted from the stu
dios of Station WEWO, Laurin-
tourg. All who heard them en-
(Continued on page 4)
Pay Fines For
Driving Without
Proper License"
If you haven’t been up to the
courthouse on Wednesday or
Thursday and gotten your new
driver’s license and your initial
letter has come up for a new. one,
it’s more than likely going to cost
you about $38 sooner, or later.
Highway patrolmen bring in two
or three each week who haven’t
bothered to do it and Judge Mc-
Diarmid says “$25 and the costs”,
every time.
This week three persons paid
$25 and the costs for driving with
out driver’s licenses. They were
John E. Conoly and Ruth Fields,
both white, and Daniel Taylor,
colored soldier. Robert H. Gibson,
white, paid $25 and the costs for
allowing an unlicensed driver to
drive his car.
Lpke Brown, • colored, Charlie
Daniels, white, and Sanford Ja
cobs, Indian, each paid, the costs
for being drunk and disorderly.
Three white soldiers did the same.
They were Marion Luke, Julie
Montoya and J. M. Reaver.
■'•Leroy Murchison, colored, was
let off with the costs by Judge
McDiarmid for assaulting his
wife when she took his side and
wanted the matter dropped.
Leo N. Guess,' white soldier,
paid $100 and the costs for driv
ing drunk. •
Cecil. O. White, Rockingham
taxi driver in whose cab a wo
man was killed last Thursday,
paid the costs for'having improper
driver’s, license. Bronson A. Der
rick, white soldier, also paid the
costs for having improper driv
er’s license.
'■ Matho Odell Cunningham, col
ored, paid $10 and' the costs for
•careless dhd reckless driving.
Prince McNeill, colored, paid
$10 and the costs for having no
brakes.
Forrest C. Shaw, white of Fay
etteville; paid $25 and'the costs
for careless and reckless driving.
Jack E. Lee, white of Camp
Mackall, paid the costs for pass
ing a school bus while it was load
ing.
Wayne Miller, white soldier,
paid. $10 and the costs for speed
ing. Paul I. Cole, white of Moore
county, forfeited a $25 bond for
speeding.
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Raeford Native
Wins $5000 By
Writing Novel
A native of- Raeford, Charles
O’Neal, ribw a screen writer of
Hollywood, California, won a
$5000 • third prize in a national
literary contest recently with his
Irish novel, “Three Wishes.” ,
The prize was awarded by an
organization known as “The
C^hristophers,” self-described as
“a non-profit movement for the
return of Christian principles in
literature and public life.” First
and second prizes in the contest
were $15,000 and $10,000, re
spectively.
O’Neal said he was born in
Raeford in 1804, moving from
here to Oklahoma; from Okla
homa to Arkansas; from Arkansas
to South Dakota and from South
Dakota to Georgia. He played
football at Georgia Tech and later
at the University of Iowa after
which he spent several years in
Europe before settling in Cali
fornia to become a. writer. This
is his first novel.
O’Neal’s father, also named
Charles O’Neal, worked for Her
bert McLean in a furniture store
that was located where the Red
Wagon is next to Baucom Appli
ance Co. He later bought the store.
The family lived for a time in
the house now occupied by Mrs.
Dixie Smith and O’Neal built the
house now occupied by Mrs. L.
B. Brandon.
As the family left here in 1909,
little could be learned of Charles
O’Neal, but several people here
remember his brother Grover and
his sister, Beatrice.
rations For
Clean-Up Week
Moving Along
Chamber Designates Days
Of "Week For Various
Cleaning, Painting Jobs
As time for the Clean-UP
Paint-Up Week approaches plans
are shaping up so that this cam
paign sponsored by the Raeford
Chamber of Commerce will be
successful. '
The Town will be divided in
fohr sections and committees have
been appointed for each i section.
The following schedule will ap
ply for the week May 15th-21st.
Sunday—Church Co-operation
day.
Monday—Safety and Fire-Pre
vention Day. Clean 'basements, at
tics, dispose or rags, newspapers
and other rubbish in the house.
Phone Rate Boost
Granted To Carolina
Telephone Company
A rate iricrease estimated at
$603,958 a year was granted the
Carcfina Telephone and," Tele
graph company Tuesday by the
utilities commission.
The phone company; in two ap
plications, has sought increases
totaling.$911,978.
In its order the commission said
the company had “shown a de-
fihlte need for additional grosg
revenue but not in the .aggregate
amount requested.” y
The new rates, which will be
effective immediately, will - en
able the company, to earn a re
turn of 6.14 per cent on an in
vestment of $16,223,338, the com
mission order said. • ,
Carolina Telephone, which has
headquarters -in Tarbqro. serves
so.mc 72,031 ‘custcn.ors in a large
area ' in easterp^ItTorth Carolina.
' . The commission said that the
Antioch Church
Will Dedicate
New Building
Former Pastor To Preach
At Special Service Sunday
Morning; Dinner To Follow
Education Board
Reorganizes; Selects
District Committees
Monds
Educati-
nial ses'
the new
elected
lin was
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Start paint jobs inside and out,, rate increases would range ■ from
also paint porch and lawn furni
ture.
Tuesday—Front and Back Yard
Day. Clean alleys, garages, front
and back yards, gutters and walks.
Wednesda.v—"Vacant Lot Day.
Clean vacant lots of cans, bottles,
paper and weeds.
(on this day be sure that all
trash and rubbish is put is piles
where it can be picked up on
Pick Up Days) _ ,
Thursday—^Pick -Up Day. West
Side of Main Street, Magnolia St.,
Fulton St., Bethel St. and Green
St.
Friday—Pick Up Day. East side
of Main Street, Stewart St. Mc-
Lauchlin St. and Jackson St.
Saturday—Householders and
owners of business property make
final inspection of their premises
to insure' that no contemplated
project has been overlooked.
Every occupant of residential
and business property is urged
by the Chamber of Commerce to
enter into the spirit of this cam
paign to make this a cleaner
town. Your loyalty and coopera
tion will make this a better town
to live in.
LOCAL GIRL WINS
GRANT AT DUKE
.25-cents to $1.75 ppr m.oir,'-. for
business telephones and from 25
cents to $1 per month for resi
dential customers.
A hearing on .the original appli
cation in which the company
sought an increase of STuO.'OOO
was held on January 21, and _a
hearing on a supplemental ap
plication asking for $211,978 more
w'as held on March 3.
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JOHN WALKER AT HOME
Mrs. McKenzie
Buried Sunday
Funeral services were conduct
ed at three o’clock last Sunday
afternoon at Montpelier Presby
terian church in .Wagram for Mrs.
M. H. McKenzie, 35, of Wagram.
Mfs. McKenzie died Saturday
morriing at Scotland county Mbt
moriai hospital. Burial was in
Spring Hill cemetery.
Mrs. McKenzie was the daugh
ter of Mr- arid Mrs. R. W. Parks
of this county who survive her.
She is also survived by her hus
band and three children, five
sisters and six brothers.
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John Walker, who underwent
a major oper?ition at Veterans
Hospital, Fayetteville, last week,
returned home yesterday. He is
improving rapidly since his oper
ation.
LIBRARY TEA
The people of the county are
cordially invited to visit the Hoke
County Library today (Thursday,
May 5) from 2-5 in the afternoon
and from 7:30 till nine, in the
evening. A special effort is., be
ing made to get the people in the
county as well as the citizens of
Raeford to see the Library which
has recently been . painted. Re
freshments will be ,pferved.
TAKE HOLIDAY
On next Sunday morning, May
8, at the regular morning -v^ orship
hour the new educational build
ing at Antioch Presbyterian
church will be dedicated.
The Rev. H. R, Poole, former
pastor of the church and now
pastor of a Norfolk, Virginia,
church, will preach the dedicatory
sermon and Mrs. Poole 'vvill sing
a solo. Special music will also
be provided by the church choir
and by the> youth choir.. Arch
McEachern, chairman of the
building commit^e, and- W. A.
Howard, clerh of the .session, will
also take part'in the service and
the pastor, the Rev. J. W. Mann,
■will lead the congregation in a
litany of ’ dedication.
The building, which was com
pleted in Nox'erriber, has 10 class-
room.s, a well-equipped kitchen
and facilities , for fellowship
n.'.eetings. '
All who care to lo so are in
vited by the church to bring
lunch and remain for a fellow
ship hour at the close of the ser
vice. ,
The Rev. and^Mrs. will
be house guests of Mr. and Mrs.
A. A. McEachern.
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SERMON ON
“PREPARING FOR
CHRISTIAN MARRIAGES”
a~:,. ‘he Board of
i.-s regular bien-
■ re-organized for
T. Carl Riley was re-
;;;:-:ar.. Robert H. Gat-
eis'ted vice-chairman.
K. A. Ala-Di.-naid was re-elected
superin:e:;;ie;.t of schools and secr
reary to the Board. Besides the
chairman nd vice-chairman .A.
W. Wood of Rockfish, W. H. Gib
son of .-^n.i ch and N. L. AIc-
Fadyen 'tf R..eford compose the
county d-.-ai'i
or
f Education. All
Another Traffic
Fatality Occurs
h County
Scotland ' County Woman
Dies Instantly In Accident
Near Drowning Creek
of the above named members of
the Board ar.d the county superin-
There will be a sepcial service
Sunday for young people at the
Raeford Methodist church. The
pastor believes the best way to
observe Mother’s Day is to O'b-
serve it with the “Future” mo
thers. All Courting young women
and men as well as all young ihar-
ried couples are cordially invited
to attend this se^jvice. The Min
ister will speak from this sub
ject: ‘-‘Preparing for Christian
Marriage.”
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CLOSE COURTHOUSE
The armory wil^ be closed next
Tuesday, May 10, as all State
employees will be on holiday.
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SENIOR PLAY MAY 13
The senior class at the High
school will present, its annual play
in tVe auditorium next Friday
night. May 13. The title of the
play this year is “Aunt Tillie Goes
to Town,” a corpedy-drama in
thre^ acts. The play is being
coached by Miss Miriam Watson.
Along with almost all the bus
iness section of Raeford the court
house is also closing on Wednes
day afternoons during the sum
mer. They started yesterday.
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Charlie Simmons, who has been
employed at The News-Journal
for the past three years, has re
turned to his home in Winston-
Salem' where he has accepted a
position with The Winston Print
ing Company. He has been re
placed at The News-Journal by
Tommie Macko..
Tarheel In Washington
Janet Shirley Blue of Raeford
has just been awarded a depart
mental assistantship in Spanish
at Duke University for the 1949-
50 academic year, Dr. Paul M.
Gross, vice-president and dean of
the graduate school, announced
today.
Some 121 grants have been a-
warded at Duke ^to outstanding
applicants for awarded Work iii
18 departments of the university.
Dr. Gross said.
Miss Blue received her AB de
gree from Duke University in
1949. She was a member of Ivy,
the freshmgn scholastic honorary;
Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Delta
Pi, the language honorary.
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TO HOLD CLINIC
By Lester Baker
• * •
The monthly orthopedic clinic
wiU be held Friday, May 6, 1949,
in the basement of the Agricul
tural Building in Lumberton. Dr.
Lenox D. Baker of Duke Hospital
will ibe the surgeon in charge.
Please register at the desk be
tween eight _and eleven o’clock.
We southerners usually are
willing ito go the limit in mak
ing humble sacrifices. But when
it comes to sacrificing that old
southern delicacy — HOMINY
GRITS — it’s an altogether dif
ferent story.
The Senate voted favorably a
few days ago to require the eco
nomic cooperation administration
to ship 15 per cent of the com for
Europe in the form of hominy
grits, flour, or meal. ■ '
It was Senator Russell of Geor
gia, however, who spoke his piece
on the South’s supply of hominy
grits.
Said the notable Senator: “If
this amendment causes any short
age of hominy grits in the South
it will be outrageous!”
Then, another senator came
forth with the suggestion that it
would be Yell to educate .the peo
ple of the United States to the
food value of grits.
“Perhaps,” Russell remarked,
“But if we educate the rest of the
people in this country to the eat-
tendent
oath of ■
clerk c ■
The ;'
teeme’.i
new te;
excep..i
is new.
A. H. ):
Ma'i'cos
(.Asheni
l; Eu'.;::
trict N-..
lish, D.;
ere acimihistered the
ico ly J. B. Cameron,
ly'orior cour:.
ing cu5''rict -co'.rm'.i:-■
;■ » - ■p:,x..ir,'ed T ‘.h-c ; '
y::.i-.' ‘.viLi '.he , “
■Fverleigl'i'. ‘.vho ■ ■.
:.-w l'(Rac-iord;
r. . M. H. Ga-.lir.: Dr.]
j two me
'•7. L.' Thorn';urg, F. :'-G3rby
: .R. D. Smolhor: D:s-
R:'.-;Lsh,' P. C. Fng-
'rA'ncs. Vernon Par
sons; Di.-'.ri;': 'So. (Mildouson')
H. T. H:;w.. O. E! Max'vell. R. H.
Gibson: Di.-i'rict No. 5 (Antioch)
Mrs. W. C.- Hodgin, T. A. Mc-
Googan. W. T. Everleigh.
The Raeford District Commit-
The third traftic fatality of the
year in Hoke c-aunty took plgce a
few m.inutes before, six o’clock
last Thursday .morning on hi^-
way' I.5-A just about 200 yards
south of'where a-s'-idier- was kill
ed t'wo weeks ago.
Edith Gibson. Scotland county
woman going -frOr.‘.’’Fort Bragg .to
“vVagra.T; in a R.icki.nghami taxi-
The ta:-;. ' ' 'w ;' r
White of L.c.-ii.n
■■.her pass-engcr
of Hamlet. White
jury here that he
soldiers to F or
Rockingham, th-^t
m.an was ‘vvith
.n tne .acci-
'.vo m.ale oc-
e.scaped ser-
'hcle skidded
.e and over-
,in was pin-
; fe'.v inches
)-td ■■.■.'hen the
.■me.' living
-e: .ter out.
C cil 6.
.:t. a.-.'! the-
J'unior Peele
void-a ctro.ner’s
h.td taken two
Bragg from
the Gioson wo-
:hem. and that
ing quality of hominy grits, we in
the South wjio were reared on it
will suffer.
“We want more hbmiriy grits
and you can’t deny the people of
the South their hominy grits.”
tee has had its annual election at |
which time Principal W. .T. Gib
son, Jr. and all his faculty -were
re-elected. A: this same meeting
Miss Hilda Priest of East> Caro
lina Teacher’s college' and Eliz
abethtown. N. C., -was elected for
either math or science in the high
school.
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Memorial Day
To Be Observed.
In Ceremony
Alemorial day will be observed
here next Tuesday, May 10. and
a special program has been ar
ranged at the High school audi
torium for the occasion.
The program will be presented
at 10:00 o’clock 'and ‘.vill feature
an address by John A. Oates, pro
minent attorney and well known
historian of Fayetteville. The
public is invited to attend.
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Crowd Attends
Musical Program At
Upchurch High
On last Sunday afternoon at
4:30 o’clock the annual Upchurch
School Music Festival was given
to a large and appreciative audi
ence. Quite a number of white
friends were present and enjoyed
the splendid musical program
the fulles*. The Upchurch choral
club had as their guests th^
Laurinburg Institute Glee club
and a pianist from Fayetteville
State Teachers college. These
guests added greatly to the var
iety and quality of the program.
The choral club and its direc
tor are to be congratulated for
retary to the Board. Besides the
sic appreciation and for their in-
stituVon of the (music festival.
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TOWN ELECTION .
t'ney had sen: \;t 'uack to Wa
gram' ‘with him. He also saM that
he left Fort Bragg a: 5:45 a. m.
Th,o car ■'.vas headed south and
officers said that it had appar
ently gone out of control and
skidijed off the wet pavement in
to the pole. State High’A'ay Pa
trolman T. C. Tyson and Sheriff
D. H. Hodgin investigated the ac
cident. ....
Cor'oner Roper and a .ftiry’
found after investigating that the
woman's death had come about as
a result of an unavoidable acci
dent. White was released without
charge, ekeept \ha: he had an
improper operator’s license. '
!
FARMING
Unless Congressmen get busy
and speed up work on important
legislation the chances are that
they’ll be called back to Wash
ington for a special session late
this summer.
Senator Scott W. Lucas (Senate
Democratic Leader) has said that
a speed-up is needed at once if
the Congressional “Streamlining”
Act provision for summer adjourn-
mest by July 31 is to be met. He
reveyled. further that, if by that
date there is important legislation
still dwaiting action, he would
request President Truman to caU
a special session.
Thus, we come to realize more
pointedly that action on President
Truman’s, “must”, or “fair deal”
program is lagging.
(Continued on bacl» page)
47 voters of Raeford elected
the nominated ticket for the
mayor and town commissioners
in the town election Tuesday.
There were some scratches but
no write-ins, according to poll-
holder J. A. McQueen. The mayor
for another term will still be W.
L. Poole and commissioners are
T. B. Lester, Mitchell Epstein,
John Murdoch McDuffie, Belton
Wright and Archie Byrne.
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SNAKEBITTEN
Mrs. D. K. Parker was bitten
by a rattlesnake last Sunday af-^
ternoon in her strawberry patch’
near her home. She was, brought
to Raeford and treatment was ad
ministered by a local physician,
successfully.
: By H. E. Vernon, County Agent j
In last weeks article the home
made mineral mixture for hogs*^
should have read as foUo'.vs: one
gallon of agricaitural limestone,
one gallon of ashes, and one quart
of salt. . .
Farmers that haven’t already
done so should plant some t3rpe
of temporary pasture for hogs,
cows, or mules. Soybeans or Su
dan grass can be planted now to
give fairly good grazing through
most of the sum'rjer. and thereby
save a lot of hay and corn. Bi
loxi. Ogdes or Roanoke beans
shoull be planted in rows using
about a bushel of beans per acre
and fertilized with 400 lbs. of 0-
12-12. If you use Sudan grass as
your temporary pasture, then
plant the sweet Sudan variety in
18 inch-rows using abotit 10-15
lbs. per acre. Fertilize sudan a-
bout the same as corn - 200 to
400 lbs. of 6-8-6 and 100 to 200
lbs. of soda.
sesve it with the “Future” mo-
set out tobacco can get a lot of
protection from flea beetles Ia
the field by dusting witii DDT.
Just before the plants are drawn
for transplanting, dust about one
pound of 5 per cent DDT on each
100 yd. bed. The DDT will carry
over for a longer period of time
tran will any ify the other insecti
cides,
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MRS. BARRINGTON MOVES
TO PHONE BUILDING
'Mrs. W. R. Barrington, who
operates the Red Cross office, is
a justice of the peace, collector
for the telephone company and
a UniteS" States commissioner, has
moved her office from the Bank
building to the telephone build
ing next to the town hall. Th«
Bank has occupied the space
Mrs. Barrington did have with it*
new instalment loan department