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The Mildouson school present
ed its operetta, “A Rose Dream,”
and “The Wedding of the Flow
er,” last night at 8 o’clock to a
large and appreciative atitttence.
Vocational Agriculture teacher,
W. P. Phillips, took his Hoke High
stock judging team composed of
Jimmy Seals, Leonard Dunn and
Everette Bowen to Xiexington to
the • District Cattle judging con
test held at the Coble Dgiry near
Lexingon. The group was accom
panied by L. M. Lester of the ag
ricultural department faculty.
•i Ashemont school presented its
operetta, ‘♦A Rose Dream,” last
Friday night to a large and ap
preciative audience. The school
wishes to thank Mrs. Tom Sinclair
for assisting with the music.
Dr. Leo Jenkins,
ECTC Dean, To
Be Finals Speaker
Rev. Judson Lennon, New
Baptist Minister To Preach
Baccalaureate Sermon
ROBBERS CAUGHT SATURDAY;
ENTER McLAUCHLIN COMPANY
COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULE
The Hoke High commencement
schedule follows: Baccalaureate
Sermon, Sunday, May 29, 11:15
A. M.; Senior class night, Wed
nesday, June 1, 8:30 P. M.; Seven
th grade promotion day, Thurs
day, June 2, 10:30 A. M.; Band
Concert, Thursday, June 2, 8:30
P. M.; Graduation exercises, Fri
day, June 3, 8:30 P. M. Other ex
ercises are Mrs. Stuart’s 'recital
Thursday evening. May 26 at 8
o’clock at Raeford Graded school
and Mrs. McLauchlin’s recital,
Tuesday evening, June 7, at 8 o’
clock It the high school.
Hok# exam schedule - senior
exams, Thursday, May 26 and
Friday, May 27; 9-10-11 grade
exams - Monday and Tuesday*.
May 30 and 31.
3 Army Officers .
Die In Accident
Saturday Morning
Enlisted Man Seriously
Hurt; Traffic Tolljn County
For ’49 Climbs To Seven
Yesterday Miss Bradley’s music
pupils gave their recital at the
high school chapel hour. These
pupils showed excellent training
and the program was enjoyed by
the entire student body.
R. L, Mar^, principal of the
Mildouson school, this year, has
annoimced his resignation effec
tive at the close of school. Mr
Marsh came to us from Union
County where he makes his home,
He has not indicated what his
plans for next year are. We have
enjoyed working with him this
'year and sincerely regret that
he cannot be in the county an
other year.
Three army officers lost their
lives and an enlisted man was
seriously hurt in hn automobile
accident on the curve at Riley’s
Salvage yard on 15-A fpur miles
east' a here la^ Saturday morn
ing. ’fhe . wfe* occulted at ap
proximately 2:15 o’clock.
The dead were listed'as Capt.
Benjamin H- McElhinney, Jr., 28;
First Lieut. Lawrence D. Ray-
mand, Jr.. 28; and Warrant Offi
cer Merle G. Maxson, 8.9 Serious
ly injured was Recruit Johnny D.
Cherry, 17, Company M, Student
body. Camp Gordon, Ga.
The three officefs were return
ing to Fort Bragg from Fort Ben-
ning, Ga. where they had attend
ed jump school. They were mem
bers of the 82nd Airborne divi
sion. Rect. Cherry was probably
a hitchhiker with them.
Officers assume that the group
came through Raeford and went
on out Main street instead of
turning at the hotel! They then
took the old turnpike road to the
highway where the road enters
the highway with a slight curve
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Kiwanians Plan
Sale Of Brooms
Made By Blind
The Upchurch senior class night
was held in the school auditorium
Tuesday night. May 24. The au
ditorium was well filled with par
ents and friends of the class. The
class itself did a splendid job in
putting on one of the most pre
tentious class night programs
seen in a long time. It was divided
into three scenes - past, present,
and future. The entire class parti-
.cipated in the exercises whic^
•made it especially interesting to
the audience.
CAR IN WHICH THREE DIED—Three Army officars were killed early Saturday morning when this
car plunged across Highway 15-A near Raeford and struck a large pine tree. An enlisted man w ho was
riding with them was seriously injured. (Photo by Ridenour.)
Full Docket
In Recorder’s
Court Tuesday
Judge Hears Of Men In
Trouble With Their Cars
Wives, Liquor, Checks, Etc.
A plentiful variety of offenders
appeared for; trial before Judge
Henry McDlarmid in Hoke coun
ty recorder’s wurt Tueanjay. Some
of the. defpf^SJits had their trials
delayed a week or two while sev
eral have already paid or gone
to the roads.
James McMillan, colored, was
charged with giving a worthless
check. He made good the check
and the judge let him off with
the costs.
. Herman Maynor, Robeson coun
ty man, was cluuged with em
bezzlement in two cases involv
ing some timber cutting. Defen
dant waived preliminary hearing
and bond was continued at $500
in each case.
Buck McGoogan and Jesse Mc
Kinnon, colored, pleaded guilty
to owning a whiskey still and
each got 90 days to be suspepded
on payment of $25 and the costs.
Leary Baldwin, colored, was freed
when the State took a nol pros
on charges against him in con
nection with the. same stiU.
■ For driving drunk, Bette S.
Monroe, white of Fayetteville,
and Leonard E. Wood, white of
the army, each got 90 days sus
pended on payment of $100 and
the costs. John S. Kellison, white
of the army, was found not guilty
on the same charge. ^
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55 Farmers Hear
Dr. R. P. Moore
Discuss Small Grain
S. L. Williams, teacher of voca
tional agriculture at Upchurch
High aiinounces that special em
phasis will be laid on gardening
and both home and school can
ning. Quite a number of the color
ed schools have school gardens
this year and are planning to can
for their school lunchrooms this
season. Professor Williams hopes
that every family that can possi
bly do so will take advantage
of the opportunity for home can-
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AWNING FALLS
The wind was exceptionally
high some time Sunday night or
the new metal awning over Col
lins Department store was not
very strong, for it got blown down,
it has been repaired this week
and with new iron braces now
looks like a tornado couldn’t get
it down. /
Fifty-five farmers heard Dr. R.
P. Moore discuss Small Grain
Varieties at the Upchurch Airport
and at the T. B. Upchurch farm
Tuesday. A ‘delicious fish fry, giv
en by Tommie Upchurch at 12:30
p. m. gave the Small Grain Meet
ing a good start.
Or. Moore, in charge of the N.
C. ^Crop Improvement Association
discussed the Wheat, Oats, and
Barley Varieties that are in the
official variety test on the Up
church Farms. He stressed tiie
fact that changing crop conditions
disease, etc. necessitate the breed
ing of “new strains or better var
ieties. He added further that a
variety of wheat recommended
this year may be inferior three
years from now, and that farmers
must keep abreast of these
changes in order to maintain high
er yields. '
The farmers were able to see
and compare twenty-five varie
ties of wheat, thirty-six of oats,
and nine of Barley. Atlas 50 and
Atlas 66 wheat, two rust and
mildew resistant varieties, look
ed particularly good and some
seed will be available to farmers
this fall. Dr, Moore said also that
some seed of the Colonial barley
will be available.
“Lets make a clean sweep.”
If you hear that statement on
the street of Raeford, the perti-
cipants are probably not talking
atiout the town election. It’s on
the lips of every Raeford Kiwan-
ian—the big broom sale to be
conducted on th^ streets of Rae
ford and by house-to-house can
vass.
At'the last meeting of the club
the members voted' wianimously
to conduct the sale of brooms
manufactured by blihd people of
Greensboro. The sale will open
Wednesday afternoon June.l, and
continue through Friday, Jime 3.
The brooms are manufactured
by the Guilford Industries, foimd-
ed years ago in Greensboro to
give employment to the blind.
Thirty blind people are now em
ployed there, mainufacturing 19
different kind of brooms, as well
as rubber mats, mops, ahd other
items.
It has been reported that Rob
ert Gatlin, president of the Ki-
wanis club, will sweep the streets
of Raeford as a part of the pro
ject. A part of the proceeds from
each sale will go into the funds
of the local club for community
service work.
The brooms are claimed to be
of much higher quality than the
average broom. This purpose-of
having the broom sale is to create
work for the employees of Guil
ford Industries for the Blind, to
provide more jobs for visually
handicapped people in North Car
olina and to provide a means for
the local Kiwanis club to carry
on its community setvice program
to the people of Raeford and^Hoke
county. ,
Members of the Kiwanis club
have been organized into teams
and they will make a house to
house canvass with brooms.
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MISS LONGNECKER TO
SPEAK SUNDAY NIGHT
CLEAN-UP WEEK
GREAT SUCCESS
The annual meeting of the
Women of the Church, which is
known as the Birthday Party, will
be held at the Presbyterian church
Sunday night, .May 29th, at 8 o’
clock. This is the 27th anniver
sary. Miss Longenecker. the local
church’s missionary will be the
guest speaker. Her talk on For
eign Missions will be most in
teresting. She will show picture
slides of work in both northern
and Southern Africa, as her fath
er is also a missioiUpiry to Africa.
Offering will be taken for inis-
sions in Brazil to build a much
needed chapel and for the Amer
ican Bible Society so that Bibles
may be sent to Japan. Africa,
Brazil and Germany,
After the program light refresh
ments will be served. All members
of the church and others inter
ested are urged to be present.
Officers of the Raeford
Chamber of Commerce ex
pressed the opinion this week
that the “Clean-up, Paint-up,
Fix-up Week” promoted by
the Chamber last week was
highly successful and greatly
improved the appearance of
the town.
The officials of the Cham
ber found the almost univer
sal cooperation in the town
highly gratifying and the co
operation of' the town admini
stration in making its facilities
available in the drive was also
beneficial. While some indivi
duals did not cooperate, most
did, to the end that all got a
feeling of working together
toward a common end that was
good.
The Chamber plans to make
this drive as annual affair and
urges all residents to keep
their premises clean so that
the town will gain the repu
tation of being a clean town
and a good place to live.
The program of commencement
activities for Hoke County High
School has been ^officially an
nounced by Principal W. T. Gib
son, Jr.
On Sunday morning. May 29,
Rev. Judson Lennon, Pastor of
Raeford Baptist Church, will give
the baccalaureate sermon at 11:15.
Under the direction of Miss
Mary Mclnnis, the Senior Class
Night Exercises will be given on
Wednesday evening, June 1, at
8:15. The seniors will present
‘■The Open Road.” Marian Lewis
is Prophetess, Belle Smith acts as
Giftorian, Joe Gulledge will take
the part of Historian, and Gra
ham King is Senior Class Poet,
nd Testatrix is Patricia McNeill.
The literary address is sche
duled for Friday evening, June 3
at 8:15, when Dr. Leo W. Jenkins,
Dean of East Carolina Teachers
College, wil deliver the address
to members of the graduating
class.. Milton Mann will give the
valedictory address'* and Anne
Gore, the salutatory. Diplomas
will be presented by W. T. Gibson,
Jr.
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Post Office Is
Authorized, pUT
Raeford has been authorized a
post office and Federal building
costing $85,000 under the pro
visions of the public buildings
bill which passed the House Tues
day in Washington, but there is
a catch in it.
The bill provides no money for
the construction of the many
buildings authorized throughout
the country, but states that ac
tual construction will start if and
when economic conditions in the
country warrant a public works
program. (Looks like we’ve got
to get a depression to get a new
post office—Ed.)
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Hoke’s Share Road
Money $1,268,000
Hc,ke county’s share of the
proposed $200,000,000 of road
bonds has been fixed at $1,268,000.
This is the amount allocated to
the county on a basis of area, road
mileage and population.
At an estiinated cost of $18,000
a mile, this sum of money would
pay for paving about 70 miles of
roads. At an estimated cost of
$1,600 a mile for “stabilizing” a
dirt road it would go a great deal
further, of course.
There is atotal of 47,000 miles
of xmpaved roads in the state. It
is estimated the $200,000,000 bond
money would pave about 12,000
miles, or a little over 25 per cent
of the total, leaving 35,000 miles
of roads uniwived.
For school building Hoke Coun
ty would get $250,000 as its equal
share of a $25,000,000 appropria
tion by the General Assembly plus
$101,591 as its per-pupil share
of the proceeds from the School
bonds. The per-pupil share es
tablished by the General Assem
bly is determined on the basis of
the 1947-48 average daily mem
bership.
The amount that would be
spent in the coimtj?- for road
building, if issuance of the bonds
is favored by the voters, is set
forth exactly in the road bond
bill, and represents what the Gen
eral Assembly determined to be
“a fair and equitable distribution”
based upon the formula in use by
the State Highway and Public
Lewis Parker
Funeral Held
Last Thursday
Esteemed Citizen Of Hoke
Dies In Fayetteville
Hospital Wednesday Night
Three Are Placed Under
$500 Bonds By Recorder;
Much GMds Recovered
Lewis Parker, one of Hoke
county’s most prominent citizens
and successfu farmers, died in a
Fayetteville hospital at 9:30 o’
clock on Wednesday night of last
week after an illness of 10 days.
Mr. Parker was born in Marl
boro county, South Carolina, on
October 6. 1868, son of the late
Phillip and Caroline Parker. He
came to this section about 50 years
ago and was outstanding in the
activities of Hoke county since,
its formation. He was a charter
member of Parker’s. Chapel Meth
odist church. For many years he
was a public servant, being on
both the board of commissioners
and the board of education for
several terms.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at his home seven miles east
of Raeford at four o’clock Thurs
day afternoon by the Rev. B. P.
Robinson and the Rev. P. O. Lee,
former pastor and pastor of the
Parker’s church. Burial was at
Galatia' ichurch cemetery. Pall
bearers were Marshall Newton,
W. M. T^M^ . A. K- Stevens,
Floyd Monroe, l^cy McNeill and
Ralph Plummer.
Mr. Parker is survived by his
widow, who was formerly Miss
Willa Ray of the Rockfish Ac
tion, and four daughters. Miss
Caroline Parker of the home, Mrs.
D. T. Jones of Washington, D. C..
Mrs. R. C. Bouteel of Houston,
Texas, and Mrs. Richa|d Neeley
of the home, and two grandchild
ren.
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British Present
Service Award
To N. C. Colonel
Editors Note—^The following
item from the Charlotte “Ob
server” is thought to be of in
terest to the 100 or more Hoke
county men who were members
of the 252nd Coast Artillery
and who spent from one to
three years in Trinidad and oth
er points in the West Didies
during and immediately preced
ing the war. It was during their
stay that Colonel Harriss was in
Trinidad.
Washington, May 24—“This
makes up for the months I spent
on that jungle island,” Colonel
Howell Harriss, Jr.;, of Wilming.
ton, N. C., said today after re
ceiving a British decoration for
“outstanding” wartime service in
Trinidad.
The Coast Artillery officer, who
is empolyed in the purchasing
department of the Atlantic Coast
Line railway at Wilmington, was
decorated as an honorary officer,
military division, the most ex
cellent order of the- British em
pire, in a ceremony at the British
embassy. Colonel H2urriss’ wife,
looked on proudly as medal was
presented by the British ambassa
dor. Sir Oliver Franks, on behalf
of King George VI.
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DOUG McLEOD BETTER
About midnight last Friday
Pobceman M. N. Cook of the Rae \
ford police force "icked up* a
suspicious looking character, a
colored man named Lonnie Taylor,
and locked him up. .
Saturday "-orning about six-
thirty, D. z- .umons saw some meat '
on the courthouse lawn and got
to looking around with the law
and found that a window in the
back of the hardware department
of McL’auchlin Co., had been en
tered. Looking further the offiiers
found that in addition to the meat
on the lawn, a bag of groceries
had apparently burst next to the
old Methodist church lot and they
were- thrown back in the bushes.
Some baseball equipment was also
found near Mrs. W. T. Covington’s
home which was identified as
having come fro.m IVIcLauchlin
Co.
About six rifles, 200 pounds of
side meat, bails, gloves, cigar
ettes and various other items
were found to be missing. Offices
learned from a taxi driver that
a colored man had tried to get
him to take him to Aberdeen with
some groceies during the ni^t,
but that he had not done it for
some reason.
The officers, town and county,
then got to work on the man in
jail, Lonnie Taylor, who proved
to be the key to ^ ease.. He. car
ried Aem to Aberdeen and by
Saturday night they bad recover
ed almost a truckload of loot and
had five more in jail with Taykn*.
One they were afto' has not been
caught.
In recorder’s court Tuesday
Lonnie Smith, Danny McDougald,
and Arthur Harris, aU colored,
were placed under bonds of $500
each for breaiking and entering
and grand larceny. Charges a-
gainst Avie McDougald, Minnie
Gilmore and David BUms, Jr.‘,
were dismissed.
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Still Captured
In County Friday
A. B. C. officers of Cumberland
and Mo&e coimties and members
of the Alcohol Tax Unit conducted
a joint raid on o liquor stiH in
Hoke county Friday which re
sulted in the arrest of three neg
roes and capture of a 150-gallon
distillery.
Arrested at the still site were
Odell Hailey of Lee county. Hec
tor David Smith of Harnett coun
ty. and John Signal Frye of Hoke
county, all negroes.
At the still site, located in the
Overhills section near the Cum-
berland-Hoke county line, officers
found 600 gallons of mash, and
about 22 and one-half gallons of
liquor. They said the still was in
operation at the time of the raid.
The three negroes were given
hearings before U. S. commission
er. Helen S. Barrington at Rae
ford and were bound over to
federal court at Rockingham un
der $500 bond each.
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Whitfield Talks j
On Road Plans "
At ctn orgcuaizational meeting of
the Hoke County “Better Schools
and Roads, Inc” held in die Hoke
County Courthouse Tuesday night
L. A. Whitfield, the Division
Highway Engineer, reviewed some
Doug McLeod, owner and oper- of the improvement plans. De-
ator of the City Market, who had signated on the County Commit-
Works Commission.
the bad fortime last week to fall
front a fish truck back of his store
and fracture his knee, is begin
ning to rest easier. His left leg
is in a cast and he says he is be
ginning to get more used to it;
as he must in the several weeks
he’ll be wearing it.
tee as Co-chairmen are J. M. Mo-
Gougan and Marshall Thomas. N.
F. Sinclair, N. B. Blue and W. L.
Thornburg are other members of
the committee. The Better-SdMtoIS:
and Roads program was endorsed
by the County Commissioners at
the meeting.