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li ■ 't-' voiC! or IRCCDOM CIMIMAN' OFumn The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 1 YOUR jSCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald THURSDAY, JUNE 2,1949 RAEFORD. N. C S2.M FEB YBRB The Road Bond Election Satuiday newpreacher Pros And Cons Of The $200,000,000 Road Bond Election To Be Held June 4 I, :. • ■ ■"'5 r ► Tomorrow, Friday, June 3, sees the close of all schools in the county, The Antioch Indian school >«losed for the year on Tuesday, / May 31. They operated three more Saturdays than any other school. All white and colored schools close on Friday with Upchurch ;:faaving its commencement exer- '' iises at 11:00 A. M. and Hoke be ing the last with its finals com ing at 8:30 P, M., The year has' been a good one from an academic standpoint The practically 100% re-election of teachers spoke hli^hly for the work done. Transportation was the best in many years. Better buses and better roads with excellent work by the drivers all contributed re- gula^ and on time. Some resignations from the fac ulties of the various schools are causing worry to the principals and local school boards. New re gulations by the State Board of ' Education in regard to certifica tion of teachers may cause ad ditional worry to school officials, not only in Hoke but all the coun- • ties in the state. For the benefit of readers of The News-Journal this space is being used to present the pros and cons of the $200,000,000 road bond electioh of June 4th. The arguments for the bonds are presented in one column and arguments against the bonds in another. We are sorry to report that Bet ty Strother cut her hand badly at AShemont in an accident on Tuesday. She was given first aid at the Sanatorium and then car ried by Mr. Smoak to Moore County hospital where her cut was dressed. Due to the examination sche dule. the sevenlVgrzde promotion if i,. ,, fi«i?«cise6 and coounencemant exercises, th white schools of the ■ county closed at noon on yester day, today and tomorrow. The seventh grade pormotion day exercises are being held to day at 10:30 in the Hoke High auditorium. Rev. P. O. Lee, pas tor of the Raeford Methodist church, will make the address. All patrons and friends of the schools are cordially invited. The Hoke High Band will play several numbers just previous to the pro cessional. W. O. Melvin. Hoke High band (Continued on back page) FARMING TBy H. E. Vernon, County Agent i The deadline for entering the 1949 Five-Acre Cotton Contest is July 1. Any farmer, whether land lord or tenant, is eligible to enter and compete for the State prige of $800 and $400, district prizes of $300, $200 and $100, and also a county prize of $50. Applications are available in the County A- gent’s office. In regard to cotton yields this year, the Boll Weevil ^tuation is of extreme impoiiance. -Mr. Bondy of the Pee Bee Experiment Sta tion in South Carolina says that the weevil carried over from last year .is lafg^: anyfe^. ^ce 1936. In, c^ge . yy^re ' '500 weevils were iplaf^ l^st fall; 325" lived through the winter as com pared to only 4 the year befpre. This indicates that farmers will need to do a lot of dusting this year - particularly early dusting even before the squares have be gun to form. One or two dustings at this time, if practiced over a large area, will reduce the old weevil infestation considerably. iBenzene Hexachloridc, Toxaphene, r Chlorodane can be used for dust ing; however. Benzene might be more effective for early dusting because of its quick killing effect during rainy periods. The import-: ant thing now is to get ready and be prepared to control the early Boll Weevil. Governor Scott Says “North Carolina ^ at the cross roads of its transportation destiny. Again we must take the right turn—Better Hoads. The bottle neck must be broken' so the true potentials of our State—its peo ple aiid economy—can be releas- ed.” ■ , Governor Scott proposes paving 12,(XK) miles of secondary roads and placing 35,900 miles of roads in all weather conditions. When completed this program would bring a paved road to within one and a half mile of practically every North Carolina family, and remove the costly and repeated dangers unleashed by severe win ter or summer veeather on our secondary road travel. Isn’t There Enough Money Available Now? No. Only 3,000 of the 12,000 miles of paved roads which Scott proposes could be secured in the next 4 years without the Bond Issue. And if those 3,000 miles were paved, very few, if any, of •the 35,000 miles of secondary roads could be put in all-weather con ditions. Although the Highway (Commission accumu^ted a sur plus during war* years, that sur plus will be 'exhausted in the next 6 to 8 months on back-log needs. When this surplus is gone the Commission will be unable to maintain the level of its prewar construction. That’s why the Bond Iss'ue is a necessity if we are to have the Better Road Program. According to the suggested schedule for sale and retirement of the proposed Road Bond Issue, the. average annual cost for prin cipal and interest is estimated at $10,570,296. (This estimate is ■based on a 24-year period and an interest rate of 2%. Experts say the interest rate probably will be from 1 1-2% to 2%. This com pares with interest rates up to 5% on the Road Bonds issued in the 1920’s). $7,000,000 of this would come from the 1 cent per gallon in crease in the gasoline tax. The remaining $3,579,296 would come from Highway revenue now being used to retire the outstand ing bonds issued during the 1^20’s. The Highway Sinking Fund will be sufficient by 1953 to liquidate all unmatured outstanding bonds. The Road Bonds will not in crease property taxes, income taxes, etc. Repayments on the bonds will made from High way funds, hot the General Fund. ■We repeat for emphasis. The only increase in . t^ation jyeuld be Ic per gallon increased gaso line tax. . ■ fcv gen|^^ conceded j^et ^e jh^kiten^ce' of paved , ro^ds :^ce|i^^jth.e 'Merage cost of lih'^ paved roads,' but the 12,000 to be paved" receive now considerably more than the average cost per mile due to its heavy traffic and constant replacement of its wear-^ ing surface of soil or gravel. For these particular roads, therefore, the maintenance should be little more than at present. Andf financing the necessary paving for the rural roads by the proposed bond money will release current highway revenue for the maintenance and improvemen'. of the other roads that hac.e been sorely neglected. Go\'ernor Scott has empbasized that the bonds will be issued only as they are needed and onlv as (Continued on back page) Vote Against Bonds — ' ' Road improvements is not the issue in the proposal to float $200,- 000,000 in road bonds and Increase the gasoline tax to 8 3-4c a gallon. The progress of North Carplina’s road systenri is already assured by the record-breakingv road funds avail|ble from existing sources And tax rates. All the bond issue referendum can decide is whether it will burden its citizens with imwarranted debt and un necessary taxes. Conservative estimates show that North Carolina will have ap proximately $331,OOO/)O0 avail able for all highway purposes dur ing the next four years, without any additional taxes or borrowing After reducting administrative costs and debt service, $291,560,- 000 will remain for road construc tion and improvement. This is 67% of the total amount spent on these same purposes during the past 17 ,years. Without' counting the h^avy in terest charges of guch a debt, just the principal of the proposed $200,- 000,000 bond issue would be equiv alent to 51% of the aggregate val-, ue of all the automobiles now ton, the road in North Carolina, and to 94% of the total tax collections of the State from all sources in the fiscal year 1948. During the campaign for the office he, now holds, Gov. Scott opposed as unnecessary a $100,- 000,000 road bond issue, suggestr ed by an opponent. He vigorous ly condemned the idea of “plung ing the State into debt” when there is so much money for roads from present sources. F)»scnt, State- and - Federal au tomotive and gasoline taxes cost North Carolina motor vehicle owners more than $88,000,000 a year—an average of $111 per ve hicle. This is about $30 above the national average annual per vehicle tax burden. The tax on each gallon of gasoline in North Carolina is 7 3-4c (6c State tax, l-4c State inspection fee, 1 l-2c Federal tax). This tax burden adds 38% to the cost of a gallon of gasoline. The Ic gasoline tax increase, which would automatically go in to effect should the road bond issue be approved .would make a total tax of 8 3-4c on each gallon of gasoline sold in North Caro lina. This ta’x increase would cost the State’s motor vehicle owners more than $7-milfion a. year, and would bring their total State and Federal automotive and gasoline tax burden up to more than $95,- 000,000—or nearly $120 annually for each motor vehicle. Should North Carolina adopt such a patently unsound and reck less measure as this $200-million bond issue, its national reputation for steady and progressive gov ernmental policies would be ir- hepjarably damaged. Industry and business would naturally shun a State that gives such plain evi dence of following, irresponsible fiscal policies. Ateve Is ike Bev. Judson Len- koB, new pastor of the Raeford Bi^tist chnreh, who moved hito the pastorinm on Main stredE ttili week with Mrs. Lennon and their yonng son. Mr. Lennon comes to Raeford from- the Grace Baptist church in Qurhaln, where he has been asdoclate pastor for the past two years. He is 28 years old and a native at Columbus county. Conunencement Exercises Tomorrow Guard Completes Firing Practice Battery A, local National Guard unit, completed the spring small arms firing season at Fort Bragg last Sunday. The imit had fired carbines there for four week ends during May.'’ All of the five officers and 102 enlisted men who are members of the unit fired the carbine and 'all officers and 97 enlisted men qualified as marks men. Of these five were experts marksmen and 27, were sharp shooters. ' The uffir^iirg^'"eamp ‘Ste’- wart on July 24 for the annual summer .encampment. The 50 caliber machine guns and Bofors 40 millimeter anti-aircraft guns will be fired at Camp Stewart. The unit is losing two men this week to the regular army and will have vacancies for five men to bring the strength to the 105 authorized by the Department of the Army. Two Local Girls Graduate At WC WBAT GOVERNOR SCOTT '■" SAID IN 1948 ; : €)n May 34, 1-948, on just a year qgo Governor.Scott.4,said:^..in a speech in Jackson , county;, , “It is ridiculous to advocate plunging the Slate into, debt with- a $100-million bond issue, as State Treasurer does, with more than, that already in the banks without interest. In fact' in all my travel- over the State, the, only persons, I have heard of who are in favor of a State bond issue are the State Treasurer ayd his big bank er backers.” Again at Salisbury on May 27, 1948, Mr. Scott said: “There is no need to levy higher taxes to pro\-icle the services that are needed. Nor is there need to plunge the State into debt with a bond issue when it has more than $100 million in the banks without interest.” , (Continued on Page 8) Misses Elmira 'Whitley and Laura, McDougald. both of this •county, were graduated from the Woman’s College of the Univer sity in exercises at Greensboro Monday. Miss Whitley • is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. B. Whitley of Raeford and is the third of her family to graduate from the University and the first whose graduation her father had witnessed. Miss McDougald is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mc Dougald. The graduation address was de livered by Governor W. Kerr Scott. 0 UNION SERVICE SUNDAY AT BAPTIST CHURCH The congregations of all the tpwji’s churches will unite with the Baptist on Sunday evening at 8 o’clock "to hear Rev! Jud9oH Lennon preach ^nd ^p^.wel^sqjne him and his family Id fiaefbrd. After the services vfihjP cOongrega^, tion will be invit^ '^9'';the base ment where they will be given an opportunity to me,et the new pastor and his wife and to enjoy an hour of social fellowship. Light refreshments will be. serv ed. Officers Get ^ 2 Whiskey Stills; Operators Fined Forgers, Fighters And Traltic Violators Also Tried Before Judge Tuesday Officers of the sheriffs depart ment and the rural police force hauled in two Antioch township men this week on charges of op erating whiskey stills. Both en- tied pleas of guilty and sentences were 60 days each suspended on payment of $25 and the costs. The men were Wilford McNeill and Roy Dial, both Indians. Henry H. Davis, white of the Army, and Nathaniel Ray, color ed. were each charged with care less and recUess driving as a re sult of a collision they had. Both were found guilty and each got 60 days to be suspended on pay ment of $25 and-the costs. Hubert Cole, colored, also got 60 days to be suspended on payment of $25 and the costs for careless and reckless drivihg. Paul Jones, colored, was charg ed with forging the name- of T. B. Upchurch on a check for $:^ and getting Johnnie HinnantT'te cash it. Jones is a tuberculosis pa tient 'at a "Veterans hospital in New York and was at home be cause of his mother’s death. Judge McDiarmid let him make the check good and pay the costs and returned him to the hospital. Willis Hood, white of the army, paid $10 and the costs for pass ing , a school bus while it was un- loa.dir^. , ... .... . . . The case against Walter Mc- Bryde. white, for driving drunk was dismissed. George McBryde, colored, was found guilty of viciatin^ the land lord and tenant act. He got 30 days to be suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. He appealed and bond was set at. $250. Three Indians, Highway Hen derson, Alfred Henderson and Revel Henderson, were charged with assaulting Lester Collins, Indian. Highway and Alfred were, found not guilty and Revel plead ed guilty. Sentence was 30 days to be suspended on payment of $25 and the costs. Three out-of-state speeders left bonds and did-not appear for trial. Two of these were $25 each and one, for going over 70, was $50. 0 Semi-Pro Game Here Tonight The Raeford and Biscoe teams of the newly-formed “Sand-Clay Semi-pro League” will play a game at Armory Park here to night. Game time is set for 7:45 o’clock. The league is made up of eight teams. They are Raeford, Aber deen. Carthage, Biaccs, Vass, West End, High Falls and West- more. A complete schedule of game te be pteyed her^ will be announced latei*. ’ ' . Dr. Leo W. Jenldns Of ECTC Will Be Speaker; 46 Will Recieve DiploiqBS The 1948-49 school term comes to an end at Hoke County High school with comme&cement ex ercises at the school auditorium at 8:30 o’clock tomorrow .Friday) evening. Dr. Leo W. Jehldns, dean ol Eastern Carolina Teachers Col lege at Greenville, will deliver the commencement address and 46 seniors will receive diplomas. The presentation of annual prizes and awards will follow Dr. Jenkins’ address. Mihon Maim is valedictorian and Anne Gore is salutatorian. Marshals for the commence ment exercises will be Freida Moss, Elease Moss, Elizabeth Snd- dreth, Melva Deane Brown, Nell Myers and Jean Cozart. Members of the graduating class are James T. Alexander, Janie McNeill Barbour, Bettie Ella Benner, Julian Hubert Blue, Jr., Frances Hamlin Bowling, Bennie Lee Brock, Frances Jean Carter, John Kenneth Clark, Mil dred Clark, Ruby Lee Clark, Dorothy Mae Cox, Martha Lee Currie, Muriel Jean Davis, Wil- liaiji B. Davis, Marvin R. English, Robert Legrand Gibson, Dorfcas Anne Gore, Joel Ellis Gulledge, (Ur., Joanne Hamilton, Beverly Carson Hodgin, Betty Hannah Holtzclaw, James B. Huff, Made Jackson, Maggie Jane Jackson, Frederick Paul Johnson, Hilda Ruth Jordan, Delton Groham King, Alfred Kay Leach, Marian Irene Lewis, Allen John Lundy, Jr, Milton Bernard Mann, , Marvin Duke Marshall, Jr., Alice Sutton Matheson, Charles Arnold Mon-' roe, Wade Gibson McDougald, James D. McGougan, Sara Neal McKeithan, Bobby Burns Mc Neill, Patricia McKay McNeill, William T. Niven, Fora Katherine Potter, James Archibald Sinclair, John Thomas Sinclair, Effie Isa belle Smith, Mary Ann Smoak. Eugene Teal. Legion Junior Team To Open Here Tuesday Play Clinton Under Li|dh4» ^ At Armory Park; Team , Now In District One ^ Raeford’s AmM-ican Legion Jun ior baseball team enters its cqm- petotive play with a game against Clinton in Armory park next Tuesday night, June 8. The team is coached by CoL W. L. Polde and boasts several outstanding young players from nei^ibaring communities as well as boys who played at Hoke High under Coadi Haywood Faircoth. The Raeford team, which was in District 2 with Tabor CHy, "White- ville and .Laurinburg, is now in District 1 with Fort Bragg, Clin ton and Dunn. The teams will play a six week schedule starting next week, with each team playing two games per week. District winner wiU then play winner of District 2 for the area championship. Both Raeford’s games next week will be played here, the second being scheduled against Fort Bragg for Thursday night. Complete schedule and names of all members of the squad will be published later. BROOM SALE -0- SALES EVENT HERE 3 DAYS NEXT WEEK : (fhe Kiwanis sale of brooms ^rnade by the Guilford Industries for the Blind started yesterday with Kiwanis President Robert Gatlin sweeping the street with- a broom and then selling it to Mayor W. L. Poole. The sale will continue through tomorrow. 0 1 RECREATION PROGRAM Sandhills Lakes To Be Opened June 1 Seven lakes in the Sandhills ■Wildlife Area in Richmond and Scotland counties will be opened to public fishing on June 1, ac cording to Clyde P. Patton, Ex ecutive Director of the North Car olina Wildlife Resources Commis sion. Present plans call for fish ing in the area through September 30. The lakes to be opened are: McKinney, Kinney Cameron, Gum Swamp. Broadacres, Scotland, Crawford and McCrainie. Fishing hours will be from sunrise to one hour after sunset, and daily fish ing permits costing 60 cents will, be required. These may be ob tained from the Wildlife Resources Commission personnel or their designated agents in the vicinity of the lakes. Size and creel limits in the sandhills lakeS«will be the same as those in other waters of the state. The opening of the sanefl^s lakes to fishing this year was de layed’By militerjr ri^euverg Ih the area**.. .' '»•*• . 5'. y '* * ——0- 2' Local Studelits To Finish Duke ' Methodists Will Open Curb Market The Methodist church of Ra«- ford is opening a curb markjrt Saturday, June 4, at seven a. ^ The market will he open every ' Saturday during the summer ’ months in the ^stores front next 'deor T. B. Upchurch, Inc. The enterprise is to 'oe a coop erative'undertaking of all Meth- . odists of Raeford and the" pastor has asked all . to cooperate , by j bringing to the market vegeta-^ .■ ! bles, fruit, chickens’, cakes, etc.-*' All quantities, large and- stnall, . will be accepted, be said, and the money made wiU" be . used 'for church building fund. Mr. Lee ex pressed the hope that people of the whole community would visit the market and expressed the ap(-,, predation of his church for their patronage.- , ■ . EFFECTIVE CLASS TO HEAR MISSIONARY The Raeford Clia'mber of Com merce announces in an ad in this issue that the merchants and bus- inesi houses of Raeford will co operate next week in three big ‘•88-Cent” days of bargains. The promotion will be similar to the Dollar Days program a month or so ago. Mrs. Neill McFadyen, president of the Hoke- Raeford PTA, s:aid tl'.is week that enough money has been, raised to assure the recrea tion program for the children hero this summer. .She urged all who could to donate to the project and assured all that if the project falls through their money will be returned. Durham, N. C.—Two students from the Raeford, N. C, area are scheduled to receive regrees at Duke University’s 98th comm encement on Monday, June 6 at 10:30 a. m. in.Duke’s Indoor Sta dium.. Local students who are a.mong over 1000 candidates for degrees a: Duke University thsi- year are: . Ja:u': Shirley • Blue, (A.B.) da'i'ighter of Mr. and Mrs.' J. H. Blue of Raeford was a member of the Phi Mu Soroity, YWCA and the Dea'n’s List, fall ’47. Zane Grey Norton, (A.B) son of Mr. and Mrs. J. . Norton of Route 1, Raeford. Miss Alice ^Longeiiecker, Pres byterian missionary to -Africa, ■ wiU discuss certain: phases of her work in' the Belgian Congo, at the meeting of the Effective class oh Sunday morning at the Pres byterian church. Cecil Dew teach er ■ of the class, 'says there wBl ' be no lesson in order to give Miss Longenecker the' full class period, and to enable her "to answer 'any questions which the members and their guests may have. While the class officers are all men, such as Donald Yates, Dr. Marcus Smith and Tom McBryde, they remind all who may be in terested, in. heannx Miss' Loog/^ necker on Stmday morning, |hat the cl^ is a mixed one, and dl -^hch care to cXBe. m j[^vited.4iw clgss. m^ts at 10 o’clock ^ west nave of the church audltar* ium. , \ e -0 : HOW YOU CAN VOlt —i* Some voters seem to have jpjt- ten the idea -that the $25 miUktn. . school bonds- and the $200 million road^ bonds are tied together 'aftd . • that .in qrder to vote for the schdol bonds they will have to vote fbr the rpad bonds too. That is a mistaken*.idea. You can vote tot the school bonds and vpte against the road ..bonds. Or you can vcjte for the road Bondh and against the school .bJnds. Or you may vote for both issues,, or against both issues. There is absolutdy no strings to the proposition, and, the voter is free to vote, as " wishes, for or against. Or for otti' ' and against the other.