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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 6
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949
RAEFORD. N. C.
RYAN McBRYDE'S FUNERAL AT
BETHEL TODAY; DIES YESTERDAY
62 Year-Old Community
Leader Passes In Fayette
ville Hospital After Illness
Of Seven Months
Ryan McBryde died in High-
smith Hospital in Fayetteville
just a few minutes after midnight
yesterday morning. Funeral ser
vices will be conducted at Bethel
Presbyterian church at four' o’
clock this afternoon and burial
wnll follow' in Raeford Cemetery.
Mr. McBryde became ill last
December, entering the hospital
on the 14th and resigning his seat
in the North Carolina Senate on
December 22 due to the condition
of his heart. Sinpe that time he
has been sick at home and at
Duke and Highsmith hospitals.
About Tuesday of last week he
was at home and began to get
noticeably weaker and on Thurs
day of last week he was carried
to the hospital again where he
kept getting weaker until the end.
He was 62 years of age, a son
of the late Thomas McBryde and
Mary McDuffie McBryde and he
had spent his entire life in this
section. He was one of the most
popular and prominent men in
the county and was a religious,
civic and political leader until his
retirement from active work last'
December. He was a farmer and
lumberman.
He was a member of Bethel
Presbyterian church all his life
and was a ruling elder since young
manhood. He was superintendent
of the Sunday School there for 30
years and was teacher of the
men’s Bible class. He was Mod
erator . of Fayetteville Presbytery
in January, 1947 and President of
the Men of the Church of Fay
etteville Presbytery from April
1946 to January 1948.
He represented the 12th Dis
trict in the State Senate in 1933,
1937, 1941, and 1945.‘under the
alternate system whereby Hoke
County has a Senator every four
years. He was selected for the 1949
term but sent his resignation to
Governor Cherry in December be
cause of his health.
In the Senate he was chairman
of the Finance committee in 194J,
chairman of the ifducation com
mittee in 1945. a member of the
budget commission from 1941 to
1943, a member o£^ the State
Board of Education from 1943 to
1945, and a member of the State
Hospitals Board of Control from
1945 until his .death.
He was a former member of
the Flolte county board of educa
tion and of the Raeford school
committee, and a past president
and charter member of the Rae
ford Kiwanis club.
He is survived by his wife, the
’ former Miss Swannie Rattz of
Mocksville; two daughters, Mrs.
Keith Tovey of Chicago, III., and
Mrs. A. R. Fitzsimmons of Macon,
Georgia; one son, Thomas F. Mc
Bryde of the home; one grand
daughter, Linda Fitzsimmons;
three sisters, Mrs. Irving Grant
ham of St. Pauls, Mrs. T. A. Nis-
faet of Wilmington, and Mrs. Wil
liam H. Regan of Myrtle Beach,
S. C.; two brothers. Rev. J, M,
McBryde of Fort Defiance, Va.,
and Dr. Angus McBryde of Dur
ham.
The funeral at Bethel this af
ternoon will be conducted by the
pastor, the Rev. S. A. Ewart, as
sisted by the Rev. W. B. Heyward,
pastor of the Raeford Presibyterian
church, and the Rev. Eugene
Alexander of Virginia, a former
pastor at Bethel.
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AT CONVENTION
RYAN McBRYDE
REA Is Now
Officially .Open
In Red Springs
New Building Combines
Office And Warehouse;
Structure Cost $55,705
The newly constructed REA
office building and warehouse in
Red Springs was officially open
ed on Friday, July 1, when Mana
ger D. J, Dalton of Raeford and
his office 'force completed their
occupation of the $55,705 project.
This building will serve as the
new home'office of the Lunibee
River Electric Membership Cor
poration, distributor of electric
current to rural homes in Hoke,
Robeson, Scotland, and Cumber
land counties.
One of the most modernistic
designs in this part of the state,
the REA structure was erected by
the Southeastern Construction
from Charlotte plans being drawn
up by an archtiect from the Sou
thern Engineering Company of
Atlanta and approved by a build
ing committee consisting of C. L.
Ballance of St. Pauls, J. R. Cad-
dell of Maxton, and J. McN. Gillis
of Fayetteville. The site is con
veniently four blocks east of Red
(Continued on back page)
Board Raises
Tax Rate From
$1.10 To $1.25
Postpone Tax Advertising
30 Days; Rate Raise Due To
Higher Budget, No Beer
The County Commissioners held
their first meeting of. the new fis
cal year last Friday, night, July
1. The board considered and ap-
i proved the budget for the new
year,, deferred the advertising of
I real property for sale for unpaid
taxes .until August 1, 1949, and
raised the tax rate in the county
from $1.10 per SlOO valuation to
$1.25 per $100 valuation.
The budget for the new year
is $58,000 as compared to $54,000
for the year just ended. Primary
differences are. in salaries for the
farm agent, the health and wel
fare department salaries, tax list
ing, increases in county’s part of
vocational teacher’s salaries, and
extra items for maintenance of
the county’s buildings. The new
budget includes but one rural po
liceman, the commissioners hay
ing discontinued one as an econ
omy measure. Harry Dees, who
was a rural policeman, will con
tinue as deputy sheriff and jailer
in the employ of the sheriff.
The board raised the tax rate
15 cents per $100 valuation. The
rate was lowered 10 cents last
year from $1.20 per $100 valua
tion.
Item to consider in addition .to
the higher budget was the fact
that the county is not getting the
approximately $15,000 per year
revenue from beer sales that it
was receiving.
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KENNETH PRITCHETT, 2
DIES SUDDENLY FRIDAY
REVIVAL SERVICE AT
COMMUNITY CHAPEL
Revival services will begin
Sunday afternoon at three o’clock
at the Community'Chapel Meth
odist church with the pastor, the
Rev. G. W. Crutchfield of Pine
Blulf, bringing the messages. Ser
vices will continue each evening
at eight o’clock next week.
HAS OPERATION
Mrs. W. B. Crumpton under
went a thyroid operation at Mercy
Hospital in Charlotte Tuesday.
Mrs: Arab Stuart is with her and
her mother, Mrs. B. E;. Gatlin,
and Mrs. Walter Freeman of Ab
erdeen spent yesterday with her.
J. B. Cameron, clerk of .the
Superior Court of Hokg county,
is attending the three-day con
vention of Superior Court clerks
which started at Wrightsville
Beach on Tuesday. Mrs. Cameron
accompanied him.
METHODIST SERVICES
THROUGHOUT SUMMER
The Raeford M e t h od i s t
church will be kept open for
services each Sunday through
out the summer. Remember,
the place of Worship in spac
ious and cool. It is cooler than
most of the homes. .
The men are asked to come
to the services without their
coats.
The subject for Sunday morn
ing is : The Sin of Stubborness.
If your husband is stubborn
get him out to Church Sunday.
If the wife is stubborn get her
out to the service. If the whole
family is pretty stubborn it
might help to come as a fam
ily. P. O. Lee
Kenneth Edward Pritchett,
two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Pritchett, died early Friday
morning at his home here after
ah illness of only a few hours.
Surviving are his parents and
one brother, Charles Edward; his
paternal grandfather, D T. Prit
chett of For tPayne, Ala.; his ma
ternal grandmother, Mrs. Annie
B. Davis of Lumber Bridge, RFD.
Funeral was conducted at Sandy
Grove Methodist church Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 by the Rev. W.
B Cotton and the Rev. P. O. Lee.
Burial was in the church ceme
tery.
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N. C. Sanatorium
Herd Ranks High
The distinction of ranking as the
second dairy herd of those in the
75 to 100 cattle class enrolled in
the Ayrshire Herd Testing Plan
during a recent month bps been
won by the registered Ayshire
herd of North Carolina Sanator-
iurn, McCain. '
According to an announcement
made by the breed’s National Sec
retary C. T. Conklin of Brandon,
Vt., the North Carolina Sanator
ium purebreds, a substantial por
tion of which were bred heifers,
averaged 863 pounds of milk and
34 pounds of butterfat during
that month.
Assuming production honors in
both milk and fat production was
Pinehurst Mark’s Anne, nine-year
old daughter of Pinehurst Noble
Mark, that produced 2127 pounds
of rrylk and 80 pounds of butter-
fat. Other high producers were
Samarcand Evelyn, with 1905
pounds of milk and 72 pounds of
butterfat; Gerald Primrose Lady,
with 1863 pounds of milk and 71
pounds of butterfat.
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WILDLIFE MEETING
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Officials of the Hoke County
wildlife club have announced a
meeting of the club and all hun
ters interested in lay days at the
courthouse at eight o’clock next
Wednesday night.
Legion Team Splits
With Clinton
The hard fighting RaefordAmer-
ican Legion baseball team drop
ped the second gaa.e of a double-
header to Cbnton Lyv the score of
2-1.
Raeford took the lead in the
first game and v.,:i never doubt
ed throughout the game, and went
ahead to win by the score of 8-1.
Brisson went all the way for Rae
ford with Cole doi.ig the receiv
ing. Hill was the losing pitcher'
with M. C. Calahan doing the re
ceiving.
The second game was a pitch
er’s battle between Cole of Rae
ford and Phillips of Clinton. The
game was scoreless up to the last
of the 4th when Brisson stole
home for Raeford’s' one and only
runn on 4 hiis. Then in the first
of the seventh with the bases
loaded, the third baseman of
Clinton lined a sharp single into
centerfield which scored two runs
for Clinton on 4 hits to beat Rae
ford 2-1.
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Commission To
Let Hunters Vote
On Lay pays
The WildlifS Resources Com
mission recentijy voted to hold a
referendum oi^ the question of
establishment of lay days on all
species of gaiAe for the 1949-50
season in any* bounty of the State
upon application made as pre
scribed in the following quoted
resolution, aej^ording to Clyde P.
Patton, Execu^ve Director of the
North Carolint^N^ildlife Resources
Commission.
“By petition to the Executive
Director of the N. C. Wildlife Re
sources Commission signed by 25
per cent of the holders of hunt
ing licenses of any type sold with
in such county to residents of
such county for the season 1948-
49. requesting that a referendum
be held to determine whether lay
days should be established in such
county; the numbers of such lic
ences to be set opposite the signa
tures of the signers of said peti
tion; said petitioh shall be effec
tive only if filed with the Execu
tive Director of the N. C. Wildlife
Resources Commission on or be
fore August 1, 1949; provided that
in case the license number set
opposite any signature on said
petition fails to correspond to the
stub on file of the license issued
to such signer of said petition,
such signature shall not be count
ed.
Upon the tiling of such petition
so signed by as many as 25 per
cent of such bona fide resident
license holders of the county ap
plying for such referendum,' and
after verification of such license
numbers so submitted, by com
parison with the stub thereof on
file in the office of the N. C. Wild
life Resources Commission, the
Director shall conduct a referen
dum in such county applying for
same on the question of establish
ing lay days on all species of
game in such county, as follows:
By mailing as soon as practica
ble a business reply postal card,
addressed to the N. C. Wildlife Re
sources Commission, Raleigh. N.
C.. to all holders of hunting lic
enses o fany type sold within such
county to residents of such coun
ty for the year 1948-49 then re
gistered or on file in the office of
the Wildlife Resources Commis
sion at Raleigh, N. C,, at the ad
dress then on file in said office,
on which card shall be provided
spaces is which such registered
resident licensee may indicate his
preference for lay days or against
lay days. Such licensee, in order
to have their indicated preference
counted, shall return such card
by mail within ten days from the
date said postal card is mailed to
them.
Upon the return of said cards
the same shall be tabulated and
(Continued on back page)
Hot Day In
Court Tuesday;
Usual Cases
Argument Over Land Line
Prolongs. Session And
Then Remains Undecided
Will McLean, colored, was the
defendant in a case that went
several hot rounds without de
cision in Hoke County recorder’s
court before Judge Henry Mc-
Diarmid Tuesday’. IMcLean was
charged by Kate. Wilson and
Joanna Maynor with trespassing
on their property, it being charg
ed that he was farming land that
belonged to them. McLean and
the prosecuting witnesses all
claimed to have a deed to the
property involved and the oppos
ing attorneys, Messrs. Whitley and
Gore, went at it hammer and
tongs. In the wind-up Judge Mc-
Diarmi’d deferred judgment for
one week at first and then inde
finitely.
Doug Blue' and Eula Hasty
Blue, colored, were charged with
the non-support of their minor
child. They were found guilty and
got sentences of six months each
to be suspended on payment of
the court costs and $100 to Lilly
Hasty due for the child’s support.
They paid out.
Edward C. Everett paid $10 and
the costs for careless and reckless
driving. *
Rayhiond Kirby, white of the
Army charged with speeding,
failed to appear for trial and
capias was issued for his appear
ance next Tuesday.
Silas Purcell, colored, was
charged with careless and reck
less driving and hit-and-run driv
ing. He requested trial by jury
and the ca^e was sent up to Su
perior court for trial. Purcell
posted bond of $200.
Ralph D. Parks, white, paid $25
and the costs for having no driv
er’s license and Clarence Dudlejj,
colored of New York, forfeited a
$50 bond for the same offense.
William G. Hendrix, white,
paid the costs for violating the
road laws and William Berson,
white, forfeited a $25 bond for
speeding.
Hqward Melton and Dewitt
Clark; both white, and James Sin
clair, colored, each got 30 days
suspended on payment of the costs
for being drunk, and disorderly.
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New r iembers Of
Wildlife Commission
To Go In July 11
' ../.embers of-the North
Carol.:..: ;.:e Resources Com-
m:ss;o:i ■ . . • oath of office in
the North Caro-
lepresentatives in
■ 11. according to
Executive Direc
tor 01 the C j;v.:'.'.:ss:on.
Robert Sadie/, owner and op
erator of an ice plant in Bayboro,
will replace Chairm.an Thomas
White of K;;'.s:on.in District 2;
O. L. Woodhouse, business m.an
and farmer nf Grandy, replaces
Joseph R. W.n.slow of Roberson-
ville in District 1: G. E. Beal, a
Red Oak tobacco warehouseman,
replaces S. B. Coley of Raleigh in
District 3; and Ernest McGougan,
farmer and retired army officer
of Lumber Bridge, succeeds Harry
A. Greene of Raeford in District
4.
The terms of Woodhouse, Sad
ler, and Beal expire in January
1955. and McGougan’s term ex
pires in January 1951.
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Locals Leading In
Sand-Clay League
The local entry in the Sand-
Clay .baseball league is still hold
ing down top spot with an envi
able/record of eight victories and
three defeats in the season thus
far, *“/
Next game is at 'Vass Saturday
night and the next home game will
be against Aberdeen here in Ar
mory park next Wednesday night.
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LOCAL LADY’S BROTHER
INJURED ON TRACTOR
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Commissioners RecommeiMf^
60 Miles In County For
First Paving With Bond
Issue iMoney; 48 In 2 Years
A.-; a.resul: of a hearing at the |s|
courthouse here on .June 27 at
v/h;ch time aoou; 150' citizens of
the county me; with the County
Co.mmissioners and State High
way Corn.missioner George S.
Coble, the county board.this week
=ent its recommendation for roads
to be pa-.ea to the State High
way commission. ■
At the m.eeting on June 27 the
comm.issicners met to hear dele
gations from 'all over the county
make requests for road Imiprove-
ments. A total of 21 requests were
subm.itted. adding up to about 112
miles. The corr.m.ssioners at a
later meeting studied the requests
in the light of the fact that the
county will get approximately 48
miles of paving in the first two
years of the four-year program
and submitted a formal request
for 60 miles. The State Highway
commission will reduce thig to the
48-mile maximum.
At present there are 91.4 rrinog
of hard surfaced roads in Hoke
county with 9.1 miles , under con
struction, making a pxessit total
of 100.5 miles in the
The 48 miles to be m the
first two years will he jlfiro-ttunil
of county’s proportkaal part of
the 12.000 phuined % be Hsved in
.3 ' ■ A
Earl Williams of Wingate was
critically injured Saturday along
with his seven-year-old son who
is also near death. They were
hurt when a tractor turned over
on them. Another son, who was
also on the machine, was thrown
clear and escaped unhurt. Wil
liams is a brother of Mrs. T. C.
Scarborough of Raeford, who visit
ed them at a Charlotte hospital
vesterday.
Tarheel In Washington
By Lester Baker
Unless Cohgrcs's acts soon, vqi'y
few more \cterans will be allow
ed to draw unemployment bene
fits under the G. I. Bjll of Rights.
This phase of the G. I. Bill—which
pays $20 a week for 52 weeks to
jobless veterans—is scheduled to
end July 25 for all but a few
special cases. ,
Farmers will be interested to
know that the government is go
ing to lend a hand toward help
ing to provide storage space for
the huge wheat crop which is ex
pected this year.
Under a recently approved bill,
the Commodity Credit Corpora
tion will construct bin-storage
facilities sufficient to handle 50-
million bushqis. in addition to the
bins—for 40-million bushels—it
already owns. Also, the govern
ment will make loans to farmers
for building new permanent farm
storage facilities.
Then, too, farmers wiU be al
lowed to store wheat on the
ground until the new storage bins
are ready. Previously farmers had
to store grain in permanent fac
ilities before getting loans.
The Veterans Administration
tells us that next January divi
dends totaling $2,800,000,000 will
be distributed among some 16,-
000,000 holders of national ser
vice life insurance. The money is
a ■ surplus fund built up by 'the
2O.OCO.'j0O. insurance accounts
opened by the service me:t and
women of World War II.
One of the women in Congress,
Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, of Ohio,
has been reading to members of
that body a series of one-sentence
quotations attributed to .Abraham
Lincoln. There is a tremendous
amount of truth contained in the
sayings, and one has only to pon
der them for a moment in order
to realize that they are just as
applicable to present-day condi
tions as they were back in Ole’
Abe’s time. With this thought in
mind_. I’m passing the qotations
along to you readers.
“You cannot bring about pros
perity by discouraging thrift.”
“You cannot strengthen the
weak by weakening the strong.”
“You cannot help the wage-
earner by pulling down the wage-
payer.”
“You cannot help the poor by
destroying the rich.”
"You cannot establish sound
security on borrowed money.”
“You cannot keep out of trou
ble by spending more than you
earn.”
"You cannot build character
and courage by taking away man’s
initiative and independence.”
“You cannot help men perman-
(Continued on Page 2)
Pavement requested in the 60
miles with the mileage of each
project is as follows: (1) From
N. C. 20 by way of Arabia to
Robeson County line. 8.2 miles;
(2) From 15A 1 1-2 miles west
of Raeford to Turnpike road, 1.9
miles; (3) Old iV|axton Road from
H. F. Currie Residence to N. C.
211 near Raeford, 8.5 miles; (4)
Turnpike Road from McDiarmid
farm to Mt. Grove Church and
thence to 15A at Alder.’r.an farm.
7.6 miles; (5) Old Wire Road
from Antioch to the intersection
with Maxton Road at the Arch
McEachern farm. 3;7 miles; (6)
From Lobelia to Cumberland
County line, 6.7 nhies; (7) From
211 at -Arch Tapps to Five Points,
2.1 miles; (S) From Ashemont
School toward U. S. 15 at the
Buchan farm, 3.,9 miles; (9) Old
Lum.berton-C.arthage Road from
Robeson line to the Wire Roadi
3.5 miles: (10) From Hard Sur
face Road at Graham’s Mill to
the Duffie- Red Springs Ro.id. 1.5 '
miles: (11) From Duffie Station to
the Maxton Road. 1.7 miles; (12>
Rockfish Station to ' I5A at Way-
side Station. 3.0 .miles; (13) Vass
Road from Jesse Dunlap Store to
the For: Bragg line, 3.4 miles;
(14) Wire Road from 2vIiXdoilsoit
to Cross Roads at Tritons. FiHinj
Station, 1.5 miles; (15) Lundber
Bridge Road from Davis' Bridget
to Robeson County line, 0.8 miles;
(16) Turnpike Road from Mt.
Grove Church to Buffalo Spring*
Church, 2.0 miles.
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ON
BOXSCORE
N. C.HI6HVAYS,
Killed July 1 throoxh July 4 IS
r
Injured July 1 through July 4 113
Killed through July 4 this yeetr 3CR
Killed through July 4. 1B4S
Injured through July 4
year
SS3
Injured through July 4> IBit S,4iy^^
Fbrom midnight Friday
midnight Monday 18
killed in highway
163 were injured, the
Patrol reported.