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T mc% .^' •A^fti. i*' ’ '■/%?’•' r iVT^ . fl’A w^» i ’^S ' Vr VTr-.‘-i **'^'" •’^* 'i-; •■•.•■,• A-•^: ;. *' VOICE OF FREEDOM GUARDIAN OF UBEMT HOMg r«*ui SifU.' The Hoke County Newt VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 14 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1,949 - Journal The Hoke County Journal RAEFORD. N. C. X VOICE OF FREEDOM' ' home mwyut vimum [MW •^1 S2.00 Cecil Dew Killed In Laurinburg Last Wedne^ay; Buried Friday Local Ciyic, Church and Business' Leader Dies Soon After Aato Accident News that Cecil Dew had been killed in Laurinburg Wednesday night was received with a feeling of personal tragedy by all who knew him last Thursday morn ing. Mr. Dew had been to Gibson and was returning to Raeford a- lone at about nine o’clock. As he entered ^he main street of Laurinburg (Highway 15) at what is known as the X-way intersec tion his car was,struck.by a Pon tiac driven by Corporal Utah CaldweU of Fort Bragg. Mr. Dew’s car was hit in the door on the driver’s side, turned over, and smashed against a lighi pole, com ing to rest with its wheels up. He was removed •dfrom .it and died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. Marcus Cecil Dew was born in Raeford on June 27, 1902, a son of Mrs. M. W. Dew and the late Marcus Wellington De\^ who passed away in March! of last year. He attended Raeford Hlfeh school until his last year and was graduated from high school in Asheboro. He attended ' Davidson college and graduated in 1922'. after which he held a position with the National Bank of'Char- lotte for several years. He was associated* for a time with the late Paul Dickson as as sociate editor of this newspaper - and after the death of the editor in 1935 "Mr. Dew l^vfe^generous- ly of his time and effort to keep the paper going and in training Mrs. Dickson to rim it. He became associated with Johnson and McNeill ( later The Johnson Co.) ..about 1932, and was active manager of the comp any from 1939 until his death. ' The late J. S. Johnson became iU in 1939 and died in 1940. In his church, the Raeford Presbyterian church, Mr. Dew was a ruling elder and clerk of the Session, as well as a past moderator of Fayetteville Presby tery. He was a Mason aifd Past Master of the Raeford lodge, a Shriner, a Kiwanian and past president of the Raeford Kiwanis club, a director and treasurer of the Raeford Chamber of Com merce. Of him the Rev. Harry K. Hol land, former pastor of the Rae ford Presbyterian church, has written: “Cecil was a good man. As a matter of fact, I believe he was the best man I have ever known. No one who knew him ever questioned the sincerity of his Christian character ot the purity of his motive. His life was an open book and* it revealed no thing ugly or sordid, or even tainted. His was a positive good ness. He had the knack of being good without smugness. He knew how to be true and faithful with out assuming an overbearing at titude. He was tolerant of the fauUs of others, yet for himself he insisted upon no compromise with his ideals and standards.” Funeral’ service was conducted at the home at five o’clock Friday afternoon by his pastor, the Rev. ^V. B. Heyward and the Rev. W. A. Wilkers’Sn of Rutherfordton, Presbyterian minister and fri end of the family, Pallbearers were N. A. ' McDonald, D. H. Hodgin. D. H. Yarborough, C.,L. Thomas. Henry Maxwell. Dr. M. R. Smith, H. A. Greene and A. K. Stevens, Jr. Elders and dea cons of the Raeford Presbyterian church . were honorary pallbear- ' ers. Burial was in the Raeford cemetery. M. C. DEW Prayer Offered By ICiwanians In Memory Of Cecil Dew Surviving are his mother, of the home; one brother, James Marion Dew of Charlotte; two sisters, Mrs J. J. Renn of Ru'Ui- erfordton and Miss Kathleen Dew of Charlotte. At the regular meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis club last Thurs day night after the meeting was opened by the singing of America, President Robert Gatlin asked all Kiwanians to remain standing for a minute of silence in memory of Cecil Dew, "wdiF had been killed the night before, at the conclu sion of which he asked the Rev. Judson Lennon, of the Raeford Baptist church, to say a prayer .Cecil Dew joined the Raeford Kiwanis club in January, 1937. He was treasurer in 1940 and was president of the club in 1943. At the time of his death he was in his sevenflh year of perfect at tendance at the club’s ijieetings. Mr. Lepnon’s prayer follows: “Sunset and evening star. And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.” Our Heavenly Father, thou hast come and called for Thy servant, Cecil. We rejoice in his promotion but at the same time our hearts are saddened because of his ab sence from us. We pray thy divine blessings upon his loved ones. May Thine eternal love be their comfort and stay and may they find Thine everlasting arms bearing them up and giving them strength for this trial, We thank Thee that Thou art our Refuge and Streng th—a very present help in time of trouble. We thank Thee ^that we were permitted to know Ceccil. one so devoted to Thee, sO devoted to his church, so devoted to the Christian way of Ife, so devoted to the welfare of mankind and so devoted to that station in life to which it did please Thee to call him. May the memory of his grac ious life continue to be a blessing and. benediction in our lives and in tb/"' lives of all who knew him. Our Father we know that the world is a better place in to live because Cecil live; We also know that heavt joices at the homecoming of one to bless iieaven even as he has blessed the earth. May the in. fluepce of his life help us to so live thr.t when our summers romes to bin ' “The innunierable caravan, which moves To that .rnysterious realm, where each shall take His cham ber in the silent halls of death. May we go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and sooth ed By an unfaltering trust, ap proach our grave. Like 'one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.” And now, O Lord, when the sense of sorrow and loneliness weighs heavily upon us, and the shadows deepen, and faith falt ers, and hope grows dim, draw us closer unto Thee, O God; en- (Continued on back page) American Legion Post Will Sponsor Fair Sept 19-24 Commander Julius Jordan Of the E?/is 'Williamson American Legion Post here, has announced that the post will sponsor a fair here* at the ball park during the week of September 19 through 24. Committee making the arrange ments consists of Jordan, Mayor W. L. Poole, and W. Moore, of the Twin State shows. Entertainment during the wejek will be provided by the ^Twin State shows and will include shows, rides, concessions and free acts in front of the grandstand daily. Contests will be promoted also. On Monday there is to be a fid dler’s contest. Tuesday is to be children’s day. Wednesday will be Farmer’s day with contests and competetions especially for and by farmers, and there will also be a baby contest on Wednesday. Thursday will be Mayor’s day and on Friday the beauty contest -will be held. A public wedding is to be arranged for Saturday. Mr. Moore is here helping with the arrangements and can be contacted at the armory by those wishing to enter farm products, merchants wishing to display e- quipment and others wishing to get information about the fair. A premium list is being prepared and will be made public later. Officials of the Legion post state that if the fair is a success they will attempt to make it an annual affair. 0 Officers Make It Hard On County’s Liquor Producers 0 Five Tried By Recorder For Having Still; Two For Having and Selling Storm Passes Here Sunday; Rain Tuesday High winds accompanied by rain vented themselves on most of North Carolina Sunday in what was supposed to be the playing out of the most severe hurricane the state of Florida has had in some years. Damage was done but not to a great extent in this section, although two houses are reported to have been consider ably damaged near Laurel Hill. On Tuesday afternoon there was rain several parts of the county with the heaviest being in the neighborhood of Bowmore and just north of there where, according to accounts of those that flaw it, several inches of rain must have fallen. 0 — GAMBLERS INVITED The Rev. P. O. Lee, Methodist minister has announced that the subject of his sermon for dfext Sunday morning is to be “I Be lieve in Gambling”. He says “Whether we gamble or not is not optiqnal. We all hhve t» gam ble. It is optional with us as to the horse we pick—the thing we select to risk our all up bn. What are you betting on, right or 'wrong? All gamblers are cordially in’vited to hear this message on gambling.” 0 MAKE VETERANS SURVEY Miss Marion Maxwell, local vet erans service officer, stated this week that the, veterans commis sion is how making a survey of the status of all veterans and that forms are being distributed to all^ veterans. She asks that veterans fill out these forms, which amount to a history* of each veterans con nection with the services, and turn them in to her at the court house. 0- V SANDCLAY PLAY-OFFS HERE FRIDAY NIGHT Officers of the Hoke county sheriff’s department had a speU of making it hard to handle ‘block” liquor around Hoke coun ty in the past week. They captur ed four stills and five defendants were convicted, as well as two for having and selling illegal liquor. Daniel Goins. Indian, plead guil ty of having a still and got six months sentence suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. James McNeill, colored, pleaded guilty of having a still and got six months suspended on payment of $25 and* the costs. His partner, Quilla McRae, colored, plead not guilty and was found guilty. His six months sentence was suspend ed on payment of $50 and the costs. Rubeth Locklear, Indian, got 90 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs for having a still, as did Alfred Chavis, also' an Indian. For having and sel ling liquor David Cherry and WU- Ite Smift, both colored, each got 60'days suspended on payment of $25 and" the costs. Other liquor violators included Tom Baxley, white, drunk and disorderly and violating the pro hibition laws, $10 and the costs; Charlotte Blue, colored, having home brew, 80 days suspended on payment of the costs; William F. Shepherd, wiite of the army, driv ing dtunki-'fe^’ days suspended on payment of $100 and the costs. Richard, Ralph, Maggie Lee and Van Evans, all colored, each paid the costs for participating in an affray, instead of assaulting D. A. Graham as they were charged. John Henry Johnson, colored, was charged with shooting Fred Campbell. He was bound over to superior court under a $300 bond. Jrimes Springfield, white, got 30 days suspended on paym'ent of the costs for trespassing. James MePhatter,, colored, got 60 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs for stealing $35 from Leslie’s store. He re turned the $35. Sam Clark and Amos Locklear, Indians, got 90“ days each to be suspended on payment of $10 and the costs for stealing some beans. Clark also got six months for as saulting his wife, sentence sus pended on payment of $25 and the costs and two years of good behavior. Hubert McFadyen, colored, paid the costs for assaulting Willie An drew Purcell? Purcell was found guilty of assaulting McFadyen’s father and got 90 days to foe Sus pended on payment of the costs and two years of good behavior. The state took a nol pros in the case against Richard Dock Ivey for having no brakes. Paul McNeill, colored, was found not guilty on charges of having no driver’s license or tags. For improper brakes or license plates Revel Henderson,. Indian,. Jesse James Jones and J. C. God win, colored, each got 30 suspend ed'on payment of $10 and costs. Roosevelt Johnson, colored of the army, got 90 days SiUspended on payment of $35 and the costs for having no driver’s license arid no brakes. C. V. Hedrick, white of the army, paid $25 and the costs for no driver’s license. Ge- Local Kiwanians Attend Convention In Chapel Hill Ro’oert Gatlin, president of the Raeford Kiwanis club, and Youn ger Snead, president-elect, ac companied by Mrs. Snead, at tended the Carolinas Kiwanis convention in Chapel Hill Sun day, Monday and Tuesday of this week. They ret)ort a highly enjoy able and educational trip. The meeting was opened Sun day night by Dr. Frank Hickman of Duke University and on Mon. day morning the Kiwanians were welcomed to Chapel Hill by Chancellor Robert B. House of the University of North Carolina. At luncheon on Monday the group was addressed by John Wright, Kiwanis International trustee of Lakeland, Fla. His subject was “Aggressive Citizenship-Our Re sponsibility.” # On Monday afternoon the dele gates enjoyed a show in the Morehead Planetarium entitled “The Sun, Our Star.” The banquet which was the highlight of the convention was at eight o’clock Monday evening. Speaker there was Wayne Guthrie, editor of the Indianapolis “News” who spoke on “Ringside at Bikini,” an ex pository of the tremendous por tent of atomic energy and the resulting necessity for patriotism and religion. Following the ad dress the group was entertained by Controller W. D. Carmichael and football players Bob Cox and Charlie Justice, and a musical group from the University. The convention was closed Tuesday morning \tith an address by Dr. Charles Armstrong of Salisbury, past president of Ki wanis International. 0 COBIE ANNOUNCES BE PAVED IN COUNTY 70.8 County Schools Start New Term Next Thursday Schedule Teachers, Bus Drivers Meetings iWing Week; Principals Tuesday Guard Unit Goes To Southern Pines Mon. Three officers and about 50 en listed men of Battery A, 130th AAA Battalion, local unit of the North Carolina National Guard, went to Southern Pines Monday afternoon and carried four of their 40 millimeter anti-aircraft guns and two of the multiple 50 caliber machine gun mounts The men were served a buffet supper by the ladies of the 'VFW auxiliary in Southern Pines and afterward the men displayed their equipment during a program par ticipated in by the Mayor of Southern Pines and others. The trip was for the purpose of show ing people there the weapons and equipment of the local battery, as a similar battery of the 130th battalion is in the process of be ing organized there. 0 MURDOCH M’DUFFIE OUT Preliminary Work Begins^ Some Roads Expected To Be Finished By Winter The white schools of Hoke County will open for the 1949- 50 term on Thursday, September 8 at 9:00 A. M. A full faculty at all schools will be in attendance. Previous to the opening of schools there will be a county wide principals meeting at 3:00 P. M. on Tuesday, September 6. That evening at 8:00 o’clock there will be a county-wide teachers meeting. On Wednesday, Septem her 7, at 9:00 A. M. there will be a county.wide bus drivers meet ing after which the bus drivers will get their buses. At 10:00 o’ clock that morning there will be held a faculty meeting at Rae ford Graded school and a high school faculty meeting at 2:00 P. M. the same day. Time for fac ulty meetings at Ashemont, Mil- douson and Rockfish will be an nounced at the teachers meeting Tuejsday evening. The faculties of the various schools are as follows: Ashemont: R. A. Smoak, principal, Mrs. R. A. Smoak, Miss Mildred Womble and Miss Nannie Thornburg; Hoke High: W. T. Gibson, District Principal, W. P. Phillips. Miss Erma. Williams. Mrs. Margaret McGoogarf, Mrs. J. C. McLean, Mrs. A. D. Gore, Mrs. Tom Cam eron, Miss Doris Bradley, H. A. Faircloth, Miss Miriam Watson, Mrs. M. L. McKeithan, Miss Mayme McKeithan. New teachers and home addresses - Mrs. Bel ton Wright, Raeford, William D. Kibler, Newberry, S. C.. Miss Hilda Priest, Elizabethtown, N. C., T. B. Wrenn, Henderson, N. C.. Mildouson: W. S. Bray, principal, Dobson. N. C., Miss Hortense Mc- ASHEBORO. Aug. 31.—High way Co.mmissioner George Coble today announced seiectiott of 1,476.8 miles of secondary roads to be hard-surfaced under th* S200.000.000 'oond issue program in the nine counties in his Sixth division. Coble’s announcement marked the official opening of a state wide accelerated road - building program sanctioned by the June 4 bond election. The Sit^th division commission er’s release, issued from the di vision headquarters here, included a sizeable hard-surfacing schedule for each county. ■ . j Harnett county , will get 203.5 miles; Lee county, 80.6; Davidson county, 180.2 ;Scotland county, 82.6; Hoke coilaty, 70.3; Ro’oeson county. 278.1; Moore county. 201- .3; Chatham county 133.5; and Randolph county. 224.2 miles. Coble said selection of the hard, surfacing projects had been made following visits to each of the counties in the division, public meetings in each county, exten sive on-the-3cene surveying of ^ the roads and long conferences with each board of county com- • missioners. ' A special yardstick tor select ing roads was set, up, he said, based on factors which he amd his engineers considered would guai^ antee attention to the “higher priority” roads first. Factors considered . under the yard-stick system were school bus routes, traffic counts, recom mendations from county commis sioners^ petitions from delegations^ number of persons living along the road, feeder roads and rela tion of the road to the highway system. The roads selected have been reviewed by each group of coun ty commissioners and they have approved the system used. 1 The Sixth Division commission- Gregor, Mrs. Irene Thrower. Rae-1 qj. gai(i preliminary work has al- At a meeting in Aberdeen last night final arrangements for the playoff games for the ^championship of the Sand- clay baseball league were made. First game is here in Armory park tomorrow night between Raeford and Aber deen. G^c^tiiiiAef 8:00 P. M. „ Murdoch McDuffie, who has been a patient at the 'Veterans hospital since February, came home Monday, and : was down town yesterday. He says he’s feeling better than he has in years. SQUARE DANCE FRIDAY ford Graded: J. W. Turlington, building principal. Miss Ollie Biggs Mrs. James Stephens, Mrs. Ruria Shelton, Mrs. W. W. Roberts, Miss Mildred Hamilton, Mrs. E. H. Robinson, Mrs. Dwight Brown, Mrs. Bertha C. Hardesty, Mrs. Carl Freeman, Mrs. A. H. Mc- Phaul. New teachers and their home addresses - Miss Martha Sue Black, Matthew's, N. C.. Miss Betty Little, Union, S. C., Mrs. Nat White, Raeford, Mrs. L. W. Turner. Raeford. Rockfish: T. C. Jones, principal, 'Mrs. B. B. Cole, Miss Jeanne Shiel and Mrs. Geor ge Monroe. Lunchrooms will be operated by Mrs. Lucy Smith, Hoke High. Mrs. M. L. Wood, Rockfish, Mrs. Aganora Andrews, Raeford Graded. We do not have information regarding Ashemont and Mildouson. Bus drivers by communities are as, follows: Ashemont - Archie Walters, David Jones, Tiffany orge Hedi’ick, white, paid SIO and the costs for speeding. 0 — 344 X-RAYS SO FAR In the first three days of opera tion in Hoke County the mobile x-ray unit sponsored by the county health department and tuberculosis association took 344 chest x-rays. The unit x-rayed 90 at Brown’s store Friday, 130 at Calloway’s Saturday and '124 at Arfiley Heights Tuesday. The fall series of square dances at the armory on Friday nights will begin' tomorrow night. The . dances will be sponsored by Bat- Cothran. E\eret .Bo.\en, . mioc. . tery A. local National Guard , R., H. Gioson. r.. unit, and music will be furnished ' Aic.iie Maxwe . bv Elmo Stanton’s string ’oand. ! tpn Dean; Raeford: Edward M.- Q _ [Girt. Davis Currie. Doug Clarx: ^ Rockfish: Roy Brock. Donald SCOTLAND CELEBRATION |,W;od and Marion Wood. j 9 Laurinburg—Citizens of ready begun in all nine countiea on the building program. Many of the roads will be completed before the winter weather. He set qpt definite time limTl on completing the first phase of the c^nstructioa program. “We will move along as quickly as w'e can,” he said. “As soon as this part of the pro gram is well along, we ■■will an nounce the second group of roads to be improved. The stabilization program will be carried on edcxig with the hard-surfacing jobs.” Special master maps have been' made for each, county showing roads to be hard-surfaced and factors used in . selecting thesn roads. The various factors am shown in different colors. By us ing this system, Coble said, any interested citizens can be shown immediately why certain roads were chosen for first consdieration and others left until later. Spe-, cial maps 'wili be posted in the courthouse of each county seat in the S.xth -iivision. showing which reads the hig’nway commissioa w'i.i- 0 LI I. iirst. No estimate was set on the cost f of this initial phase of the pro-'.".A. ^ram. Coble pointed out. Cost •.vill depend in large part on the?^'! availa'oility of .materials and other ing all out to make SOLDIER UNDER BOND IN | factors as the ^^^gram moves jyi Jubilee Celebration thing in Scotland County’s 50-year history. The pageant will run for five' performances on a 300 foot stage in Laurinburg’s American Legion Park, starting Monday September 5th. It will depict life in Scotland county at the turn of the cen tury. The event w sponsored jointly by the Laurinburg Merchants Association and Chamber of Com- Imerce. * DEATH OF CECIL DEW Cpl. Utah Caldwell of Fort Bragg was placed under a bond of $2,000 awaiting -iction of the Scotland county grand jury, by a coroner’s jury at an inquest into the death of Cecil Dew held in Laurinburg last Thursday. There was evidence that Cpl. Caldwell was possibly going 60 miles am hour at the time of the accident, and also that there was liquor in the car. along. The commissioner also said Im,'-'- and his engineeri.ng staff .will visifiy, the governing bodies in eaich mu-' nicipality in ’nis division during the next few months to discuaip the highway program inside theeg-i^ communities Some visits havg already ’oeen made. Roads to be hard-surfhced in Hoke county are as follows: From 211 via Arabia to son county line. 8JI tnilss; (Continusd on Mdt fll