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■'iiL ■•Jtj-* Ji;- •,j^> f^t -’ ■«' J- .K"- 'S'*-!l.”HS.%^ fjoJj'' ■iMj jsijf ’■>- WJ 1'/? ,#• - ' ‘ilS vDia Of IREIDOM oruKRrr County News The Hoke County Journal m VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 16 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1949 RAEFORD. N. C. S2.00 PEB YOUR ISCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald The white schools of the county* opened last Thursday with a total enrollment of 1043. This topped last year’s enrollment of 1009 by 35. The only school failing to gain was Rockfish with an en rollment of 92 as against 102 last year. Mildouson, made the great est gain, going from 67 last year to 83 this. Hoke High went from 244 to 249, the 8th grade from 80 to 87, Ashemont from 108 to 115, and Raeford Graded from 407 to 416. The first grades in all the schools dailed to show the in crease expected from the crop of war babies, so they will probably flock in next year. Mrs. Chandler Roberts has been substituting for Mrs. A. D. Gore of the high school faculty, who has been out on account of the serious iUness of her son, Hal, who underwent a most serious operation in Highsmith hospital last Saturday. We are glad to re port that Hal is doing nicely now. Mrs. Younger Snead is substitu ting for Mrs. Dwight Brown of the RaefoH Graded faculty. , 'll , Mrs. Nat White, piano teacher , in the Raeford Graded and Hoke High school is getting off to a good start. Mr. Gibson^reports that her classes are practically full now. He also feports that Mr. Wrehn, band director, is having a good sign-up for the band. Those wishing to take band should see Mr. Wrenn at once before all ip- strun^epts axf assigned. Our first consignment of pears arrived last week and are being canned at a rapid rate both by the Raeford and Upchurch can neries. 1 Mrs. B. B. Cole has been ap pointed treasurer of the Rockfish school, Mrs. Belton Wright for Hoke High. All sbhools this year are required by law to have a're gularly appointed treasurer bond ed along with the principal w'ho will have to sign all checks and requisitions along with the trea surer. The Board of Education has assumed the cos,t of a blanket bond for all school employees re quired by law to be bonded local ly, , ■ - Lions To Raise Funds For Blind The Rockfish PTA held it first meeting of the year last night. Mrs. Cecile D. Osment, new: ele mentary helping teacher w'as the speaker of the evening. Mrs. Os- ment’s subject was “How the PTA May Aid The Teachers in Their Instructional Work.” Rev. W. B. Heyward spoke at the opening chapel exercises of the Raeford Graded school. His topic was “It Goes Down But It Gomes Back Up.” He illustrated the talk with a “Yoyo”. Rev. P. O. Lee was the speaker at the opening exercises of Hoke High and Rev. S. A. Ewart conducted ^ the one at Ashemont. The Mildouson patrons are fix ing up a basketball court at the school. It is presumed they will supply balls and other equipment along with the court. We think- this is a. splendid undertaking and wish them success. The Raeford Lions club will conduct a “White Cane Sale” here next week, September 19 through September 24, President T. B. Les ter of the ciub announced this week. The sale is to be conduct ed in cooperation with the North Carolina commission for the Blind and with the other Lions clubs in the state. One-third of all money raised in the drive will be retained by the local Lions club for-work for the blind in this community. This work includes rehabilitation of the blind and in aiding various underprivileged persons in secur ing glasses where needed. The general public will be ask ed to contribute $1.00 or more each to the cause and those do- iilg so will be given a lapel but ton bearing the distinctive white cane of the blind association and ■a one year membership in the As sociation for the blind. Members of the Raeford Lions club will contact citizens of the community next week and will greatly ap preciate all donations. Archie Mc- Diarmid is chairman of the Lions Club committee conducting the sale.• —: -0 120,00 More Horses To Go To Work Lumberton—60,096 additional horsepower will flow into the net work of the Carolina Power & « • Light Company September 30 when Governor Scott closes a switch to begin production of power at the company’s huge new 120,000 horsepower steam elec tric generating plant here. ^ Another turbine similar to the one already installed will be add ed by next year. Formal opening of the unique “semi-outdoors” plant will take place at 2:30 p. nj. and the public has been invited to attend the ceremonies. L. V. Sutton, presi dent of CP&L will share the speaking , with ’Governor Scott, and Rep. F. Ertel Carlyle of the district will preside over the pro gram, which will be broadsact. After inauguration of produc tion, the CP&L Company will hold open house, with guides to , ex plain to visitors how coal and water are transformed. into pow er. * ’ The new generating station is three miles from Lumberton and is'on the Lumber River. Started in May 1948, it is getting into pro duction about three months ahead of schedule. It is part of a multi- mil’ion dollar post-war building program of the Company, to serve the thousands of rural customers added since the war, as well as the program of rural expansion now underway. While the Lumberton station will make primary power abund antly available in this immediate territory, its production will be felt throughout the system of CP&L, which embraces 2 per cent of the area of the two Carolinas. Stepped up to 2'2,000 volts, cur rent will be transmitted to the local substation, and stepped to 110,000 volts, it. will be' sent to- Laurinburg, Fayetteville, N. C. and Marion, S. C. for further dis patching. At 85 fier cent capacity,, 750,000,000,^kMdtvat^' hours will be produced'* Recorder Telb Bad Boy To Go To Work Or Roads Sends Chain Gang Escapee, Also Expert Flimflammer, Back For 19 More Months In recorder’s court Tuesday morning Fletcher Pierce, young Indian, appeared before Judge Henry McDiarmid on charges of assault and using profane and in decent language. The judge ac cepted his plea of guilty of tres pass and ordered him to fin'd some work and go to it. He gave him a 30-day road sentence to be su spended on this condition, on pay ment of $10 and the costs and on condition of two years of good behavior. Chapman Covington, colored, was charged with escaping from a road gang in the county. Evi dence disclosed that Covington went to the home of another pri- sonlr here in the county after he got out and talked her out of this ' prisoner’s clothes and $6.00 after which he threw away his prison garb and came to Raeford and got drunk. Sentence was 18 months for escaping and 30 days for drunkenness. « W. U. Taylor, white, pled guil ty of giving Alton McMillan a bad check for $136.80 for some watermelons. Judge McDiarmid ordered him to pay the costs and to make good the check within 30 days. The State did not prosecute the case against Leroy McPher son and Betty Lou Melton for immoral conduct. Howard Shaw, colored, was found guilty of assault and using profane and indecent language in an affair that looked like a fam ily row. He got 60 days to be su spended on payment of the costs, tw’o years good behavior and on condition that he stay away from the premises where the disturb ance occurred. James Collins, Indian, got 60 days suspended on payment of the costs for assaulting Carlie Locklear, also aq Indian. George E. Noles, w'hite, was found guilty of careless and reck less driving and fined $25 and the costs. J. J. Andre, white, left a $25 bond for speeding; Henderson Dupree and Roy Mack, both col ored, each paid $10 and the costs for improper brakes. 0 FAIR NEXT WEEK The American Legion Fair will be held at the Armory ball park here next week Monday through Friday with a full scale carnival of rides, shows, conces sions, etc, on the midway, and with stock, handwork and other competitions for which there will be premiums paid. Enter, tainment will be furnished by the Twin State Shows. — - - ' Plan Scout Meeting At Antioch Monday; New Troop There " L. B. Singleton, chairman of scouting in the Western district of the Cape Fear Area council, announced this week that the western district meeting and Scoutmasters’ round table would be held at Antioch on Wednesday, September 21, at seven p. m. The committee and scoutmasters will be the guests of the Antioch Presbyterian church for a barbe cue supper. The church sponsors a new scout troop with nine boys on the roUs. Percy McNeill is scoutmaster. Willie Hodgin is institutional re presentative. Members of the ex ecutive board from the western district L. B. Singleton, Roy Su therland and Hervey Evans orf Laurinburg, and Lewis Upchurch of Raeford. Scotland Ends Jubilee Event Scotland county returned to normal this week after cramming half a century of achievement in to a week-long Golden Jubilee celebration that outdrew and out- glittered anything in its history. Interrupted by rain one night, the event officially ended Friday night-with the final performance ,c|f the historical pageant, “Gold en Milestones”; but it reached its chmax Thursday as 2,000 or more persons gathered at Legion park to hear an address by U. S. Sena tor Clyde Hoey and witness the fourth showing of “Golden Mile stones.” Senator Hoey was guest of hon or at a county-wide civic club meeting Presbyterian church grounds prior to his speech. The celebration, observ ing Scotland’s 50th year as a county crammed ceremony, pag- entry, oratory, and fun into five full days.. It featured speeches by Senator Hoey, Lieutenant Gov ernor Pat Taylor and Commission er of Agriculture L. Y. Ballentihe. Attendance at the pageant ranged from 500 to 2,000 a night, exceeding the fondest dreams of its backers. Van Wyck Hoke Dies At Age 78 Van^Wyck Hoke, 78, died at his home in Yanceyville Monday. He was the son of Major General Robert F. Hoke, confederate here after whom this county was nam ed. A brother. Dr. Michael Hoke, deceased, was formerly head of the polio center at Warm Springs, Ga. A retired attorney and busi nessman, Hoke attended the V^i- versity of North Carolina and Columbia University. He was a native of Raleigh. He Is survived by his widow, the former Annie Johnston, and two sisters, Mrs. Alexander Webb, of Raleigh and Mrs. W- D. Pollock of Kinston. Emergency Call For Money For Infantile Paralysis Epidemic Stephen Williams, vocational agriculture teacher at Upchurch, attended a pasture demonstration with some of the veteran trainees that wms held Cumberland County yqsterday. ' • Sutton anno! that the new % A second shipment of pears has arrived. This car will be divid ed between Hok^County, Moore County an^ tho-Sta,te Sanatorium. - -I ^ The Raeford Graded school ivel- comes the following new students from' out-of-town: Patricia Ann (Contiivued on back Piag’e): facility was ad(^d to take care of the anticipated development in ■CP&L 4grritory. V 0^—, " PLAN HOMECO PITTMAN GROV The, annual homecoming will be held at Pittman Grove church next Sunday,-September 18, arid friends of the church are invited to attend and bring a picnic lunch. Revival services will also begin that day with services each night next week. An emergency call for funds to meet cui’rent widespread polio ep idemics has been issued by the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, and Sheriff D. H. Hodgin, chairman of the Hoke county chapter is making prep arations to carry the appeal to the people of this county. A coin envelop^ printed in red ink, with the. simple address “Polio, your nearest_ postoffice,” will go -jnto every mail boxy;be- fore*the end'bf the week, and you are asked to plaws-fyour contri bution in this envelope and drop it in the mail box. It is estimated that it may take as much as $25,000,000 to meet the needs of the current situation, as polio continues to spread in many sections of the country. North Carolina was hard hit yast year by"'polio and the Na tional Foundation sent more than $300,000,000 to this state to aid in the care and treatment of its victirri's. Other thousands were contributed by .local chapters, and still the needs are pressing even in North Carolina, with many of last year’s victims still in hos- -pitals and under treatment. •You fre asked hel^ in ^thi^ emei'gency and to make it easy for you; the envelope' Tor your' contribution is going to your post- office addi-ess this week. You are asked to put your contribution in this envelope and drop it j in the, mails. The money will be used exclusively for the care of polio patients in all states. Dove Season To Open Tomorrow H. R. McLean, district Game protector, called the attention of hunters this week to the fact, that the first part of the hunting sea son for doves opens tomorrow, Sept^ber 16 and closes Septem. ber 30. Hunting during this open season will be during the after noons only and only with shot guns, Prcftector McLean said. There' will be another open sea son on doves later in the winter. Other seasons opening soon are squirrel, which is open from Oc tober 1 to January 2, and deer, which is open from October 15 to December 15. UPPER HOKE PEOPLE GET MAD, GO TO ASHEBORO, GET PAVHi Flies Fear Cotton For Some Reason, News Story Says —7- Raleigh, N. C.—^As its single contribution to the health of the Nation, and with a profound bow to good neighbor Virginia, State News Bureau here presents, in full, the following story from the Hamlet, N. C., New’s-Messenger, C. A. Martin editor and publisher: “Mrs. John Raby of Hamlet has just returned from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Russell Privett, at Norfolk, and with her she has brought stories of a novel method being used by Virginia house wives to rid their homes of flies. “Around Norfolk and Richmond they are using, believe it or not, (Continued on Page 10) 0 FUNERAL SERVICE FOR MRS. BRALY TUESDAY Funeral service was conducted in Aberdeen Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Betty Blue Braly, 23, who died in Moore County hospital Monday after a two-day illness. The service was conducted by the Rev. C. W. Worth at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blue, and interment was in the cemetery at Bethesda Presbyter ian church. Mrs. Braly is siAvil ed by her father, an engineer with the .A, & R railroad, her mother, her husband. Lt. J. M. Braly df Ohio, a daughter, a brother and a sister. Ingatherings The annual harvest ingath erings will be held, by churches in the county at various times during the fall. Meals will be served, with the main dishes in' most cases being chicken salad and barbecue. There will be sales of food, handiwork, produce, cakes and the. like at all of them. For the benefit of these churches and the people who wish to attend the in gatherings we will carry a schedule of those we are told about in this space until they are held. Sandy Grove Methodist church - Thursday, September, 29, meal at nobn, sale follow ing. Shiloh Presbyterian church. Thursday, October 6, 5:30 p. m., sale following. Ephesus Baptist church-Thurs- day, October 6. Parker’s Methodist church . Friday, October 7, meal at six p.- m., sale following. Tabernacle Baptist church — Rockfish. Wednesday, October I'’ Antioch P^gj^Bfterian church Thursday, noon, saje fol-lb\^ ^ Gai^tia\PresbH°- \ Jchurch- Tbursd%v, October -;y meal at m:,following. Bethel. P^e;soyterian church- Thursday, det^ber* 20, meal at community hoi^se at noon, sale to .follow. ., Raeford Methodist church - Thursdjay, October.,^, at.Rae ford Armory,'i.meSIs at \ boon and^ night, sale following, sup per. . ' ' s ^ \ Alcoholics Group Makes Plans To Organize Here There will an open meeting at the courthouse next Mondav night at, eight o'clock at which time a representatives of Alcoholics A- nonymous, well known organiza tion of chronic alcoholics who have done great work ii/ curing themselves and each other, will nj(ake a talk and define the ob jects and methods of the organi zation with the view of organi zing such a group here. The gen eral public is invited to att^d and see just how this group ope- ra'tes. Fourteen years ago a ebuntry doctor, whose career was being wrecked by heavy drinking, found the way out of his “Lost Week end” through the help of a New York broker, a fellow sufferer who had cured himself through service to others. That meeting resulted in the formation of the national organization known to day as Alcoholic Anonymous. In this 14-year period, AA has done what the Chicago Sun.Times in an editorial calls “one of the most remarkable jobs of our gen eration.” It points out that the rehabilitation of problem drink ers by AA members, each of whom were on call night and day to go to the aid of a victim ,is of inestimable value. Each victim saved means a family also saved. 0 — 1517 X-rays Given In County So Far By Mobile Unit The Hoke County health de partment reported yesterday that the mobile x-ray unit had taken a total of 1,517 x-rays in the coun ty in the two weeks and one dav it has operated. The first week the unit took 503 pictures, and it took 910 last week. On Tuesday-, the first day of operation this week, the unit took 99 x-rays. All persons in the county over 15 years of age are eligible, to have the chest x-rays taken at the unit free of charge. There is no undressing anci it takes less than a minute to take the picture. This x-ray shows definitely whe ther or not a person has tubercu losis and in many cases persons have found to have- the disease who did not know it. By means of the chest x.ray they find out in time to cure, it rather than wait until it is incurable and makes itself known. All persons x-ray ed receive a confidential report of the results. The unit began operation in this county on August 26 and will 'be in the county until Thursday, Octo'oer 6. Remaining stops sche duled for the unit are as follows: today, Freedom colored school; tomorrow. Sept. 16, Lobelia com munity house; .Saturday, Sept. 17. W. A. Black’s place; Septem ber 2'0 and 21. Upchurch colored high school: Wednesday. Sept. 22, Hoke county- white high school; Friday-, Sept. 23 through Thurs day. October 6. in front of bank in Raeford. Delegation From County Sees Commissioner Coble Tuesday; Roads Restored* ' me-ai- at lEO BOXSCORE OR N. C.Bl6HWAYS KILLED thru Sept. I'l Thrii'Sept. 12 this yea't Thru, Sept. 12, 1948 DIJURED Sept 10 thru Sepi 12 - Thru S^pL 12 this year Thru Sept 12. 1948 _ delegation consisting of Board Chairman 'W. M. Thomas. Com missioner J. H. Wrigxht, Auditor J. A. McGoogan and Representa tive Harry Greene from Raeford and Commissioner John' William Smith and a delegation of about 15 citizens of Little River town ship and H. Clifton Blue of Ab erdeen descended on State High way Commissioner George Coble in Asheboro Tuesday to take up the question of the roads in Little River tow-nship which had been previously' requested by the coun ty board but had been left off the approved list of roads to be pav ed. They got Coble’s promise to I restore the 4.2 miles of the road ■ from Lobelia to the Cumberland I line which had been cut off and j to give them an additional 3.1 I miles of paving on the road from I the Vass-Lobelia road in the di- i rection of Cameron. I The following article from the Sandhill Citizen gives the back ground of the trip and explains in general how the Little River people felt when the list for Hoke county was published last week. Editor H. Clifton Blue, of the “Citizen” is a native of Little River tow-nship. The people of Little River town ship in Hoke County are mad. They feel that they have been double-crossed and they plan to find out just w-ho is doing the double-crossing and then be ready for them w-hen voting time comes around next May. At least this was the im.pres- sion gained at the Citizen office as numerous members of a dele gation which w-ent to Raeford, Tuesday, indicated as they stop ped by this new'spaper office and related their story. Little River (Upper Hoke) which is cut of; from, the rest of Hoke County by the Fort Bragg reservation didn’t ask but for 9.8 of hard-surface road. The town ship now has a'o-out 3 1-2 miles of hard-surface road and got this only- last year. By asking for a small amount they felt that it would be granted. J. W. Smith, Co'unty- Commis sioner from Little River seemed to have felt confident that his township’s .modest request would be granted and the , m.ap of the proposed new- roads which he had indicated that die. roads would be built, but w-hen Hoke County’s 70.8 of new- hard-surfaced roads were listed in the News and Ob served last Sunday, Little River came up with 'only 2.5 out of 70.8 for the county. Monday, scores of people con verged on Com.missioner J. W. Smith for an e.xplanation as to why- Little River had again been treated as the countyRs redhead ed step child. Commissioner Smith was just as irate as were his constituents. He had been misled also. I A representative ' delegation I from the Monday’s mass meeting ! went to Raeford Tuesday to in- I quire of the Beard of County I Comniissioners , in regular meet ing what had happened. The ■ard seemed just as surprise! angry as were their Little ver. constituents. According to the delegation stopping at the Citizen office, roads had been ap proved which the County Com missioners had not requested and ■ roads left off which they had re quested. The commissioners a- . greed to go with the Little River delegation to Asheboro next Tues day to see just what had happen ed and to help, them get their roads. Roads 'which the Little River people had asked and expected (Continued on hnat p«fe> 'M