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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLIV,- NUMBER 17
YOUR
ISCHOOL NEWS!
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949
RAEFOB0; N. C.
stNFmniK?
A & P Plans
To Fight Suit
To Break Chain
By K. A. MacDonald'"
There will be a principal meet
ing held In the office of the coun
ty superintendent this afternoon
at 2:30. The newly appointed
treasurers of the various schools
will also' attend. Mrs. Belton
Wright will explain the new sys
tem of bookkeeping that is now
required by law of all schools.
i
Friends of, the school lunch
rooms will regret 'to leatn that
Mrs. Anne Moley, State Super
visor of the State Lunchrooms
has resigned and accepted a sim
ilar position with the Texas State
Department of Public Instruction.
' The school health budget sub
mitted jointly by the county su
perintendent of, schools and the
county health officer has been
appro.ved both by the State Board
of Education and the State Board
of Health. This budget proposes
the spending of ■ school health
funds allocated by the State to
the county schools \ and county
health department for work in
the schools. ■ .
Mrs. Cecile D. Osment, elemen
tary helping teacher is attending
a workshop at the Woman’s Coll
ege of the University of N. C. set
up by the State Department of
Public Instruction to help these
teachers get started with their
work. The workshop will run for
six weeks.
Miss Mildred Womble has been
appointed treasurer of the Ashe-
mont school. This takes care of
all the schools except' Mildousbn,
%e..only ose .runh5rnrd from. 1
• f I
Veteran Groups I and II of the i
agricultural trainees under the
leadership of M. L. Lester, and
Horace Walters, have almost
completed a house for the janitor
•of the Ashempnt school. These
veterans are doing a good job of
building and have become so in
terested in the school that they
have decided on their own initia
tive to build playground equip
ment for the children.
The Mildouson patrons have
decided to put up some play
ground equipment. Some of the
material have been put on the
grounds already. Basketball and
volley ball courts, swings and
see-saws are planned.
The enrollment at Rockfish
school has picked upito where it
stands at 97, about 30 short of
what is needed to hold 4 teachers.
There will be a meeting of the
Board of Education held on the
evening of Tuesday, September
27, at 8 o’clock.
The colored and Indian schools
of the county will open for the
1949-50 term on next Monday,
September 27, at 9:00 a. m.
COLORED SCHOOLS
There will be a county-wide
meeting of the colored teachers
at the Upchurch school tomorrow,
Friday, September 23, at 2:30 p.
m. We are glad to report that the
part time position of Jean’s Su-
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MRS. CAMPBELL BACK
Mrs., Ernest Campbell is back
w'ith the local Health Department
after a year’s absence and study
at the School of Public Health at
the University of North Carolina.
NOTICE
>A1I those interested in forming
an Alcohoiic Anonymous group
in Raeford are invited to meet
at the Presbyterian manse, to
night at eight o’clock.
Describing the suit to dissolve
the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
company as a threat to the wel
fare and living standards of ev
ery American citizen. Officials of
the company announced today
they would oppose it with every
legitimate means. The suit filed
in the federal court" for the South
ern District of New York asked
the courts to dispose of its man
ufacturing arid processing facili
ties and to break up the company
into smaller chaiflk the A&P state
ment said in full:
“This action is a threat to the
welfare and Ifving standards of
every American, "citizen. If suc
cessful—it will mean less food on
every dinner table and fewer dol
lars' in every pay envelope. This
is not just an effort to destroy
A&P but an attack on the entire
system of efficient low-cost —
low-profit mass distribution which
this company pioneered.
A&P with the first chain store
in this counti’y and the methods
we developed have been adopted
by other grocers - as well as mer
chants in other lines. There are
today literally hundreds of chaie
stores and voluntary groups of
individual merchants operating
with the same methods and in the
same pattern here under attack.
If the Anti-Trust lawyc-S suc
ceed in destroying A&P - the way
will be cleared for the destri(ction
of every other efficient large
scale distributor.
There is nothing even approach
ing monopoly here - for every
housewife knows - the retail gro
cery business is the most compe
titive in the country and .we do
only'a small part of it. Nor was
there ever any charge ,;-that we
rai.sed prices - iSr tljV.^t^ ho^-basis
of this attack is the fact that we
,sold good food too cheap. There
is nothing in our operations - or
in any previous court decision in
volving us - or in the Anti-Trust
laws themselves to justify the
dissolution of A&P.
Obviously - it is the theory of
the anti-trust lawyers that the
people of America have no right
to patronize a company if their
patronage-will make that comp
any grow - and that any big bus
iness must be destroyed simply
because it is big - and even if the
public gets hurt in the proems.
This action is just opposite to
the purpose of the Anti-Trust
laws - wheih were meant to in
crease competition and keep
prices down - for if it succeeds -
it will serve only to cut down
competition and force prices up.
A&P’s policy always maintained
and kept alive the sprit of compe
tition.
Frankly - the owners of A&P
could make enormous amounts of
money by breaking up this com
pany _ as the anti-trust lawyers
wish - and selling off the parts.
But we believe this attack is a
threat to millions of consumers
who rely on us for quality foeds
at low prices - to hundreds of
thousands of farmers who rely
on us for fast - low-cost distribu
tion of their products - and to our
110,000 loyal employees.
There has never been any ques
tion in our mind that it is good
business and good citizenship to
sell good food as cheaply as pos
sible and we feel that it is our re
sponsibility to our customers -
our suppliers and our employees
to defend this company and that
theory by every legitimate means.”
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FULL 7IME GARBAGE
COLLECTION HERE NOW
, Mayor W. _L. Poole announced
this week that the town now has
a truck and crew which do no
thing but collect garbage. He ex
pects this to improve garbage
collection in Raeford, and says
that anyone having unusual or
extra garbage may call Mr. Free
man at the town hall and he w'
notify *on McDonald,
charge truck, to pick
GROWTH OF POLIO CARE TEAM
\
PHYSIATRIST
NEUROIOGIST
PSYCHOLOGIST
.OCCUPATIONAL iaBORATOrT^!^^'''^^'
THERAPIST • tECHNIQan'
1938
1949
Medical care for polio patients is costing the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysb more money thui ever before—
because better treatment is available today than formerly, as the
accompanying chart reveals. Until 1938 vmm the'National Foun
dation was formed, a physician and a nurse usually comprised
the best available care.. Today, modem polio treatment may
include 13 specialized services, provided by an entire TEAM of
professional workers. Tl^ expanded care has cost National
Foundation Chaiders millions in March of Dimes funds. More
money is needed immediately to continue these services. Support
the POLIO EPIDEMIC EMERGENCY DRIVE to help care for
today’s polio patients. Send your contribution now to FOLIO,
care of your local Post Office.
X-Ray Unit
On Main Street
Here Tomorrow
Attend Meeting Of
Executive Board
! Area Boy Scouts
I
j Dr. R. L. Murray and Lewis
’ Upchurch attended the September
i-meeting of the Executi\-e Boar '
I of the Cape Fear Area .Co.. „il
j Eoy Scouts of America, at Golds-
I ton’s hotel at Lake Waccamaw on
I Monday evening. Mrs. Upchurch
' and Lew'is. Jr., accompanied them.
! W. A. Dobson, Regional Scout
■ Executive, ,of Atlanta, was present
the meeting.
j Highlight of the evening Board
meeting were the reports of
Camping. Chairman W.. Norman
Peal told of the activities of the
Coi,incil Summer C](mp at S."'Pj,?rs
i Lake and James R. Poole, Jr.,
; Chairman of Leadership Training
.gave the Board a report on the
Council-wide Training Course for
j Leaders to be conducted Septem-
j ber 23, 24. 25 at Camp Chicagami,
White Lake. Commissioner Wal
lace West outlined the plans for
the Council’s Liberty Crusade
Round-up to be staged at Topsail
Beach the week end of October
7, 8, 9 with Scouts from all the
District of the area participating.
Regional Executive Dobson
came to the Lake Waccamaw ses
sion direct from Myrtle Beach
where he has been giving lead
ership to the Annual Regional
Conference for Scout Executives
which adjourned on Sunday,
September 18th.
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Mrs. Agnes Bundy
Buried Saturday
In Cumberland
I Claude W. Gibson,
Mrs. Smithes Brother,
I Dies In Wilmington
i ^
* Claude W. Gibson. 46-year-old
. Wilmington man, died suddcnl.v
’'Friday at his' home there of a
i cerebral hemorrhage. He was a
j brotheiv. of Mrs. E. E. Smith of
; Raeford.
i Mr. Gibson was a native of
i Johns. Funeral service wai con
ducted at Ward’s Chapel in Wil-
[ mington Saturday afternoon and
I burial was in the cemetery at
i Caledonia Methodist church near
; Johns.
He is si:rvived by his w ife. and
one child, Catherine, of the home;
his faithe;'-, E. S. Gibson of Johns,
four sis.'.?rs'''and three brothers.
Attending .the services from
here were the Rev. and Mrs. P.
O. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Walters, Mesdames EvSlina Wal
ters, C. R. Suddreth, Hinton Mc-
Phaul, Alice Mooneyhan, Harry
Greene, Jesse Gulledge and B. B.
LCole.
The total number of people x-
rayed to date in county, 2,412.
The unit will be at Hoke High
School today and on ,Friday,
September 23 and Saturday, Sept
ember 24th on Main Street in
front of the bank; On Tuesday,
September 27, at Upchurch High
School. From Wednesday, Sept
ember 28 through Thursday, Oc-
;ober 6, the x-ray unit will be
back in front of the bank. This
is in operation Tuesday through
Saturday, 11:00 a. m. through
5:C0 p, m.
Technicians with the survey
are Carl Rowell and William Ba»>-
bour. They are with the State
Board of Health. Clerks are Mrs.
Carl Row'ell and Mrs. Kate Blue
Co\Hngton. William Green, tech
nician, and Miss Nadine Harvell,
clerk with the State Board of
Health, are in the Health Depart
ment on Wednesdays from 10:0-
, 3. m.. till 4:00 p. m. for the pur
pose of ta’k ng large films of those
referred for further study ■ and
diagnosis.
, The local T.B. As.sociation and
’Health Departme:n urge that all
. citizens cooperate to make this
' survey a success.
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Vets Notice
About Refunds
Mrs. Agnes Bundy, beloved citi
zen of Cumberland MiUs, died at
her home Friday afternoon af
ter a short illness. ;^he was 75
years of age.
Mrs. Bundy was a daughter of
the late Alfred P. Butler and Mrs.
Margaret Butler, and the widow
of H. T. Bundy. She was a mem
ber of the Cumberland Methodist
church. ,
She is survived by six daugh
ters, Miss Lillie Butler of the
home and Mrs. E. W. Guiton, Mrs.
C. K. Barbotur, Mrs. J. H. Taulk-
ner, Mrs. W. J. Daughtery and
Mrs. A. C. Hair, all of Fayette
ville; by three sons, James B.
Bundy of Fayetteville. H. T. Buii-
dy of Raeford and L. B. Bundy of
Rockfish; by three sisters Mrs.
W. P. Hersey, Mrs. C. J. Wright
and Mrs. L. D. Adams, all of Fay
etteville; by two brothers,'■L. A.
Blount and W. H. Blount, both of
Fayetteville; by twenty-seven
grandchildren; and by 18 great
grandchildren.
Offer Business
Course For Vets
At Hoke High
Arrangements have been made
with the Veteran’s Administra
tion where’Dy a class in business
adminstration can be given at
Hoke High for veterans If enough
sign up to justify the class.
All expenses of the class will
be paid by the Veteran’s Admin
istration and veterans will be al
lowed the following subsistance
rates: veteran, single, no depend
ents, $37.50 per month; veteran,
married, one dependent, $52.50;
veteran, married, one or more de
pendents other than wife, $60.00
per month.
The course would run 15 hours
per week and Would be given
from approximately 7:00 o’clock
to 10:00 p. m., five nights per
week. Veterans interested should
contact W. T. Gibson, prinicpal
of Hoke High.
Veterans who discover that'the
application number appearing on '
their acknowledgment of appli- '
cation for the NSLI special divi_ !
riend is identical to the one re- ■
ceived by one of their neighbors, i
are advised that this duplication ‘
does not represent a numbering
error by the Ipsurance Service in :
' VA Central Office. The same num
ber is as.signed to 100 consecutive ’
applications to be used as process- i
ing and filing unit numbers. Any ;
, needless correspondence with the |
Pontrai Office hy Veteran j
; only causes needles delay in pro-
^ cessing his application and ulti
mate divident payment.
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LIBRARY NEWS
Recorder Hears
11 Cases Tuesday
E'.e .er. 'ra.^es-.v-'ere disposed of
in ifoke aour.ty recorder’s court
before Judge Henry McDiarmid
Tuesday .morning.
-Mis. Dorothy Suidikas, white
of Fort Bragg, paid the costs for
driving without license plates.
She V. as caught by State Highway
Patrolman Kitchen on Sunday-
driving a new car she had bought
Saturday afternoon.
York S. Garner, white soldier,
was charged, with driving drunk
and with improper equipment on
his car. The drunk charge vvas
dropped by the state for lack of
evidence and Garner pled guilty
on the second charge. He paid $10
and the costs. •
For improper equipment the
following paid $10 and the costs:
William H. McKoy, Roy Lee Mur
chison, William D. McEachern,
^yrus Peterkin. and Samuel Gra
ham, all. colored.
Earl Mullen, white, paid SLO
rnd the costs for speeding.
Weldon Baldwin, colored, got
90 da;, s suspended on payment
of :he '.vis-.s for. careless and reck
less driving. .
Ja:r;es T. McXeill. colored, '.vas
charged with assault in two cases
one kr cutting Glen Bratclter
and otiicr for cutting IMaric IMc-
Xcill. ■ ile got si.\ months to be
suspended on pay rent of S50 and
the costs in each case.
Tommie- Bro’ison, colored, got
60 days for larceny p: a bicycle.
Sentence was to have been su
spended on payment of S25 and
the costs but Bronson didn't have
it and went to the roads.'
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B & PW CLUB TO MEET
HokeHiglTEn^
Tie Hope Milk
In Grid Opener.
Funeral services were com^tt-
ed Saturday afternoon at 3:30 at
the Cumberland Methodist church
' '12 Russjll Harrison and
C. W. Myrick. Burial
"•'r fEimily cemetery.
Plan Revival At
Raeford Baptist
Church Oct. 2-9
The Rev. Judson ,Lennon, pastor
of the Raeford Baptist church,
said this week that members of
the church are looking forw^ard
to their fall revival during the
week of October 2-9. The Rev.
Paul Early, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Red Springs,
will be the visiting preacher.
“The public is cordially invited
to attended these meetings,” the
local pastor said, “ ‘Seek ye the
Loref while He may be found, call
ye upon Him while He is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his
thoughts, and let him return unto
the Lord, and He will have mercy
upon him; and Tb'^our for
He will abundantly pardon.’’ ”
Several books have been added
to the list of memorial books in
Hoke County Library. M». and
Mrs. Younger Snead has present
ed a book to the library in mem
ory of Mr. Ryan McBryde, Behind
the Curtain, by Gunther, and one
for Mr. Manly Norton, Cream
Hill, by Gannett.
Volume IV, of the Life of Rob
ert E. Lee, by Freeman, \\|as giv
en in memory of Mr. T. A. Mar-
shburn by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Upchurch, and they also have
given Out of My Life and Thought
by Seeweitzer, in memory Mr.
Ryan McBryde.
So many new books are being
received in the Library, among
the following: Lead, ILlndly Light,
Sheean; Shalom Means Peace, St.
John; Player-Manager, Boudreail;
Low and Inside, Smith; Music to
My Ears, Taylor; Let Love Come
Last, Caldwell; Hunter’s Horn,
Arnow; The Man Who Made Fri
ends with Himself, Morley; To
morrow we Reap, Street and Chil
ders; Rest and Be Thankful, Mc-
Ihnis.
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FAIR DOING WELL
PARADE YESTERDAY
The fair at ttfe ball park under
the sponsorssip of the local Amer
ican Legion post got off to a good
start this week with the big mid
way being operated by the Twin
State Shows. Biggest crowd was
oh Tuesday night when there was
just about a full house. The fair
will run on through Saturday
night.
The affair was publidy adver
tised yesterday when there was a
big parade down main street
here. The parade was led by the
Hoke county high school band and
included various vehicles and
farm mq;?4]hinery items which are
►being displayed-at the fair..
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le^eeal Business and Pro.es-
sioIwt'AVomen’s club will hold its
regular meeting next Tuesday at
seven p. m. 'in the Hig’n school
cafeteria. The Methodist Y'outh
Fellowship group will serve the
:'near and all members not plan-
ling to attend have been asked
to notify Mrs. Retha Ash not lat
er than noon Mondav.
Ingatherings
The apnual 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 peoiile
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 noon, sale follow
ing.
Ashley Heights Baptist
church. Friday, September 30
5:00 p. m. to nine, sale follows
meal.
Shiloh Presbyterian church.
Ttiursday, October 6, 5:30 p. m.,
sale following.
Ephesus Baptist church-Thurs-
day, October 6.
Parker’s Methodist ehureb .
Friday, October 7, meals at
noon and six p. m., sale after
supper.
Tabernacle Baptist church —
Rockfish, Wednesday, October
12.
Antioch Presbyterian church
Thursday, October 13, meal at
noon, sale following.
Galatia Presbyterian chureb-
Thursday, October 2t), meal at
six p. m., sale following.
Bethel Presbyterian chureh-
Thursday,. October 20, meal at
community house at noon, sale
to follow.
Raeford Methodist church -
Thursday, October 27, at Rae
ford Armory, meals at noon
and night, sale following sup
per. ■ ‘
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Teams Battle To ‘nrurrTcilltr"
Tie In Hope Fridaj^l
Play At Stedman Friday ^
The Hoke High football teain^
with only one returning regular-
j and four members of last year^sff'C
! squad back, played a somewhat"*":'
more experienced Hope
j’team to a scoreless tie last Friday
I afternoon at Hope Mills. It was
the local’s first game and was the
I second for the Hope Mills '003^3,
who had defeated Laurel Hill 13- ^
0 the previous week.
The Bucks play Stedman in
their .second gam.e at Stedman to-
-morrow afternoon at three o’
clock.
Doug Clark, only returning re
gular from last year's team, suf
fered a broken co.liar bone in prac
tice this week and will be out of
action for four or five weeks. The
Sucks have- only four members
of last year's squad back and the.^..
team this year is smaller, but the
boys are showing mi'uch fight and
desire to piay.
Some of the ne'.vcomers show
ing up well according to Coach
Elolland and Dec Ivey. Playing
rington. Robert McCirt. Fred
Holland and Dov Ivey. Playing
regular a: tackles 'are Thomas
.Alexander and Earl Hendrix. Ot
hers sho'.ving promise are Carson
Davis and C. J. Benner, Bobby
Lundy a: center a nd Gordon
Grooms
are Joe Davis
.borough who saw action last year.
Backs include Billy. Lester at
wingback, Jo-h.n McLauchlin,
James Tapp and Bruce Phillips
. at blocking bjock. Ghs-
son, letterman. and Archie Max-
weU at fullback, Doug Clark and
Tommy Cole at tailback. Cole has
been showing up well at taRbaek
and shows promise of being a
triple threat man.
Schedule for the season is as
yet incomplete, although ning
I games have been lined up. They
I are Septi 23,. Stedman there. Sept.
130, Open, here; Oct. 7, Apex,
here; 14, Elizabethtown there; 21,
Rowland there; 28, Angier there;
Nov. 4. Wagram here; 11, Laurel
Hill here; 18, Massey Hill there;
24 Stedman here,
j All home games will be at eight
: o’clock except for Thanksgiving
‘ which will start at 2:00 p. m.
anders'^dying hLm;' ends
Landon Y'ar-
FARMING
By H. E. Vernon;County Agent!
Tobacco Plant Beds
j It is about time for tobacco far-
; mers to select their sites for next
1 years plant beds and obtain thoiV
I supply of Uramon and Cyananud
• for weed and disease controL
i These chemicals, when used se
parately or in conabination should
be applied to the plant bed about
90 days in advance of seeding.
Cyanamid will control weeds but
not tobacco diseases in the soiL
Uramon will aid in killing weeds
and will kill such soil borne di
seased as black root rot, black
shank, root knot, "and Granville
wilt. For just weed control use
one pound of Cyanamid per square
yard, but for disease and weed
control iise one pound of Uramon
and one-half pound of Cyanamid ^ |
per square yard. This past spring
on several farms in Hoke County
I notieed a toxic effect flrom us*
ing the above sunoiints of weed
killer ^alohg' with the regular a-
mount of plant bed fertilizer at
seeding,.^n"fome cases the geii;ai->
nation, .pf the seed were reding
and in otJ^ers the access nitrogea
caused a disorder and malforma
tion in the growth of the leaves
that resembled mosaic. In sudh
cases it is recommended that tiie
amount of weed kiUer be reduc-
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