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' •'.n - •C.. •'-L, • 7 ■> f, VOICE OF fREEDOM Hm| »•*»» •;/• e The Hoke County Newt f CUM MCfOOO^ j|^ OfU gil^^xKews VOICE OF CUMOIM OFUMRn The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 18 ■ ’ « THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2d, 1949 RAEFORD. N. C. S2.00 PEE teas; YOUR iSCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald All white schools of the county will go on regular schedule 8'n next Monday. The schools have been' operated on a curtailed schedule for the first three w’eeks so that pupils could assist with the gath ering of the crops. It is requested that now as we go on regular schedule, that parents make every •effort to keep their children in school. The good attendance so far is very ‘much appreciated. The Hoke County Board of Ed ucation held its September meet ing Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. The executive committee of the Hoke-Raeford PTA met last Fri day afternoon with Mrs. N. L. McFadyen presiding. The work for the year was planned and a pro gram outline made. J. W. Tiirlinyton, president of the Hoke County Unit of the N. C. E. A. attended a leadership conference held by the N.C.EA. in Salisbury last week end. He reports a very worthwhile and inspiring meeting. The conference scheduled by the State limch program for prin cipals and lunchroom manaj?rs /for Hoke County on October 5 has been canceled since the re signation of Mrs. Annie W. Maley, state director of the program. The Health Department has started its annual program of screening and examinations of ,,^.cho^, chilfJjFen., The,.niirse is working this week at Ashemont. Mrs. Dwight Brown, member of the faculty of Raeford Graded school, is back at work this week after being quite ill. Mrs. Youn ger Snead substituted for her. We regret very much that M. L. Bray, principal of the Mildou- son school was called home last week by the death of a brother. Mrs. Archie Howard substituted. Mrs. Chandler Roberts is sub stituting for Miss Bradley until October 6. Mrs. Roberts is work ing in the library of the Raeford Graded School. The boys in the agriculture de partment of Hoke High have made six typing tables for the commercial department. The Raeford Graded school has ordered their new supplementary readers for this year. The boys and girls of the ag ricultural and Home economics department canned 910 cans of pears for use in the lunchroom. Hoke High will open its lunch room on next Monday as regular schedule goes into effect. The junior class of Hoke High ; is putting on a magazine sale to help defray the 'expenses of the ^ class and particularly those in- ^ curred by the Junior-Senior Ban-| quet. The Hoke High School purchas ed a new mimeograph machine for use in the commercial department. The Hoke High Bucks held a practice scrimmage with EMI yesterday on the local gridiron. . James M. Williaftis, CPA of Ra leigh is here making the annual audit of the books of the Board of Education. COLORED NEWS All colored and Indian schools opened their doors, for the 1949- 50 term on last Monday. The Up church and Antioch Indian schools are already overcrowded. (Continued on back page) Program Announced For Cotton Festival Red Springs-—A full day of feni tertainment is included in the program announced today for the Cotton Festival to be staged in Red Springs on Oct. 5. Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, United States Senator and one of North' Carolina’s most widely sought ora tors, will make the speech of the day, and has definitely confirmed the date with program chairrpan, George T. Ashford. Mr. Ashford states that the pro gram will run as follows: 4 10 A. M.—^Parade, starting at High School and proceeding to and down Main Street to the post office and hack to the cotton yard. 10:30—Cotton Fashion Show, ^ showing the wardrobe of “Miss Maid of Cotton” of 1949. 11:30—Speech by Senator Hoey. 1:00—Open House and Formal Opening Npw REA Building- of Lumbee Electric Membership Co-' operative (Radio Broadcast.) 2:00—Football—Red Springs vs. Clarkton. 3:30—Calf Catching Contest. . Some time during the day a Chevrolet 2.door sedan will be given away by the Red Springs Merchants Association. 7:45—Donkey Baseball—^Rotary Club vs. Lions Club. On the evening before Tuesday, Oct. 4. the Headquarters Battery of the 130th Battalion AAA AW, National Guard will stage the Cotton Festival Dance at the Na tional Guard Bldg, when the Na tional Guard Queen will be select ed. The successful young lady will preside over the dance and will ride with the runners-up in the National Guard float in the parade on Wednesday. Other Na tional Gifard units which will par ticipate in the parade will be Battery A from Raeford of the 130th AAA AW and the Parkton Tank Company of the 30th Divi sion. “Maids of Cotton” have been selected from the towns of, ,St.. Pauls, Parkton, Raeford, Maxton and others are to come from oth er communities, who will be spon sored by local concerns which have floats. The “Maids of Cotton” will center the theme of these floats and will also appear in the Cotton Fashion Show. • One of the principal items of interest of the day will be the series of 25 window displays, which will show hundreds of the manufacturing processes and manufactured products in which cotton is used. These will be in the various stores of town, and many hundred of cotton products will be shown, as well as mapy pictures which trace the story of cotton from the boll in the field, through hundreds of manufactur ing steps it goes before reaching the market in its various forms. 0 SELF-SERVICE GROCERY WILL OPEN TOMORROW Julian Wright has about fin ished work on his self-service grocery store and market on the Laurinburg highway in the Sun set Hills section and announces in an advertisement, on the back page of this paper tliat it will open tomorrow under the manage ment of Edwin A. Mercer, who has been store manager of the Pender store here for several years. The store will carry complete lines of plain and fancy groceries meats, seafoods, and frozen foods and compares favorably with self- service grocery stores in larger towns. Negroes Get Book For Stealing In Recorder’s Court Liquor Violators, Drivers . Without Licenses and Car Violators Pay Various Fines ‘‘■ Judge Henry McDiarmid.threw the book a^t Donald “Dinah” Shaw and Dorothy McCullough, both colored, in Recorder’s court Tues day. The woman was charged with stealing a pistol from Bethune Mau'ltsby and Shaw, was charged with-receiving it, knowing it to have been stolen. For this he got a year on the roads and she got a,year in the State Prison. Shaw got .anotljer year for carrying the pistol_ and Dorothy McCullough got- two more years, making three in all, for non-support of her minor, children. , Leroy Henderson, Indian, and Jasper F. Griffin, white, each paid, $25 and the costs for not having proper driving licenses. Walter Mainor, Alexander Wil son and Ozell Beatty, all colored, each paid $10 and the costs for violating the prohibition laws. In another case Allen Henderson, Indian, and William Cam.pbell and Annie Belle McNeill, color ed, paid the costs for violating the prohibition laws. Horace Blake, white, paid the costs for being drunk and disor derly. Alonzo Dockery, colored, and Miller Stokes, white, paid $10 and the costs each for driving with improper brakes. John Allen Cun ningham, colored, failed to ap pear for trial for the same of fense and capias was issued. James T. Wilkerson, white man charged with careless and reck less driving, was found guilty of violating the road laws and order ed to pay the costs. He appealed to Superior court. ^ 0 Former Local Man Dies In Tennessee Funeral services for William Kelly Sessoms, Jr., 43, a former resident of Raeford, was held Saturday in Sweetwater, Tenn. Mr. Sessoms died in the Mairine hospital in Baltimore Wednesday after a lodg illness. He is survived by his wife, the former Mamie Anderson of 'Von- ore, Tenn., a son and a daughter (by a former marriage) of Dur ham, N. C.; a brother, Neill M. Sessoms of Fayetteville, and two sisters, Mrs. E. H. Dixon of Char lotte and Mrs. W. M. Cockman of Greensboro. SCOTT CURRIE LOSES PACK BARN TUESDAY Scott Currie had the misfortune to lose his tobacco pack barn by fire of unknown origin at about 8:15 o’clock Tuesday morning. He hal eight barns of his best to bacco in it, it is reported, and the tobacco was partially covered by fire insurance. The barn was un insured. Last Chance The mobile x-ray unit which has been' taking chest x-rays in the county since the last week in August had. only taken 3.605 x-rays up through Tues day of what officials hoped would be 10,000 in the county while the unit was here. The unit has been in various places in the county during this time taking the pictures, which require no undressing and only about one minute of time, but response has not been what it was expected to be and should have been. For the remainder of its time in the county, which is through Thursday of next week, the unit will continue to operate on Main street in Raeford near the Bank. These x-rays, which are free, ”will show up tuber culosis or lung cancer or other lung ailments which may be unknown to the subject, and they have many times proved their value in revealing their illness to people who did not know it and who were there by able to take treatment in time to save themselves. B & PW Club Hears Dr. Johnson Speak On Tuesday evening the Busi ness & Professional Women’s club ! held its r^ular monthly meeting j at the High School lunchroom, i Mrs-; C. li., Giles, president, pre- 1 sided over the business session ; during which time chairmen of i the different committees were ' heard from. Mrs.. Ruria Shelton j told of the 5th District Meeting j of the B & PW Club which will ; be held in Sanford. October 9, ' and asked for a large representa- | tion. Plans were completed for ■ the Inspiration Breakfast to be ‘ held at Hotel Raeford, Sunday, October 161 ^After the business session Mrs. j O. L. Crowder, health and safety I . I chairman, -introduced Dr. Lynn Johnson of McCain, who spoke to : the club on tuberculosis, which ; is of great interest to the people of the community at this time. Dr. Johnson made a most timely and instructive talk which was heard with interest and appreciation by her audience. She explained the Mobile X-Ray Unit, -^vhich is now , in Raeford and impressed its vital importance. She brought out the : fact that many diseases show up i under .this x-ray in addition to ^ tuberculosis and that these are also reported to the health department i and family doctor. She pepped : her talk with many amusing anec dotes. 0 — Truman To Take Lunch At Bragg ' I President Harry S. Truman will' be entertained at a luncheon at j the Officej^s Club at Fort Bragg ; October 4, during his inspection visit to nation’s biggest mili tary reservation. His hosts will be Lt. General Alvan C. Gillem, commanding general of the Third Army, At lanta, Ga., and Lt. General John : R. Hodge, commanding general of ! -the V Corps and of Fort Bragg. Approximately one hundred dis- j tinguished guests will include ■ Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray of Winston-Salem, N. C. ' and General J. Lawton Collins, chief of staff. United States Army. President Truman is scheduled i to arrive at Pope Air Force Base aboard the Presidential plane “In- . depp.ndence”, Tuesday morning October 4. If the weather is bad for flying that day the visit to Fort Bragg will be made October 5. I President Truman will review.] some 20.000 troops at Fort Bragg ^ and will witness air drops of ar- | tillery, vehicles, supplies and ] paratroopers of the famed 82nd ^ Airborne division. He will then | witness a tactical assault prob lem worked out by a battalion of i paratroopers. ' This will be President Truman’s first official visit to Fort Bragg since he became President. Previously he had Pope Air Force Base en route to ! Pinehurst to call on General 1 Marshall. ^0 Highway Patrol To Set Inspection Road Blocks Raleigh, Sept. 28—The high way patrol set up 100 road blocks to night to inspect Tar Heel motor vehicles. ' Inspection will be hear ser vice stations so motorists whose cars need repairs can get them immediately. Defective vehicles won’t be permitted to proceed un til the defects have been fixed. Patrol Commander C. R. Tolar said patrolmen will check the I driver’s license, along w'ith head ] and tail lights, brakes, windshield j wipers, horns and other equip- i ment. ; Notice of future road blocks for i the purpose of inspections will not be given in advance after tonight. Tolar said. TO HOLD REVIVAL John L. McLeod Dies Here Monday; Funeral Tuesday I-> iMeLeod died at ■- i.v.o Monday morning. TT .years of age and had : 50od health for sev- % Pictured above is the Rev.. Paul Early, pastor of the First Baptist church of Red Springs, who will he the preacher for the Raeford Baptist church revival next vt'eek. Mr. Early is a graduate of Wake Forest college and of Southern Baptist seminary in Louisville, ‘ Ky. He served as a chaplain in the armed forces during World War II. The services begin with the Sunday night service at 7:30 j and run through next week at the | same hour each night. Boy Scouts Will Have Fall Round-up At Topsail Beach . - / Scout headquarters said today about 1,000 Scouts will attend the fall 1949 Cape Fear Council Lib erty Crusade Round-up to be held' October 7-9 at Topsail Beach. Wallace I. West. Council Com missioner, was named by the Ex ecutive Board this week as Round up Director and he will be in charge of the entire operation and program. West has been associat ed with Scouting for many years and has held numerous positions of leadership in the Area Council. Originated as a morale build er, the Round-up brings together (Continued on page 6) 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 noon, sale follo’v- ing. Ashley Heights Baptist church. Friday, September 30 5:00 p. HL ■U) nino. sale follows MIb ■ ^ Shiloh Presbyterian church. Thursday, ^>ctober 6, 5:30 p. m.. sale following. Ephesus Baptist church-Tiiurs- day. October 6. Parker’s Methodist church . 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 church- Thursday, October 20, meal at six p. m., sale following. Bethel Presbyterian church- Thursday, October 20, meal at community house at. noon, sale to follow. Raeford Methodist church - Thursday, October 27, at Rae ford .\rmory, meals at. noon and night, sale following sup per. H'j .a native of this section, a son ■: the late Lauchlin John McLe .,nd Mrs. Effie Wilson McLeod. FunL'i'i'. services were conduct ed at three o'clock Tueslay after noon it' the People’s Tabernacle here.by t.-.e Rev. Arthur Phillips, pastor, aiid the Rev. P. O. Lee and the Rev. F. P. Maullsby. Burial was in Raeford cemetery. IMr. McLeod is survi\'ed by his wife. Mrs. Lila Barnett “-McLeod: one sister; yirs. Margaret Mc'- Vicker of Raeford. and by several nieces and neohews. Lo REA Plans Open House At Office Next Wednesday At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of Lumbee R-iver Electric Mem'oership Cor poration held in their new office building in Red Springs, the Board named the following Nomi nating Committee: ' W. J. Britt, Fairmont; Dan T. McGirt, Wa- gram; Lee McFarland, Maxton; Gordon Newton, Fayetteville; D. H. Wilkerson, Maxton; A. K. Ste phens, Raeford; J. M. Andrews, Raeford; and W. F. Chason, Lum ber Bridge. This committee wiR meet for the purpose of prepar ing a list of nominees to be voted on by the members of the “Coop- , erative” at their regular annual ' meeting which will be held in the Red Springs High School auditor ium on November 2nd. I Plans for this yearly meeting are now being made. The Honor able F. Ertel Carlyle, member of the House of Representatives has accepted an invitation to be the guest speaker for the occasion. There will be various reports on the past year’s business of the corporation discussed at the rr.eet- isg and quite a number of valu able electrical equipment prizes will be given to the members at the meeting.' This will be the 10th annual gathering of the members of the local Cooperative and all members and visitors are wel comed to attend. - • At the conclusion of the board meeting Mrs. O’Kellar, federal REA Home Economist from Wash ington, D. C.. discussed briefly a national lighting program that the REA is promoting at this time. The directors also agreed to , have a short program dedicating ' the new office building, at four o’clock on the afterinon of next Wednesday, October 5,'wh;ch is the day Red Springs will 'have its Cotton Festival. Gwyn Price, 'state REA adnti.nistrator. will be the spo.iker and the program wili be broadc-'ist from Lumberton. A: this time a sltort prcgran.', origi nating from the REA hon'o office, will also be heard. The Co-op will hold “Open house all day Wed nesday for its'mem.bers and oth ers who may care to call and see the new building.’’ Telephone Co. 1$ Improving Set-op In Local Office Enough Equipment Being Installed To Take Care Of All Applications On File The. Cerclina' Telephone and Telegraph com.pany this, week ■ 'cegj.n the i.nstallation of new equipment , in their Raeford of fice '.vhic.h -A-ill ta.ke care of all M applications for service the com- pany now has on file. W. W. Ay- cock. district manager at Fayette ville. said yesterday. Mr. Aycock said two more trunk lines were '.aeing installed to the Raeford office which would bring the total to eight, enabling eight long aistar.re calls to be handled frorn Raeford at the same time. Inside equipment 'oeing added Will enable 100 new numbers to ' be added -here as soon as it is in- ■ stalled, he said, and. he added that the new equipment bei.ng added will be the newest and .most mod ern being m.ade today and that it- will be used in conjunction with equipment now i.n use. He said that there are now a- bout 90 application for telephones on file with the company, and that due to several being rural where j they wiU be on party lines less I numbers that this will be used, j The Raeford system is part of j the group being managed by R. I M. Gupton, with offices in Red ; Springs, and includes Raeford, j Red Springs, Maxton and St. j Pauls. The collections are handl- jed by the FayetteviUe office I which is managed by R. E. Dixon. ; Mrs. Helen S. Barrington is local ' Collector for the company. I .. 0 VETS BUSINESS COURSE AT SCHOOL POSSIBLE ' K. A. MacDonald, county super- ' intendent of schools, said ti^s , w'eek that considerable interest had been shown by veterans in the prospective business course I for them at Hoke County High school. He said that several had ] actually applied for the course, but that the number was as yet insufficient to justify authoriza tion of the course. He, asks, there fore, veterans who are interest ed get in touch with Principal W. T. Gibson, Jr., at the high school so that the course may start as soon as possible. NEW JEWELRY STORE I. D. 'Winford Maaess announces in an advertisement in this week’s paper that he has opened a jew elry store in the old REA build ing between the News-Journal office and the Raeford Theatre. Mr. Maness is a native of Robbins and has been living a: Antioch for some time while he was employed as a watch repairman. Ln Red Springs. He is a veteran and at tended. a watchm.aking school since his separation from the ser vice. ■ 0 , NOTICE GREENES ATTEND GAME WITH GOVERNOR SCOTT All those interested in forming an Alcoholics .Vnonymous group [ in Raeford are invited to meet at the Presbyterian manse to night at eight o'clock, i —^ 0 NO PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE SUNDAY NIGHT Mr. and Mrs. Harry Greene at tended a luncheon in Chapel Hill Saturday for trustees of the Greater University and their wives, the occasion 'oeing the cel ebration of “Greater University Day” by students of Chapel Hill. State College and the 'Woman’s College of the University in Greensboro. After the luncheon the party sat in the governor’s box and saw the football game be tween Carolina and State. They also visited the Morehead plane tai'ium later. I The Rev. W. B. Heyward of the Raeford Presbyterian church an- ^ nounced this week that there j would be no evening service Sun- j day night in order that members ' of the congregation might attend : the opening ser\ ice of the revived ' series at the Raeford Baptist I church. I He also announced that a com- ' munion service would be held at the' Presbyterian church Sunday morning, ahd called attention to the fact that Sunday is “World wide Communion Stmday” among Protestant churches.