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ir .■?.— Vr>». t'a >« • [ Wi’ 'V .- :^r % ife -■ii ■■ T' -v :,-;V-&‘: (Hi voKi^r ' rlL- .. mwo* m (iFlitUfT Sv:.?" * • - . * i. News - Journal VDICI Of nttoom fiUMURAH OfUffRTT The Hoke County News % The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 36 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1956,.sl W RAEFORD. N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY $2.00 PER YEAR ROBBINS WHITE-TEX PROPERTY RECEIVES KIWANIS CITIZENSHIP AWARD ■J Big Meeting On Rural Telephones Held Monday Over 200 Citizens Meet At Courthouse; Organize To Contact Company, REA In the picture above Crawford Thomas, right, is shown as he received the first annual Citizenship Award presented by the Raeford Kiwanis club to the outstanding citizen of the community each year. The presentation is being made for the club at the annual Ladies Night last Thursday by Tom Cameron. Patrolmen Get Tighter As 16 2^- jlidge McDiarmid Also Hestfs 13 Other Cases Tuesday; Three Not Guilty State Highway Patrolmen seem ed to watching speeding tourists and others somewhat close in the past few days, if the number of cases going through the books of the Hoke county recorder’s court is any indication. A total of 16 cases of speeding were disposed of in the court this week, some of them being heard before Judge Henry McDiarmid Tuesday mor ning and' others, mostly tourists, leaving bonds which they forfeit ed by failing to appear for trial. Those appearing for trial were Carson Davis, Jr., Wade H. Nor ton, Jr., all white, and Garland Little and Henry L. Jones, both colored, $10 and the costs each. Those posting bonds of $25 we/e Robert B. Cooney, Lewis A. Gil bert. Howard Seiderman, Henry Frierich, Mary Agnes Kennedy, and'Sumner I. Gold and Dr. Lewis F. Mulschmann, all white. All bonds were forfeited. Jules J. Sherman, white marine left $50 bond for going 75 miles and hour, as did Michael Caprise, also white. (Continued on Page 8) Mrs. Nancy Blalock Buried In Parkton Mrs. Nancy Lentz Blalock, 64, died at her home in Parkton Thursday morning after several weeks of critical illness. She was the daughter of the late Luther and Eugenia Lentz and The widow of the late Rev. J. E. Blalock. She was a sister of Mrs. John K. Mc Neill and the late Mrs. J. C. Thomas of Raeford. Funeral 'was Friday afternoon at the home of a daughter. Mrs. J. G. Hughes, in Parkton. It was conducted by the Rev. I. J. Straw- bridge, pastor of the Parkton Methodist church, assisted by the Rev. W. B. Cotton of Rose Hill and the Rev. W. E. Brown of Parl^ton. She is survived by three daugh ters; five grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. J. K. McNeill of Rae ford. Mrs. Leslie Bennett of Fay etteville, Mrs. J. W. Bradley of Raleigh, Mrs. C. S. Bennett of High Point, and Mrs. Jessie La nier of Norwood; three brothers; J. C. Lentz of Durham, Devere C. Lentz of Asheville, and L. A. Lentz of Raleigh. New Farm Agent Assumes Duties Here February 1 ' E. M. Stallings Of Johnston ' County Takes Over Job Vacated By H. E. "^ernoh ' Ernest M. Stallings of Johns ton county assumed his duties here this week as county farm agent .succeeding Herman E. Ver non who resigned the position to manage the farming interests of the estate of his late father-in- law. The new agent grew up on a farm near Selma in Johnston county and attended N. C. State College, graduating in 1940. Fol lowing his graduation he was employed for about a year and a half by the Farm Security Ad ministration at Waynesville in Haywood county. For the next four years Mr. Stallings was in the Army, serv ing as an infantry captain in the 80th Infantry Division. In March, 1947, he went to Lumberton where he has been since as assistant farm agent in charge of 4-H club work. He comes here highly re commended by the people of Rob eson county. Mr. Stallings is married, his wife being the former Eranda McLendon of Kenansville in Dup lin county. They have two child ren, a daughter aged five and a son aged three. They were moving yesterday into the home in Sun set Hills vacated on Tuesday by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon. Funeral Yesterday At Antioch For j. Dixon McNeill Funeral services were conduct ed at three o’clock yesterday af ternoon at Antioch Presbyterian church for J. Dixon McNeill, 59- year old Robeson county man who died at his home on Lumberton, Route 3, early Monday. The set- vice was conducted by the Rev. W. B. Heyward, pastor of the Raeford Presbyterian church, and burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. McNeill was a son of the late Edward A. McNeill and Sarah Campbell McNeill of Robeson county and was a member of the Antioch church. He was married twice, the last time to Rosa Smith, who survives with the following children: J. D. and Dixie of the home, Edward R.. in Shreveport, Louisiana with (Continued on page 4) Kiwanis Club ladies Night Last Thursday Club Ente^ains Ladies, , y I^oors CrawEord Thomas, Eats Turkey At Gym The Raeford Kiwanis club had its annual “Ladies Night” at the High school gymnasium last Thui’sday night and over 100 Ki- waniaris and their ladies were in attendance. They enjoyed a boun tiful turkey supper - prepared by Mrs. Lucy Smith. Outstanding event of the even ing was the presentation of the citizenship award to Crawford Thomas as the community’s out standing citizen for 1949. Tom Cameron, in making the presen tation, explained that the award was to be presented yearly in the future and also told briefly the things the committee would con sider in choosing the man to re ceive it. These included service to the community in business, church work, boys and girls work, agriculturally and other ways. The trophy is a large silver cup and is to be passed on from year to year. A smaller replica was also presented and this becomes the property of the recipient. Marcus Smith, toastmaster, pre sented tabs for perfect attendance at club meetings to several mem bers of the club. These included Marion Gatlin, six years, K. A. MacDonald, Neill A. McDonald, and A. H. McPhaul, four years; Julius Jordan. J, W. McPhaul, David Smith, L. M. Upchurch and Archie Howard, two years and Robert Gatlin, one year. Entertainment was provided by Clifton Beckwith of the Attorney General’s department in Raleigh. Mr. Beckwith made a few serious remarks and told some jokes and then entertained by singing folk songs and accompanying himself on his guitar. He was enjoyed by all present. 0 DAVE HANNON LQSES GARAGE BY FIRE Two hundred and twenty-four Hoke County citizens met in the Courthouse on' Monday evening, January 30. in the interest of se curing more rural telephones in the county. Harry Greene, serv ing as chairman, introduced Mr. Gupton, Manager of the Red Springs, Maxton, Raeford and St. Pauls district of the Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph Company. Mr. Gupton could make no pro mises in regard to the company’s expanding the service in Hoke County. He reported that the only line he knew of that the company planned to build in 1950 was from Raeford toward the State Sana torium. Several people from various sections of the county aired their feelings toward the telephone company saying that it had made numerous promises to expand in to the rural areas but that none of the promises had been kept. It was reported that the company had been asked to send a repre sentative into the county several times to discuss the situation, but the requests had' been ignored. After further*'discussion Mar shall Newton made a motion that a board of nine members, con sisting of a chairman and one member from each of the eight townships, be elected to consult the Telephone Company to see if servdee is available and if not, to (Continued on page 4) 0 Chamber of Commerce Promotes End of Deal After Long Negotiation Deed Signed At Carthage Monday 'A'': v'S''' % It 4 ^ ' ^ ^ W V. yire last Thursday night de stroyed the garage of Dave Han non at his home just west of Rae ford on the Aberdeen road. Five used cars were in the building and wore destroyed along with the building. Loss has been esti mated as high as $10,000 and was not coverd by insurance. The Rae ford Fire Department went to the fife but were too late to effec tively combat the blaze. Mrs. Poole’s Sister Dies Near Liberty Miss Madge Albright Coble, 51. died at her home, Route 2. Lib erty, Friday morning at five o’ clock’ after an illness of three years. She was a native of Ala mance county and was the daugh ter of the late John M. and Martha Vestal Coble. She served as pro fessor of education at Louisiana State University. She received her bachelor’s degree at Guilford college, her master’s at the Uni versity of Tennessee, and her doc torate at Ohio State University. Funeral was conducted at three- thirty o’clock Saturday afternoon at Rock Creek Methodist church by the pastor, assisted by the Rev. W. B. Heyward, pastor of the Rae ford Presbyterian church. Burial was in the church cemetery. Miss Coble is survived by two sisters. Mrs. W. L. Poole of Rae ford and Mrs. Josephine Parker of the home, and one brother, Ralph P. Coble of Greensboro. WILLIAM P. SAUNDERS MARCH OF DIMES MINSTREL TONIGHT Tonight will be the last op portunity people in Raeford will have to attend a benefit for the 1950 March of Dimes when the Minstrel show will be staged at the Hoke High school by the Raeford Kiwanis and Lions clubs. The curtain will rise at eight o’clock on a show that has had much rehearsal and which will feature Ed Smith and Starr McMillan as end ihen. Also featured will be singing of old minstrel songs by a mixed chorus of eight male and six female voices. Persons in Raeford who have not been asked for contribu tions to the March of Dimes and wish to give may mail their money to Robert Gatlin, Raeford chairman. If there were one word to char acterize best the career of Wil liam P. Saunders, known to his friends as Bill, -president of Rob bins Cloth Mills, and long-time mayor of the town of Robbins and outstanding citizen of the State, that would be “progressive.” The word “progressive” is de scriptive of his business, as well as public career. Mr. Saunders first became associated with Col onial Mills, now known as Rob bins Mills, when there was only one small unit in what is now one of the nation’s outstanding rayon and nylon chains. From the mod est begining, the company has previously added units at Red Springs, Aberdeen, and Clarks ville. Va. In addition, the original unit at Robbins has been expand ed to several times its original capadtF. In every ease, ttM company has made its various units models in construction, equipment, and pro duct. The labor and community relations of the firm have at tracted national attention. It is fully expected that any program adopted for the new location will meet every high standard set else where. Mr. Saunders first became as sociated with the Company in 1931, and has risen in steady strides to the presidency of the Robbins Cloth Mills. Inc., the latest promotion having come within the last year. Association with the textile in dustry comes naturally with Mr. Saunders since he was born in Gaston County at Dallas. His first experience with the industry was with Burlington Mils. He became associated with Colonial Mills, in 1931 when its holdings were con fined entirely to the one struggl ing unit at Robbins. One of his numerous distinc tions is that he was the first and has been the only mayor of Rob bins, having been elected to this office in 1935 and having been reelected for each succeeding term since that time. During that time the progress of the commun ity has been as phenomenal as that of the company which he repre sents. Paved streets, improved schools, playgrounds, and recrea tional facilities attest the quality of the leadership of Mayor Saun ders. I : Robbins Cloth Mills, Inc, of Robbins, N. C.. this week ac- quired title to the real and per- ' sonal property of the ■. old * White-Tex mill here. Raeford ' Chamber of Commierce offi- 1 i cials have announced. The i,' deal between the Robbins I I corporation and the Recon- I ' struction Finance Corporation I ' and the Commercial National Bank of Charlotte, owners of " ' the property, was concluded at a meeting in Carthage ^ ' Mondajm at which time the ^ I deed was signed. The pur chase price was not announc ed, but the RFC and the bank got the property in a forced sale some months ago for about $120,000. The firm is already the operator of three tex tile mills in North Carolina, at Robbins, Red Springs and Aber deen, and has apparently chosen Raeford ito be the> site of a fourth^ The Raeford Chamber of Com merce, Inc., did considerable work through . its industrial committee, Crawford Thomas a.nd Lawrence McNeill, to bring about the pur chase. and the Chamber also made available a 30-acre tract which the Robbins corporation acquired with the White-Tex property. I The tract adjoins the mill pro- I perty on the west and is on 'the I main Line of the Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad and that rail-- road has sidings into the proper ty. The Robbins Cloth Mills, In corporated, is headed by William P. Saunders, of Robbins, N. C.. as president, and A. H. Grant of Red Springs is vice-president. Mr. Saunders is also president of the Clarksville Finishing corpor ation of Clarksville, Va.. and ex ecutive vice-president of Rob bins .Mills, Inc., of New York City. These three corporations are affiliated. Ladies dress goods is made at Robbins, men’s and ladies suitihg and ' top-coatings Mr. Saunders' activities extend into all phases of religious, civic. ' are made at Aberdeen, and ladies community, and fraternal life. He underwear is woven at Red is a trustee of Flora Macdonald , Springs. All these materials are College at Red Springs and of the ! then taken to the dyeing and fin- Moore County Hospital at Pine- j ishing plant at Clarksville, Vir- hurst. As a student at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Saunders was also a leader. He was a mem ber of the varsity baseball team in 1919, and a member of the Delta Sigma Phi social fratenity. In the summer of 1922, he managed the Kings Mountain baseball team which won the State amateur championship. In 1923, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Plonk of Kings Mountain, and they have two children. Dorothy Lee and Mrs. Ralph W. Barnhart, of Ab erdeen and one granddaughter, Elizabeth Saunders Barnhart. Other honors which have come ginia. The Robbins Mills. Inc. ’oS» New. York is the sales organiza tion. Mr. Saunders said this week that, the company could make no statement at this time as to their plans for operation in RaefoM. as their plans were not complete and it would be impossible to make any accurate prediction as to just what they would do here. The situation here is very sim ilar to that existing in Red Springs in 1939 when the company ac quired an old mill property there with some machinery and run down dwelling units. The Robbins trill in Red Springs now is one to Mr. Saunders irtclude the pres- o: the finest to be found anywhere ! idency of the Robbins Building and employs in the neighborhood ! and Loan Association, nierribership ; of 500 persons. Local Chamber of 'on the Moore Countv planning i Commerce officials are hopeful : Boaref. the Moore County Board I that the future may see the same i of Education, representative from sort of development here I Moore County on the Governor s I Hospitality Committee, and mem- I bership on the State Stream San itation and Conservation Commis sion. Among his fraternal affilia tions are the Masonic organization and the Shrine. (Continued on back page) Crawford Thomas and Lawrence McNeill, who have devoted much time and effort to bringing the Robbins corporation to Raeford, yesterday expressed their appre ciation for the cooperation of For rest Lockey of the Aberdeen and (Continued on back page)
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