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' YOLUNE XLIV; NUMBER 39
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950
RAEFORD. N. C.
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YOUR
ISCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
On next Monday night, Febru
ary 27, at 8 o’clock in the Raeford
Graded School auditorium Dr.
Felix Baker, who is with the State
Department of Public Instruction,
will be here to inform us as to
how we may secure the services
of one of the 25 remedial reading
teachers that the State Department
of Public Instruction was autho
rized to allot by the last legisla
ture.
This is a chance offered Hoke
County that we cannot afford to
miss. We have quite a number of
children who are behind in their
reading for one reason or another.
Poor reading is often caused by
poor physical condition such as
poor eyesight, poor hearing, rheu
matic fever and various other
things that cause a child to slow
down.
Our schools are moving forward
fast, but this will be about the
most important forward step that
we can now take. However, to
take it will require the coopera
tion of everyone. We hope that
everyone who possibly can will
meet with Dr. Barker Monday
night and help us get this addi
tional teach for Hoke County.
Hoke High Boys
Win Twice While
Girls Win, Lose
Local Teams Take Both
Games From Philadelphus,
Split With Parkton High
TO PERFORM AT HOKE HIOH SCHOOL TOMORROW
Last week Miss Celeste A. Hay-
iden. Physiotherapist consultant
jwith the State Board of Health
f talked to the teachers of the coun-
l’ty on orthopedics and posture. We
1 feel that she gave us informatioff
' bdp every tiftehei^ In
puiUft
oui^sW^^opin-
lon tlSt the %Schers of Hoke
Cbupty, are more child conscious
at the present than ever in the
history of education in the county.
We are sorry to report that Miss
Lora Mae McKenzie, typist for
the Board of Education, is con
fined t*o her home by illness.
Last week and this week the
district lunchroom supervisors,
both colored and white, have been
in the county assisting in the
lunchrooms in anyway they could.
They give aid in various ways,
with menus, reports, etc. We were
delighted to have them.
Miss Margie Caldwell, elemen
tary supervisor of city units in
Robeson County, and Miss Hill,
elementary principal at Red
Springs, were visitors in the
schools here last week.
The Hoke-Raeford PTA found
ers day program last Monday
night was a well arranged affair
and was well attended. (See^ story
elsewhere in The News-Journal).
Mrs. Osment, elementary super
visor spent last Thursday and
Friday in Raleigh and Durham on
school business.
Dr. Charles Prall, Dean of the
School of Education of the Wo
man’s college of the University of
North Carolina, was in the county
last week and observed in most of
the schools. Most of his comments
were very favorable. We feel hon
ored to have an educator of Dr.
Prall’s standing feel that it was
worth his while to come to our
county to observe.
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POSTPONE REVIVAL
The series of revival services
scheduled to begin last night at
the People’s Methodist church
were postponed because of the ill
ness of the evangelist, the Rev.
Virgil Melvin of Asheville. An
nouncement of the new date will
be made later. ’
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LEGION TO MEET
The Ellis Williamson American
Legion po^t will have its monthly
meeting and supper in the high
school cafeteria next Wednesday
night at seven o’clock, Julius Jor
dan, post commander, has an
nounced.
By BILLIE LESTER
Last Friday night the Hoke
High School cage teams journey
ed to Parktbn where the local
sextet went down in defeat 47-
2'6. while the local boys came
through with a 48-38 victory.
Lyda Williams, high scoring
forward again set the pace for the
local girls as; she hit. the hoops for
15 points. Cole was next with 5.
Anne McDonald, Parkton’s scor
ing ace, led the way to victory
with 19 points. Everette and Pow
ers were next with 10 points each.
In the final game of the night,
the Hoke High boys played what
was probably their worse game of
the season. Parkton had a two
point lead at halftinae (23-21).
The HHS boys rallied to win 48-
38; Doug Clark, local forward, hit
his peak in points in one game
as he hit the hoops for 17 points.
Joe Davis, who teams with Clark
at the other forward slot, was
next with 9. Everette set the pace
for Parkton with 15 points. Ivey
was next with 11.
Best Philadelphus *rwice
The local sextet, which has won
17 out of 22 games played* this
year, came through with another
victory on Tuesday night of this
week as they downed a fairly
strong Philadelphus team 38-30.
Lydar Williams, scoring ^e for
the local seiftet, hit for a total of
28 points to lead the girls to vic-
^ry. ’ ,
In the boys game the locals
scored almost at will to swamp
a weak Philadelphus five, 58-30.
Billie Lester, guard, set the scor
ing pace for the local boys with
14 points. Davis and Lundy were
next with 9. McMillan led Phila
delphus with 11 points.
3 To Graduate From
Boys Basketball Team
The Hoke High School boys
basketball team has a fairly good
record to date, having won 12 and
lost 10. There are two more games
left on the schedule.
The team scoring is led by Joe
Davis, six foot fotward, who has
a deadly jump and push shot.
Davis, in 22 games this season has
amassed a total of 206 points, for
a little over a 9 point per game
average. Doug Clark, who teams
with Davis at the other forward
slot, has come into his own since
the middle of the season. He has
scored 133 points since he has
been moved to forward. Clark’s
specialty in the scoring depart
ment is his driving layup. His
ability to break away for a layup
is a vital factor. At the center
post is Landon Yarborough, a six
foot two inch perfomer. His spec
ializes in taking rebounds off both
backboards, backs away from the
basket, and also taps in many re
bounds. At the guard posts are
John McLauchlin, 5’ 9” sopho
more, and Billie Lester, 5’ 10^’
junior. McLauchlin can drive in
toward the basket and hook with
either hand. He also has a deadly
one handed push shot from far
out. This is his first year of vars
ity basketball, and he has proved
quite capable of handling his
guard duties. Lester’s best shot
is a one handed push shot from
either corner, and he can also
break in for layups frequently. He
is currently second in the scoring
parade with 195 points.
Bru^e Phillips, D. B. Parker,
Bobby Lundy, Thomas Alexander,
Leonard Dunne, and Avery Con
nell, who make up the reserve
squad, have not been given a
chance to prove their ability, as
there have been tod many close
games for them to see much ac
tion, but a lot is expected of them
next year.
Only three boys out of the ten
graduate this year, Joe Davis,
Doug Clark and Leonard Dunne.
Next week’s paper will feature
an article about the local girls
team, who have an impressive re
cord. this year.
Chamber Holds
Annual Meeting;
Lewis President
The Raf.-ord Chamber of Com
merce held its annual meeting for
1950 in thu courthouse last Thurs
day night. .A.bout 25 . members
were present and heard President
R. B. Le-.vi report on the activi
ties of jhe chamber during the
year. A rep^rt -was also made to
the members by J. L. McNeill,
treasurer
of the or:
Red Cross Plans
Annual Campaign
Dormg March
County Chairman Named;
Local Chapter Provides
Services To Many
A quota of SI.723.00 has been
set by the Hoke County Chapter
.. the financial status ' of the A.mericah Red Cross to
nzation and on the ac- ; meet community needs during the
tivities of the industrial commit- I coming year. The chapter will con-
tee durinc :he past year. | duct its cam.paign for funds dur-
Director.^ fvere elected to fill' mg the month of March. General
four norm.al vacancies on the ] George C. Marshall, new president
board and one caused by the de- i of' the America.a Red Cross has
parture of Irving Hubbard from j announced that the national quota
Raeford. Elected were H. L. Gat- i '-vill be S67-mmion.
lin, Jr.. A. A. Graham, Paul Dick- | Clyde Upchurch, Jr. is chair-
son, Neill A. McDonald and Julius'i man for the 1950 Fund Cam.paign.
Jordan. I He will be assisted by Mrs. H. A.
At a meeting of the directors j Cameron in the rural division and
following the annual meeting the Israel Mann in the town of Rae-
board re-elected all officers to ford. A. S. Gaston is chairman
THE GLEE CLUB of N. C. State College, shown above, will appear in concert in the Hoke
County High school auditorium tomorrow ni^ht at eight o’clock. The glee club will be un
der the direction of C. D. Kutschinski, director of the Department of Music at State. The
program will include vocal selections of man / types, from the serious classical to light and
hunjiorous ditties. It will also include selectio ''S by an instrumental ensemble group made
up of members of the glee club who also pla / in the college band or orchestra. Only one
member of the groifp is not a resident of North Carolina. The group is being brought here
by the Hoke-Raefdrd Parent-Teacher association.
Ed Hollingsworth
Gets All His Cases v
Clear For $300
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Ed Hollingsworth, colored man
who left recorder’s court last week
under a $500 bond and facing a
Superior court trial, came back
this week and got things straight-:
ened out a little bit, at least to
where he could pay $300 and the
court costs in two cases and leave.
He was bound over to Superior*
court along with Hattie McFadyen,
colored, for assaulting Douglas
Penland, white soldier, with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill.
New evidence presented before
Judge Henry McDiarmid Tuesday
caused charges agqinst Hollings
worth for assaulting the soldier
to be droppe4 by the state. The
woman was found guilty of as
saulting Penland with a deadly
weapon and she had to pay the
court costs and $75 to him. On the
charge of driving drunk, Hollings
worth was found not guilty. He
was found guilty of speeding, hav
ing no driver’s license, driving
after his license was revoked and
running through a red light. He
got a total of 14 months on the
roads suspended on payment of
a $300 fine and the court costs,
j For being drunk and disorder
ly Frank Davis, Lonnie Ratliff,
Fairley Burke, Lawrence Dudley
and Sellars Baker, all colored,
each paid the costs.
Cephus Tyler, white, was char
ged with assault in connection
with a disagreement with his wife.
They were on good terms by the
time of trial and Tyler got off on
payment of the costs.
John Clark and Will Johnson,
both colored, paid $25 and the
costs each for driving without
driver’s licenses. Henry Lee Jones,
colored, paid the costs, for allow
ing an unlicensed driver to oper
ate his car.
Speeders, paying $10 and the
costs or leaving $25 bonds, were
William Hussabitch, Dr. George
L. Maylan, John E. Longua, all
white. .Purcell Jones, Indian, paid
$10 and'the costs for driving with-
improper brakes and lights.
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TOWN GETS FIRE TRUCK
John N. Mdbowell
Dies Near Shannon
John M. Mcl^owell passed a-
way at his h&h^^j^Dear Shannon
Sunday morning about 4 o’clock
after aii illness of several months.
He was a prominent farmer and
had lived in the Shannon com
munity for more than 20 years.
The deceased was a native of
Marlboro county. South Carolina,
where he was born in 1869.
He is survived by his second
wife who before her mnniago
was Mrs. Cora Solos; l),v five
sons, J. F. McDowell of Miieford,
route two, C. P. McDowell s | Dil
lon, S. C., Kemper McDnwall of
Thomasville, Reuben McDowell
of North Adams, Mass., and Al
bert McDowell of Lexihgton; by
two daughters, Mrs. B. D. Tew
of Asheboro and Mrs. J. B.
Burns of Daystrom; by two step
sons, L. V. Soles of Whiteville
and S. S. Soles of Durham; and
by three stepdaughters, Mrs.
Fred Briston of Whiteville, Mrs.
A. P. Arnold of Wilson and Mrs.
H. B. Jernigan of Selma.
Funeral serivees were conduct
ed at the Red Springs Baptist
church Tuesday afternoon at 2
o’clock. Burial was in the Mount
Calvary Baptist church cemetery
near Dillon.
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Scout Official
Addresses Kiwanis
James H. Clark, of Elizabeth
town, president of the Cape Fear
Area council of the Boy Scouts
of America, was guest speaker at
the regular weekly meeting of the
Raeford Kiwanis club at the high
school cafeteria last Thursday
night. Mr. Clark made the men a
challenging talk on their duties
to the citizens of tomorrow and
to their sons. He also briefly dis
cussed the accomplishments and
hopes of Boy Scouts and their
grown-up supporters in the seven-
county^rea over which he pre
sides.
W. H. Calloway
Buried Tuesday
Near Carthage
Funeral services were held at
three o’clock Tuesday afternoon
at Lamb’s Grove Baptist church
near Carthage for William Homer
Calloway, with the Rev. Sam At
kinson and the Rev. Jesse Dunbar
officiating. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Calloway, who was 51, died
Sunday night at about 9:30 in
Moore county hospital after an
illness of several months. He was
the son of William M. and Cecilia
Puckett Caiioway of Mount Airy,
who aurvive him. He came to thia
county about 2.4 years ago and
was the owner and operator of the
Five Points service station near
Montrose.
In addition to his parents Mr.
Calloway is survived by his wife,
the former Maude Fulk of Surry
county; two daughters, Mrs. James
Wilkinson of Aberdeen and Shir
ley Calloway of the home; four
sons, Warren Calloway of Hamlet,
Leonard of Aberdeen, and Ralph
and Shelby of the home; two bro
kers, Robert of Carthage and
Robie Calloway of Raeford, route
3; two sisters, Mrs. Garney Hawks
of Low Gap and Mrs. Arnold
Martin of ■ Mt. Airy; and seven
grandchil.dren.
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SHC Contracts Will
Include 15.2 Miles
Paving In County
A Hoke county project is among
those being advertised by the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission for private contract
letting early in March. The pro
ject is part of the Commission’s
$200-million secondary road pro
gram. Bids will be received from
contractors until March 2.
serve during 1950. These are R. B.
Lewis, president. M. R. Smith
vice-president, J. L. McNeill,
treasurer and Paul Dickson, act
ing secretary.
In his report to the members the
president mentioned that the town
was planning to have the streets
marked in the near future and
that a fire truck w'as being bought
at the present time. The Chamber
has supported the town board in
its efforts along these lines, as the
board has cooperated with the
Chamber in its successful efforts
to get the Robbins Cloth Mills to
locate a plant in Raeford.
Local Men Active
In Boy Scout Work;
Meet In Chi^dboum
for the colored division.
March is the traditional month
set aside by Red Cross chapters
throughout the country to present
to the public the needs of the or
ganization for the coming year
and solicit financial support. Since
the Red Cross is an organization
of all people everywhere, it is
felt that the citizens of com.mun-
ities w:ill meet their responsibili
ties by providing means for carry
ing out its services.
Basic services expected to re
quire the major expenditures for
next year are disaster relief, ser
vices to members of the armed
forces and to veterans through the
Home Service department in the
chapter, and the National Blood
Program.
Tot the military veteran, the
Red Cross performs three basic
'services. Through the veterans
local chapter. Home Service work
ers give counseling in personal
and family problems, assistance
iwith claims for government bene
fits, and financial assistance pend-
Thte Executive Board of the
Cape Fear Area Council, Boy
Scouts of America, held a dinner
meeting Monday evening, Febru
ary 20, at Chadbourn Presbyter
ian Church in Chadbourn. Mr. ^ jjjg receipts of benefits.
James H. Clark, Council President, | ^rs. Helen Barrington, Home
presided at the meeting. Execu- • ggrvice worker for the Hoke
rSnomhPr.; nrP.=Pnt m-«Chapter reports many ac
tive Board members present in
eluded: Dr. R. L. Murray and
Younger Snead, Raeford; Rev. W.
Knight Thompson, Wagram; and
Edwin A. Clement, member of the
Regional Boy Scout Executive
Committee, Raleigh; Ray W. Swea-
zey. Scout Executive, and his sec
retary, Miss Irene Salmon, Wil
mington.
President Clark appointed the
following Operating Committee
Chairmen for 1950; Finance L. M.
Upchurch, Raeford; Advancement,
James G. Tljomas, Elizabethtown;
Organization and Extension, Glenn
M. Tucker, Carolina Beach; Lead
ership Training, James R. Poole,
Jr., Lumberton; Camping and Ac
tivities, W. Norman Peal, Chad
bourn; Health and Safety, Dr. R.
L. Murray, Raeford.
A reveiw of the Council record
for 1949 and Crusade Goals for
1950 were presented by Ray W.
Sweazey, Scout Executive, and
Edwin A. Clement. Regional Exe
cutive Committee, gave an inter
esting review of these records and
goals of the Council.
Joe Hood, Council Treasurer,
gave the Treasurer’s Report. A
report of the Council Inter-Racial
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MISS BELLE GRAHAM
HAS HEART ATTACK
The town of Raeford this week
purchased a' new fire truck. It is
a Ford truck with Howe fire
fighting equipment. Its pump has
a maximum capacity of 500 gal
lons of water per__rtiinute, and it
also carries a 400 gallon booster
tank, aluminum ladders, latest
foam and wet water fire fighting
equipment.
The project involves the hard-
surfacing of 15.2 miles of the fol
lowing sections of county roads
The sp>aker was presented to j Robeson County Line tow
ard Arabia; From Arabia to Rock-
fish: Wire Road from Mildouson
the club by Peter McLean. Ir.
Clark was highly complimentary
in his remarks about the work of
Lewis Upchurch and Dr. R, L.
Murray with scouting.,
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MRS RUTH BRIDGES
HAS SERIOUS FALL
I Last Saturday morning, Mrs.
Ruth Bridges, tripped on the stair
steps at her home and fell. She
fractured several ribs and was
painfully hurt. She wms taken to
Moore County hospital where she
is resting comfortably.
toward Davis Bridge; Wire Road
from Sandy Grove via Davis
Bridge to the Cumberland County
Line; and-road connecting Lumber
Bridge road to Parkton road.
Specifications were also adver
tised on 61 other highway'projects
throughout the state in the largest
letting ever held by the Highway
Commission. Commissioners at
their monthly meeting on March
7 will review low bids after which
contracts will be awarded.
Miss Belle Graham, manager
and owner of Graham’s Gift Shop
was stricken Tuesday morning
while at work in her place of bus
iness. She had a severe heart at-
tivities for the past year. 40 tele
grams, 35 long distance calls. 25
emergency leaves, 10 extensions
of leaves, 18 social histories. 16
family allowance forms, 10 de
pendency discharges, 35 physicians
diagnoses, 4 pension forms and
claims. 15 reports to Veterans Ad
ministration for minors receiving
benefits, 3 requests by service
man’s family asking for transfer
to continental U. 3 requests by
serviceman’s family asking for
transfer to bases closer by, apart
ments secured for 12 families, se
veral disability pensions secured
for veterans, 3 blood donors se
cured for emergency operations,
20 VA forms filled out for vete
rans. Grants and loans were made
to the amount of $267.03. The Red
Cross office is open each after
noon from L until 6 p. m.
March Of Dimes
Exceeds Quota
By Almost $1000
Lewis Upchurch, county chair
man for the 1950 March of Dimes,
this week released another set of
figures on the drive, showing a
total of $3977.79 raised in the
county during the drive. He ex
pressed himself as being delist
ed that the county was able to ex
ceed its $3000 quota by $977.79,
■and said that he expected to make
it $1000 before finally closing the
books.
The chairman also expressed
his appreciation to the people of
tack, and was taken to Highsm;th
Hospital as soon as the doctor j county for their support in
considered it wise to move her. | ^iver the drive and gave
Her condition shows improvc;t'.ont credit to the various chair-
but she will remain in the hospi- j worked so diligently in
tal'for several days. ' various communities for the
i cause. "Without their untiring ef-
1 forts.’’ he said, ‘‘Our goal would
never have been reached.” He
also made a special mention of
the excellent service and hard
work contributed by Robert Gat
lin as assistant county chairman
and Raeford chairman for the
drive, and expressed his appre-
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REMEMBER
DOLLAR DAYS
Thurs. - Fri. - Sat.
PATRONIZE
Raeford Merchants
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