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.Sir/ igSr 1' ^.' 2£7j/. i 'l.'i .■.■’-^?i^'*’^' :,. - -. • > ■> V • >> •• • '’■■ i"* ^.. i Tjjw ?i'.}^!‘'pi r/4' % .-i-^^’'%- 1. OFUSEMT The Nets-Journal void or IICfOOM The Hoke County Newt •h. \ VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 40 THURSDAY, MARCH 2,1950 RAEFORD. N. C The Hoke County Journal TEN CENTS PER COPY OrUHRIT m $2.00 PER YEAR YOUR iSCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald Rockfish and Mildouson will have a spelling match at the Mil douson School at 1:00 p. m. on next Monday. The Mildouson PTA met at the school last night at 7:30 o’clock. The County Health Department put on the program. Last Monday evening at the Raeford Graded School Dr. Felix S. Barker, Director of the Divi sion of Special Education, State Department of Public Instruction, addressed a most interested and representative audience on se curing a spe^cial teacher for the Hoke Coimty schools to do reme dial reading work with those chil dren who have special handicaps of one kind or another. A great deal of interest is being shown in this project and we hope that nothing will happen to cause it to fall through. The superintendent of Public Welfare and the super intendent of schools w ent to Mooresville yesterday to inter view a pi’ospective teacher. Miss Lora Mae McKenzie, Board of Education typists who has been qti^te ill at home for the past week, is back at work," we are glad to report. ,,Mfs. Momroe, primary ^cher at la ^ck at a^lc again after having beim quite ilL V Spacitf *i*lb0iMi»tr of lajarplus ittlr ' fSresh ajpplfes that are‘to be dlvid* ed among all schools in the coun ty arrived Tuesday and may be picked up at the county garage. , Processed cheese, peanut butter, canned tomatoes, tomato paste, canned peaches, dried eggs and honey arrived last Friday and will be distributed to the lunch rooms from the storeroom at the Raeford Graded School. Below is given the total enroll ment, average attendance and percentage in attendance for the , fifth month of school. White schools: Ashemont 141, 128, 93; Hoke High 8th grade, 92,, 85, 92; Hoke High . 9-12, 268, 244, 94; Mildouson 99, 87, 91; Raeford . Graded 472, 429, 92; Rockfish 120, 106, 94. ^ Indian Schools: Antioch 150, 149, 98; Macedonia 66, 55, 96. Colored Schools: Shady Grove, 72, 69, 85; Bowmore 159, 149, 94; Friendship 66, 57, 96; Upchurch Elem. 710, 676, 94; Upchurch High 289, 266, 96; Peachmont 65, 47, 97; Timberland 58, 51, 94; Freedom 109, 90, 94; Laurel Hill 139, 1-31, 98; Rockfish Col. 51, 34, 91; White Oak 97, 83, 92; Millside 81, 70, 90; Burlington 190, 173, 94; Bridges Grove 45, 43, 95; Piney Bay 44,44, 84; Lilly’s Cha pel 56, 47, 98; McFarland 40, 39, 90; New Hope 59, 59, 95; Buffalo €3, 56, 87; Frye’s Mission 63, 63, 96. We would like to caU attention to the fact that school is more than half over and that attendance becomes more and more import ant to the child every day. A child that has poor attendance stands a poor chance of passing his work. Please keep the children in school. Usual Cases Heard In Court Tuesday; 11 Defendants Tried Cases involvi^^ 11 defendants and the usual nitt»^imffenses were heard before Judge Henry Mc- Diarmid in Hoke coimty record er’s court Tuesday morning. Speeders included Joseph Vi- sone and John P. Herlihy, both white tourists. Neither appeared for trial and each forfeited a bond of $25. Willie Harris, colored, was Ifound guilty of violating • the landlord and tenant act by get ting supplies of various sorts and then leaving with fulfilling his then leaving without fulfilling his fenced to serve 30 days on the roads, sentence to be suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. Jc^hn Priest, colored, paid the costs for being drunk and disor derly. Stanley Adcox, white, got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs for assaulting his moth er-in-law. Another condition to the suspension was two years good behavior. Joseph Locklear, Indian, pled guilty of the temporary larceny of a car belonging to Ollie Biggs. He *i"'t 90 days suspended on pay ment of $50 to Biggs and the costs and Biggs got his car back. Claudie Worth Maxwell, white truck driver, pled guilty of driv ing drunk and got 60 days sus pended on payment of $100 and the costs. C. A.. Ritter, white, paid the costs for violating the prohibition laws. ” ; Williatn J. Armstrong, colored, was foiled guilty of assaulting Lae Sinclair. He got 30 days su- s^ndttd'.'Ua paymaSt of the costs. . Mai McNeill, colored, was found guilty of bastardy. Sentence was one year to be suspended bn pay ment of the costs and $200 to Odessie Purcell. McNeill was giv en until September to make pay ment and posted a bond for his appearance at that time. Daniel Goins. Indian, pled guil ty of carrying a concealed weap on. He got 60 days suspended on payment of $25 and the costs, and the court ordered the weapon to be turned over to the clerk for sale as the law provides. 0— Car-Jitney Smash Near Rockfish Tues. 0? Funeral Today For Peter A. Webb, Jr.; Dies In Tarboro Glee Club Concert Is Well Received The Aberdeen & Rockfish rail road bus hit a Ford coupe being driven by Ben Townsend of the Rockfish section Tuesday morn ing at the railroad crossing be tween Rockfish and Arabia. Townsend was hurt to an un known extent and is a patient I in a Fayetteville hospital. His I car was demolished, and the “jit ney” also suffered a hole in the radiator and had to be towed from the scene. According to the bus conductor he saw the car approaching the track and blew his horn for it, and thought it would stop but it didn’t, getting to the crossing just in time to be right in front of the bus. The bus was on its regular morning run to Fayetteville. The teachers of Burlington, Bridges Grove, Sandy Grove and Piney Bay schools met at the Piney Bay School for group dis cussion recently. The teaching of spelling was the subject discuss ed. The points left for each to be mindful of were being sure that each child could say the word correctly, being certain that the likenesses and differences in words were seen by the children and teach a few words, being sure that that was well done. Teachers and parents of Shady (Continued on back page) Explains Federal Wage-Hour Law About Lumbering The new “forestry or logging” operations exemption under the Federal Wage and Hour Law is exemption from the law’s mini mum wage and overtime provi sions, but not an exemption from the law’s child labor provisions. This fact was emphasized to day in a special statement receiv ed from Forrest H. Shuford, North Carolina Commissioner of Labor, who administers the Wake-Hour Law in this State under a special- agreement with the Federal Wage and Hour Administration. In his statement Shuford ex plained that most sawmilling and lumbering operations in North (Continued on page 4) The Hoke - Raeford Parent- Teacher association enjoyed a nice return and those attending enjoyed a fine program when the Glee Club of N. C. State coUege appeared in the auditorium at the Hoke County ^High schooi last Friday evening. • The Glee club, imder l^^e direc-’ tion of Major Christian KutsflUiM ski, director of the: qausic di^rt- menk at State, presefited a varti^ program which included classics, several of the more popular semi classic songs; nursery rhymes, hunting song and a spiritual. Most popular with the audience was the performance of an instru mental ensemble made. up of members of the glee club who also play in' the State College band or orchestra. After the concert the members of the glee club were served re freshments in the lunch room and entertained at an informal dance by students of the high school. Mrs. McDonald Is Hoke Census Chief; All Positions Filled No additional applications for employment as enumerators in the 17th Decenniel Census will be accepted, W. Lamont Brown, District Supervisor for the United States Bureau of the Census, has announced. All of the 386 enu merator positions for the 8th Congerssipnal District will be fill ed after written tests of appli- eants. More than 500 persons have filed applications, the Census Supervisor said. Training of the enumerators will begin about March 27th un der the direction of 25 Crew Lead ers, each of whom will be re sponsible for about 20 enumera tors. In addition to training the enumerators, these Crew Leaders will supervise their work-in the field and check their reports for accuracy and completeness. The Crew Lea-der in turn report to Census District Supervisor Brown. The Crew Leader who will su- pei’vise the enumeration in the Hoke County area is: Mrs. Neill A. McDonald, Raeford, N. C. The counties included in the 8th Congressional District are: Anson. Davidson. Davie, Hoke, Lee, Wil kes, Montgomery, Moore, Rich mond, Scotland, Union and Yad kin. 0 “North Carolina farmers should be on guard to avoid purchasing hybrid seed corn of inferior qual ity this spring,” says Dr. R. P. Moore, director of the North Car olina Crop Improvement Associa tion at State College. County Leader Names R^d Cross Drive Chairmen Clyde Upchurch, Jr., county chairman for the annual • fund drive o( the American Red Cross, this Week announced that the. county organization was complete and that the OMvass of the county would be quick and that he hoped the^pi^zens firms of the f unty woi^,.|n|)j^a^ev to enable e quola‘io'be reached in the 11 days of the drive. The drive be gan yesterday and will wind up on Saturday, March 11. The quota for Hoke coimty is $1728. Community chairmen for the various divisions of the drive are listed below: Ashley Heights, Miss Mildred Womble; Sanatorium, Mrs. J. L. Beall; Little River, J. W. Smith; Montrose, Carl Riley; Pine Forest, J. F. Jordan; Turnpike, Charlie Pendergrass; Blue Springs, Mrs. Lucy Smith; Allendale, Miss Willa McLauchlin; Antioch, Mrs. A. D. McPhaul; Dundarrach, Mrs. N. H. G. Balfour; Arabia, Mrs. W. S. Crawley; Rockfish, Allen Wood; Wayside, Mrs. Marshall Newton; Raedeen, Miss Lucille McLeod. Town of Raeford: Northeast Section: Mrs. Harry Greene; Northwest Section, Mrs. Younger Snead; Southeast Section, Mrs. Marion Gatlin; Southwest Sec tion,. Mrs. Robert Gatlin; Rob bins Mill Section, Paul Long; White Schools. W. T. Gibson; Col ored Schools, A. S. Gaston; Rae ford Business Section and Spec ial Gifts, I. Mann. -0 AGED AND RESPECTED COLORED MAN DIES Wright G. Goodman, a highly respected colored man of Antioch township, died February 22 and was buried Saturday afternoon at Bridgers Grove. He was prob ably the oldest person in the county at the time of his death, having passed his 98th birthday last November 16. He was born in Antioch township and spent his life there. He is survived by six children, 21 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. -0- CLINIC IN LUMBERTON The monthly orthopedic clinic will be held Friday, March 3, 1950. in the basement of the ag ricultural building in Lumberton. Dr. L. D .Baker of Duke will be the surgeon in charge and pat ients are requested to register be tween 8:00 and 10:00 o’clock. 0 The Mecklenburg County Home Demonstration Curb, Market has acquired property and assets va lued, at $25,000 sinc^ moving to its present location 10 years ago. B&PW Club Meets Tuesd^^r Night The Business and Professional Women’s club of Raeford held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening at 6:30 at the High School lupchroom. Mrs. Ed Willis presided in the absence of the president, Mrs. C. H. Giles. After the routine busi ness session Mrs. Willis intrpduc- jeA the Rev. W. B. Heyward, who siidkci briefly to the clifb the subject of “Women.” He gave as his reason for selecting this sub ject that when women get to gether they like to talk about women. He read excerpts from various periodicals on this sub ject, which he had clipped through the years. His talk was humorous, interesting and instructive. Hoke High Girls Rea^dy For Tourney By BILLIE LESTER The Hoke High School girls basketball team, which has come through with a very impressive record this year, winning 17 and losing 6, will go into the annual American Legion Invitational Basketball Tournament as one of the top-seeded teams. The tour nament is to be held in fhe local gym, March 6-13, Leading the scoring parade is .Lyda Williams, 5’ 9” sophomore, who is playing her second year of varsity basketball. She scores most of her points on an overhead set shot from around the foul circle. Miss Williams, in 22 games this season, has scored 352 points for a neat 16 point per game av erage, her highest total of points in one game is 28 which came against Philadelphus last week. Second In ,the scoring department is Sarah Cole, another sophomore, who is playing her first year of basketball. She has bagged 235 points in 23 games for a 10 point per game average. Her highest total in one game was 22 points. Betty Ashburn and Fannette Gore, who alternate at the other forward slot do not score many points but play a fine defensive game in getting rebounds and feeding the ball to Williams and Cole. At the guards are Dale Ivey. Florence Cameron. Ellen Kate Koonce and Vera Posey. All of those girls have played a whale of a game of basketball this sea son. and a lot is expected of them next year. Vera Posey is the only one they lose by way of gradu ation. They say they are going to win the tournament. Funeral services will be con ducted at the Raeford Presbyter ian church at four o’clock this afternoon for Peter A. Webb, Jr., 27, who died at two o’clock yes terday in a Tarboro hospital. He had .'Uffered a heart attack at about 11 a. m. yesterday and had not been previously ill. The ser vice will be conducted by the Rev. W. B. Heyward and burial will be in, the Raeford cemetery. The decased was a native of Raleigh but had moved to Rae ford when he was nine years of age. He was in the Marine Corps during the war. serving with the 2nd Division in Japan and being a second lieutenant at the time of his separation. He graduated from Hoke county High school, attended the university of North Carolina and had been in Tarboro with the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company for about six months. Ho is survived by his mother. Mrs. P. A. Webb. Sr., two broth ers, Walter and James, and a sis ter, Mrs. Browri Hendrix, all of this county. His father, P. A. Webb, died in June of 1946. Farm Authority Will Speak Here Tuesday Night Dr. J. H. Hilton, dean of agri culture and director of experi ment stations at North Carolina State College, will speak to Hoke county farmers and their wives at the Hoke county high school next Tuesday night as a guest'of the Hoke Coimty Farm Bureau'. The program will begin at eight o’clock. Dr. Hilton is nationally known authority on beef and dairy pro duction, and on farming in gener al. He will descuss agriculture in general and the problems facing North Carolina farmers this year. He is expected to offer the an swers to many of the questions farmers have about their business and to show them the best and most profitable way to deal with them. The local Farm Bureau chap ter feels fortunate in getting a man of Dr. Hilton’s caliber to speak to local farmers and urges a good attendance. Ladies are in vited to attend also. —^ 0 Kinlaw Funeral Held Thursday Funeral serivces were held at Galatia Presbyterian .church last ' Thursday afternoon for Troy C. j Kinlaw, who died the previous Saturday in Hot Springs. Ark.. | after an illness of two weeks, i Burial followed in the church | cemetery. Services were conduct ed by the Rev. Louis Gaines and the Rev. B. Q. Shannon. Born in Hoke county, he was the son of Mrs. Susan Ellen Capps Kinlaw and the late B. C. Kinlaw. He made his home in Hot Springs for about 12 years. Surviving are one daughter. Miss Hattie Gray Kinlaw of Wil mington; by his mother; by two brothers, the Rev. B. J. Kinlaw of Fayetteville and, Lacy B. Kinlaw of Baltimore, Md.; and by two sisters, 'Mrs. Ola Faircloth Nor ton and Miss Mallie Kinlaw, both of Hoke County. 0- SOUL-WINNING REVIVAL AT BAPTIST CHURCH Doctor Addresses Local Lions Club North Carolina’s 1950 turkey crop is expected to be about 20 per cent larger than the 1949 crop. During the week of March 13- 19, Dr. Judson L. Vipperman, Pastor of the Long Creek Memor ial Baptist Church of Dallas, N. C., will be here to conduct a soul winning revival. Everyone is cor dially invited to hear this out standing Christian and Bible teacher at the Raeford Baptist Church each evening at 7:30. Dr. J. P. Satterwhite, of the N. C. Sanatorium, w^as guest speaker at the bi-weekly meet ing and supper of the Raeford Lions club last Thursday night. Dr. Satterwhite has recently re turned from Japan where he did laboratory research work on virus, diseases of the brain, and his talk concerned the general condition of the Japanese and their outlook for the future. He also discussed briefly some of mental and phy sical results of the atomic bomb ing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The speaker was present^ to the club by Lion Pete Sawyer, program chairman for the meet- 8 Schook Enter CageTonmejr Starting Monday Local American Legion Post Sponsoring 5th Annnal High School Event Here Raeford's Fifth Annual Amer ican Legion High 'school basket ball tournament will be played m the h;gh school g;/nj..nasium here next week. According to Di rector W. L. Poole eight teams have entered the affair, which will begin on Monday night. Girls and boys teams fro.m the eight schools will participate and two ■ games Will be played every night next week, Monday through Sat urday, and the finals ■ will be played on. Monday rdght, March 13. • The preceding four-tournaments were won in. 1946 by Aberdeen, in 1947 by Wes: End, in 1948 by .Aberdeen and las: year the Red Springs boys and the West End girls were the wini-ers. Teams now entered include, Hoke High Tar.Heel, Wagram ' (girls). Gib son, LaFayette High (boys), 71st High, Parkton. Laurel Hill and West End. Games will start at seven-thirty each evening with the girls game be. g played first. Pairings are Monday, Tar Heel girls vs. Wagram and 71st boys vs. LaFayette; Tuesday. Hoke High girls vs. Gibson and Tar Heel boys vs. Gibson; Wednes day. West End girls vs. 71st and West End boys vs. laurel Hill; Thursday, Laurel Hill girls vs. Parkton and Hoke High boys vs. Parkton. Games on Friday, Saturday and Monday will be between winners on the first four nights with the finals for the tournament cham pionship on Monday night, March 13. The tournament is as usual being sponsored by the Wil liamson American Legion post which will furnish the officials and otherwise mainage the affair. A suitable trophy will be award ed the winning tea.m and an all- tournament team will be selected. 0 Development Corp. Stockholders Meet The annual stockholders meet ing of the Hoke county develop ment corporation, which owns the building occupied by the Para- Thread company, was held in the courthouse Monday night. Business was routine, and after the financial report by the trea surer all directors were reelected These were J. L. McNeill, C. L. Thomas, H. L. Gatlin. Jr.. N. A. McDonald, J. W. McPhaul. R. B. Lewis, W. P. Baker, W. M. Thomas and Tom Cameron. J. B. Thomas- and W. D. McLeod were elected to replace Ryan McBryde, form er president, and M. C- Dew, b>"h of wljom died during the past year. At the directors meeting J. L. McNeill was elected president, J. B. Thomas, vice-president. H. L. Gatlin, Jr., treasurer and Tom Cameron, secretary.
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