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W4 g?A' '5^g;rTK_- 'v' ; '-r^/':’^' >■ ' vi' ’% - Z-- ■ -- ■ ■/*•-'"■ ■SV-v^’TT'S *^Jpr-»y-/,_-^ ■; •_, \ s V? , " ’. -rr .Hi.-’ , ^ “S VOICE OF IREEPOM MOrtE j (rMiKl GUARDIAN 0FUBERT1 lirunt few. The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOICE OF IREEPOa K«JJ GUMtDtAlf Of USIRTT VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 43 THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1950 RAEFORD. N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY $2.00 PER YEAR YOUR iSCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald ^ At a principals meeting Tues day afternoon some of the com mencement dates for the white schools were set. Graduation ex ercises were set for Wednesday evening, May 31, Skip Day, May 31; Seventh, Grade Promotion Day, Tuesday, May 30; Bacca laureate Sermon. Sunday May 28. Dates for other closing exercises ■will be announced at a later date. Arrangements were made at the principals meeting for a county wide spelling match for elimina tion previous to a spelling match that will be broadcast from sta tion WEWO about the last of April. A great deal of interest in spell ing is being evidenced by the pu pils in the various schools as the various interschool ,paatches indi cate. Matches have been held be tween Rockfish and Mildouson, Mildouson and Ashemont,. and Ashemont and Rockfish. Next Fri day Mildouson will come^^ to the Raeford Graded school for a match and the following Friday Ashe- jnont will be here. Miss Lunnette Barber of the State Wild Life Commission came to Ashemont to take pictures of the bird houses made by the pu pils. She also expected to get pic tures of the beaver dams and houses discovered by the pupils in neasl-iy creeks an/i branches. Owing to the. bad weather she didn’t get the last mentioned pic tures and will return at a later date for them. Last ' Monday Mrs. Shelton’s room of the Raeford Graded school went to Ashemont for a meeting with the Ashemont 5th grade un der Miss Thornburg. The purpose of the trip was to exchange ideas with ■ the Ashemont Wild Life club. A most profitable meeting ^was held. Both clubs got new ideas that could be put into prac tice in their local club work. Yesterday Mrs. Ruria Shelton, Miss Hilda Priest and J. W. Tur lington went to Lumberton to a science meeting sponsored by the State Department of Public In struction.' Discussions were held as to the teaching of science both in the elementary and high school. Mrs. R. A. Matheson, teacher in the Raeford Graded School and Mrs. C. S. Osment, Elementary Supervisor, attended the school clinics at Duke University hospi tal yesterday. The final phase of the school health program for the year, which will deal largely with cor rections, has been worked out. There will be the closest coopera tion between the schools, health department and welfare depart ment. With all of these agencies working in cooperation a great deal should be done before June 30. Bill Horner Is After Seat Now Held By Deane W. E. Horner, publisher of the Sanford Herald and former mem ber of the North Carolina Gener al Assembly, is a candidate for Congress from the Eighth District, and will oppose Congressman Charles B. Deane of Rockingham, who is a candidate for another term. Horner ran in 1946 for the .seat in Congress then held by Miss Jane Pratt, who was appointed to serve the unexpired portion of the term of Congressman W. O. Burgin, who died ApriT 11, 1946, after having announced that he would not be a candidate for an other term. Horner was defeated in the pri mary by the present Eighth Dis trict Congressman, Charles B. Deane in a close contest by less than 400 votes out of 37,000 cast. Mr. Deane had no opposition in 1948. Horner describes himself as a middle-of-the-roader and as be ing opposed to big government and too much taxing and spend ing. Rev. Ben Houston, Former Pastor Here, Dies At Weldon The Rev. Benjamin Herriott Houston, 60, died early last Thurs day morning at his home in Weld on after an illness of a year. He was pastor of the Raeford Meth odist church from 1932 until 1935. He was a native of Brunswick, Ga., but grew up in Wilmington and graduated at Duke. He stud ied theology at Emory University in Atlanta and obtained his B. D. there in 1926. He was a 32nd de gree Mason, a veteran of World War I and was for a time a mis sionary of the Meehodist church in Brazil. Funeral services were conduct ed at the* Weldon Methodist church at two o’clock Friday af ternoon by Dr. A. J. Hobbs, super intendent of the Rocky Mount Methodist district, and burial was in Riverside Park, Smithfield. He married the former Laura Crump of Wilmington, who sur vives with thr^ children, Laur- ite Houston Barlow of Alfred University, New York; Ben, Jr., of the Dental school of the Medi cal College of Virginia; and Bob Houston of Davidson college; one grandchild; two sisters and , two brothers. . PTA SEES FH^M The final meeting of Group 4 of the Colored schools was held at the Laurel Hill school. A re sume of the work done in reading was given. A great deal of pro gress both in methods and in re sults was shown. Bekw is a schedule of the pre school clinics to be held this spring. It is suggested that par ents clip this schedule and keep it so that they naay be ready to take their children to the place indicated for their school. It is hoped that all parents will coop erate and that every child who will enter school for the first time next fall will attend. Attention is called to the fact that according to law only chil dren who are 6 years old on or before October the first are al- (Continued on Page 4) The Hoke-Raeford PTA held its March meeting Monday evening, March 20 in the Raefird Graded School' auditorium, with Mrs. Neill McFadyen presiding. - During the business session the following officers were elected: Mrs. Robert, Gatlin, president; Mrs. Tommie Upchurch, vice- president; Mrs. Harry Greene, treasurer and Mrs. Chandler Rob erts, secretary. Mrs. Thomas Cameron had charge of the program. Mrs. Cam' eron explained the film “Our Challenge”, which was then pres ented on the screen. Mary Sue Upchurch read the script and 'made necessary explanations. This filmstrip was prepared under the direction of . the United States Chamber of Commerce and gave an over all view of the way busi ness looked at and valued educa tion. 0 PRESBYTERIAN HAVE ANNUAL CHURCH NIGHY The congegation of the Raeford Presbyterian church had its an nual “Church Night” at the church last Wednesday night. The pro gram included reports from all the various departments of the church on their activities during the year and was followed by a supper for all members Of the church and Sunday School in the basement. Lions Club Show Today And Friday “It’s A Date,” the local talent show being sponsored by the Rae ford Lion’s club' for the benefit of the girl ^puts. will be present ed tonight and tomorrow night in the auditorium of the Hoke coun ty high school. Curtain time is 8:11 p. m. ' Rehearsals have been imderway for about 10 days under the di rection of Miss Shirley Mahoney and the show will have a cast of about 75 local people who will impersonate famous radio char acters. Lead parts will be played by Miss Martha Ben Gulledge and Bill Kibler, and stalwarts in the cast will include such funny men as Starr McMillan and Ed Smith. Senate Told A & P Makes Only Ic Lb. On Coffee SPEAKER f r DR. JOHN A. MACKAY The great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company has made only slightly more than a penny a pound profit before taxes on its coffee sales the past two years, a senate subcommittee investigating coffee prices was told. Francis M. ^Curtz, president of A&P’s coffee division and its af filiated American Coffee corpora tion, informed the committee that in the two-year period ended Feb. 2.5, the food store chain had an identical net profit in each year of .0105 cents per pound be-- fore taxes. The period covered included the last few months of 1949 and the early part of this year when sharp rises in coffee prices caus ed the committee to undertake the current investigation. Kurtz told the committee what A&P “has done to kelp thf prices of ite coffee at relatively low levels, often 20 cents or more per pound lower than the retail price of other coffees.” The coffee official, a veteran of 28 years in the industry, said the company’s one-cent margin “is the total profit A&P receives for procuring and processing the' green coffee, importing, roasting, packing, transporting, grinding retailing it to the American con- surher who buys it in our stores.” “To my knowledge,” he said, “this is the first time A&P has ever divulged its profit per pound of coffee, and. I am personally sorry that it has been done be fore as it is an accomplishment of which any company in any coun try can rightfully be proud.” A&P’s coffee is “priced much lower than other brands” for two reasons, Kurtz said. “The first lies in A&P’s busi ness philosophy—that we should sell the best possible food at the lowest possible prices.” He said. “The second is found in our method of buying, processing and retailing coffee.” By distributing its own coffee in its own stores which have built up a steady day-to-day demand, he, said, A&P is able to schedule its buying and processing opera tions in an orderly, efficient manner. “We do not take a spec ulative position at any time, he said. “Nor do we do any hedging, or have any transactions on any coffee exchange. We simply buy green coffee, import it, roast and pack it, and supply our stores with enough to take care of the demands of our customers.” When prices began to soar, he said, A&P had two alternatives. One was to sell its coffee without increases until stocks were ex hausted and then boost prices as much as 25 cents a pound over night on the basis of the higher replacement costs. “The second alternatives was to move up in price to a level still well below replacement cost, he said, and hold that price until any abnormal pickup'on our inven tory, was entirely handed back to the consumer.” Kurtz saic^ A&P chose the sec ond method and thus was able to (Continued on page 4) FMC Seniors To Hear Mackay Dr. |James Alexander Mackay, president of Princeton Theologi cal Seminary, will preach the, bac calaureate sermon to the 54th graduating cl^s at Flora Mac donald college on May 28, Dr. Marshall Scott Woodson, presi dent of the college has announced. Born in Inverness. Scotland, in the place so closely associated with Flora Macdonald’s traditions as the birthplace of the Scottish heroine for whom the. coliege was named. Dr. Mackay began his ed ucation at the University of Ab erdeen, from which he received his M. A. regree in 1912, with first class honors in Philosophy. A- warded the .Fullertan Fellowship in Philosopliy,'^ he came to ■ the United States and entered Prince ton Seminary, receiving the B. D. degree in 1915. In 1916, he went to Peru as a pioneer educational missionary from the Free Church of Scotland and founded the Angio-Peruvian College, which has becime one of the leading Protestant institutions in Latin America. In 1936, he was elected president of Princeton Seminary, the oldest and largest Presbyterian Seminary in the United States. Of significant interest is the fact that in addition to his many other degrees, thef" degree of Doc tor of Divinity has been conferr ed on Dr. Mackay by Princeton University. Aberdeen Uhiversity in Scotland, the University of Hun gary, and Presbyterian College in Montreal, Canada. 0—^ Benson H. Tuttle Dies In Hamlet Funeral services for Benson H. Tuttle, 54, who died in Hamlet of a heart attack Saturday night, were held Monday morning at the Hamlet Presbyterian church. The services were conducted by the bastor, the Rev. W. I. Howell. He was buried with military honors in Hillside cemetery in Laurin- burg. Mr. Tuttle was a veteran of World War I, and worked for a furniture store in Hamlet. He was a brother of Mrs. g. R. Suddreth of Raeford and his wife was a sis ter of Mrs. Roland Covington of Raeford. He is survived by his wife, the former Annette Gordon, two dau ghters, five brothers and two sis- tfers. GRADUATES AT STATE Hoke Students To Get Instruction In Driving Safety Students of Hoke High school will have an opportunity at 1:30 p. m. Friday, March 24th to see for themselves how the false im pression and sense of security that a driver of a modem auto- fobile gets, can and does, often lead into the danger zone and trouble, when they participate in a series of driving tests, W. T. Gibson, Jr., principal has an nounced. The tests, which will be in two parts, will be given under the di rection of George M. Tewksbary,' Jr. safety engineer, of the Farm Bureau insurance companies. The first section will be a lec ture and movie in the Hoke High School auditorium, while the sec ond will be a demonstration on the North end of Main street, one block East of the school. Mr. Tewksbary will also demonstrate the correct and incorrect driving habits. High point of the demonstration will come, however, when driv ing tests are made with various students and faculty members in the specially equipped car of Tewksbary. Three revolvers which are mounted on the front bumper of the car will firie yellow paint bullets to indicate the distance required to stop the car in an emergency. The driver being tested will be signalled to stop by a red light mounted above the radiator. The first paint bullet will be fired automatically at the same instant the stop signal is flashed. The sec- oi.d will - Mi vNS'ed- automatically when the brake is applied and the third when the car halts. Dis tance between the spots of paint will then be measured to deter mine the reaction and braking distances. Tests will be limited to 20, 30 and 40 mile per hour speeds be cause of the danger in making emergency stops at higher speeds. Police officers will be used as drivers in the high speed tests. As part of a program for safety on the highway, the Farm Bureau Insurance Companies have pres ented the driving demonstration and test before the student bodies of more than 3000 high schools and'colleges in 12 states. The pro gram is being brought to Raeford under the sponsorship of the Ki- wanis Club. The public is invited to attend the lecture as well as the demon stration. 0 Dr. Morgan In St. Pauls Kenneth McNeill, son of Mr. and Mr^. John K. McNeill of Rae ford. has finished his work at North Carolina State college for his degree of B.S. in Agriculture. He will return in June to the re gular commencement exercises at which time the degree will be presented to him. 0 Flue-cured tobacco prices last year' averaged 47.2 cents a pound, 2.4 cents per pound, less than in 1948. Burley prices averaged near ly 45 cents a pound, down a cent from those of the previous season. Th/ Rev. F. Crossley Morgan, D.D., who is well-known to Pres byterians and others in this sec tion as a Bible student from his lectures in the Raeford Presby terian church, will conduct a ser ies of letcures in the St. Pauls Presbyterian church next week, the pastor, the Rev. R. H. Poole, has announced. Dr. Morgan w'ill speak at the morning and evening service on Sunday and will hold services at 10,a. m. and each evening Mon day through Friday of next week. The general theme of the morn ing conferences starting March 26 will be “Bird’s Eye Views of the Gospel According to Matthew.” Theme for the evening confer ences will be “Christ in the Pres ence of Human Need.” 0 TO ORGANIZE CLUB AT ROCKFISH FRIDAY There will be a meeting at the Rockfish schoolhouse on Friday, March 24, at 7:30 p. m. for the purpose of organizing a Ruritan club for the community. All bus inessmen and farmers in the coih- munity are invited to participate. The club is for the purpose of community betterment and must have at least one-third farmers. Phone Company Reports On Its Progress In 1949 In an advertisement in this is sue the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company reports on its progress in 1949 and concludes that it is “catching up.” The ad states that the company installed 28,286 telephones last year and that 7,224 of these were rural telephones. It also says that S4',394.183 was spent on equip ment, and material in its system during 1949. In a more detailed breakdown for ?aeford and vicinity, R. M. Gupton. the company’s manager for the Red Springs district of which Raeford is a part, said that the company had spent $36,878.49 in adding to its plant investment in Raeford since 1945 and $20,- 776.49 in 1949. Mr. Gupton haid that 164 tele phones had been added to the local exchange since 1945 and that 66 of these were in 1949. He said that 22 rural telephones were added to the Raeford exchange last year and that there were novv a total of 461 telephones on the exchange. Within the ■ past two weeks workmen of the company have rewired all telephones in the bus iness district of Raeford. In its advertisement, the com pany pledges Jo continue..to ex pand its service as rapidly as possible. e J. Arthur McRae Passes Sunday In Red Springs ''James Arthur McRae, 61, died at his home in Red Springs at about nine o’clock last Sunday night. He was born in Robeson county September 14, 1888, son of the late Lucius' and Carolina Purcell Mc Rae. He attended Davidson coll ege where he was prominent in athletics. He came to Raeford in the fall of 1912 and taught school, for two or three years and was for a time bookkeeper for the Hoke Mercantile company. He was elected Superintendent of Hoke county school in 1917, but resign ed the position after a few months. He is also remembered by some as having been quite a baseball player while he was here. In Red Springs he was senior elder of the Presbyterian church, and was for 26 years clerk of the session. He was cashier of the Scottish bank for 16 years and at the time of his death was office manager for the J. F. Blue Lum ber company. Funeral was held at the Red Springs Presbyterian church Tues day afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Thomas A. Fry. and burial was in Alloway cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the formen Lina Ruth Beck of Dur ham, and one son, James A. Mc Rae, Jr. n IN SPEAKING CONTEST 16 Speeders Payoff; Fighters, Liquor Violators Do Same Si.x colored people of Stonewall township appeared in recorder's court Tuesday before Judge Henry McDiarmid on charges of partici pating in a free-for-all fight in which knives, axes, fists and teeth were used. The State took a nol pros in the case against one o£ them. Lester Scriven. Sam, Ed and Margaret Scriven and Mag gie Richardson all pled , guilty aijd Tom Smith pled not guilty but was found guilty. Smith apparently got the worst of the affair and had a doctor to pay, so the judge gave him' 60 days to be suspended on payment of the costs. The others got 60 days each to be suspended on paypaent of $25 and the costs by each. Some paid and some- are out getting up the money and some are in jail. Ed Scriven also paid the costs for carrying his rifle off his premises on Sunday. Willie Foster Hunt, Indian, pled guilty of violating the prohibition laws in two cases. He had been brought here from Scotland coun ty on a capias, having failed to appear for his trial when he was previously called. He got 4 months to be suspended on payment of $25 and the costs. He paid part of the money and the judge let him go on promise to pay the remain-- der by April 1. Richard and Worth Jones, In dians, got 4 months each on the roads for violating the prohibition laws, and sentences were suspend ed on payment of $25 and the costs by each. Alvesta McGregor, Willie J. McGregor and Brooks Thornton, all colored, each paid the costs for being drunk and disorderly. Thelma Lowery, Indian, and William E. Thomas, colored soild- ier, each paid $25 and the costs for driving without driver’s li cense. The 16 speeders who either paid $10 and the costs or forfeited $25 bonds were J. J. Weisbrad, J. R. Charette, Louis Tramontin. J. N. Aquilino. Earl S. Wood. Ray mond H. Danboise, Ruth Appleton, John T. Cash, Clement Cluz, W. A. Byrne, Carla Stoop Dockerell, Roy E. Geise, Milton Rowe. W. C. Wright, Jr. and John Shakinian, all white, and Hull Morrison, col ored. Mary Sue Upchurch, Hoke county winner in the contest spon sored by the North Carolina Banker’s association on “Social Aspects of Soil Erosion in North Carolina,” went to Carthage last Friday where she competed with the winners from six other coun ties in the district. The contest for the district was won by Lee Scarborough of Mount Gilead. CLASS AT ANTIOCH A Presbytery Officer's Traimng class will be held at the Antioch Presbyterian church next Wed-' nesday. March 29. The class will be for all the Presbyterial offi cers, local officers and general members of the church through out the Presbytery. All members are urged to attend. Registration will begin at 10:00 o’clock and classes will start at 10:30 o’clock. u_o Miss Maude Poole of Belmont was at home for the week end. B. B. Currie, 79 Dies At Shannon; Funeral Monday B. B. Currie, 79, of the Shannon com.munity, died at his home Sat urday night after an illness of four months. Mr. Currie had been a resident of the community for a'oout 60 years and an elder in the Lumber Bridge Presbyterian church for a number of years. Funeral was conducted at the church at four o’clock Monday afternoon by' the Rev. W. A. Brown, pastor of the Parkton Presbyterian church, assisted by the Rev. Graham Eubank, pastor of the Trinity Methodist church of Red Springs. Burial was in the church cemetery. He is survived by four daugh ters, Mrs. Bertha Hardesty, of the home and of the faculty of Rae ford Graded school. Kate C^urrie and Lina Currie of Charlotte, Mrs. Isabelle Leonard of Rahway, N. J.; one son, A. B.'Currie of Great Falls. S. C., and seven grandchil dren. 0 NAVY QUOTA-UNLIMITED The quota for U. S. Navy en listments is now unlimited it was learned this week from Lt. Com. P. C. Brown, Jr., USN, Officer in Charge of the Navy Recruiting Station, Raleigh, N. ■ C. This un limited quota was due to an in crease of 1,000 enlistments for the month. Brown said, “All men who can pass the mental and phy sical examinations and meet the other requirements will be enlist ed.
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