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VOLUME ^LIV; NUMBER 46
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1650
RAEFORD. N. C.
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SCHOOL NEWS
A&P Files Formal
Answer Denying All
Anti-Trust Charges
By K. A. MacDonald
Mrs. A. H. McPhaul of the Rae-
ford Graded faculty is still ill in
Moore County hospital. Mrs. Bill
Howell and Mrs. Mitchell Epstein
have been substituting for her;
We hope that Mrs. McPhaul will
be able to return home this week.
The Junior-Senior banquet, the
outstanding social event of the
year for the high school group,
will be held in the gymnasium
tomorrow evening at seven-thirty
o’clock. We understand that an
outstanding program for the ev
ening has been arranged. Those
privileged to attend will be amply
repaid for going. •
The Rockfish PTA held its re
gular monthly meeting last ev
ening at the school building. Mrs.
Osment, Elementary Supervisor,
talked to the group in reference
to the preparation of pre-school
children for school in the fall. ^
The final spelling match fof* the
county will be*' broadcast' from
Fayetteville between 10 and 11
A. M. Thursday, April 27. Plan to
tune in and hear the children
spell. There are some excellent
spellers in the county.
Miss Dorothy Kirby, nutrition
ist with the State Board of Health
is in Hoke County this week mak
ing a nutritional survey at the
Bowmore school and assisting
with pre-school clinics while here.
She w% re|^*'vthe week of the
2^th to^S
Rockfish
New York, April 11—The great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea company
has flatly denied government anti
trust charges in U. S. District
court and has termed the civil
suit against it an effort to change
the nation’s “entire economic
strucl^ure”..
In its first formal answer to the
complaint seeking dissolution of
the 90-year-old food chain, A&P
said there “is no justification in
fact or in law for the drastic and
confiscatory destruction’’ of ^e
company. if
A&P denied in det#iil the char
ges the restraint of trade and mo
nopoly brought under the Sher
man Act. Defendants John A.
Hartford, chairman of the board,
George L. Hartford, treasurer,
and the A&P asked through coun
sel that the complaint be dismiss
ed. The'answer was filed by the
New York law firm of Cahill,
Gordon, Zachary and Reindel.
“The plaintiff,” A&P contend
ed, “is asking this court to adopt,
by judicial fiat, new and extrem
ist principles of law which would
result in a complete remodeling
of the entire economic structure
of this country”.
A&P termed its‘ expansion a
“natural growth,” which came
almost entirely from within the
company and not by mergers or
by buying out competing .comp
anies.
The answer said the A&P “has
made substantial contributions
toward revolutionizing” the food
business) “with enormous and in
calculable savings to the consum
er and especially to the worker
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I The effect of the company’s ac-
Pre-schbol clinics were held
yesterday at Ashemont and at
New Hope. Doctors from the Sana
torium examined the children.
We appreciate their doing this
■service for the children. Clinics
are being held today at Rockfish
■and Mildouson with Dr. Wilcox,
our health officer, doing the ex
aminations. Dr. Wilcox had to re
arrange his schedule in order to
get our clinics in and we appre
ciate it.
The Wildlife clubs of Mrs. Ruria
Shelton’s fifth grade and Miss
Ollie Bigg’s sixth and seventh
grades sponsored a bird house
contest. H’rizes were won by Del-
ton Harden and Oscar Scull, 5th
grade; Julia Morris, grade;
and Wayne Maxwell, 7th graffe.
These two clubs meet toge^er
every Friday afternoon, altetoat-
ing in giving the program. Some
very interesting and informative
programs have been presented.
The following are a few of the
topics discussed: Wildlife Con
servation, The Muskrat. The Bea
ver, Snakes, Fish, Wild Flowers,
The Black Bear, Trees of North
Carolina, Marsupials, and the
common O’possum. The pupils of
these grades' are not only learn
ing about our wildlife and the need
for its conservation, but are get
ting valuable experiences in ar
ranging and presenting programs.
The meetings qre conducted ac
cording to parliamentary rules
and each child is on a program at
least once a month. New officers
and program chairmen are elected
every three months; thereby af
fording more children an oppor
tunity for training in leadership.
Mrs. Shelton’s fifth grade club
visited the Wildlife club in Miss
Thornberg’s class at the Ashemont
school recently. The members of
the two clubs exchanged plans
. and experiences and got manv
new ideas from each other.
tivities “has not been to restrain
trade or to prevent competition,”
the answer continued." On the
contrary, its competition has great
ly promoted trade and increased
competition.”
Thus, dissolution of the comp
any, A&P said, “would result in
a decrease rather than an increase
in competition.”
The food chain contended a de
cree of dissolution is entirely un
warranted because:
“1. A&P is not a monopoly or
otherwise illegal in itself.
“2. There is no clear, wiUful,
serious and continuing violation
of the anti-trust laws.
A&RRRBus
VillMakeLast
lun Saturday
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The Aberdeen & Rockfish Rail
road company’s passenger, mail
and express bus, familiarly and af
fectionately known for years be
tween Aberdeen and Fayetteville
as the “jitney^’, will leave the
service effective Saturday, April
15 and the railroad will no long
er provide local passenger service
said an announcement this week
by H. McC. Blue, vice-president
and general manager of the road.
The announcement said that the
discontinuance of the service had
been authorized by the North Car
olina Utilities commission.
In his statement Mr. Blue also
said:
“This company after many
years of passenger service regrets
very much to discontinue local
passenger service, but loss of the
mail contract, which the U. S.
Post Office department cancelled
and placed on the highway to be
handled by truck, together with
the continued decrease in passen
ger, revenue, compelled us to
abandon passenger service.
“So that the patrons along our
line of road who do use the ser
vice will not be inconvenienced,
we have arranged with Queen City
Coach company to operate service
in this territory. We feel that this
service will take care of those
who wish to use it.
“We deeply appreciate the bus;^
iness given us by patrons during
the many years we have operat
ed.” .
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PTA To Meet "'
Monday Night
The regular monthly meeting of
the Hoke-Raeford Parent-Teach
er Association will be held in the
auditorium at the Raeford Grad
ed school Monday night, Mrs.
Neill McFadyen president, has an
nounced.
Mrs. McFadyen said this meet
ing would be celebrateci as “Fa
ther’s Night,’' and she urged all
parents to attend. Speaker for the
occasion will be .'Harry K. Dor-
sett, professor of phycology at
Meredith college. He will speak
on some phase of child psycology.
0
Mrs. Frances Davis and Miss
Women Of Church
Attend Presbyterial
In Fayetteville
^any Presbyterian women from
Raeford and the county attended
the meeting of’the Women of the
Church of Fayetteville Presbytery,
North Carolina Synod, at the Fir^t
Presbyterian Church of Fayette
ville on Tuesday and Wednesday
of this week, s
This, the 61st annual meeting
of the group, was called to order
by Mrs. H. C. McLauchlin, presi
dent. ^
Among the interesting person
ages appearing on the program
were: Mrs. C. S. Harrington, list
ed as one of the twelve outstand
ing Presbyterians of 1949, Rev.
B. Frank Hall, TH.D., D.D.; of
Pearsall Memorial Church, Wil
mington, and Rev. Marshall Wood-
son, Th.D., president of Flora
Macdonald College. Miss Agnes
Mae Johnson of Raeford respond
ed to the greeting to Business
Women and' Miss Elmira Whitley,
of Assembly’s Training School and
Raeford, discussed the birthday
objectives for this year.
Mrs. Neill A. McDonald is^ cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Archie
Howard is treasurer and Mrs. A
A. McEachern is historian of Fay
etteville Presbyterial.
Eight districts were represent
ed- comprised of seventy-nine
churches. 1 *
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t)RiyE-IN TO OPEN
. ^ • \
The 15-A Drive-In Theatre lo
cated about three miles east- of
Raeford will open for the summer
season tomorrow:; night at seven-
fifteerf. The tj^e^^ire is now und^r
.tlte-,mant»s(piai,]#iftof
Nally, manager of the Boulevard
Drive-In in Fayetteville and is
now equipped with individual
speakers.
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PRESBYTERIAN MEN
TO MEET TUESDAY
CCC WiU Erect
15 Bins Here For
Storage Of Grain
G. T. Scott, state director of the
Production and Marketing admin
istration, has announced that grain
storage bins or elevators will be
erected in Raeford among 100
such bins to be erected in North
Carolina. The bins will be used
to store corn acquired under price
support programs by Commodity
Credit corporation after commer
cial storage facilities have been
exhausted. The bins will be erect
ed by the Commodity corporation.
The other bins will be located
as follows: 30 in Elizabeth City,
15 in Smithfield, 15 at Statesville, Lindsay of McLauchlin township,
15 in Washington, and 10 in Tar- g member of the
All Commissioners
And Solicitor Pay
To Enter Primary
G. B. Rowland, chairman of the
Hoke county board of elections,
said yesterday that all members
of the county board of commis
sioners had paid their filing fees
and were running for another
term. Those filing in the past
week were Fulford McMillan. W.
M. Thomas and F. K. Watson.
Julian Wright and John William,
Smith had previously filed.
Rowland also said that J. M.
Andrews had paid* his fee and
was running for another term as
prosecuting attorney of the coun
ty recorder’s court.
,Only one to file for the county
board of education so far is David
boro.
Bids for construction of all
these bins will be accepted until
12:00 noon, Friday, April 14, 1950,
at the State office of the Produc
tion and Marketing administration
in Raleigh.
Specifications of the bins are
on file at the county PMA office
and may be seen there by inter
ested parties. The bins will hold
3300 bushels of grain each.
“3. Relief, if any were, neces- gg^-^-y Davis of Greensboro were
sary, could be obtained fl^ough ^.ggjj^ gjj^j visitors here.
other means.
“4. The public interest will be
harmed and not served thereby
and competition would not be in
creased but diminished”.
Discussing the case from the
standpoint of the public’s interest, Oor venerable predecessor and
the company said “destruction of Present regular columnist. D
the A&P organization, far from Scott Poole, came in the office one
• The Men of the Raeford Presby
terian church will have their
monthly meeting and supper in
the basment of the church next
Tuesday night at seven o’clock.
0
Guests in the home of Mrs. W.
E. Blue Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. G. M. Moon and daughters,
Sapdra and Bettie Blue of Gra
ham and Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Be
thea and daughters, Patsy and
Mary Louise of Dillon.
Deane Is Pleased
With Reports On
District Campaign
Washington, D. C., April 1—Re
presentative C. B. Deane of the
8th District on Saturday tn his
office in Washington expressed
his sincere personal appreciation
for the excellent reports that he
has received from throughout the
dfstfict since he made his an
nouncement as a candidate for
election in the Democratic Pri
mary of May 27.
Mr. Deane stated that within
the past two weeks he ha^ been
in contact with each of the 12
counties of the district and is ex
ceedingly pleased with the re
sponses that have come to him.
The Congressman pointed out
that during the past several weeks
a member .^of the present
board.
Judge Henry McDiarmid of the
recorder’s court is a candidate to
succeed himself and is opposed
by Talmadge O. Moses, farmer
and lawyer of the Ashley Heights
section.
Harry Greene has filed to go
to the General Assembly again.
Clerk of the court John Cam
eron and Sheriff Dave Hodgin are
still waiting.
Horner Announces
Speaking Series
In 8th District
The baseball teanri of Freedom
School played Millside school on
April 6 at Millside. They played
five innings and the score was
2-2.
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Mr. Will Lamont returned to
Raeford Monday after a visit to
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Dickson in
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
MR. POOLE RECALLS BIRTH OF
HOKE COUNTY ON APRIL 3,1911
benefiting the public, would ren
der irreparable injury to it.”
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Scout Council Plans
Leaders’ Conference
Ray W. Sweazey of Wilmington,
Scout Executive for the Cape
Fear Area council of the Boy
Scouts of America, has announc
ed a training conference for scout
leaders in the seven counties of
the council to be held at Carolina
Beach Friday through Sunday,
April 14-16. 1950.
The program will feature out
standing speakers and instructors
on the many subjects with which
scouts are supposed to become
familiar. Also included will be
recreation for the scoutmasters,
patrol leaders, senior scouts and
others in attendance. These men
and boys will also participate in
a demonstration program on sev
eral phases of scout work and will
participate in a Scout worship
service in the City Auditorium at
Carolina Beach Sunday morning.
This will be conducted on the
theme “A Scout is Reverent,” by
the Rev. D. C. Webber, pastor of
the Carolina Beach Community
church.
day last week and said that some
body ought to write something
about Hoke County passing, its
39th birthday on Monday, April
3. He said he didn’t feel much like
doing the writing, but proceeded
to do some talking on the subject.
We thought it would probably in
terest right many of our readers
and also thought maybe it ought
to be recorded. All the following
is what we made of what Mr.
Poole told us.
April 3, 1911 came on Wednes
day and the Ray had been set by
the preceding legislature as the
day the new county of Hoke was
to come into being. Plans were
made for ceremonies on the
grounds of Raeford Institute, with
a speaking and to be followed by
by dinner on the grounds for all
comers. There was plenty of din
ner and a good speech by Charles
Webb of Asheville, attorney, for
the delegation which succeeded
in getting the Hoke County bill
through the General Assembly.
Judge Walter Siler of Pittsboro,
also an attorney in the matter
was also present, (names furn
ished by Herbert McLean as Mr.
Poole couldn’t remember). The
weather was quite similar to Ap
ril 3, 1950, there being high winds
and fairly high temperature. A
its heaviest legislative schedule
nf tha iroar xi/hiph ^nnllJt^ed Cotton
Acreage AUotmmtit the Marshall
Plan, and the several important
hearings on the Omnibus Appro
priation Bill which comes before
the House this week. Mr. Deane
feels that the people back home
want first of all to know that he
is paying close attention to the
legislative duties in Congress to
whic^i they have elected him.
“These are critical days both at
home and abroad,” asserts M’*.
Deane, “and I am determined to
faithfully and conscientiously dis-
thunderstorm came up about one charge the responsibilities that
/clock though, just about the end |now face me as a member of ihe
of the speaking, and the dinner Congress.”
W. E. (Bill) Horner, Sanford
publisher seekiiig the Democratic
nomination to congress from the
Eighth Congressional District, to
day announced a list of six speak
ing engagements which will be
highlighted by a radio address
to voters Tuesday, April 18, over
the first district-wide radio hook
up in the history of the Eighth
District.
The broadcast will be made
from 6:i5 to 6:30 next Tuesday
evening and will be carried over
10 radio stations, located in San
ford, Southern Pines, Laurinburg
Monroe, Rockingham. Lexington
Thomasville, North Wilkesboro
the Congress has been faced with I
had to be carried inside the In
stitute building to be eaten. There
were upwards of 100 buggyloads
of people present from all over
the new county and not a car,
Mr. Poole is fairly sure.
Mr. Poole said he was reading
clerk at the 1911 session of the
legislature and helped engineer
the bill creating the county
through the house, and that the
late John W. McLauchlin of Rae
ford was the senator from Cum-
berlapd county at the time and
that he introduced the bill in the
senate. The bill was finally signed
on February 19, 1911.
First public officials of the
county were W. B. McQueen,
clerk of court; J. Hector Smith,
Register of Deeds; Edgar Hall,
sheriff; W. J. McCrainey, Treas
urer; Tom McBryde, representa
tive in the General Assembly.
The first county commissioners
were J. W. Johnson, S. J. Cameron
and 4ohn A. McPhaul. The first
board of education consisted of
N. A. McDonald, Neill McKinnon
and John A. Hodgin. John A. Mc-
Googan was the first superintend
ent of schools in the county.
Of this group of men Edgar
Hall, John A. Hodgin and John
McGoogan are still With us.
Mr. Deane goes on to say that
he expects to wage as active s
campaign in every section of the
District as his legislative sche
dule will permit.
Census Head Says
Safeguards Used
To Assure Secrecy
Residents of this area have been
given assurance by W. Lamont
Brown, Census District Super
visor, that any information ob
tained from them by Census tak
ers will be held in strictest con
fidence.
Brown said that the law which
authorizes taking the 17th Dec
ennial Census of the United States
expressly forbids Census takers
and other employees from com
municating to any person not a
sworn Census employee any in
formation obtained in the, dis
charge of their official duties.
Severe penalties are provided
for violation of the Census law on
the part of employees of the
Census Bureau. To reveal any
such information, he pointed out,
would render the Census taker
liable, upon conviction, to a fine
of as much as $1,000 and impri-
(Continued on Page 4)
Next Monday night Mr. Horn
er will speak to the Fair Grove
Lions club which is scheduled to
meet in the Fair Grove Methodist
church, near Thomasvill?, at 7
o’clock. Immediately after the
Lions club address, Mr. Horner
also will speak to a political
meeting which is to be held at
8 o’clock, same night, in the Pilot
school, also located near Thomas
ville. Music for this and all other
public addresses will be furnish
ed by Corbett Bennett and his
Mountain Boys.
Wednesday, April 20, Candidate
Horner will appear at the Ronda
school, Wilkes county, for an ad
dress at 8 o’clock that night.
Thursday night, April 20, Horn
er will address his second poli
tical gathering in Wilkes county
within two days when he speaks
to voters attending a meeting at
Miller’s Creek school at 8 o’clock.
Publisher Horner will wind up
his speaking engagements for next
week with an address Friday night,
April 21, at Grimes school at Er-
langer, Davidson county, at 8 o’
clock.
Trial Of Liquor
Cases Contmued In
Recorder s Court
Cases involving liquor charges
against E. O. “Blondy” WUson,
operator of Bill’s Club and H. L.
McMinis, operator of the Farm
er’s Restaurant, were both post
poned for one week in Recorder’s
court Tuesday. Trial of Clay Lilly
Raeford white man. on charges
of driving a car under the i.nflu-
ence of liquor and violating the
prohibition laws was also post
poned for one week by Judge
Henry McDiarmid.
Malachi Evans, colored, was .
found guilty of careless and reck
less driving, having improper
brakes and damage to personal
property. It appeared that he hit
the car of Sellars Baker and da
maged it. Sentence was 90 days
to be suspended on payment of
fine of $25 and the costs. Defend
ant appealed to Superior court
and posted $200 bond.
Ozell Beatty, colored, got 60
days suspended on payment of the
costs for careless and reckless
driving and failing to stop when
signaled. He also paid $25 and
the costs for having no driver’s
license. ‘•S'
D. L. Dobson, white soldier,
paid $10 and the costs for pass
ing on a curve. Claude L. Stokes,
also a white soldier, paid $10 and
the cests for passing in, the face
of oncoming traffic.
Thomas Ed Galbraith, colored,
was charged with being drunk
and disorderly and violating the
prol^bition laws. He failed to ap
pear and his bond of $30 was for
feited.
Speeders paying $10 and the
costs or forfeiting $25 bonds in
cluded Libby WUson. colored, and
Max Abrams, Gordon Hughes, W.
T. FuUerton and Carl Rose, all
white.
The State took a nol pros on
payment of. the costs in the case
in which John Henry Johnson,
colored, was charged with assault
ing Lee McLauchlin.
William D. Prince, white of the
Army, and Leonard Bratcher,
colored, each paid $10 and the
costs for having improper brakes.
Miss Mildred Oliver of Pine
Level is visiting in the home of
her sister, Mrs. Walter Baker.
Miss Oliver and Mrs. Baker spent
a few days last week in Winstonr
Salem with Mr and Mrs. Riley
Jordan.
Don’t Forget
You’ve got to
REGISTER
to Vote May 27
Rockfish-Wayside
Ruritan Club
Is Organized
The eighteenth Ruritan Club in
the Cape Fear District was formed
recently when the Hoke Ruritan
Club was organized in the Rock
fish and Wayside Communities.
This is the first Ruritan Club or
ganized in Hoke County.
Officers chosen were: Vernon
E. Parson, president; Douglas
Monroe, vice-president; T. C.
Jones, secretary; J. D. Matlock,
treasurer: Rev. D. E. MUler. chap-
lin; Steve Little, sergeant-at-arms
C. M. Koonce. Sam Overton and
David Lindsay, directors.
Sponsored by the Seventy-First
Ruritan Club, the Hoke Club was
the fourth to be organized this,
year under the direction of Clif
ton A. McClelland. Chairman of
Expansion for the Cape Fear Dis
trict. Assisting in the organiza
tion were District Governor Char
lie E. Jones, Sr. and Malcolm
Gillis, president of Seventy- First
organization and also Winston
McDaniel of the Eastover Club.
The Hoke Club will meet the
first Wednesday of each month.
The official charter of Ruritan
National will be presented at a
-Charter Night” banquet to be
held April 19, and the charter
roster will be held open until
April 15.
C>-
Misses Janice and Jean Blue of
Raleigh and Mrs. R L. Rogers of
Bradenton, Florida were week
end guests in the home of their
sister. Mrs. William McFadyen.
Mrs. McFadyen accompanied them
to Raleigh Sunday for a visit.