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fe '. T' ' -% r. ,\s > - ^jyr' “*1 '^:hV ■i>- '^7 A' ■ ■ • ¥W -'■'. 7 '-iV-.'-.'- ■%- -,.Vv' »'*Wv:-.;'.-y*..i^*-‘-.?'-.. '7 . >1'' ; ii^cEor iftffbdM a^Il filMIBUli OFittEftn f«yt% |«KfiS f The Hoke County News VOLUME XLIV; NUMBER 49 — - THURSDAY, APRIB i^, 1950 Journal The Hoke County Journal ¥OICf Of miooM CUMBIAll OfUKm Liis. RAEFORD. N. C TEN CENTS PER COPY $2.00 PER YEAR YOUR [SCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald The Ashemont School is giving their yearly spring: exercises to morrow evening at 8 o’clock, bar ring further cases o,f mumps and measles. This school has had the worst epidemic of these diseases in the county. The program will consist of a playlet given by Mrs. Smoak’s room, “Helen’s Dream.” Miss Womble’s room will give “When the Pie Was Opened,” and Miss Thornburg’s room will give “Trial of the Birds”. This one grew out of this room’s extensive wildlife study this year. The script was furnished by the State Wildlife Commission. These three rooms will be as sisted in their production by the larger, students in Mr. Smoak’s room. Everyone is cordially in vited. HOKE.COUNTY GIRL QUEEN OF MA, Y AT FLORA MACDONALD COLLEGE I ^5*3 r ’S' ill / ' 'V ELECTIONS BOARD RULES ALL MUST REGISTER ANEW TO VOTE F 11* illis Band Concert Tonight . The Hoke High Band, under the direction of J. B. Renn, band master, will give their spring con cert tonight in the Hoke High auditorium at 8 o’clock. Everyone is invited to attend. May Day at Flora Macdonald college was held Tuesday af ternoon at 5 o’clock. Pictured above is the May Queen and her court. Reading from left to right around the circle, are: Elizabeth McGoogan, Judith Powers, Eleanor Lanier, Lois Kbalaw, Jacqueline Adele Blackwell, maid of honor; Betty McLean, May Queen; Mary Raye Freeman, Lois Brown, Martha Landis, Margaret Powell. In the center, left to right, are Anne Brinn, Mary Hamilton Heyward and Sandra Blythe, train bearers; Aigus McDonald, crown bearer, and Patricia McRae. Misses McLean and Freeman, Little Misses Heyward and Blythe and Angus McDonald are all of Hoke County. (Photo by Alton McNeill, Jr.) The RaefoTd Graded school is putting on its "May Festival” > to morrow night at 7:30 o’clock. If the weather is fair the show will be given in the yard iii front of the school building. It is suggest- .tR&t parents and friends who at tend bring their own chairs or stools. The xnrqduction will last Commissioners Have M^thly Meeting The Hoke county board of com missioners held their regular monthly meeting at the court house on Monday. Items on the agenda were largely routine. The surface treating of the road in Stonewall township from Ed MAIL SCHEDULE AH —W Y-- Jo*‘dan fa’’m to Sandy Grove from 45 mrtfies I* ». 'approved.' tfcO case of rain the exercises will be held in the auditorium. Everyone is invited. The yearly eye clinic will be held in the County Health De partment next Wednesday and I Thursday, May 10 and 11. This clinic is being put on by the schools, health and welfare de partments with the assistance of the State Blind Commission, and the Lions and Kiwanis Clubs. The Wednesday clinic will be for white and Indians, tije Thursday one for colored. The McFarland school is put ting on Its regular May Day pro gram tomorrow at 1:00 p. m. All parents and patrons are invited. The Indian schools of the coun ty are having educational day to morrow, beginning about noon. An educational program will be given followed "by a spelling match. Later in the afternoon a •ball game will be played. All parents and friends of the schools are invited. A reading meeting for begin ners in the 19 elementary color ed schools of the county was held at Shady Grove Saturday and 61 pupils participated. 89 pupils from 4th. 5th and 6th grades met at Bowmore recently to take part in a written spelling contest. Fri endship won first place, Burling ton second and Fry’s Mission third. 250 words were spelled and there were six perfect papers. PRESTON KELLY, JR. DIES IN TROY MONDAY approved. THIS a- mounts to 1.2 miles of road. The board approved a contract with John Murdoch McDuffie in the amount of $2265 for the ex tension to the county office build ing. This extension, to provide more office space for the Produc tion and Marketing administra tion, is to be in the west side of the building, twenty by thirty feet. The board approved welfare items on the budget for next year as follows: aid to the blind, $1503.60 (about 20% of total Fed eral, State and county funds spent) aid to dependent children, $3600, same as previous year; Old age assistance raised to $10,800 from $9,000. The board unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the action by the precinct meetings in the county last Saturday in asking for use by the registrars of the old registration books to get a com plete new registration of voters in the county for the primary May 27. The board also approved mino” repairs to the Allendale commun ity house. 0 HORNER NAMES COLE CAMPAIGN MANAGER Funeral services - for Preston Kelly, Jr., 42, who died in a Troy hospital early Monday morning, were held in Mt. Gilead at the Methodist church Tuesday after noon. Burial was in the family cemetery in Mt. Gilead. Mr. Kelly had operated one of the largest turkey farms in the state up until last December when (ill health forced him to discon tinue this work. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Bennie McFadyen of this county, a son, Pat, aged 10 and a daughter, Gail, aged 5, and - several brothers and sisters in Mt. Gilead. The News-Journal apologizes to any who may have gone to Mil- douspn school on last Thursday night to hear a speech by Candi date for Congress Bill Horner, because Horner made his speech on Wednesday night. Correct no tice was given in the paper week before last but last week’s paper said Thursday night instead of Wednesday. Horner, who is now running against C. B. Deane for the eighth district seat in Congress now oc- supied by Deane, last week an nounced his appointment of Al fred Cole as his campaign mana ger in this county. Cole says there was a good crowd out to hear the candidate and his music at Mildouson, and that they heard a good speech. —O AT CONVENTION Some talk of people still not knowing just what the local mail schedule is since the jit ney quit carrying it caused us to get it from Postmaster Lacy Clark and it is reprinted be low. Mr. Clark says that the times given are actual depar ture times and that the’-mail has been made up a few min utes then and letters brought at the last minute will not us ually make it. Mail comes from Fayette ville and leaves to Aberdeen at 8:00 a. m.; from Aberdeen to Fayetteville at 10:30 a. m.; from Fayetteville to Aberdeen at 3:00 p. m.; from Aberdeen to Fayetteville at 5:00 p. m.; from Laurinburg at 11:30 a. m.; to Laurinburg at 4:00 p. m. Rain Finally Comes Ending Dry Spell * A substantial amount of rain fell in this section over the past week end and on Monday and Tuesday. It was still cloudy yes terday but there was little pre cipitation. The water was welcom ed by farmers with thanksgiving as the ground was generally in a parched condition and crops were mostly needing it to get out of the ground. Many farmers, with tobacco plants large enough to set out, had been waiting for a soaking rain to begin planting. Rainfall was also needed to make the cotton and corn and other seeds germinate and come up. Small grain and home gar dens had been hard hit by the dry spell. Forest fires were quite prevalent during the drought and danger of these will also be con siderably diminished since the rains. They’ll probably be hollering for it to stop in a few weeks, though. —0 CENSUS NEARS END 25 Defendants le In Mrs. Neill A. McDonald, county crew leader for the 1950 census, said this week that counting had been finished in all of Hoke coun ty with the exception of a part of Blue Springs township. She said that final figures were being compiled and that anyone in the county who had not been count ed should get in touch with her right way. She said that missing one person in each district of the country would make an error in the total figure arrived at which would equal the population of the slate of Nevada. Traffic, Liquor Violations, Liquor, Fitting, Totin' Pistols—All jbost Money ■ ... — Of the 25 defendants listed on the books for trial before Jddge Henry McDiarmid Tuesday in Hoke county recorder’s court most were there for traffic vio lations. Cleveland Jones, colored of Mc Cain, was charged in one.case with driving drunk. He was found guilty and got six months to be suspended on payment of $100 and the costs and $98 to the own er of the car he was driving and damaged. He pled guilty of be ing drunk and disorderly in an other case and got 30 days su spended oh payment of thg costs. Thomas Carpenter, colored, got 60 days suspended on payment of $10 and the costs and doctor bill for assaulting his wife. Jasper Pate and Leonard Baker, white, and Floyd Galbraith, col ored, each got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs for being drunk and disorderly. Sherman Jackson, Indian, got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs for assaulting Donald Shaw. Jim Hillingsworth, colored, was found not guilty of assault ing Shaw. Betty Brigman, white, was found not guilty on a charge of using indecent language. William Brigman was found guilty of as saulting Shelton Baxley. He got 30 days to be suspended on pay ment of the costs. Lilly Brigman was found guilty of assaulting Betty Brigman and got 30 days to be suspended on payment of the costs. She appealed and posted $25 bond. R. T. McPhatter, colored, was found not guilty on a charge of stealing chickens. Junior Huggins, white, paid the costs for assault. Albert Kirk, colored, went to the roads for six months for car rying a concealed weapon, and resisting arrest. Nathaniel , Williams, colored, paid the costs for violating the prohibition laws. Those caught speeding or with improper brakes or lights includ ed W. A. Blackwell, E. W. Seger- son, T. A. Lynch, Billy Shoemak er, William Philbeck, Raymond Sandt, all white, James Russel Love and Malcolm Patterson, col ored, and Henry Dial, Indian. All either paid $10 and the costs or forfeited bonds of $25 each. Charles E. Johnson Buried At Antioch . Tuesday Afternoon Charles Edward Johnson, 68, died at his home near Red Springs Monday after^ an illness of one week. He was a son of the late Harvey and Katie Currie Johnson of this county and he Is survived by his wife, the former Harriet Camp bell of the home; one daughter, Lucille Johnson of Fayetteville; three sons, E. Dewey Johnson of Red Springs, C. Douglas Johnson State Board Says Old Books Cannot Be Used By Registrars; Convention Saturday G. B. R'lwland, chairman of the Hoke county board of elec tions, received a letter yesterday from Raymond C. Maxwell, executive secretary of the State Board of Elections, in regard to a request from this county that registrars be allo^ved to/ transcribe names of voters they knew^ to be eligible from the old registration books to the new books up to and in- • eluding the day of the pri mary. This resolution was passed at most Democratic precinct meet ings in the. county at their meet ings at the voting places last Sat- , urday with the intention of mak ing it possible for all person who have been registered on the books of the county’s precincts to vote in the primary May 27 without having to register again before Saturday of next week as the law ■ provides in a new registration. Maxwell’s letter said, in part. “I know of no . legal authority for permitting registrars to use the old registration books. Such use would arouse suspicion and give opportunity to question the legality of the new registration. The legal effect of the call fox a new registration is to wipe oat the old registration, therefore the old books could be no useful benefit to the regtstrcirs dining the registration period.” Iheiefina^Ok: aifHnr'Baor stands, if voi^ hove Tofed for 50 years, they wiU not be able, to vote in the primary on May 27 ■nless they register again with the registrar of their precinct on 44% Hoke’s Part First $50 Million Road Money Spent T. G. Poindexter, State High way division engineer of .A.she- bofo, reported this week that of the $285,300 that was Hoke coun ty’s share of the first 50 million w’orth of bonds sold by the state for roads, $126,649.56 had been spent through the month of March. This amounts to a little over 44 per cent. $30,000 was allotted for county roads not programmed for hard surfacing, and $16,527.49 of this had been spent, leaving $13,472.51. $156,500 was the allotment for grading and base course on coun ty roads to be hard surfaced. $71,- 264.64 has been spent, leaving $85,235.36. $68,800 was the allotment for hard surfacing, sand asphalt and other surface treating. $23,600.78 has been spent, leaving $45,199.22. $30,000 was set up for bridges and large diameter pipe lines. $15i:56j65 has been spent and $14,743.35 remhihs. *' ' B7.iley Is Named Patrol Captain of Shannon RFD, and J. Henry | W. F. Bailey of Fayetteville was Johnson of Raeford; three sisters, Ida and Lucille Johnson and Mrs. Junior Bounds of Red Springs; two brothers, McQueen and Sid ney Johnson of Red Springs. Funeral was conducted at the home at four o’clock Tuesday by the Revi J. W. Mann, former pas tor' of the Antioch Presbyterian church of which the deceased j Ahoskie. was a member and burial was in the cemetery at Antioch. h — appointed a new captain of the State Highway Patrol by James R. Smith after Smith had been sworn in as patrol commander to succeed C. R. Tolar, resigned. Also named captain was F. H. Mitchell of Greensboro, Named lieutenants were D. G. Lewis of Rocky Mount and A. W. Welch of J. H. TADLOCK DEAD IN SOUTHERN PINES Julian H. Tadlock, 41, deputy collector of internal revenue and well known in this county in that capacity, -died unexpectedly at his home there Monday. Fun eral was in Southern Pines Tues day and burial was in Greenville, S. C. He is survived by his wife, two children, three brothers and three sisters. -n- POST OFFICE WANTS BIDS ON STAR ROUTE Postmaster Lacy Clark said yesterday that the Post Office de partment had asked for bids on a star route to run from Raeford to Laurinburg daily and return. He said schedules on the propos ed route are available at the post office In Raeford and that he will be glad to show them to any in terested persons. -0— VISITING PREACHER The Rev. C. M. Gibbs, of Fay etteville, executive secretary - of Fayetteville Presbytery, will preach at the morning service next Sunday at the Raeford Pres byterian church in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. W. B. Hey ward, who will be off on vaca tion for two Sundays. 0 BULLETIN Hoke High defeated Massey Hill yesMrday afternoon behind the pitching of Phillips, by the score of 8-5. Edge was the losing pitch er for Massey Hill. Teal led the Raeford attack with 2 for 3. Promoted to sergeants were J. B. Boyd of Monroe. L. B. Howell of Elizabeth City and Harold E.' Minges of Raleigh. Promoted to corporals were Louis B. Lane of Wallace and W. D. Tinsley of Whiteville. The promotion were announced after Smith, formerly in command of Troop B at Fayetteville was sworn in as commander, and D. T. Lambert, also formerly with the patrol at Fayetteville was sworn in as executive officer. Lambert more lately has commanded Troop A at Greenville. Speaking to the patrolmen at the ceremony. Governor Scott told them that the State Highway Patrol faces the greatest chal lenge in its history. b HODGINS GREET VEEP AT ROWAN CELEBRATION Sheriff an*' Mrs. Dave Hodgin attended the Boone-Barkley cele bration held at historic Thyatira ^esbyterian church in Rowan County Monday. Mrs. Hodgin was one of the numerous Tar Heel cousins of Vice-President Barkley who went to Salisbury Monday to greet the Veep and his wife. The Vice-President spoke brief ly at the picnic which was held under the oaks at the 187 year old church. His main speech was made later on on Catawba College Campus. He visited the old Co wan Home near Bear Popular. The home was built in 1779 by Thomas Cowan who married Mary Barkley (great grandparents of Mrs. Hodgin.) Mrs. Hodgln’s u*- cle, Scott Krider, l|ves in this home now. or before Saturday, May 13, as has been previously announced by the Hoke county board of elections. Democratic leaders of the county had favored the nse of the old books because of the great im portance to the county of getting out a sizeable vote on May 27, and the probability that many other wise good citizens will not bother to register before May 13. County Convention Saturday Walter P. Baker, chairman of the Hoke county Democratic exe cutive committee, yesterday urg ed all Democrats in the county to see their registrars before the end next Saturday, May 13, and see that they and all eligible members of their families are registered and that they vote in the primary May 27. Baker also urged aiU pre cinct officials, delegates and all good Democrats in the county to attend the county Democratic convention at the courthouse at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. May 8. He also announced that the coun ty Democratic executive commit tee would meet there at two o’ clock. before the convention, and elect the new chairman who wiU then preside over the convention. 0 DECORATOR TO TALK TO LOCAL WOMEN WED. Miss Frances Pleasants, well known interior decorator of Pine- hurst, will speak to the annual spring open meeting of the Rae ford Woman’s club in the audi torium at the Hoke county high , school at three-fifteen o’clock next Wednesday afternoon. May 10. All interested women of the community are invited to attend pnd hear her. REBELS START PRACTICE The Raeford Rebels, indepen dent semi-pro baseball team; started practice sessions this week and workouts are in the local park from five-thirty to seven p. m. daily. A complete list of persons and firms contributing for this team’s uniforms auad s^»p- plies will appear in next week’s paper.
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