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News-Joumal
The Hoke County Journal
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1950
BAEFORD. N. C.
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Washington, July 11—The Ag
riculture Department today, fore
cast a-flue-cured tobacco crop of
one billion, 150-million pounds,
an increase of 35-million over last
year’s production.
The department’s July 1 esti
mate for all tobaccos is 1,932,000,-
000 pounds.' This is two per cent
below last season’s production of
one billion, 970-million pounds.
The reduction is largely ac
counted for by a smaller burley
crop. The department estimates
a burley crop o,f 499,188,000 lbs.
some 60-mLllion pounds less than
in 1949.
Flue-Cured Estimate
In its flue-cured estimate the
department forecast ,a production
of 401,910,000 pounds of Old Belt
type 11 tobacco as compared with
357,540,000: produced last year.
Virginia’s indicated production is
110,450,000 pounds as against
100,740,000 while North Carolina’s
is 291,460,000 as agairtst 256,800,-
OOO pounds.
An indicated 392,960,000 pounds
is listed for type 12 grown i\ the
Eastern North Carolina Belt as
against production of 378,480,000
last year.
The department figures 238,270,-
000 pounds will be produced in
type 13 tobacco in the Carolinas.
Last year 243,325,000 pounds was
grown. The estimate includes 97,-
020,000 pounds in North Carolina
as compared with 96,250,000 a
year ago 141,250,000 in South
Carolina whei^'147,075,000 pounds
SMere'^|l|o'Virh' Idtt^ear.
T2^rgiall|tt^|»t,Belt will
of type 14 as compared with 135,-
163,000 last year, the crop report
estimates. Thu includes Georgia,
97,000,000 as against 11,4,-
540,000 a year ago, Florida, 19,-
845,000 as against 20,223,-
000 and Alabama 425,000 as
compared with 400,000.
Indicated production of fire-
cured at 62.4 million pounds is
below the 1949 crop by about 13
per cent. A reduction is also
shown for dark air-cured which
is placed at 33.7 million pounds
compared with 35.9 million last
year.
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A. A. McEachern, chairman of
the Hoke county draft board,
said this week that the board had
taken steps to get quarters for
its office and to employ a clerk
and that they were now await
ing instruction from the direc
tor of the State Selective Ser
vice in Raleigh. j
The board in this county con
sist of Edgar Hall and F. L. Eu
banks in addition to McEachern
and was one of the 67 in the
state that had been inactive for
some months. During the inactive
period men in the county reach
ing 18 have been registered by
Roger Dixon, National Guard
unit administrator, at the armory.
The draft board will be located
dn the .iudge’s room at the court
house when it becomes active
again, and registration will be
accomplished there.
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Population Gain
Varies In Section
With preliminary census re
turns announced for the .state as
a whole and for all its 100 coun
ties, the following figures are of
interest in this area, showing
1940 and 1950 populations and
gains or loss in population in the
last 10 years: '
Area 1940 1950 .Gain
All
N. C. 3,571,623 4,051,740 480,l'l7
Moore '
Co. 30,969 32,933 1,964
Hoke
Co. 14,937 r5,60» 672
Co.
Chatham
Co.
Richmond
Co. 36,810
18,743 23,456 4,719
44,239 47,634 3,395
24,726 25,397; , 671
39,412 2,402
Plan Open House At
Camp Tom Upchurch
Boy Scouts of the Western dis-
trist will h^Ve an “open house”
picnic supper at their new Tom
Upchurch camp, located at the
Upchurch power plant about six
miles north of Rockfish, on the
evening of Friday, July 14, at 6
o’clock. Scouts and Scout lead
ers from the district and from the
Cape Fear council are expected
to attend this event.
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RURITANS PLANNING TO
START BOY SCOUT TROOP
Of North Carolina’s 100 coun
ties, 22 showed a loss in popula
tion between 1940 and 1950 land
78 showed a gain. The toal gain
for the 78 counties was 493,799
and the total loss of the 22 coun
ties was 16,682. The gain minus
the loss gives the net 10 year
gain, 480,117.
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Hoke Shares In Bond
Fund Allotment
There will be a meeting at the
Rockfish community house at
8:00 o’clock next Wednesday night
to which all boys between the
ages of 11 and 14 are invited.
The meeting is for the purpose of
organizing a Boy Scout troop in
that area and after the meeting
there will be a weiner roast. The
Hoke Ruritan club is sponsoring
the project and urges all boys
in this age group to atend.
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Mrs. Francis Wyly returned to
her home in Montreat last Thurs
day after spending a week in the
home o fher father, E. L. Peele.
She was accompanied to Mon
treat by Mrs. Herbert McKeithan,
who went up to attend the Pres
byterian Cbnference. Jep Peele
of Greensboro also spent last week
with his father.
Hoke county-'shared % an al
location of state bond issue
funds for school buildings made
by the State Board of Educa
tion recently.
An allotment of $21,860 was
made for remodeling of lunch--
room and locker rooms at Hoke
County High school, and the
work has been under way a week
or so.
The Hoke allotment was part
of the largest yet made from the
$50-million bond issue funds to
aid counties in school building.
A total of nearly $3-million was
distributed.
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MRS. SEAWELL BURIED
NEAR SANFORD FRIDAY
Mrs. Fahnie Gilliam Seawell,
74. died in Moncure last Thurs
day morning and was buried Fri
day afternoon in the cemetery at
Pocket Presbyterian churcTt- near
Sanford.
Mrs. Seawell was the step
mother of Mrs. Grady Leach of
Raeford. She is also survived by
four daughters, two sons, three
sisters and several nieces and
nephews.
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William Lentz and Graham
Clark returned Sunday after
spending a week in Miami, Fla.
with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mclnnis
and at Ft. Lauderdale with Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Bishop.
Mrs. Paul Fultz of Akron. Ohio,
arrived last week for a visit in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Niven.
Mrs. L. M. Lester and Miss Kqte
Margaret Buoyer are spending
today in Charlotte on busipess.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hall
of Burlington visited Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Hall two days last
week. Other guests in the riall
home during last week were Mr.
and Mrs. J. B, Eubanks of Win
gate.
Recreation Program
About To Suspend
Due Lack Of Funds
Robert Gatlin, chairman of the
Public Affairs committee of the
Raeford Kiwanis Club, sponsors
of the’summer recreation program
for school-age boys and girls,
said this week unless the people
of the community come through
with some money to help keep
the program going.
Attendance and interest among
the youngsters has been and is
very high in the program and its
the hope of the committee that
enough money will be forthcom
ing to keep it going another month
as was the original plan. The
program provides supervised
games for all at the gym in the
mornings and transportation to
and ^pervision at the creek in
the afternoons, along with even
ing activities for the teen-agers
several times a week.
The contributions so far are
as follows:
Kiwanis $25.00
American Legion 25.00
W. P. Phillips 10.00
Mrs. H. C. McLauchlin .... 5.00
Mrs. J. L. McNeill 10.00
Mrs. Neill McFadyen 5.00
W. L. Howell 10.00
Howell Drug Co 10.00
Bank of Raeford 10.00
R. B. Lewis 10.00
W. D. Brown 5.00
Doug McLeod ^ 5.00
A. L. Ellis 5.00
TOTAL $135.00
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First Draft Call For
610 North Carolinians
North Carolina Tuesday was
instructed to have 6 IQ draftees
in uniform not later than Sept
ember 30.
The State Selective Service
headquarters reported it receiv
ed the State’s quota under the
new draft from Maj. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey, national director of
Selective Service.
Hershey ordered that the Tar
Heel recruits be supplied as soon
as possible, but not later than
September 30.
A call for 20,000 draftees in the
nation was issued by the Army
Monday.
Mid-August Date
Col. T. Hugh Upton, deputy
state director of Selective Ser
vice said he hopes all State draft
offices will be ready to send men
to Army camps for pre-induc
tion physicals by mid-August.
“Our main concern now,“ Up
ton declared, “is tb get all the local
boards re-established and moving
again.” He added that this is ex
pected to be accomplished by
sometime next week.
A total of 67 local draft boards
were put in mothballs last year
as an economy measure, and only
34 boards were left to cover the
State. When the 67 boards are
reopened, every North Carolina
county will have one except Guil
ford, which will have two. .
Col. Upton said that the set
ting of county quotas for the 610
men will be held up until these
boards are re-established.
Need 1,800 Men
Upton estimated that 1,800 men
will have to be sent for physical
examinations in order to obtain
the 610-man quota. He pointed
out that during World War II.
the State average on rejection
was about 48 per cent.
The drafting will start with the
25-year-old. non-veteran group,
Upton said. However, he antici
pates that so few lAen will be
gained in , the 25. 24, and 23-year-
old age groups that “we may have
to dip down into the 22 year olds
in this first batch.”
Upton said he hopes' the 34
active boards >(rill be able to start
sending out preinduction notices
by August 1, and the 67 reac-
tived boards can start by August
15.
He added that it has not been
decided where the draftees will
be sent for induction.
receives liberty bell replica
New Laundry Is
Now In Operation;
First In Raeford
Raleigh, N. C.—At a ceremony Friday afternoon) July 7.
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Governor W. Kerr Scott accepted in behalf of North Caro-
.line^the Liberty Bell replica which visited 74 cities and
towns in the state for the current U. S. Savings Bonds Inde
pendence Drive. The bell will temporary rest in the State
Museum of Natural History and later will be moved to the
Hall of History. In its tour over the state the bell w’as viewed
and rung by thousands of men, women and children.
..Mr. I. M. Bailey of Raleigh, State Chairman of the U.’S.
Savings Bonds Advisory Committee for North Carolina, pre
sented a descriptive plaque and a certificate of donation
signed by the Secretary of the Treasury to Governor Scott.
Thh certificate officially placed the Liberty Bell replica in
permanent custody of North Carolina.
Left to right are Mr. B. R. Roberts of Durham, Mrs. J. S.
Mitchener of. Raleigh both state vice chairmen fo rthe U. S.
Savings Boiids Committee; Mr. Bailey, and Governor Scott.
Water i&iiiir High
On Tobacco Farms
In Eastern Carolina
Eastern North Carolina tobac
co farmers cast one eye at a
waterfilled sky and the other at
watersoaked fields Tuesday as
the worst rain damage in years
hit some sections and threatened
others.
Damage from recent rains was
heaviest in the Eastern Belt, lar
gest bright leaf tobacco produc-
ing'area in the world.
Tobacco crops in Washington,
Jones, Beaufort. Edgecomb, Car
teret and Lenoir counties have
been hardest hit by the rain.
In the Middle and Border belts,
damage by rain is neglible and
offers no serious ,^threat unless
dry weather seige and sunny days
follow the rainfall.
W. P. Hedrick, tobacco market
ing specialist with the State De
partment of Agriculture had pre
dicted Monday that as much as
10 per cent of the crop would be
lost in some areas east of Kinston.
Tobacco specialists had not de
cided Tuesday how the damage
to tobacco from rain would alter
the United States Department of
Agriculture’s forecast for the 1950
tobacco crop of 1,932,146,000 lbs.
The crop totalled 1,970,376,000
in 1949.
Before the rains came, two
million dollars worth of tobacco
in Wake, Nash, Edgecombe, Wil
son and Franklin counties had
been destroyed by hail.
M. V. Hays, county agent in
Washington County, said damage
by rain is the worst in his 15
years of service a sa county agent.
He said that few’ crops are com
pletely drowned, but damage to
many tobacco crops will range
from two acres to a complete loss.
“I’ve never seen anything like
it,” declared Hays as he related
that some Washington County
farmers have reset their tobacco
corn, bean and cotton crops two
or three times because of too
much rain fall.
Flora MacDonald
Announces Its Winter
Series Of Concerts
Dean Robert Smith of the Flora
Macdonald college conservatory of
music has announced that the
during the past year;;; ;a;nd on
concert series for 1950-51 will be
opened with a concert by the in
ternationally famous duo-pianists
Pierre Lubashutz and Genia
Nemenoff, on Monday evening,
October 30.
Other numbers on the winter
series will be: Monday, Nov. 20.
a recital by Ruggiero Ricci, one
of the outtsanding tKolinists of
the day. according to Noel Straus
in the New York Times; Monday,
Febraury 19, 1951, Joan Ham
mond, Australian soprano, and so
loist with the Philadelphia Or
chestra under Eugene Ormandy.
during the past year; and on
Monday, March 19, the delightful
Vienna Choir Boys will close the
(Series, which Flora Macdonald
presents with pride.
Seven Rainy Days;
More Is Due Today
Rain in many parts of the
county yesterday brought to sev
en the number of successive days
there had been rain in this sec
tion, and according to the weather
people, “no immediate change in
the weather is expected.” “Cloudy
with showers,” is the way they
have been saying it..
The wet spell began Thursday
of last week when there was a
sizable rain in this area during
the day. Since that time it has
been raining off and on day and
night so that there have been
several inches, of rain. Cotton
farmers are figuring it might as
well be raining boll weevils,
they’ll thrive so well in the con
tinued damphess.
Mrs. Paul Dickson, Jr. accom
panied her mother, Mrs. C. L.
Black to Troy, Pa. Monday. Mrs.
Black will remain in Pennsyl
vania for a visit. Mrs. Dickson will
visit Dr. and Mrs. Alvis Dickson
in Wilmington, Delaware, for a
few days before returning home.
MRS. JOANNA DEW DIES
IN FLORIDA THURSDAY
Mrs. Joanna Dew, 85, died at
here home in Alichica, Florida,
last Thursday after a long illness.
Funeral service was Friday after
noon.
Mrs. Dew was a sister of Mrs.
W. A., Wright and was the wife
of Dennis Dew, first cousin of
the late Marcus Dew of Raeford.
Wilmer McDonald announced
this week that his new “Raeford
Cleaners & Laundry Service” was
completely installed and ready
for , business. He said the new
plant is complete in every detail
and will compare favorably with
any of the smaller laundries in
this .section of the state.
Raeford and Hoke county peo
ple will be interested in the ven
ture and view it as the answer to
a long need of the com.munity.
This is the 'first time a laundry
otior.ng complete damp-wash,
rni; ;i\-dry and finished work has
evar i'e'?;’. operated here.
l.h-Dnnald said he had assem-
bk-; s.taff of 18 operators in
the and expected to bo able
to give excellent service both as
to ciLiality of work and speed of
turnout.. Heading the laundry
st:ifi i' H. I. Cranfield, a .laun
dry. og.erator of some' 30 years
experienc'd who comes to Rae-
■ord fV'j.r,' High Point. Manager
of ti'io riowly-equipped dry clean
ing plant is A. W. Dickens, form-,
or plant manager with a large
cleaning chain in Raleigh.
He said that no expense had
been spared either as to person
nel or equipment to give Raeford’s
first hometown laundry the fin
est product the business effords
anywhere and expressed the be
lief that people of the community
would be glad to have such a
service in Raeford and would
support it. He seemed particu
larly proud of the finished work
turned out in his plant and asked
the public to give it a try.
Name Deane On
House Campai^
Expense Committee
Under a resolution passed by
the House of Representatives
Congressman C. B. Deane of the
Eighth Congerssional District has
been named by Speaker Sam Ray
burn as one of five Members of
Congress to serve as a Member
of a special Campaign Expendi
ture Committee of the House of
Representatives. Other members
of this committee are Representa
tives Mansfield (D) of Montana,
Chelf (D) of Kentucky, Fellows
(R) of Maine, and Jennings .R)
of Tennessee.
This committee will function
throughout this year and will in
vestigate any irregularities in
volving candidates for the House
of Represetnatives in connection
with campaigns for nomination
and election to the House. During
the 80th Congress a similar Com
mittee investigated irregularities
in eight states and some twenty
elections.
Congressman Deane pointed out
that several investigations involv
ing current primaries in various
states are now under study. The
Committee will be asked to hold
hearings and make determinations
throughout all the states, upon
the presentation of due evidence
of irregularities.
The Committee will make its
official report on January 1, 1951.
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PHILIPPI CHURCH PICNIC
^00 PER YEAS,
Many Defendants
Face Judge Afta*
Week’s Vacation
Twenty Defendants On
Docket For Many Charges;
Charge Negro With Rape
After skipping a week for the
fourth of July the Hoke county ■
recorder's court had quite a few
cases to hear' on charges of just
about all descriptions Tuesday.
Twenty of these were disijosed
of before Judge Henry McDiar-
mid and several were potsponed
for various reasons.
Dannie Ford, colored man, who
was charged with assault with
intent to ci.'mmit rape, and at
the .hearing the char'ge was chanr
god to rape. Pro'oaole cause was
found and he is in the county
jaii awaiting trial 'in Superior
court. At the trial sonte mention
was made, of having Ford under
go a mental ex.vr.;nation. i-mply-
ing so.m.e doubt of his sanity, but
no action was taken;
Tommie Morr;s, colored lad of
about 16 who rides on the Coca
Cola truck with .Ja.mes Veasey
was convicted of stealing about
$5 worth of nickels which got too
heavy for Veasey to keep in his
pocket. He had to pay the costs
and $5 to Veasey.
Fairley M. Jones, colored got
a six-months sentence for hav
ing non-tax-paid liquor for sale.
Sentence was suspended on pay
ment of $50 and the costs. He
also got 30 days suspended on
vayment of $10 and the costs for
having improper brakes on his
car.
Johnnie James Hailey, colored,
and Joseph Archie Gibson and
Curtis Olin Smith, white, each
paid $10 and the costs for speed
ing.
Sarah McMillan, colored, pled
guilty of giving C. J. Benner a
bad check for $4.35. Thirty-day
sentence was suspended on pay
ment of the costs and making good
the check.
Lindy Saul, white of the Army,
and George Cunningham, colored
each got 90 days suspended on
payment of $25 and the costs for
careless and reckless driving.
Robert Lee Thomas, colored,
paid $10 and the costs for driv
ing with an improper chauffeur’s
license. Santiga Viga, white srfd-
ier. and Jerry Bennett, colored,
each paid $25 and the costs for
having no driver’s licenses.
Sarah Swinson, colored, for
feited a bond of $25 on charges of
being drunk and disorderly and
using profane and indecent lang
uage.
James Raymond Shaw, colored,
and James H. Babb, white, each
paid $10 and the costs for vio
lating the prohibition laws.
Harold Nelson, white soldier,
J. L. Leach and Lester Leach,
both colored, each paid the costs
for being drunk an ddisorderly.
The State took a nol pros in
the case in which Bill Pride,
colored, was charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon and
carrying a concealed weapon.
George Murchison, colored,
paid $10 and the costs for having
improper brakes oh his car.
There will be a picnic at Phi
lippi Presbyterian church next
Sunday, July 16, at 12:30 p. m.,
following the Bible school com
mencement to be held at the re
gular 11:15 Sunday school hour.
The picnic will be in conjunc
tion with the Johnson family
reunion and Dr. D. S. Currie of
Parkton will speak to the group
after lunch. All members past
and present of the Sunday school
and church are invited to attend
and bring a basket lunch.
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Around 16 young people from
the Baptist church will leave to
day for Ridgecrest to attend
Training Union Wwk. They will
be accompanied by Rev. and Mrs.
Judson Lennon, Mrs. L. W. Turn
er and Mrs. C. J. Benner..
Funeral Wednesday
For Vander Smith
Funeral services were conduct
ed yesterday afternoon at his
father’s home here for Vander
J. Smith, who died suddenly
Monday of a heart attack.
Known as “Pop” Smith, he was
40 years of age, a veteran of
World War. II and was a mem
ber of the American Legion.
The service was conducted at
three o’clock by the Rev. Clyde
Gregg and burial was in the Rae
ford cemetery.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Ed Smith; his
widow, the f(Hrmer Mary Rowril;
a brother, Lonnie Smith; two sis
ters, Mrs. Janie Horae and Kalfek-
leen Smith, all of Raeford,