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ii*l The Hoke County News WP. -Journal VOICI Of miDon HOiti OfUBERn THURSDAY, AUGUST 24,1950 RAEFOBD. N. C. The Hoke County Journal TEN CENTS PER COPT 92.00 PER YEAK Next Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock there will be a county wide principals meeting held at the courthouse. At this . meeting there will be teacher representa tives from each school to help plan the program for the - year. The hour for opening, the length of the short-day schedule hour, dates for the pre-school county wide teachers meeting and local faculty meetings will be set. Other .details preparatory to opening schools on Thursday, September 7, will be attended to. All prin cipals and teacher representatives are urged to attend this meeting. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Jone?^ of the Rockfish and Mildouson faculties will return this week from High Point College, where they both have been taking work this sum mer. Miss Miriam Watson appeared on the program of the Superinten dents Conference, held at Mars Hill last week.lKjnd described the ^guidance work ill the HRike CoxAi- ty High School. Miss Watson made a splendid impression on her audience and we believe further ed the cause of guidance in the , state.- The school health program last year, -we feel, was very success ful. This, program was put on jointly between the schools, health department and welfare depart ment. The Health Department has just finished a compilation of the corrections done during the year covering teeth, tonsils, eyes, ears, intestinal parasites and miscell aneous ones. In the Indian schools there was a total of 34 done, white 529, colored 435, or a total for the county of 998. These correc tions were jOst one phase of the woi'k. Every pupil in the county was screened by teacher.?. Those showing any signs of need were then screened by the nurses. Those found to need attention by the nurses were directed to their family doctor by teachers and nurses. Follow-up work was done in these cases where necessary. Follow-up work was done in cases where the pupils were never taken by parents to their family doctor and where the need was indicated the Welfare Department assisted with the case work and making appointments with hospi- . tals and specialists. Work by the State Health De partment in nutrition was done at tl}e Rockfish and Bowmore schools on a survey basis. This year a nutritionist from the State Health Department will be here for several months work. AU high school pupils, both white and colored/ had a thorough physical examination by a physician. Our local doctors assisted in this work. This year pupils from the 9th through the 12th grades will .have ' this complete examination. Pre- ' school clinics were held for all -schools with the largest eriroll- (Continued on Page 8) ' 0 Miss Alice Walker, who recent ly left Raeford after being direc tor of music and the young peo ple at the Presbyterian church for several years, has acceptel the position of Receptionist-Sec retary in the office of the Dean of the Faculty at Davidson coll ege. Funeral At Home Tuesday Afternoon For Mrs. McDiarmid Funeral service for Mrs. Caro line Thomas McDiarmid was con ducted from the'liome three miles west of Raeford at five o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. McDiarmid, widow of William James McDiarmid who died in 1945, died unexpectedly of a heart attack early Monday morning at her hpme. She was 71 years of age. She was the daughter of the late William Jackson Thomas and Mary J. Covington of Richmond county. She came to Raeford in 1904 when she married Mr. Mc Diarmid, who had large farming interests in Hoke county. She was a sister of the late James C. Thomas of Hoke county. She was an active member of the Raeford Presbyterian church. The funeral service was con ducted by the Rev, W. B. Hey ward, pastor, and burial followed in the Raeford cemetery. Pall bearers were nephews of Mrs. Mc Diarmid. Mrs. McDiarmid is survived by a sister, Miss Mary Thomas', and a brother, Walter L. Thomas, both cf’ Roc^jhgharn, and several niece? and .nephewi'. - 0 Grand Jury Hits Liquor Dealing Here In Report The Hoke county grand jury in its report to Judge J. Paul Friz- zelle at Superior court this week recommended that Bill Wright not be allowed to operate a night club or similar business in Hoke county for a period of five years, and also recommended that peace officers try to break up liquor selling in Raeford and other sec tions of the county. The approved reports of the mayor and justice of the peace and found the court house to be in good order. Other portions of the report follow. We inspected the County Office Building and found it to be in good condition, except the jani torial service and the floor in the new addition. We recommend that the contractor be required to fix this at once. We inspected the jail and fcJund conditions improved since . our last report. We found one toilet out of order and we reconomend that this be repaired., We also recommend that the heating sys tem at both jail and court ifouse be checked before cold weather to see that it is in good condition. We have heard numerous com plaints about the Night Club ope rated by Bill Wright, and we recommend that he not be allowed to operate this or any sirhilar business in Hoke county for a period of five -years. We had a report from Patrolman Surratt that all school buses were checked on August 18, 1950, and were found in ‘good condition. Superintendent K. A. MacDonald gave a talk on the condition of school buildings and buses, * und reported everything in good con dition for the opening of schools. We have had numerous com plaints about the sale of liquor in and around Raeford, also in the other sections of the county. We recommend that the officers keep a close check on this and try to break it up. W. M. Monroe, Foreman, W. T. Jones, Clerk. Knox Watson Is Ilew President Of Commissioners F. KNOX WATSON Mrs. C. P. Trexler and child ren are spending this week with relatives in Greensboro. F. Knox Watson, Hoke county commissioner and former chair man of the county board, was elected president of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners and County Ac countants at the three-day meet ing of the associations at Wnghts- ville Beach last week. He succeed ed Clarence P. Parks of Ruther ford county as president and be came the second fioke county man to head the association in its short life, the other president from this county having been N. H. G. Bal four, who was again elected to the board in the spring primary. Other officers of the associa tion are John F. Long of States ville, vice-president, and J, L. Skinner of Littleton, secretary- treasurer. Watson, who lives in this coun- A « ty near Red Springs, has* served two terms as chairman of the Hoke county board, one other term, and was re-elected to the, next term in the June primary. He is the son of Mrs.,. Fulton K. Watson and the late Mr. Wat son of Red Springs and he has been active in the work of the association, of commissioners and accountants since his first term in office. He was a member of the original s^ate group and was on the group’s committee which pre pared. its constitution. He has served on several other important committees of the association and has been its vice-president for the past two years. In his speech of acceptance of the presidency Watson expressed his appreciation of the honor and e^^ressed his faith in the Asso ciation as one which he hoped would use its position and influ ence to retain those portions of local independence of government which are so great a part of the American hertiage as opposed to dn all-powerful, all- inclusive government from Washington. He emphasized the importance of the legislative committee of the asso ciation and said that he was going to take 30 days to consider the ap pointment of the members of this committee before announcing it. Also attending the convention from this county were John Mc- Googan, Marshall Thomas, Ful- ford' McMillan, N. H. G. Balfour and Harry Greene. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Niven had as their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Taylor and daughter of Kannaplois. They were en route to their home after a trip to Carolina Beach. Local Gpardsmen Return From Camp Saturday Night Battery “A” 130th antiaircraft automatic weapons battalion, N. C. National Guard, returned late Saturday night from their 16-day summer field training period at Camp Stewart, Georgia, tired but (presumably) happy. The men reported that they had a good but tough encampment and that the training was conducted and carried out more seriously this summer than any since World War II. After their firing the first week the battery \vent with other units of their battalion out on the large Camp Stewart reservation and practiced movements and se lection and occupation of gun po sitions, combat fortifications and combat manning of their weapons. The Battalion commander, Lt. Col. William Lamonf. Jr., said this week that he and other of ficers at Camp Stewart had ex pressed themselves as highly pleased with the showing made by the local battery and other units of the battalion and that it was the most profitable summer training period in his experience. The local unit received no in formation whatever as to when or if it will be called into Federal service, although Georgia units were arriving for active training during the last week the local boys were at Camp Stewart. ■ 0 Hugh O. Norton Dies In Georgia^ Buried Here Tuesday Funeral services for Hugh Oscar Norton, 47. were conducted Tues day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Raeford Presbyterian church. The Rev. B. P. Robinson officiated, assisted by the "Rev. P. O. Lee. Burial was in the Raeford ceme- / tery,/ Surviving are five sisters; Mrs. J* E. Townsend and Mrs. M. M. Culbreth. both of Raeford; Mrs. J. T. Johnson of Wilmington; Mrs. R.,A. Whitaker of Enfield; Mrs. J.'A. Doggett of Greensboro; and two brothers: Vf. L. Norton of Selma; and Bradley Norton of Greensboro. Mr. Norton, a native of Hoke county, had made his home in Georgia for about 25 years. He died at Raymonth, Ga., Sunday morning. He was a son of the la'te William M. Norton and Har riet Mclnnis Norton of Hole county. Saunders Announces Work Beginning Now On Mammoth Plant Superior Court Finished Tuesday In Quick Session Rapists Get 15 Years Each; Bud Johnson Confined At Sanatorium S. P. Trawick Passes Sunday; Funeral Monday S. P. Trawick. farmer and form er merchant of Lumber Bridge RFD died at his-home in this county Sunday moning. He was 89 years of age in July and he and Mrs. Trawick, the former Lizzie Covington, had celebrated their '60th wedding anniversary last summer. Mr. Trawick was a native of near Gibson and had lived in this county for over 2’5 years. Funeral service was conducted Monday afternoon at fom: o’clock at Sandy Grove Methodist church by the Rev. I. J. Strawbridge of Parkton, pastor, assisted by the Rev. W. L. Maness of Gibson and the Rev. C. R. Hester of St. Pauls. Burial was in the cemetery there. He is survived by Mrs. Tra wick and two sons, Paul and Otto of Wilmington. A deceased son, the late Rev. W. F. Trawick, was pastor of the Raeford Methodist chiurch from 1929 to 1932. Judge J. Paul Frizzelle pf Snow Hill convened the regular August term of Hoke county Superior court here Monday morning for the trial of criminal and civil cases. The court got right down to business and by Tuesday after noon the judge and jury were gone. Bethune Maultsby, local white man who was convicted in record er’s court of driving” drunk and being, drunk and disorderly and who had appealed, got his case continued to the next term be cause Dr. A. L. O’Briant, a wit ness for the defense, could not be located. Robert R. Greene, white sold ier who had appealed a speeding conviction froni recorder’s court^ changed his plea to guilty and prayer foryjudgment was contin ued on payment of $100 and the costs. In connection with this case Edwin (Bud) Johnson and Bennie Hargett, also white, were indicted on charges of speeding and careless aiyj reckless driving and are to be tried in recorder’s court Tuesday. They were indict ed by Patrolman B. T. Walters on the basis of evidence which ap peared at the hearing Greene got, Edwin (Bud) Johnson, white, was charged in two cases with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, victims being Heston Rose and Howard Taylor. Judge Frizzelle ordered that John son be confined in the criminal department of the State Sana torium for tuberculosis, there tO' be held in custody pending fur ther order of the court. McKinley Virgil entered a plea of guilty of careless and reckless driving and driving drunk. Sen tence of 90 days was suspended on payment of $100 and the costs. Film flam charges against James Redmond, Charles Stanley and Mabel Green, all colored, were continued, pending outcome of charges against them elsewhere. Dannie Ford and Floyd Ma3morj colored, were each charged in separate cases with rape and found guilty. The judge sentenced each to 15 years in Central Pris on and ordered that they be given mental examinations on arrival there and sent to the mental hos pital at Goldsboro if necessary and then, if competent, returned to serve their sentence. Maynor, the record showed, had previously, been in the Goldsboro hospital. The case of assault against Lil lie Brigman was continued. 0 Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Carney of Wilmington were week end giiests of Mrs. T. B. Lester. Their daugh ter, Lucy Ann, who spent last week with Pat Lament, returned home with them Sunday. Plan To Employ 900 William P. Saunders, president of Robbins Mills (N. C.), Inc., announced yesterday that construction will start imme diately on a spun rayon plant in Raeford for making men’s and women’s suitings. He said that the plant would be sim ilar in many respects to the company’s plant in Aberdeen, although somewhat larger. Engineering and designing for the project is being done by the firm of Biberstein and Bowles, architects and engineers of* Charlotte, and construction will be by C. M. Guest and Sons of Greensboro and Anderson, S. C. The plant will be lo cated on the tract of land here on which the company now operates a throwing plant in the building of the old White- Tex mill. This tract now consists of about 170 acres, 110 of which were acquired as the White-Tex property and 30 acres of which the Raeford Chamber of Commerce got for the company. The remainder has since been acquired in small parcels. The mill site is bounded on the southwest by the main line of the Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad, on the northw^t by the turnpike road and on the east on a Une running north to the turnpike road from where the A & R railroad crosses the Aberdeen road. It is triangular in shape. Since getting the property here in February the company has set up a throwing plant where they now employ about 125 persons. The total installation here is eventually expected to employ about 900 persons. The Aberdeen division employs 600 persons at the present time. W. H. Fann is manager of the throwing plant here. Robbins Mills (N. C.), Inc., operates plants in Red Springs, Aber- ~ ^ deen and Robbins also and an af- To Let Contract Next Tuesday For Paving In Raeford A new road project will get under way shortly in Hoke Coun ty, the State Highway Cornmis- sion announced today. The project, to be let to con tract on August 29. calls for the paving of 1.45 miles on Donald son Avenue, Campus Avenue. West Edenboro Street, West El- wood Avenue, Stewart Street, Magnolia Street from US 15-A to NC 211 and Magnolia Street north from NC 211 in Raeford. Specifications were also adver tised for August 29 on 29 other road jobs throughout the state, some on the primary and others on the secondary road system. More road projects are under construction at the present time than at any similar time in the Highway Commission’s history, according to Highway Chairman Henry W. Jordan. “If weather conditions continue to be good, 1950 will be North Carolina’s greatest year of roadbuilding,” Dr. Jordan said. About 20 percent of the $200- million secondary road program was finished as of July 1. 1950 and some 500 projects under this program are in various stages of construction throughout the state. CANADIAN MINISTER TO PREACH NEXT SUNDAY Reverend J. A. Koffend, pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian church at St. Lambert, Quebec, Canada, will preach the sermon at the Raeford Presbyterian church, Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. Koffend and his wife, who is the former Mabel Currie of Maxton, are vacationing in this section. During World War II Rev Kof fend was a Chaplain in the Can adian Air Force. Both of the Kof- fends have served as missionaries I to Manchuria. filiate, Robbins Mills (Va.), Inc., operates a finishing plant in Clarksville, Va. Mr. Saunders also heads this corporation. The company is widely known for its excellent labor relations, for the high quality of its mill facilities and for its manufactur ed products. Mr. Saunders is a native of Kings Mountain and has lived in Moore county since 1931. The factory will be modem in every respect and will be one of the finest anywhere. It will have a steel frame, insulated roof and hardwood floors. The building will be windowless, air condition ed with refrigeration and lighted with 50-foot fluorescent candles. Raw materials will enter the plant at one end and woven fab rics will emerge from the other end for shipment to the company’s finishing plant at Clarksville, Va. J. A. 'Bryant, General Super intendent of the Aberdeen & Rockfish railroad company, was on the site yesterday unloading construction materials for the new rail siding on which work will begin at once. There will be two sidings, branching off the north side of the railroad about 250 yards west of Dave Hannon’s residence. One will run about 500 yards into the main plant build ing and the other about 300 yards to the coal and boiler house. Crawford Thomas and Lawrence McNeill, industrial committee of the Raeford Chamber of com merce, have devoted much time and effort to bringing the project to Raeford and deserve the grati tude of this whole business com munity along with Forrest Lockey, vice-president pf the Aberdeea and Rockfish raihhoad company, whose efforts have been tremen dous also. These three also paid tribute yesterday to the Divisiwa of Commerce and Industry of the State Department of Conservation and Development for their hdlp in getting the project worked out. The company's Aberdeen plant produces men's and women's (Continued «n back pafa)
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