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A -^^-l- -f-t^-, i,:-JS M--, -f;-*J' -I ' !f;-“' ■‘‘- ’=> >i. .r - f- >-.j:*- '':^-.s^,-v^. .V -•,^_ ; -’;■■ :*”i: .::' V#''-S E^V -' V, ■V VOICE or WIIDOM 9IMIMMI orusERn OOtCfOf mtooM oruBffn The H»ke Coimly News The Hoke County Journal THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1950 VOLUME XLV; NUMBER 27 RAEFORD. N. C TEN C^TS PER COPY |2A0 PER |ar. Q YOUR SCHOOC NEWS By R. A. MacDonald i] . The following schools have com pleted their Junior Red Cross Drive: Hoke High, Rockfish, Macedonia, Hillside. Timberland, McFarland, Peachmont, Burling ton, Lilley’s Chapel, Friendship, Freedom, Frye’s Mission, Bow- more,Edinburg, White Oak, New Hope; Bridges Grove, Buffalo, Piney Bay and. Sandy Grove. We bope that those schools that have not finished will complete their drives and report not later than December 5. Hoke High and ^McFafland schools have turned in their con tributions to the Memorial Foun tain at the United Nations Center in New York that is being placed there by the school childre^n of the United States. We hope that the rest of the school will turn in theirs right away as this inoney is to lie in Raleigh by December 8. . The Teen-age Book club of the Raeford Graded School ctnnposed of* pupils of the 6th and 6th A 7th grade rooms, has received ^their first shipment of books. They^inrf enjoying theni immensely. The Heppy Valley Quartet gave a prog^ntm ot the RockfisIt^Mhonl Tuesday night to a. good aiaitence )knd at koke High Ikst iii^ 5 „ • sorT starts 'next Tuesday night. The locals playing a strong Lum ber Bridge team. Mrs. W. M.Blue Dies Sunday P. M.; Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Christiana Catherine Blue, 74, widow of the late W., M. Blue, died suddenly at her home here at six o’clock last Sunday night. She was the daughter of the late Samuel J. Cameron and Mar garet McKeithan Cameron, one of the oldest families of this section. She was born in what is now the Fort Bragg reservation near Blue’s mountain and was a mem ber of Sandy Grove Presbyterian church in the early part of her life and later a member of the Raeford Presbyterian church. She spent her entire life in this sec tion. Her husband, a real estate man, preceded her to the grave in 1936. ! The funeral was tonducted at the Raeford Presbyterian church at eleven o’clock Tuesday morn ing by the pastor, the Rev. W. B. Heyward. Pallbearers were John McKay Blue, John McKeithan, N. B. Sinclair, Neill James Blue, John Cameron, Sam Morris, James Morris and Harold Keith. Burial was in Raeford cemetery. Mrs. Blue is survived by three daughters. Mrs. Shaw McEachern of Hendersonville, Mrs. James Wilson of the home and Mrs. Ed Lee of Dunn; two sons, J. H. Blue and Marvin Blue of^Raeford; one Franks Cameron of South Hiil. Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Bruce Morris and Mrs. Angus Keith of Raeford; several grandchildren. '• Qne Life Taken By Id Hoke Through Oct. Cottm Crop Is A Colossal Failure 1949 797,366 252,655 1.278.277 740,639 9,288 541,671 6,375 560,637 1.281.278 348,797 361,810 505,992 514,264 3,982,984 12,496 The Colored and Indian schools ended their feecond montli last Friday. Their total enrollment, membership and percentage in the basis of figures Highway accidents have taken one life in Hoke county during the first nine months of 1950, President Coleman W. Roberts of the Carolina Motor Club announc- tendance is given below. Upchurch Elementary 656, 654, 92.6; High 321, 320, 96.4; Freedom 79, 79, 84; Bowmore 153, 152, 93; Friendship 53, 53, 94; Shady Grove 70, 69, 91; Peachmont 40, 40, 83; Timberland 39, 39, 96; Buffalo 52, 51, 79; New Hope 58, 58, 82; Mc Farland 36, 34, 75.8; Rockfish Col. 27, 26, 70; White Oak 88, 88, 92; Laurel Hill 135, 135, 94; BurUng- ton 157, 155, 90; Hillside 66, 66, 92; Piney Bay 44, 40, 66; Bridges Grove 41,. 41, 87; Lilley’s Chapel 36, 36, 97; Frye’s Mission 60, 60, 92; Macedonia 55, 55, 90; Antioch Elementary 149, 149, 97; High 5, 5, 97.5. The percentage of attend ance in most of these sdhools is good, but a few of them are still too low. We hope that the schoo’s in the lower brackets will v/ork hard to improve their attendance. The two elementary supervis ors were out of the county part of the time last week. One attending a meeting in Raleigh, the other a meeting in Rocky Mount. The county superintendent is now in High Point attending a meeting of superitendents. The parents of James Blue, pupil at Upchurch srhool, v/ho was killed in as accident on the way to school, with to thank their friends both colored and white, who were so kind to them in their bereavement. 0 CONCERT HERE TONIGHT The Bailey Brothers and their Happy Valley Boys will play at the High school auditorium here tonight, sponsored by the Raeford Camp No. 118, Woodmen of the World. The proceeds will go to the Woodmen’s Orphanage Christ mas fund and the public is invited to come out and enjoy the fun and ,aid a worthy cause. .0 Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Pernell of Louisburg visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Morris Wednesday of iast week. Little Sarah Frances Morr:s returned to Raeford with them, af ter "vending several weeks in 1 .e 'vg with her grandparents. compiled by the State Division of Highway Safety. In the county, 59 have been in jured in 72 accidents during the same period. For the third quarter, ending October 1, 1950, there were 660 persons killed and 8,701 injured as a result o 19,601 traffic acci dents on the streets and highways of North Carolina. These totals represent an in crease of nine per cent in deaths, 27 per cent in reported injuries and 34 per cent in total reported traffic accidents qver the corre sponding period of 1949. Traffic accidents during the same period of 1949 totaled 14,- 597 with 604 persons killed and 6.928 persons injured. Of the 19,601 accidents reported for the three quarters of the year, 556' were fatal, 5,433 v/ere non- fatal, and 13,612 resulted in pro perty damage. ' Leading counties in accidmts reported are Mecklenburg, 1,462; Forsyth, 1,397; Durham, 1,243; and Guilford, 923. Interesting facts revealed by the report include: More persons are killed and in jured from 25 to 34 years of age than any other group. More com mercial drivers are involved in accidents than any other occupa tional group. More accidents occur on Saturday than any other day - fewer occur on Tuesday. More fatal accidents occur at speeds •f 31 to 40 miles per hour than in any other speed range. More accidents occur between five and six o’clock in the afternoon than any other hour of the day. 0 Pat Ipock of Vanceboro accom panied Mr. and Mrs. George Wood to Raeford for the holidays, which they spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gulledgi='. They all returned tq Vanceboro Sunday. „North Carolina’s cotton crop this year is a colossal failure and up to November 14 the Tar Heel State , had ginned only 163,000 bales. Big cotton counties like Cleveland, Johnston and Robes m, as well as other counties which have been producing much cotton, simply did not make cotton this year. The Census Bureau reports on ginning statistics for the several states up to November 14 as follows: 1950 Alabama .... 510,394 Arizona 255,540 Arkansas .... 785,905 California .... 581,815 Florida 7,991 Georgia 456,679 Kentucky 2,541 Louisiana .... 394,462' Mississippi .... 1,185,762 Missouri 149,499 New Mexico .... 118,366 North C 163,000 Oklahoma .... 154,563 South C 398,285 Tennessee .... 289,962 Texas 2,110,722 Virginia 2,015 Total 7,567,942 11,746,638 The statistics in this report includes 25,996 bales of American Egyptian for 1950, 2,103 for 1949, and 2,304 for 1948; also included are no bales of Sea-Island for 1950, none for 1949, and 5 for 1948. The statistics for 1950 in this report are subject to revision, when checked against the individual re-\ turils of the ginners being trans# mitted by mail. The revised total of cotton ginned this season prior to November 1 is 5^468,794 bales. Cotton consumed during the month of October 1950, amounted to 835,155 bales. Cotton on hand in consuming establishments on Octo ber 28, was 1,489,660 bales, and in public storage and at compresses 6,375,051 bales. The. number of active’' consuming cotton spindles for the month was 20,758,000. The total imports for the month of September 1950, were 22,732 boles and the exports of domestic cot ton excluding linters were 372,381 bales. 0 Sergeant Huggins Killed In Korea The family of Sergeant Horace Waklon Huggins, 28, of Fayette ville, received official notifica tion last week that he bad been killed in action in Korea on No vember 4. Sergeant Huggins was serving with a combat medical unit assigned to the 24tn infantry division. He had been- overseas since August 16. He 'vvas the bus- band of the former Deane Mathe- son of Raeford. During World War II he served in the Navy. He was stationed at Fort Bra,Ef.g for over two years in the Army before going overseas. Surviving are his wife and two children, Bobbie and Waklon Huggins of Fayetteville; his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Huggins of Hope Mills; four brothers and three sisters. 0 Union Service Is Well Attended moit Goes To Jail Last Sunday Night The Raeford Fire department was turned out in the cold at about 11:00 o’clock last Sunday night when a blaze and some smoke developed at the county jail. It appeared that inmates of the place, who were inot confined to cells but were free in the “run around” which goes around the cell block and which has ac cess to the windows, had become a little discontented with them situation and were trying to wreck the place. * Officers said that the raalators in the run-around were broken off at the floor, and that wood and mattresses were gathered and lit, as if the boys were cold. The windows available were broken out and the sashes added to the fire. The fire department with 156,363 16 who answered the aLrm 387,064 ! trouble in disposing of the blaze, and between water, steam and smoke the place was a sight to behold .when things quieted down. Bill Gordon and John Leonard Maultsby were charged -.Mlth gen erally wrecking the place , and with setting fire to the jail. They were released under bonds of $500 each., and are to be given hear ing next Tuesday. A third man was incarcerated with these tw'o but officers say their statements clea/ him. He is Claude A. Gates T', ,wl|p paid or obb-jated himself for $1&0 and the costs in court Tues day. d Former Resident Killed In Korea H. W. Ellis has retur.ied home from Richwood, Ohio, where he visited his son, Rev. 'Wallace M. Ellis and Mrs. Ellis. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dull and children of Jonesboro Heights slayod wich Mrs. Ellis while he was away. A telegram from the Defer;se Department arrived here Satur day for Mrs. Carroll M. Eastman saying that her husband, Chief Warrant Officer E.a.stman, had been killed in action m Korea. Mrs. Eastman, who had li/cd in an apartment with Mr. ari Mrs. Younger Snead since her husband went overseas in the early fall, had gone to Califocma about three weeks ago and the informa tion was forwarded to her there. Warrant Officer Eastman was in the Air Force. Mrs. Eastman is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. E. Snyder. 1.533 St. John St.. San Jose, California. The Eastmans lived here during the time he was stationed at Pope Field and made many friends who will be saddened to learn of his death. 0 New Type Rural Mail Boxes To Be Shown Recorder Hears Few Cases Tues. Only a dozen defendants were disposed of in Hoke countv* re corder’s court before Judge Henry McDiarmid Tuesday morning. Claude Austin Cates, white of Tennessee, who was jailed along with others charged with damag ing and setting fire to the jail Sunday night, entered a plea of guilty of driving drunk and vio lating the prohibition laws. He got 90 days suspended on payment of $100 and the costs. He made a partial payment and got terms on the remainder. Clonnie Rogers, colored, was found guilty of .driving drunk. Willie Graham and Roxonna Little, colored, got 90 days on the roads and in jail, respectively for immoral conduct, sentences su spended on payment of $25 and the costs. Clarence Stubbs and Bertha Allsbrook, colored, were also charged with immoral conduct. Stubbs was found guilty and got one year on the roads. He appeal ed and posted a $250 bond. The female defendant did not ap^ar for trial due to a misunderstand ing and will be tried next Tues day. Roy Wallace, colored, was found guilty of violating the road laws by speeding up when a car was starting to pass him. He got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs. * . Charles B. McRae, and Stephen Swerdon, both white, each left a $25 hond foy speeding. George N. Lambosj white, paid $10 and the costs for careless and reckless driving. Jerry Evans, colored, paid the costs for being drunk and disor derly. Donnie Lee Locklear, Indian, was foimd guilty of assault with a dealy Weapon by shooting at a house and got six months sus pended on payment of $50 ond the costs. 19 Men Examined, 6 Pass; 35 More To Go For EAams Mrs. J. M. Baker, clerk of the Hoke county draft board, this week received a report on the 17 men from this county and two transfers who were given pre- induction mental and physical examinations at the Fayetteville induction station last Friday. Of the 13 colored men from Hoke who went only four passed and of the four white only two passed. Both the transfers failed to pass. Mrs. Baker has also received a notice to th| effect that 35 men would be called up for pre-induc tion mental and physical exami nations from Hoke county during December instead of the 25 origi nally scheduled to report. These are scheduled to report to the Fayetteville induction station on December 15. ^ 0 PERSONALS Examiner Gives License Records For October The Union Sunrise Thanksgiv ing Worship service at the Raeford Methodist church last Thursday morning was well attended. The message was brought by Dr. Walker Healy of Fayetteville and music was by the High school sextette. Following the service the senior young people’s group of the Meth odist church invited the young people froin the other churches and boys and girls home from college to the church dining room. Here, from a table attractively arranged and centered witn yel low chrysanthemum.s, -otfee, doughnuts, cakes and buns wore served and a period of fellowship v.-a.s enjoyed.. If RFD Tarheels know a good bargain when they see one, they’ll take the Highway Commission up' on its proposition about rural mailboxes. In cooperation with the North Carolina Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, the Commis sion has selected a neat looking portable mail box with a con crete base as a model for state wide distribution. If rural citizens will install such a mail box at their front gate, the Commission will have its forces* provide an all-weather ap proach. This helps everybody: the rurab mail carrier (who can reach the mail box without en dangering his life), the highway maintanence department (which won’t he knocking over mailboxes when it scrapest,the road) and the resident (whose property will be made more attractive and pleas ing). Models of teh new mailbox will be on|display in each county courthouse soon, and your mail carrier or postmaster will haA^e in formation about where to procure them. 0 Bill Garrett and Bassil Rilev cf Roxboro were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Niven Thanksgiving Day. Driver’s license examiner’s re cords for October showed a 20 per cent failure among applicants the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles said today. Of the 39,353 applications, 7,102 were disapproved. A total of 27,- 251 road tests were given and 27,418 operator’s licenses, 16,083 learner’s permits, 3,147 duplicate licenses ant 1, 686 chauffeur’s li censes were applied for and ap proved. A total of $59,781.50 was col lected by driver’s license exami ners. Persons who had previously held licenses failed to pass the examinationr for the following reasons: Signs, 693; eyes, 588; rules, 877; road test, 599; equip ment, 51; miscellaneous, 23. Persons applying for licenses for the first time failed for the following reasons; signs, 717; eyes, 356; rules, 1,052; road test, 1,742; equipment, 71; miscellaneous. 28. Chauffeurs applying on old li censes failed because of the fol lowing reasons; Signs 20; eyes, 28; rules, 55; road test, 8; equipment, one; miscellaneous, one. Chauf feurs applying for licenses for the first time failed to pass because of the following reasons; signs, 16 eyes, 19; rules, 50; road test, 18; equipment, three. -0 Mr. and Mrs. William Black avd children and Mrs. C. L. Black of Greensboro were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dickson last Thurs day. Mrs. Black remained for a longer visit. Sgt. and Mrs. Bill Ma^lar spent the week end witii relatives in Wilmington. Coble Says Road Balding To Be Increased Commissioner Says Hoke To Get Share Of Money From Surfacing Costing Less Mrs. Tommie Upchurch and. Eloise Upchurch went to Dawson, Ga., last Wednesday to attend a celebration in honor of Erie Cocke, Jr. National Commander of ihe American Legion who is a cousin of Mrs. Upchurch. Commander Cocke is a native of Dawson, is 29 years old, a veteran of World War II and the youngest National Commander of the American Le gion. Decorated with the Silver Star^ the Purple Heart with lusters, the Bronze Star and other cita tions, he has received .national acclaim as a business and agri cultural leader in his home state of Georgia. Mrs. B. L. Miller and Miss Don nie Lytle spent Thanksgiving and the week end in Columbia, S. C. with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers Davis joined them there for the week end. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Mc- Phaul and Sgt. and Mrs. Melvin Rouse the past week end were Mrs. Eunice Rouse, mother of Mrs. McPhaul and Sgt.* Rouse, Talmadge Rouse, Misses Annette and Fannette Rouse, Mrs. Bruce Crews and Linda Crews, all of LaGrange. Mr. and Mrs. McPhaul had all the family for dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Upchurch and Joe Upchurch were guests cf Mr. and Mrs. Robert McC’eskey in Gainesville, Ga. from Wednes day till Sunday. Mr*, and Mrs. Daniel Deaton and -family of Spartanburg, 3. C. vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Berder Niven Sunday. They were en route to their home after a trip to Rich mond, Va. Mrs. J. M. Norton and .^.lex Norton spent Thanksgiving Day in Sneads Ferry with Mrs. Nor ton’s daughter, Mrs. L. W. Mid- gette, Mr. Midgette and their ne .v son. . Bobby Murray of Davidson spent Thanksgiving and the week end here with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Murray. Eugene Smith, son of Mrs. Lucy Smith was one of the 26 members of the student body - of ECTC. Greenville, who have been select ed to appear in the 1950-51 edi tion of the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universit ies and. Colleges. Miss Alice Sutton Mathesoa of Duke University and i class mate, Miss Jean Stillkirk of Tu pelo, Miss., were guests of Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Matheson for Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Harris and sons and Mrs. Carlton Nivea spent the week end in Roxboro. They attended the funeral o!: an aunt, Mrs. Ida Whitt, Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. iiirry Greene and Frances War.I sn'^nt Thanksgiv ing in S ■ ''.’O with Mrs. Greout s parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Hutsr’’ The nine counties of the Sixth Highway Division stand a good chance of getting considerably more roads surfaced than were originally contemplated under the 200 million dollar bond progra.m, according to District Commission er George S. Coble. Coble made a progress report to a group at a meeting, near Lexington recently in which he showed the roads which had been paved un.ier the program and other roads on the schedule. In the Sixth division, $21,238,- 000 was allocated to the nine coun ties as follows: Moore, $2,322,000; Hoke, $1,- 268,000; Lee, $1,100,000; Scotland $1,340,000; Randolph, $3,244,000; Robeson, $4,218,000; Harnett, $2,- 540,000; Chatham, $2,354,000: Davidson, $2,852,000. Under the bond program 1274 miles were to be paved in the Dis trict. As of October 1, 19a0, Com missioner Coble stated that 864 9 miles had been paved. This is 67.9 per cent of the scheduled program. But Commissioner Cob'e stated that only $6,560,925.73 of the $21,- 238,000 had been spent as of Oc tober 1. This shows 67.9 per cent of the division’s original mileage paved with only 34.3 of the money spent. -- Commissioner Coble indicated that it now looks as if the division would be able to get almost double the amount of hard-;'urfaced roads as promised in the road bon i com- paign. In some of the counties they are already mapping addi tional roads to be paved. Hoke County will receive $1,- 268,000 under the bond program. 10 per cent may be retained as an Equalization Fund, leaving $1,- 141,200 for . the general county road improvements in Hokei. As of October 1, $374,169.36 had been spent for paving and stabilizing Hoke County roads. This expen diture represents 32.8 of the $1,- 141,200 which Hoke will receive. Based on 12,000 miles of paved roads for the entire State, or 1274 miles fo the division, Hoke Coun ty’s poportionate' part of road work rompleten is 75 per tent complete. Yet, Hoke like the oth er counties of the district will re ceive a much larger mileage of paved roads than origina'ly pro grammed. Com.Tii-.s .-ner Coble said that he W3uli be in Hoke County in December to program more roads for hard-surfacing. In Little River township of Hoke County additional roads have been mapped for hard-surfacing, iivirg that tow.ns.hip .a mtal of 17.8 miles of pavement under the bond program. Little River roads mraped to be paved are as follows: 1.8 mile from Lobelia' to Mor rison’s bridge. 6.7 miles from Lobelia to me Cumberland County line near the Lower. Power Plant. 3.3 miles from the Moore- Hoke-Harnett line at .he Camer on Johnson home to Cypress Church. 2.4 miles from Cypress Church to the intersection of the Lobelia- Overhills road at the old Hector Smith place. 3.1 miles fsom the V-ass-Lobe lia road to the Hoke-Harnett county line road at Cam John son’s. 1.5 mile from Modnt Pleasant Church to the Harnett county line. 2.1 miles ftom the intersection of the Mt. Pleasant-Johns'.'nviUe road to the Harnett county line- near the old Jim Marks' place. Heretofore Little River h-as had only 3.5 miles of hard suarface road in the entire townshigk
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