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f 4 1 ? ■ 'tT- YOUIt iSCHOOL NEWS] By K. A. MacDonald For the fourth consecutive year, the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina announced its Essay Contest open to high school soudents in North Carolina. The Society is offering a six hun dred ($600) dollar college scholar ship, and other prizes, as awards to the successful contestants. This contest is sponsored by the Public Relations Committee of the Med ical Society, and has the approval of the State'Department Pub lic Instruction. In addition, the three winning papers, as determined by the final judges, will be forwarded to the Association of American Physicians, and Surgeo'hs for com petition in their national contest. Prizes offered by this Association are first, $1,000; second, $500; third, $100; foorth, $25; fifth, $25; and sixth. $25. It is hoped that quite a number of high school students will enter this contest. Full details have been sent by the Medical Society to principals. REA Directors Elect New Officers At Recent Meeting At a recent meeting of the Di rectors of the Lumbee River Elec tric Membership Corporation, C. L. Balance, farmer of the Saint Pauls section of Robeson county, was elected president of the Cor poration. Mr. Balance has been a director of the corporation for a number of years and held the of fice of vice prestdent.of the cor poration part of this time. He succeeds C. A. Alford, retiring president, who lives in the Row land section of Robeson county. Mr. Alford served as president of the two and one-half million dollar corporation for the past ten years. Mr. Balance as newly president, made a brief talk to the directors ekpressing his ap preciation for the honor and he assured them of his interest m the cooperative and that he had the cooperative at heart. He also comn^ended the retir- McDiarmid Lands Sold This Week Some idea of prevailing real estate values may be gathered from the sale of the farm lands of the late Mrs. Carrie McDi.ir- mid on Monday and lots in llae- ford on Tuesday, although sales made by auction on those days were not final and are subject to upset bids for 10 days after sale. The farm. Containing 786 aires in all and '524 acres under culti vation. was sold in 11 tracts rang ing in size from 12 to 165 acres. The McDiarmid home was sold as tract number seven contataed 33 acres. High bid for this at the sale was $7,500. Bids on other tracts were as follows: No. 1, 97.5 acres, $11,000; No. 2, 87.5 acres, $8,500; No. 3, 105.4 acres, $6,700; No. 4, 60.9 acres, $6,600; No. '5, 53 acres, $2,- 300; No. 6, 102.6 acres. $9,200; N«(. 8y 24 acres. $2,300; No. 9, 44 acres, $6,100; No. 10, 12.8 acres, $1,350 No. 11., the P. H. Wright farm, 165 acres, $24,000. Lots in Raeford on Fulton Below is given the enrollment, membership and percentage in at tendance of the white schools for the third month of school. Ashe- mont 138, 127, 89.8; Hoke High 8th grade 87, 86, 90.3; Hoke High 9-12 264, 25S, 92.3; Mildouson 86, 84, 97; Raeford Graded 496, 479 91.2; Rockfish 116^ 113, 92. You will note that Mildouson leads the county in percentage in at tendance. We hope that the other schools will be able to narrow the gap during the fourth month. The Tabernacle Church at Rockfish gave a barbecue supper last Friday night and gave the proceeds to the school. This is a very unusual procedure and the school and everyone connected with it greatly appreciated this generous action. About $50.00 was raised and turned over to the school. The white schools of the county will close for the holidays on Tuesday, December 19. The color ed and Indian schools will close on Friday, December 22. This letter is by request of the schools in order to allow them to finish third month before Christmas. We think this is a wise move on their part. All^schools will reopen on Mon day, 'January 1, 1951. ing president for the interest he had shown in me cooperative and j Fifth^AvenuT and^p'art of Mrs. McDiarmid’s estate were he assured Mr. Alford that the Board of Directors and the mem bers of the corporation wished to commend him for services ren dered in the past ten years. J. McN. Gillis, charter member and farmer and county commis sioner of Cumberland county was elected vice-president. J. R. Caddell, farmer of the Maxton section, was re-electecj treasurer. Mrs. Lucy Smith, a charter member and well known former school teacher of Hoke county, who has some farming in terest and is at present connect ed with the Hoke County High School lunch room program, was re-elected secretary. Mrs. Smitii has served as secretary since 1942. , Othejr directors of the corpora tion are, Mafsliall Newton, farm er and county commissioner of Hoke county; J. E. Morrison, dairyman and farmer of Robeson county, and two newly ^ected directors, J. R. Lassiter, of Scot land county, who resides near Wagram, and Wade H. Powell, farmer of the Fairmont-Rowland section of Robeson county. New Record In Polio Cases For One Week , The Hoke-Raeford PTA will hold its regular monthly meet ing Monday evening at 7:30 in the Graded School auditorium. The program will be the yearly Christ mas Pageant given by the junior chorus and the primary grades. Those who have .attended before know that a treat is in store for those who attend. This program will be a little mre varied than usual in that the primary grades are taking part. The junior chorus is made up of children from the grammar grades. We hope a large number of parents will attend. Miss Marie Pfunder, nutritionist with the State Health Depart ment, visited Mrs. Shelton’s fifth grade at the Raeford Graded School last Friday and explained vitamins to the class. This was in connection with their health work. In connection with their geogra phy, studying New England, Miss Pfunder talked about New Eng land as a whole and Conneitirut in particular, as she is a native of this state. The children were most interested. New York, Dec. 13—The num ber of polio cases reported in the United States for the week ended Dec. 2 set a 23-year high, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced yesterday. The foundation also reported that 31,989 cases of polio since Jan. 1 had made 1950 the “second severest polio year in the nation’s history.” Last year, with 41,442 was the worst. The foundation listed 598 new cases for the week- ended Dec. 2. It said that this figure was the highest in the 48th week of any year since 1927, when weekly polio reports were first started. —0 CANTATA AT SHILOH The choir of the Aberdeen Pres byterian church, under the direc tion of Mrs. C. H. Story, will pre sent a Christmas Cantata at Shi loh Presbyterian church at four o’clock Sunday afternoon, De cember 17. The public is invited to attend. . 0 Charles M. Spencer, Director, Division of School Health, State Department of Public Instruction, was a visitor to the county Tues day afternoon. He not only visit ed the school office, but the of fices of the welfare Department (Continued en bade pafc) CAROLS AT PARKER’S The choirs of Tabernacle Bap tist church, Galatia Presbyterian church and Parker’s Methodist church will unite in a program of Christmas music at Parker’s church next Sunday, December 17, at 7:00 o’clock. The public is in vited. 0 Marines—Virginia Colonials— were first called to North Caro lina during the Proprietory Gov ernor disputes and Indian upris ings that occurred during the reign of Queen Ann, and in the early part of the 18th century. sold at auction on Tuesday after noon on the same conditions the farm lands on Monday. High bid on the lot at the corner of Fulton street and Fifth avenue 100 feet on Fulton street and 200 on Fifth avenue, was $1,350. The other lot facing Fulton street the same size was bid in at $i,15C The lots on Fifth avenue, 25 by 200 feet, were bid in at from $125 to $225 each. The two-apartment dwelling on this street was sold for $2,600. 0 Long Distance Calls Heavy On Christmas The C&rolina Telephone i and Telegraph company expects to handle a record number of long distance calls during the Christ mas week end, according to R E. Dixon, Fayetteville manager for the company. The Fayetteville toll operators handled 2,473 calls last Christmas day, and company officials esti mate that more thah 3,000 long distance calls will be handled by [local operators this .Christmas day. Mr. Dixon pointed out that the Christmas season is the busiest time of the year for telephone company employes handling long distance calls. Servicemen unable to get home for the holidays will be the chief users of long distance especially in this area. The Fayetteville toll operators, Mr. Dixon stated, have been hand ling an unusually large number of long distance calls for several months. The company installed four additional toll switchboard positions during the early fall, but the increasing number of calls has made some delays inevitable. Un fortunately, there is no room for additional switchboard positions in the present toll office. Mr. Dixon said that work is progressing on the new toll build ing in Fayetteville, which, includ ing equipment, will cost $800,000. Most of the equipment has arriv ed and installation will begin shortly after the first of the year. However, since the new toll building and the additional cir cuits will not be ready for service until next year, the company will have to handle the Christaas sea- calls on existing equipment. Every available switchboard pQ- sition will be used during the busy periods, but the large number of calls to be handled will mean some delays. Mr. Dixon requested all long distance users to be patient with delays they may encounter on their calls and to make their con versations as brief as possible. “If everyone complies with this re quest,” he said, “the company will be able to-handle more calls and to handle them more quickly.” Chamber To Hold Annual Meeting ^lext Thursday ' The Annual meetiOig of the Rae ford Chamber of Commerce, Inc., will be held at the courthouse next Thursday night, December 21, at 8:00 o’clock. The approximate ly 100 member firms and indivi duals were advised of the meet ing this week and any who may have been overlooked by the sec retary in mailing notices are urged by the president to not be mad and come anyway. Reports on the activities of the past year will be presented and other important matters in the, present activities of the group will be -discussed and acted upon. These include mainly the .-lous ing development, “R o b b i n s Heights”, which the Chamber is trying to get under way on its property on East Prospect avenue in Raeford. Full details on the status of this development and actions taken by the board of directors will be presented to the membership at the meeting. Four members of the 12-man board of directors will oe chosen for a three-year term at the meet ing, following which the directors will elect the officers of the bodj’ for the year 1951. Post Office Open Next Two Saturdays Postmaster Lacy Clark announc ed tjiis week that the Raeford post of|^e would be open the last two Saturdays before Christmas in order^ToXhelp the public get rid of thj^ir ^ristmas mail. He also Scdd\that the post of- fice woidd begm closing at 5:30 p. m. daily instead of six O’clock until C*^->^*mas. Hc"^d being done in order to^liiloW uSo extra mail to be processed daily without causing excessive over time for employees. 0 Secretary Of State To Address Kiwanians Hoke High Off To Good Start In Basketball Boys And Girls Win First Two Games; Play 71st High Here Tomorrow Night Hoke County High School’s basketball teams played Wagram High on the Raeford court last Friday night to open the 1951 season. Both boys and girls look ed good in taking both games in this first encounter. The girls won their game im pressively, 61 to 28. Lyda Williams and Sara Cole got 25 points each to lead the scoring and Mary Guin and Mary Sue Upchurch were outstanding defensively. The boys took their game by almost as good a margin, 59 to 39. Lester scored 25 points and Lundy 15. McLauchlin looked good oh defense. In Rowland/ Tuesday night the ^irls won by a score with 28 points scored by Lyda Williams making the difference. The boys won a elerser one, 36 to 33. Lester sank 8 and McLauchlin 7 to lead the scoring for Hoke High. The Hoke boys had a hard fight to win and never had a conSfortable lead. Joe Culbreth, transfer from Red Springs, showed up well defen sively and is a promising player. Games Tomorrow Night The local teams will play 71st H^h here in the hi^ school gym tomorrow night with the junior varsity boys getting the affair started at 6:30. Varsity girls and boys will follow in the first games Of the season in the Cumberland- Hbke league. ijext Tuesday night the Row- lant|l^^,^S and girls will come to o-paii'-Df LianAs with the Hoke high teams. This will be the final engagement for the locals before Christmas. 0 Carolinians Will Attend Meeting Of Cotton Council Soon North Carolina Secretary of State Thad Eure will be guest speaker at the regular weekly meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis club at the High school cafeteria tonight. He will be the guest of Kiwanian and State Senator J. Benton Thomas. This will be the first time in quite a few years that a mem ber of the Council of State has appeared in Raeford and Presi dent Younger Snead has urged all mem’cers of the club to be on hand to greet Eure at six-thirty. 0 : Tar Heel Draft Call To Be Increased Raleigh, Dec. 13—Tar Heel draft calls wiU be stepped up considerably in January and Feb ruary—probably doubled. This was indicated yesterday by O. S. Slaunwhite, state pro curement officer, following a se lective service announcement in Washington that the draft calls for the two-month period were being increased nation-wide by 70,000. North Carolina’s original Janu ary quota called for 1,210 draftees, and the. February figure was 1,500. ^ 0 Dr. Murray’s Nephew Is Rhodes Scholar Lincolnton, Dec. 14—Twenty- two delegates comprising the North Carolina-Virginia unit of the National Cotton Council will represent the cotton interests of these states at the Council’s 13th annual meeting in Biloxi. Miss., January 22-24.'B. C. Lincberger. unit chairman, said today. These state representatives are part of the Council s 244-man Beltwide delegation which is se lected by the nation’s cotton far mers, ginners. warehousemen, merchants, spinners, and cotton seed crushers through their own state organizations. Delegates from these states in clude: T. B. Upchurch, Jr., Rae ford; Fred P. Johnson, Raleigh; Geo. T. Ashford, Red Springs; L. M. Upchurch, Raeford. Flan Longer Hours Before Christmas The stores in Raeford will re main open until eight o’clock on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of next week, December 21. 22 and 23. The dry goods and ten cents Stores have definitely made this announcement and it is possible that the grocery and hardware stores will follow suit, although a definite announcement as to their plans will be made next week. The dry goods and ten cent stores are taking the step for the convenience of their cus tomers on the last three shopping days before Christmas. There has also been some talk of the stores being closed on De cember 26, Tuesday, but most opinions seem to be that Sunday and Monday' will be enough, and unless there is some activity to the contrary, most will be open December 26. A definite announce ment will be made next week as to this also. The Bank of Raeford is to be closed on December 26. 0 Farmers Will Vote For PM A Officials In Election Today Farmers of Hoke county will have an opportunity today to elect the committeemen who will ad minister the Agricultural Conser vation Program, price support, acreage allotment, marketing quotas and other production pro grams in 1951. The voting places in this coun ty for the three committeemen and a delegate to the county con vention where a county commit tee will be elected are as follows; Allendale, Community House; Antioch, J. A. Holgin’s Store; Blue Springs, Hoke Trading Co., (Mitchell Epstein’s Store); Little River, Community House; Way- side, Marshall Newton’s Store: Rockfish. A. W. Wood’s Store; Quewhiffle, Montrose Community House; Raeford, Court House; Stonewall, Dundarrach Trading Co. “These elections put the issues squarely up to the farmers of the county,” said R. J. Hasty, chair man of the county PMA commit tee, “and no farmer should miss the chance to exercise his voice in the running of his farm af fairs.” 0. Plan Family Day At Methodist Church By June 1946, 686 North Car olinians serving in the U. S. Ma rine Corps were commissioned officers. Dr. Arthur Aydelotte, Ameri can secretary of Rhodes trustees, this week announced the names of 32 Rhodes scholarship . winners. Among these is Joseph James Murray, Jr., of Lexington, Vir ginia, a student at Dqvic^n col lege and a nephew of Dr. R. L. Murray of Raeford. This year’s winners of the cov eted awards represent 26 states and 23 colleges. The scholarships carry expenses to study at Oxford and other universities in England, and are probably the most sought after educational awards. Band And Glee Club Concert This Evening At High Sc(iool The band and Glee Club of the Hoke County High school will give their annual Christmas con cert Thursday evening, Decem ber 14 in the high school audi torium. The band, under the direction of Mr. Renn, will play sever,al marches and traditional Christmas songs. Hal Gore will play two saxaphbne selections. The Glee Club, with Miss Doris Bradley directing, will sing fami liar Christmas carols and Fred Waring’s arrangement of “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” The sextet composed of Iris Thomas, Florence Cameron, Betty Jane Ashbum, Joan Sinclair, Sue Gull- edge and Irene Andrews will sing several songs. The eighth grade girls will also be featured on the program. Florence Cameron and John Davis will do the soloists parts, and Betty Upihurrh will serve as accompanist. Next Sunday is Family Day at the Methodist Church. The pastor’ i^ asking every family of^ the Methodist church to make a spec ial effort to be present at the, Churcli School hour. He wants and expects, every member of the family to come to the 11 o'clock Church service and sit together. The pastor will bring a Family message—“Is Your Home Christ ian?” At 7 o’clock in the basement of the church they will have Family Night. They will have refresh ments for all members of the fam ily and hope it will be an hour of fellowship and worship. A pic ture will be shown for the chil dren. Rules regarding the care of the church will be read to the church family. The pastor will lead the devotion using the theme: “Parental Evangelism”. “Let every one who makes the Methodist church of Raeford their church home make their plans to be pre sent for these services Sunday, Dec. 17th.” Mr. Lee said. 0 SQUARE DANCE FRIDAY The local National Guard unit is starting a new series of square dances at the armory tomorrow night. Impressario Roger Dixon states that the battery has been fortunate to secure the music of Dewey Sessoms and his well- known string band for the affairs and assures all comers that they will have a good time. Dances will be held e^ FHday night xmtil fvurther notice. Maoltsby, Gordon Offer No Defoise In Court Tuesday Pay Total Of $500 & Costs For Damage & Setting Kie To Jail; Other Cases Tried John Leonard Maultsfay and Bill Gordon, white, came before Judge Henry McDiarmid in Hoke County recorder’s court Tuesday morning on charges of destroying personal property and damaging and setting fire to the Hoke coun ty jail with felonious intent to burn down the jail. They made a motion to have the felonious in tent stricken from the charge and the judge allowed it. They then entered a no defense plea. Judge McDiarmid sentenced each to 12 months on the roads, Maultsfay^s sentence to be suspended on pay- » ment of S300 and the costs, and Gordon’s on payment of $200 and the costs, damages to be padd from the fines. No condition of two years good behavior was made by the judge in suspending the sentences. Maultsby then plead ed guilty of being drunk and dis orderly and paid $10 and the costs. The state took a nol pros in a case charging him with alle- gal possession of liquor, as Gor don had paid $10 and the costs the week before for having it. Other cases tried Tuesday were: L. D. Dukes, colored, assault on Bessie McKoy with a deadly weapon, 90 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs. Grover Brown, white, assault ing H. K., Ivey, costs. Fred Tohnson, colored, attempt ing to pass on hiU, costs. John H. "Vyalters, white, speed ing, $10 and the costs. Aaron McFadyen, colored, as sault, costs and $5 doctor bilL Tuesday, Decembw 5 Claude Scott, white, giving Goldie Melvin a bad check for $25; paid costs and check. BiU Gordon, white, illegal pos session of liquor and being drunk and disorderly, $10 and the costs in each case. Claude Tyler, white, drunk and disorderly, costs. Dan Odom, white, assault on wife, costs; non-support, six months suspended on payment of costs as long as he stays away from, wife and children. Ed Morris, colored, no driver’s license. 60 days . to be suspended on payment of S25 and the costs; couldn’t pay. went to roads. George H. Freenlan, white, careless ^and reckless driving, not guilty. Ethel Mae Ray. colored, assault with a deadly weapon, six months suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. Bertha Allbrdo’tv, colored, immo ral conduct, one year in jail, ap pealed, posted $250 bond. June Breeden and Neill Richard Blue, both colored, $10 amd costs each for having improper brakes on cars. Benjamin Franklin Bohannan. white soldier, speeding 80 miles an hour, $50 and costs. James Edward Collins, white, improper license plates on truck, costs. Orphanage Head To Preach At Baptist Church Sunday Night The Baptist are privileged to have the Rev. ’W. C. Reed, Super intendent of the Baptist Orphan age of North Carolina, to preach at the regular Sunday evening worship service at 7:30 this Sun day night, the Rev. Judson Lwa- non, pastor, announced this week. Mr. Reed is well known in Rae ford amd many will want to coxn* to hear him at the Raeford Bap tist church. Mr. Reed will stay over until; Monday oMialBg wbn be wffl deer htmttat witti mm of Hoke county friends
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