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r -■ :_r V- ' ', ^ ' '?r ' ‘ ■’* ■ ‘ ■r * • ■CT^ , %■- J) If Ms t rP ? VOICE OF IRCIOOM home CUAIDIAH OFUBCRH WOKE or flEEOOM Mvm* /EWHk The Hoke County Newt V The Hoke County Journal ten cents peb copy ofuttiff 12.00 FEB YEAB telephone Co. 1 Plans To Install Rural Facilities Official Also Explains Steps Already Being Taken To Improve Local Service In a letter to Harry Greene, Hoke representative in the Gen eral Assembly, last week, J. F. Havens, assistant to the president of the ,parolina Telephone and TelegrapJ’^ company, explained some of jhe things the company is doing to help local telephone ser vice and other steps they plan to take sqpn. Among these he men- tionecr that the company plans to establish additional rural facili ties from Raeford during 1951,. Greene has been working on the matter for some time and a complaint was made some time ago to the State Utilities commis sion by the Raeford Chamber of Commerce. Greene and Havens had a conversation about the f. » matter on December 15 and the letter confirming the conversa- ^tion appears below. “As stated on my \isit, the ' Company made a detailed inspec tion of its telephone plant in Rae- lord at the request of the North ' Carolina Utilities Commission and found upon such investiga- " tion some troubles in the central v, office equipment and minor trou bles in the outside plant. The ad justments required to the equip ment have been made and our plans include a further rehabili tation of portions of the ^Ulp- ^ la ment as are^ required.j^ith re- regard to one of the niajor corff- plaints registered with the Com mission—the long distancf ser vice provided through our Fay etteville office—I advised you that a building was under con struction at Fayetteville to house a new toll switchboard which would enable the Company to bet ter handle the increased long dis tance business now offered at Raeford and other points served by the Fayetteville toll switch board. I also advised you that plans were being made by our engineers to establish additional long distance circuits . between ' Raeford and Fayetteville to han dle the expected business which would originate in Raeford. I hav* learned since my return from Raeford that installation of the switchboard is scheduled to begin in January or February and bar ring unforeseen difficulties is ex pected to be ready for service during July of 1951. We arc most appreciative of your interest in this matter and assure you that it is the desire of this 'Company to provide the best possible communication fac ilities for the citizens of Raeford and Hoke County. In this connec tion we have- scheduled the es tablishment of addi^onal rural facilities from Raeford during 1951 which will further enhance the value of the service both to the rural and urban subscribers of Raeford. Yours very truly. Jack Havens, Ass’t to the Presi- Members Of Weed Co-op Will Get Over $4 Million^ ■r More than 2-65,000 grower-mem bers of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corpo ration from Virginia to Florida will receive $4,195,416.15—the net gain from 1947 crop loan opera tions, General Manager L. T. Weeks, Raleigh has announced today. Distribution of the dividend from operations covering 232,- 000,000 pounds of tobacco. Weeks said, will begin early in January and run for a month or six weeks. He added that this is the first such dividend paid since opera tions began in 1946. “Deliveries on 1947 tobacco taken under loan were completed in November.” the Stabilization official said. “The $4,195,416.15 represents approximately five and one-half per cent of the amount paid for the tobacco when re ceived by the Stabilization Cor poration. “More than fivfe percent of the amount paid to growers will be distributed to them in cash, while about one-half of one 'percent has been authorized by the Board of Directors for a revolving fund, allocated to indivdual growers on the corporation’s books.” Weeks said distribution will be made on a dollar-value basis of tobacco received by the corpora tion. Due to address changes, he said, many checks will probably be returned, so all growers who h^ve had an address change since 1947 are urged to notify the Sta bilization Corporation, 522 ^^Fay- et't^Pe Street, Ralejigh, N. C., to rei^ of thefar chec'if;'' " The General Manager said a statement of 1947 crop loan opera tions, showing total amounts of money involved, and a letter with general information about the corporation will accompany the checks. “In addition,” Weeks said, “new plastic Identification Cards will be sent to growers to replace those issued when the producers paid their $5.00 membership fee and received a certificate for one share of common stock. The new card will prove more serviceable and all growers are urged to keep it as its proper use will insure correct identification for any fu ture distribution of net gains.” CORPORATION ORGANIZED TO CONSTRUa 130 HOMES HERE Arctic Cold Wave Sweeps Ov6r Nation ❖ 5^' ■ Here’s to ne.w plans, new hopes, new dreams ... and the fulfillment of old ones! May 1951 bring courage for a fresh start... spirit to succeed in our endeavors ... a measure of peace to our troubled world. And may we take this opportun ity to wish all of our friends as full a share as possible of personal success and happi ness from each of the busy aiid^ Eventful i^hfhs tb^’ come. The News-Journal dent. .it Deer Season Is To Close Jan. 1 County Game Protector H. R. McLean calls the attention of all hunters to the fact that the open season on deer will end in this county on January 1. The squir rel season will also close on that day and the duck season will close on January 5. The, dove season will reopen on January 1, however, and will be open .until January 15 with hunting being allowed with plug ged guns in afternoons only. Bag limit on'doves is 10 per day. Quail, rabbit and turkey season will close January 31 and raccoon and opossum hunters will have until February 15, McLean said. Weeks pointed out that any dis tribution from 1948, -1949 and 1950 operations would have to be determined when the handling of tobacco from each of those years is completed. ^ The Stabilization Corporation began operations on August 12, 1946. Since that time it has re ceived under loan—at 90 percent of parity—more than 580,000.000 pounds of flue-cured leaf grown in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The operations of the corpora tion have been financed largely through funds advanced through Commodity Credit Corporation which was made possible thrbugh agricultural legislation, enabling the corporation to advance 90% of parity support price for mem bers’ tobacco on the auction ware house floor. The loan program of Commodity Credit Corporation is administered through the Tobac co Branch of the Production and Marketing Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Officers of Stabilization include: Carl T. Hicks. Walstonburg, N. C., president, H. G. Blalock, Basker- \’ille, Virginia, Joe Blount, Loris, S. C., and D. F. Bruton, Adel, Georgia. vice-presidents. The Board includes: T. W. Allen; Croedmore, N. C.; W. W. Eagles, Macclesfield, N. C.; George L. Pate, Rowland, N. C.; George Sockwell, Elon College, N. C.; J. E. Winslow, Greenville. N. C.; and E. Y. Floyd, Raleigh, N. C., Pub lic Director. In addition to'being general manager. Weeks is secre tary and treasurer. Local Boys Hurt In Wreck Monday Wilbert Stanton and A. J. Lun dy, Jr., are both patients in a Hamlet hospital as a result of a wreck they were in between Hani- let and Rockingham at about nine o’clock Christmas night. Young Lundy, who is said to have been driving the car, was thrown through the windshield when the car failed to take a sharp curve. He suffered severe cuts on his head and face and several broken bones and was considered to be in critical condition, al though last reports are that he is expected to recover. Stanton suffered a displaced hip and cuts on one foot. Another passenger. Wallace Lundy, was thrown out of the car and suffer ed cuts and bruises on his head. Both he and Stanton are still in the hospital also. The car, the property of L. W. Stanton of Raeford, was a 1950 Chevrolet coach and it was total ly destroyed when it turned over several times on the pavement and then crashed dbwn a fill. No charges were preferred by Rich- -mond county police. 0 This Year Third Worst/ In State’s Polio History This year has been the third worst polio year for North Caro lina in the State’s history, Mrs. Phillips Russell, Director of Or ganization for the March of Dimes, said recently. “I don’t believe it is realized by the general public,” she said, that through November of this year North Carolina had 717 new cases of polio, and that the terri ble epidemic year of 1944 (Mir acle of Hickory) had only 861 for the entire year. The next worst epidemic came in 1948.” The 717 cases for this year .are listed with the State Health Department. (Continued on page 4) Rites Sunday At Antioch For J. W. A^ul Funeral services for James Wil liam McPhaul were conducted at the Antioch Presbyterian church at feree o’clock last Sunday af ternoon by the Rev. W. B. Hey ward, pastor of the Raeford Pres byterian church, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Roberts, Baptist minis ter of Shelby. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. McPhaul, who vDas 72 years of age, died early Saturday at his home near Antioch. He was born there in the same section, son of the late Hugh W.. McPhaul and Margaret Biggs McPhaul of what was then Robeson county. He is surivved by his wife, the former Nettie Currie of^|Lj^son county; two daughters, Mrs!3pde H. Leggette of Winston-^j^m, Mrs. Sherwood Baldwin of^ed Springs; three sons, James L. Mc Phaul of Red Springs, H. W. Mc Phaul of Raleigh and Graham C. McPhaul of Winston-Salem; one brother, F. F. McPhaul of Hoke county; three sisters, Mrs. Sally Miller of Hendersonville, Mrs. Evaline Walters of Raeford and Mrs. Delle Currie of Red Springs, seven grandchildren. 0 H. L. Gatlin, Jr. New Cliamber Head Succeeding Lewis About 50 meinber^ of the Rae ford Chamber of Commerce met in the courthouse last Thursday night to wind up the third year of the chamber’s existence, with the annual meeting. PRESBYTERIANS TO HAVE STUDENT NIGHT “Student Night” will be con ducted at the FvaeJori PMaZrjtsgr- ian' church next Sunday night by several of the college students of the church who are home for the Christmas holidays. The theme of the program is to be “My Life, His Plans. Our Mis sion.” Program leader will be Bob Murray and talks are to be given by Bonnie Kate Blue, Elmira Whitley and Lauchlin MacDon ald in which they will tell of their work at their colleges. The group heard reports from its officers on tRe activities dur ing the past year and on the fin ancial situation of the chamber. Four directors were elected to serve for three years on the chamber’s 12-man board. These were C. L. Thomas, R. B. Lewis, W. H. Fann and Charles Hostet ler. At the directors meeting fol lowing the annual meeting H. L. Gatlin, Jr., was elected president of the Chamber for 1951. succeed ing R. B. Lewis who had served two terms as president after C. L. Thomas was president for the first year. W. H. Fann was elected vice president, Charles Hostetler trea surer and Paul Dickson, secretary. After a brief discussion of the group’s activities the meeting was •adjourned so that the new cor poration, “Raeford Betterment, Inc.” being sponsored by the Chamber, could be organized. This is the second such corpora tion to be sponsored by the Rae ford Chamber of Commerce, the other being the Hoke Develop ment corporation, which owns the building hero which the Para Thread company occupies. 0 COTTON GINNING REPORT SHOWS 2400 BALES LESS Cold Arctic air, left behind by CIjus as he sped back to the North Pole, hit wide areas over the eastern half of the na tion yesterday. The cold covered all parts of the country east of the Rockies to the Atlantic seaboard — but Florida escaped the chill. The winter-weary Midwest reel ed under the icy blasts which brought the coldest weather of the season—deep irito sub-zero levels —to many areas. Not much warn ing was in prospect immediately for the Midwest which has had little relief from cold weather for nearly two months. The frigid weather followed snowstorms over much of the Midwest on Christmas and over eastern states Tuesday and 'Wed nesday. The forward edge of the cold air mass pushed southward into the Gulf states and shoved tern peratures below freezing over parts of Dixie. But below zero blows landed across the mid-continent, the Great Lakes region and in parts of the New England states. Tempera tures dropped sharply as the cold air mass moved out of the Red River valley and fanned out over the Great Lakes area. The North Central states got the real biting cold, It was -SO de grees below zero in'*'Rochester. Minn.; -23 in Moson City, Iowa.; -J22 at the twin cities of Minneap- olis-St. Paul, and -18 in Madison, Wis., and -15 at Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Ohio got the first sub-zero weather of the season. Findlay reported a low of -12 and it was -# to Columbus and -8 in Toledo. Three deaths were attributed to the cold in Ohio. Chicago—Digging out of a nine- inch Christmas snowfoil—shivered in eight below, the coldest day of the year. It was the lowest read ing for the date since 1886 and the coldest December day since 1933 In New England, Caribou, Me., reported a low of -16. New York ‘^Raeford Betterment, Inc.'' Is Chartered To Handle Building “Robbins Heights^ Following the Chamber of Com merce meeting at the courthoiose last Thursday night the group of about 50 local business people or ganized a corporation to be known as “Raeford Betterment, Incor porated.” The new corporation had been partially organized pre viously and its charter has been granted by the Secretary of State. Officers are J. L. McNeill, presi dent, Tom McBryde, vice-presi dent and Jake Austin, secretary- treasurer. Others on the eight- man board of directors which the meeting Thursday night picked are R. B. Lewis; C. L. Thomas, Younger Snead. Mitchell Epstein and Robert Gatlin. The new corporation has pur chased the 50-acre Neill McNeill tract of land in Northeast Raeford from the Chamber of Commerce and has assumed the indebted ness for expenses in the matter already incurred by the Cham ber of Commerce. Houses to be built will all be constructed by one contractor to FHA specifications and inspec tions and all will be approved for FHA loan guarantees. They will all be leased by Robbins Mills, Inc., for a period of five years from delivery. The lease will be for a rental of 10 percent of cost annually payable quarterly in ad vance. Loan paymeits wiH be om a 20-year basis with payments of slightly less than five percent. There will be 25 four room houses, 85 with five rooms and 20 six room ones. The four room houses will have two bedrooms, kitchen, living room and. bath. 'The five room ones will have a dining alcove added and the six room ones will have this and three bedrooms. Plans for the homes have been prepared by Leif Val- land, architect of Raleigh, and have been approved by FHA. There are enough different ones so that the most there will not be over three houses alike in the 130. The corporation has a committee this week soliciting promises to a^’V^arly'^moi^ low was 12 I take stock in the venture and so above, but at Massena, in northern New York, it was 11 below. The cold front centered in Geor gia and it was below freezing as far south as central Texas, north ern Alabama and 'Virginia. Parts of Georgia, Mississippi and'Ten nessee also had sub-freezing marks. No immediate relief was in sight. The Christmas snowstorm that moved into the east Tuesday brought falls ranging to as much as 12 inches in Utica. N. Y. The fall was from the New England States westward to Ohio. Chicago still was digging out of a nine- inch fall with 2.500 men utilizing 1.000 pieces of equipment to clear the streets. New York City got its. first heavy snowfall of the season Tuesday. 2.8 inches. It was three years ago the record 25.8-inch snowfall hit New York City. While the eastern half of the country was cold, temperatures were around seasonal levels over the tar western states. ^-0 ATTEND CONVENTION Census Bureau of the Depart ment of Commerce in its report of December 14, 1950 shows that 5,499 bales of cotton were gin ned in Hoke county from the crop of 1950 prior to December 1, as compared with 7,847 bales for the crop of 1949. Three young people from the Raeford Presbyterian church left yesterday for Auburn, Ala., where they will attend the quadrenaid Presbyterian Youth Conference on the World Mission of the church. They are Miss Elmira Whitley, John McLauchlin and Bobby Alexander. Mrs. E. T. Brock and Mrs. Mary MeInnis visited Mrs. Jack Davis and Miss Bennie Lee Brock at Pittman’s hospital Monday. far about half the 130 houses have been subscribed. It is expected that the down payments including, cost of lot and all expenses will be about $500 on the four and five room houses and S600 on the six room; houses. Stock will be issued iv. Raeford Betterment. Inc. in these amounts to persons wanting to finance the houses and when the corporation is dissolved at the end of the construction the certificates will become down payments on the homes. The com mittee getting the promises is headed by Crawford Thomas and includes R. B. Lewis, Younger Snead, Mitchell Epstein and Tom McBryde. Any of these is able to explain the whole matter to anyone interested. The corporo- tion expects to issue the stock at one time in aout a week when the Whole 130 houses have been promised, As many' different, owners as possible are wanted, so it will be possible to get a house ip the development up until the stock is issued if there are nt as many as 130 subscribers. Persons wishing m.ore than one house in the project may get it but not at the expense of keeping someone else from getting any. Officials working on the pro ject expect to have the houses ready for delivery in six months or slightly less. The contractor will do the complete job to in clude grass and shrubbery and a tree on each lot. The town is ex pected to provide the necessary water and sewage faciliuos and to maintain the streets in the sub division. No paved streets wre contemplated. I I /j
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