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V lA^'^i • 1- U4 m^i^ ^ ^*5r VOICE OF fRCEOOM GUAUNAN OFUBERn j' ■ ■ , • ' ■ 1 The News-Journal *W-'. V wm*! The Hoke County Newt The Hoke County JounuJ VOKlOf fUfPOM * ^ iK TOLUME XLV; NUMBER 36 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1951 RAEFORD. N. C TEN CENTS PER COPY YOUR [SCHOOL NEWS! By K. A. MacDonald Mrs. J. C. McLean returned to Twork at Hoke ftigh yesterday af ter having been out on leave since the death of her husband early in the month, Mrs. Ed McNeill has been substituting for her. A representative of the publish- «rs of the basal reading texts used in the schools of N. C. will be in Hoke County tomorrow to give a demonstration of the best techni ques in the use of these texts. She will be at the Bowmore school to demonstrate for the colored teach ers at 10:00 a. m. and at the Rae- iord Graded school at 1:00 p. m. She will be accompanied here by a representative of the State De partment of Public Instruction. Ginners Report On 1950 Cotton Cropk The Bureau of the Census makes the folldwing report on cot ton ginned from the 1950 crop up to January 15: 1950 573,848 446,852 1,051,276 893.823 8,021 486,184 1,038 4,332 421,939 1,294,869 m565 176,039 Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Florida Georgia : Illinois Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri New Mexico North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia William P. Duff, Jr. of the Divi sion of Schoolhouse Planning-and Surveys will be here Friday, in specting the school buildings that have been completed so far in the State building program. All schools are making a stren ous ftffort to raise every cent pos' sible for the March of Dimes. At present the Raeford Graded schoo! is leading in the amount collected. We give their collections by rooms as follows:-'Mrs. McPhaul’s $15.94, Mrs. Tuber’s $18.57, Mrs, Free man’s $13.30, Mrs. Brown’s $27.40 Mrs. Hardesty’s $29.29, Miss Cur Tie’s $12.20, Mrs. Robinson’s $12.64, Miss Watt’s $26.45. Mrs. Roberts* $21.55, Mrs. Shelton’s $35.93, Mrs, Stephens’ $19.55, Miss Little’s $lft7«V-MiarBft6gs $36.45, Mr.' lington’s $50.45. Total for the Graded School $338.45. We think this is a splendid record. We hope other schools will do equally as well in proportion to their mem bership. Tuesday night Stonewall town ship put on a barbecue supper in the Mildouson lunch room for the March of Dimes. The school was delighted to have its facilities used for such a good cause. 189,773 237,605 411,920 394,741 2,841,864 3,558 1949 851.438 516,095 1.584,625 1,252,866 9,312 608,849 2,293 8.990 631,285 1,455,129 462,690 254,148 485,701 572,352 563,079 618,839 5,740,709 17,267 UNC ComptroUer Kiwanis l^ieaker For Ladies Night Lewis Upchurch Gets Cup For “Man of Year” Award Made Annually By Club Hoke Cage Teams Win 3; Lyda Williams Breaks Scoring Mark Total for U.S. 9.,673,247 15,635,667 Consumption, Stocks, Imports, and Exports Cotton consumed during the mpnth of December, 1950, amount ed to 784,057 bales. Cotton on hand in-consuming establishments on December 30, was 1,998,850 bales, and in public storage and at compresses 6,663,560 bales. The number of active consuming cot ton spindles for the month was 20,730,000. The total imports for the month of November, 1950, were 9,118 bales and the exports of donaestic cotton, excluding ware 371,870 bales. Plant Disease Sleuths On Alert For Tobacco Menace Some 120 members of the Rae ford Kiwanis club, ladies and oth er guests heard University of North Carolina Comptroller W. D. Carmichael speak and saw Lewis Upchurch get the club’s “Man of the Year” award at the Hoke county high school lunch room last Thursday night at the club’s annual Ladies Night. Tom Cameron welcomed the ladies on behalf of the club. The group enjoyed a delicious dinner of turkey with all the trimmings prepared and served by Mrs. Lupy Smith and her staff. Arrangements were handled by Peter McLean. Perfect attendance awards were presented to Marion Qatlin for seven years, K. A. MacDonald, A. H. McPhaul and N. A. McDonald for five years and to Younger Snead, T. N. McLauchlin, C. L. Thomas and Jim Tillman for one year. COLORED NEWS Considering the weather, the at tendance in most of the colored and Indian schools was good dur ing the fourth month. The total enrollment, membership and per centage in attendance for the month is given below. White Oak 105, 98, 93; Peachmont 49, 44, 92; McFarland 40,. 29, 75.5; Lilley’s Chapel 45, 45, 97; Rockfish Col. 29. 25, 83; Laurel fell 143, 141, 97; Frye’s Mission 60, 58, 96; Burling ton 177, 165, 93; New Hope 62, 57, 89; Freedom 93, 79, 93; Millside 68, 65, 92; Friendship 5^47^, 96; Bowmore 186, 175, 93| Shady Grove 78, 71, 94; Buflal^ 72y 64, 84; Bridges Grove 46, 38, 92;-Tim- berland 48, 37, 95; Piney Bay 44, 38, 92; Upchurch Elem. 685, 653, 94; Upchurch High 32'5, 302, 95. The Bowmore. school is spon soring the Southern Pines color ed school high school band at the school next Wednesday night at 7:30 for the benefit of the March of Dimes. We hope they have, a good crowd to hear this outstand ing band. On next Monday a delegation of prospective NFA members come' to the Upchurch school for the purpose of organizing an NFA Chapter at Proctorville and so the prospective memtiers may be ini tiated into the new chapter.. On February 13 ten schools in this area will meet at llpchurch for a Contest in shop work. The State Supervisor of Vocational Ag riculture will be here for the con test. Upchurch was chosen for the site of the contest on account-of its good facilities. At the same time Sanford, Sou thern Pines and Laurinburg -will send the best artisans in their Veterans bricklaying classes to (Continued on page 4) _R^eigJ», N. 9., 1—A staff of federal “sleuths” will be dn the alert this month throughout sec tions of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Tennessee in an attempt to head off a “saboteur” that threat- en'ts to seriously cripple the multi- miihqn-doUar tobacco industry. The “saboteur” is a disease known as blue mold and the “sleuths” are members of a plant disease warning service operated by the U. S. Department of Agri culture. Last year, following an excep tionally wiarm January, blue mold was first discovered in this area in Marion Coxmty, S. C., on Feb ruary 14—a good month ahead of its normal appearance. Warnings were flashed to growers through out the area, so plant beds might be protected against onslaughts of the disease, which is spread by air-borne spores. Even so. the blue mold wave spread so swiftly that plant stands were said to average only about 60 per cent of normal and a serious shortage of olaiits developed at the time of :ran.3- planling into fields. Approved chemical fungicides should be sprayed or dusted on beds vrhen plants are the size of a dime, with repealed applica tions every 10 to 14 days, in-order to protect them with a coating that will ward off blue mold fun gi, according to Howard R. G-ar- riss, extension plant pathologist of North Carolina State College here. Growers who have followed such a progarm, starting chemi cal applications before appear ance of blue mold in their sections and continuing until planting time, have been able to more than double the number of healthy .,iplants from the same sized bed, he declared. “Results over a number of years now prove the tobacco grower can successfully use fer- bam or zineb for blue mold con trol and assure healthy plants in a section where the disease wipes out unprotected plant beds,’’ Mr. Garriss said. “Comparative costs of growing enough plants for 10 acres, both with and without this chemical protection, show the grower who applies fungicides can save around $120 in an ordinal y year through successfully pro ducing his plant needs on small er beds.” The chemicals referred to are (Continued on page 4) The “Man pf the Year” award, a beautiful silver loving ct«> pre sented each year by the club to the outstanding citizen in the community was presented by Dr. M. R. Smith to Lewis Upchurclk In making the presentation Dr. Smith told of the varied activities of Upchurch during the past year, mentioning his church and Sunday School work, his Boy Sep^ ^ork, his "work as county March of Dimes chairman last year, and his activities in the National Cottort council and the .North Carolina Seed crushers association. He is to keep the large cup for one year and was also given a small repli ca to keep permanently. The cup was first- presented in 1950 when Crawford Thomas was the win ner. The committee making the selection this year consisted of Dr. Smi^i, Israel Mann and Marion Gatlin. The-Hoke high basketball teams had a fairly good week with the girls winning both their games and the boys winning one of two during the week. On Friday night in Red Springs the girls were' hot^ as tntey piled up an impressive 53 points to 34 for ifed Springs. Lyda Williams accounted for 44 of the Hoke markers as the girls got their 12th win in 13 starts. Lyda Williams tied the old record set here by Marian Lewis in 1948 when she got 44 points in a game. Sara Cole got 7 and Betty Jane Ashbium 2 to account for the other nine points. The boys dropped their tilt with the Red Springs boys 29 to 47. Billy Lester scored 15 points and C. J. Benner 4 and were high for the locals. - In conference games with Sted- man here Tuesday night the locals took both games of a doublehead er. The girls won their game 63 to 44 and Lyda Williams couldn’t miss as she scored 53 points to break the record of 44 points in a game which she had tied last' week in Red Springs. She was out the last four minutes of the game. Sara Cole got 8 points and Peggy Thomas 2 as the entire squad saw action. For the season the girls have scored 649 points to 497 for their opponents. The boys won their contest in a close one, 41 to 37. The score was close the whole game. This game brought, their season record to nine wins to five losses, three in the Hoke - Cumberland league. Bobby Lundy led the Bucks with 15 pointS-^fpllow^eS by Billy, Les ter with 11. Culbreth and Parker looked good on defense. 0 ^—— Recorder Hears 26 Cases Tuesday Six Continued Offenses Inc^ding Drinking Stealing, Traffic Violations, Liquor Making, Bad Checks I2.M PER YEAR Mr. Carmichael was presented by Jake Austin, program chair man, and made a very interesting and informative address, mixing a considerable amount of humor with his serious and sensible re marks. He discussed at some len gth the aims of the University to produce health, wealth and hap piness for the people of the. state. 4. humorous skit “The Thing,” was staged by Tommie Upchurch '.vith Jim Lentz as model and Ro bert Ga.tlin as auctioneer which produced several dollars for the March of Dimes. The group was entertained by the High school sextette under the direction and with the accompan iment of Miss Doris Bradley. The sextette which sang three selec tions, consisted of Iris Thomas, Irene Andrews; Betty Jane Ash- burn, Florence ^Cameron, Sue Gulledge and Joan Sinclair. 0 Ruritan Club Has Meeting Monday Hoke Ruritan Club met in call ed Session on Monday evening, January 29, at Rockfish School. The purpose of the meeting was for a report from the delegates to the Ruritan National Conven tion at Roanoke, Virginia, held on January 22-23. N. A. McKeithan, T. C. Jones and C. W. Pittman were delegates to the convention. A very interesting report of the trip was given. B. B. Cole, president of the club, appointed T. C. Jones to present the newly arrived charter to Troop 58, Boy Scouts of America. The Troop Committee were presented with Scout emblems in the form of lapel buttons. There was also a discussion of planning the year’s work for the several committees. Insurance Head Changes HaH Rates Commissioner of Insurance ■Waldo C. Cheek announced ap proval today of the filing by the North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau of proposed chan ges in the rates, rules and forms for crop-hail insurance for fhe 1951 growing season. The changes approved in the hail rates for to bacco will increase the rates in thirteen counties, and decrease the rates in eighteen counties. The rate in this county remains the same. The hail rates for cotton will be decreased in Hoke and all but two countie.";. Based on the premiums written in 1950 these changes will increase-the cost of tins type of insurance approxi mately $40,000 annually. The overall experience indicates that a much lar,gcr increase would have been proper, but it was im possible to do so due to the con centration of losses in 1950 in a small area of the state. The losses paid by insurance companies in five adjoining counties, totalled $1,131,500 which was 47% of all losses paid last year. The Commissioner also stated that the rule which heretofore limited the amount of insurance per acre has been discontinued. The new rule 'will only provide that the total insurance in any crop shall not exceed the actual lvalue of the crop. -a- Mrs. Whitley’s Sister Buried In Wingate Mrs. J. B. Bass of Wingate, died Thursday morning' in the hospital at Monroe. She had been sick for about a year. She had lived in Wingate most of her life but Had been in the Monroe hospital for six months and her family had moved there to be near her. She was a sister of Mrs. H. W. B. Whitley of Raeford.. Funeral was conducted at Bap tist church in Wingate Friday af ternoon and burial was in the Wingate cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Whitley attended the services. Judge Henry MfcDiarmid found 26 cases on docket for trial in Hoke county recorder’s court Tuesday morning as a result of not having court last week due to Superior court. Burt Hankins, colored was charged with disposing of funds he received while driving a taxi for some one else and giving a bad check. His cases were continued until February 13. James Edwards and Stanley Adcox, white, were each charged with assault with a deadly weap on as a result of an altercation with knives that they were alleg edly involved in. Trial was post' poned until next week. Adcox entered plea of guilty of being drunk and disorderly in another case and paid $10 and the costs. The cases in which Jennings Maultsby, white, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and James Irvin McIntyre, white, with driving drunk and with no driver’s license were also con tinued for one week. The case in which Bethune Maultsby was charged with being drunk and dis orderly on appeal from J. P. court was continued for one week as Maultsby Vras considering with drawal of his appeal. W. C. Benton, white, was charged in two cases with giving bad checks for $86.85 and $67.38, respectively. He entered plea of guilty and got 90 days in each case suspended on payment of the costs and payment of the checks by May 1. He paid the costs and posted $300 bond for his appear ance May 1. Weldon McCrimmon, colored, charged with stealing some pipe from Clyde Upchurch. He was found guilty and sentenced to 30 days on the roads to be suspended on payment of the costs and $25 to Upchurch. He appealed and posted $100 bond. Libby Wilson, colored, was found guilty of speeding 85 miles an hour, careless and reckless driving resulting in a wreck and leaving the scene of the wreck withodt offering assistance. He got two years on the roads to be su spended on payment of $100 and the costs and two years good be havior and had his driver’s license revoked for 12 months. Christopher Raffoler, white pleaded' guilty of driving drunk and careless ond reckless driving rnsLilturg in a wreck. He was tax-' cd $125 fine, costs of court and $55 damages to W. M. Thomas. Buddy Melvin, colored, was found guilty of violating the pro hibition laws by operating a stdl- He got six months to be suspend ed on payment of $50 and the costs. He appealed and posted a bond of $100. Wilmer Junior Bowen, white, was found guilty of driving drunk. He got 90 days on the roads to be suspended on payment of $100 and the costs. He appealed and posted $100 bond. For driving with expired driv er’s licenses or no driver’s licenses the following paid $25 and the costs: George Smith, Jim Patter son and James Borden, all color ed, and Leslie Malpass Orr, white. John W. McLaurin, colored, was charged with no license, but he turned up with the license and the case was dropped. Ad°die Mae Kershaw, colored, was sent to j.ail for 30 days for being drunk and disorderly. Sen tence was to be suspended on pay ment of the costs but she is still in jail. j Minor traffic violators — bad brakes or lights — paying $10 and the costs included Neill Richard Blue, William McGregor, and Wil lie McNeill, all colored. Speeders paying the same were James Gay and Terry Pickering, both white. Methodist Men Have Red Springs Guests The Men’s Bible class of the Raeford Met^^odist church enter tained the same class from the Red Springs Methodist church in the basement of the local church last Friday night. They were serv ed a delicious chicken supper by the Methodist ladies. The affair was the result of a three-months attendance contest which the two classes had just finished and which Red Springs men won. The local men went to Red Springs as the result of previous contest. These contests hwe helped Sunday school atten dance considerably and there were over 100 men present. Speaker was Joe Stephenson tobacco warehouseman of Fayette ville and Fuquay Springs. He was introduced by Tommie Upchurch and made an inspiring addj^ tn “Christian Liviqg.” ——'■ . J sr. ■i YOUBE'Fi YOUR W Police Chief H. M. hi yesterday that he had stnicted hy the town cemmis- sioners to start passing ont tic- ■fcets to all Raeford car owners who do not display their town tags today. The cheapeet you can get ont after yon gel a tieket is $8 costs in Mayor’s eoort and the Mayor can add a $5 fine to this. Moral—Get your town tags be fore Meeks gets yon. LIBRARY NEWS Since the Hoke County Library Bookmobile operating hi Noveihber BdoLs. l&Ve' circulated. We are off to a good start, as the circulation increases on every trip, and as the weather gets warmer more people will be able to meet the bookmobiljB for books. There are calls for cfe;:tain Narch Of Dimes Campaign Gams bi Past Week Chairman Says Half Of $5000 Quota Is Already Is Sight; More Events To Come Nfeill A. McDonald, county chairman for the March of Dimes, said this week that things were looking up after the lag reported last week and ^at the halfway mark on the $3000 quota had been reached. He said cooperation had been good all over the county and that the various communities were really bearing down to get up the $5000 the drive must .jiave to get the county infantile paralysis chapter out of the red and leave anything for the coming summer. He expressed his own person.’’ preciation for this spirit. Plan More Benefits He called attention to the bene fits still to be held and urggd the public to attend and enjoy these I affairs and help the March of “ ’ ne.s at the same time. Those stiH ^fatneu-^'e: Sqnier at Antioch ehnreh "to- night — The Allendale community will have their barbecue and dlicken salad supper at the Anti och Presbyterian church toni^t instead of at the A.llendale com munity house as originally an- noimced. Serving wiR be.from 5:00 to 8:30. Montrose firii try tsmscisw — A fish fry will be held at the Montrose commtmity house hy the people of Quewhitfle town-* ship. It will start at SsOO p. m. . Baddish smper taaMRow —The iBaekfish-OQmBKMfty-odl) an oyster and chicken supper tomor row night at the schoolhouse. Serving will begin at 6:00 o’clock. Band At Bowmore — The Bow more school is sponsoring the ap pearance of the Southern Pines polored High School band at the books that are not on the boo'g:::^ bowmore school next Wednesday, mobile as yet, but new books are coming in all the time, so keep requesting, and the books will be carried out as soon as possible. The 1951 approved list of titles for the Hom.e Demonstration Club members is out and many of these are on the bookmobile now, and others have been ordered.- There are many requests for Bible story books among people w'ho are poor readers. The Ne groes in the county are being ser ved by the bookmobile, and are really taking advantage of the op portunity to read. Mrs. Margaret Sinclair is librarian on the book mobile, and :'-he says it is a won derful experience to talk with the people of hot’a races in all parts of the county, and that it makes you want to begin again learning ihe poem taught in school, “I love my county, and I’ll boost my county, etc.” If you wish the bookmobile to stop nearer your' home please contact Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs. Ina P. Bethune, county librarian or Mrs. J. M. Andrews, chairman of the Hoke County Library Board of Trustees. With the co-operation (Continued on Page 4) NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING INCREASED In keepiiig with the times and the international situation the local National Guard unit, along wi'h others in the state and nation, will spend more time in tt’aining | in the next few months, effective ! at once. The first way this will bo ! felt by 'guardsmen in this com munity is the beginrdng of extra assemblies weekly right, away. These will be held on Sunday af ternoons in addition to the regu lar Monday night drills. February 7, at 7:30 p. m., for the benefit of the March of Dimes. Most productive from a money standpoint up to this time was the affair at Mildouson school last week followed by the dance at Hendrix grill aU of which was planned and executed by the peo ple of Stonewall township. The supper and the cake sale and the dance with contributions brought the total for the evening to $500 for the March of Dimies. Others bringing in money were The Tal ent Show 'at Hoke High, $232; The Wayside supper, $113; The Antioch supper, $225;. T’ne Blue Springs' square dance last week, S5o; The taxi which was operated two weeks by Donald Harvey, $.43 15; Raeford Graded school, S335,and hloke High $102. f.IcDonald .said anyone who had not been approached and •who^ wished to contribute could send the money to him or to K. A. Mac Donald,. permanent treasurer. _0 Methodists Have Executive Meeting The officers of the Fayetteville District of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service of the Meth odist Church met here Wednesday. The meeting began at-11 o’clock. Lunch was served at one. All zone leaders of the five zones in this ;-ict were invited. ■The case against Buster Ross., colored, for careless and reckless driving was dropped for lack of evidence. Archie C. Phillips, amd Dormie Basden, white, each paid $25 and the costs for careless and reckless driving. a I Missionary work for the coming w.oaths was planned and other business of importance was trans- actod- 0 LOCAL UNC STUDENT MAKES PERFECT GRADES Of the several thousand students at the University of North Caro lina 263 made the honor roll-for the quarter just past with an a'ver- age of 90 to 95 on all courses. Dean C. P. Spruill announced last -week. Of these 42 made all A’s, cat better than 95 on each course. Among these was MRton Mann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isra^ MaBtt of Raeford.